Solidad

Solidad サオリ Saori
Solidad
Gender	Female
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Salmon
Hometown	Pewter City
Region	Kanto
Trainer class	Coordinator
Anime debut	May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!
English voice actor	Sarah Natochenny
Japanese voice actor	Rie Tanaka

Solidad (Japanese: サオリ Saori) is a recurring character who appeared in the Pokémon anime. She is a Pokémon Coordinator from Pewter City who first appeared in May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!.

History

Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

Solidad debuted in May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!, where it was revealed that she had defeated Drew in his very first Pokémon Contest, causing him to cry. Since then they have become friends. They keep in touch and occasionally run into each other. She also noticed that Drew became more competitive, and she thinks May is the reason for this.

In Channeling the Battle Zone!, Solidad battled May in the semifinal round of the Kanto Grand Festival. She was able to counter May's attacks as she had previously observed her battling style. She managed to win the battle against May, and then she won the final stage, giving her the Ribbon Cup and the title of Top Coordinator. Similarly to Drew, May also cried after being defeated by Solidad.

In The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing!, Solidad was revealed to have traveled to Johto.

Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl

In Staging a Heroes' Welcome! and Strategy with a Smile!, Solidad was seen in Ecruteak City along with Harley and Drew, watching May perform live on TV at the Wallace Cup.

Character

Solidad is more mature than fellow Coordinators May and Drew but still holds them in high esteem. She and Brock are old friends, and she used to see him often when he was still the Gym Leader of Pewter Gym, even knowing him from before then. She also stated that she is old friends with Harley and that she finds him to be an interesting person.

Pokémon

This is the list of Solidad's known Pokémon in the anime:

Slowbro

Debut	May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!
Voice actors
Japanese	Katsuyuki Konishi
English	Eric Stuart

Slowbro first appeared with Solidad, using psychic powers to lift the escaping Aipom into Ash's arms. In Thinning the Hoard!, Slowbro created a masterful display of levitating itself with Psychic, then using Water Gun to create a fountain effect. Later in the episode, it used Hyper Beam to single-handedly blast a Girafarig and a Zangoose out of the competition.

In Channeling the Battle Zone!, Slowbro was shown to be fighting alongside Pidgeot against May's Combusken and Munchlax. It easily disarmed Munchlax's Focus Punch with Psychic, before putting Combusken to sleep with Yawn. It evaded Munchlax's Solar Beam and teamed up with Pidgeot to knock Munchlax out with another Hyper Beam.

Slowbro's known moves are Psychic, Water Gun, Hyper Beam, and Yawn.

Lapras

Debut	May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!
Voice actors
Japanese	Yumi Touma
English	Yumi Touma

Lapras is another Pokémon used in Solidad's Grand Festival campaign. With a powerful Sheer Cold it got through the first rounds for Solidad. Later, it was able to get Solidad to the finals while battling alongside Solidad's Butterfree against a Hitmonlee and a Hitmonchan.

Lapras's only known move is Sheer Cold.

Pidgeot

Debut	Channeling the Battle Zone!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kōichi Sakaguchi
English	Kōichi Sakaguchi

Solidad's Pidgeot was used during the Double Battle phase against May alongside Solidad's Slowbro against May's Combusken and Munchlax. Although it was hit hard by Combusken's Fire Spin, it recovered and used Feather Dance to dissipate the flames and send burning feathers down on May's Pokémon. It then used Double Team to avoid Munchlax's last desperate attack, and teamed up with Slowbro to knock it out with an Aerial Ace.

Pidgeot's known moves are Feather Dance, Aerial Ace, and Double Team.

Butterfree

Debut	Channeling the Battle Zone!

Butterfree is one of the Pokémon Solidad used in her Grand Festival campaign. Not much is known about it, other than it being able to get Solidad to the finals while battling alongside Solidad's Lapras against a Hitmonlee and a Hitmonchan.

None of Butterfree's moves are known.

Contests

Solidad with the Ribbon Cup

Kanto Ribbons

This listing is of the Ribbons Solidad has obtained in the Kanto region:

• Five unknown Ribbons (prior to May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!)

Grand Festival ranking

Solidad has competed in the following Grand Festival tournaments:

• Kanto Grand Festival - Winner (Channeling the Battle Zone!)

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 田中理恵 Rie Tanaka English Sarah Natochenny Finnish Jenni Sivonen European French Julie Basecqz Italian Loretta Di Pisa Brazilian Portuguese Gilmara Sanches Spanish Latin America Cristina Hernández Spain Diana Torres

Trivia

• The official website for Cartoon Network initially called Solidad "Samantha" in their summary for the episode of her debut.
• All of Solidad's known Pokémon are from Generation I.
• Three of Solidad's Pokémon are the same species as Pokémon which Ash has released: Pidgeot, Lapras, and Butterfree.
  • Coincidentally, all three of those species received a type of temporary form in future generations: Lapras and Butterfree received a Gigantamax form in Generation VIII and Pidgeot received a Mega Evolution in Generation VI.
    • Additionally, while not a temporary form, Slowbro received a Galarian form in Generation VIII, in addition to its Mega Evolution in Generation VI.
  • All of Solidad's Pokémon share an evolutionary relative with the Pokémon Ash owns in the Electric Tale of Pikachu adaptation where he still owns a Butterfree and Lapras, but has a Pidgeotto and a giant Slowpoke instead of a Pidgeot and Slowbro which Solidad owns.
• Solidad is the only rival from Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire who did not appear in Pokémon Journeys: The Series.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	サオリ Saori
English, French, German, Italian	Solidad	Similar to her Japanese name.
Iberian Spanish	Soledad	A common Spanish name.
Korean	사희 Sahyi	Similar to her Japanese name.
Chinese (Mandarin)	紗織 Shāzhī	From the name 紗織 Saori.

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