Elesa

Kamitsure カミツレ Kamitsure
"Shining beauty"
File:Black White Kamitsure.png Artwork from Black and White
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Blonde
Hometown	Nimbasa City
Region	Unova
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	V
Games	Black and White
Leader of	Nimbasa Gym
Badge	Bolt Badge
Specializes in	Template:Type2s

(Japanese: カミツレ Kamitsure) is the Gym Leader of Nimbasa City's Gym, known officially as the Nimbasa Gym. She specializes in Template:Type2 Pokémon. She gives the Bolt Badge to Trainers who defeat her.

In the games

Kamitsure makes her debut in Pokémon Black and White, serving as the Nimbasa City Gym Leader. This Gym is the fourth that the player may challenge. The player can challenge her to a battle after riding a series of roller coasters to her location, a process involving the flipping of multiple switches so the tracks take the player to her.

Kamitsure specializes in Electric-type Pokémon and upon defeating her, she will reward the player with the a Bolt Badge and TM72 (Volt Change).

Outside of battle, Kamitsure appears when Bianca attempts to convince her father to allow her to become a Pokémon Trainer. Kamitsure aids her, convincing Bianca's father to give his daughter the permission to follow her dream. When the player leaves Nimbasa City, it is Kamitsure who appears briefly on Route 5 and tells the bridge guard to lower the Hodomoe Drawbridge so the player may cross it. She then appears at N's Castle, where she and the other Unova Gym Leaders hold off the Seven Sages while the player goes after N. While not strictly relevant to the plot, Kamitsure also visits Cynthia in the summer at Sazanami Town.

Pokémon

Pokémon Black and White

Gym match

File:Spr BW Kamitsure.png Leader Kamitsure Nimbasa Gym Black and White Leader and Professor Kamitsure Oak Nimbasa Gym Black and White Reward: $3240

Types: Electric Flying Ability: Static Held item: None Emonga♂ Lv.25 Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Pursuit Dark Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Volt Change Electric Special   --       Types: Electric Flying Ability: Static Held item: None Emonga♀ Lv.25 Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Pursuit Dark Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Volt Change Electric Special   --       Types: Electric Unknown Ability: Lightningrod Held item: None Zeburaika♂ Lv.27 Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Nitro Charge Fire Physical   --       Spark Electric Physical   --       Volt Change Electric Special   --

Sprites

File:Spr BW Kamitsure.png	File:VSKamitsure.png
Kamitsure's sprite from Generation V	Kamitsure's VS sprite from Generation V

Trivia

• Kamitsure's Japanese Leader title is シャイニング　ビューティ.
• Kamitsure is the first female Gym Leader to specialize in Electric-type Pokémon.
  • She is also the only Gym Leader specializing in Electric-type Pokémon never to use a member of the Pikachu evolutionary line at any point; this is due to the fact that Pikachu are not normally found in Unova.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	カミツレ Kamitsure	加密列 (カミツレ) Kamitsure, chamomile, which comes from a corruption of the Dutch term for the plant, kamille, when transcribed to Japanese as カミッレ kamirre. Also from 雷 kaminari, thunder.

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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