Katie

**Katie** is a Pokémon Trainer from Lilycove City.

## History

### The New Timeline (Past)

Katie was born and raised in Lilycove City. At some point, her parents enrolled her in the Rustboro City Trainer School, where she studied under and became friends with Roxanne. Her talent and flair made her earn the title "Cool Beauty" among her peers.

She took the specialized Battle Class, and faced Clark in her graduation match, passing with flying colors. Before she graduated, Roxanne advised her to never conform to only what she learned in school, and always seek to learn and experience new things. Katie highly valued this advice and took it to heart.

Shortly after beginning her journey, she met John Archer in the Petalburg Woods while he and his Ralts were being attacked by a Taillow flock. She and her Spheal intervened and helped them escape. Upon learning he was on his way to challenge the Rustboro Gym, Katie figured he probably wasn't ready and proposed they had a sparring match to test his skills. Since then, the two would become friendly rivals with each other.

Katie and John would encounter each other a few times, and each time John was a lot stronger than the time before. They faced each other in battle three times, each winning once and finishing the third in a draw. The two promised to face one another in the Hoenn League Conference to break the tie. The two also teamed up on several occasions, notably against Natasha "the Melon Master", the Winstrate family, and Oscar and Andi. In the last one, John saved them from defeat, allowing Katie to deliver the final blow to defeat them, but Katie was left wondering if John had grown stronger than her.

Eventually, Katie won her eight badges to qualify for the Ever Grande Conference, challenging Roxanne for her final badge.

After arriving in Ever Grande City, Katie made it through the preliminary rounds of the tournament, making it to the Double Battle rounds. She faced a trainer from LaRousse City named Rubrum Navita. While she managed to get the upper hand with her strategies at first, his Torchic suddenly triggered a Hyper Blaze, going berserk and attacking out of control. Katie froze up and it almost cost her the battle, but after a moment she managed to calm down enough to get her Golduck to land a clear shot on Torchic, winning the battle by a hair.

The result however left her still in shock, and she decided to call Roxanne to talk about it. Roxanne then told her what she knew about Hyper Abilities, and reminded her of the advice she had previously given her, which Katie promised to follow. Shortly after, she met with John once more, as he had also won his own match advancing to the next round. The two decided to go for something to eat and get up to speed on each other's lives.

While eating at the restaurant, they were approached by Rubrum, whose Snorunt hopped onto their table and blew at them with her icy breath. After apologizing, Rubrum sat with them for a friendly chat and joined them in eating, despite Katie being somewhat uncomfortable with him. After he left, Katie noticed he had dropped his Pokédex on the table and suggested to John that they should return it.

The following day, Katie watched as John won his next match in the B Stadium, qualifying for the Victory Tournament. After congratulating John and asking him to come see her own match, she headed for the C Stadium.

Her opponent was a girl named Phoebe, a Ghost-type specialist. Confident that she could counter anything she threw at her, Katie sent her Scizor and Venomoth, while Phoebe sent out a Banette and a Litwick.

While Katie put up a good fight at first, Phoebe managed to counter every one of her strategies, disabling her Pokémon's moves with tactics like Cursed Body, Taunt and Spite, leaving her with increasingly fewer options. Katie grew increasingly desperate as no matter what she tried, Phoebe seemed to be ready for it. After Scizor took an Inferno from Phoebe's Litwick point-blank, his ability Swarm triggered, and they managed to land a good hit, but the burns inflicted knocked him out, leaving her only with Venomoth. They managed to almost take down Litwick, but Banette used Spite to block Venomoth's Psybeam, while under the effects of Taunt effectively leaving him unable to attack. Katie froze up, not knowing what to do, and after Phoebe's Pokémon defeated Venomoth with a combined attack, she ran off crying.

At a park, she encountered Rubrum once more. After telling him what happened, Katie decided that she was going to leave because she didn't want to see John after breaking their promise. Rubrum however called her out on being a bad friend, only caring about John as a rival, leaving her thinking about their battle together against Oscar and Andi and realizing that he was right. This in turn convinced her to stay to support John for the remainder of the competition.

The next round, Katie watched the match between John and Tyson, with the latter emerging victorious. She also met Phoebe, to whom she apologized for storming off after losing, and wished her good luck in the next round. She met with Rubrum and John at the exit tunnel, and the three decided to go to the ice cream parlor at Rubrum's request.

Katie talked to John and asked him if she'd been a good friend, while also admitting that she was growing jealous of his fast growth and feared she was falling behind. John assured her that she wasn't while also revealing that he looked up to her for her strategies as much she did him for his talent. John also revealed that he enjoyed much more when they teamed up, leaving Katie thinking about it, until Rubrum came with their ice creams and they started eating, engaging in some friendly chatter.

The following day, Katie decided to talk to John before going home, though not before running into Rubrum one last time. After thanking him, Katie suggested that he could go to Rustboro and ask Roxanne about how to control his Torchic's Hyper Blaze. After exchanging PokéNav numbers, Rubrum left and Katie finally talked to John. She suggested that they could travel together for a while, so they could learn from each other, but more importantly, so she could be a better friend to him. While she still intended to have their tie-breaker battle, she wanted them to have it now as friends instead of rivals, much to John's joy. The two promised to meet each other in a couple months at Slateport City, after they took care of business at home.

Unfortunately, this would be the last time they met each other, as John was murdered by the Bloodline King's Emissary some time afterwards.

At some point after John's death, Katie would begin to visit his grave regularly. She went to leave a flower crown for Christmas, regretting not having been a better friend to him, and promising to return next year with the Pokémon League trophy as a gift for him. After leaving the graveyard, Katie ran into a Pokémon battle in a nearby park, recognizing one of the trainers as the now part of the Elite Four Phoebe. After she defeated her opponent, Phoebe recognized her as well, and the two talked for a bit, about valuing the living to honor the dead. Phoebe noticed that Katie seemed a little down, and invited her to the Christmas party hosted by the rest of the Hoenn Elite Four as her guest. Katie was reluctant at first, but recalling what she promised to John and seeing that Phoebe considered her a friend, she ultimately accepted.

## Pokémon

* Disable
* Confusion
* Hydro Pump

* Protect

* Supersonic
* Poison Powder

* Pursuit

## Links

1. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/AG128
2. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/AG129
3. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/AG128
4. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/AG128
5. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/AG128
6. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/AG129