Chili

Chili ポッド Pod
"Triple Trouble!"
Artwork from Black and White
Gender	Male
Eye color	Red
Hair color	Red
Hometown	Striaton City
Region	Unova
Relatives	Cilan, Cress (brothers)
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	V
Games	Black and White
Leader of	Striaton Gym
Badge	Trio Badge
Specializes in	Template:Type2s
Animated debut	Triple Leaders, Team Threats!
English voice actor	Lucien Dodge
Japanese voice actor	Masakazu Morita

Chili (Japanese: ポッド Pod) is one of the three Gym Leaders of Striaton City's Gym, known officially as the Striaton Gym. He specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon. He gives the Trio Badge to Trainers that chose Snivy as their starter Pokémon, if they defeat him.

In the games

Chili appears in Pokémon Black and White as one of the Gym Leaders of the Striaton City Gym, alongside Cilan and Cress. This gym is the first to be challenged by the player. Chili battles the player if Snivy is the chosen starter Pokémon. Trainers who defeat Chili will receive the Trio Badge, along with TM83 (Work Up).

Pokémon

Pokémon Black and White

Gym match

Leader Chili Striaton Gym Black and White Leader and Professor Chili Oak Striaton Gym Black and White Reward: $1680

Types: Normal Unknown Ability: Pickup Held item: None Lillipup♂ Lv.12 Work Up Normal Status   --       Helping Hand Normal Status   --       Odor Sleuth Normal Status   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Types: Fire Unknown Ability: Gluttony Held item: None Pansear♂ Lv.14 Work Up Normal Status   --       Lick Ghost Physical   --       Fury Swipes Normal Physical   --       Incinerate Fire Special   --

Quotes

Pokémon Black and White

Striaton Gym

• Before battle

Cilan: "Welcome to the Striaton City Pokémon Gym."

Chili: "I'm Chili! I light things up with Fire-type Pokémon!"

Cress: "I'm a Water-type specialist, and my name is Cress. Pleased to make your acquaintance."

Cilan: "And my name is Cilan. I like Grass-type Pokémon."

Cilan: "Um, you see... As for why the three of us, um, are all here is, well, er..."

Chili: "Oh,enough! Listen up!"

Chili: "The three of us will decide whom you'll battle! It'll be based on the type of the first pokémon you chose!"

Cress: "That is indeed the case. And the partner you first chose was [Type] type, it seems."

• If the player's Starter Pokémon is Tepig or Oshawott

"Aww, man! I was all fired up, too!"

• If the player's Starter Pokémon is Snivy

"Ta-da! The Fire-type scorcher Chili -- that's me -- will be your opponent!"

"Yeeeeooow! Time to play with FIRE!! I'm the strongest of us brothers!"

• After the first move

"As if that would work on my Pokémon!"

• After sending out last Pokémon

"It's not over yet! One more left! This is where I give it my all!"

• When defeated

"You got me. I am... burnet... out..."

• After being defeated

"Whoa ho! You're on fire! Well, it's the Pokémon League's rule. Take this Gym Badge!"

• After the battle (regardless of the Starter Pokémon)

"I can't believe TMs can be used over and over! If you wanted, you could use one to teach all your Pokémon the same move!"

Sprites

Chili's sprite from Generation V	Chili's VS sprite from Generation V

In the anime

Chili in the anime

Chili appeared in Triple Leaders, Team Threats! alongside fellow Gym Leaders Cilan and Cress. Along with Cress, he made his first appearance when serving Ash. Ash declined, and said he wanted to battle the Gym Leader, and the three brothers introduced themselves. They followed Ash to the battleground where they revealed their Pokémon. Chili was the first to battle Ash, and lost.

He appeared again in Dreams by the Yard Full!, where he said goodbye to Cilan, who decided to travel with Ash and Iris.

Cilan mentioned in BW010 that Trip had battled Chili and defeated his Pansear with his Servine, earning himself the Trio Badge. He appeared in a flashback in BW019 where him and Cress were telling Cabernet that Cilan had gone on a journey and could not battle her again, so she battled Chili and won.

He, like his brothers, tends to speak about Pokémon in relation to their element, in Chili's case, fire. All the brothers tend to use hand positions like rock, paper, and scissors - Chili tends to accentuate words with his fists.

Pokémon

This listing is of Chili's known Pokémon in the anime.

Pansear

Debut	Triple Leaders, Team Threats!
Voice actors
Japanese	Chinami Nishimura
English	Bill Rogers

Pansear is Chili's only known Pokémon. It first appeared when Chili showed what Pokémon he has and Ash scans it on his Pokédex. It is the first Pokémon Ash battled in his gym battle. Tepig's attacks didn't do much damage to Pansear, but Pansear hit Tepig hard with Fire Punch, Flamethrower and Dig. One of Pansear's Dig attacks knocked Tepig into the air. But Ash commanded it to use Tackle into the hole that Pansear was in and it managed to bite down on Pansear's tail. Tepig then spun Pansear around and threw it on the ground, used Ember successfully, and then knocked it out with powerful Tackle.

It was revealed in BW010 that Pansear faced Trip's Servine in battle and lost.

Pansear's known moves are Flamethrower, Fire Punch and Dig.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 森田成一 Masazaku Morita English Lucien Dodge

In the manga

In the Pocket Monsters BW manga

In the Pocket Monsters BW manga, Chili appears along with his brothers Cilan and Cress. They are seen in PMBW03, where Isamu Akai and his Pokémon visit a restaurant owned by the three brothers. Clefairy tries to instigate a fight between the brothers, but fails on many occasions.

Pokémon

This listing is for Chili's Pokémon in the Pocket Monsters BW manga.

Pansear

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Chili, along with his brothers, are first seen when Black sets out on his journey to beat the Pokémon League.

Pokémon

This listing is for Chili's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Pansear

Trivia

• His Japanese Leader title, shared with Cilan and Cress, is トライアル　トライアングル.
• Chili's hair resembles the flames of a fire. This is much like how Cilan and Cress both have hairstyles based on the type they specialize in.
• In the anime, Chili has been known to have been chosen to battle in a gym match the most times out of the three Striaton Gym Leaders, having battled Trip, Ash, and Cabernet. He also lost all three times.
• His signature Pokémon is Pansear.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ポッド Pod	From pod corn, similar to Dent and Corn. May also refer to tripod.
English	Chili	From Chili pepper
French	Armando	From amande (almond) and ardent (burning).
German	Maik
Italian	Chicco	From chicco, grain
Spanish	Zeo	From Zea mays, the scientific name of maize. Also from ζέω zeo, Greek for "to boil".
Chinese (Mandarin)	伯特 Bótè	Transliteration of his Japanese name.

Gym Leaders of the Unova region
Striaton Gym Cilan Chili Cress	Nacrene Gym Lenora	Castelia Gym Burgh	Nimbasa Gym Elesa
Driftveil Gym Clay	Mistralton Gym Skyla	Icirrus Gym Brycen	Opelucid Gym Drayden Iris
Aspertia Gym Cheren	Virbank Gym Roxie	Humilau Gym Marlon

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