Jasmine

Jasmine (Japanese: ミカン Mikan) is the Gym Leader of Olivine City's Gym, known officially as the Olivine Gym. She specializes in , and she gives the to s who defeat her in . She also appears in Sinnoh to give Trainers and to compete in Sinnoh's s.
==In the core series games==
Jasmine appears in as the Gym Leader of the Olivine Gym. Her title in these games is "The Steel-Clad Defense Girl." She also appears in , and their remakes.
Jasmine is a shy girl who has trouble speaking. She is compassionate, and when Amphy, the in the Olivine Lighthouse, falls ill, Jasmine looks after it. Amphy will only take the medicine the brings from Jasmine.
When the player first meets Jasmine, she will refuse to battle, as she is busy caring for Amphy. She requests that a special medicine be brought from the Cianwood City pharmacy. When it is retrieved, she uses it to heal the Ampharos and returns to the Gym afterwards. In battle, she uses the newly-discovered Pokémon, but a in the Lighthouse says she used to train Pokémon such as . Once defeated, she will yield the and .
In , Jasmine can be fought multiple times in Saffron City's Fighting Dojo. She will use a stronger team here but will not appear until her Pokégear phone number has been obtained at the Olivine City diner. She goes there every afternoon, between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM, and will afterwards travel to Kanto for battles on Wednesday afternoons. After exchanging numbers at the diner, visiting Jasmine at her Gym in Olivine will cause her to offer to make a trade with the player, although the player will need to talk to Jasmine a second time because she will be nervous about it. She offers a nicknamed Rusty that holds a Soothe Bell. She will accept any Pokémon in exchange, being the first in-game trade where this is possible. Rusty isn't the same as her battling Steelix, as Rusty is male whereas the other is female.
In , and their respective remakes, , Jasmine is staying in Sunyshore City for a while, which she says reminds her of home with its lighthouse and its location on the sea. She also occasionally enters Master Rank s/Super Contest Shows with her Steelix, nicknamed Rusty. She gives the player HM07/TM99 () after defeating the eighth Gym Leader, Volkner. A conversation with Erika in HeartGold and SoulSilver would seem to suggest Jasmine's appearance in Sinnoh occurs after the plot of the Johto games.
Jasmine also appears in , taking part in the Pokémon World Tournament. She can be faced in the Johto Leaders, Type Expert, and World Leaders Tournaments.
===Pokémon===
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Jasmine has a Hyper Potion.
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=====Pokémon Super Contests=====
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=====Pokémon World Tournament=====
Jasmine uses three of these Pokémon in Single Battles, four in Double and Rotation Battles, and all six in Triple Battles. Jasmine will always lead with her signature Pokémon, .
======Johto Leaders Tournament======
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======Type Expert/World Leaders Tournament======
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==In the side series games==
===Pokémon Stadium 2===
Jasmine appears in Pokémon Stadium 2's Johto Gym Leader Castle. This is the only game where she uses Pokémon outside her specialty type of Steel.
During the game's end credits, she is seen having a battle with Brock.
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=====Round 1=====
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==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Puzzle Challenge===
Jasmine appears as an opponent in Pokémon Puzzle Challenge. She uses her to battle.
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Jasmine forms a sync pair with , , , and in Pokémon Masters EX. Both her Steelix and Ampharos are capable of Mega Evolving. Jasmine became a playable sync pair on May 21, 2020.
Jasmine has also made notable appearances in one of the game's Main Stories, the Villain Arc.
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==Gallery==
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===Pokémon the Series===
====History====
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Jasmine debuted in Fight for the Light!, where she interrupted 's Gym because her apprentice Janina was pretending to be the official Gym Leader. Jasmine went on to dismiss Janina for impersonating her and also covering her in wax to repel normally effective attacks. Jasmine apologized to Ash on Janina's behalf and added that she would battle him when her was feeling better.
Ash and later visited the Shining Lighthouse and met up with Jasmine, her grandfather , and her Ampharos, nicknamed Sparkle. Later, Jasmine and the others fled the lighthouse after James had his smother them with its thick . kidnapped Sparkle, and incidentally , though Janina and her Onix managed to rescue the pair, after which Ash sent the trio blasting off. After seeing Janina's heroism, Jasmine sent her young apprentice along with Ash and his friends to collect some medicine for Sparkle from Cianwood City.
In Machoke, Machoke Man!, Ash and the others arrived in Cianwood, and Janina took an express service back to Olivine City to deliver the medicine. Janina later called Ash to inform him that Jasmine was still not up to battling because she was concerned for Sparkle. Following Chuck's suggestion, the group took a detour through the Whirl Islands and later returned to Olivine City in Throwing in the Noctowl for Ash's match.
Jasmine and her helped Ash recover his from Team Rocket before sending them blasting off in Nerves of Steelix!. Ash and Jasmine later had their Gym battle. Though Pikachu defeated Jasmine's in the first round, he was left exhausted and was later defeated by Steelix. In the final round, faced off against Steelix. The round proved to be difficult for both sides, but Cyndaquil eventually claimed victory after it used to transform Steelix's attack into a powerful . Jasmine subsequently gave Ash his sixth Badge, the .
She later reappeared in a flashback in Why? Wynaut!.
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After a long absence, Jasmine reappeared in Sunyshore City, wearing her Generation IV outfit, in Four Roads Diverged in a Pokémon Port!. Ash and his friends were surprised to see her again as she watched practice some of his Contest combinations. Jasmine explained that she was traveling around and studying Contest Battles to become stronger. After Flint rescued the group from Team Rocket, Jasmine asked him for a battle and he accepted. Jasmine's battle style hadn't changed much, however, and Flint's knocked out her Steelix with a .
Jasmine joined Ash and his friends back at the Pokémon Center, where she told about her fears about being a Gym Leader and explained that it was important for a person to follow their own path. The following day, Jasmine announced that while she enjoyed her , she would return to her position as the Olivine Gym Leader to continue her .
====Character====
Jasmine is typically gentle and soft-spoken, though in , she is markedly more confident and somewhat aggressive, making this a notable departure from her in-game personality. In Nerves of Steelix!, she was not afraid to take on and was quite vocal in letting know that she wouldn't go easy on him during battle. Jasmine holds herself to account in her role as Olivine City's Gym Leader and also expects these standards to be upheld by her apprentices. She is, however, very mindful of her limitations and will seek time away from her Gym Leader duties to collect herself.
Her battle strategy is simply to attack her opponent's Pokémon. Jasmine's handling of in Four Roads Diverged in a Pokémon Port! was much the same as her strategy during her battle against Ash in Nerves of Steelix!. In both cases, she was reliant on Steelix's and . She, however, hopes to implement changes like adding offensive techniques to improve her skills as Gym Leader.
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=====On hand=====
This listing is of Jasmine's known in :
=====In the lighthouse=====
====Voice actors====
===GOTCHA!===
Jasmine briefly appeared in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Jasmine debuted in Gligar Glide, being called by the Day-Care Man. She was told to come over, as the Egg her two produced hatched into 's , Togebo. As she passed through Ecruteak City on her way there, an earthquake caused by Team Rocket ravaged the area. She managed to escape most of the chaos by escaping to the Bell Tower, but the shaking caused her to get caught in the rubble. Using Amphy as a distress signal, she caught the attention of both and , who arrived to help. They managed to rescue her before the tower collapsed and sent Jasmine off to safety on Amphy's back. Unaware of the identities of her saviors, Jasmine helped with getting Ecruteak City back to normal.
In Delibird Delivery - 1, Jasmine appeared in Professor Elm's fantasy when informing Gold that the Masked Man may be a Gym Leader.
Jasmine was seen again in Buzz Off, Butterfree!, where she supervised the rebuilding of the Tin Tower in Morty's absence. She soon met and Wilton, where Yellow was able to put out a fire at the Burned Tower and free the that were imprisoned inside.
At the Indigo Plateau, Jasmine arrives with her fellow Johto Gym Leaders to participate in an exhibition tournament for the Pokémon League against the Kanto Gym Leaders. In the first round, she faces off against the Pewter City Gym Leader, Brock. She surprises everyone by using , a new Pokémon that no one had known about. Since he knew nothing about Steelix or even its type, Brock is eventually defeated. reveals to everyone the discovery of the new , in which Jasmine specializes. When the Masked Man attacks the Pokémon League, Jasmine and the other Gym Leaders combat his army of mind-controlled s. The fight takes them to the Magnet Train, which is used as a diversion to get the Gym Leaders away from the stadium. After the Masked Man is defeated, Jasmine returned to her usual duties as a Gym Leader.
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It is revealed that Jasmine left to the Sinnoh region so that she may partake in Pokémon Contests and refuses to come back until she had mastered them.
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In Perturbed by Pachirisu, Jasmine makes a cameo appearance. She is seen together with Fantina, on their way to the Master Rank in Hearthome City.
====Pokémon====
This listing is of Jasmine's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
===Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys===
Jasmine first appeared in A Spectacular Battle To Save Ampharos where she wanted to lend her his . She wanted his Croconaw because she needed to get to Cianwood City to get medicine to cure her Ampharos's sickness. Jasmine, Gold, and went around Olivine City to find a big Pokémon. They had no luck though. She found a fighting a in the middle of a busy street.
Even though it belonged to , Gold wanted to borrow it and they had a battle. Black chose Gyarados as the Pokémon to battle with against Gold's Pikachu. Jasmine tried convincing Black to not use Gyarados, but Black retorted by saying that nothing is fair in a real battle. When Pikachu stood no chance against Gyarados, Jasmine took Gold's place. Using her , she finished Gyarados with one . As Gyarados had been defeated, the group was unable to use it.
The town volunteered to build a raft for the group to use while the captain provided a map for them to go to Cianwood City. As they got on, it was unable to carry them as it can only carry two people. Jasmine decided to go there by herself but Gold and Chris were willing to go there instead. Jasmine stayed behind to look after Amphy while Gold and Chris went on to Cianwood City.
After Gold and Chris had sent the medicine to heal Ampharos to Jasmine, she and the citizens of Olivine traveled to Cianwood City to provide support in stopping the Black Tyranitar's rampage.
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===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
 encounters Jasmine in Light Up The Lighthouse!! at the Olivine Lighthouse while she is taking care of her Ampharos. They meet each other again in Tyrogue's in Love?!.
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==In the TCG==
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Jasmine or her Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia==
* Jasmine's Japanese Leader title is .
* In Generation III, a Jasmine lookalike, along with Whitney and Pryce's, can be seen as an audience member in a Pokémon Contest.
* When rematched in , the levels of Jasmine's are the highest of all of the Johto Gym Leaders, despite her typically being the sixth Gym Leader. Her Steelix reaches level 62, while the maximum of any other Johto Gym Leader is level 60.
* As seen in HeartGold and SoulSilver, Jasmine's Trainer ID number is 26491.
** She shares her Trainer ID number with an NPC in the Generation II games named Kim who offers an for a on .
* Jasmine is the first Trainer known to have changed her type specialization overall, the second being Bede, who used to train before becoming the expert he currently is.
* In all the Johto-based games, Jasmine appears before Pryce in the Badge case, but her Steelix's level is higher than the levels of all of Pryce's Pokémon.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ミカン Mikan 	From 蜜柑 mikan (; generic word for citrus fruit)
English, French, Italian,Brazilian Portuguese	Jasmine 	From and mine or mineral
German 	Jasmin 	From Jasmin (jasmine) and Mine or Mineral
Spanish 	Yasmina 	From jazmín (jasmine) and mina (mine) or mineral
Korean 	규리 Gyuri 	From 귤 (橘) gyul (citrus fruit)
Chinese () 	阿蜜 Ā Mì 	From 蜜柑 mìgān (satsuma mandarin)
Chinese () 	阿桔 Ā Jú 	From 桔 jú (orange)
Chinese () 	阿四 Ā Sì 	Mix-up with Chuck's Chinese name
Chinese () 	阿蜜 A Maht 	From 蜜柑 mahtgām (satsuma mandarin)
Chinese () 	小蜜 Síu Maht 	From 蜜柑 mahtgām (satsuma mandarin)
Thai 	มิคัง Mikan 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Vietnamese 	Mikan 	Transcription of her Japanese name
==References==
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