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− | Opal was a clever woman who was capable of being both whimsical and spiteful. A skilled trainer, she valued the intellect of others and often insisted that others show her the color "pink", while being vague about what that meant. One answer that she gave during an old interview implied that others were supposed to create their own meaning for what she meant. Opal became a gym leader 70 years ago, around the age of 18, when she took over Ballonlea's gym from her mother | + | Opal was a clever woman who was capable of being both whimsical and spiteful. A skilled trainer, she valued the intellect of others and often insisted that others show her the color "pink", while being vague about what that meant. One answer that she gave during an old interview implied that others were supposed to create their own meaning for what she meant. Opal became a gym leader 70 years ago, around the age of 18, when she took over Ballonlea's gym from her mother. It is unknown if she maintained major division status or the same ranking throughout all of those years, but during the time of ''Sword'' and ''Shield'', she was the fifth gym leader who gym challengers had to face in the major division. |
Ballonlea Stadium doubled as a theater, and Opal was said to put on performances. Over the years, Opal felt that her time was coming to step down, and she started to seek a new successor. So she tailored her gym challenge to double as an audition for a potential new gym leader. For the gym challenge, challengers had to face trainers while answering several quiz questions about them. Answering correctly would boost the stats of the challenger's current Pokémon, while incorrect answers would lower them instead. These questions would continue into the battle against Opal. She claimed that she liked to give quizzes because of how people showed their true colors when in a pinch, but apparently it was speculated that she actually did so out of pure spite. In the past, both [[Leon (Pokemon)|Leon]] and [[Sonia (Pokemon)|Sonia]] have failed her quiz. | Ballonlea Stadium doubled as a theater, and Opal was said to put on performances. Over the years, Opal felt that her time was coming to step down, and she started to seek a new successor. So she tailored her gym challenge to double as an audition for a potential new gym leader. For the gym challenge, challengers had to face trainers while answering several quiz questions about them. Answering correctly would boost the stats of the challenger's current Pokémon, while incorrect answers would lower them instead. These questions would continue into the battle against Opal. She claimed that she liked to give quizzes because of how people showed their true colors when in a pinch, but apparently it was speculated that she actually did so out of pure spite. In the past, both [[Leon (Pokemon)|Leon]] and [[Sonia (Pokemon)|Sonia]] have failed her quiz. | ||
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Afterwards, she met Victor/Gloria outside of the gym and asked them to escort her to Hammerlocke, because she knew that they had to return there to get to the next gym, and she had errands to run there.Her reasons for coming to Hammerlocke may have had to do with [[Bede]], a trainer who had been disqualified from the gym challenge after attacking a mural at Stow-on-Side. Opal felt that Bede's wrongdoing was the result of being manipulated by [[Oleana]] and that he actually had potential as her successor. She considered him to be truly pink, and that he had depth due to being so "sincere and straightforward and yet so twisted and misguided". Opal rushed Bede when he was talking with Victor/Gloria and quickly convinced him to come with her back to Ballonlea and to take her gym challenge. Bede impressed her enough that she officially passed her gym leader status onto him soon afterwards. Opal still visited him at the gym on a daily basis, "giving unsolicited advice, coming up with new quiz questions, and practicing various performances". | Afterwards, she met Victor/Gloria outside of the gym and asked them to escort her to Hammerlocke, because she knew that they had to return there to get to the next gym, and she had errands to run there.Her reasons for coming to Hammerlocke may have had to do with [[Bede]], a trainer who had been disqualified from the gym challenge after attacking a mural at Stow-on-Side. Opal felt that Bede's wrongdoing was the result of being manipulated by [[Oleana]] and that he actually had potential as her successor. She considered him to be truly pink, and that he had depth due to being so "sincere and straightforward and yet so twisted and misguided". Opal rushed Bede when he was talking with Victor/Gloria and quickly convinced him to come with her back to Ballonlea and to take her gym challenge. Bede impressed her enough that she officially passed her gym leader status onto him soon afterwards. Opal still visited him at the gym on a daily basis, "giving unsolicited advice, coming up with new quiz questions, and practicing various performances". | ||
− | Opal was the only gym leader to not participate in the Finals of the Championship Cup (although Bede challenged Victor/Gloria as an unofficial participant), and she was not seen again until Victor/Gloria revisited the gym during the crisis where forcibly Dynamaxed Wild Pokémon were appearing in stadiums. Bede had already cleared out Ballonlea Stadium's Dynamaxed Pokémon and challenged Victor/Gloria to a rematch. While Hop questioned Bede challenging them at a time like this, Opal showed up to defend his decision and claimed that he was truly independent now, although she also admitted that she had influenced some of his recent decisions. Opal considered the following Pokémon battle to be "perfectly pink" and gave Victor/Gloria her rare League Card in the aftermath | + | Opal was the only gym leader to not participate in the Finals of the Championship Cup (although Bede challenged Victor/Gloria as an unofficial participant), and she was not seen again until Victor/Gloria revisited the gym during the crisis where forcibly Dynamaxed Wild Pokémon were appearing in stadiums. Bede had already cleared out Ballonlea Stadium's Dynamaxed Pokémon and challenged Victor/Gloria to a rematch. While Hop questioned Bede challenging them at a time like this, Opal showed up to defend his decision and claimed that he was truly independent now, although she also admitted that she had influenced some of his recent decisions. Opal considered the following Pokémon battle to be "perfectly pink" and gave Victor/Gloria her rare League Card in the aftermath. |
==Pokémon Roster== | ==Pokémon Roster== | ||
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*[[Mawile]] | *[[Mawile]] | ||
*[[Togekiss]] | *[[Togekiss]] | ||
− | *[[Alcremie]] | + | *[[Alcremie]] (Gigantamax) |
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=Other Appearances= | =Other Appearances= | ||
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==Other Media== | ==Other Media== | ||
− | *In the ''Pokémon: Twilight Wings'' series of anime shorts, Opal made a brief appearance during the final episode. She appeared as part of a montage of video testimonies by Gym Leaders talking about Leon, and she offered the opinion that she often could not tell if Leon wanted to win or to lose | + | *In the ''Pokémon: Twilight Wings'' series of anime shorts, Opal made a brief appearance during the final episode. She appeared as part of a montage of video testimonies by Gym Leaders talking about Leon, and she offered the opinion that she often could not tell if Leon wanted to win or to lose. |
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=Trivia= | =Trivia= | ||
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*Her Pokémon are kept in Ultra Balls. | *Her Pokémon are kept in Ultra Balls. | ||
*Her concept art includes a depiction of how she looked when she was younger. | *Her concept art includes a depiction of how she looked when she was younger. | ||
− | *Opal is the only gym leader who cannot be invited to tournaments | + | *Opal is the only gym leader who cannot be invited to tournaments and the only one who can only be fought once in the game, as well as being the only one not to appear on the Isle of Armor. |
{{Gym Leaders}} | {{Gym Leaders}} | ||
[[Category: Pokémon Characters]] | [[Category: Pokémon Characters]] |