Shauntal

Shauntal in Black/White
Shauntal
Species	Human
Hair color	Purple
Eye color	Brown
Debut	Pokémon: Black and White Versions

Shauntal is a member of the Elite Four of the Unova region in Pokémon: Black and White Versions. She specializes in Ghost-type Pokémon.

Background

Shauntal was a powerful Pokémon trainer who also had a love for books. She was an aspiring writer herself and seemed to get ideas for her books from the Pokémon battles she took part in. Her room within the Pokémon League was a giant library of some sort. Challengers were carried up to the floor on which she awaited by mysterious ghostly forces. Shauntal was very passionate about Pokémon and would apologize to her own Pokémon whenever they lost a battle. She believed that everyone with a Pokémon had a story and that stories involving both people and Pokémon were more interesting than stories about just one or the other. Shauntal not only wrote about the challengers who faced her, but she also quoted excerpts of her writings to fresh challengers.

In Pokémon: Black and White Versions, she was first defeated by N. This defeat inspired her to think up a passage based on his personality, but it was one that she found sad. Hilbert/Hilda arrived within the same day and also challenged her. After being defeated, she felt dumbstruck but also felt that Hilbert/Hilda was a great trainer. She was later defeated by Hilbert/Hilda again in the trainer's second challenge of the Elite Four. She also visited Cynthia's villa, where she mused about the story possibilities in such things as the Rainbow Wing, Silver Wing, Giratina and the Distortion Zone. Shauntal admitted that despite all her research, she was never able to figure out Cynthia's age.

Pokémon Roster

She uses the following Pokémon in battle:

• Cofagrigus
• Jellicent
• Golurk
• Chandelure
• Froslass (rematches only)
• Drifblim (rematches only)

Trivia

• Her name is possible extended from the word "haunt".
• One of the novel excepts she reads before rematches implies that Volkner had previously battled her.
• She mentions that she chose her scarf with a certain Pokémon in mind, although it is uncertain what particular Pokémon she had in mind. Her designer has said that it was designed just to invoke the image of a black cat.