Candice

Candice (Japanese: スズナ Suzuna) is the Gym Leader of Snowpoint City's Gym, known officially as the Snowpoint Gym. She hands out the Icicle Badge to Trainers who defeat her. She specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon.

In the games

Candice uses Template:Type2 Pokémon in her battles. Trainers who defeat her will receive the Icicle Badge, TM72 (Avalanche), and will be able to use Rock Climb outside of battle. Candice teaches that before battling with Pokémon, a person needs to befriend them first. Candice has an interest in fashion and romance as well as Pokémon, and believes a person should put all their focus into whatever they do. She sometimes muses that she acts the opposite of the way people would expect a Ice-type Gym Leader to behave - warm and friendly instead of cold and distant. She also seems to enjoy talking in third person.

She later allows the player entry into the Snowpoint Temple, and, in Platinum, will appear occasionally for rematches at the Battleground.

In Platinum, Maylene mentions in Snowpoint's Pokémon Center that she admires Candice for being studious. She also mentions that Candice wanted to practice against her to learn about the Fighting-type because of it being a weakness of Ice-type Pokémon.

Pokémon

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

File:SpriteSuzuna.png Leader Candice Snowpoint Gym Diamond and Pearl Leader and Professor Candice Oak Snowpoint Gym Diamond and Pearl Reward: $5040

Types: Grass Ice Ability: Snow Warning Held item: None Snover♀ Lv.38 Ice Shard Ice Physical   --       Razor Leaf Grass Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Ingrain Grass Status   --       Types: Dark Ice Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Sneasel♀ Lv.38 Avalanche Ice Physical   --       Faint Attack Dark Physical   --       Slash Normal Physical   --       Taunt Dark Status   --       Types: Fighting Psychic Ability: Pure Power Held item: None Medicham♀ Lv.40 Ice Punch Ice Physical   --       Force Palm Fighting Physical   --       Bulk Up Fighting Status   --       Detect Fighting Status   --       Types: Grass Ice Ability: Snow Warning Held item: Sitrus Berry Abomasnow♀ Lv.42 Avalanche Ice Physical   --       Wood Hammer Grass Physical   --       Swagger Normal Status   --       GrassWhistle Grass Status   --

Pokémon Platinum

File:CandicePlatinum.gif Leader Candice Snowpoint Gym Platinum Leader and Professor Candice Oak Snowpoint Gym Platinum Reward: $5280

Types: Dark Ice Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Sneasel♀ Lv.40 Ice Shard Ice Physical   --       Faint Attack Dark Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Slash Normal Physical   --       Types: Ice Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Piloswine♀ Lv.40 Avalanche Ice Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Hail Ice Status   --       Types: Grass Ice Ability: Snow Warning Held item: None Abomasnow♀ Lv.42 Avalanche Ice Physical   --       Wood Hammer Grass Physical   --       Focus Blast Fighting Special   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --       Types: Ice Ghost Ability: Snow Cloak Held item: Sitrus Berry Froslass♀ Lv.44 Double Team Normal Status   --       Blizzard Ice Special   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --

Rematch

File:CandicePlatinum.gif Leader Candice Battleground Platinum Leader and Professor Candice Oak Battleground Platinum Reward: $7800

Types: Dark Ice Ability: Pressure Held item: None Weavile♀ Lv.62 Faint Attack Dark Physical   --       Avalanche Ice Physical   --       Slash Normal Physical   --       Taunt Dark Status   --       Types: Ice Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Mamoswine♀ Lv.61 Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Avalanche Ice Physical   --       AncientPower Rock Special   --       Hail Ice Status   --       Types: Grass Ice Ability: Snow Warning Held item: None Abomasnow♀ Lv.61 Wood Hammer Grass Physical   --       Avalanche Ice Physical   --       GrassWhistle Grass Status   --       Ingrain Grass Status   --       Types: Ice Ghost Ability: Snow Cloak Held item: None Froslass♀ Lv.63 Blizzard Ice Special   --       Ominous Wind Ghost Special   --       Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Hail Ice Status   --       Types: Ice Unknown Ability: Snow Cloak Held item: Sitrus Berry Glaceon♂ Lv.65 Mirror Coat Psychic Special   --       Blizzard Ice Special   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --

File:SpriteSuzuna.png	File:CandicePlatinum.gif
Candice's sprite from Diamond and Pearl	Candice's sprite from Platinum	Candice's VS sprite from Platinum

Quotes

Snowpoint Gym

• Before battle

"You want to challenge Candice? Sure thing! I was waiting for someone tough! But I should tell you, I'm tough because I know how to focus. Pokémon, fashion, romance... It's all about focus! I'll show you just what I mean. Get ready to lose!"

• When sending out last Pokémon

"I'm going to break the ice and bring out my last-resort Pokémon!"

• During battle

"I can sense your will to win, but I promise you I'm not about to lose!"

• When defeated

"I must say, I've warmed up to you! I might even admire you a little."

• After being defeated

"Wow! you are great! You've earned my respect! I think your focus and will bowled us over totally. Oh, that's right! I'm supposed to give you this!"

"Do you think I should try to act more like an Ice-type Gym Leader? Like, do you think I should be more cool and distant? That sort of thing I have trouble with."

Snowpoint Temple

"It's OK! You can let that person in. Cynthia sent word to me. You're working on a Pokédex, aren't you? There should be many rare Pokémon in the temple. Enjoy your exploring!"

Villa

"What is it, Maylene? Did you want some Accessories? I'll give you some of my favorites." (to Maylene)

"Gee, I wouldn't know. That's a tough question. ...Maybe we should ask Gardenia sometime." (to Maylene)

In the anime

Candice made her debut appearance in Classroom Training! where she was revealed to be a teacher in Snowpoint City's Trainers' School. She is also a childhood friend of Zoey and calls her by the nickname, "Zo-Zo" (Japanese: Nozotchi).

Ash battled her in Sliding Into Seventh!, where he defeated her and earned the Icicle Badge. She also appeared in A Pyramiding Rage!. Paul challenged her to a Gym battle in A Pyramiding Rage! where it took place off-screen between the aforementioned episode and Pedal to the Mettle!. It is unknown who was the victor.

She made another appearance in Double-Time Battle Training! where she watches Zoey win the Brussel Town Contest, and her 5th Contest Ribbon. She helps Dawn prepare for the Daybreak Contest with Zoey. In Yes, in Dee Dee It's Dawn! she and Zoey were watching Dawn's performance on TV.

She also made another brief cameo in DP177 watching Dawn and Zoey compete in the Sinnoh Grand Festival on television.

Pokémon

This listing is of Candice's known Pokémon in the anime:

		Sneasel
		Sneasel was the first Pokémon used by Candice during her Gym Battle against Ash when it went up against Grotle. Although Sneasel had an obvious type-advantage and could skate across the icy battlefield, Grotle was able to use its new defensive battle technique to absorb Sneasel's attacks and was then able to knock it out with Rock Climb. Sneasel's known attacks are Icy Wind and Fury Swipes.
Debut	Sliding Into Seventh!

Temporary

Helped raise

Voice actors

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

She appeared in Route 217 saving Platinum when she fell from her skis after striking with a Graveler. Eventually, Platinum challenged her to a gym battle, where her Snover double-KO'd with Platinum's Empoleon, and her Froslass took over to fight Platinum's Rapidash. At first, the newly evolved horse Pokémon seemed to take the lead against Froslass' ineffective Ice attacks, but Candice soon realized that Platinum's real objective wasn't to win the gym badge sincerely, but rather to get it over with so she can protect Uxie at Lake Acuity. Upon this realization, she ordered Froslass to attack with a Wake-Up Slap and deal massive damage on Rapidash, and then withdrew Froslass before switching out to Abamasnow. Losing motivation, she asked the Sinnoh Pokémon League chairman if she could stop the battle, but ended up continuing anyway. With Rapidash close to fainting, Platinum switched out to her new capture, Lopunny, who was surprisingly able to defeat the massive bulk, but eventually was beaten by Froslass. As Candice gloated over her seeming victory, however, it was discovered that Lopunny used Healing Wish to revitalize Rapidash (fainting in the process), who, with a surprise attack, took out Candice's last Pokémon, winning the battle.

Pokémon

Snover

Abomasnow

Froslass

Pokémon DP

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Pokémon

Regice

Regirock

Registeel

• Candice used these Pokémon to awaken Regigigas, which Hareta later captured.

In the TCG

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

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Froslass GL		44		Rising Rivals	6/111
Mamoswine GL		61		Rising Rivals	27/111

Trivia

• Even though Candice lives in the snowy north of Sinnoh, the only protection she seemingly has from the weather is the sweater tied around her waist and her long socks.
• Candice is the only Ice-type specialist that doesn't use a Template:Type2 Pokémon.
• In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Candice is the only Sinnoh Gym Leader to use two Pokémon within the same evolutionary line on her team (Snover and Abomasnow).
• All of Candice's Diamond and Pearl team are Pokémon that have gender differences. This would also be true for her Platinum team; however, as Froslass is a female-only Pokémon, it cannot have gender differences.
• The highest-leveled Pokémon in Candice's team differs between every battle.
• In Platinum, Candice is the only Gym Leader whose Battleground rematch team contains only Pokémon which are in the Sinnoh Dex.
  • Her Battleground team, with the exception of Abomasnow, consists entirely of Generation IV evolutions of Pokémon of previous generations.
• Candice is the only female Gym Leader whose gym design was not changed in Platinum. The snowball positions were changed slightly, however.
• Candice's speaking of herself in the third person is somewhat a mistranslation: in Japanese, a person using their own name in place of "I" indicates femininity, whereas in English it is typically considered illeism.

Names

External links

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

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