Maylene

Maylene (Japanese: スモモ Sumomo) is the Gym Leader of Veilstone City's Gym, known officially as the Veilstone Gym. She hands out the Cobble Badge to Trainers who defeat her. She specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon.

In the games

Maylene uses Template:Type2 Pokémon in her battles. Trainers who defeat her receive the Cobble Badge, TM60 (Drain Punch) and are able to use Fly outside of battle. In addition, all Pokémon up to level 40 will obey them. Maylene is considered a cute little girl, but adults in the town respect her for her power. Maylene's father gambles at the Veilstone Game Corner. Maylene apparently doesn't know her own strength, as she's totally unsure of how she got to be Gym Leader, and seems rather confused by the whole thing.

Later in Platinum, the player encounters her upon entering Route 217 where she is apparently training by walking to Snowpoint City. She doesn't use Fly—even if she can—so she can train herself. She is also used to the cold, even if she is lightly dressed and barefoot. In Snowpoint's Pokémon Center, she says that she admires Candice for being so studious and that she'll see her later. Later in the game, she can appear at the Battleground, where she and the other Sinnoh Gym Leaders and Trainers can be battled again. After battling her here, she mentions that she believes that being barefoot is healthier than wearing footwear, pointing out that Pokémon go barefoot.

Maylene appears in HeartGold and SoulSilver in Celadon City's restaurant, having entered what appears to be an eating contest; piles of empty bowls surround her, amazing her onlookers. In addition, she will occasionally participate in the Pokéathlon's Supreme Cup in the Power Course with her Lucario, Meditite, and Machoke.

Maylene seems to like to eat a lot, saying how it is so great that she can eat all she want in both the Battleground and Celadon City's restaurant, and is also apparently able to eat many bowls in one sitting.

Pokémon

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

File:SpriteSumomo.png Leader Maylene Veilstone Gym Diamond and Pearl Leader and Professor Maylene Oak Veilstone Gym Diamond and Pearl Reward: $3600

Types: Fighting Psychic Ability: Pure Power Held item: None Meditite♀ Lv.27 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Confusion Psychic Special   --       Meditate Psychic Status   --       Detect Fighting Status   --       Types: Fighting Unknown Ability: Guts Held item: None Machoke♂ Lv.27 Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Foresight Normal Status   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Sitrus Berry Lucario♂ Lv.30 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Force Palm Fighting Physical   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --       Bone Rush Ground Physical   --

Pokémon Platinum

File:MaylenePlatinum.gif Leader Maylene Veilstone Gym Platinum Leader and Professor Maylene Oak Veilstone Gym Platinum Reward: $3840

Types: Fighting Psychic Ability: Pure Power Held item: None Meditite♀ Lv.28 Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Confusion Psychic Special   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Types: Fighting Unknown Ability: Guts Held item: None Machoke♂ Lv.29 Focus Energy Normal Status   --       Karate Chop Fighting Physical   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Strength Normal Physical   --       Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Sitrus Berry Lucario♂ Lv.32 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Force Palm Fighting Physical   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --       Bone Rush Ground Physical   --

Rematch

File:MaylenePlatinum.gif Leader Maylene Battleground Platinum Leader and Professor Maylene Oak Battleground Platinum Reward: $7920

Types: Fighting Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Hitmontop♂ Lv.62 Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Triple Kick Fighting Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Types: Grass Fighting Ability: Effect Spore Held item: None Breloom♀ Lv.62 Spore Grass Status   --       Mach Punch Fighting Physical   --       Seed Bomb Grass Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Types: Fighting Psychic Ability: Pure Power Held item: None Medicham♀ Lv.63 Hi Jump Kick Fighting Physical   --       ThunderPunch Electric Physical   --       Ice Punch Ice Physical   --       Fire Punch Fire Physical   --       Types: Fighting Unknown Ability: Guts Held item: None Machamp♂ Lv.64 Cross Chop Fighting Physical   --       Rock Climb Normal Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: None Lucario♂ Lv.66 Close Combat Fighting Physical   --       ExtremeSpeed Normal Physical   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Bone Rush Ground Physical   --

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Pokéathlon

	Power  Course Supreme Cup
Lucario  Power
Meditite  Power
Machoke  Power

Quotes

Veilstone Gym

• Before battle

"Hello. I'm pleased to meet you. I'm Maylene, and I'm the Gym Leader. I don't really know what it means to be strong, or how I got to be the Gym Leader. But I will do the best I can as the Gym Leader. I take battling very seriously. Whenever you're ready!"

• After sending out last Pokémon

"Oh! But this isn't the end, my friend!"

• During battle

"I'm in a bit of a bind, aren't I?"

• When defeated

"I shall admit defeat... You are much too strong."

• After being defeated

"...OK. You win. That was a tough loss. I learned a lot from it. Please, accept this Gym Badge."

"Gee, I'm hungry... Oh, sorry, it's nothing. I didn't say anything. <Player>, I can't explain what it means to be strong. I don't know how much effort goes into being strong... But being with Pokémon lets us keep making the effort, doesn't it?"

Route 217 (Platinum only)

"Oh, <player>! Um, are you maybe on your way to Snowpoint City? That's where I'm going, too. If I use Fly, I can get there instantly, but I'm walking for my training. I have no problem with this. I'm used to the cold because I go barefoot and lightly dressed. ...Achoo! Oh, that was nothing. Really, I'm not cold at all. I'll be going now. Please take care!"

Snowpoint City Pokémon Center (Platinum only)

"Brrr... Oh, hi, <player>! Are you taking the Gym challenge now? I'm hoping to see Candice soon, but I'm staying put until I warm up again first. Oh, you should know that Candice is a user of Ice-type Pokémon. I really admire Candice. She's so studious. She wanted to practice against me to learn about the Fighting type. It's because the Ice type matches up badly against the Fighting type."

Villa

"...Um, your Villa... Would it be OK if I took a look around?"

"<Player>, please hear how my training is going. Thanks to my training, I'm beginning to understand the feelings of Pokémon. It lets me choose moves with much more confidence!"

"<Player>, please hear how my training is going. Thanks to my training, my handwriting has improved tenfold! ...Yes. It has absolutely nothing to do with how strong I am as a Gym Leader."

"...You know those Accessories for Pokémon? Would it be funny if someone were to wear those?" (to Candice)

"...! Th-thank you so much!" (to Candice)

"What makes a Gym Leader a good one?" (to Candice)

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Celadon City

"Munch munch munch... The eatathon contest! I never dreamed of such a wonderful thing. After a strict diet of training, I can eat like a Hippowdon. The winner eats for free, too. That's just a dream come true!"

Sprites

File:SpriteSumomo.png	File:MaylenePlatinum.gif
Maylene's sprite from Diamond and Pearl	Maylene's sprite from Platinum	Maylene's VS sprite from Platinum

In the anime

Maylene made her first appearance in Lost Leader Strategy!.

After being defeated by Paul, Maylene had lost confidence in herself as a Gym Leader, a position she's only held for six months. When Ash challenged her, she declined, much to the annoyance of her Lucario.

Discovering Dawn has similar issues herself (following Dawn's Early Night and Team Shocker!'s contest defeats), Maylene agrees to have a gym battle with her in Crossing the Battle Line!. She managed to defeat Dawn after a hard-fought battle.

She was challenged by Ash next in A Triple Fighting Chance!, an even harder-fought battle which resulted in a tie. With the decision now hers, Maylene considered Ash to have battled well enough that she awarded him the Cobble Badge.

Maylene also appeared in Enter Galactic!.

Pokémon

		Lucario
		Main article: Maylene's Lucario Lucario first appeared alongside Maylene training during Lost Leader Strategy! where it was unhappy with Maylene due to her depression from losing against Paul and, as a result, their bond was extremely strained. However after defeating Dawn's Ambipom and Piplup he and Maylene were soon back in sync with each other which helped it to defeat Staravia and Chimchar and force Ash's Buizel to a draw during the Gym battle against Ash. Lucario was later used to help protect Veilstone City's famous meteorites from being stolen by Saturn during Enter Galactic!.
Debut	Lost Leader Strategy!
Voice actors
Japanese	Daisuke Sakaguchi
English	Bill Rogers

Voice actors

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Maylene is first seen training with her two Pokémon, Meditite and Riolu where she overhears a trio of children planning to challenge her gym. While jogging around the city she almost gets hit by Chimler's Ember (when the trio was testing Platinum's newly-earned Zoom Lens). Due to a misunderstanding she assumes that Platinum was one of the kids who planned to challenge her, she then challenges Platinum to a match, adding that Platinum must use Monferno against her. She later battles Platinum in the Veilstone Gym, but is defeated when Platinum uses her skills at playing the slots to help Monferno defeat her Riolu.

She later appears in Snowpoint City, jogging in the cold where Platinum spots her and asks her to take her to the Snowpoint Gym Leader, Candice. She watches the Gym Battle between Candice and Platinum and later, along with Candice, joins Platinum on her quest to stop Team Galactic from blowing up Lake Acuity and capturing the legendary Uxie. Later, at Lake Acuity they are confronted by Team Galactic Commander, Jupiter and despite putting up a good fight, are defeated by her powerful Pokémon and are unable to prevent Uxie from being captured. After being healed they decided to get some training in order to defeat her, Candice calls fellow Gym Leader Byron who then calls and asks Volkner to train them. After some difficulty with their new tutor, they finish their training with him and later at the Spear Pillar, she and Candice fight and defeat Jupiter along with the other Galactic Commanders. She and the other Gym Leaders later fight Team Galactic Leader Cyrus in order to break the Red Chain controlling the legendary Dialga and Palkia and after a tough battle, they are able to break the Chain, however, it turns out the one they broke was the second artificial one that he created.

It is heavily implied that due to her father's gambling habit, Maylene is actually living in poverty as seen when she is jealous of Platinum's wealth and the fact that her father wears shabby clothing along with that every time he appears, his stomach is seen growling.

Pokémon

This listing is for Maylene's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.

		Riolu
		Riolu is Maylene's strongest Pokémon and her main battler. She uses it in her battle against Platinum and manages to defeat her Chatot but is defeated by Platinum applying her Slots skills to her Monferno. It was later used in her first battle against Jupiter but was eventually defeated by her powerful Pokémon. It was used against the Galactic Commander one last time where it defeated her Tangrowth with a Aura Sphere and Ice Shard combination with Candice's Abomasnow. Riolu's known moves are Force Palm, Drain Punch, Vacuum Wave, Rock Smash, and Aura Sphere*.
Debut	VS. Meditite and Riolu I

		Meditite ♀
		Meditite is one of Maylene's strongest fighters. It was used in her Gym Battle against Platinum but was defeated by her Chatot's Mirror Move. It was later used against Jupiter at the Acuity Lakefront but was defeated by her powerful Pokémon. It was later used against the Galactic Commander once again and later to break the Red Chain on the Spear Pillar. Meditite's known moves are Bullet Punch, Psycho Cut, Power Swap, and Rock Tomb.
Debut	VS. Meditite and Riolu I

Pokémon DP

Maylene has a brief cameo in chapter 7 in volume 2, later in the volume she is seen complaining about only appearing in one panel.

Pokémon

In the TCG

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

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Lucario GL		32		Rising Rivals	8/111
Machamp GL		64		Rising Rivals	46/111

Trivia

• Maylene is the only Sinnoh Gym Leader in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl to not appear outside her gym at least once in the game. She makes several appearances outside of her Gym in Pokémon Platinum, however, when the player reaches Route 217, at the Pokémon Center in Snowpoint City before beating Candice, and at the Battleground.
  • She also appears in Celadon City in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.
• Maylene's Japanese name is shared with that of one of the Kimono Girls of Ecruteak City. Though that Kimono Girl's name was changed to Komomo in HeartGold and SoulSilver, possibly not to conflict with Maylene's Japanese name.
• Maylene is one of the youngest Gym Leaders in Sinnoh. However, the youngest Gym Leaders in the Pokémon world seem to hail from Hoenn, being the twins from Mossdeep City, Tate and Liza.
• With the release of Pokémon Platinum, the order of three Gym battles in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are now shifted: instead of being third, Maylene is now fourth in the line-up. Had Ash fought Fantina previous to Maylene, he would have inadvertently gone out of order compared to the Diamond and Pearl line-up, but in order for the Platinum line-up. Ash battled the three shifted Gym Leaders in the order designated by Diamond and Pearl, as Platinum was not released until after Ash fought Crasher Wake, but before Fantina.
• She is also the only Gym Leader in Sinnoh to have more Pokémon of the opposite gender than of the same gender as her; in the Veilstone Gym, two out of her three Pokémon are male, while at the Battleground, three out of five are.
• Maylene is the only Sinnoh Gym leader as of yet to have not lost to Ash at least once.
• Of the three current Fighting-type gym leaders (Chuck, Brawly, and herself), Maylene is the only one who is female.
  • Counting all the current Fighting-type gym leaders and Elite Four members (Bruno and Marshal), Maylene is also the only notable Fighting-type specialist who is female.
• Of all of the trainers that can be fought at the Battleground, Maylene has the strongest Pokémon of any of them. Her Lucario at, Lv. 66, is one level stronger than the rest of the trainers' strongest Pokémon, as all of the rest are at Lv. 65.
• In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, her Pokémon are the same levels that Pastoria Gym Leader Crasher Wake's Pokémon are.
  • This is most likely due to the fact that the player can choose to visit Veilstone or Pastoria simultaneously without affecting the progression of the storyline, meaning Wake and Maylene could be battled in either order.

Names

References

• Pokémon.com Loss Leader Strategy!
• Pokémon.com Crossing the Battle Line!
• Pokémon.com A Triple Fighting Chance!
• Pokémon.com Enter Galactic!

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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