Lavaridge Town - Flannery

Name: Flannery

City: Lavaridge Town

Badge: Heat Badge

Favorite Type: Fire

Appearence:

Description: Flannery is in charge of the Heat Badge and resides in Lavaridge Town. She is an expert on Fire-type Pokémon. Her name may be derived from the word flame or flammable.

When the player first faces her in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and Pokémon Emerald, Flannery has recently inherited leadership of the gym from her grandfather (revealed to be a former Elite Four member), and she has a reputation to live up to. Flannery is a young, tall and slim girl with wild, fiery hair. At this point in her career, she seems uncertain and inexperienced. After Flannery is defeated, she comments that the player battles like Norman.

In the anime, Ash arrives in Lavaridge Town to find that Flannery has been the Gym Leader for only three days. Her grandfather recently left on a journey to write better poetry, but he secretly spies on her to see how she is doing, as the older citizens of the town are not expecting him back for a long time. He comes in disguised as a Pokémon referee, helps Flannery out, and eventually drops his disguise. One of Flannery's Slugma evolves fighting off Team Rocket, who had attempted to steal Flannery's Torkoal. The battle between Flannery and Ash is intense. Eventually, a fired-up Torkoal faces Ash's sleeping Corphish. However, Corphish eventually wakes up in time to defeat Torkoal, and Ash wins his fourth badge.

In the manga, Flannery becomes friends with Sapphire after their gym battle.