Elesa
Elesa カミツレ Kamitsure | |
"The Shining Beauty" | |
Artwork from Black and White | |
Gender | Female |
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Eye color | Blue |
Hair color | Blonde |
Hometown | Nimbasa City |
Region | Unova |
Trainer class | Gym Leader |
Generation | V |
Games | Black and White |
Leader of | Nimbasa Gym |
Badge | Bolt Badge |
Specializes in | Template:Type2s |
Elesa (Japanese: カミツレ Kamitsure) is the Gym Leader of Nimbasa City's Gym, known officially as the Nimbasa Gym. She specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon. She gives the Bolt Badge to Trainers who defeat her.
In the games
Elesa makes her debut in Pokémon Black and White, serving as the Nimbasa City Gym Leader. This Gym is the fourth that the player may challenge. The player can challenge her to a battle after riding a series of roller coasters to her location, a process involving the flipping of multiple switches so the tracks take the player to her.
Elesa specializes in Electric-type Pokémon and upon defeating her, she will reward the player with the a Bolt Badge and TM72 (Volt Switch).
Outside of battle, Elesa is a supermodel. She appears when Bianca attempts to convince her father to allow her to become a Pokémon Trainer. Elesa aids her, convincing Bianca's father to give his daughter the permission to follow her dream. When the player leaves Nimbasa City, it is Elesa who appears briefly on Route 5 and tells the bridge guard to lower the Driftveil Drawbridge so the player may cross it. She then appears at N's Castle, where she and the other Unova Gym Leaders hold off the Seven Sages while the player goes after N. While not strictly relevant to the plot, Elesa also visits Cynthia in the summer at Undella Town.
Pokémon
Pokémon Black and White
Gym match
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Quotes
Pokémon Black and White
Nimbasa Gym
- Before battle
- "Did the fantastic speed leave you dizzy? My beloved Pokémon will be the next one to make your head spin!"
- After the first move
- "You and your Pokémon... are shining brilliantly!"
- After sending out last Pokémon
- "A properly dramatic victory requires a dash of danger and a pinch of peril."
- When defeated
- "I meant to make your head spin, but you shocked me instead."
- After being defeated
- "My, oh my... You have a sweet fighting style. I mean, you're a great Trainer! Excuse me, I...uh... Oh, here! I want you to have this! If you have four Badges, including this Bolt Badge, Pokémon up to Lv. 50, including traded Pokémon, will obey you. Also, here's the move I like. Feel free to use it, um, if you want to. Volt Switch lets the Pokémon switch with a different Pokémon after attacking. Of course, if you don't have another Pokémon in your party, you can't switch. You're going to Driftveil City next? Of course. There is a Pokémon Gym there, after all. Oh... I bet you won't be able to get there. You know what? I'll fix it so you can cross. Wait for me on Route 5."
- Post game:
- "I think the real me is the one who battles with Pokémon as a Gym Leader. A model's job is to make someone else's vision look like a reality. It's interesting but it's not easy..."
Unova Route 5
- "Oh, you two are friends... That's nice, how you're helping each other get better by competing. OK, let's go."
- "This is Alder, the Unova region's Champion."
- "Let's roll. The Driftveil Drawbridge is just ahead."
- "Now to contact him... It's me, Elesa. Please lower the drawbridge. I have a couple of Trainers here who want to challenge you. OK... Thanks. Now, watch this! I have a TV gig, so I've got to go. The Gym Leader of the next town may take some getting used to... Do your best, both of you."
N's Castle
- "Ignoring Team Plasma... That would be a terrible thing for us Gym Leaders to do."
- "I do not appreciate stubborn people."
Cynthia's villa
- "I must say it's difficult for people to draw out a Pokémon's charm if they don't have any themselves."
- "You know Nimbasa City? You know it runs on energy generated by Electric-type Pokémon? ...Just kidding!"
- "Getting wrapped up in worries is bad for your body and spirit. That's when you must short out your logic circuits and reboot your heart."
- "Without a word... Without even a whisper... My Pokémon connect me to other Trainers, transmitting the current of my feelings."
- "Put bluntly, swimsuits are nothing but cloth, right?"
National Gymquirer
- Jingle: "Woo hoo! All right! It's 'The National Gymquirer'!"
- Page: "That's right! We collect the hottest gossip about Gym Leaders seen around town! Here is today's letter. From someone going by the name Shocking Supermodel... Hmmm, that sounds like a Gym Leader I know. Well, let's see... 'The Gym Leader Elesa said that Nimbasa's Pokémon can dance a nimble bossa! Nobody laughed, but I thought it was really funny! What do you think?' Hmmm... It really seems like Elesa needs to come up with a sneakier pen name. Well, whatever! 'The National Gymquirer'! We eagerly await your letters!"
Sprites
Elesa's sprite from Generation V |
Elesa's VS sprite from Generation V |
Trivia
- Elesa's Japanese Leader title is シャイニング ビューティ.
- Elesa is the only female Gym Leader to specialize in Electric-type Pokémon.
- She is also the only Gym Leader specializing in Electric-type Pokémon never to use a member of the Pikachu evolutionary line at any point; this is due to the fact that Pikachu are not in the Unova Pokédex.
- However she does use Emolga, which is similar to Pikachu.
Names
Language | Name | Origin |
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Japanese | カミツレ Kamitsure | 加密列 (カミツレ) Kamitsure, chamomile, which comes from a corruption of the Dutch term for the plant, kamille, when transcribed to Japanese as カミッレ kamirre. Also from 雷 kaminari, thunder. |
English | Elesa | From Electric. Possibly from Tesla. |
French | Inezia | From the flower genus Inezia. |
German | Kamilla | From kamille, chamomile. |
Italian | Camelia | From Camelia. |
Spanish | Camila | From camomila, chamomile. |
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