Elesa

Elesa (Japanese: カミツレ Kamitsure) is Nimbasa City's Gym Leader, known officially as the Nimbasa Gym. She specializes in Electric-type Pokémon. She gives the Bolt Badge to Trainers who defeat her. She is voiced by Yumiko Kobayashi in the Japanese dub and Eileen Stevens in the English dub.
== Appearance ==
Elesa is a tall, young, beautiful woman with blonde hair. She wears yellow sleeveless shirt and black long socks. In the sequel, her hair is black. She wears a horn-like headphone based on Minun and Plusle. She also wears a yellow cloudy outfit.
== Personality ==
Elesa is a friendly woman who loves being a supermodel. She is charismatic, able to convince Bianca's father to allow his daughter to follow her dream.
== History ==
=== In the games ===
Elesa is the Gym Leader of Nimbasa City Gym, which is a building full of roller coasters. When Bianca tries to convince her father to let her become a Pokémon Trainer, Elesa appears, she helps her out as it is her dream. After the player defeats her in battle, she lets the bridge guard in Route 5 to lower the Driftveil Drawbridge to let the player pass. Later, she and the other Gym Leaders hold off the Seven Sages in N's Castle, allowing the player to confront N.
In the sequel, Elesa is the Gym Leader once again, though she has a different appearance compared to the predecessors and she has a new Gym. The sequel's player needs to return to the old Gym and talk to Elesa's models standing where Elesa used to stand so they can access her new Gym. Elesa's new Gym is a catwalk and a fashion show. After the player defeats Elesa, she walks with the player through the catwalk to the exit.
=== In the anime ===
She first appeared in the series, where she working at the fashion show showcasing different outifts. While Ash, Cilan, Iris and Bianca were watching, she took note of Ash's Pikachu. She jumped off the runway and meets the heroes up close as she never met Pikachu in person before. She later battled Bianca and won when Elesa's Zebstrika stomped out all three of Bianca's Pokémon (Shelmet, Minccino and Pignite) easily. She later refereed Ash's battle against Bianca's dad while also convincing Bianca's dad to let Ash and Bianca continue their trainer careers.
In her Gym Battle against Ash, she used Zebstrika against Ash's Palpitoad, but Palpitoad was able to easily knock Zebstrika out. Elesa sends out Emolga to take out Palpitoad with Attract and her speed. It's reavealed that Ash tried to beat all three of Elesa's Pokémon with just Palpitoad. Since he had no Pokémon on hand, he runs to the PC and gets Snivy to use attract on Elesa's Emolga only to fail as both are females (Attact only affects Pokémon of opposite gender). Also, due to a type-disadvantage, Snivy easily loses to Emolga's Flying-type attacks. Pikachu gets outraged at being benched by Ash and electrocutes and angrily tells Ash to use him in battle. Ash realized his mistake and uses Pikachu to take out both her Emolga and Tynamo, helping Ash win the battle.
Dawn was also revealed to have watched one of Elesa's fashion shows while visiting Unova before meeting Ash.
== Trivia ==
* Elesa is the only returning Gym Leader from Black and White to receive a redesign in Black 2 and White 2. This is likely due to her being a supermodel.
* Each of Elesa's Pokémon get slammed into a wall after being defeated by Ash.
* Her Gym Battle against Ash is one of the most hated battles of all time due to Ash acting stupid and causing several blunders which are:
** Using only Palpitoad against Elesa's three Pokémon, while leaving the rest barring Pikachu at Professor Juniper's lab.
** Bringing Snivy, a Grass-type, against Emolga even though Grass-types are weak to Flying-types.
** Ordering Snivy to use Attract on Emolga's Attract, while forgetting about Snivy and Emolga's genders (both Snivy and Emolga are confirmed to be females).
** Forgetting that Iris also owns an Emolga.
** Not using Roggenrola, a Rock-type, against Emolga, a Flying-type, in the Gym battle.
** Not having a third Pokémon on hand, until Pikachu zaps Ash and tells Ash to use him in battle.
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