Chili

Chili (Japanese: ポッド Poddo) is a member of the Striaton City Gym Leader trio, along with his brothers Cilan and Cress. This boy considers himself the strongest of the Trio of brothers. If Snivy is chosen as the starter Pokémon, he will battle the player at the Striaton City Gym with his Pansear. He will award the player the Trio Badge if you defeat him.

Chili is the first gym leader to be encountered in Unova if Snivy is chosen at the beginning.

Strategy
All of this is true in the anime but not the game.

Chili is strong and passionate in battle and will do anything to win. He loves his Pansear and thinks battling is spicy. He likes to use Dig and Fire Punch a lot. His Pansear can use Flamethrower but it only uses it rarely. He will let you attack at the start and then use these moves. To keep the battle fair, he will give you a chance to attack in between his attacks, but he puts up a good fight. It will also take courage to fight him with a fire type as said in the anime. Although he has courage, Chili is the most defeated of the three Striaton Gym Leaders.

Anime
In the Anime, just like the other trios, they first asked which of the three gym leaders Ash will choose to battle, but Ash says that he wants to battle all three. Although Chili loses with his Pansear, he congratulates Ash.

He returns to battle Cilan in BW060, but was defeated. It is revealed that between what happened in A Conniseur's Revenge and BW060 Chili decided to go on his own journey leaving Cress in charge of the Gym. Chili and his Pansear then train with Cilan and his Pansage. After that Chili challenges Ash to a battle and triumphs over his Oshawott.

Episode Appearances

 * BW005: Triple Leaders, Team Threats
 * BW006: Dreams by the Yard Full!
 * BW019: A Connoisseur's Revenge! (Cameo, Flashback)
 * BW060: A Call for Brotherly Love!

Voice Actors

 * English: Lucien Dodge
 * Japanese: Masakazu Morita
 * Spanish: Pablo Tribaldos
 * Iberian Spanish: Carlos Diaz
 * Italian: Renato Novara

Trivia

 * Chili's Japanese Leader title, which is also shared with Cilan and Cress, is トライアル　トライアングル. "Trial Triangle"
 * Chili's name is based of of a type of plant, chillies, which are spicy, as well as the food chili.
 * Chili has a similar face expression to Barry's from the Sinnoh region.
 * It appears Chili's way of saying goodbye to Cilan is holding his hand as seen in "Yard of full of Dreams" and "A call for brotherly love",
 * Notably, the hair of Cilan, Chili, and Cress all resemble the hairstyle of the Elemental Monkeys' evolutions.