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Cilan デント Dent
Artwork from the Best Wishes series
Gender	Male
Eye color	Green
Hair color	Green
Hometown	Striaton City
Region	Unova
Relatives	Chili, Cress (brothers)
Trainer class	Gym Leader, Connoisseur
Game counterpart	Cilan
Leader of	Striaton Gym
Badge	Trio Badge
Specializes in	Template:Type2s
Anime debut	Triple Leaders, Team Threats!
English voice actor	Jason Griffith
Japanese voice actor	Mamoru Miyano

Cilan (Japanese: デント Dent) is a current traveling partner of Ash Ketchum. He made his debut in Triple Leaders, Team Threats!.

History

Cilan during a Gym battle

Cilan made his debut in Triple Leaders, Team Threats! shopping in his hometown of Striaton City. Seeing Pikachu and Axew, he was intrigued, as Axew itself is rare in Unova, and Pikachu does not appear at all in the region. He invited Iris and Ash to the Striaton Gym, a café run by himself and his brothers Chili and Cress. When there, Ash becomes impatient quickly, and demands to battle the Gym Leader, prompting the trio to introduce themselves and lead Ash to the Gym's arena.

Ash battles Chili first, with Cilan serving as judge, and then, winning, Ash faces Cress. Finally, Ash faces off against Cilan himself. After a heated battle with Cilan, which carries on to Dreams by the Yard Full!, Ash wins and gets the Trio Badge. Later on in the episode, Cilan decided to join Ash on his journey.

In BW019 it is revealed that Cilan is a Class A Pokémon Connoisseur. He has also gained a rival in Cabernet, whom he beat as Striaton Gym Leader, inspiring her to train as a Connoisseur and to beat him whenever she can. After her loss at the end of BW019, she leaves, swearing to defeat him in the future.

Character

Cilan is an A-class Pokémon Connoisseur who can see the compatibility between a Pokémon and its Trainer. He is said to have a lot of knowledge on Pokémon, a trait he shares with Ash's former companion, Brock. He, like his brothers, has a habit of speaking about Pokémon in relation to tea. He also tends to use the phrase "It's time for..." in the dub, or "It's...time!" in the original when addressing a special scenario, such as when he evaluates Pokémon and human relations he says "It's time for the battle to be served!" in the dub and "It's tasting time!" in the original. He has proved himself, like Brock, to be a good cook as he prepares meals for the group. Cilan also navigates the group on their journey through use of his Town Map, much like Max who had a PokéNav, and Brock who had a Pokégear. He is also shown to be afraid of the paranormal which has made him a skeptic, preferring to find logical scientific explanations for everything, but when he can't find a logical explanation he is typically the first to flee. His love for science is later emphasized upon encountering a possible UFO sighting which leads to him meeting one of his mentors, Professor Imori.

He, like his brothers, tends to speak about Pokémon in relation to their element, in Cilan's case, grass. All the brothers tend to use hand positions like rock, paper, and scissors - Cilan tends to accentuate words with his fingers.

Pokémon

On hand

Pansage ♂

Dwebble

Voice actors

Trivia

Cilan's special lure

• Cilan, along with Iris was first revealed in silhouette in a preview for the Best Wishes series that aired after DP183 in Japan on July 1, 2010. The two were revealed in full exactly one month later during a trailer on Pokémon Sunday.
• Cilan is the first of Ash's male friends not to have a traditional Japanese name in the original version of the anime.
  • He is also the only one of Ash's male friends who has never displayed an attraction towards a particular female.
• In the games, Cilan can only be battled at the Striaton Gym if the player chooses Oshawott as their starter Pokémon. Notably, Ash has obtained Oshawott from Juniper as his first out of the Unova starter Pokémon, and used him in his Gym battle against Cilan.
• Though many of Ash's friends have siblings, Cilan is the only who he and his siblings were a result of a multiple birth, being Polyzygotic triplets.
• Cilan along with Tracey are the only two of the main protagonists not to have had their Pokémon taken from them by Jessie, James, and Meowth.
  • He is, however, the only one of the main protagonists not to have a Pokémon to at least be attempted to be taken from him by the Team Rocket trio.

Names

Related articles

• Episodes focusing on Cilan

Cilan's Pokémon
On hand:	Pansage	Crustle	Stunfisk
Released:	Basculin
Temporary:	Terrakion
Adventures only:	Simisage

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