- "Oh, I'm so sorry! Please excuse me. Are you entering a Contest? Tehehe... Enjoy yourself, please! Incidentally, Fantina, the Hearthome Gym Leader, also happens to be a Contest expert. And you may ask yourself, how do I know this? Well, I am Fantina! You may challenge me, but not yet! You must become much stronger. Then, you may challenge me!"
- — Fantina, Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.
Fantina serves as the Gym Leader for the Hearthome City Gym. Fantina specializes in Ghost-type Pokémon, and holds the Relic Badge for the trainers that defeat her.
Biography
Games
Fantina first appeared in the first Generation IV games as the Hearthome City Gym Leader. In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Fantina's Gym has several levels the player must ascend. With each level there is a question to be answered, with three answers are located on three doors, they are usually associated with simple mathematics. Choosing the door with the correct answer leads to the next lift. Choosing the door with the wrong answer leads to a Gym member that the player must battle.
In Pokémon Platinum, the gym setup is different. Players must find a blue tile within a darkened room; then players had to memorize the pattern on that tile and go in the door with the red tile having the same pattern as the blue tile. If you flash your flashlight on a player, then you must battle him/her. All the players in the dark rooms all use Ghost Pokémon. Additionally, however, she was originally the 5th Gym Leader in the Diamond/Pearl games, but became the 3rd Gym Leader in the Platinum version. Due to this, her Gym team has been nerfed by 10 levels.
Manga
Adventures
She saw the contest match and saw a great performance by Platinum. Later she challenged Platinum after Crasher Wake and was defeated. The Pokémon Fantina uses are Duskull, Drifblim, and Mismagius. But Mismagius was a lot of trouble due to her illusions, but Pearl manage to help Platinum by going along with the allusion and defeated Fantina's Mismagius with the move, Fling. She then appeared once more at the Spear Pillar to fight against 3 Team Galactic Commanders and along with 5 other gym leaders.
Diamond and Pearl Adventure!
Hareta fought against Fantina for his fifth badge. Hareta was able to beat her and Fantina gave him the Relic Badge. Hareta thanked her and mentioned that she was an old woman, displeasing Fantina. Later Fantina fought against Team Galactic with the other Gym Leaders.
Anime
Fantina first appeared when she was battling with her Mismagius against Zoey and her Glameow. She was able to defeat Zoey. She later had a gym battle against Ash Ketchum.
Sprites
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Pokémon
Games
Diamond and Pearl
Drifblim |
Gengar |
Mismagius
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Lv. 32 | ♀ | Lv. 34 | ♀ | Lv. 36 | ♀
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Ability: Aftermath | Ability: Levitate | Ability: Levitate
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Item: None | Item: None | Item: Sitrus Berry
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- | Spite | Confuse Ray | |||||
- | Confuse Ray | Magical Leaf | |||||
- | Poison Jab | Psybeam | |||||
- | Shadow Claw | Shadow Ball |
Platinum
Duskull |
Haunter |
Mismagius
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Lv. 24 | ♀ | Lv. 24 | ♀ | Lv. 26 | ♀
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Ability: Levitate | Ability: Levitate | Ability: Levitate
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Item: None | Item: None | Item: Sitrus Berry
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- | Hypnosis | Confuse Ray | |||||
- | Confuse Ray | Magical Leaf | |||||
- | Sucker Punch | Psybeam | |||||
- | Shadow Claw | Shadow Ball |
Banette |
Drifblim |
Dusknoir |
Mismagius |
Gengar | |||||
Lv. 61 | ♀ | Lv. 61 | ♀ | Lv. 62 | ♀ | Lv. 63 | ♀ | Lv. 65 | ♀ |
Ability: Insomnia | Ability: Aftermath | Ability: Pressure | Ability: Levitate | Ability: Levitate | |||||
Item: None | Item: None | Item: None | Item: None | Item: Sitrus Berry | |||||
- | Psychic | Shadow Punch | Shadow Ball | Focus Blast | |||||
- | Silver Wind | Rock Slide | Thunderbolt | Psychic | |||||
- | Ominous Wind | Double Team | Psychic | Thunder | |||||
- | Baton Pass | Protect | Magical Leaf | Shadow Ball |
Black 2 and White 2
- Ghost-type Tournament
- Sinnoh Gym Leader/World Leaders Tournament
- Download Tournament (The Battle of Legendary Pokémon!)
Giratina |
Mismagius |
Drifblim
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Lv. 50 | - | Lv. 50 | ♀ | Lv. 50 | ♀
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Ability: Levitate | Ability: Levitate | Ability: Aftermath
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Item: Ghost Gem | Item: Lum Berry | Item: Wacan Berry
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- | Shadow Ball | Shadow Ball | |||||
- | Thunderbolt | Minimize | |||||
- | Pain Split | Baton Pass | |||||
- | Confuse Ray | Psychic |
Trivia
- She has had the most evolutions for a Gym Leader.
- Despite becoming the 3rd gym leader in Platinum, the spot where you place her badge remains the same as the 5th one. This is similar to how Maylene's and Crasher Wake's badge case spots remained unchanged, even though the order you battled them changed.
- Her name is a reference to words phantom, and "Fantine", of the French novel "Les Misérables".
- She has a French accent.
- Her hair from the back resembles the Relic Badge.
- Fantina is a fan of Dahlia.
- All of her Pokémon are female.
- The brooch on her dress resembles Drifblim and Drifloon's mouth.
- Strangely in the Download Tournament in Black 2 and White 2, Fantina's Giratina is in its Origin Forme without holding the Griseous Orb.
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