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Tate & Liza
フウとラン Fu & Lan
"The mystic combination!"

Art from R/S/E
Gender Female (Liza), Male (Tate)
Eye color Blue
Hair color Blue
Hometown Mossdeep City
Region Hoenn
Relatives Jin (father) and Rachel (mother) (anime)
Class Gym Leader
Generation III
Games Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald
Gym Mossdeep Gym
Type Psychic
Badge Mind Badge
First episode It's Still Rocket Roll to Me
English
voice actor 		Tate: Jason Griffith
Liza: Andi Whaley
Japanese
voice actor 		Tate: Takahiro Mizushima
Liza: Chisa Yokoyama

Tate and Liza (Japanese: フウとラン Fu and Lan) are the Gym Leaders of Mossdeep City's Gym, known officially as the Mossdeep Gym. They specialize in Psychic-type Pokémon. They give the Mind Badge to Trainers who defeat them.

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In the games

Tate and Liza run the Mossdeep City Gym. Both specialize in Psychic-type Pokémon and give out the Mind Badge once defeated. They also give TM04 (Calm Mind). The two of them engage in a double battle against the player when the player challenges them.

Pokémon

This listing is for Tate and Liza's Pokémon in the video games in which they have appeared.

Pokémon Ruby/Pokémon Sapphire



Pokémon Emerald



First Rematch


Second Rematch


Third Rematch


Fourth Rematch


Quotes

"Tate: Hehehe... Were you surprised?
Liza: Hehehe... Were you surprised?
Tate: That there are two Gym Leaders?
Liza: That there are two Gym Leaders?
Tate: We're twins!
Liza: We're twins!
Tate: We don't need to talk because...
Liza: We can each determine what...
Tate: The other is thinking...
Liza: All in our minds!
Tate: This combination of ours...
Liza: Can you beat it?"

"Tate: What? Our combination...
Liza: Was shattered!
Tate: It can't be helped. You've won...
Liza: So, in recognition, take this."

"Tate: Looks like the bond between you and your Pokémon is far stronger than the bond that we share as twins.
Liza: You will become even stronger! We've battled you, so we know."

At and after first rematch (Pokémon Emerald):
"Tate: Pokémon...
Liza: Pokémon...
Tate: By changing the party's mix...
Liza: The battle style changes.
Tate: But me...
Liza: But me...
Tate: I'll always be with Liza!
Liza: I'll always be with Tate!
Tate: Our combination...
Liza: We'll show you again and again!


"Tate: You and your Pokémon...
Liza: It's as if you were siblings!"


"Tate: You can knock us down, but we'll never stay down!
Liza: Because the two of us, we always support each other!"

Trainer's Eyes

Strategy - We battle in cooperation.

Trainer's Pokémon - Always friendly Pokémon.

Self-Introduction - We understand each other, and we understand others.

In the anime

Tate and Liza

Tate and Liza first appeared in It's Still Rocket Roll to Me. Their father Jin owns the Mossdeep Space Center and often goes into space to search for space Pokémon. As a result, they often spend time at the Space Center, and even have battles in zero-gravity by using their Baltoy's Confusion technique to levitate them.

Liza is the older of the two, and is more experienced in battle, allowing Tate to relate with Max since Liza sometimes loves to remind him of such facts. When fighting together in their double battle against Ash in Solid as a Solrock, they initially kept bickering and allowing their opponent to get hits in. However, once they were able to work together they showed an incredible ability to balance each other's Pokémon, becoming a seemingly unstoppable force that Ash had to resort to unorthodox tactics to win.

Pokémon

This listing is of Liza and Tate's Pokémon in the anime:

Lunatone
Liza's Lunatone

Liza's Lunatone is the Pokémon she uses in all gym battles. When the twins battled each other in It's Still Rocket Roll to Me!, Lunatone won the battle for Liza. She later also used it against Team Rocket after they failed to steal a space shuttle from the Mossdeep Space Center. It can use Tackle, Ice Beam, Light Screen and Confusion.

Solrock
Tate's Solrock

The other Pokémon on the twins' double battles team is Tate's Solrock. Although it lost to Liza's Lunatone when they battled, it proved to be just as powerful in Ash's gym battle. It can use Tackle, SolarBeam, Sandstorm and Confusion.

At Mossdeep Gym

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Baltoy (×4)

Voice actors


In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Tate and Liza

In Pokémon Adventures, Liza and Tate are the guardians of Mt. Pyre. When they somehow sensed someone had intruded into Mt. Pyre, they went all the way to Lilycove from Mossdeep in order to protect the two Orbs. However, they fell into Mack's fire illusion until Juan rescued them. Afterwards, they become Ruby's and Sapphire's teachers in double battling on the Mirage Island. They stayed on the island to ensure Ruby and Sapphire can leave for Sootopolis safely, and were not seen since then.

Pokémon

This listing is for Tate and Liza's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.

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Lunatone 		Image:338.png
Solrock 		Image:325.png
Spoink ×2

Trivia

  • Tate and Liza are the only Gym Leader pair; all other Gym Leaders are individuals.
    • As a result of an oversight involving this, the games refer to them as "Leader Tate and Liza" in battle.
  • In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Liza and Tate are the only Gym Leaders who face the player in a double battle. In Emerald they are the only ones who face the player in a double battle before he or she beats the Elite Four.
  • Chuang Yi's translations of Pokémon Adventures manga mistakenly refer to Tate as a girl.
  • Though they look identical, they cannot be identical twins because they do not share the same gender.
  • Tate and Liza are the only psychic specialists, who can utilize their psychic ability, who do not perform any psychic powers in their battle sprite.

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese フウとラン (Fu & Lan) 風蘭 fūran, the name for a type of orchid (Neofinetia falcata). 浮 fū means floating.
English Tate & Liza Their names combined sounds similar to "levitate".
French Lévy & Tatia Possible derivation from "lévitation".
German Ben & Svenja Combining their names would get "Schweben" (levitation).
Italian Tell & Pat Possible derivation from "telepatia" (telepathy).
Spanish Vito & Leti Possible derivation from "levitación" (levitation).
Korean 풍 & 란 Pung & Ran 란 Ran is a transliteration of Japanese name, while 풍 Pung is from 楓, a spelling of Fū.
Chinese 楓/枫 & 南 Fēng & Nán Fēng is taken from 楓, a spelling of Fū.

References

External links

Gym Leaders of the Hoenn region
Ruby and Sapphire

Roxanne
of Rustboro
City
Brawly
of Dewford
Town
Wattson
of Mauville
City
Flannery
of Lavaridge
Town
Norman
of Petalburg
City
Winona
of Fortree
City
Tate and Liza
of Mossdeep
City
Wallace
of Sootopolis
City
Emerald

Roxanne
of Rustboro
City
Brawly
of Dewford
Town
Wattson
of Mauville
City
Flannery
of Lavaridge
Town
Norman
of Petalburg
City
Winona
of Fortree
City
Tate and Liza
of Mossdeep
City
Juan
of Sootopolis
City

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