Blanche

If you were looking for the Pokémon Performer, see Blanche (anime).

Blanche ブランシェ Blanche
Art from Pokémon GO as of November 30, 2022
Age	Unknown
Gender	Unknown[note 1]
Eye color	Green
Hair color	White
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Unknown
Trainer class	Team Mystic Leader
Generation	VI, VII, VIII, IX
Games	GO
Member of	Team Mystic
Rank	Leader
Specializes in	Water and Ice types

Blanche (Japanese: ブランシェ Blanche) is the leader of Team Mystic (Japanese: チームミスティック Team Mystic), one of the three teams in Pokémon GO. Team Mystic is researching Pokémon Evolution and is represented by Articuno. Team Mystic Trainers believe that by staying calm and analyzing every situation, they cannot lose.

Blanche is one of Professor Willow's assistants, along with Spark and Candela. Highly analytical, Blanche often loses track of time when doing research. Blanche tends to get embarrassed when proven wrong and does not take jokes well.^[1][2]

History

Involving Team GO Rocket

On October 26, 2019, Blanche had an initial encounter with Team GO Rocket Leader Cliff while testing the Rocket Radar with Professor Willow, who warned them that they were "encroaching on Team GO Rocket territory" and asked them to leave. Unprepared for a battle, Blanche and Willow agreed to retreat.^[3]

On November 7, 2019^[4], Blanche sent the following message in response to Team GO Rocket Leader Cliff:

"Your impression of me is out of date, Cliff. I don’t need to think hard to know that your attempts to take over will fail. I suggest you rethink before you choose to approach me."'

On November 12, 2019, Blanche successfully tracked down Cliff's location using the Rocket Radar and defeated him in a one-sided battle.^[5]

On July 26, 2020, during Pokémon GO Fest 2020, Cliff battled Blanche. Blanche initiated the battle by sending out a Lapras, while Cliff sent a Shadow Tyranitar.^[6] Tyranitar used Stone Edge but Lapras retaliated with Hydro Pump.^[7] In the end, Blanche won the battle when Giovanni recalled Cliff to him along with the other Team GO Rocket Leaders. Professor Willow, Blanche, Candela, Spark and their Pokémon then witnessed the Pokémon GO Fest 2020 fireworks show in the sky.^[8]

Pokémon

Battle Training

Blanche uses the following Pokémon in Battle Training. The Pokémon's moves are randomly chosen from their current move pool.

Blanche Team Mystic Leader
League	Pokémon
Great League	CP 1465	CP 1494	CP 1424
Ultra League	CP 2412	CP 2486	CP 2472
Master League	CP 2983	CP 3791	CP 3051

Prior to July 19, 2019

Blanche Team Mystic Leader
League	Pokémon
Great League	CP 274	CP 274	CP 946
Ultra League	CP 2309	CP 2105	CP 2490
Master League	CP 2641	CP 2692	CP 3051

Pokémon GO Tour: Johto Battle Challenge

Team Mystic Leader
#1	#2	#3

Gallery

Appearance from Pokémon GO between September 30th[9] and November 30th, 2022[10]

Quotes

Main article: Blanche/Quotes

In the TCG

Main article: Blanche (Pokémon GO 64)

Blanche was introduced as a Supporter card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Sword & Shield Series (the Japanese Sword & Shield Era). It was first released in the Japanese and English Pokémon GO expansions, with artwork by Anesaki Dynamic. It was also released as a Full Art card and Secret card in the same Japanese and English expansions, with artwork by the same artist. It allows the player to draw two cards and then flip a coin. If heads, they can attach a Water Energy card from their discard pile to one of their Benched Pokémon.

Trivia

• Although the English version of the game and social media accounts avoid using gendered pronouns when referring to Blanche,^[11] the Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Polish translations refer to Blanche as female.
  • In the German translations, Blanche was at first referred to as female as well. However, more recently, such as on the German Season of Heritage website,^[12] the translation uses the deliberately gender-neutral title of "Teamleiter*in" to refer to Blanche's status as a Team Leader. The German social media accounts stopped using gendered pronouns for Blanche after 2020.
  • The Traditional Chinese translation refers to Blanche using the pronouns 他 tā and 你 nǐ, which can be gender-neutral or for males, rather than 她 tā and 妳 nǐ, which is only for females.

Names

Team Mystic

Notes

References

Related articles

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