Nemona (Japanese: ネモNemo) is a character introduced in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. She is the player character's friend and hopes to find an equal rivalry with them. Nemona is the president of the academy's student council.
Nemona is an energetic and fun girl who adores battling with Pokémon. As an experienced Pokémon Trainer, she is among one of Paldea's top ranked as a Champion. Despite her skill, she is not very good at throwing Poké Balls. She serves as a guide for the player. She, along with the player, is enrolled in the general studies track of the NaranjaS/UvaV Academy, with her homeroom teacher being Jacq. Due to her love for battles, Nemona tries to squeeze in a battle at every moment shet gets, and strives to have someone in equals with. Nemona occasionally drops Spanish words or a Spanish accent in her dialect in English, in reference to Paldea being based on the real-world country of Spain.
Along with the player, who Nemona begins a quick friendship with, Nemona also meets Arven and Penny over the course of Scarlet and Violet. She does not get along with the other two at first, often misunderstanding their viewpoints and clashing with their interests, but get along by game's end. Nemona has an admiration for stronger trainers, such as Geeta, the strongest member of Paldea's Pokémon League.
Nemona lives in the same hometown of Cabo Poco as the player, living in the same neighborhood. She is the daughter of one of the Rotom Phone company's board members, coming from a wealthier family. Her father, mother and older sister all go unnamed. Nemona's Student ID at the academy is 805C001.
Nemona is a young girl who attends Paldea's academy; due to the school changing based on what version is being played, so does her outfit. Her design otherwise relatively stays the same. Nemona has long black hair with most of it being tied in the back in the form of a ponytail. Three bangs stick out from her forehead, the two larger ones being a shade of green as opposed to her normal black coloring. She has large, angular eyes with orange irises and large black pupils. She has three eyelashes on each eye. Her angular eyebrows are thin and black
She wears a magenta arm brace on her right arm, indicating that she is not only right-handed but also slightly disabled and is unable to throw very well. This arm brace covers her knuckles and stops halfway up to her forearm. The bottom side is black and goes all around her arm up to her bicep. The magenta covering is stopped by a thick white cuff. Her shoes are the same colors as her arm brace, having a white back and soles, the upper half being mostly magenta and the tongue being white and black. She wears all-black leggings that go underneath her school shorts.
Nemona will always wear the summer attire of her school's uniform, sporting a short-sleeved T-shirt and shorts. The T-shirt has the school's emblem on her left sleeve. In Pokémon Scarlet, the shirt is all off-white tinted blue, with a collar that goes around the neck, topped with an orange necktie. A singular front pocket on the left side of her chest. Her shorts are orange with lighter orange stripes. These shorts have two pockets on both sides of her legs, with larger pockets underneath that stick out, buttoned together by blue buttons. She has two blue strings on the front of her pants In Pokémon Violet, her shirt is gray instead and has a purple tie. her shorts also look nearly identical, with the blue buttons and strings being yellow and the pants themselves being completely purple with no pattern.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
Background and pre-game
Website blurb:"Your friend, Nemona, has a sunny and energetic disposition, and she absolutely loves Pokémon battles. She’s an experienced Pokémon Trainer and serves as a reliable guide for you on your adventures. She has undisputed skill in battle—though it does also seem that she’s not the best at throwing Poké Balls."
Prior to the events of Scarlet and Violet, unlike previous rival and friend characters, Nemona is already a Pokémon Trainer and a Champion, and implies that she is starting fresh with a new team of Pokémon. She already attends the school that the player will attend to.
Victory Road
Nemona is first met in Cabo Poco, where she introduces herself as the player's neighbor. Despite being a Champion-ranked Trainer, she chooses to raise a new Pokémon team alongside the player to be more on their level, choosing the starter Pokémon that is weak to the player's. After having her first battle with the player, the two set off to the city of Mesagoza to go to the Academy. The player has a troubling situation with KoraidonS/MiraidonV on Inlet Grotto, and returns to Nemona. Nemona is glad that the player is safe and brings them to a nearby lighthouse on Poco Path, where they meet Arven, a boy who seems to know about the Pokémon the player has found. After some clashing of heads and explanation of the player's new ride, Nemona escorts them to Mesagoza through Los Platos and gives them a tutorial on Pokémon Centers and the Terastal phenomenon in front of Mesagoza's doors. Inside the city, Nemona brings them to the school's stairs (which she seems to have a frustation with on account of being too long and steep) where the two of them will be studying. There, the of them are encountered by more strangers, Team Star, a group of students who bully other students and Penny a shy girl who also seems to butt heads with Nemona.
Once the player starts studying at the academy, Nemona urges them to challenge Gyms around Paldea so they can challenge the Pokémon League. Along the way, Nemona will occasionally appear to gauge the player's progress by battling them. Once the player has defeated all 8 of Paldea's Gyms, she becomes excited and awaits their progress at the Pokémon League. Once the player has passed the test and became a Champion-ranked member of the Pokémon league, Nemona is thrilled and wants to battle them immediately. The two of them think on where this champion themed battle should be held, deciding on Megagoza's battlefield in the middle of the city. Nemona loses to the player, but is filled with pride and excitement, happy to have such a fruitful battle against them. She asks for more, hoping the fun never stops.
The Way Home
Once the player has passed the Champion Assessment, Nemona will challenge them to one more battle, where she doesn't hold back. After the player has finished Victory Road and the two other stories, She later accompanies the player, Arven, and Penny on a journey to Area Zero, battling alongside the player as a battle partner to fight against any Paradox Pokémon they may come across.
In the post-credits story, Nemona participates in the Academy Ace Tournament, although she has to manage the admin work when it is held for the first time, she can be battled as a random opponent in subsequent Academy Ace Tournaments.
Nemona uses the starter with a type disadvantage to the one the player chooses. As shown in the game's opening cutscene, she also owns a Combat Breed PaldeanTauros, but she is never seen using it elsewhere. She is also implied to have more Pokémon that are unseen by the player, as she became a Champion prior to her first battle with the player and repeatedly mentions needing to select a perfect team for her battles. The official website for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet claims that Nemona uses Lechonk and Smoliv, even though she is never seen using either of these Pokémon.[3][4]
First battle
During this battle, both the player's and Nemona's Pokémon are prevented from scoring critical hits.
Upon defeating Nemona the third time in the League Club Room, she will trade a Paldean Tauros to the player in exchange for almost any Pokémon excluding Shiny, Legendary, or Mythical Pokémon.
Nemona first appeared in HZ010 while winning a battle against a Trainer. Sometime before meeting Liko and Roy, Nemona came to Artazon to meet with Brassius and discuss his absence from the Artazon Gym. Upon being introduced to the young Trainers, Nemona joined them on a visit to Brassius's art studio to meet the Gym Leader. During the meeting, when Roy spoke about the BlackRayquaza, Brassius kicked everyone out of his house. While discussing why Brassius acted the way he did, Liko came to the conclusion that Brassius might have an artist's block.
Afterwards, Nemona took Liko and Roy to the Sunflora Lawn and decided to group as many Sunflora to create inspiration for Brassius again. When they got together to see how many they managed to group, Nemona showed that she managed to gather fifteen Sunflora. After Brassius saw the group's determination and his Dolliv's insistence, he presented Nemona, Liko, and Roy with a work based on his vision of Rayquaza.
While Brassius challenged Roy to a battle, Nemona watched it along with Liko. After the battle, she explained the Terastal phenomenon to Roy. At the end, Brassius presented another work of his to the group, one based on an Arboliva.
In HZ011, Nemona accompanied Liko, Roy, and Mollie into Arboliva's forest. Upon arriving, Nemona said goodbye to the group and told Roy that the next time she met them, she would like to have a battle with him.
Character
Nemona is a very friendly and kind person, quickly making friends with Liko and Roy. She also has a huge passion for Pokémon battles, challenging different Trainers as she encounters them on her way to a battle.
As expected from a Champion, Nemona is well respected in the Paldea region. Despite her young age, she is shown to be very knowledgeable about various topics in the Pokémon world, such as the Terastal phenomenon.
Pokémon
This listing is of Nemona's known Pokémon in the anime:
Pawmo is Nemona's only known Pokémon and is usually seen outside of its Poké Ball. It was first seen defeating a Trainer's Skiploom. During the encounter with Brassius, Pawmo was frequently hit by the oil of Brassius's Dolliv.
As part of trying to create inspiration for Brassius, Nemona, Liko and Roy collected several wild Sunflora around Artazon. At the end of the count, Nemona managed to gather fifteen of them, second only to Liko.
Nemona first appeared in Breathe Out. Nemona was first seen being watched by Aliquis as she taught some children the concept of Terastallization. Later, during Ohara's performance, she was seen attending the concert with Naranja Academy's academic staff. During the events of the episode, it was revealed that Nemona had a battle to wage against Aliquis.
In Breathe In, Nemona defeated Aliquis in battle, some time later, Nemona had a new battle against her rival, this time a Full Battle. Initially, Nemona was winning again, but the battle scenario changed when Aliquis made peace with his Meowscarada, upon seeing Aliquis' determination, Nemona decided to continue the battle with each of the Trainers Terastallizing their Pokémon. With new determination, the battle between Nemona and Aliquis continued.
In Take a Breath, it was revealed that Nemona managed to beat Aliquis in the last battle, thus achieving a score of three victories against her biggest rival in the Academy.
In Breathe Together, during the presentation of Naranja Academy's introduction video for new students, Nemona appeared presenting a talk to some students and then to the rest of the Academy's student body.
Character
Just like her game counterpart, Nemona is an avid battler. She also has a legion of fans at the Naranja Academy, which gained even more strength when she became a Champion.
Combat BreedPaldeanTauros is Nemona's second known Pokémon. In Nemona and Aliquis's rematch, he took down Aliquis's Garganacl and Flamigo with ease before facing off against Meowscarada. After Aliquis Terastallized the Magician Pokémon, Nemona also Terastallized Tauros.
Tauros's known moves are Double-Edge and Close Combat, and his Tera Type is Fighting.
Note: Nemona has at least four other Pokémon on hand since she faced Aliquis in a Full Battle.
Achievements
Pokémon League
Nemona has competed in the Paldea League. Her rank is as follows:
Meowscarada is Nemona's first known Pokémon. It was first seen as a Sprigatito during a battle against Anna's Fuecoco. Later, now fully evolved, it was used to battle against Anna's Skeledirge in Mesagoza.
None of Meowscarada's moves are known, and its Tera Type is Grass.
Pawmo is Nemona's second known Pokémon. It was first seen as a Pawmi accompanying Nemona during her morning routine alongside Sprigatito. Later, as a Pawmo, it battled against Anna's Gengar.
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Nemona appeared as the main character of After the Rain With You. She is the student council president of Naranja Academy and becomes Anna's friend and rival after showing her the way the school.
Nemona was introduced as a Supporter card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Scarlet & Violet Series (the Japanese Scarlet & Violet Era). It was first released in the Japanese ex Starter Sets and the English Scarlet & Violet expansion, with artwork by Sanosuke Sakuma. This print features Nemona in her Naranja Academy uniform. Another version of the card with artwork by the same illustrator, featuring Nemona in her Uva Academy uniform, was released in the Japanese ex Starter Sets. The card lets the player draw three cards.
Merchandise
Pokémon Trading Card Game
Nemona has had one series of unique merchandise released exclusively for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, simply known as Nemona, drawn by kirisAki.[5]
If the player chose Sprigatito:
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