Ramos appears in Pokémon X and Y as a Gym Leader. He continuously refer to the player as either "whippersnapper", or "sprout". Trainers who defeat Ramos will receive the Plant Badge, along with TM86 (Grass Knot). According to the television show Gym Freaks, he has owned his gardening scissors for 30 years. It also states that he has been into tea lately, gathering great tea leaves from their place of origin. It expands on this point by saying that seeing tea steam floating upright means good luck in a certain country.
"Ho! So yeh've made it clear up here! I'm the Gym Leader. Ramos's the name. So what'd yeh think, whippersnapper? Did yeh enjoy the garden playground I made with all these sturdy plants o' mine? Their strength is a sign o' my strength as a gardener and a Gym Leader! Yeh sure yer up to facing all that?"
Upon being defeated
"Yeh can't take things too quickly when it comes to forming a friendship with yer Pokémon, sprout!"
After being defeated
"Yeh believe in yer Pokémon... And they believe in yeh, too... Mighty oaks from acorns grow. Go on, then. Yeh've earned it. Here's yer own Plant Badge, sprout."
"If yeh've got yerself a Plant Badge, then yeh can use the HMFly even when not battling. It's a real boon. Pokémon up to Lv. 60 will listen to yeh, too, easy as falling off a log. Even if yeh got 'em from a trade. Here--have this, too. Might as well make hay while the sun shines, I reckon."
"That TM there is for Grass Knot. Yeh can use it to trip yer opponent up in the grass. The heavier the opponent, the harder it'll fall--and the more it'll hurt. Ain't it a marvel? Frail little blades o' grass can break through concrete, even. I can't help admirin' that strength."
Post-game
"When yeh know for certain sure yeh ain't never gonna meet again... Well, yeh can give in and accept it. But if yeh think there might be a chance, and yeh wander the world for 3,000 years tortured by that flicker of hope... I tell yeh, sprout, I couldn't have stood it."
"They use the ropes and nets the challengers climb as a playground."
"This one time, though, a tyke's Totodile chewed through the ropes and made the gym impossible to beat."
If spoken to again
"The Coumarine City Gym is made to be an obstacle course."
"I myself exercise at my Gym by hangin' on the ropes, too."
Random conversation
"There are lots of types of plants. People and Pokémon have their individual traits, too."
"Now, yeh ain't gonna get along with everyone. But just remember that yeh shouldn't ever deny 'em, either."
"But if yeh accept 'em, they might change, too. Just like a rose can lose its thorns."
"Let yer heart be like the swaying willow. That's the secret technique to an easy life."
If spoken to again
"Interactin' with Grass-type Pokémon is the same as raisin' plants."
"Don't think of being slow as a disadvantage. Instead, use yer Attack and Defense to yer advantage."
"Yeh give water to strong saplin's, and yeh reinforce the weak ones."
"I learned how to raise my Pokémon from raisin' plants. I'm sure there'll be something the plants can teach yeh, too."
Random conversation
"Say, <player>, why are yeh in the PML?"
"Me? Well, I'm in it for a nice hot cup of tea after a well-fought Pokémon battle."
"Reminiscing on the battle makes that one cup of tea exceptional."
If spoken to again
"I don't know why yeh fight."
"But I know that these matches are something that both yeh and yer Pokémon need."
Special log-in conversation (generic)
"Ah, so yeh've come back today, too, eh, <player>?"
"Let's make today another beautiful verdant day!"
Special log-in conversation (evening)
"A lot of people and Pokémon become more active at night. But don't stay up too late, yeh hear?"
Special gift conversation
"I was takin' care of my trees when I found this."
"I'm sure yeh can find some use for it."
"The forest ain't just chock-full of good Mother Nature's bounty. It's full of things people dropped, too."
"If I find anything else, I'll let yeh in on it, too, sprout."
Gym Freaks
April: "Hello! It's time for Gym Freaks, your source for the hottest news about hot Gym Leaders in Kalos. So... I'm now in front of the Coumarine City Gym! ... Oooh. Ahhh. Ramos has arrived! He's calm. So soothing. His smile brings a sense of euphoria. He's taken very good care of these gigantic scissors and used them for 30 years. I've used this body for 30 years, and it's started showing its age... Oh... He went inside the Gym... That's all for the on-site report. Good-bye for now, everyone."
April: "Hello! It's time for Gym Freaks, your source for the hottest news about hot Gym Leaders in Kalos. So... I'm now in front of the Coumarine City Gym! ... Ahhh. Ramos has arrived! He's calm. So soothing. His smile brings a sense of euphoria. He's into tea lately. To get great tea leaves, he goes to their place of origin. In a certain country, seeing a tea stem floating upright means good luck. Did you know that? Oh... He went inside the Gym... That's all for the on-site report. Good-bye for now, everyone."
Ramos debuted in Thawing an Icy Panic!. He first appeared with his Gogoat, after Clemont accidentally broke the fence to his Grass-type ranch. After an angry Vanillish and Vanilluxe created a snowstorm after hearing Vanillite's wail, as it was captured by Team Rocket, Ramos searched Coumarine City for the cause. After Gogoat rescued Ash from Vanillish and Vanilluxe, he used his Jumpluff's Sunny Day to stop the snowstorm and then had multiple Sunflora use Solar Beam to destroy the snow. Then, Vanillish and Vanilluxe, as well as Vanillite, were captured by Team Rocket's mecha mecha. As a result, Ramos used his Gogoat to destroy the mecha, assisted by Ash and his friends' Pokémon. Afterwards, Ash and his friends' Pokémon sent Team Rocket blasting off, and the three captured Pokémon were rescued and went off happily. Later, Ramos went back to the Coumarine Gym, and Clemont correctly deduced that he was the Gym Leader.
Ramos appeared in a fantasy in A League of His Own!, when Ash was talking to Everett about the Gym Leaders that he had defeated in Kalos, in order for him to be able to compete in the Lumiose Conference.
Ramos enjoys a steady paced life and he is often seen riding his faithful Gogoat. Ramos runs a Pokémon ranch on the outskirts of Coumarine City, where he raises and studies Grass Pokémon. In his debut, Ramos lectured Ash on the importance of not only facing challenges head-on, but sometimes taking the "side road" as well. He demonstrated this by using Jumpluff and Sunflora to melt the snow rather than attack Vanillish and Vanilluxe, and later by using Gogoat's attacks to immobilize Team Rocket's machine rather than trying to immediately destroy it. In The Green, Green Grass Types of Home!, Ramos relied on overpowering attacks and his team's defences in his Gym battle against Ash, though he ultimately lost.
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Gogoat
Ramos has a Gogoat as his main Pokémon. It was first seen with its Trainer when Ramos met Ash and his friends arrived after Clemont accidentally destroyed Ramos's gate. Later it was seen in the city when the snowstorm began. It used Vine Whip to rescue Ash after he was trying to calm down an angry Vanillish and Vanilluxe who caused the snowstorm, whom attacked him. After they and a Vanillite were captured by Team Rocket's mecha. It used its powerful attacks to defeat the mecha, along with Luxio, Fennekin, Pikachu, and Frogadier.
Gogoat was also the last Pokémon Ramos used during Ash's Coumarine Gym battle, sending it out to face Ash's Frogadier. During the battle, Gogoat demonstrated its strong Grass-type attacks, which were almost enough to defeat Frogadier, until Ash recalled a lesson Ramos had taught him about gardening, and used it to come up with a winning strategy, allowing Frogadier to eventually defeat Gogoat with a Water Pulse.
Jumpluff was sent out and used Sunny Day to get rid of the snowstorm caused by the angry Vanillish and Vanilluxe, which allowed Sunflora to use Solar Beam on the ground to melt the snow.
Jumpluff was also the first Pokémon Ramos used during his Gym battle with Ash, sending it out to face Ash's Fletchinder. Even though it was able to boost its Defense and Speed to withstand and avoid Fletchinder's attacks, the Ember Pokémon managed to boost its Speed with Flame Charge so that it was finally able to reach Jumpluff and defeat it.
Weepinbell was the second Pokémon Ramos used during the Gym battle with Ash. Despite being at a type disadvantage, it managed to defeat both Ash's Fletchinder and Hawlucha, partially thanks to the poison inflicted on them by its Poison Powder. However, it eventually fell to Ash's Frogadier's Aerial Ace.
Ramos holds several Victreebel at his ranch. After Clemont accidentally broke through the fence of Ramos's ranch and his invention exploded, the Victreebel got scared and started attacking Clemont. Ramos came in with his Gogoat and calmed the Victreebel down.
Ramos makes his debut in the X & Y arc. He is first mentioned by Grant as having not yet arrived to a meeting between the Kalos Gym Leaders about what to do with Team Flare. Once he arrives and the meeting has finished, Ramos and the other Gym Leaders meet up with Y's group. They travel by sea on Wulfric's Avalugg to Geosenge Town, where Team Flare's base is located. Upon arriving, they find the ultimate weapon in the process of being activated. When Y leaps in to keep the weapon's petals from opening, the Gym Leaders assist her by also using their strength and their Pokémon to keep the weapon closed.
Despite their best efforts, the Gym Leaders are unable to prevent the ultimate weapon from blooming and firing on the Kalos region. The attack hits many areas and damages several buildings, but the heroes' efforts weaken the weapon's power and prevent any lives from being taken. The Gym Leaders and Y are also protected from the attack thanks to Olympia and Valerie's Pokémon surrounding them in barriers.
Later, Ramos meets with X and his friends at the Lost Hotel. Ramos reveals that the Kalos Gym Leaders are helping rebuild the buildings that were destroyed by the ultimate weapon's blast. Due to Team Flare's influence over the media, the Gym Leaders and X's group are blamed for the incident.
Sometime later, Team Flare attempts to reactivate the plan to use the ultimate weapon by extracting life energy from wild Pokémon captured at the Pokémon Village. The plan is interrupted by the arrival of Viola, Clemont, Alexa, Bonnie, and Yvette, who lead a charge to free the captured Pokémon. When Chalmers attempts to call for backup, he finds that Ramos and the other Gym Leaders have defeated the other members of Team Flare that were stationed at Cyllage City. After Team Flare is fully defeated, Ramos and his allies meet with X and his friends at Lumiose City to congratulate them on their victory.
Ramos claims to have 50 years of gardening experience. He has also read a Pokémon battling encyclopedia and thus manages a brief conversation with an enemy, Team Flare scientist Bryony, when she mentions the page numbers documenting Mr. Mime's air-solidifying tactic.
Pokémon
This listing is of Ramos's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
Jumpluff
Jumpluff is Ramos's first known Pokémon. It was keeping its Trainer in the air as he directed his other Pokémon to prevent the ultimate weapon from activating.
Gogoat is Ramos's second known Pokémon. It was first sent out at Geosenge Town to keep the ultimate weapon from opening as it was being unearthed. It later battled Bryony's Bisharp when she attempted to stop the Gym Leaders.
