Tate and Liza

Tate and Liza (Japanese: フウとラン Fū and Ran) are the Gym Leaders of Mossdeep City's Gym, known officially as the Mossdeep Gym. They specialize in Template:Type2 Pokémon. They give the Mind Badge to trainers who defeat them.

In the anime

Tate and Liza first appeared in It's Still Rocket Roll to Me. Their father Jin owns the Mossdeep Space Center and often goes into space to search for space Pokémon. As a result, they often spend time at the Space Center, and even have battles in zero-gravity by using their Baltoy's Confusion technique to levitate them. Rachel, their mother, is the judge for Gym Battles.

Liza is the older of the two, and is more experienced in battle, allowing Tate to relate with Max since Liza sometimes loves to remind him of such facts. When fighting together in their double battle against Ash Ketchum in Solid as a Solrock, they initially kept bickering and allowing their opponent to get hits in. However, once they were able to work together they showed an incredible ability to balance each other's Pokémon, becoming a seemingly unstoppable force that Ash had to resort to unorthodox tactics to defeat.

Liza is voiced by 横山智佐 Chisa Yokoyama in Japanese and Andi Whaley in English. Tate is voiced by 水島大宙 Takahiro Mizushima in Japanese and Jason Griffith in English. Internationally, Liza is voiced by María Fernanda Morales in Latin-American Spanish and Samira Fernandes in Brazilian Portuguese, while Tate is voiced by Irwin Daayán in Latin-American Spanish, and Dado Monteiro in Brazilian Portuguese.

Pokémon

This listing is of Liza and Tate's Pokémon in the anime:

Lunatone (Liza's)

Solrock (Tate's)

At Mossdeep Gym

Baltoy (×4)

In the games

Tate and Liza run the Mossdeep City Gym. Both specialize in Template:Type2 Pokémon and give out the Mind Badge once defeated. They also give TM04 (Calm Mind).

Pokémon

This listing is for Tate and Liza's Pokémon in the video games in which they have appeared.

Pokémon Ruby/Pokémon Sapphire

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Pokémon Emerald

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First Rematch

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Second Rematch

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Third Rematch

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Fourth Rematch

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Quotes

"Tate: Hehehe... Were you surprised?
Liza: Hehehe... Were you surprised?
Tate: That there are two Gym Leaders?
Liza: That there are two Gym Leaders?
Tate: We're twins!
Liza: We're twins!
Tate: We don't need to talk because...
Liza: We can each determine what...
Tate: The other is thinking...
Liza: All in our minds!
Tate: This combination of ours...
Liza: Can you beat it?"

"Tate: What? Our combination...
Liza: Was shattered!
Tate: It can't be helped. You've won...
Liza: So, in recognition, take this."

"Tate: Looks like the bond between you and your Pokémon is far stronger than the bond that we share as twins.
Liza: You will become even stronger! We've battled you, so we know."

Trainer's Eyes

Strategy - We battle in cooperation.

Trainer's Pokémon - Always friendly Pokémon.

Self-Introduction - We understand each other, and we understand others.

In the Pokémon Special manga

In Pokémon Special, Liza and Tate are the guardians of Mt. Pyre. When they somehow sensed someone had intruded into Mt. Pyre, they went all the way to Lilycove from Mossdeep in order to protect the two Orbs. However, they fell into Mack's fire illusion until Juan rescued them. Afterwards, they become Ruby's and Sapphire's teachers in double battling on the Mirage Island. They stayed on the island to ensure Ruby and Sapphire can leave for Sootopolis safely, and were not seen since then.

Pokémon

This listing is for Tate and Liza's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

Lunatone

Solrock

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Trivia

• Their Japanese Leader title is 月と太陽のチャイナツインズ.
• In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Liza & Tate are the only Gym Leaders who face the player in a double battle. In Emerald they are the only ones who face the player in a double battle before he or she beats the Elite Four.
• Chuang Yi's Translations of Pokémon Special manga mistakenly refer to Tate as a girl.

Names

References

• Pokémon.com It's Still Rocket Roll to Me.
• Pokémon.com Solid as a Solrock.

External links

• Fū and Ran's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Gym Leaders of the Hoenn region
Rustboro Gym Roxanne	Dewford Gym Brawly	Mauville Gym Wattson	Lavaridge Gym Flannery
Petalburg Gym Norman	Fortree Gym Winona	Mossdeep Gym Tate and Liza	Sootopolis Gym Wallace Juan

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