Template:GymLeaderBox Cress (Japanese: コーン Koon) is one of the famous Striaton City Gym Leader trio, along with his brothers, Cilan and Chili. Out of Grass, Fire, and Water, he prefers Water the best. If you pick Tepig as your Starter Pokémon, Cress will battle the player at the Striaton City Gym with his Panpour. He will award the player the Trio Badge if you defeat him.
Cress is the first gym leader in Unova, but only if Tepig is chosen as the starter Pokémon.
Strategy
All of this is true in the anime but not in the game.
Cress prefers to be cool like a glass of water and his Panpour feels the same. He will try to confuse you with Double Team at the start, following it up with Water Gun and Mud Sport. He is one of the hardest to beat so be careful.
In the Anime
He battled against Ash as well in the anime because Ash wanted to battle all three of the Trio. However, Cress defeated Ash's Pikachu using his powerful and strategetic Panpour. His English Voice Actor is Tom Wayland.
Cress reappeared in BW060, where he informed Cilan over the phone Of the reason why Chili was not at the Gym. Contrary to what Chili had said, he had not left in order to study but ran away. Chili had asked him the night why he kept losing. Cress had told him he focused too much on offense with Little consideration to defense. As he feared, Chili took it as an insult and ran away. Cress was pleased when Cilan told him he would help Chili with his battle style and Help get his confidence back and thanked him for it.
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Cress in the anime
Pokémon
| File:Yorterrie.png Lillipup 
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File:Hiyappusprite.png Panpour 
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| Lv. 12 | ♂ | Lv. 14 | ♂
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| Ability: Pickup | Ability: Gluttony
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| Item: None
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| - | Work Up | ||
| - | Lick | ||
| - | Fury Swipes | ||
| - | Water Gun | ||
In the Anime
| Pokémon | Information | |
| Panpour is Cress's Main Pokémon and was used in battle against Ash's Pikachu. It has numerous deception style moves such as Double Team and has a powerful Water Gun and Mud Sport which were used to knock out Ash's favored Pikachu. This was somewhat ironic, because electric types are supposedly super-effective against water types. Panpour knows the moves Double Team, Scratch, Water Gun and Mud Sport. | ||
| Panpour ♂ | ||
Episode Appearances
- BW005: Triple Leaders, Team Threats
- BW006: Dreams by the Yard Full!
- BW019: A Connoisseur's Revenge! (Cameo, Flashback)
- BW060
Gallery
See: Cress/Gallery
Sprites
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Voice Actors
- English: Tom Wayland
- Japanese: Makoto Ishii
- Spanish: Manuel Diaz
- Iberian Spanish: Sergio Garcia-Marin
Trivia
- At a first glance Cress can be viewed as androgynous because of his appearance.
- His name comes from the aquatic plant Watercress.
- Notably, the hair of Cilan, Chili, and Cress all resembles the hairstyle of the Elemental Monkeys' evolutions.
- He is voiced by Tom Wayland in the English version of the anime.
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