Ellise

Ellise is the gym leader of Belmirage Town and owner of the Illusion Badge. She specializes in illusion-themed Pokemon, and loves to put on a performance for the people of her hometown.

However, she secretly works as an admin for Team Celestial. Under the codename "Green", she leads the division for espionage.

## Appearance

Ellise has short purple hair and green eyes.

Her gym leader attire consists of a black tuxedo over a white buttoned-shirt, black pants with a buckled belt, purple shoes, white gloves, a black top hat with a green ring design, and green earrings.

## Personality

She is rather playful and carefree, both as a gym leader and as an admin for Team Celestial. She's laid-back and lax even upon more serious events, like an intruder trespassing into her team's base. She enjoys teasing people and joking around with anyone, friend or foe alike. However, she can be terrifying and brutal when she needs to be, all the while holding up a lax and playful personality.

## Strategy

Ellise's team consist of Pokemon that are themed after illusions and trickery. While they are not as frustrating as Pit's team, some of these Pokemon have an annoying trick up their sleeves to make your fight much harder than it first seems. And it certainly doesn't help that Ellise's Pokemon will likely be far stronger than your team.

Ellise will always start off with her Zoroark, who will be disguised as her Ditto by using its Illusion ability. It is recommended to use a Fighting-Type Pokemon against Zoroark in order to have a type advantage.

If you plan on using a Bug-Type Pokemon instead (since Bug-Type moves are super effective against Dark Type Pokemon), use one that has a secondary typing of Fire (like one of the starter Pokemon, Larvesta) because Zoroark has the Fire-Type move Incinerate to counter Bug-Type Pokemon. This also means you shouldn't be using a Pokemon with a berry against Zoroark, as its Incinerate will destroy the held berry.

Also, be warned that Zoroark has access to U-Turn, a move that allows it to attack its opponent before switching with another Pokemon.

Once Zoroark is defeated or switched out, Ellise will randomly use her other three Pokemon.

Her second Pokemon, Ditto (the real one), can be a bit tricky. Her Ditto has the ability called Imposter, which allows it to copy your current Pokemon. This means it will copy your current Pokemon's appearance, name, moves, and ability. Fortunately, Ditto cannot copy into any of the Pokemon you may switch with. So it isn't too hard as long as you have a Pokemon with a type advantage over the Pokemon Ditto had copied.

Her third Pokemon is a Sudowoodoo. While it isn't tricky like Ellise's other Pokemon, it is arguably Ellise's most offensively powerful Pokemon. It's Rock Slide can deal a ton of damage, and even has a chance to flinch your Pokemon. And if it wasn't bad enough, Sudowoodoo is equipped with a Quick Claw, which will give Sudowoodoo a chance to out-speed your Pokemon.

And her fourth and final Pokemon is a Kecleon. What makes Kecleon a big pain is two major factors: its ability Proteon and its access to a variety of offensive moves. The Proteon ability allows Kecleon to change its Typing based on the Typing of the move it just used. And Kecleon has access to four different typed moves: Shadow Sneak (Dark), Icy Wind (Ice), Charge Beam (Electric), and Psybeam (Psychic). So, Kecleon can change its typing between Dark, Ice, Electric, and Psychic. This makes it hard to grasp on a good type advantage, as Kecleon will be changing between these four Types.