Whitney アカネ Akane
"The Incredibly Pretty Girl"
General
Name	Whitney
Japanese Name	アカネ Akane
Age	16+
Hometown	Goldenrod City
Region	Johto
Family	Milton (Uncle)
Badge	Plain Badge
Preferred Type	Normal
First Appearance	anime: JE042: A Goldenrod Opportunity games: Pokémon Gold and Silver, Pokémon Crystal
Class:	Gym Leader

“	Hi! I'm Whitney! Everyone was into Pokémon, so I got into it too! Pokémon are super-cute! You want to battle? I'm warning you－I'm good!	”
–Whitney, Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal.

Whitney (アカネ Akane) is the Goldenrod City Gym Leader. She specializes in using Normal-type Pokémon.

When defeated, Whitney will start crying and will not give the Gym Badge. If the player walks away, a trainer will tell you to talk to her. After Whitney stops crying, she will give the Plain Badge and TM45 (Attract).

Contents 1 In the Anime 2 Sprites 3 Pokémon 3.1 Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal 3.2 Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver 3.2.1 Rematch 3.3 Black 2 and White 2 3.4 Pokémon Stadium 2 3.4.1 Gym Leader Castle Round 1 3.4.2 Gym Leader Castle Round 2 3.5 In Anime 4 Voice Actresses 5 Trivia

In the Anime

Whitney first appears in the episodes "A Goldenrod Opportunity", "A Dairy Tale Ending", and "Bagged then Tagged". At first glance Whitney is a kind girl, but she can be klutzy and ditzy sometimes, getting lost in her own town as an example. However, in battle she is quite formidable, especially with her Miltank.

Sprites

Gen. II	Gen. IV	Challenge Sprite	Gen. V

Pokémon

Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal

Clefairy		Miltank		[[File:{{{P3}}}GS.png|link={{{P3}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif	[[File:{{{P4}}}GS.png|link={{{P4}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif	[[File:{{{P5}}}GS.png|link={{{P5}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif	[[File:{{{P6}}}GS.png|link={{{P6}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif
Lv. 18	♀	Lv. 20	♀	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-
Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown
Item: ?		Item: ?		Item: ?	Item: ?	Item: ?	Item: ?
Encore		Stomp		-	-	-	-
Mimic		Attract		-	-	-	-
DoubleSlap		Milk Drink		-	-	-	-
Metronome		Rollout		-	-	-	-

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Clefairy		Miltank		[[File:{{{P3}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P3}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif	[[File:{{{P4}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P4}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif	[[File:{{{P5}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P5}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif	[[File:{{{P6}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P6}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif
Lv. 17	♀	Lv. 19	♀	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-
Ability: Cute Charm		Ability: Scrappy		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown
Item: ?		Item: Lum Berry		Item: ?	Item: ?	Item: ?	Item: ?
Mimic		Attract		-	-	-	-
Encore		Milk Drink		-	-	-	-
DoubleSlap		Stomp		-	-	-	-
Metronome		Rollout		-	-	-	-

Rematch

Girafarig		Lickilicky		Clefable		Delcatty		Bibarel		Miltank
Lv. 52	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 52	♀	Lv. 54	♀	Lv. 54	♀	Lv. 58	♀
Ability: Inner Focus		Ability: Own Tempo		Ability: Magic Guard		Ability: Normalize		Ability: Simple		Ability: Scrappy
Item: ?		Item: ?		Item: ?		Item: ?		Item: ?		Item: Lum Berry
Calm Mind		Wring Out		Calm Mind		Fake Out		Double Team		Body Slam
Baton Pass		Flamethrower		Fire Blast		Assist		Charge Beam		Attract
Shadow Ball		Thunderbolt		Thunder		Calm Mind		Ice Beam		Rest
Psychic		Ice Beam		Blizzard		Baton Pass		Surf		Sleep Talk

Black 2 and White 2

Normal-type Tournament

Miltank		Blissey		Tauros		Ambipom		Ursaring		Lopunny
Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♂	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀
Ability: Scrappy		Ability: Serene Grace		Ability: Intimidate		Ability: Technician		Ability: Guts		Ability: Cute Charm
Item: Lum Berry		Item: Leftovers		Item: Life Orb		Item: Focus Sash		Item: Toxic Orb		Item: Chople Berry
Return		Softboiled		Return		Fake Out		Facade		Entrainment
Zen Headbutt		Flamethrower		Earthquake		Double Hit		Swords Dance		Return
Brick Break		Grass Knot		Rock Slide		Low Sweep		Crunch		Low Kick
Milk Drink		Toxic		Protect		Ice Punch		Rock Slide		Encore

Johto Gym Leader Tournament/World Leaders Tournament

Miltank		Wigglytuff		Tauros		Ambipom		Ursaring		Clefable
Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♂	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀
Ability: Scrappy		Ability: Cute Charm		Ability: Intimidate		Ability: Technician		Ability: Guts		Ability: Cute Charm
Item: Liechi Berry		Item: Normal Gem		Item: Lum Berry		Item: Flying Gem		Item: Chople Berry		Item: Sitrus Berry
Body Slam		Hyper Voice		Thrash		Double Hit		Thrash		Ice Beam
Zen Headbutt		Fire Blast		Outrage		Acrobatics		Hammer Arm		Thunderbolt
Hammer Arm		Blizzard		Stone Edge		Low Sweep		Thunderpunch		Metronome
Milk Drink		Perish Song		Earthquake		U-turn		Bulk Up		Cosmic Power

Download Tournament (Challenge the Champion, Lance!)

Watchog		Cinccino		Miltank		[[File:{{{P4}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P4}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif	[[File:{{{P5}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P5}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif	[[File:{{{P6}}}_BW.gif|link={{{P6}}}]] [[]]  File:Type .gif
Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-	Lv. ?	-
Ability: Keen Eye		Ability: Technician		Ability: Scrappy		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown
Item: Focus Band		Item: Choice Scarf		Item: Sitrus Berry		Item: ?	Item: ?	Item: ?
Hyper Fang		Tailslap		Body Slam		-	-	-
Low Kick		Bullet Seed		Fire Punch		-	-	-
Zen Headbutt		Rock Blast		Defense Curl		-	-	-
Thunderpunch		Wake-Up Slap		Rollout		-	-	-

Pokémon Stadium 2

Gym Leader Castle Round 1

Miltank		Clefable		Wigglytuff		Gloom		Dodrio		Stantler
Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♂	Lv. 50	♂
Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown
Item: PRZCureBerry		Item: Mint Berry		Item: PSNCureBerry		Item: Bitter Berry		Item: Burnt Berry		Item: Ice Berry
Stomp		DoubleSlap		Double-Edge		Petal Dance		Drill Peck		Take Down
Rollout		Thunder		ThunderPunch		Sludge Bomb		Fury Attack		Headbutt
Earthquake		Fire Blast		Ice Punch		SolarBeam		Tri Attack		Psychic
Bide		Psychic		Psychic		Giga Drain		Sleep Talk		Swift

Gym Leader Castle Round 2

Miltank		Persian		Golduck		Mr. Mime		Tauros		Donphan
Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♂	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♀	Lv. 50	♂	Lv. 50	♂
Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown		Ability: Unknown
Item: King's Rock		Item: Scope Lens		Item: BrightPowder		Item: Miracle Berry		Item: Focus Band		Item: Quick Claw
Stomp		Rage		Surf		Psychic		Stomp		Flail
Reversal		Slash		Psychic		Meditate		Iron Tail		Earthquake
Earthquake		Thunderbolt		Ice Beam		Baton Pass		Scary Face		Double Edge
Milk Drink		Shadow Ball		Cross Chop		Double Team		Earthquake		AncientPower

In Anime

Pokémon Information No information available Clefairy ♀

Pokémon Information No information available Nidorina ♀

Pokémon Information Whitney's signature pokemon whose rollout attacks proved a formidable challenge until Ash used Totodile's water gun to cut grooves in the dirt and cut rollout out short. Miltank ♀

Voice Actresses

• English: Megan Hollingshead
• Japanese: Yuko Miyamura
• Portuguese (Brazil): Fernanda Bulara
• Spanish: Cristina Yuste
• Iberian Spanish: Liliana Barba

Trivia

• According to a few in-game NPCs, Whitney only recently started training Pokémon and was so talented she was given the position of Gym Leader by the Pokémon League, despite her inexperince as a Trainer and slight immaturity (such as leaving the Gym to go to the Radio station to win a Radio Card and crying after she loses).
• There is a Whitney look-alike in the Generation III Pokémon Contest audiences.
• Whitney's name may come from the word WHITE, since it is the absence of all color. This is because she is a Normal-Type trainer.
• She is the first Gym Leader to primarily use Normal-type Pokémon (the second being Gym Leader Norman, the third being Gym Leader Lenora, and the fourth being Cheren in Black and White 2).
• In the anime she has one Pokémon that isn't a Normal-type, a Nidorina, which is a Poison-type.
• Like Maylene, she is the third Gym Leader of her region, has pink hair and eyes, and is from a city with a Game Corner and Department Store.
• In "A Dairy Tale Ending", Whitney took her loss to Ash pretty well, compared to her crying after she lost in the games.
• In HeartGold and SoulSilver, during the first battle, her Clefairy's ability is Cute Charm, however, during the rematch, her Clefable's ability is Magic Guard, but it should still be Cute Charm.
  • This could, however, be a different Pokémon.
    • Being a different Pokémon would be understandeble, as if she were to use the same Pokémon than she would be a very difficult third Gym Leader.
• All of Whitney's Pokémon in the main series and anime are female.
• Clefairy is Whitney's only Pokémon in the anime that isn't always a female.
• Whitney and Morty are, probably, the only two Johto Gym Leaders who did not appear in their Generation IV looks when "Bagged then Tagged" aired.
• Whitney's Miltank has become infamous amongst fans of the game series due to how frustrating it can be to fight.

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