Sadie

**Sadie** (Japanese: **サディ** *Sadei*) is a Pokémon Trainer from Snowpoint City in the Sinnoh region.

## **New Era**

### **Background**

In her childhood, Sadie studied at the Snowpoint Trainers' School, and quickly became good friends with her fellow classmate Candice, with the two spending their entire school years together. One day, Sadie found an abandoned Glameow inside a cardboard box in an alley, and decided to take the young Pokémon in. Despite her parents's protests, Sadie continued to care for Glameow in secret at the Trainers' School, with Candice eventually discovering her secret, and subsequently helped Sadie care for Glameow until Sadie was old enough to become a Trainer, after which Sadie chose Glameow as her very first Pokémon.

### **Sinnoh**

Sadie met Dwayne for the first time while the latter was fishing for a powerful Buizel that had defeated numerous Trainer that attempted to capture it. After Dwayne's first attempt to capture Buizel failed, Sadie herself tried to capture Buizel and battled it with her Glameow. Glameow jumps into the air and uses Shadow Claw, while Buizel dodges and uses Sonic Boom. Glameow uses its Iron Tail to knock away the Sonic Boom attack waves. Buizel uses Water Gun, while Glameow jumps and uses Fury Swipes, as Buizel counters with Aqua Jet. Aqua Jet and Fury Swipes collide, as the Aqua Jet sends Glameow into the ground. Buizel uses another Aqua Jet to knock Glameow out. Afterwards, Dwayne again attempted to capture Buizel and after yet another unsuccessful attempt, finally managed to capture Buizel on his third try, and Sadie congratulates him before parting ways.

Sadie and Dwayne's paths crossed again at Hearthome City, where both Trainers decided to participate in the Hearthome City Tag Battle Competition, and Sadie was paired up with a Trainer named Derek. Sadie and Derek are first to battle with their Glameow and Slowking against a Koffing and a Scyther. Scyther starts things off with a Razor Wind, and Koffing attacks with a Sludge Bomb. Glameow blocks the Razor Wind with a Shock Wave and Slowking blocks the Sludge Bomb with a Safeguard. Koffing comes back with a Thunderbolt that Slowking blocks with Protect. Scyther attacks with an X-Scissor, but Glameow comes from above with a Slash attack that knocks out Scyther. Koffing uses Gyro Ball, but it is stopped by Slowking's Psychic. Slowking then slams Koffing into the ground knocking it out. The two win with a combination of Derek's defense and Sadie's attack.

Sadie and Derek advanced through the next few rounds, ultimately reaching the finals, where they face off against Dwayne and Lazuli. Dwayne sends out Chimchar, Lazuli uses Elekid, and Derek and Sadie call out Heracross and Shellos, respectively. Dwayne's first attack is Flamethrower, followed by Elekid using Thunder. However, Shellos is able to counterattack Flamethrower with Water Pulse, which in turn is countered by Elekid's Thunder. Derek backs Shellos up by telling Heracross to use Revenge. Heracross gets in to take the Thunder attack, and uses the power of Revenge to attack Elekid. Next, Chimchar uses Dig as Sadie calls for Shellos to use Water Pulse again. Elekid uses Protect, but at the last minute, Shellos cancels Water Pulse, and Derek tells Heracross to use Feint to break the Protect, taking Lazuli off-guard. Shellos then uses Mud Bomb, hitting Elekid, but Chimchar finally hits Shellos with Dig.

Shellos counters with Hidden Power, again hitting Chimchar. Chimchar quickly recovers and uses Flamethrower on Heracross, but Shellos jumps in front of Heracross and uses Water Pulse. The attacks collide, causing an explosion. Elekid jumps through the smoke and uses Thunder Punch, while Heracross counters with Megahorn. Another explosion is created, sending Elekid flying backwards. Suddenly, Elekid begins to evolve into Electabuzz, shocking everyone, except for Lazuli. The newly evolved Electabuzz then begins to charge up its Thunder. In response, Derek tells Heracross to use Megahorn and Shellos uses Blizzard. Dwayne tells Chimchar to dodge Blizzard and to use Flamethrower on Shellos, while Electabuzz uses Thunder on Heracross. All the attacks collide, causing an explosion. Just when it seems like the battle is over, Shellos and Heracross are seen still standing once the smoke clears. However, Shellos gives its opponents a final smirk before they both fall to the ground, knocked out. Taking the win, Dwayne congratulates Chimchar, although Lazuli remarks that if Chimchar was any good, Heracross would never have got back up. However, Dwayne does not care what Lazuli thinks; as far as he is concerned, Chimchar did a fantastic job.

At the awards ceremony, Enta gets on stage to give Dwayne and Lazuli their Soothe Bells. Everyone applauds Dwayne and Lazuli, while Derek muses that for a tournament that was supposed to emphasize teamwork between Trainers, it was the team that co-operated the least that ended up winning. That evening, at the Pokémon Center, Dwayne and Sadie discuss the battles that happened. Suddenly, Lazuli passes by, tossing her Soothe Bell at Dwayne, saying that she does not need it. Dwayne notes that for Lazuli, the tournament was simply an opportunity to power up her Pokémon, and as far as she's concerned, Elekid evolving was the only good thing to come out of the competition. Sadie then suggests to Dwayne that he could next head for Veilstone City as it has a Gym, seeing as the Hearthome Gym is currently closed. Dwayne agrees that it is a good idea and Sadie bids him goodbye.

Sadie later arrived at Lake Valor to participate in the Wallace Cup, stating that despite not being a Coordinator, the Wallace Cup could prove great practice for her next Gym battles, as well as making her Pokémon grow stronger. In the Performance Stage, Sadie chooses her newly-obtained Finneon for her performance. Finneon uses Silver Wind, sending a shimmering gust across the water. Finneon then uses Safeguard, creating a spectacular shine reflected in the water surface. Finneon then uses Waterfall, creating a large torrent to rise out of the water's surface. Finneon then travels up the water in a spiral fashion, leaps up above and shines dazzlingly, earning Sadie a near perfect score, with Dwayne remarking that Sadie would've ended up great as a Coordinator.

Sadie easily advances through the tournament, reaching the semi-finals, where Sadie and Glameow battle against a Coordinator and his Beautifly. The battle starts off with Beautifly using Silver Wind, which hits Glameow effectively. Glameow takes the hit for a while before Sadie tells Glameow to jump. Beautifly uses Psychic, but Sadie tells Glameow to dodge and use Shadow Claw, but Beautifly dodges gracefully. However, Sadie anticipated this, and tells Glameow to hit the water. Rising water surrounds Beautifly. Sadie then orders Glameow to use Shock Wave, which bounces on the water and hits Beautifly. After the attack makes contact, the water is zapped away with a sparking Beautifly flying backwards. Beautifly shrugs off the electric charge. Glameow jumps out the water sparkling with an electrical charge glaring at Beautifly. Sadie commands an Iron Tail, but Beautifly uses Silver Wind on the water. Glameow charges through the towering water with Beautifly slyly coming from behind it. Beautifly uses Psychic, which sends Glameow backwards. Beautifly then follows up with Morning Sun, and Beautifly raises up and starts to glow blindingly. Beautifly uses Aerial Ace, and Sadie tells Glameow to use Shadow Claw. The two Pokémon charge at each other over the water and collide resulting in an explosion. Time runs out and the scoreboard reveals that Sadie has won the round.

In the finals, Sadie battles against Top Coordinator Jethro, with Sadie using Glameow while Jethro uses his Glaceon. Sadie starts off telling Glameow to use Shock Wave. Jethro tells Glaceon to dodge and use Secret Power, which hits Glameow, and seems to have it paralyzed for a bit. Jethro then orders Glaceon to use Ice Shard, which has Glameow in a spot. Sadie tells Glameow to go in the water and Glaceon looks menacing at it. Glameow jumps out of the water and Sadie orders it to use Secret Power. Despite the size of it, Jethro isn't phased one bit and orders Glaceon to use Mirror Coat. The two collide, but Glaceon pushes it back at Glameow, which sends it flying backwards. Glameow recovers fast and Sadie tells it to use Shock Wave. Glaceon is hit hard and Jethro loses points.

Jethro tells Glaceon to use Ice Shard, but Glameow dodges with its spinning move. Jethro is impressed but sees where Glameow will land. Before Glameow lands, Jethro orders Glaceon to use Secret Power. Sadie tries to have Glameow land before Glaceon hits, but Glaceon is too fast. Glameow is sent spinning into the air, but Sadie uses it against Jethro by having Glameow spin gracefully and landing in a pose, which surprises both Jethro and Glaceon. Jethro has Glaceon use Shadow Ball and toss it in the air. Glaceon jumps and flips twice hitting the Shadow Ball with its tail giving it momentum. Sadie isn't worried as Ghost-type attacks have zero effect on Normal-types, but the Shadow Ball wasn't being aimed at Glameow, but at the pod, and the impact sends shock waves that send Glameow flying, which impresses the judges and Marian.

Sadie tells Glameow to use Shadow Claw, but Jethro has Glaceon dodge it and use Ice Shard. Sadie counters it by having Glameow block it with Iron Tail. Sadie then has Glameow ride the waves, which gets everyone's attention and applause. Jethro tells Glaceon to use Shadow Ball and Sadie has Glameow dodge. The Shadow Ball hits the wave and becomes a huge splash of water. Sadie has Glameow use Shock Wave, and Glameow comes through the water and releases electric waves. Glaceon is hit hard again, and Jethro tells it to use Secret Power. Sadie responds by using Iron Tail. When then two attacks hit, both Pokémon are sent flying, but Jethro quickly follows up by having Glaceon use Ice Shard, which hits Glameow hard. Sadie has Glameow use Shock Wave and Jethro responds with Mirror Coat. Glaceon stands up to it for a while and eventually Glaceon and Glameow both get hit as a result. The two Pokémon are still standing after being washed back to their places and time runs out. Jethro and Sadie look up to see who won the Cup and the points couldn't be closer, but with just 5 points ahead of Sadie, Jethro has won the Wallace Cup. Sadie tells Glameow that it did a good job and Glameow feels great about being complimented.

Soon thereafter, Sadie enrolls at the week-long Pokémon Summer Academy, where she meets with Dwayne again, as well as Derek, and they are all placed in the Red Team, with Dwayne being named as leader. The trio also meet a girl named Uriel, who was also a member of their team, who quickly engaged in a heated rivalry with Dwayne. The Trainer's first task is to choose a random Poké Ball in order to have them learn to adapt to any Pokémon they might come across. Sadie's partner Pokémon turns out to be a Ekans. However, other Trainers cringe at Ekans's appearance, which leaves it sad, until Sadie says that she thought Ekans was cute, which instantly cheers up the Snake Pokémon.

The attendants are told to bond with the Pokémon. Sadie gives her Ekans a Poffin, to which it seems very happy to eat one. Sadie checks the moves as well and the results are Toxic, Mud Bomb, Poison Tail, and Poison Sting. Sadie is excited about this and goes to give Ekans some oil to polish it. The next day, each Trainer are set to battle alongside their partner Pokémon. Sadie sends Ekans to battle a Trainer's Venonat. Ekans uses Poison Tail, but gets sent back by Venonat's Psychic. Ekans uses Mud Bomb and Venonat uses Psychic once more, but Ekans uses Poison Tail to send the Mud Bomb back to Venonat. Venonat uses Stun Spore, so Ekans spins and uses Poison Sting to counter. After some time, Sadie and Ekans win the battle.

On the third day of Pokémon Summer Academy, the students are tasked with studying a Water-type Pokémon from the lake and presenting their findings. Sadie chooses a Gorebyss, and she sketches the South Sea Pokémon, and she becomes satisfied with her drawing. Their third lesson is on how to correctly approach Ghost-type Pokémon, when ever and where ever they encounter them. They are then paired up to find a hidden medal in the Summit Ruins, and Sadie partners with another Trainer. When Sadie and her partner come across eating sounds, her partner's fears he'll be eaten and runs away in fright. Afterwards, Sadie sees Derek walking without a partner. She goes to investigate just as Derek is coaxed towards a cliff by a ghostly girl. Derek is about to walk off the cliff when a Dusknoir grabs his arm, waking Derek from his daze. Though safe, Derek faints at Dusknoir's appearance. Sadie stumbles upon Derek on the ground, with Dusknoir ominously overhead. Sadie misinterprets the scene as Dusknoir having hurt Derek, and she confronts it. The Dusknoir frantically waves its arms before fading away. Sadie rushes up and wakes Derek. Derek explains to Sadie that he was following a girl, and according to what the Pokédex said about Dusknoir, Sadie and Derek incorrectly assume that Dusknoir took the ghostly girl to the spirit world, and was about to take Derek too.

Sadie and Derek return to the academy to report their findings to Professor Rowan, who becomes alarmed as Dusknoir wasn't one of the tamed Pokémon around the area, and once they realize that Dwayne and Uriel still hadn't returned, they all set out to find them. They arrive just in time to see Dwayne holding Uriel to prevent her from getting sucked into the spirit world by the ghostly girl, and they all witness Dusknoir protecting Dwayne and Uriel, with Sadie realizing that all along, Dusknoir only wanted to protect them from the ghostly girl instead of attempting to abduct them. The next day, Professor Rowan awards each team 30 points for a job well done. None of the teams gained an advantage, and the Blue Team leads by 260 to the Red Team's 220. Dwayne isn't discouraged as he rallies for the Red Team to turn the tables and takes the lead.

Professor Rowan says that the last event will be the Pokémon Triathlon. The race is about to start, and an aide fires the starting pistol and Sadie, Dwayne, Derek, and Uriel are all running at the same speed, and all four reach the checkpoint at the same time. Dwayne, Sadie, Derek, and Uriel receive Spoink, Rhyhorn, Dugtrio, and Ariados, respectively, and begin the first leg. Back at the school, Rowan and the others monitor the race. With the race, Sadie has taken the lead with Dwayne closely following when Uriel uses String Shot to propel herself into first. Picking up on this, many Trainers begin attacking each other. Arriving at the checkpoint at the same time, Sadie and Derek trade their Pokémon for a Marill and Huntail, respectively, and they begin the swimming part of the race. Sadie and Derek approach the end before sending out their Glameow and Heracross, respectively. Ultimately, Sadie finishes in third place, with Derek close by in fourth. As other competitors cross the finish line, the Pokémon Triathlon comes to an end. The victory gives the Red team just enough points to win the challenge and all of the members receive a plaque after Rowan makes a quick speech. As a final celebration for the end of the Summer Academy a bonfire is lit and a buffet laid out. The next day, all Trainers depart from the Academy, and Sadie bids her friends goodbye, preparing to return to Snowpoint City.

Sometime later, Sadie welcomes Dwayne to her hometown of Snowpoint City as Dwayne prepares for his Snowpoint Gym battle against Candice. She also revealed that she and Candice were former classmates and took care of Glameow, who had been abandoned, until Sadie was old enough to become a Trainer, and captured Glameow as her first Pokémon. Sadie then watched Dwayne's battle against Candice, and cheered both her friends on, with Dwayne ultimately defeating Candice and earning the Icicle Badge. Sadie, along with Dwayne, Candice and Rollins then watched Lazuli's battle against Brandon at the Battle Pyramid, and Sadie left with Candice afterwards, bidding Dwayne farewell.

Sadie eventually obtained all eight Badges and became eligible to compete in the Lily of the Valley Conference and advanced through the first few rounds, ultimately facing off against Dwayne in the third round of the competition. As the battle commences, Dwayne sends out Salamence to battle first, while Sadie sends out her Gallade. Up in the VIP room, Cynthia notes that Dwayne's Salamence was the same one that used to belong to Cage and she smiles, glad that Dwayne was capable of giving Salamence a second chance at redemption. Dwayne tells Salamence to use Flamethrower whilst Sadie has Gallade use Signal Beam, and the two attacks collide. Sadie then commands Gallade to use Close Combat, but Dwayne orders Salamence to use Hyper Beam, which lands a direct hit, Gallade out in one shot.

Sadie recalls Gallade and sends out Gastrodon. Sadie commands Gastrodon to use Hidden Power, as Dwayne commands Salamence to use Dragon Tail to block the attack and redirect it back towards Gastrodon. Gastrodon dodges the rebounded attack and lands a Water Pulse. Gastrodon follows up with Sludge Bomb, and Dwayne commands Salamence to dodge, which she does so. Ryder then commands Salamence's Hyper Beam, which lands and severely damages Gastrodon. However, knowing that Salamence was unable to move for a while, Sadie knows this is her one and only chance to gain the lead, and orders a barrage of Blizzard attacks, all of which land and severely damage Salamence, who's barely able to remain in the air. As Salamence recovers from Hyper Beam's after-effects, Dwayne commands Salamence to use Hyper Beam again while moving foward towards Gastrodon, and Gastrodon replies with Blizzard, and the attacks collide, causing an explosion that ultimately knocks both Pokémon out of battle, leaving Sadie with only one Pokémon left, while Dwayne still has two.

Dwayne and Sadie recall their respective Pokémon, and send out Lopunny and Glameow, respectively. Dwayne commands Lopunny to use Jump Kick, but Sadie orders Fake Out, which strikes first and causes Lopunny to flinch, unable to attack. Sadie then quickly follows up by ordering Thunderbolt, striking Lopunny and seemingly leaving her paralyzed. Sadie takes this opportunity to command Glameow to use Iron Tail, but at the last second, Lopunny leaps out of the way and scores a direct hit with Ice Beam. As Sadie becomes confused as she assumed Lopunny was paralyzed, Dwayne reveals that Lopunny's Ability was Limber, which prevented her from getting paralyzed. As Sadie grits her teeth, she orders Glameow to use Iron Tail again, but Lopunny displays her swift agility by leaping onto Glameow's tail and bouncing off of it towards the sky. Still airborne, Lopunny fires off Focus Blast, but Glameow dodges, by using her long ears, Lopunny quickly bounces towards Glameow and scored a direct hit with Dizzy Punch, seemingly leaving it confused. Dwayne then commands Lopunny to use Dizzy Punch again, but at the last second, Sadie tells Glameow to attack with Iron Tail, but Dwayne smiles and quickly orders Lopunny to retreat, shocking Sadie.

Dwayne explains that he knew Glameow wasn't confused, and Sadie questions him as to how he knew. Dwayne says that when a Pokémon gets confusion, small star-shaped sparks float around their head as a true sign of their confusion, but Glameow never demonstrated that, and Dwayne correctly guesses that Glameow's Ability was Own Tempo, which Sadie indeed confirms. Dwayne's cunning attention to detail impresses not only Cynthia, but also Lazuli, who mumbles that Dwayne wasn't "half bad". Dwayne then commands Lopunny to use Focus Blast, and Sadie commands Glameow to use Iron Tail to redirect the attack back towards Lopunny. However, Dwayne predicted this and orders Lopunny to use Jump Kick to send the attack back towards Glameow, who then uses Iron Tail again to redirect the attack, as the battle becomes a ping-pong battle as the Focus Blast bounces back and forth between both Pokémon. After a while, Dwayne sees that Glameow is getting even more tired, and as Lopunny bounces her Focus Blast back again, Dwayne quickly orders another Focus Blast, and as Glameow uses Iron Tail on the first to bounce it back, the second Focus Blast comes in at full speed and collides with the first Focus Blast, which explodes upon contact, catching Glameow in the blast, which knocks it out of battle, giving Dwayne the win. Sadie retrieves her Glameow and thanks it for the effort before congratulating Dwayne on his clever thinking and wishes him luck on his remaining battles.

Throughout the remainder of the tournament, Sadie spectates and cheers Dwayne on, and upon Dwayne's victory over Lazuli in the finals, Sadie, along with Vito, explodes with happiness and celebrates her friend's victory. After the tournament, Sadie decided to return to Snowpoint City, as Candice was preparing a welcome party for her, and bids her friends goodbye.

## **Character**

Upon her first appearance, Sadie proved herself to be a very level-headed and straight-foward individual, always saying what's her on mind, without hesitation or caring who she was talking to, regardless of title or reputation. Despite her friendly rivalry with Dwayne, Sadie has been seen motivating Dwayne on several occasions, such as during their first meeting, as despite Sadie, at the time, having more Badges than Dwayne, she exclaimed that the number of Badges didn't determinate the true skills of a Trainer, and encouraged Dwayne to improve himself.

Sadie is very loyal to her friends but has no problem giving them tough criticism when the time calls for it. However, if she feels one of her friends is being mistreated, she wastes no time sticking up for them. Such examples include when Sadie defended Dwayne when the latter was being insulted by Lazuli.

Being a childhood friend of Candice, the two share a strong bond, with Candice having helped Sadie to raise Glameow when they were younger and always inspiring Sadie to work hard and do her best.

## **Pokémon**

### **On Hand**

Glameow is Sadie's very first Pokémon, being raised by both Sadie and Candace ever since she was a kitten after being abandoned. Being her first Pokémon, Glameow is Sadie's strongest and trusted Pokémon, being used in many important battles, such as Gym battles and the finals of the Wallace Cup. Glameow was also Sadie's final remaining Pokémon during her battle against Dwayne in the third round of the Lily of the Valley Conference.

It evolved sometime prior to the Lily of the Valley Conference. During Sadie's battle against Dwayne in the third round of the tournament, Gastrodon was Sadie's second chosen Pokémon to battle against Dwayne's Salamence. Because Salamence was tired out, Gastrodon was able to severely damage it after Salamence's Hyper Beam left her unable to move, and both Pokémon ultimately knocked each other out..
Gastrodon's known moves are Water Pulse, Mud Bomb, Hidden Power, Blizzard, and Sludge Bomb.

Finneon's known moves are Silver Wind, Safeguard and Waterfall.

Gallade's known moves are Signal Beam and Close Combat.

### **Temporary**

Ekans's known moves are Toxic, Mud Bomb, Poison Tail, and Poison Sting.

None of Rhyhorn's moves are known.

None of Marill's moves are known.

## **Achievements**

### **Badges Obtained**

#### **Sinnoh Badges**

This listing is of the Badges Sadie has obtained in the Sinnoh region:

* Icicle Badge
* Beacon Badge
* Mine Badge
* Relic Badge
* Cobble Badge
* Coal Badge
* Forest Badge
* Fen Badge

## **Pokémon League**

Sadie has competed in the following Pokémon League Conferences:

* Lily of the Valley Conference – Top 16

## **Pokémon Competitions**

Sadie has competed in the following Pokémon competitions:

* Hearthome City Tag Battle Competition – Runner-Up (with Derek)
* Pokémon Summer Academy – Winner (Red Team)
* Pokémon Triathlon – Third Place

## **Contests**

### **Other Achievements**

Sadie has competed in the following Pokémon Contests:

* Wallace Cup – Runner-Up