Elesa

Elesa カミツレ Kamitsure
"The Shining Beauty"
Artwork from Black and White
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Blonde
Hometown	Nimbasa City
Region	Unova
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	V
Games	Black and White
Leader of	Nimbasa Gym
Badge	Bolt Badge
Specializes in	Template:Type2s

Elesa (Japanese: カミツレ Kamitsure) is the Gym Leader of Nimbasa City's Gym, known officially as the Nimbasa Gym. She specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon. She gives the Bolt Badge to Trainers who defeat her.

In the games

Elesa makes her debut in Pokémon Black and White, serving as the Nimbasa City Gym Leader. This Gym is the fourth that the player may challenge. The player can challenge her to a battle after riding a series of roller coasters to her location, a process involving the flipping of multiple switches so the tracks take the player to her.

Elesa specializes in Electric-type Pokémon and upon defeating her, she will reward the player with the a Bolt Badge and TM72 (Volt Switch).

Outside of battle, Elesa is a supermodel. She appears when Bianca attempts to convince her father to allow her to become a Pokémon Trainer. Elesa aids her, convincing Bianca's father to give his daughter the permission to follow her dream. When the player leaves Nimbasa City, it is Elesa who appears briefly on Route 5 and tells the bridge guard to lower the Driftveil Drawbridge so the player may cross it. She then appears at N's Castle, where she and the other Unova Gym Leaders hold off the Seven Sages while the player goes after N. While not strictly relevant to the plot, Elesa also visits Cynthia in the summer at Undella Town.

Pokémon

Pokémon Black and White

Gym match

Leader Elesa Nimbasa Gym Black and White Leader and Professor Elesa Oak Nimbasa Gym Black and White Reward: $3240

Types: Electric Flying Ability: Static Held item: None Emolga♂ Lv.25 Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Pursuit Dark Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Volt Switch Electric Special   --       Types: Electric Flying Ability: Static Held item: None Emolga♀ Lv.25 Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Pursuit Dark Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Volt Switch Electric Special   --       Types: Electric Unknown Ability: Lightningrod Held item: None Zebstrika♂ Lv.27 Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Flame Charge Fire Physical   --       Spark Electric Physical   --       Volt Switch Electric Special   --

Quotes

Pokémon Black and White

Nimbasa Gym

• Before battle

"Did the fantastic speed leave you dizzy? My beloved Pokémon will be the next one to make your head spin!"

• After the first move

"You and your Pokémon... are shining brilliantly!"

• After sending out last Pokémon

"A properly dramatic victory requires a dash of danger and a pinch of peril."

• When defeated

"I meant to make your head spin, but you shocked me instead."

• After being defeated

"My, oh my... You have a sweet fighting style. I mean, you're a great Trainer! Excuse me, I...uh... Oh, here! I want you to have this! If you have four Badges, including this Bolt Badge, Pokémon up to Lv. 50, including traded Pokémon, will obey you. Also, here's the move I like. Feel free to use it, um, if you want to. Volt Switch lets the Pokémon switch with a different Pokémon after attacking. Of course, if you don't have another Pokémon in your party, you can't switch. You're going to Driftveil City next? Of course. There is a Pokémon Gym there, after all. Oh... I bet you won't be able to get there. You know what? I'll fix it so you can cross. Wait for me on Route 5."

• Post game:

"I think the real me is the one who battles with Pokémon as a Gym Leader. A model's job is to make someone else's vision look like a reality. It's interesting but it's not easy..."

Unova Route 5

"Oh, you two are friends... That's nice, how you're helping each other get better by competing. OK, let's go."

"This is Alder, the Unova region's Champion."

"Let's roll. The Driftveil Drawbridge is just ahead."

"Now to contact him... It's me, Elesa. Please lower the drawbridge. I have a couple of Trainers here who want to challenge you. OK... Thanks. Now, watch this! I have a TV gig, so I've got to go. The Gym Leader of the next town may take some getting used to... Do your best, both of you."

N's Castle

"Ignoring Team Plasma... That would be a terrible thing for us Gym Leaders to do."

"I do not appreciate stubborn people."

Cynthia's villa

"I must say it's difficult for people to draw out a Pokémon's charm if they don't have any themselves."

"You know Nimbasa City? You know it runs on energy generated by Electric-type Pokémon? ...Just kidding!"

"Getting wrapped up in worries is bad for your body and spirit. That's when you must short out your logic circuits and reboot your heart."

"Without a word... Without even a whisper... My Pokémon connect me to other Trainers, transmitting the current of my feelings."

"Put bluntly, swimsuits are nothing but cloth, right?"

Badge Case

May you always continue to be a person who brightens your surroundings.

National Gymquirer

Jingle: "Woo hoo! All right! It's 'The National Gymquirer'!"

Page: "That's right! We collect the hottest gossip about Gym Leaders seen around town! Here is today's letter. From someone going by the name Shocking Supermodel... Hmmm, that sounds like a Gym Leader I know. Well, let's see... 'The Gym Leader Elesa said that Nimbasa's Pokémon can dance a nimble bossa! Nobody laughed, but I thought it was really funny! What do you think?' Hmmm... It really seems like Elesa needs to come up with a sneakier pen name. Well, whatever! 'The National Gymquirer'! We eagerly await your letters!"

Sprites

Elesa's sprite from Generation V	Elesa's VS sprite from Generation V

Trivia

• Elesa's Japanese Leader title is シャイニング　ビューティ.
• Elesa is the only female Gym Leader to specialize in Electric-type Pokémon.
  • She is also the only Gym Leader specializing in Electric-type Pokémon never to use a member of the Pikachu evolutionary line at any point; this is due to the fact that Pikachu are not in the Unova Pokédex.
  • However she does use Emolga, which is similar to Pikachu.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	カミツレ Kamitsure	加密列 (カミツレ) Kamitsure, chamomile, which comes from a corruption of the Dutch term for the plant, kamille, when transcribed to Japanese as カミッレ kamirre. Also from 雷 kaminari, thunder.
English	Elesa	From Electric. Possibly from Tesla.
French	Inezia	From the flower genus Inezia.
German	Kamilla	From kamille, chamomile.
Italian	Camelia	From Camelia.
Spanish	Camila	From camomila, chamomile.

Gym Leaders of the Unova region
Striaton Gym Cilan Chili Cress	Nacrene Gym Lenora	Castelia Gym Burgh	Nimbasa Gym Elesa
Driftveil Gym Clay	Mistralton Gym Skyla	Icirrus Gym Brycen	Opelucid Gym Drayden Iris
Aspertia Gym Cheren	Virbank Gym Roxie	Humilau Gym Marlon

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