Chili

**Debut:** | * Pokémon Black and White

**Chili** (Japanese: **ポッド** *Poddo*) is a member of the Striaton City Gym Leader trio, along with his brothers Cilan and Cress. This boy considers himself the strongest of the Trio of brothers. If Snivy is chosen as the starter Pokémon, he will battle the player at the Striaton City Gym with his Pansear. He will award the player the Trio Badge if you defeat him.
Chili is the first gym leader to be encountered in Unova if Snivy is chosen at the beginning.

## Strategy

*All of this is true in the anime but not the game.*

Chili is strong and passionate in battle and will do anything to win. He loves his Pansear and thinks battling is spicy. He likes to use Dig and Fire Punch a lot. His Pansear can use Flamethrower but it only uses it rarely. He will let you attack at the start and then use these moves. To keep the battle fair, he will give you a chance to attack in between his attacks, but he puts up a good fight. It will also take courage to fight him with a fire type as said in the anime. Although he has courage, Chili is the most defeated of the three Striaton Gym Leaders.

## In the anime

In the Anime, just like the other trios, they first asked which of the three gym leaders Ash will choose to battle, but Ash says that he wants to battle all three. Although Chili loses with his Pansear, he congratulates Ash.

He returns to battle Cilan in BW060, but was defeated. It is revealed that between what happened in A Conniseur's Revenge and BW060 Chili decided to go on his own journey leaving Cress in charge of the Gym. Chili and his Pansear then train with Cilan and his Pansage. After that Chili challenges Ash to a battle and triumphs over his Oshawott.

## In the games

### Pokémon Black and White Versions 2

Gym Battle

Fire-type Tournament

Unova Gym Leader Tournament

## Episode Appearances

* BW005: Triple Leaders, Team Threats
* BW006: Dreams by the Yard Full!
* BW019: A Connoisseur's Revenge! (Cameo, Flashback)
* BW060: A Call for Brotherly Love!

## Gallery

* Chili and Cress welcome Ash and the co. at Striation city gym.
* Chili winking
* Chili and Cress react to Ash's yelling.
* Chili, Cress, and Cilan opening the door to their battlefield.
* Chili smiling
* Chili gonna battle Ash.
* Chili eating his stress away with donuts.
* Chili angry
* Chili getting upset.
* Chili saying goodbye to Cilan after announcing he'll open up his first fire type gym.
* Chili's going to cry.jpg

Chili feeling sick and sad.
* Chili excited about his pansear learning Solar beam.
* Chili smiling in a flashback.
* Chili on the ground
* Chili starting his journey.
* Chili blushing
* Chili running away.jpg

Chili running away from the Striaton Gym.
* Chili is lonely
* Chili running out to battle so pansear can perform it's new move.
* The teaching method for solar beam.
* Chili hugging Pansear.jpg

Chili hugging his pansear after their victory.
* Chili and Pansear reuniting
* Chili climbing the apple tree to apologize to Pansear.
* Chili in the 2012 Japanese McDonald's Pokémon calendar .
* Chili in the pokemon center
* Chili screaming
* Cilan and Chili's way of saying goodbye (holding hands)

## Voice Actors

* **English:** Lucien Dodge
* **Japanese:** Masakazu Morita
* **Spanish:** Pablo Tribaldos
* **Iberian Spanish:** Carlos Diaz
* **Italian:** Renato Novara

## Trivia

* Chili's Japanese Leader title, which is also shared with Cilan and Cress, is トライアル　トライアングル. *"Trial Triangle"*
* Chili's name is based of of a type of plant, chillies, which are spicy, as well as the food chili.
* Chili has a similar face expression to Barry's from the Sinnoh region.
* It appears Chili's way of saying goodbye to Cilan is holding his hand as seen in "Yard of full of Dreams" and "A Call for Brotherly Love!"
* Notably, the hair of Cilan, Chili, and Cress all resemble the hairstyle of the Elemental Monkeys' evolutions.
* Chili's favorite food is revealed to be donuts as seen in "A Call for Brotherly Love!"; it appears he eats donuts when he gets upset.