Maylene

Maylene スモモ Sumomo
""The Barefoot, Fighting Genius""
[[File:File:ArtSumomo.jpg|{{{size}}}]] Art from Diamond/Pearl
Gender	Female
Hometown	Veilstone City
Region	Sinnoh
Relatives	Father (gambler at Game Corner)
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	IV
Games	Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
Leader of	Veilstone Gym
Badge	Cobble Badge
Anime debut	Lost Leader Strategy!
English voice actor	Rachael Lillis
Japanese voice actor	Aya Endō

Maylene (Japanese: スモモ Sumomo) is the Gym Leader of Veilstone City's Gym, known officially as the Veilstone Gym. She hands out the Cobble Badge to Trainers who defeat her. She specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon.

In the anime

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Maylene in the anime

Maylene made her first appearance in Lost Leader Strategy!. She is voiced by Aya Endō in Japanese and by Rachael Lillis in English.

After being defeated by Paul, Maylene had lost confidence in herself as a Gym Leader, a position she's only held for six months. When Ash challenged her, she declined, much to the annoyance of her Lucario.

Discovering Dawn has similar issues herself (following Dawn's Early Night and Team Shocker!'s contest defeats), Maylene agrees to have a gym battle with her in Crossing the Battle Line!. She managed to defeat Dawn after a hard-fought battle.

She was challenged by Ash next in A Triple Fighting Chance!, an even harder-fought battle which resulted in a tie. With the decision now hers, Maylene considered Ash to have battled well enough that she awarded him the Cobble Badge.

Maylene also appeared in Enter Galactic!.

Pokémon

This listing is of Maylene's known Pokémon in the anime:

Meditite

Machoke

Lucario

In the games

Maylene uses Template:Type2 Pokémon in her battles. Trainers who defeat her receive the Cobble Badge, TM60 (Drain Punch) and are able to use Fly outside of battle. Maylene is considered a cute little girl, but adults in the town respect her for her power. Maylene's father gambles at the Veilstone Game Corner. Maylene apparently doesn't know her own strength, as she's totally unsure of how she got to be Gym Leader, and seems rather confused by the whole thing.

Quotes

Before battle
"Hello. I'm pleased to meet you. I'm Maylene, and I'm the Gym Leader. I don't really know what it means to be strong, or how I got to be the Gym Leader. But I will do the best I can as the Gym Leader. I take battling very seriously. Whenever you're ready!"

After sending out last Pokémon
"Oh! But this isn't the end, my friend!"

During battle
"I'm in a bit of a bind, aren't I?"

When defeated
"I shall admit defeat... You are much too strong."

After being defeated
"...OK. You win. That was a tough loss. I learned a lot from it. Please, accept this Gym Badge."

"Gee, I'm hungry... Oh, sorry, it's nothing. I didn't say anything. <name>, I can't explain what it means to be strong. I don't know how much effort goes into being strong... But being with Pokémon lets us keep making the effort, doesn't it?"

In the manga

Pokémon Special

Maylene is seen training with her two Pokémon. She almost gets hit by Pearl's Monferno's Ember (when the trio was testing Berlitz's newly-earned Zoom Lens) while she was jogging around the city. She challenges Berlitz to a match, adding that Berlitz must use Monferno against her. Later, following the events of Pokémon Platinum, she met again with Berlitz when she was traveling alone before the battle with Candice in Snowpoint City.

Pokémon

Maylene owns these Pokémon:

Riolu

Meditite

Pokémon DP

Maylene has a brief cameo in chapter 7 in volume 2, later in the volume she is seen complaining about only appearing in one panel.

Pokémon

Machoke

Lucario

Trivia

• Maylene is the only Sinnoh Gym Leader in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl to not appear outside her gym at least once in the game. She makes an appearance outside of her Gym in Pokémon Platinum, however, when the player reaches Route 217 and at the Pokémon Center in Snowpoint City (before beating Candice).
• Maylene's Japanese name is shared with that of one of the Kimono Girls of Ecruteak City.
• Maylene is one of the youngest Gym Leaders in Sinnoh. However, the youngest Gym Leaders in the Pokémon world seem to hail from Hoenn, being the twins from Mossdeep City, Tate and Liza.
• With the release of Pokémon Platinum, the order of three Gym battles in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are now shifted: instead of being third, Maylene is now fourth in the line-up. Had Ash fought Fantina previous to Maylene, he would have inadvertently gone out of order compared to the Diamond and Pearl line-up, but in order for the Platinum line-up. Ash battled the three shifted Gym Leaders in the order designated by Diamond and Pearl, as Platinum was not released until after Ash fought Crasher Wake, but before Fantina.
• Maylene is the second Gym Leader to be voiced by Rachael Lillis in the English dub.
• She is also the only Gym Leader in Sinnoh to have more Pokémon of the opposite gender of her; in the Veilstone Gym, two out of her three Pokémon are male, while at the Match Place, three out of five are.
• She is the only trainer who has appeared in the anime who owns a Lucario that is not able to use aura

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	スモモ (Sumomo)	Possibly taken from 相撲 (sumō). Can also mean plum
English	Maylene	Sounds like melee.
French	Mélina	From mêlée, brawl.
German	Hilda	From the germanic root hildjo, battle.
Italian	Marzia	From marziale, martial.
Spanish	Brega	From bregar, to fight.
Korean	자두 (Jadu)	Means plum (Direct translation of Sumomo.)
Chinese	阿李 (Ā Lǐ)	From 李, plum.

External links

• Serebii.net Sinnoh Leaders Page

Template:Maylene's Pokémon

Gym Leaders of the Sinnoh region
Oreburgh Gym Roark	Eterna Gym Gardenia	Veilstone Gym Maylene	Pastoria Gym Crasher Wake
Hearthome Gym Fantina	Canalave Gym Byron	Snowpoint Gym Candice	Sunyshore Gym Volkner

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