Serena (anime)

Serena is a Pokémon trainer of the Kalos region and one of Ash's traveling companions. She is also one of his childhood friends.

Biography
Despite the fact that Serena is Ash's newest female companion and has just started her journey, she met him when they were younger back in Pallet Town years ago and have been together as childhood friends a long time before he started his journey.

Appearence
Serena marks a return to basing Ash's female companion off of that generation's female player character. However, Serena is also the first to have undergone minor cosmetic changes for the transition to the anime, whereas May and Dawn remained the same. Among the cosmetic changes are:
 * The hair is a darker shade, and seems slightly shorter.
 * Shirt collar is white instead of black.
 * The sunglasses on the hat and the bracelet on her left wrist are absent.
 * Her eyes are blue despite the fact that her hair is not blonde like her game counterpart, where they should be grey, matching her current hair color.
 * The bow that's on her hat is not on her game counterpart.

Pokémon
It has been revealed that she chose Fennekin as her starter Pokémon.

Trivia

 * Serena is Ash's first companion to have known him personally before the very start of the series.
 * She is also the second of Ash's companions to have a Fire-type starter. The first one is May.
 * Serena is the third of Ash's female companions to be based on the female player character in her debut generation, the first two being May and Dawn.
 * Serena does not sport sunglasses like her game counterpart.