Tulip

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Tulip
リップ Lip
"The Bewitching Beautician"
Scarlet Violet Tulip.png
Artwork from Scarlet and Violet
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Eye color Hazel
Hair color Violet
Hometown Alfornada
Region Paldea
Trainer class Gym Leader
Generation IX
Games Scarlet and Violet
Member of Paldea League
Rank Gym Leader
Leader of Alfornada Gym
Badge Psychic Badge
Specializes in Psychic-types
Animated series Pokémon Horizons: The Series
Debut HZ055
English voice actor N/A
Japanese voice actor Mariko Nagai

Tulip (Japanese: リップ Lip) is the Gym Leader of Alfornada's Gym, known officially as the Alfornada Gym. She specializes in Psychic-type Pokémon.

In the core series games

Besides being a Gym Leader, Tulip works as a model and a makeup artist. As such, she focuses on beauty and appearance a lot. Her Pokémon help her out in applying makeup which seems magical. She has a very busy schedule due to working on several businesses.[1]

Tulip is childhood friends with Dendra and has done a collaboration with fellow Gym Leader Iono. She doesn't like her boss, Geeta, very much, due to the latter's "bewitching aura" overlapping with the former's style.

Tulip enlists Dendra to help her with her Gym test of ESP exercise by defeating her in a Pokémon battle, in which the stakes were that the loser would do whatever the winner wanted. The Gym test requires the player to express different emotions as Dendra and a Medicham demonstrate them. Dendra also says that Tulip has always been an overachiever.

In addition to the Gym Badge, Tulip gives out TM120 (Psychic) after defeating her.

In The Indigo Disk, Tulip can be invited to Blueberry Academy as a special coach.

Pokémon

Tulip will Terastallize her Florges at the first opportunity.

Gym battle



Rematch



League Club Room



Traded to the player

Upon the third unique interaction with Tulip in the League Club Room, she will trade a Flittle to the player in exchange for almost any Pokémon excluding Shiny, Legendary, or Mythical Pokémon.

#0955  Flittle Female icon HOME.png  Paldea icon.png
Poké Ball HOME.png Level 32 0955Flittle.png
Type:
PsychicIC SV.png UnknownIC SV.png
Tera Type: PsychicIC Tera.png
Ability: Speed Boost
Held item: None
ID: 149671
OT: Tulip
Met: a Link Trade
Nature: Impish
Ribbons
/ Marks:
Partner Ribbon 
Quick Attack
Normal icon.pngNormal PhysicalIC SV.png
Psybeam
Psychic icon.pngPsychic SpecialIC SV.png
Pluck
Flying icon.pngFlying PhysicalIC SV.png
Agility
Psychic icon.pngPsychic StatusIC SV.png
Games Method Duration
SV In-game trade
This Pokémon has a fixed Scale value of 128.
This Pokémon may only be redeemed once per save file.
Date received is the date on the system when the gift is redeemed.
This Pokémon is set to the same language as the game that received it.

Quotes

Main article: Tulip/Quotes

In animation

Pokémon Horizons: The Series

Tulip first appeared in silhouette alongside the other Gym Leaders of Paldea in HZ046 during Clavell's explanation of how Terastal Training works.

Tulip appeared in HZ055, where she partnered with Sidian as part of the Elite Four Tag Battle. Using her Espathra, she battled Rika and her Clodsire and Dugtrio, only to lose by default when Sidian's Garganacl was defeated.

Pokémon

Espathra
Tulip's Espathra
Debut HZ055

Espathra is Tulip's only known Pokémon. She used it in her Tag Battle with Sidian against Rika, only to lose by default when Sidian's Garganacl was knocked out.

None of Espathra's moves are known.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor
Japanese 永井 真里子 Mariko Nagai


Pokémon: Paldean Winds

Tulip appeared in Breathe Together, in which she is introduced by Iono as one of Paldea's Gym Leaders during her video collaboration with Naranja Academy.

Pokémon

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Espathra


Biri-Biri

Tulip in Biri-Biri

Tulip briefly appeared as a silhouette alongside the rest of Paldea Gym Leaders in the music video for Biri-Biri.

In literature

Let's Play the Pokémon Card Game!

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Rubi Beniguchi (Japanese: (べに)(ぐち)るびぃ Beniguchi Rubi), a cross-canon counterpart of Tulip, appears in the Scarlet & Violet arc of Let's Play the Pokémon Card Game!.

In the TCG

Special illustration rare print of Tulip
Main article: Tulip (Paradox Rift 181)

Tulip 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 Future Flash expansion and the English Paradox Rift expansion, with artwork by Naoki Saito. An ultra rare version with artwork by the same illustrator, and a special illustration rare version of the card illustrated by AKIRA EGAWA were released in the same sets. It allows players to put up to 4 in any combination of Psychic-type Pokémon and Basic Psychic Energy cards from their discard pile into their hand.

Other cards

Tulip also makes an appearance on the Espathra from the Paradox Rift expansion, which interacts with the Tulip card, referencing the Pokémon that Tulip uses in the games.

Gallery

Sprites and models

VSTulip.png LCR Tulip icon.png
VS model from
Scarlet and Violet
Special Coach profile image from
Scarlet and Violet

Artwork

Tulip concept art.jpg
Concept art from Scarlet and Violet

Trivia

  • Tulip's Japanese Gym Leader title is 超マジック・マキアージュ.
  • Tulip's ace and Terastallized Pokémon being Florges references their shared trait of beauty.
  • After Tulip recalls her Pokémon from battle, she rests the Poké Ball against her temple rather than simply nodding at it like many Trainers.

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese リップ Lip From tulip and possibly lipstick
English, Indonesian Tulip From tulip
German Tulia From Tulpe (tulip)
Spanish Tuli From tulipán (tulip)
French Tully From tulipe (tulip)
Italian, Brazilian Portuguese Tulipa From tulipa (Portuguese for tulip)
Korean 리파 Lipa From tulipa (Portuguese for tulip)
Chinese (Mandarin) 莉普 Lìpǔ Transcription of her Japanese name
Chinese (Cantonese) 莉普 Leihpóu
Thai ลิป Lip Transcription of her Japanese name

References

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