Fantina (Japanese: メリッサ Melissa) is the Gym Leader of Hearthome City's Gym, known officially as the Hearthome Gym. She hands out the Relic Badge to trainers who defeat her. She specializes in Ghost-type Pokémon. She is apparently not from the country the games are set in, and often peppers her speech with phrases of French.

Her dress shares many elements as the design of the first Pokémon on her party, Drifblim: it has a yellow "X" over a puffed out skirt of striped purple fabric.

In the anime

Pokémon

In the games

Fantina uses Ghost-type Pokémon in her battles. For defeating her, trainers receive the Relic Badge, TM65 Shadow Claw and are able to use Surf outside of battle. She considers herself to be a Contest Expert and refuses to let the hero challenge her until they deliver the Old Charm to Grandma Wilma for Cynthia. Fantina speaks a mix of French and broken English and is an immigrant from another country. Upon arriving in Sinnoh, she decided to become a performer, so she dresses up in fancy outfits for Pokémon Contests. She also studied Pokémon and eventually attained the title of Gym Leader.

Fantina has a hyper potion in her arsenal against you in the gym battle.

Fantina can occasionally be competed against in Super Contests, in which she uses her Drifblim, nicknamed Loony (Japanese: ばるん Balloon).

Pokémon

Battle

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Contests

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Quotes

In front of the Contest Hall at player's first visit to Hearthome City
Oh, I'm so sorry! Please excuse me. Are you entering a Contest? Tehehe... Enjoy yourself, please! Incidentally, Fantina, the Hearthome Gym Leader, also happens to be a Contest expert. And you may ask yourself, how do I know this? Well, I am Fantina! You may challenge me, but not yet! You must become much stronger. Then, you may challenge me!

Before battle
"Ohohoho!! Finally, you have arrived! Since I came to this country, always I try to learn new things. They hold Contests in this city? I say to myself, enfin, I will excel. That's why I dress this way. C'est une performance! Also I study Pokémon very much. I have come to be Gym Leader. And, uh, so it shall be that you challenge me. But I shall win. That's what a Gym Leader does, non?"

After sending out last Pokémon
"Oh, heavens. What is this? Is this my final Pokémon?"

During battle
"Never give up, never surrender!"

When defeated
"You are so fantastically strong. I know now why I have lost."

After being defeated
"I am dumbfounded! So very, very strong! You, Your Pokémon, so strong! Your power is admirable! I shall honor it with this Gym Badge!"

In the Pokémon Special manga

Fantina has appeared at the Super Contest Hall. When two women were making rude comments about rookie contestants, she sent out her Drifblim to carry them out and throw them into a garbage can.

Pokémon

She has these Pokémon:

Mismagius

Drifblim

Trivia

• During the Gym battle in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Fantina exclaims "Never give up, never surrender!", the catchphrase from the 1999 science fiction comedy Galaxy Quest.
• In the French version she speaks English, while in the Japanese and German versions she has a noticeable accent.
• The proper French form of her name should be Fantine.
• Fantina bears a resemblance to the Frontier Brain Dome Ace Tucker.
• Apparently, Fantina has two Drifblim, one for battles, and one for Contests (The Drifblim she uses in contests knows Explosion, Constrict, Focus Energy, and Ominous Wind, a noticeably different moveset from the Drifblim she uses in battle).

Names

External links

• Serebii.net Sinnoh Leaders Page

Gym Leaders of the Sinnoh region
Oreburgh Gym Roark	Eterna Gym Gardenia	Veilstone Gym Maylene	Pastoria Gym Crasher Wake
Hearthome Gym Fantina	Canalave Gym Byron	Snowpoint Gym Candice	Sunyshore Gym Volkner