Roxie (Pokémon)

Roxie (Japanese: ホミカ Homika) is the Gym Leader of Virbank City's Gym, known officially as the Virbank Gym. She specializes in Poison-type Pokémon. She gives the Toxic Badge to Trainers who defeat her. 
She is voiced by Eri Kitamura, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld and Brianna Knickerbocker in the English version, and by Chisa Suganuma in the Japanese version.
==History==
=== In the anime ===
Despite having been allowed to use all six of his Pokémon against Roxie's three, Ash, like all her other challengers, is at a disadvantage. Her Poison Pokémon are chipping away at his team's health and he's already had to use three Pokémon just to beat her Koffing. His third, Leavanny, is now facing her Scolipede, who has badly poisoned it with Toxic. Leavanny tries to put up a fight, but nothing it does works and it is knocked out. Ash then sends out Pignite, who has an advantage since Scolipede is part Bug-type. Pignite is badly poisoned with Toxic and loses a lot of energy as a result, but eventually its Fire-type moves manage to beat Scolipede. Afterwards, Roxie even gives Pignite a Pecha Berry to cure the poison for the final round. Unfortunately, her final Pokémon is her strongest, a Garbodor, and thanks to its powerful attacks and the use of its long, flexible arms, it beats Pignite without too much trouble. Ash sends in Palpitoad next, hoping for a type advantage again, but even it is overwhelmed thanks to a combination of Gunk Shot and Venoshock and it is knocked out. Ash is now down to just Pikachu. It struggles at first and takes a couple of hits and gets poisoned, but manages to hang tough and put up a fight. However, Pikachu is still at a disadvantage and takes multiple hits from Double-Slap. Fortunately, however, this activates Pikachu's Static ability, paralyzing Garbodor. The resulting drop in speed gives Pikachu the opportunity to turn things around and it manages to land the right combination of attacks, finally knocking out Garbodor and defeating Roxie. She congratulates Ash on his victory and awards him the Toxic Badge. With all eight badges now on hand, Ash has qualified to enter the Unova League.
== Trivia ==
* In Black 2 and White 2, Roxie serves as the second Gym Leader the player faces. In the anime, Roxie serves as Ash's eighth and final Unova Gym Leader to beat. This was because Ash was originally going to go to Opelucid City, but since Drayden was away from his Gym, Ash went to Virbank City instead.
* She first appeared in the anime before appearing in the games, as to promote Black 2 and White 2.
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