Roxie

Roxie ホミカ Homika
"A Little Poison in Your Days, a Little Poison on the Stage"
Artwork from Black 2 and White 2
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	White
Hometown	Virbank City
Region	Unova
Relatives	Pop Roxie (father)
Trainer class	Gym Leader Pokémon Trainer
Generation	V
Games	Black 2 and White 2
Leader of	Virbank Gym
Badge	Toxic Badge
Specializes in	Poison
Anime debut	Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 1
English voice actor	Alyson Rosenfeld
Japanese voice actor	Eri Kitamura

Roxie (Japanese ホミカ Homika) is the Gym Leader of Virbank City's Gym, known officially as the Virbank Gym. She specializes in Poison-type Pokémon. She gives the Toxic Badge to Trainers who defeat her.

In the games

Roxie appears in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 as a Gym Leader. She is a musician who plays the bass guitar. Her Gym is a music club. Trainers who defeat Roxie will receive the Toxic Badge, along with TM09 (Venoshock).

Before the Gym battle, Roxie is seen in Virbank City outside of the Pokémon Center, arguing with her father about him becoming a movie star. He defends his wishes by commenting that Roxie balances her duties as the Virbank Gym Leader, and as a member of her rock bank. He leaves, and Roxie gets angry and heads for the Gym, which the player can directly challenge.

After the Gym battle, Roxie can be seen near the port with Hugh and some of the New Team Plasma Grunts. After the battle that follows, she gives the Player the HM move Cut and then heads back to the Gym.

Sprites

Roxie's sprite from Generation V	Roxie's VS sprite from Generation V	Roxie's overworld sprite from Generation V

Pokémon

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

Gym battle

Normal Mode

Leader Roxie Virbank Gym Black 2 and White 2 Leader and Professor Roxie Oak Virbank Gym Black 2 and White 2 Reward: $2160

Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: None Koffing♀ Lv.16 Assurance Dark Physical   --       Tackle Normal Physical   --       Smog Poison Special   --       Clear Smog Poison Special   --       Types: Bug Poison Ability: Poison Point Held item: None Whirlipede♀ Lv.18 Venoshock Poison Special   --       Protect Normal Status   --       Poison Sting Poison Physical   --       Pursuit Dark Physical   --

Challenge Mode

Leader Roxie Virbank Gym Black 2 and White 2 Leader and Professor Roxie Oak Virbank Gym Black 2 and White 2 Reward: $2280

Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: Oran Berry Koffing♀ Lv.17 Assurance Dark Physical   --       Tackle Normal Physical   --       Smog Poison Special   --       Venoshock Poison Special   --       Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Stench Held item: None Grimer♀ Lv.17 Venoshock Poison Special   --       Mud-Slap Ground Special   --       Poison Gas Poison Status   --       Disable Normal Status   --       Types: Bug Poison Ability: Poison Point Held item: Oran Berry Whirlipede♀ Lv.19 Venoshock Poison Special   --       Protect Normal Status   --       Poison Sting Poison Physical   --       Rollout Rock Physical   --

Pokémon World Tournament

Roxie uses three of these Pokémon in Single Battles, four in Double and Rotation Battles and all six in Triple Battles.

Driftveil Tournament

Pokémon Trainer Roxie Pokémon World Tournament Black 2 and White 2 Pokémon Trainer and Professor Roxie Oak Pokémon World Tournament Black 2 and White 2 Reward: 1 BP

Types: Bug Poison Ability: Poison Point or Swarm Held item: None Scolipede♂/♀ Lv.25 Venoshock Poison Special   --       Bug Bite Bug Physical   --       Steamroller Bug Physical   --       Toxic Poison Status   --       Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Shed Skin Held item: None Seviper♂/♀ Lv.25 Coil Poison Status   --       Venoshock Poison Special   --       Toxic Poison Status   --       Bulldoze Ground Physical   --       Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Stench or Weak Armor Held item: None Garbodor♂/♀ Lv.25 Toxic Spikes Poison Status   --       Amnesia Psychic Status   --       Venoshock Poison Special   --       DoubleSlap Normal Physical   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♂/♀ Lv.25 Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Air Slash Flying Special   --       Poison Fang Poison Physical   --       Attract Normal Status   --       Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Stench or Weak Armor Held item: None Garbodor♂/♀ Lv.25 Sludge Poison Special   --       Stockpile Normal Status   --       Swallow Normal Status   --       Clear Smog Poison Special   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♂/♀ Lv.25 Venoshock Poison Special   --       Toxic Poison Status   --       Fly Flying Physical   --       Mean Look Normal Status   --

Unova Leaders Tournament

Pokémon Trainer Roxie Pokémon World Tournament Black 2 and White 2 Pokémon Trainer and Professor Roxie Oak Pokémon World Tournament Black 2 and White 2 Reward: 1 BP

Types: Bug Poison Ability: Poison Point or Swarm Held item: Oran Berry Scolipede♂/♀ Lv.50 Venoshock Poison Special   --       Protect Normal Status   --       Poison Sting Poison Physical   --       Rollout Rock Physical   --       Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Shed Skin Held item: Shuca Berry Seviper♂/♀ Lv.50 Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Dragon Tail Dragon Physical   --       Sludge Wave Poison Special   --       Glare Normal Status   --       Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Stench or Weak Armor Held item: Salac Berry Garbodor♂/♀ Lv.50 Gunk Shot Poison Physical   --       Rock Blast Rock Physical   --       Clear Smog Poison Special   --       Stockpile Normal Status   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: Payapa Berry Crobat♂/♀ Lv.50 Cross Poison Poison Physical   --       Brave Bird Flying Physical   --       U-turn Bug Physical   --       Tailwind Flying Status   --       Types: Poison Dark Ability: Battle Armor or Sniper Held item: Sitrus Berry Drapion♂/♀ Lv.50 Cross Poison Poison Physical   --       Night Slash Dark Physical   --       Fire Fang Fire Physical   --       Acupressure Normal Status   --       Types: Grass Poison Ability: Effect Spore Held item: Ganlon Berry Amoonguss♂/♀ Lv.50 Toxic Poison Status   --       Spore Grass Status   --       Giga Drain Grass Special   --       Substitute Normal Status   --

Type Expert/World Leaders Tournament

Pokémon Trainer Roxie Pokémon World Tournament Black 2 and White 2 Pokémon Trainer and Professor Roxie Oak Pokémon World Tournament Black 2 and White 2 Reward: 1 BP

Types: Bug Poison Ability: Poison Point or Swarm Held item: Choice Scarf Scolipede♂/♀ Lv.50 Poison Jab Poison Physical   --       Megahorn Bug Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Rock Slide Rock Physical   --       Types: Poison Fighting Ability: Anticipation or Dry Skin Held item: Focus Sash Toxicroak♂/♀ Lv.50 Protect Normal Status   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --       Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Type: Poison Unknown Ability: Stench or Weak Armor Held item: Expert Belt Garbodor♂/♀ Lv.50 Psychic Psychic Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Focus Blast Fighting Special   --       Protect Normal Status   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: Psychic Gem Crobat♂/♀ Lv.50 Cross Poison Poison Physical   --       Brave Bird Flying Physical   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Tailwind Flying Status   --       Types: Poison Dark Ability: Battle Armor or Sniper Held item: Scope Lens Drapion♂/♀ Lv.50 Cross Poison Poison Physical   --       Night Slash Dark Physical   --       Ice Fang Ice Physical   --       Protect Normal Status   --       Types: Grass Poison Ability: Effect Spore Held item: Black Sludge Amoonguss♂/♀ Lv.50 Foul Play Dark Physical   --       Spore Grass Status   --       Giga Drain Grass Special   --       Protect Normal Status   --

Quotes

At Virbank Gym

• Before battle

"Get ready! I'm gonna knock some sense outta ya!"

• During battle (the first non-KO hit)

"I can feel your desire to win pouring out of you!"

• After sending out last Pokémon

"It's not over yet! Time to turn this show around for a victory!"

• When defeated

"Wait! I was right in the middle of the chorus!"

• After being defeated

"Sigh! What are you doing losing, Roxie?! Well…I guess that means you're strong! This stinks, but I gave it everything I had, and I feel revitalized and refreshed now!"

"Here! Proof that you beat me! Two Badges! Now Pokémon up to Lv. 30, even Pokémon you got in trades, will realize how good you are and won't ignore your commands!"

"Also, here! Use this TM! TM09 is Venoshock! It covers the target in a special poisonous liquid! Even better, if your target's already poisoned, it does double damage! Heh heh! It almost packs too much of a punch!"

"Your Pokémon WANTED this win! Keep on going on like this, and do all sorts of stuff!"

• After the player is invited to Pokéstar Studios

"You're going to Pokéstar Studios?! OH! I forgot! The old man! I have to get him back to work as captain!"

Pokémon World Tournament

"Hey! You two! Haven't you got any wild and crazy Pokémon battles to show me?! Guess I'll have to enter the tournament myself and rock the audience right outta their seats!"

Badge Case

It's kindness to say no for your friends and Pokémon, right?

National Gymquirer

Jingle: "Woo hoo! All right! It's 'The National Gymquirer'!"

Page: "That's right! We collect the hottest gossip about Gym Leaders seen around town! Here is today's letter. From someone going by the name RoxieForever! Thank yooou! 'This is a story about the first time I ever went to one of Roxie's shows! Many fans collapsed from the toxic power of her songs. Roxie's really a toxic shock to the system, isn't she?!' Maybe they were just too excited and fainted. Make sure to drink lots of fluids when you go to concerts! 'The National Gymquirer'! We eagerly await your letters!"

In the anime

Roxie in the anime

Roxie appeared in Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 1 and Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 2. She is a powerful Gym Leader, defeating everyone who dared to challenge her with only three Pokémon. When Ash arrived at her Gym, she was thrilled to see his Pikachu, as she too had a Pokémon originating from Kanto, Koffing, and happily accepted his challenge.

Roxie proved herself to be a very capable Gym Leader, defeating five of Ash's six Pokémon despite being at a disadvantage in terms of her party. She would occasionally perform a riff on her bass during the battle, and the crowd would chant her name. When she was defeated she happily congratulated Ash as the crowd cheered for his victory, and she presented him with his eighth and final Unova Badge, the Toxic Badge.

Pokémon

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

Koffing

Debut	Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 1
Voice actors
Japanese	Kensuke Satō

Koffing was the first Pokémon Roxie used against Ash in their Gym battle. She captured it while she was in Kanto, and it inspired her to assemble her rock band, "Koffing and the Toxics." During the match, it defeated Ash's Boldore and Unfezant rather easily, but was later defeated by Leavanny.

Koffing's known moves are Clear Smog, Gyro Ball, Sludge Bomb and Will-O-Wisp.

Scolipede

Debut	Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 1
Voice actors
Japanese	Unshō Ishizuka

Scolipede was the second Pokémon Roxie used against Ash in their Gym battle. It defeated Ash's Leavanny, but was later taken down by Pignite's powerful Fire Pledge.

Scolipede's known moves are Toxic, Rock Tomb, Sludge Bomb and Screech.

Garbodor

Debut	Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 2
Voice actors
Japanese	Chiaki Takahashi

Garbodor was the third and last Pokémon Roxie used against Ash in their Gym battle. It defeated Ash's Pignite and Palpitoad, but was later defeated by Pikachu, after getting paralyzed by his Static.

Garbodor's known moves are DoubleSlap, Hyper Beam, Gunk Shot and Venoshock.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 喜多村英梨 Eri Kitamura English Alyson Rosenfeld Mandarin Chinese 詹雅菁 Zhān Yǎjīng

In the manga

In the Pocket Monsters B2 W2 ~ A New Legend ~ manga

Roxie in Pocket Monsters B2 W2 ~ A New Legend ~

Pokémon

Koffing

Debut	ANL2

Koffing is Roxie's first known Pokémon. Roxie used Koffing against Arata in their battle.

Trivia

• Her Japanese Leader title is ポイズンライフ　ポイズンライブ！.
• Roxie is the first Poison-type Gym Leader outside of Kanto.
• Her bass is styled similarly to the Venipede evolutionary family.
• She is the first Gym Leader to appear in the anime before her debut game.
• Both Roxie and Janine have known fathers in the series. Unlike Roxie's father, Janine's father was also a Poison-type Gym Leader.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ホミカ Homika	From ホミカ homika, a corruption of the species name of the poisonous strychnine tree, Strychnos nux-vomica.
English	Roxie	Likely a combination of the music genre "rock" and "toxic".
French	Strykna	From Strychnos nux-vomica.
German	Mica	From Strychnos nux-vomica.
Italian	Velia	From veleno, venom
Spanish	Hiedra	From hiedra venenosa, poison ivy
Korean	보미카 Vomica	From Strychnos nux-vomica.
Chinese (Mandarin)	霍米加 ‎Huòmǐjiā	Transliteration of her 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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