Tate and Liza

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Tate & Liza
フウとラン Fu & Lan
""The mystic combination!""
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Art from R/S/E
Gender Female (Liza), Male (Tate)
Hometown Mossdeep City
Region Hoenn
Relatives Jin (father) and Rachel (mother) (anime)
Trainer class Gym Leader
Generation III
Games Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald
Leader of Mossdeep Gym
Badge Mind Badge
Anime debut It's Still Rocket Roll to Me
English voice actor Tate: Jason Griffith
Liza: Andi Whaley
Japanese voice actor Tate: Takahiro Mizushima
Liza: Chisa Yokoyama

Tate and Liza (Japanese: フウとラン Fu and Lan) are the Gym Leaders of Mossdeep City's Gym, known officially as the Mossdeep Gym. They specialize in Template:Type2 Pokémon. They give the Mind Badge to trainers who defeat them.

In the anime

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Tate and Liza

Tate and Liza first appeared in It's Still Rocket Roll to Me. Their father Jin owns the Mossdeep Space Center and often goes into space to search for space Pokémon. As a result, they often spend time at the Space Center, and even have battles in zero-gravity by using their Baltoy's Confusion technique to levitate them. Rachel, their mother, is the judge for Gym Battles.

Liza is the older of the two, and is more experienced in battle, allowing Tate to relate with Max since Liza sometimes loves to remind him of such facts. When fighting together in their double battle against Ash Ketchum in Solid as a Solrock, they initially kept bickering and allowing their opponent to get hits in. However, once they were able to work together they showed an incredible ability to balance each other's Pokémon, becoming a seemingly unstoppable force that Ash had to resort to unorthodox tactics to defeat.


Pokémon

This listing is of Liza and Tate's Pokémon in the anime:

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Lunatone (Liza's)
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Solrock (Tate's)


At Mossdeep Gym

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Baltoy (×4)


Voice actors

  • Japanese
    • Tate: 水島大宙 Takahiro Mizushima
    • Liza: 横山智佐 Chisa Yokoyama
  • Spanish
    • Tate: Irwin Daayán (Latin-America), Álex Saudinós (Spain)
    • Liza: María Fernanda Morales (Latin-America), Inés Blázquez (Spain)

In the games

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Tate and Liza's battle sprite in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald

Tate and Liza run the Mossdeep City Gym. Both specialize in Template:Type2 Pokémon and give out the Mind Badge once defeated. They also give TM04 (Calm Mind).

Pokémon

This listing is for Tate and Liza's Pokémon in the video games in which they have appeared.

Pokémon Ruby/Pokémon Sapphire

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Pokémon Emerald

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First Rematch

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Second Rematch

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Third Rematch

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Fourth Rematch

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Quotes

"Tate: Hehehe... Were you surprised?
Liza: Hehehe... Were you surprised?
Tate: That there are two Gym Leaders?
Liza: That there are two Gym Leaders?
Tate: We're twins!
Liza: We're twins!
Tate: We don't need to talk because...
Liza: We can each determine what...
Tate: The other is thinking...
Liza: All in our minds!
Tate: This combination of ours...
Liza: Can you beat it?"

"Tate: What? Our combination...
Liza: Was shattered!
Tate: It can't be helped. You've won...
Liza: So, in recognition, take this."

"Tate: Looks like the bond between you and your Pokémon is far stronger than the bond that we share as twins.
Liza: You will become even stronger! We've battled you, so we know."

Trainer's Eyes

Strategy - We battle in cooperation.

Trainer's Pokémon - Always friendly Pokémon.

Self-Introduction - We understand each other, and we understand others.

In the Pokémon Special manga

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Tate and Liza

In Pokémon Special, Liza and Tate are the guardians of Mt. Pyre. When they somehow sensed someone had intruded into Mt. Pyre, they went all the way to Lilycove from Mossdeep in order to protect the two Orbs. However, they fell into Mack's fire illusion until Juan rescued them. Afterwards, they become Ruby's and Sapphire's teachers in double battling on the Mirage Island. They stayed on the island to ensure Ruby and Sapphire can leave for Sootopolis safely, and were not seen since then.

Pokémon

This listing is for Tate and Liza's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

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Lunatone
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Solrock
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Trivia

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese フウとラン (Fu & Lan) 風蘭 fūran, the name for a type of orchid (Neofinetia falcata). 浮 means floating.
English Tate & Liza They are similar to "levitate".
French Lévy & Tatia Possible derivation from "lévitation".
German Ben & Svenja Combining their names would get "Schweben" (levitation).
Italian Tell & Pat Possible derivation from "telepatia" (telepathy).
Spanish Vito & Leti Possible derivation from "levitación" (levitation).
Korean 풍 & 란 Pung & Ran Ran is a transliteration of Japanese name, while 풍 Pung is from 楓, a spelling of .
Chinese 楓/枫 & 南 Fēng & Nán Fēng is taken from 楓, a spelling of .

References

External links

Gym Leaders of the Hoenn region
Rustboro Gym Stone Badge
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Brawly
Mauville Gym Dynamo Badge
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Lavaridge Gym Heat Badge
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Flannery
Petalburg Gym Balance Badge
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Norman
Fortree Gym Feather Badge
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Winona
Mossdeep Gym Mind Badge
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Sootopolis Gym Rain Badge
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