Erika

Erika (エリカ, Erika), is both a fictional character and tritagonist from the Pokémon series created by Satoshi Tajiri. She is the Gym Leader of Celadon City's Gym in the Kanto region and serves as the leader of the Kanto Gym Leaders who are unaffiliated with Team Rocket.

Erika also works as a perfume maker. She dresses in elegant furisode kimonos and seems to represent traditional Japanese beauty. As the Gym Leader, Erika holds the Rainbow Badge for the trainers that defeat her, and mainly uses Grass-type Pokémon.

"My name is Erika. Nice to meet you."
 * —Erika.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice Actor: Leah Applebaum (English), Kyoko Hikami (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Jolana Smyckova (Czech), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Leticia Quinto (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

Biography
A cute Gym Leader who loves Grass-type Pokémon, this well-mannered Trainer teaches flower arrangement in Kanto.

Appearance
Erika has shiny black, short hair and her bangs are cut. She has silver or ashen black eyes, and pale skin. In the games her kimono and hairband are red and yellow. Her shoes are fully brown.


 * Hair Color: Black
 * Skin Color: Not Known
 * Eye Color: Silver/Ashen Black
 * Age: Not Known
 * Birthday: Not Known
 * Height: Not Known
 * Weight: Not Known

Personality
Erika, like her style, suggests displays of a modest, elegant and somewhat shy attitude towards other trainers. She shows no ill-will about being defeated and cares deeply towards her Pokémon. Outside of battle she is perhaps rather lazy as she can be seen sleeping inside her gym.

Erika has a kind personality, as she teams up with the rest of the Gym Leaders to combat against rising threats, such as Team Rocket. She has also shown herself to be cruel, particularly against a unique Eevee whom Red had rescued; however this was just a facade to test Ash's allegiance.

Friends/Allies

 * Ash Ketchum
 * Tracey Scketchit

Neutral

 * Elite Four
 * Lieutenant Surge
 * Sabrina
 * Koga

Enemies

 * Team Rocket
 * Jessie
 * James
 * Meowth

On hand

 * Oddish → Gloom → Vileplume
 * Bellsprout → Weepinbell → Victreebel
 * Exeggcute → Exeggutor
 * Tangela → Tangrowth
 * Eevee → Leafeon
 * Skiploom → Jumpluff

Back-Up

 * Paras → Parasect

Travel with
This section shows the Pokémon that Janine currently travels with, but has not caught.

In training
This section is for the Pokémon that Erika still owns but are in the care of another Trainer. Some can be called upon at any time if needed.

Status unknown
This section is for Erika's Pokémon whose current whereabouts are unknown.

Released
This section is for the Pokémon that Erika formally released back into the wild.

Traded away
This section is for the Pokémon that Erika traded away.

Given away
This section is for the Pokémon that Erika gave to another Trainer to keep for themselves.

At Celadon Gym
Pokémon that Erika resides at her gym are the following:


 * Oddish (multiple)
 * Gloom (multiple)
 * Bellsprout (multiple)
 * Weepinbell (multiple)
 * Exeggcute (multiple)
 * Tangela (multiple)
 * Hoppip (multiple)
 * Skiploom (multiple)
 * Paras (multiple)

Befriended/Unofficial
This section is for the Pokémon that Koga had bonded with over the course of several episodes but never officially caught.

Temporary
This section is for the Pokémon that Koga temporarily used. Many of which were rented and belong to another Trainer.

Early Life
While Erika was a little girl, she was protected by a Gloom from a Grimer. Erika also wasn't repulsed by Gloom's stench and befriended the Pokémon.