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If you were looking for the Frontier Brain named Lila in the Japanese version, see Salon Maiden Anabel.

Lila

Lila (Japanese: ユリ Yuri) is a character in the Pokémon anime. She is a renowned Pokémon Stylist and a former Pokémon Coordinator from Celestic Town, where she is also known as "Tiger Lily". She used to be a rival of Johanna.

History

Lila made her main appearance in Battling The Generation Gap!, in which it was revealed that she was once a Pokémon Coordinator and a rival of Dawn's mother Johanna before becoming a well-known Pokémon Stylist and opening her own fashion store in her hometown, Celestic Town.

Young Lila

When she was a Coordinator, she managed to break Johanna's winning streak, becoming the first person to ever defeat Johanna in a Contest Battle. This victory gave Lila her fourth Contest Ribbon. However, she took notice of how energized Johanna was even after losing and started pondering if pursuing Pokémon Contests was something she really wanted to do.

After getting the offer for studying abroad to become a Pokémon Stylist, she discussed it with Johanna and the two decided to follow the path they would most certainly excel at, and so Lila quit being a Coordinator while Johanna remained competing in Pokémon Contests. Lila eventually became a very successful Stylist, appearing on the Poké Chic magazine and designing outfits for famous Trainers such as Wallace while Johanna went on to win the Ribbon Cup and become a Top Coordinator.

Although she finds her job as a Stylist fulfilling, Lila began reminiscing about her days as a Coordinator after watching her rival's daughter participating in the Wallace Cup. She decided to take part in a Pokémon Contest once more and entered the Celestic Contest expecting to battle Dawn similarly to how she battled against her mother. Brock mentioned that if Lila were to win the battle against Dawn she could enter the Grand Festival, but Lila was secretly hoping to discover more about herself by battling Dawn just as she discovered her true calling by battling Johanna.

Both Lila and Dawn made it to the final round of the Celestic Contest, and after a hard-fought battle, Dawn defeated Lila and earned the Celestic Ribbon. After the event, Lila let Ash and his friends pick out outfits from her shop free of charge. She made a brief cameo in A Grand Fight for Winning! watching the battle between Dawn and Zoey in the finals of the Sinnoh Grand Festival on television in her shop.

Pokémon

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

		Delcatty ♂
		Lila's main Pokémon is a male Delcatty, having trained him since she was a young Coordinator and using him to defeat Johanna and her Glameow. Delcatty was later used in the Battle Stage of the Celestic Contest where after getting through to the final rounds was pitted against Dawn's Ambipom. During the match, Delcatty was able to wear Ambipom down by putting her to sleep and also afflicting her with his Cute Charm Ability. Despite this, Dawn was able to find a way for Ambipom to defend herself while attacking at the same time. Eventually, Delcatty was hit by a barrage of Swift and was left with the least points when the time ran out. Although Delcatty was upset that he didn't earn Lila her fifth Ribbon, Lila comforted her loyal Pokémon. Delcatty's known moves are Substitute, Sing, Iron Tail and Shock Wave, and his Ability is Cute Charm.
Debut	Battling The Generation Gap!

		Cherrim
		Cherrim was used by Lila in the Performance Stage of the Celestic Contest. After changing into its Sunshine Form thanks to the stagelight, Cherrim was able to dazzle the panel of judges and the audience with its skills as a Grass-type Pokémon, placing Lila among the eight talented Coordinators moving on to the Battle Stage. Cherrim's known moves are Magical Leaf and Sunny Day.
Debut	Battling The Generation Gap!

Contests

Sinnoh Ribbons

This listing is of the Ribbons Lila has obtained in the Sinnoh region:

• Four unknown Ribbons (prior to Battling The Generation Gap!)

Other achievements

Lila has competed in the following Pokémon Contests:

• Celestic Contest - Runner-up (Battling The Generation Gap!)

Outfits

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  Lila's outfit in the Celestic Contest

Voice actors

Trivia

• It is confirmed that Lila's Delcatty is a male because in its battle with Dawn's Ambipom, its Cute Charm Ability went into effect on Ambipom, who is female. Also, Brock later stated that Delcatty was in fact male. This is one of the few instances that a character of the day's Pokémon has its gender confirmed.
• Her title of "Tiger Lily" may have come from her Pokémon: Delcatty, based on a feline, could refer to a tiger; and Cherrim, based on a plant, could refer to a lily.

This article is part of Project COD, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each one-time character of the Pokémon anime.