Chili
| Chili ポッド Pod | |
| "Triple Trouble!" | |
 Artwork from Black and White | |
| Gender | Male |
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| Eye color | Red |
| Hair color | Red |
| Hometown | Striaton City |
| Region | Unova |
| Relatives | Cilan, Cress (brothers) |
| Trainer class | Gym Leader |
| Generation | V |
| Games | Black and White |
| Leader of | Striaton Gym |
| Badge | Trio Badge |
| Specializes in | Template:Type2s |
| Anime debut | Triple Leaders, Team Threats! |
| English voice actor | Lucien Dodge |
| Japanese voice actor | Masakazu Morita |
Chili (Japanese: ポッド Pod) is one of the three Gym Leaders of Striaton City's Gym, known officially as the Striaton Gym. He specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon. He gives the Trio Badge to Trainers that chose Snivy as their starter Pokémon, if they defeat him.
In the games
Chili appears in Pokémon Black and White as one of the Gym Leaders of the Striaton City Gym, alongside Cilan and Cress. This gym is the first to be challenged by the player. Chili battles the player if Snivy is the chosen starter Pokémon. Trainers who defeat Chili will receive the Trio Badge, along with TM83 (Work Up).
Pokémon
Pokémon Black and White
Gym match
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Quotes
Pokémon Black and White
Striaton Gym
- Before battle
- Cilan: "Welcome to the Striaton City Pokémon Gym."
- Chili: "I'm Chili! I light things up with Fire-type Pokémon!"
- Cress: "I'm a Water-type specialist, and my name is Cress. Pleased to make your acquaintance."
- Cilan: "And my name is Cilan. I like Grass-type Pokémon."
- Cilan: "Um, you see... As for why the three of us, um, are all here is, well, er..."
- Chili: "Oh,enough! Listen up!"
- Chili: "The three of us will decide whom you'll battle! It'll be based on the type of the first pokémon you chose!"
- Cress: "That is indeed the case. And the partner you first chose was [Type] type, it seems."
- If the player's Starter Pokémon is Tepig or Oshawott
- "Aww, man! I was all fired up, too!"
- If the player's Starter Pokémon is Snivy
- "Ta-da! The Fire-type scorcher Chili -- that's me -- will be your opponent!"
- "Yeeeeooow! Time to play with FIRE!! I'm the strongest of us brothers!"
- After the first move
- "As if that would work on my Pokémon!"
- After sending out last Pokémon
- "It's not over yet! One more left! This is where I give it my all!"
- When defeated
- "You got me. I am... burned... out..."
- After being defeated
- "Whoa ho! You're on fire! Well, it's the Pokémon League's rule. Take this Gym Badge!"
- After the battle (regardless of the Starter Pokémon)
- "I can't believe TMs can be used over and over! If you wanted, you could use one to teach all your Pokémon the same move!"
Sprites
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| Chili's sprite from Generation V |
Chili's VS sprite from Generation V |
In the anime
Chili appeared in Triple Leaders, Team Threats! alongside fellow Gym Leaders Cilan and Cress. Along with Cress, he made his first appearance when serving Ash. Ash declined, and said he wanted to battle the Gym Leader, and the three brothers introduced themselves. They followed Ash to the battleground where they revealed their Pokémon. Chili was the first to battle Ash, and lost.
He appeared again in Dreams by the Yard Full!, where he said goodbye to Cilan, who decided to travel with Ash and Iris.
Cilan mentioned in BW010 that Trip had battled Chili and defeated his Pansear with his Servine, earning himself the Trio Badge. He appeared in a flashback in BW019 where him and Cress were telling Cabernet that Cilan had gone on a journey and could not battle her again, so she battled Chili and won.
He, like his brothers, tends to speak about Pokémon in relation to their element, in Chili's case, fire. All the brothers tend to use hand positions like rock, paper, and scissors - Chili tends to accentuate words with his fists.
Pokémon
This listing is of Chili's known Pokémon in the anime.
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| Pansear is Chili's only known Pokémon. It first appeared when Chili showed what Pokémon he has and Ash scans it on his Pokédex. It is the first Pokémon Ash battled in his gym battle. Tepig's attacks didn't do much damage to Pansear, but Pansear hit Tepig hard with Fire Punch, Flamethrower and Dig. One of Pansear's Dig attacks knocked Tepig into the air. But Ash commanded it to use Tackle into the hole that Pansear was in and it managed to bite down on Pansear's tail. Tepig then spun Pansear around and threw it on the ground, used Ember successfully, and then knocked it out with powerful Tackle.
It was revealed in BW010 that Pansear faced Trip's Servine in battle and lost. Pansear's known moves are Flamethrower, Fire Punch and Dig. | ||
| Debut | Triple Leaders, Team Threats! | |
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| Voice actors | ||
| Japanese | Chinami Nishimura | |
| English | Bill Rogers | |
Voice actors
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In the manga
In the Pocket Monsters BW manga
In the Pocket Monsters BW manga, Chili appears along with his brothers Cilan and Cress. They are seen in PMBW03, where Isamu Akai and his Pokémon visit a restaurant owned by the three brothers. Clefairy tries to instigate a fight between the brothers, but fails on many occasions.
Pokémon
This listing is for Chili's Pokémon in the Pocket Monsters BW manga.
 Pansear |
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Chili, along with his brothers, are first seen when Black sets out on his journey to beat the Pokémon League.
Pokémon
This listing is for Chili's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
| Pansear |
Trivia
- His Japanese Leader title, shared with Cilan and Cress, is トライアル トライアングル.
- Chili's hair resembles the flames of a fire. This is much like how Cilan and Cress both have hairstyles based on the type they specialize in.
- In the anime, Chili has been known to have been chosen to battle in a gym match the most times out of the three Striaton Gym Leaders, having battled Trip, Ash, and Cabernet. He also lost all three times.
Names
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Japanese | ポッド Pod | From pod corn, similar to Dent and Corn. May also refer to tripod. |
| English | Chili | From Chili pepper |
| French | Armando | From amande (almond) and ardent (burning). |
| German | Maik | |
| Italian | Chicco | From chicco, grain |
| Spanish | Zeo | From Zea mays, the scientific name of maize. Also from ζέω zeo, Greek for "to boil". |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 伯特 Bótè | Transliteration of his Japanese name. |
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