Viola: Difference between revisions

{{CharInfobox |

color={{Bug color}} |

corecolor={{Bug color light}} |

bordercolor={{Bug color dark}} |

name=Viola |

jname=ビオラ |

tmname=Viola |

slogan=yes|

sloganline=The camerawoman who never lets a single smile escape her focus. |

image=XY Viola.png|

size=140px |

caption=Artwork from X and Y |

gender=Female |

colors=yes|

eyes=Dark green |

hair=Sandy blonde |

hometown=[[Santalune City]]|

region=[[Kalos]] |

relatives=[[Alexa]] (older sister)|

trainer=yes |

trainerclass=[[Gym Leader]]<br>{{tc|Marchioness}}{{tt|*|Battle Chateau}}<br>{{tc|Duchess}}{{tt|*|Anime}} |

game=yes |

generation={{gen|VI}} |

games={{pkmn|X and Y}} |

leader=yes |

gym=Santalune Gym |

specialist=yes |

type={{t|Bug}} types|

badge=Badge#Bug Badge{{!}}Bug Badge |

anime=yes |

epnum=XY005 |

epname=A Blustery Santalune Gym Battle! |

enva=Lori Gardner |

java=[[Noriko Shitaya]] |

This Gym is the first to be challenged by the player. Trainers who defeat her will be given the {{badge|Bug}}, along with {{TM|83|Infestation}}. She is the younger sister to [[Alexa]], a journalist. According to the [[television]] show ''Gym Freaks'', Viola's camera was a birthday gift from Alexa and her barrette was a birthday gift from [[Valerie]].

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|style="{{roundy|20px}} border: 2px solid #{{bug color dark}}; background: #{{bug color light}}; width:80px"| [[File:VSViola.png|200px]]

| VS portrait from<br>{{color2|000|Pokémon X and Y|X and Y}}

[[XY005|He arrived there]] just as Viola, who was revealed to a professional photographer known for her excellent shots of Bug-type Pokémon, was returning to Santalune City where she met Ash, Clemont, and Bonnie, after she took a picture of Ash and Pikachu at the fountain, Viola gave them directions to her Gym, but she didn't tell them she's the Gym Leader. After getting back to her gym, Viola reunited with her older sister Alexa, and Ash figures out that Viola is the Santalune Gym Leader. Ash challenged Viola to a Gym Battle and she accepted Ash's challenge. Viola's {{p|Surskit}} and {{p|Vivillon}} had a type disadvantage against [[Ash's Fletchling]] and {{AP|Pikachu}}, however Viola's strategy was to immobilize both Pokémon using {{m|Ice Beam}} and {{m|Sticky Web}}. This worked and Ash lost the battle. After the battle, Viola showed Alexa the picture the picture of Ash and Pikachu she took earlier, but wasn't impressed by the battle. Alexa warns her not to underestimated Ash, then suddenly leaves without another word, much to Viola's confusion.

Viola reappeared in ''[[XY006|Battling on Thin Ice!]]'', where Ash challenged her to a [[rematch]]. Thanks to the training Ash had had with {{ashfr}} between the battles, he was able to counter Viola's Surskits Ice field and Sticky Web strategy, but still struggled against Viola's Vivillons unexpected Sleep Powder strategy, but Ash was able to counter this strategy as well, and defeat her, winning himself the {{badge|Bug}}. She advises Ash and his friends to continue to strengthen the bonds with their Pokemon, and wished them luck, she then waved Ash and his friends goodbye as they leave for Cyllage City so Ash can challenge the Cyllage Gym. Before they left the Gym, a picture is seen in the Santalune Gym lobby, showing Alexa, Viola, Ash, Clemont, Bonnie, Serena, Ash's Pikachu, and Alexa's Helioptile laughing after Helioptile jumped on Ash's head. She later reappeared in a flashback in ''[[XY012|To Catch a Pokémon Smuggler!]]''.

Viola reappeared in ''[[XY020|Breaking Titles at the Chateau!]]'' at the [[Battle Chateau]], where she reunited with Ash and his friends. Viola also explains she has the noble title Duchess, the second highest noble title. Then Viola and Grant exchange banter after Grant falls from the wall he was climbing on, and explains to Ash and his friends Grant is a strong trainer. During Ash's battle against Chester, Viola tells Grant about her battle with Ash and his Pokémon, and admitted that they had spirit. At first Grant didn't see it, until near the end of the battle, Grant agreed with her. After Ash won the battle against Chester, Viola wanted to take a photo of Ash and his friends to remember Ash's first victory at the Battle Chateau, when Grant dropped white gloves on her shoulder. Grant asks Viola for a battle, and she accepts. Viola battles with her Surskit and Grant battles with his Onix! After a long battle, Grant wins the battle thus earning the highest noble title, Grand Duke. Later, Viola tells Ash and his friends that Grant is the Cyllage City Gym Leader, before Grant heads back to the Cyllage Gym.

Viola made a brief appearance in ''[[XY112|Master Class is in Session!]]'' and ''[[XY113|Performing a Pathway to the Future!]]'', where she was watching the [[Gloire City]] [[Pokémon Showcase]] Master Class alongside Alexa and Helioptile. They also voted for their favorite Performer in the Semifinals and the Final Rounds.

She appeared in ''[[XY132|A Towering Takeover!]]'', where she was seen watching [[Lysandre]]'s broadcast from Lumiose City along with Alexa.

Viola reappeared in person ''[[XY135|Rocking Kalos Defenses!]]'', where she and her fellow Kalos Gym Leaders, along with Kalos Region Champion [[Diantha]], went to the outskirts of Anistar City to stop the Giant Rock from destroying the world by coming in contact with the Anistar City Sundial. Viola had her Vivillon fire an attack that fused with the other Pokemon attacks to free Ash and his friends Pokemon from the Giant Rocks vines. After regrouping with Ash and his friends, who are with Hoenn Region Champion [[Steven]], Kalos Elite Four Member [[Malva]], [[Alain]], [[Mairin]], Professer Sycamore, and [[Meyer]] (disguised as Blaziken Mask), Diantha tells them they must work together to rescue Mairin's [[Chespin]] named [[Chespie]] from the Giant Rocks interior.

In ''[[XY136|Forming a More Perfect Union!]]'', she and Vivillon freed Ash and Alain from the vines created by the [[Giant Rock]]. However, a vine hits Viola and she falls into Grant and they both get captured by the vines. Viola and everyone else encourage Ash and Alain to break into the Giant Rocks interior and save Chespie. After Ash and Alain save Chespie from the Giant Rocks interior, Viola and everyone else had their Pokémon fire an attack in an attempt to destroy the Giant Rock. But Lysandre powered up the Giant Rock again. Lysandre has the Giant Rock fire an attack at everyone, and although Valerie's Spritzee used Light Screen around the area. Viola and the others still got hurt by the attack. After they recovered, the Giant Rock started moving again. Viola and her allies once again tried to stop, but the Giant Rock fire's another attack at them. Things seem hopeless until [[Squishy]], a Zygarde Core, convinces [[Z2]], another Zygarde Core, to believe in humans. Together, they transform into a Zygarde Complete Form along with all of the Zygarde Cells in the world, and they destroy the Giant Rock with Core Enforcer seemly engulfing Lysandre as well, although his fate is unclear. Then Viola and the others see Squishy and Z2 leave, but not before they fixed most of the damage caused by Team Flare earlier. Then they all watched the sun rise on a new day.

 

Like her sister, she is very cheerful and friendly but has an unwavering focus in battle. According to Alexa, her trips away from Santalune Gym are often long. She helps Alexa with her work at times and she shares a friendship with Grant, though she is shown to get easily annoyed when Grant falls from the walls he's climbing on.

|desc={{p|Surskit}} is Viola's first known Pokémon. It was first used against Ash's {{AP|Pikachu}} in their first Gym battle. Surskit defeated Pikachu by freezing the battlefield with Ice Beam, which prevented him from moving properly and left him unable to escape Surskit's Signal Beam. Next, it fought {{AP|Fletchling}}, who quickly defeated Surskit due to its ability to fly. In ''[[XY006|Battling on Thin Ice!]]'', Surskit battled Pikachu again in a rematch, where its previous tactics failed due to Pikachu using his tail to balance himself on the ice. It was eventually defeated by Pikachu's {{m|Thunderbolt}}.

Surskit returned in ''[[XY020|Breaking Titles at the Chateau!]]'', where it battled [[Grant]]'s {{p|Onix}} but lost.

|desc={{p|Vivillon}} is Viola's second known Pokémon. It was first used against Ash in their first Gym battle. It was sent out to battle {{AP|Fletchling}} after it had defeated Surskit. It won the battle by using Psychic to trap Fletchling in Surskit's {{m|Sticky Web}}, leaving it defenseless to Vivillon's Solar Beam. In ''[[XY006|Battling on Thin Ice!]]'', Vivillon faced Fletchling again in a rematch, where it beat Fletchling again by hitting it with Sleep Powder, leaving it defenseless to Solar Beam once more. Then it fought {{AP|Pikachu}}, where Vivillon was defeated after its wing was frozen by the ice surrounding the Gym, hindering its ability to fly and leaving it an easy target for Pikachu's {{m|Thunderbolt}}. It was seen in a flashback in ''[[XY012|To Catch a Pokemon Smuggler!]]''. It appeared again in ''[[XY135|Rocking Kalos Defenses!]]'' and ''[[XY136|Forming a More Perfect Union!]]'', where it helped to destroy the Giant Rock.

|ja=下屋則子 ''Noriko Shitaya''

|en=Lori Gardner

|fi=Henni-Liisa Stam

[[File:Viola Adventures.png|thumb|right|200px|Viola in Pokémon Adventures]]

When X's group arrives in [[Santalune City]], Viola meets up with them again. Although previous encounters with [[Team Flare]] made X and his friends wary of strangers, Viola reveals her position as a Gym Leader and offers to help the group by letting them see her photos of the Vaniville Town incident and offers sanctuary at her Gym. Viola acknowledges that Y hates photographer's like her, but believes the press should give information to people in need of it. X and his friends agree to trust her, except for Shauna who runs off after getting mad at everyone for disregarding their earlier pact to not trust strangers. At the Gym, Viola challenges X to a battle, which she ends up losing, and Y leaves to go find Shauna. Viola is surprised on how X countered her Vivillon's Supersonic with Kanga's Thunderbolt. X explains he used the same strategy in the Junior Tournament. Viola was a little disappointed when she missed a chance to take a picture of X's smile. X's smile fades and he yell's at Viola, believing she  is just like two reporters he met at the Junior Tournament. X also reveals that he got his Mega Ring from a man that helped him get rid of the two reporters that tried to take a picture of Lil, Kanga. After Y returned to the Gym with Shauna, Viola let's Y and her friends spend the night at her Gym. After everyone went to bed, Shauna tries to steal Kanga's Kangaskanite. But Viola and Y catch Shauna in the act, with Viola taking a picture of the crime. Y demands an explanation, but they are interrupted by [[Celosia]] of Team Flare, who possesses Shauna and uses her to attack Y. Viola pushes Y out of the way, but ends up getting hit as a result. Viola reveals herself to still be conscious and reveals that he saw X's attempt to use Mega Evolution earlier and called fellow Gym Leader [[Korrina]] to help him learn more about it. When Celosia attempts to run off, Viola has her {{p|Surskit}} stop Celosia in her tracks with {{m|Sticky Web}}. Once Celosia was driven away, everyone regrouped back at the Gym where Viola had her head injury bandaged up. Shauna wakes up, and apologizes to Viola for hurting her. Then Viola watches Shauna and Y reconcile their friendship.

Later, Alexa finishes an article and tells Viola how the Ultimate Weapon ended a war 3,000 years ago,  but how it also destroyed the lives of both humans and pokemon. When Viola wonders if they can stop it, Alexa tell's her "it happened a long time ago from the present day". But Viola senses something is bothering Alexa, and ask Alexa what's bothering her. Alexa says "she has a bad feeling about this". Then Viola and Alexa witness Lysandre announcing to the entire Kalos region about his plans to end all life with the power of the ultimate weapon. Afterward, they, along with Clemont, [[Bonnie]], and [[Yvette]], confront Team Flare at {{rt|10|Kalos}} in order to free the captured Pokémon there. Together, the group manages to defeat all the members of Team Flare and rescue the captured Pokémon. While Alexa, Clemont, and Bonnie stay on the ground, Viola and Yvette lead the Sky Trainers in the air with their Vivillons. Viola wants the Sky Trainers to free the captured Pokemon from the stone pillars, while Alexa, Clemont, and Bonnie work on destroying the stone pillars. But Malva's Delphox attacks both team. Viola tells the Sky Trainers Vivillons to form a circle using Hold Hands, then to use Safeguard while spinning. The Safeguard protects everyone from Delphox's attacks, allowing Viola's team to free the captured Pokemon from the stone pillars, and Alexa's team to destroy the stone pillars.  After Team Flare is fully defeated, Viola and her allies meet with X and his friends at [[Lumiose City]] to congratulate them on their victory.  

|desc={{p|Vivillon}} is Viola's first known Pokémon. It was first seen with its Trainer in Santalune City. Later, it faced {{adv|X}}'s [[Kanga]] in the Santalune Gym, where it lost. It has a Meadow Pattern. Vivillon much later help's Viola, Yvette, and the Sky Trainers free the captive pokemon at Route 10, by working together with the Sky Trainers Vivillons.

* In the Battle Chateau initial battle, Viola's Masquerain learns {{m|Air Slash}} at level 40 even though it can only learn it at level 47 in {{g|X and Y}}. Its pre-evolution, {{p|Surskit}}, cannot learn this move.

* In her anime debut, Viola is shown to be just as tall as her sister Alexa. However, in later episodes, Viola's height only reaches to her sister's shoulders.

| From the genera ''{{wp|Viola (plant)|Viola}}'' and ''{{wp|Viola (butterfly)|Viola}}''

{{Gym Leaders of Kalos}}<br>