Crystal (Pokémon)



Crystal (Japanese: クリスタル Crystal), abbreviated to Crys (VIZ Media translation) or Chris (Chuang Yi translation) (Japanese: クリス Crys) is a main character in the manga seriesPokémon Adventures. Due to a bad fall she took as a child, breaking her arms, she learned to kick Poké Balls with her feet. Although by now her arms have been completely healed, Crystal has retained the habit of kicking her Poké Balls instead of throwing them. She has caught all non-legendary Pokémon for Professor Oak; more than any of the other characters in Pokémon Adventures or even all of them combined.

She later adds Hoenn Pokémon to her collection and apparently begins to work full-time as one of Professor Oak's assistants. Crystal's Pokémon collection is used by Emerald when he goes to the Battle Frontier.

Crystal's special skill, as described by Professor Oak, is Pokémon catching, and she is known as the "Catcher" (捕える者 Capturer), known as Capturer in Chuang Yi's translations.

Childhood
When Crystal was a young child, she went to  Mt. Mortar  with her  Smoochum, Chumee, to practice Pokémon catching. An  Arcanine  then suddenly attacked, making her fall and break her arms in the escape. When she woke up, her arms were wrapped to bones and healed with medicine. This care came from a  Cubone, a  Parasect , a  Natu  and a  Hitmonchan  that were hiding from the Arcanine after being injured by it. When the aggressor reappeared, Crystal took a look at his face, which was hurt, and healed it with Parasect's help. She then befriended and caught all five Pokémon.

Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter
Crystal is introduced in the middle of the third chapter, in Volume 10, when Professor Oak is looking for someone to complete the Pokédex for him by catching every known species of Pokémon. He meets Crystal at her workplace, at Earl Dervish's Pokémon Academy in Violet City, and hires her services. But first she asked for something in return. Since the Academy was so worn down she said if she was to help it had to be repaired, which was allowed. After catching all of the Pokémon in Cherrygrove City, she departs after giving them to Oak, stating that she didn't need any more teammates and they were caught purely for research purposes. Once she leaves Oak and Elm talk about her and Elm reveals that a Chikorita which still was at Elm's lab far after Totodile and Cyndaquil. Hearing that Crystal wasn't interested, Chikorita was devastated and went off to convince her himself. While Crystal initially didn't want it and thought it wasn't strong enough she was impressed by its spunk and courage and switched it in for Chumee, calling it Megaree.

After catching a Dunsparce and Flaaffy she meets Bill and he gives her a portable transporter. She then saves him from a herd of Staryu. She was previously incapable of transporting Pokémon to Professor Oak due to the transporter being down and Bill gave it to her for the purpose of giving the Pokémon she catches to him since he had no idea what was wrong with the system. She then meets Lt. Surge when she is caught by his Magneton and put in his sub by mistake. When she helps unstick the sub by catching the leader of a herd of Corsola that caught the sub Surge was impressed and repaid her by taking her to Olivine City on the S.S. Anne for free.

In Olivine, Crystal visited the unfinished Battle Tower and heard that a tank holding in the waste from the construction burst and flowed into the river, enraging a Qwilfish that lived there. She caught it and learned from it a baby Qwilfish was there and would die from the pollution. While she was taking it to the Pokémon Center she saw Suicune come and purify the lake. This display convinced Crystal to go catch it, especially after Oak called her and wished for her to catch them for data as well. Luckily for her, her Pokédex was close enough to Suicune that it was able to activate the new tracking system Oak had just installed, allowing Crystal to track it.

In her search for Suicune, Crystal meets Eusine, another Suicune chaser, and the two form a rivalry. They have to team up, however, when Team Rocket also tries to catch the Aurora Pokémon, and backtracks them with a Ditto disguised as Suicune. Crystal was able to defeat it and had Parsee use Spore to subdue the Team Rocket Elite Trio so Suicune could escape. While Eusine battles Team Rocket, Crystal battles Suicune at the Burned Tower and fails to catch it. She then learns from Eusine that Ho-Oh was to appear and Suicune simply wanted to meet it, and Crystal was sad for it as she felt she simply got in its way.

Having failed at catching a Pokémon for the first time, Crystal loses her confidence and her ability to catch even weak Pokémon. With her mother's advice, Crystal goes back to her childhood training spot, Mt. Mortar - the place where she first met and caught most of her party. There she remembers about her injury and encounters the same Larvitar that hurt Archy and it was enraged. She was able to defeat and catch it after Megaree evolved and she regains her skills. Later, Crystal meets Yellow and her uncle Wilton, sent to find her by Professor Oak, who take her on their boat towards the Whirl Islands. There, the trio encounters a Lugiathat starts attacking them. In the midst of the battle, Crystal meets the two other Pokédex holders of Johto - Gold and Silver - and together they try to catch Lugia and fail.

Under Professor Oak's orders, Crystal and Gold head to the opening ceremony of the Pokémon League, where all 16 Gym Leaders of Kanto and Johto have gathered, to try to determine which one of the Gym Leaders is the villainous Masked Man. They battle Sham and Carl in the Control Room and end up winning, but locked in. The Masked Man then appears at the scene with both Lugia and Ho-Oh and starts wrecking havoc before heading to the shrine in Ilex Forest, where the final battle then takes place. Crystal heads after him with the three legendary beasts that she receives from Misty, Lt. Surge and Blaine and teams up with the other Pokédex holders to fight the Masked Man. Together with Gold and Silver, she dives after Pryce into the time portal. The Pokédex holders make it out unharmed, but Pryce is stuck inside.

Afterwards, Crystal appears and finishes her Pokédex after Professor Oak wakes up and hands it to him. However she then learns that Professor Oak has found 100 more species of Pokémon.

Emerald chapter
Two years after the battle with the Mask of Ice, Crystal and Professor Oak sent Emerald to the Hoenn Battle Frontier to protect the wish granting Pokémon Jirachi, who was the only way to revive the petrified Pokédex holders. Due to Emerald lacking Pokémon of his own, she lent him some of the ones that she had caught for brief amounts of time until he finally caught his own. She supervised his mission over the Pokégear.

On the fifth day of the Battle Frontier's opening, Crystal and Gold arrived at the Battle Frontier in order to help revive her seniors. Using her new Mr. Mime, she created an invisible building for theHoenn Pokédex holders to train in.

After Emerald finally revived Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Silver, she had her Megaree attack the Sea Beast that Guile Hideout had wished for with its Frenzy Plant. Before Guile Hideout, who was really Archie, the former leader of Team Aqua, vanished, he told the Pokédex holders how he obtained the armor, which made Crystal fear that there is a greater evil that has yet to be defeated.

On the final day of the Battle Frontier's opening, she, along with the other nine Pokédex holders, participated in a tournament at the Battle Dome, in which Crystal lost to Green.

HeartGold & SoulSilver chapter
In the ninth chapter, Crystal rides to the Safari Zone in her mother's helicopter while preparing for her field trip with the children from the Earl Dervish Orphanage. Much to her mother's surprise, Crystal has come wearing a lab coat, which she believes is boring for a field trip. Deciding that Crystal needs a more suitable outfit for the trip, her mother forcibly changes her outfit.

Later, while on the field trip with the children, Crystal encounters Silver and Eusine at the Safari Zone. Hearing that Team Rocket has resurfaced, Crystal and Silver leave off to Ecruteak City to meet the Ecruteak Gym Leader, Morty, who can help them with his psychic powers. While Crystal and Silver go off together, Eusine is left to finish the field trip with the children.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.046875px;font-family:sans-serif;">Upon arriving at Route 38, the two are attacked by one of the Four Generals of Team Rocket, Ariana. Ariana has her Arbok pin Silver to a tree with Poison Sting, trapping him there and forcing Crystal to fight all alone. Despite the clear type advantage that her Pokémon have over Ariana's, Crystal is unable to defeat any of them and is nearly defeated.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.046875px;font-family:sans-serif;">After the meeting of all of the Four Generals along with Arceus, realizing their plan, she decided to capture the Alpha Pokémon herself. Although it was briefly in a Poké Ball, it managed to escape and attack her. When everybody gathers at Ruins of Alph, she along with the Generals, Gold and Silver are transported to the Sinjoh Ruins. It was revealed that her attempt to capture Arceus was enough to it to bond with her and open its heart to bring them all to the Sinjoh Ruins.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.046875px;font-family:sans-serif;">She, along with her comrades Pokédex Holders, then fought with the Generals and managed to destroy the Palkia, Dialga and Giratina that were being created with the ultimate attacks, only for them being regenerated making their efforts in vain.

Pokémon
<p style="line-height:19.046875px;font-family:sans-serif;">The suffix "ee" (Japanese: ぴょん pyon) of the nicknames of her Pokémon was insisted by her mother, who named everyone prior to Megaree's capture. All of Crystal's party Pokémon have a symbol of a star somewhere on them. Some wear star necklaces or stickers, but her Bonee and Parasee have natural markings in the shape of stars.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.046875px;font-family:sans-serif;">Here is the list of Crystal's Pokémon.

Currently in rotation
<p style="line-height:19.046875px;font-family:sans-serif;">Crystal does not keep the same party. She swaps her on hand Pokémon with ones that are stored at Professor Oak's lab wherever she is by using her Mobile Adapter.

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In box
<p style="line-height:19.046875px;font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to the one's she has put on her team, Crystal has captured every Generation I and II Pokémon, bar legendary Pokémon, and has been shown to have some Generation III Pokémon.

Lent to Emerald
<p style="line-height:19.046875px;font-family:sans-serif;">The following are Crystal's Pokémon lent to Emerald for the Battle Frontier challenge in the sixth chapter, besides Monlee and Bonee.

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Trivia

 * Crys's Pokémon retain almost the same nicknaming pattern in both the VIZ Media and Chuang Yi translations. Her naming pattern remained exactly the same for the most part, adding 'ee' to the end of almost all of her Pokémon's nicknames. Four of them even remained exactly the same: Chumee, Parasee, Natee, and Bonee. Only Mega/Megaree, Arckee/Archy and Hitmonee/Monlee had their names changed, though they are very similar.
 * When Xatee was a Natu, it went by the nickname "Natee". However, that got changed later to reflect the evolution. Black's Emboar later follows this pattern.
 * Crystal is the only Pokémon Adventures main character to have two game counterparts.