Erika

For the Coordinator who battled May, see Erica.

Erika (Japanese: エリカ Erika) is the Gym Leader of Celadon City's Gym, known officially as the Celadon Gym. She hands out the Rainbow Badge to Trainers who defeat her. She is a serene young woman who specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon. She sometimes dresses in elegant kimonos and seems to represent traditional Japanese beauty, and perhaps geisha culture.

In the games

Art of Erika from Pokémon Red and Blue

Erika's title is The Nature-Loving Princess.

Erika is ladylike, and a teacher of flower-arranging. She is a quiet girl, but she's well-known in Celadon City.

Erika only collects Pokémon if she considers them attractive, though her definition of attractive seems to include varieties only a botanist could love. She also tends to doze off quite a bit, but will become inspired after a good match.

In addition to the Rainbow Badge, Erika gives out TM21, Mega Drain, in Pokémon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, as well as FireRed and LeafGreen, she gives out TM19 (Giga Drain).

Fame Checker

This is a list of the Fame Checker's information on Erika in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Versions.

Celadon City - sign

• What does this person do?

"Celadon City Pokémon Gym

Leader: Erika

The Nature-Loving Princess!"

Celadon Gym - Erika

• Favorite kind of Pokémon?

"I am a student of the art of flower arranging.

My Pokémon are solely of the Grass type."

Celadon Gym - Lass Lola

• What is this person like?

"Our Leader Erika might be quiet, but she’s famous around here."

Celadon Gym - Beauty Tamia

• What is this person like?

"We only use Grass-type Pokémon at our Gym.

Why? We also use them for making flower arrangements!"

Celadon Gym - Erika

• Favorite kind of Pokémon?

"I would never collect Pokémon if they were unattractive."

Celadon Mansion - Pokémon Journal

• There’s a rumor...

"Rumor has it that if you peek into Celadon Gym, you can often see Erika snoozing."

Message from Erika

• From: Erika
• To: [Player]

"I am so glad that there are strong Trainers like you.

That awareness alone inspires and motivates me to try harder.

Please visit me again.

Zzz..."

Pokémon

This listing is of Erika's Pokémon in the games in which she has appeared.

Pokémon Red, Green and Blue

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Pokémon Yellow

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Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal

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Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

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Pokémon Stadium

Round 1

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Round 2

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Pokémon Stadium 2

Round 1

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Quotes

Pokémon Red and Blue

"Hello. Lovely weather isn't it? It's so pleasant. ...Oh dear... I must have dozed off. Welcome. My name is Erika. I am the Leader of Celadon Gym. I teach the art of flower arranging. My Pokémon are of the Grass-type. Oh, I'm sorry, I had no idea that you wished to challenge me. Very well, but I shall not lose."

"Oh! I concede defeat. You are remarkably strong. I must confer you the Rainbow Badge."

Pokémon Gold and Silver

"Hello... Lovely weather, isn't it? It's so pleasant... ...I'm afraid I may doze off... My name is Erika. I am the Leader of Celadon Gym. ...Oh? All the way from Johto, you say? How nice... Oh. I'm sorry, I didn't realize that you wished to challenge me. Very well, but I shall not lose."

"Oh! I concede defeat... You are remarkably strong... I shall give you Rainbow Badge..."

"Losing leaves a bitter aftertaste... But knowing that there are strong Trainers spurs me to do better..."

In the anime

Erika appeared in Pokémon Scent-sation!, running a perfumery in Celadon City where she sold a special brand of perfume made from the essence of her favorite Pokémon, Gloom. Misty, Brock, and Pikachu were enamored with the scents, but Ash insulted the perfume. In protest, the manager, who was later revealed to be the Gym Leader Erika, had him banned from her store and by extension the greenhouse/Celadon Gym.

Jessie and James were sneaking into the gym trying to steal the perfume scents to sell them, but they were stamped with a red X and banned from the gym, too. Ash found them and untied them in exchange for help entering the gym.

Disguised a girl named Ashley, Ash signed up as a student at the Gym. Erika was reading a fairy tale to some Grass-type Pokémon when he found and recognized her. Pikachu instantly recognized Ash and exposed him. Erika finally agreed to a battle for the Gym Badge. She turned out to be very confident in her abilities, but became too overconfident when Ash used his Charmander - as Fire was Grass Pokémon's greatest weakness - when she tried to use her Weepinbell. However, their match was interrupted when Team Rocket started a fire in the Gym as revenge for being thrown out of the gym.

Ash risked his life to run in and rescue Erika's beloved Gloom, who had once saved her from a wild Grimer when she was a little girl. Out of thanks, Erika awarded Ash with the Rainbow Badge.

Pokémon

This is listing is of Erika's Pokémon in the anime:

Tangela

Weepinbell

Gloom

Voice actors

• Japanese
  • 氷上恭子 Kyoko Hikami
• English
  • Leah Applebaum
• Brazilian
  • Letícia Quinto

In the Pokémon Special manga

In the Pokémon Special manga, Erika is an elegant young princess who gives lectures at universities and practices archery. She is allied with the "good" Gym Leaders of Kanto, and often assists Misty and Brock during crises.

She sent Red out on a quest to capture an unusual Eevee that could change at will between its three elemental forms, due to being "modified" in a Team Rocket experiment. Erika threatened to kill Eevee; however, it turned out that she was just testing Red's character, then healed the Eevee. She debuted in Blame it on Eevee.

Erika is the supervisor of the Kanto Gym Leaders, much as Winona is the leader of the Hoenn Gym Leaders.

Pokémon

This is a listing of Erika's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

Vileplume	Gloom	Skiploom	Tangela
Bellossom	→ → Bellsprout → Weepinbell → Victreebel

In the Pocket Monsters manga

Erika appears in the Pocket Monsters manga volume two. She appears with her Venusaur, prepairing to help Red (Isamu Akai) defeat Team Rocket. Red and Erika attempt to steal the Silph Scope from Team Rocket as the guard the gym searching for Erika and Red. They hide in The bulb of Erika's Bulbasaur, however, they are eventually exposed due to Red's Clefairy "passing gas" inside the bulb. Team Rocket captures them, however, they eventually escape.

In the TCG

In the Trading Card Game, the card Erika allows each player to draw up to three cards. Another card, Erika's Kindness, demonstrates her kindness, depicting her as helping a Growlithe out of the rain. Erika's Maids enables the player to trade two cards in a hand for two Pokémon in the deck, both with Erika in their names. Charity is attached to the player's Active Pokémon, and if that Pokémon is not knocked out, the card returns to the owner's hand; it allows the player to reduce the damage their attacks inflict on the Defending Pokémon. Erika's Perfume allows the player to peek at the hand of the opponent and force them to summon any number of basic Pokémon from the hand to the bench.

As in the anime, she also appears to make fragrances, such as LeAF, depicted on Erika's perfume.

There is a Theme Deck named for Erika in the Gym Heroes expansion. It has two versions, English and Japanese.

Artwork

Artwork from the cards:

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  Erika and the Rainbow Badge.

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  Erika smiles.

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  Erika helps a lost Growlithe.

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  Erika and her maids.

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  Erika and an ikebana arrangement of Bellsprout and evolutions in a Vileplume-shaped planter.

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  Erika's perfume.

• ErikaVS.jpg

  Erika's updated VS artwork.

Pokémon

This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Erika or her Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Erika's Clefable		35	H	Gym Heroes	3/132
Erika's Dragonair		32	H	Gym Heroes	4/132
Erika's Vileplume		34	H	Gym Heroes	5/132
Erika	-	-	H	Gym Heroes	16/132
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Erika's Clefairy		17		Gym Heroes	25/132
Erika's Victreebel		37		Gym Heroes	26/132
Erika's Dratini		14		Gym Heroes	42/132
Erika's Exeggcute		15		Gym Heroes	43/132
Erika's Exeggutor		31		Gym Heroes	44/132
Erika's Gloom		24		Gym Heroes	45/132
Erika's Gloom		28		Gym Heroes	46/132
Erika's Oddish		12		Gym Heroes	47/132
Erika's Weepinbell		26		Gym Heroes	48/132
Erika's Weepinbell		30		Gym Heroes	49/132
Erika's Bellsprout		12		Gym Heroes	75/132
Erika's Bellsprout		15		Gym Heroes	76/132
Erika's Exeggcute		12		Gym Heroes	77/132
Erika's Oddish		15		Gym Heroes	78/132
Erika's Tangela		12		Gym Heroes	79/132
Charity	-	-		Gym Heroes	99/132
Celadon City Gym	-	-		Gym Heroes	107/132
Erika's Maids	-	-		Gym Heroes	109/132
Erika's Perfume	-	-		Gym Heroes	110/132
Good Manners	-	-		Gym Heroes	111/132
Erika's Venusaur		45	H	Gym Challenge	4/132
Erika's Bellsprout		13		Gym Challenge	38/132
Erika's Bulbasaur		15		Gym Challenge	39/132
Erika's Clefairy		16		Gym Challenge	40/132
Erika's Ivysaur		22		Gym Challenge	41/132
Erika's Jigglypuff		13		Gym Challenge	69/132
Erika's Oddish		10		Gym Challenge	70/132
Erika's Paras		17		Gym Challenge	71/132
Erika's Kindness	-	-		Gym Challenge	103/132
Erika's Bellossom		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	59/141
Erika's Jumpluff		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	60/141

Trivia

• Erika's Japanese Leader title is 自然を愛するお嬢様.
• In the How I Became a Pokémon Card manga, Erika was childhood friends with Kaede, who had an unfortunate reaction to a flower wreath Erika gave her at a party and ran off in shame. They met again later when Kaede, now a Team Rocket agent, invaded Erika's Gym. Erika was overjoyed to see her old friend and seemed to disregard any and all ill plots.
• Erika is the only in-game Gym Leader that has the same name in Japanese and English.
• She, alongside Sabrina, is also the only Gym Leader to have been defeated in the anime by Ash out of sequence with the games, if one discounts the change in order between Diamond and Pearl and Platinum.
• Tangela is the only Pokémon Erika owns who has appeared in all Pokémon media that Erika herself has: the anime, the Pokémon Special manga, the video games, and the Trading Card Game.

Names

References

• Pokémon.com Pokémon Scent-sation!

External links

• Splendor, the fanlisting for Erika
• Erika's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Template:Erika's Pokémon

Gym Leaders of the Kanto region
Pewter Gym Brock	Cerulean Gym Misty	Vermilion Gym Lt. Surge	Celadon Gym Erika
Fuchsia Gym Koga Janine	Saffron Gym Sabrina	Cinnabar Gym Blaine	Viridian Gym Giovanni Blue

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