Clair

If you were looking for the character of the day from Going for a Spinda, see Claire.

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Clair イブキ Ibuki
""The Blessed User of Dragon Pokémon""
[[File:File:HGSS Clair Art.png|{{{size}}}]] Art from HeartGold and SoulSilver
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Light blue
Hometown	Blackthorn City
Region	Johto
Relatives	Lance, Dragon Clan Elder
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	II, IV
Games	Gold, Silver, Crystal, Stadium 2, HeartGold, SoulSilver
Leader of	Blackthorn Gym
Badge	Rising Badge
Animated debut	Beauty is Skin Deep
English voice actor	Megan Hollingshead
Japanese voice actor	Yūko Mita

Clair (Japanese: イブキ Ibuki) is the Gym Leader of Blackthorn City's Gym, known officially as the Blackthorn Gym. Her specialty is Template:Type2 Pokémon, and she gives the Rising Badge to Trainers who defeat her. Her cousin is Lance.

In the games

File:Clair.jpg

Headshot of Clair from Pokémon Gold and Silver

Clair appears in Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold, and SoulSilver as the Leader of the Blackthorn Gym. She is the eighth and final Gym Leader to be met in the Johto region, and defeating her will allow Trainers to advance to the Indigo Plateau. Known as "The Blessed User of Dragon Pokémon", Clair is descended from a long line of Dragon-type Trainers including her cousin, Elite Four member Lance, and the elder of Blackthorn's Dragon Clan.

Clair is confident of her abilities as a Trainer, and speaks of herself as "the world's best dragon master". She can hold her own against the Elite Four: her only known loss is against Lance, now the Champion. Even if the player defeats her in battle, she refuses to accept his or her talents unless they pass the "Dragon User's Challenge". The Rising Badge that victors of the Blackthorn Gym are entitled to remains in Clair's possession until Trainers have navigated the Dragon's Den and located a shrine at its center. Only then will Clair acknowledge her loss. She will also encourage the player to excel at the Pokémon League; this is mainly personal, so she will feel less upset about her defeat at the hands of a child. As well as the Rising Badge, she will also issue a Dragon Technical Machine: TM24 (Dragonbreath) in Generation II; TM59 (Dragon Pulse) in Generation IV. Many of her own Pokémon know these moves in the respective generations.

The player's rival, Silver, takes to training in the Dragon's Den once the Elite Four have been defeated by the player. In this way, he is said to act as Clair did when she was young herself. She returns here from time to time, and will battle alongside her cousin against Silver and the player. She comes here most mornings, too, and will give her PokéGear phone number to the player. From this point on, she will journey to the Fighting Dojo and have rematch battles with a stronger Pokémon team.

Clair makes an additional appearance in Pokémon Stadium 2's Johto Gym Leader Castle. This is the only appearance she makes where she uses Pokémon that are not draconian in origin.

Pokémon

This listing is of Clair's Pokémon in the video games she has appeared in.

Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal

File:SpriteClair.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Clair [[Blackthorn Gym|Blackthorn Gym]] Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Clair Oak [[Blackthorn Gym|Blackthorn Gym]] Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal Reward: $4000

Types: Dragon Unknown Held item: None Dragonair♀ Lv.37 Thunder Wave Electric   --       Surf Water   --       Slam Normal   --       DragonBreath Dragon   --       Types: Dragon Unknown Held item: None Dragonair♀ Lv.37 Thunder Wave Electric   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Slam Normal   --       DragonBreath Dragon   --       Types: Dragon Unknown Held item: None Dragonair♀ Lv.37 Thunder Wave Electric   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Slam Normal   --       DragonBreath Dragon   --       Types: Water Dragon Held item: None Kingdra♀ Lv.40 DragonBreath Dragon   --       Surf Water   --       Hyper Beam Normal   --       SmokeScreen Normal   --

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

First battle

File:ClairHGSS.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Clair [[Blackthorn Gym|Blackthorn Gym]] HeartGold and SoulSilver [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Clair Oak [[Blackthorn Gym|Blackthorn Gym]] HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $4920

Types: Dragon Dragon Ability: Shed Skin Held item: Unknown Dragonair♀ Lv.38 Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Thunder Wave Electric Status   --       Slam Normal Physical   --       Fire Blast Fire Special   --       Types: Dragon Dragon Ability: Shed Skin Held item: Unknown Dragonair♀ Lv.38 Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Thunder Wave Electric Status   --       Slam Normal Physical   --       Aqua Tail Water Physical   --       Types: Water Flying Ability: Intimidate Held item: Unknown Gyarados♀ Lv.38 Dragon Rage Dragon Special   --       Twister Dragon Special   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Types: Water Dragon Ability: Unknown Held item: Sitrus Berry Kingdra♀ Lv.41 Hydro Pump Water Special   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Hyper Beam Normal Special   --       SmokeScreen Normal Status   --

Second battle (rematch)

File:ClairHGSS.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Clair [[Fighting Dojo|Fighting Dojo]] HeartGold and SoulSilver [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Clair Oak [[Fighting Dojo|Fighting Dojo]] HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $7200

Types: Dragon Dragon Ability: Shed Skin Held item: Unknown Dragonair♀ Lv.52 Thunder Wave Electric Status   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       class="roundy" style="background: #Template:Color dark; border: 2px solid #Template:Color dark" | Status   --       class="roundy" style="background: #Template:Color dark; border: 2px solid #Template:Color dark" | Status   --       Types: Water Flying Ability: Intimidate Held item: Wacan Berry Gyarados♀ Lv.56 Dragon Dance Dragon Status   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Waterfall Water Physical   --       class="roundy" style="background: #Template:Color dark; border: 2px solid #Template:Color dark" | Status   --       Types: Rock Flying Ability: Rock Head Held item: Unknown Aerodactyl♂ Lv.52 Rock Slide Rock Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Thunder Fang Electric Physical   --       class="roundy" style="background: #Template:Color dark; border: 2px solid #Template:Color dark" | Status   --       Types: Fire Flying Ability: Blaze Held item: Unknown Charizard♂ Lv.52 Air Slash Flying Special   --       class="roundy" width="50%" style="background: #Template:Color dark; border: 2px solid #Template:Color dark" | Status   --       class="roundy" style="background: #Template:Color dark; border: 2px solid #Template:Color dark" | Status   --       class="roundy" style="background: #Template:Color dark; border: 2px solid #Template:Color dark" | Status   --       Types: Water Dragon Ability: Unknown Held item: Unknown Kingdra♀ Lv.56 DragonBreath Dragon Special   --       Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Yawn Normal Status   --       Hydro Pump Water Special   --       Types: Dragon Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: Sitrus Berry Dragonite♀ Lv.60 Safeguard Normal Status   --       DragonBreath Dragon Special   --       Hyper Beam Normal Special   --       class="roundy" style="background: #Template:Color dark; border: 2px solid #Template:Color dark" | Status   --

Tag battle with Lance

File:ClairHGSS.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Clair [[Dragon's Den|Dragon's Den]] HeartGold and SoulSilver [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and [[Champion (Trainer class)|Champion]] Clair Lance [[Dragon's Den|Dragon's Den]] HeartGold and SoulSilver File:LanceHGSS.gif Reward: $22200

Types: Dragon Unknown Ability: Shed Skin Held item: None Dragonair♀ Lv.52 Thunder Wave Electric Status   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Water Dragon Ability: Unknown Held item: None Kingdra♀ Lv.56 Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Yawn Normal Status   --       DragonBreath Dragon Special   --       Hydro Pump Water Special   --       Types: Dragon Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Dragonite♀ Lv.60 Protect Normal Status   --       Thunder Electric Special   --       DragonBreath Dragon Special   --       Hyper Beam Normal Special   --       Types: Water Flying Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Gyarados♂ Lv.68 Thunder Wave Electric Status   --       Dragon Dance Dragon Status   --       Ice Fang Ice Physical   --       Waterfall Water Physical   --       Types: Fire Flying Ability: Blaze Held item: None Charizard♂ Lv.68 Dragon Claw Dragon Physical   --       Air Slash Flying Special   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Types: Dragon Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Dragonite♂ Lv.75 Draco Meteor Dragon Special   --       Fire Punch Fire Physical   --       Unknown Unknown   --       Unknown Unknown   --

Pokémon Stadium 2

Round 1

File:S2 Leader Clair.png [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Clair [[Blackthorn Gym|Blackthorn Gym]] Round 1 [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Clair Oak [[Blackthorn Gym|Blackthorn Gym]] Round 1 Reward: None

Types: Water Dragon Held item: Scope Lens Kingdra♀ Lv.50 DragonBreath Dragon   --       Hydro Pump Water   --       Headbutt Normal   --       Blizzard Ice   --       Types: Electric Unknown Held item: Mint Berry Ampharos Lv.50 ThunderPunch Electric   --       Swift Normal   --       Iron Tail Steel   --       Headbutt Normal   --       Types: Dragon Unknown Held item: Dragon Fang Dragonair♂ Lv.50 Outrage Dragon   --       Blizzard Ice   --       Surf Water   --       Thunder Electric   --       Types: Ground Rock Held item: PSNCureBerry Rhydon♂ Lv.50 Earthquake Ground   --       Iron Tail Steel   --       Rollout Rock   --       DynamicPunch Fighting   --       Types: Fire Unknown Held item: Bitter Berry Arcanine♂ Lv.50 Flamethrower Fire   --       Dig Ground   --       Dragon Rage Dragon   --       ExtremeSpeed Normal   --       Types: Water Ice Held item: PRZCureBerry Lapras Lv.50 DragonBreath Dragon   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Surf Water   --       Psychic Psychic   --

Round 2

File:S2 Leader Clair.png [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Clair [[Blackthorn Gym|Blackthorn Gym]] Round 2 [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Clair Oak [[Blackthorn Gym|Blackthorn Gym]] Round 2 Reward: None

Types: Water Dragon Held item: Bright Powder Kingdra Lv.50 Return Normal   --       Hydro Pump Water   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       DragonBreath Dragon   --       Types: Fire Flying Held item: King's Rock Charizard Lv.50 Body Slam Normal   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Flamethrower Fire   --       Types: Poison Ground Held item: Scope Lens Nidoking Lv.50 Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Body Slam Normal   --       Double Kick Fighting   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Types: Ground Rock Held item: Focus Band Rhydon Lv.50 Roar Normal   --       Body Slam Normal   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Types: Water Flying Held item: Miracle Berry Gyarados Lv.50 Waterfall Water   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Double-Edge Normal   --       DragonBreath Dragon   --       Types: Electric Unknown Held item: Quick Claw Ampharos Lv.50 Body Slam Normal   --       Fire Punch Fire   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Thunder Wave Electric   --

Quotes

File:SpriteClair.gif	File:ClairHGSS.gif
Clair's sprite from Generation II	Clair's sprite from Generation IV	Clair's VS sprite from Generation IV

Pokémon Gold and Silver

"I am Clair. The world's best dragon master. I can hold my own against even the Pokémon League Elite Four. Do you still want to take me on? ...Fine. Let's do it! As a Gym Leader, I will use power against any opponent!"

"I lost? I don't belive it. There must be some mistake... I won't admit this. I may have lost, but you're still not ready for the Pokémon League. I know. You should take the dragon user challenge. Behind this Gym is a place called Dragon's Den. There is a small shrine at its center. Go there. If you can prove that you've lost your lazy ideals, I will recognize you as a trainer worthy of a Gym Badge!"

"All right. I recognize your true power. This Badge is yours."

Pokémon Crystal

"So how did it go? I guess there's no point in asking. You did fail? ......... ...What? You passed? That can't be! You're lying! Even I haven't been approved!"

"I-I understan... Here, this is the Rising Badge... Hurry up! Take it!"

"Wait! I'm sorry about this. Here, take this as my apology."

In the anime

File:ClairDragonairHGSS.png

Clair in Kotone's presentation in DP143

Clair appears in five episodes of the Pokémon anime, toward the end of the Master Quest saga: Beauty is Skin Deep, Fangs for Nothin', Great Bowls of Fire, Better Eight Than Never and Why? Wynaut!.

As Ash and company near Blackthorn City, they discover a Dratini and a Gyarados in a river. They discover that both Pokémon belong to Clair, who is following the Dratini down the river as it prepares to shed its skin. Team Rocket snatches the Dratini, however, and Clair gives chase, demonstrating her highly acrobatic abilities. Dratini escapes, and Ash fights to protect it. During the ensuing battle, however, an electric shock is headed straight for Dratini, but Clair jumps in front of it to absorb the shock. Dratini witnesses its trainer's devotion, and evolves into a Dragonair in order to put a stop to Team Rocket. Later, Clair is finally able to perform an important ritual to purify the legendary Dragon Fang. Clair then goes on to accept Ash's challenge for a Rising Badge.

File:Clair anime.jpg

Clair in the anime

Ash has the first strike, but the battle is cut short when Team Rocket steals the Dragon Fang. Ash, Clair and Team Rocket all end up in the Dragon Holy Land, where Team Rocket trick a Dragonite into helping them. Luckily, Liza and Ash's Charizard arrive to help save the day. Ash's Charizard then helps him earn him his final Johto League badge.

Although Clair does mention Lance in the anime, he is not her cousin like in the games; instead, she recalls that he trained under her at the Blackthorn Gym before he joined the Elite Four.

Pokémon

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

Kingdra

Gyarados

→ Dratini → Dragonair

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 三田ゆう子 Yūko Mita English Megan Hollingshead Polish Joanna Domańska Spanish Latin America Liliana Barba Spain María Antonia Rodríguez

In the Pokémon Special manga

File:Clair and Morty.png

Clair and her Kingdra (left) with Morty and his Misdreavus (right)

Clair was one of the first of the Gym Leaders to face Suicune. Despite her efforts, she was outclassed by its tactics, and lost rather quickly, due to Suicune's use of Mist to create a reflection or illusion of itself.

Later, at the Gym Leaders Challenge, she was to face off against Blaine. This was an important matter for her, because as Lance's cousin, she thought that Blaine would know what become of Lance after Blaine and Lance's battle at Cerise Island the year before.

During the attack by Team Rocket, which ended up with all the Gym Leaders trapped on the recently completed bullet train, she forced Blaine into fighting their duel. Blaine quickly won due to Entei's powerful attacks. Thus, the Kanto Gym Leaders claimed victory, with four wins, three losses and one draw.

Pokémon

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

Kingdra

Dragonair

In the TCG

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

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Clair's Blastoise		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	46/141
Clair's Jynx		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	47/141
Clair's Gyarados		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	48/141
Clair's Dragonite		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	49/141
Clair's Politoed		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	50/141
Clair's Mantine		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	51/141
Clair's Kingdra		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	52/141
Clair's TM 01	-	-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	111/141
Clair's TM 02	-	-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	112/141

Trivia

• Her Japanese Leader title is 聖なるドラゴンポケモン使い！.
• When Clair is beaten in the game, she is so impressed and frustrated, she refuses to give the player the Rising Badge. Instead, she sets the player on an extra task: He or she must go to Dragon's Den and retrieve the sacred Dragon Fang. When the player has done this, Clair, true to her word, arrives and hands over the badge as well as TM24 (DragonBreath). Afterwards, she says "No, it has nothing to do with my breath." The meaning of this was somewhat lost in translation, as Clair's Japanese name, Ibuki, can be taken to mean "breath". Despite this, a pun remains, as "dragon breath" is a term sometimes used for someone who has halitosis. Another joke is made out of this in Generation IV; although she now gives out TM59 (Dragon Pulse), the in-game description for this move states that the attack comes from the user's mouth.
• Clair is the only Gym Leader to be seen in the anime in the U.S. before she was seen in Japan. The U.S. opening Born to Be a Winner featured exclusive clips, one of them of Clair, not shown in Japan. The opening made its debut in A Goldenrod Opportunity which aired August 18th, 2001 and Clair's Japanese debut wouldn't come until Beauty Is Skin Deep which aired on June 6th, 2002. The only other character to debut in the U.S. first was Dr. Yung.
• Clair is one of the few Trainers to have battled Ash more than twice, although the first two official Gym battles were interrupted by Team Rocket. The other known Trainers to have battled Ash more than twice are Pyramid King Brandon, Paul, Gary Oak, Misty, and Brock.
• Clair is the only Johto Gym Leader to whose team was altered aside from level between Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.
  • This parallels Giovanni, who was the only Kanto Gym Leader whose team was altered between Pokémon Red and Green and Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen; both are the final Gym Leader of their respective region.
• Clair is the only Gym Leader in the rematches at the Fighting Dojo in HeartGold and SoulSilver who does not have any post-Generation II Pokémon.
• Clair is the second Gym Leader to team up with a member of the Elite Four against the player's rival. Volkner was the first.
  • Coincidentally, both Volkner and Clair are the last Gym Leaders of their respective regions, the focal regions of even-numbered generations.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	イブキ (Ibuki)	伊吹 Ibuki, Juniperus chinensis. And Mount Ibuki. Or 息吹 ibuki, breath.
English	Clair	Rhymes with lair, as in lair of a dragon.
French	Sandra	From the word dragon.
German	Sandra	From the word dragon.
Italian	Sandra	From the word dragon.
Spanish	Débora	Possible relation to the Spanish word dragón.
Korean	이향 Ihyang	Means strange land.
Chinese	小椿 Xiǎo Chūn

External links

• Ibuki's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Gym Leaders of the Johto region
Violet Gym Falkner	Azalea Gym Bugsy	Goldenrod Gym Whitney	Ecruteak Gym Morty
Cianwood Gym Chuck	Olivine Gym Jasmine	Mahogany Gym Pryce	Blackthorn Gym Clair

Template:Clair's Pokémon

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