User:HighwayCello/Roxanne

Tada!! This is my demo page for the Hoenn gym leader pages, for individual leaders, opposed to being mushed in together!! I've not all of the entries, just giving a example of what could be done in each section. It also doesn't have any categories or pictures in (damn User page rules), but you should get the idea.

Note: Red links like this] expanding on info, or adding small sections. It'll normally be in paragraph or one liners. [[Red links!!! will also represent what's missing.



Roxanne is a character in the Pokémon video game series. She is the first gym leader in the Hoenn region and resides in Rustboro City. Her gym is similar to Brock's gym from the previous pokemon series. She is an expert on Rock-types.

Name Origin
Her English name, Roxanne, was probably chosen because it starts with a sound similar to rock. She is also called Roxanne in French due to its similarity to roche (rock). Her German name, Elizia, comes from felsen (stone). Petra, her Italian name, is very similar to pierta and also means rock or stone. She is also called Petra  in Spanish, primarily because of its similarity to the words piedra andvpetreo, meaning stone and rocky, respectively.

Japanese name needs to be added to Name Origin, and Voiced By needs filled. The name origin section may be moved under a Trivia Section.

Gym
In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, Roxanne and her Pokémon Gym serve much the same purpose as Brock's Gym did in the original games, Pokémon Red and Blue. She is the first Gym Leader players encounter, and therefore not particularly strong in comparison to other gym leaders, but stronger than other trainers near Rustboro City. Similarly, her Gym has few subordinate trainers (serving mostly to ward off any player who hasn't built up his or her team sufficiently) and no puzzles or complex mazes.

Lifted this from current Roxanne, tweaked slightly and removed roster info. Also needs info about what the badge lets you do.

Roxanne's Team
Despite showing in many different places, Roxanne's team normally stays the same, with the Geodude/Nosepass combination staying at the heart of her team. (Needs Expansion)

Pokémon Adventures Manga
Info needs more research, probably mentioning what they did in game/show/manga, just lifted from 'mon articles for completion.

Strategies
I'm up for debate whether or not to hack this, it could be harder to reproduce for later gyms, but it is useful.. discussion on this would be good

The main weaknesses of Rock-types are:


 * Water-types
 * Steel-types
 * Ground-types
 * Grass-types
 * Fighting-types

A number of good Pokémon that are available before the match can easily take on Roxanne's team, below are some common teams that will easily defeat her Rock-types -

Other Useful Pokémon

Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire is known to have the widest choice of Pokémon at the beginning of the game, allowing the player to pick a very free-form team. The protagonist has to pass through the Routes connecting Littleroot Town, Oldale Town, Petalburg City and Rustboro City, and Petalburg Woods, from which a variety of Pokémon from various terrain are catchable.

Ralts is also a good pokemon because of his confusion, but her attacks hurt it bad so get it up some levels first, like lvl 18 or so ... i'd suggest training it by the mines near the city. go up and turn right. I defeated Roxanne with just my ralts when it was lvl 18 using only 1 super potion,

I'm up for debate whether or not to hack this, it could be harder to reproduce for later gyms, but it is useful.. discussion on this would be good

In the Anime
In the Pokémon anime, Roxanne is not only a Gym Leader, but also a teacher at the Pokémon Trainers' School in Rustboro City, teaching skills she learned as Professor Oak's star pupil. She teaches an introductory course on Pokémon to young children not old enough to be trainers. She appears in episodes 291 and 292, Gonna Rule The School! and Winner By A Nosepass. While Gonna Rule The School! introduces Roxanne in passing but instead focuses on members of her class, in the following episode, Pikachu and Ash take a class to teach Pikachu a new attack, Iron Tail, which Pikachu then uses to defeat Roxanne's Nosepass in a battle for the Stone Badge.

Again, lifted straight from the old Roxanne, might redo it, more likely to flesh it out.

In the Manga
In the Pokémon Adventures Manga, Roxanne is both the Rustboro City Gym-leader and the Exams Invigilator of the Rustboro Trainer School. She has appeared in VS. Nosepass (Parts 1 & 2) Ch.190 & Ch.191, VS. Shrifty Ch.222 and VS. Kyogre & Groudon X Ch.248, normally as either appearing as the Gym-leader of Rustboro, or fighting against Team Magma and Team Aqua with the other gym leaders from around Hoenn.

Just listed appearances, and what she did, Roxanne is one of the lesser leaders I think

VS. Nosepass (Part 1)
Sapphire arrives at the Rustboro gym, ready for her first gym battle, and opens the doors to find her in a lecture hall, opposed to a battle arena. She wanders in and sees Roxanne walking up to the stage, about to begin talking. She announces that the weekly Rustboro test is about to begin, as she begins handing out papers. Sapphire tries to proclaim that she wanted a battle, but is pushed into a seat by the assistants. Roxanne explains to her that since there are so many trainers challenging the gym that she devised a test to find the top trainer, who should we battle.

Sapphire mananges to get full marks on the test, through working with her father, Professor Birch, and is allowed to battle Roxanne. Roxanne states that both trainers can use two Pokémon, but when either of them faints, they lose.

Sapphire picks her Aron called Ronono to go first, while Roxanne sends out Nosepass. As Aron tries to attack with it's Metal Claw attack, Nosepass uses Harden, stoping Aron in it's tracks. Unable to figure out what type of Pokémon Nosepass is, Sapphire tries to switch Aron for another Pokémon, but can't. (This is because of Nosepass's ability,(whatever), preventing any Steel-type Pokémon to flee from battle.)

Can Sapphire realize what type Nosepass is in time? Or will she lose her first match to the Rock 'n' Roll Roxanne? To be continued...

Last paragraph was just for a laugh, a basic synopsis that could use some work, but it's a good first draft.

Anime Links

 * Anime "Gonna Rule the School" Ep.291! SynopsisURL Last Check on 16:02, 13 March 2006

Anime Ep Synopsises and Bio, any other ideas?

Manga Links

 * Manga Roxanne BioURL Last Check on 16:02, 13 March 2006
 * Manga "VS. Nosepass Ch.190" SynopsisURL Last Check on 16:02, 13 March 2006
 * Manga "VS. Kyogre & Groudon X Ch.248" SynopsisURL Last Check on 16:02, 13 March 2006

Manga Ep Synopsises and Bio, any other ideas?