Cress

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

**Cress** (Japanese: **コーン** Koon) is one of the famous Striaton City Gym Leader trio, along with his brothers, Cilan and Chili. Out of **Grass**, **Fire**, and **Water**-types, Cress prefers Water. If the player picks Tepig as his/her Starter Pokémon, Cress will battle the player at the Striaton City Gym with his Panpour. He will award the player the Trio Badge if the player defeats him.

Cress is the first gym leader in Unova, but only if Tepig is chosen as the starter Pokémon.

## Strategy

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

Cress prefers to be cool like a glass of water and his Panpour feels the same. He will try to confuse you with Double Team at the start, following it up with Water Gun and Mud Sport. He is one of the hardest to beat so be careful. Cress seems to enjoy bragging about his Panpour.

## In the anime

He battled against Ash as well in the anime because Ash wanted to battle all three of the Trio. However, Cress defeated Ash's Pikachu using his powerful and strategetic Panpour. His English Voice Actor is Tom Wayland.

Cress reappeared in BW060, where he informed Cilan over the phone of the reason why Chili was not at the Gym. Contrary to what Chili had said, he had not left in order to study but ran away. Chili had asked him the night why he kept losing. Cress had told him he focused too much on offense with little consideration to defense. As he feared, Chili took it as an insult and ran away. Cress was pleased when Cilan told him he would help Chili with his battle style and help get his confidence back and thanked him for it.

## Pokémon

### In the games

#### Pokémon Black and White Versions 2

Gym Battle

Water-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

* Cress greeting Ash and friends along the side with Chili.
* Cress showing Ash the menu
* Chili and Cress get a reaction to Ash's yelling.
* Cress would rather stay cool than battle
* Cress releasing Panpour out of it's pokeball
* Cress revealing his left eye accidently while raising his voice about Panpour's attacks being better than pikachu's.
* Cress worries about upseting Chili
* Poor, Cress he thinks his brother fainted.jpg

Cress looking at Chili on the ground.
* Cress in the pokemon 2011 calander.
* Cress looking over Chili on the ground
* Cress' socks partly revealed.

## Voice Actors

* **English:** Tom Wayland
* **Japanese:** Makoto Ishii
* **Spanish:** Manuel Diaz
* **Iberian Spanish:** Sergio Garcia-Marin

## Trivia

* At a first glance Cress can be viewed as androgynous because of his appearance.
* His name comes from the aquatic plant Watercress.
* Notably, the hair of Cilan, Chili, and Cress all resembles the hairstyle of the Elemental Monkeys' evolutions.
* His hairstyle strongly resembles Falkner's, the Violet City Gym leader.
* According to many fans, Cress has a rather feminine personality, the fact he's very talkitive and spoke in third person in the original japanese version.
* Cress seems to be rather talkitive in anime, as shown in Triple Team Leaders, Triple threats and Yard full of Dreams.
* In the anime Cress is the only Striaton Gym Leader left because Cilan left with Ash and Chili left to go on his own journey.