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Whitney (Japanese: アカネ Akane) is the Gym Leader of Goldenrod City's Gym, known officially as the Goldenrod Gym. She hands out the Plain Badge to Trainers who defeat her. She is a young woman who uses Template:Type2 Pokémon.

In the games

Whitney appears in Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold, and SoulSilver as the Leader of the Goldenrod Gym. She is the third Gym Leader that Trainers must defeat to move further in the game. She is known as "The Incredibly Pretty Girl!".

Whitney uses the Template:Type2, and although she only began battling a little while ago, her talent attracted the Pokémon League to choose her as a Gym Leader. Her gym is filled with other young girls like herself, who use cute Normal-type Pokémon like Meowth, and is shaped like a Clefairy—a Pokémon she uses in every game she appears in. While in Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal all challengers have to do to reach Whitney is navigate through the Gym's maze puzzle, Whitney is initially absent from the Gym in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. She can be found in Goldenrod's Radio Tower attempting to win a Radio Card. If the player helps her, she will return to the Gym. Despite this act of kindness, she will throw a temper tantrum upon defeat and refuse to give the Plain Badge. Once calmed down, however, she will give not only the badge, but TM45 (Attract) as well. Apparently, this move is perfect for a cutie like her, because it makes full use of a Pokémon's cuteness.

Like the other Johto and Kanto Gym Leaders, Whitney will leave her Gym from time to time in HeartGold and SoulSilver. Unlike other Leaders, she will not travel far: just down the road to the Goldenrod Department Store on Saturdays in the daytime. Once her PokéGear phone number has been obtained, she will accept rematches on Saturday afternoons at the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City. Her team in these battles will be significantly stronger than her team in the initial battles, although her signature Miltank will remain in her party.

Whitney also makes an appearance in Pokémon Stadium 2's Johto Gym Leader Castle. This is the only game in which she appears and uses Pokémon of a type other than Normal (she does use a Nidorina in her anime appearance, however).

Pokémon

This listing is of Whitney's Pokémon in the video games she has appeared in.

Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal

File:SpriteWhitney.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Whitney [[Goldenrod Gym|Goldenrod Gym]] Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Whitney Oak [[Goldenrod Gym|Goldenrod Gym]] Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal Reward: $2000
Types: Normal Unknown Held item: None Clefairy♀ Lv.18 Encore Normal   --       DoubleSlap Normal   --       Mimic Normal   --       Metronome Normal   --       Types: Normal Unknown Held item: None Miltank♀ Lv.20 Stomp Normal   --       Attract Normal   --       Milk Drink Normal   --       Rollout Rock   --

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Gym match

File:WhitneyHGSS.png [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Whitney [[Goldenrod Gym|Goldenrod Gym]] Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Whitney Oak [[Goldenrod Gym|Goldenrod Gym]] Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $2280

Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Cute Charm Held item: None Clefairy♀ Lv.17 DoubleSlap Normal Physical   --       Mimic Normal Status   --       Encore Normal Status   --       Metronome Normal Status   --       Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Scrappy Held item: Lum Berry Miltank♀ Lv.19 Rollout Rock Physical   --       Attract Normal Status   --       Stomp Normal Physical   --       Milk Drink Normal Status   --

Second battle (Rematch)

File:WhitneyHGSS.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Whitney [[Fighting Dojo|Fighting Dojo]] HeartGold and SoulSilver [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Whitney Oak [[Fighting Dojo|Fighting Dojo]] HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $6940

Types: Normal Water Ability: Simple Held item: None Bibarel♀ Lv.54 Double Team Normal Status   --       Charge Beam Electric Special   --       Surf Water Special   --       Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Own Tempo Held item: None Lickilicky♀ Lv.50 Wring Out Normal Special   --       Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Magic Guard Held item: None Clefable♀ Lv.52 Fire Blast Fire Special   --       Blizzard Ice Special   --       Thunder Electric Special   --       Calm Mind Psychic Status   --       Types: Normal Psychic Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Girafarig♀ Lv.52 Calm Mind Psychic Status   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Baton Pass Normal Status   --       Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Normalize Held item: None Delcatty♀ Lv.54 Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Calm Mind Psychic Status   --       Assist Normal Status   --       Baton Pass Normal Status   --       Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Scrappy Held item: Lum Berry Miltank♀ Lv.58 Body Slam Normal Physical   --       Rest Psychic Status   --       Attract Normal Status   --       Sleep Talk Normal Status   --

Pokémon Stadium 2

Round 1

[[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Whitney [[Goldenrod Gym|Goldenrod Gym]] Round 1 [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Whitney Oak [[Goldenrod Gym|Goldenrod Gym]] Round 1 Reward: None

Types: Normal Unknown Held item: PRZCureBerry Miltank♀ Lv.50 Stomp Normal   --       Rollout Rock   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Bide Normal   --       Types: Normal Unknown Held item: Mint Berry Clefable♀ Lv.50 DoubleSlap Normal   --       Thunder Electric   --       Fire Blast Fire   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Types: Normal Unknown Held item: PSNCureBerry Wigglytuff♀ Lv.50 Double-Edge Normal   --       ThunderPunch Electric   --       Ice Punch Ice   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Types: Grass Poison Held item: Bitter Berry Gloom♀ Lv.50 Petal Dance Grass   --       Sludge Bomb Poison   --       SolarBeam Grass   --       Giga Drain Grass   --       Types: Normal Flying Held item: Burnt Berry Dodrio♂ Lv.50 Drill Peck Flying   --       Fury Attack Normal   --       Tri Attack Normal   --       Sleep Talk Normal   --       Types: Normal Unknown Held item: Ice Berry Stantler♂ Lv.50 Take Down Normal   --       Headbutt Normal   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Swift Normal   --

Round 2

[[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Whitney [[Goldenrod Gym|Goldenrod Gym]] Round 2 [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Whitney Oak [[Goldenrod Gym|Goldenrod Gym]] Round 2 Reward: None

Types: Normal Unknown Held item: King's Rock Miltank♀ Lv.50 Stomp Normal   --       Reversal Fighting   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Milk Drink Normal   --       Types: Normal Unknown Held item: Scope Lens Persian Lv.50 Rage Normal   --       Slash Normal   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Types: Water Unknown Held item: Bright Powder Golduck Lv.50 Surf Water   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Cross Chop Fighting   --       Types: Psychic Unknown Held item: Miracle Berry Mr. Mime Lv.50 Psychic Psychic   --       Meditate Psychic   --       Baton Pass Normal   --       Double Team Normal   --       Types: Normal Unknown Held item: Focus Band Tauros♂ Lv.50 Stomp Normal   --       Iron Tail Steel   --       Scary Face Normal   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Types: Ground Unknown Held item: Quick Claw Donphan Lv.50 Flail Normal   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Double-Edge Normal   --       AncientPower Rock   --

Quotes

File:SpriteWhitney.gif	File:WhitneyHGSS.gif
Whitney's sprite from Generation II	Whitney's sprite from Generation IV	Whitney's VS sprite from Generation IV

"Hi! I'm Whitney! Everyone was into Pokémon, so I got into it too! Pokémon are super-cute! You want to battle? I'm warning you--I'm good!"

"Sob... ...Waaaaaaah! You're mean! You shouldn't be so serious! You...you child, you! Waaaaah! Waaaaah! Snivel, hic...You meanie!"

"...Sniff... What? What do you want? A badge? Oh, right. I forgot. Here's Plain Badge."

In the anime

Whitney appeared in the episodes A Goldenrod Opportunity and A Dairy Tale Ending.

Whitney is a sweet but ditzy young lady. She easily gets lost in her own home town.

Ash challenged her to a Gym match, but was unable to stop her Miltank, who constantly used Rollout to deflect attacks.

After his defeat, Whitney invited Ash to her Uncle Milton's dairy farm, where many Miltank were raised to produce milk for consumption.

Ash, Brock, and Misty spent the day taking care of the dairy's many Miltank.

After Ash stopped a barrel-shaped robot piloted by Team Rocket, he came up with a strategy to defeat Miltank. He used Totodile and Cyndaquil to slow it down, then had Pikachu knock it out. With that, Ash won the Plain Badge.

Pokémon

This listing is of Whitney's known Pokémon in the Pokémon anime.

Clefairy

Nidorina

Miltank

Voice actors

In the Pokémon Special manga

In Pokémon Special, Whitney is an actress. She is also good friends with DJ Mary.

She met Gold while performing at the Radio Tower in Goldenrod City. The two clashed and ended up competing against each other in a bike race.

Whitney isn't a strong Gym Leader, according to Suicune. Whitney is the only Johto Gym Leader, besides Pryce, that Suicune didn't challenge for a right to be its partner in the fight against the Mask of Ice.

Pokémon

This listing is for Whitney's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

Miltank "Mil Mil"

Cleffa "Fafa"

Igglybuff "Buff Buff"

Released

Smeargle (Given to DJ Mary)

In the Golden Boys manga

Pokémon

This listing is for Whitney's Pokémon in the Golden Boys manga.

Miltank

Cleffa

Ditto

Magby

In the TCG

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

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Whitney's Clefable		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	14/141
Whitney's Wigglytuff		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	15/141
Whitney's Persian		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	16/141
Whitney's Lickitung		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	17/141
Whitney's Furret		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	18/141
Whitney's Miltank		-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	19/141
Whitney's TM 01	-	-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	107/141
Whitney's TM 02	-	-		Pokémon VS (no English release)	108/141

Trivia

• Her Japanese Leader title is ダイナマイト　プリティ　ギャル！.
• She is the first Johto Gym Leader encountered that uses a Generation II Pokémon in battle, which only half of Johto's Gym Leaders do.
• In Generation III, a Whitney look-alike, along with Jasmine and Pryce look-alikes, can be seen as an audience member in a Pokémon Contest.
• In the anime, she is the only Johto Gym Leader to have been defeated by Ash in a rematch, although it also took Ash two battles to defeat Pryce (the first battle was not an official Gym battle).
• In her rematch in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, she owns both of the dual-type Normal Pokémon who do not have Flying as their secondary type - Girafarig and Bibarel.

Names

External links

• Akane's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Gym Leaders of the Johto region
Violet Gym Falkner	Azalea Gym Bugsy	Goldenrod Gym Whitney	Ecruteak Gym Morty
Cianwood Gym Chuck	Olivine Gym Jasmine	Mahogany Gym Pryce	Blackthorn Gym Clair

Template:Whitney's Pokémon

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