Elesa

Elesaカミツレ Kamitsure
The Shining Beauty
Character information
Gender:	Female
Hometown:	Nimbasa City
Region:	Unova
Battle details
Preferred type:
Badge:	Bolt Badge

Elesa is Gym Leader of Nimbasa City's gym of the Unova region. This gym will be the fourth to be challenged by the player character. She specializes in using Electric-type Pokémon. She will award the player the Bolt Badge if defeated. Her first appearance was in Pokémon Black and White.

Like the rest of the Unova gym leaders, Elesa has a career outside of being a gym leader, in which she is a supermodel.

Appearance

Elesa is a tall, very slender young woman. She has bright, almond shaped blue eyes.

Black and White

Elesa has short blonde hair. She wears red, white, and blue headphones with long cords on the sides. Elesa wears a yellow sleeveless top over a black top that exposes her stomach in two sections, thick opaque black tights, and bright yellow stiletto high heels.

Black 2 and White 2

Concept artwork of Elesa for Black 2 and White 2.

Elesa has short black hair, with long extensions tied in two diamond patterned braids. She wears a blue and yellow two piece, made up of a crop top and very short shorts, with a large, fluffy yellow coat, and ballet flats, one red and one blue. Her top and shorts are connected by a hexagon shaped buckle. Elesa also wears new headphones, with cone shaped spikes protruding out of the ear pieces, with the right spike red and the left spike blue. In addition, she wears nail polish, red on her right hand, and blue on her left.

Personality

Elesa is initially portrayed to be a very calm and stoic character. However, she is self-conscious about people's perceptions of her, and believes that others probably do not think she is a fun-loving person due to her stunningly good looks. Much like the other Gym Leaders of her type, Elesa prefers to show off her skills with a sense of style and a performance to accompany it.

Additionally, Elesa has a fondness for bad puns. This is capitalized on in Pokémon Masters, where she makes a variety of Pokémon based puns.

Etymology

The name Elesa derives from "electric" and possibly "laser" or "tesla", a unit of magnetic induction.

Her Japanese name, Kamitsure, comes from 雷 (kaminari, thunder). It could also literally be kamitsure, the Japanese name of the scented mayweed, following the Japanese naming of most characters.

Biography

Black and White

After the player exits the Pokémon Musical for the first time, Bianca's father confronts her and tells her to go home with him. However, Elesa steps in and convinces Bianca's father to let Bianca continue her journey. This makes Bianca admire Elesa and makes her want to be a model just like her. She then tells the player she's waiting in the gym for him/her. After defeating her, she goes out to Route 5 and contacts Clay, telling him to bring the Drawbridge down. When it does come down, she wishes the player good luck and returns to the gym.

She next appears along with the rest of the Unova Gym Leaders, with the exception of Cilan, Chili, and Cress, and battles the Seven Sages, allowing the player to continue.

For the rest of the game, she can be found in her gym.

Black 2 and White 2

She has changed looks, dying her hair black and wearing more revealing outfit. Her Gym is themed after a catwalk. Through the Memory Link it is revealed she's good friends with Skyla and wanted to practice making jokes, in a way to break the image of a serious person that everybody believes her to be, which upsets her. She throws bad puns which Skyla points out, but Elesa says that by doing so, people will poke fun at her and allow a new approach. Skyla thinks such way is old fashioned and should take it with ease. The two then agree to have a Pokémon Battle and Elesa asks Skyla to not call her "Shirley", hinting it to be her true name (and referencing the movie "Airplane!" in the process).

Other appearances

Anime counterpart

Adventures counterpart

Masters counterpart

Elesa in the Black 2 and White 2 trailer (anime)

Elesa in Generations (anime)

Elesa in the Masters trailer (anime)

Sprites

BW battle sprite		BW VS. Sprite		B2W2 battle sprite		B2W2 VS. Sprite

Pokémon

Black and White

Emolga		Emolga		Zebstrika		[[File:{{{P4}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P4}}}]] [[]]	[[File:{{{P5}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P5}}}]] [[]]	[[File:{{{P6}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P6}}}]] [[]]
Lv. 25	♂	Lv. 25	♀	Lv. 27	♂	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-
Ability: Static		Ability: Static		Ability: Lightningrod		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown
Item: None		Item: None		Item: None		Item: ?	Item: ?	Item: ?
Quick Attack		Quick Attack		Quick Attack		-	-	-
Pursuit		Pursuit		Flame Charge		-	-	-
Aerial Ace		Aerial Ace		Spark		-	-	-
Volt Switch		Volt Switch		Volt Switch		-	-	-

Black 2 and White 2

Gym Battle

Emolga		Flaaffy		Zebstrika		[[File:{{{P4}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P4}}}]] [[]]	[[File:{{{P5}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P5}}}]] [[]]	[[File:{{{P6}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P6}}}]] [[]]
Lv. 28	♀	Lv. 28	♀	Lv. 30	♀	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-
Ability: Static		Ability: Static		Ability: Lightningrod		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown
Item: None		Item: None		Item: Sitrus Berry		Item: ?	Item: ?	Item: ?
Quick Attack		Volt Switch		Volt Switch		-	-	-
Pursuit		Confuse Ray		Quick Attack		-	-	-
Volt Switch		Thunder Wave		Flame Charge		-	-	-
Aerial Ace		Take Down		Stomp		-	-	-

Emolga		Flaaffy		Joltik		Zebstrika		[[File:{{{P5}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P5}}}]] [[]]	[[File:{{{P6}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P6}}}]] [[]]
Lv. 30	♀	Lv. 30	♀	Lv. 30	♀	Lv. 32	♀	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-
Ability: Static		Ability: Static		Ability: Unnerve		Ability: Lightningrod		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown
Item: Sitrus Berry		Item: None		Item: None		Item: Sitrus Berry		Item: ?	Item: ?
Quick Attack		Volt Switch		Volt Switch		Volt Switch		-	-
Pursuit		Confuse Ray		X-Scissor		Pursuit		-	-
Volt Switch		Thunder Wave		Thunder Wave		Flame Charge		-	-
Aerial Ace		Take Down		Energy Ball		Stomp		-	-

Trivia

• Her Japanese Leader title is シャイニング　ビューティ "Shining Beauty".
• She is the only female Electric-type Gym Leader.
• She is one of the few female Gym Leaders to have more male Pokémon than female Pokémon.
• Elesa is the only returning Unova Gym Leader in Pokémon Black and White 2 to receive a redesign. She received a second redesign exclusively for Pokémon Masters.
• Elesa is the first major fashion model in the series.
• As stated by the magazine Nintendo DREAM, Elesa's slim legs are designed to be extremely slim on purpose just to emphasize on her being a model (which may also be responsible for her high heels in her original design as models have to be able to walk in such shoes), and her stoic appearance plus her robot-like accessories such as her headphones and their cables are based on how real life models are stereotyped as acting emotionless and looking like robots.