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Nemona (Japanese: ネモ Nemo) is a character introduced in . She is the player character's friend and hopes to find an equal rivalry with them. Nemona is the president of the academy's student council and one of Paldea's -ranked Trainers.
==In the core series games==
===Character profile===
Nemona is an energetic and fun girl who adores battling with Pokémon. As an experienced Pokémon Trainer, she is among one of Paldea's top ranked as a , after moving to the region at the age of just seven. Despite her skill, she is not very good at throwing Poké Balls. She serves as a guide for the player. She, along with the player, is enrolled in the track of the Naranja/Uva Academy, with her homeroom teacher being Jacq. Due to her love for battles, Nemona tries to squeeze in a battle at every moment she gets, and strives to have someone in equals with. Nemona occasionally drops Spanish words or a Spanish accent in her dialect in English, in reference to Paldea being based on the real-world country of .
Along with the player, who Nemona begins a quick friendship with, Nemona also meets Arven and Penny over the course of Scarlet and Violet. She does not get along with the other two at first, often misunderstanding their viewpoints and clashing with their interests, but get along by game's end. Nemona has an admiration for stronger trainers, such as Geeta, the strongest member of Paldea's Pokémon League.
Nemona lives in the same hometown of Cabo Poco as the player, living in the same neighborhood. She is the daughter of one of the Rotom Phone company's board members, coming from a wealthier family. Her father, mother and older sister all go unnamed. Nemona's Student ID at the academy is 805C001.
===Appearance===
Nemona is a young girl who attends Paldea's academy; due to the school changing based on what version is being played, so does her outfit. Her design otherwise relatively stays the same. Nemona has long black hair with most of it being tied in the back in the form of a ponytail. Three bangs stick out from her forehead, the two larger ones being a shade of green as opposed to her normal black coloring. She has large, angular eyes with orange irises and large black pupils. She has three eyelashes on each eye. Her angular eyebrows are thin and black
She wears a magenta arm brace on her right arm. This arm brace covers her knuckles and stops halfway up to her forearm. The bottom side is black and goes all around her arm up to her bicep. The magenta covering is stopped by a thick white cuff. Her shoes are the same colors as her arm brace, having a white back and soles, the upper half being mostly magenta and the tongue being white and black. She wears all-black leggings that go underneath her school shorts.
Nemona will always wear the summer attire of her school's uniform, sporting a short-sleeved T-shirt and shorts. The T-shirt has the school's emblem on her left sleeve. In Pokémon Scarlet, the shirt is all off-white tinted blue, with a collar that goes around the neck, topped with an orange necktie. A singular front pocket on the left side of her chest. Her shorts are orange with lighter orange stripes. These shorts have two pockets on both sides of her legs, with larger pockets underneath that stick out, buttoned together by blue buttons. She has two blue strings on the front of her pants. In Pokémon Violet, her shirt is gray instead and has a purple tie. her shorts also look nearly identical, with the blue buttons and strings being yellow and the pants themselves being completely purple with no pattern.
===Pokémon Scarlet and Violet===
====Background and pre-game====
Website blurb: "Your friend, Nemona, has a sunny and energetic disposition, and she absolutely loves Pokémon battles. She’s an experienced Pokémon Trainer and serves as a reliable guide for you on your adventures. She has undisputed skill in battle—though it does also seem that she’s not the best at throwing Poké Balls."
Prior to the events of Scarlet and Violet, unlike previous rival and friend characters, Nemona is already a Pokémon Trainer and a Champion, and implies that she is starting fresh with a new team of Pokémon. She already attends the school that the player will attend to.
====Victory Road====
Nemona is first met in Cabo Poco, where she introduces herself as the player's neighbor. Despite being a -ranked Trainer, she chooses to raise a new Pokémon team alongside the player to be more on their level, choosing the first partner Pokémon that is weak to the 's. After having her first battle with the player, the two set off to the city of Mesagoza to go to the Academy. The player has a troubling situation with / on Inlet Grotto, and returns to Nemona. Nemona is glad that the player is safe and brings them to a nearby lighthouse on Poco Path, where they meet Arven, a boy who seems to know about the Pokémon the player has found. After some clashing of heads and explanation of the player's new ride, Nemona escorts them to Mesagoza through Los Platos and gives them a tutorial on Pokémon Centers and the Terastal phenomenon in front of Mesagoza's doors. Inside the city, Nemona brings them to the school's stairs (which she seems to have a frustration with on account of being too long and steep) where the two of them will be studying. There, they encounter more strangers, Team Star, a group of students who bully other students, and Penny, a shy girl who also seems to butt heads with Nemona. 
Once the player starts studying at the academy, Nemona urges them to challenge Gyms around Paldea so they can challenge the . Along the way, Nemona will occasionally appear to gauge the player's progress by battling them. Once the player has defeated all 8 of Paldea's Gyms, she becomes excited and awaits their progress at the Pokémon League. Once the player has passed the test and became a Champion-ranked member of the Pokémon league, Nemona is thrilled and wants to battle them immediately. The two of them think on where this champion themed battle should be held, deciding on Megagoza's battlefield in the middle of the city. Nemona loses to the player, but is filled with pride and excitement, happy to have such a fruitful battle against them. She asks for more, hoping the fun never stops.
====The Way Home====
Once the player has passed the Champion Assessment, Nemona will challenge them to one more battle, where she doesn't hold back. After the player has finished Victory Road and the two other stories, She later accompanies the player, Arven, and Penny on a journey to Area Zero, battling alongside the player as a battle partner to fight against any Paradox Pokémon they may come across.
In the post-credits story, Nemona participates in the Academy Ace Tournament, although she has to manage the admin work when it is held for the first time, she can be battled as a random opponent in subsequent Academy Ace Tournaments.
====Mochi Mayhem====
Nemona joins Arven and Penny to hang out with the player at their house. Later, they are invited to join the player in visiting Kieran in Kitakami. Upon their arrival, Nemona immediately challenges Kieran to a battle, having heard of his former status as BB League Champion, and though she wins handily, she is greatly impressed by his skills. Just then, Carmine arrives, performing a weird dance and not acting her usual self. Kieran is concerned by his sister's peculiar behavior, though Nemona and the others encourage him to stay positive. That night, Nemona stops by to buy soda for the group and ends up unwittingly eating 's toxic mochi before returning to the . During their race to find the remote for the TV display, Nemona eventually falls under Pecharunt's influence and wanders out of the Community Center, heading for Kitakami Hall and presumably infecting more citizens. The player and Kieran spot her and give chase, only to contend with Kieran's infected grandparents instead.
The player and Kieran later confront the controlled Nemona and Pecharunt itself at Loyalty Plaza. Realizing the player is the only one who can beat Nemona in battle, Kieran decides to back them up by holding off an approaching horde of possessed villagers. Meanwhile, the player fights and defeats Nemona, who retains a modicum of her battle-frenzied personality despite Pecharunt's control. After the player defeats and catches Pecharunt, Nemona and the others are freed from its influence, with Nemona believing her battle with the player to be a "crazy realistic dream" that she would like to have again. After spending some more peaceful time in Kitakami and battling Carmine and Kieran a dozen times each, the player, Nemona and the others return to Paldea.
===Pokémon===
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Nemona uses the first partner Pokémon with a type disadvantage to the one the player chooses. As shown in the game's opening cutscene, she also owns a Combat Breed . She is never seen using him elsewhere, although she can trade one to the player in The Indigo Disk. She is also implied to have more Pokémon that are unseen by the player, as she became a Champion prior to her first battle with the player and repeatedly mentions needing to select a perfect team for her battles. The official website for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet claims that Nemona uses and , even though she is never seen using either of these Pokémon.Lechonk — Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Official WebsiteSmoliv — Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet | Official Website
=====First battle=====
Winning this battle is not mandatory. The player will not black out and the story will progress either way.
During this battle, both the player's and Nemona's Pokémon are prevented from scoring critical hits.
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=====Second battle=====
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=====Third battle=====
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=====Traded to the player=====
Upon the third unique interaction with Nemona in the League Club Room, she will trade a Paldean Tauros to the player in exchange for almost any Pokémon excluding , , or Mythical Pokémon.
==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Nemona, in her design, forms a sync pair with , , and in Pokémon Masters EX. Nemona became a playable sync pair on August 8, 2023.
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==Quotes==
==In animation==
===Pokémon Horizons: The Series===
Nemona is a supporting character in . Introduced as a Champion of the Paldea region, Nemona quickly befriended Liko, Roy, and Dot despite her competitive nature.
Throughout the series, she often helped mentor Roy and served as a friendly rival to him.
===Pokémon: Paldean Winds===
Nemona first appeared in Breathe Out. Nemona was first seen being watched by Aliquis as she taught some children the concept of stallization. Later, during Ohara's performance, she was seen attending the concert with Naranja Academy's academic staff. During the events of the episode, it was revealed that Nemona had a battle to wage against Aliquis.
In Breathe In, Nemona defeated Aliquis in battle, some time later, Nemona had a new battle against her rival, this time a Full Battle. Initially, Nemona was winning again, but the battle scenario changed when Aliquis made peace with his , upon seeing Aliquis' determination, Nemona decided to continue the battle with each of the Trainers Terastallizing their Pokémon. With new determination, the battle between Nemona and Aliquis continued.
In Take a Breath, it was revealed that Nemona managed to beat Aliquis in the last battle, thus achieving a score of three victories against her biggest rival in the Academy.
In Breathe Together, during the presentation of Naranja Academy's introduction video for new students, Nemona appeared presenting a talk to some students and then to the rest of the Academy's student body.
====Character====
Just like her game counterpart, Nemona is an avid battler. She also has a legion of fans at the Naranja Academy, which gained even more strength when she became a Champion.
====Pokémon====
Note: Nemona has at least four other Pokémon on hand since she faced Aliquis in a Full Battle.
====Achievements====
=====Pokémon League=====
Nemona has competed in the Paldea League. Her rank is as follows:
* (prior to Breathe Out)
====Voice actors====
===Biri-Biri===
Nemona had a prominent role in the animated video Biri-Biri.
====Pokémon====
==In literature==
===Pokémon Adventures===
Nemona debuted in Speeding! Paldea's Prince of Speed!!. During Uva Academy's opening ceremony for the Treasure Hunt, Clavell selected Nemona and another, helmet-wearing student, to have a demonstration battle. The match was interrupted when a student named Violet barged into the courtyard and got into a race with some teachers. Once the race was over, Nemona challenged Violet, claiming that he owed her a battle after his actions caused her previous opponent to run off. Arven told Nemona that she'd be better off looking for her previous opponent before leaving with Violet to search for the Herba Mystica. Nemona later found the helmeted student in the school library, only for them to disappear before she could ask for a rematch.
In PASV05, after gathering information from the teaching staff, Nemona successfully uncovered the identity of the helmeted student: a girl named . At the Mesagoza south Pokémon Center, she challenged Scarlet to a rematch, but was refused. Scarlet stated that she had no interest in Uva Academy's "make-believe" Treasure Hunt before revealing her profession as an actual treasure hunter. In PASV06, fed up with Nemona's constant pestering, Scarlet fled and headed towards South Province (Area Two). 
Days later, Nemona arrived at Cortondo, hoping to challenge the Gym, only to learn that Scarlet had gotten there first. Scarlet battled and defeated Katy, the Cortondo Gym Leader, but rejected the Badge she was offered. Instead, she requested that Katy provide her with any information on the treasures of ruin that Katy might have. Once Nemona finished her Gym battle, Katy revealed she had no knowledge on the treasures of ruin, but offered to let the Artazon Gym Leader Brassius know what Scarlet was searching for ahead of time. Nemona and Scarlet then left to find a watchtower located in South Province (Area Three). Arven later happened to arrive at the same watchtower, only to find Nemona lying unconscious on top of it.
In PASV07, after waking up, Nemona explained that she was attacked by a wild shortly after climbing the watchtower. Scarlet told Nemona to recover her vitality by resting before heading off to Artazon alone. After learning that Arven was working with Violet to take on the , the Stony Cliff Titan, Nemona begged the two to let her join them. Nemona and Arven fired a pincer attack at Klawf, forcing it to run into the path of Violet's next attack, defeating it. Afterward, Arven used the Sweet Herba Mystica that Klawf was guarding to make sandwiches for everyone to enjoy.
In PASV09, Nemona arrived in Artazon, where she reunited with Scarlet. In order to obtain more information on the treasures of ruin, Scarlet faced Brassius in a Gym battle and won. Although he had little information to provide, Brassius did inform Nemona and Scarlet that the treasures of ruin referred to a group of Pokémon. Nemona and Scarlet left to meet Hassel at the academy, as he was the one who told Brassius about the treasures of ruin in the first place.
In PASV11, Nemona decided to assist Scarlet with her treasure hunting endeavors. While heading to the academy, Scarlet received a call from her client, telling her to meet them in Levincia during the evening. After arriving, Nemona and Scarlet decided to kill time by challenging Iono, the Levincia Gym Leader. To protect Scarlet identity as a treasure hunter, Nemona had Scarlet wear a disguise and act differently during the battle. After Scarlet emerged victorious, she went ahead to meet her client while Nemona took on Iono.
When Scarlet didn't return, Nemona went looking for her, eventually ending up at East Province (Area One). There, she encountered Violet in the middle of trying to raid the Schedar Squad's Base.
====Pokémon====
=====Traveling with=====
		
====Achievements====
=====Badges obtained=====
* Katy (PASV06)
* Brassius (PASV09)
* Iono
===After the Rain With You===
Nemona appeared as the main character of After the Rain With You. She is the student council president of Naranja Academy and becomes Anna's friend and rival after showing her the way the school.
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==In the TCG==
===Nemona===
Nemona was introduced as a in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Scarlet & Violet Series (the Japanese Scarlet & Violet Era). It was first released in the Japanese and the English expansion, with artwork by Sanosuke Sakuma. This print features Nemona in her Naranja Academy uniform. Another version of the card with artwork by the same illustrator, featuring Nemona in her Uva Academy uniform, was released in the Japanese ex Starter Sets. 
 and versions of the card with artwork by Sanosuke Sakuma and aspara respectively was released in the Japanese subset and the English expansion. Nemona's Uva Academy card from the Japanese ex Starter Sets was also included in the Paldean Fates expansion.
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==Merchandise==
===Pokémon Trading Card Game===
====Nemona====
Nemona has had one series of unique merchandise released exclusively for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, simply known as Nemona, drawn by kirisAki.
==Gallery==
:For images on Nemona in Pokémon Masters EX, see: Nemona (Masters)
===Core series game artwork===
 	 	 	
Art	Victory Road Art	Key visual	Concept art
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Model (VS pose)	Model (VS pose as Champion)	Model (VS pose during )	Model (VS pose)	Model (VS pose as Champion)	Model (VS pose during )
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Art	Art 	Concept art
===Manga===
Draft byYamamoto posting the PASV06 draft on Twitter.
==Trivia==
* Nemona's Student ID at the Academy is 805C001.
* Nemona is the first rival to have completed her Pokémon journey prior to the events of the game.
* Nemona's Gym Badges, seen in her dorm room, have a different design than the player's Gym Badges.
* Nemona's Rotom Phone uses a Black Case.
* Nemona, Clavell, and Iono are the only characters in the League Club Room that don't trade to the player a Pokémon or a pre-Evolution of a Pokemon that they are seen using in battle, that being , , and , respectively.
** The Pokémon that Nemona and Clavell trade, however, are references to 's opening cutscene, where she is seen with a Paldean Tauros and he with a .
* Nemona is tied with Kieran for the highest-level Pokémon owned by a rival character, with her first partner Pokémon and his reaching level 87 during the Mochi Mayhem epilogue and the Blueberry Academy rematches. The only NPC-owned Pokémon outside of a battle facility that out-level them at their strongest are 's in and Cynthia's in her post-Stark Mountain team in , which are both level 88.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ネモ Nemo 	From the genus
English 	Nemona 	Similar to her Japanese name
German 	Nemila 	From the genus Nemophila
Spanish 	Mencía 	From (baby blue eyes)
French 	Menzi 	From Nemophila menziesii
Italian 	Nemi 	From the genus Nemophila
Korean 	네모 Nemo 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Chinese () 	妮莫 Nímò / Nīmò 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Chinese () 	妮莫 Nèihmohk 	Transcription of her Japanese name
Hindi 	नेमोना Nemona 	Transcription of her English name
Indonesian 	Nemola 	From the genus Nemophila
Brazilian Portuguese	Noêmia 	From the genus Nemophila
European Portuguese 	Némona 	Similar to her Japanese name
Thai 	เนโม Nemo 	Transcription of her Japanese name
==References==
==Related articles==
* Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Category:Rival characters
Category:Scarlet and Violet characters
Category:Multi Battle partners
Category:Trainers with Tera Orbs
Category:Pokémon: Paldean Winds characters
Category:Pokémon Adventures characters
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