Crystal (Adventures)

Crystal (Japanese: クリスタル, abbreviated to クリス Crys, or Chris in Chuang Yi translations) is the seventh main character of the manga series Pokémon Adventures. Due to a bad fall she took as a child, breaking her arms, she learned to kick Poké Balls with her feet. Although by now her arms have been completely healed, Crystal has retained the habit of kicking her Poké Balls instead of throwing them. She has caught all non-legendary Pokémon for Professor Oak; more than any of the other characters in Pokémon Adventures.

She later adds Hoenn Pokémon to her collection and apparently begins to work full-time as one of Professor Oak's assistants. Crystal's Pokémon collection is used by Emerald when he goes to the Battle Frontier.

Crystal's special skill, as described by Professor Oak, is Pokémon catching, and she is known as the "Capturer" (捕える者 Capturer).

Character history

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

Crystal is introduced in the middle of the second chapter, in Volume 10, when Professor Oak is looking for someone to complete the Pokédex for him by catching every known species of Pokémon. He meets Crystal at her workplace, at Earl Dervish's Pokémon Academy in Violet City, and hires her services. But first she asked for something in return. Since the Academy was so worn down she said if she was to help it had to be repaired, which was allowed. After catching all of the Pokémon in Cherrygrove City, she departs after giving them to Oak, stating that she didn't need anymore teammates and they were caught purely for research purposes. Once she leaves Oak and Elm talk about her and Elm reveals that a Chikorita which still was at Elm's lab far after Totodile and Cyndaquil. Hearing that Crystal wasn't interested, Chikorita was devastated and went off to convince her himself. While Crystal initially didn't want it and thought it wasn't strong enough she was impressed by its spunk and courage and switched it in for Chumee, calling it Mega.

After catching a Dunsparce and Flaffy she meets Bill and he gives her a portable transporter. She then saves him from a herd of Staryu. She was previously unable of transporting Pokémon to Professor Oak due to the transporter be down and Bill gave it to her for the purpose of giving the Pokémon she catches to him since he had no idea what was wrong with the system. She then meets Lt. Surge when she is caught by his Magneton and put in his sub by mistake. When she helps unstick the the sub by catching the leader of a herd of Corsola that caught the sub Surge was impressed and re-payed her by taking her to Olivine City on the SS Anne for free.

In Olivine, Crystal visited the unfinished Battle Tower and heard that a tank holding in the waste from the construction burst and flowed into the river, enraging a Quilfish that lived there. She caught it and learned from it a baby Quilfish was there and would die from the pollution. While she was taking it to the Pokémon Center she saw Suicune come and purify the lake. This display convinced Crystal to go catch it, especially after Oak called her and wished for her to catch them for data as well. Luckily for her, her Pokédex was close enough to Suicune that it was able to activate the new tracking system Oak had just installed, allowing Crystal to track it.

In her search for Suicune, Crystal meets Eusine, another Suicune chaser, and the two form a rivalry. They have to team up, however, when Team Rocket also tries to catch the Aurora Pokémon, and backtracks them with a Ditto disguised as Suicune. Crystal was able to defeat it and had Parsee use Spore to subdue the Team Rocket Elite Trio so Suicune could escape. While Eusine battles Team Rocket, Crystal battles Suicune at the Burned Tower and fails to catch it.

Having failed at catching a Pokémon for the first time, Crystal loses her confidence and her ability to catch even weak Pokémon. With her mother's advice, Crystal goes back to her childhood training spot, Mt. Mortar - the place where she first met and caught most of her party - and there she regains her skills. Later, Crystal meets Yellow and her uncle Wilton, sent to find her by Professor Oak, who take her on their boat towards Whirl Islands. There, the trio encounters a Lugia that starts attacking them. In the midst of the battle, Crystal meets the two other Pokédex holders of Johto - Gold and Silver - and together they try to capture Lugia and fail.

Under Professor Oak's orders, Crystal and Gold head to the opening ceremony of the Pokémon League, where all 16 Gym Leaders of Kanto and Johto have gathered, to try and determine which one of the Gym Leaders is the villainous Masked Man. They battle Chermaine and Keane in the Control Room and end up winning, but locked in. The Masked Man then appears at the scene with both Lugia and Ho-Oh and starts wrecking havoc before heading to the shrine in Ilex Forest, where the final battle then takes place. Crystal heads after him with the three legendary beasts that she receives from Misty, Lt. Surge and Blaine and teams up with the other Pokédex holders to fight the Masked Man. Together with Gold and Silver, she dives after Pryce into the time portal. The Pokédex holders make it out unharmed, but Pryce is stuck inside.

Emerald arc

During the Emerald saga, Crystal's mission, along with Gold, Ruby, and Sapphire, is to help stop Guile Hideout and bring the petrified Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Silver out of their stone state. To do that, Professor Oak and Crystal send Emerald to the Battle Frontier to find Jirachi, and Crystal lets Emerald use every Pokémon she ever caught. Towards the end she joins the fight in person.

Pokémon

Her "starter" Pokémon was a Chikorita which escaped from Professor Elm's lab, longing to go on a journey. It should be noted, however, that Chikorita was not her first Pokémon, as she by her introduction already owned six. All of Crystal's party Pokémon have a symbol of a star somewhere on them. Some wear star necklaces or stickers, but her Cubone and Parasect had natural markings in the shape of stars.

The suffix "ee" (Japanese: "pyon") of the nicknames of her Pokémon was insisted by her mother, who named everyone except Chikorita.

Here is the list of Crystal's personal Pokémon (updated to the end of Emerald Saga), although aside from these she's also captured every single one from Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn, except legendary Pokémon.

On hand

→ → Chikorita → Bayleef → Meganium♂ Mega (Lv.42)			Smoochum♀ Chumee (Lv.29)	Parasect♀ Parasee (Lv.45)
→ Natu → Xatu♀ Natee (Lv.44)			Arcanine♂ Arckee (Lv.53)	Mr. Mime Mimee (Lv.44)

• Mega was a starter Pokémon under Professor Elm's care. With his friends setting out on a journey (Cyndaquil with Gold and Totodile with Silver), Mega wanted to set out on a journey as well. After some convincing, Crys let Mega join the team. Mega is a very bold Pokémon, and is willing to get himself hurt to help others, as seen with the battle against Larvitar, in which he evolved into Bayleef. He evolved again to a Meganium in the Whirl Islands.
  
• Chumee is Crystal's childhood Pokémon and possibly her first one. Not used for battle, but to trap wild Pokémon with Mean Look. It is also shown to help her whenever she is assisting Professor Oak in his laboratory.
• During her training to become a a capture master on Mt. Mortar, Arckee, enraged by an injury in his eye, went rampaging on her, causing her to fall and break her arms. After the trainer realized that the Pokémon was not aggressive by nature, he joined her team. Parasee, Natee, Hitmonee and Bonee, wild Pokémon that helped Crystal after the accident, also joined her team at the same time. Arckee and Natee serve as Crystal's main transport means while the other three help her capture wild Pokémon.
• Mimee is the most recent addition to Crystal's team. Not much is known about it as of yet, only that is has the ability to create invisible walls and rooms, much like Sabrina's Mr. Mime.

In box

Hitmonchan♂ Hitmonee (Lv.54)

Cubone♂ Bonee

• Note: She has also captured each species of non-legendary Pokémon for Professor Oak.

Befriended

Suicune

• Helped out Crystal in the final battle.

Trivia

• Except for Meganium (Mega) and her befriended Suicune (no nickname), all of her Pokémon's nicknames end with 'ee'.
  • In the Japanese version, however, Meganium was given the nickname "Megapyon," following the naming convention of Crystal's other Pokémon.
• Crys's birthday is April 30th.
• Her bloodtype is A.

In other languages

External links

• Netkun on Crystal (Japanese)

Crystal's Pokémon
In rotation:	Chumee	Archy	Parasee	Bonee	Monlee	Natee
	Megaree
In storage:	Mymee
Given away:	Remoraid (×20)
Status unknown:	Qwilfish (multiple)
Borrowed:	Electrode
Befriended:	Suicune
For a detailed list of Pokémon currently owned by Crystal, see her page

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