Aliana: The Team Flare Scientist Who Siphoned Kalos's Power

Team Flare doesn't plunder a power plant out of ideology, but out of calculation. Aliana holds the rank of Scientist in the Kalos organization, and the player catches her right in the middle of diverting power. Once defeated, she finally lets slip the motive: the group had the means to produce that energy itself, it just wanted to avoid the expense. A villain who thinks in budget lines.

Contents

• Scientist, and One of the Four Women Who Lead Team Flare
• Two Battles: The Kalos Power Plant, Then Lysandre Labs
• What Her Lines Reveal About How Team Flare Works
• The Manga's B Team, with Mable
• Druddigon, Her Only Card on Screen
• Aliana at a Glance
• Frequently Asked Questions

Scientist, and One of the Four Women Who Lead Team Flare

Aliana's rank is spelled out unambiguously by the game: Team Flare Scientist, and one of the group's four female lieutenants. The title places her on the side of labs and readings rather than with the ideologues, but it comes with stripes: she travels with an escort, and an Admin of the organization accompanies her in the field.

Her outfit plays on the group's color. Red with white trim for the jacket, the long gloves and the boots; red with black piping for the skirt, fastened by a belt stamped with the Team Flare logo. The rest leans toward orange — the tie, the short haircut, the lipstick — and only the tights stand out: yellow, with a white oval at each knee.

One detail does more than decorate. Her eyes are never visible: a pair of high-tech glasses covers the top of her face with two horizontal slits lit in orange. The character is thus deprived of a gaze, which leaves all the expressive work to her voice — and she talks a lot, which is rare for a mid-level officer in this organization.

Two Battles: The Kalos Power Plant, Then Lysandre Labs

The first encounter takes place in the Kalos Power Plant, where the organization is siphoning off the facility's power. The goal is stated outright: powering the ultimate weapon. The player stumbles on the operation in progress, on Aliana and on the Admin backing her up, and the Pokémon battle serves to stop the siphoning.

The second comes later, inside Lysandre Labs. It's at the Power Plant, before the first battle, that the exchange with the Admin says a lot about the group's hierarchy: the Admin grows impatient, Aliana answers him with numbers — the stored energy is enough to start the activation — then offers to deal with the visitor. Her superior leaves the dirty work to her and she openly enjoys it.

Defeat makes her neither bitter nor cooperative. She doesn't have the key to the floor, she says, but she lets the player through anyway — not without making them hesitate between the warp panels, which she presents as a dilemma she relishes. The second encounter thus ends with an obstacle that steps aside on its own, which doesn't often happen with Team Flare.

What Her Lines Reveal About How Team Flare Works

Asked about the power plant, Aliana corrects a misconception. The group already had the technology capable of generating the energy it needed: the theft wasn't an admission of weakness but a cost saving. Building the world the organization envisions costs resources, she explains, and there's no point wasting the ones you can take from somewhere else.

The same conversation betrays what she thinks of her own troops. After losing, she congratulates the Trainer who has just beaten her and remarks that she'd gladly hire them to replace the Grunts in her group. The dig targets the organization itself more than the player: her henchmen aren't worth much in her eyes, and she says so out loud.

Finally, she presents herself as a researcher, in charge of work she considers beyond her listener's grasp — and yet it's as a mere enforcer that she gets used when a nuisance needs removing. This gap between her scientific title and the actual grunt work is the essence of the character in the games: knowledge put to work for a looting operation.

The Manga's B Team, with Mable

The manga gives her a much more aggressive role. From the Kalos arc on, she is sent out with her troops and Mable to seize X's Mega Ring, and the Key Stone set into it. With the boy having locked himself in his house, she orders her Pyroar to set the house on fire. Y rushes over and gets bitten by her teammate's Houndoom; Kanga and Li'l Kanga then come to X's defense, and the two Scientists retreat after this defeat.

The duo strikes again in Aquacorde Town, against X's group staying at an inn. The trap is set to isolate each of them: a Team Flare member holds Y back, the others' room is locked, and Aliana's Diggersby takes Li'l Kanga out of action. X's attempt at Mega Evolution fails, but Chespin still turns the ambush around and hands them a second defeat.

It's also the manga that establishes her personality. Aliana laughs at everything, no matter the circumstances, and forms with the perpetually furious Mable a duo built on that contrast. Yet her lighthearted mood hides an unabashed brutality toward her own Pokémon: she promises her Diggersby a painful punishment if it fails to bring back the Mega Ring.

Druddigon, Her Only Card on Screen

The anime saves her for the end of the Kalos saga. She enters late, then takes part in the decisive battle alongside Bryony and her Liepard, facing Clembot and the opposing side's Pokémon — Heliolisk, Luxray, Chespin and Bunnelby. She sends out only one Pokémon, her Druddigon.

The outcome is swift. Once defeated, Aliana is tied up by Clembot along with Bryony, and the series grants her no more glorious exit: once the final battle is over, she is presumed imprisoned. The Scientist who tallied up her organization's savings ends up on the expense side of the ledger.

🔥 Druddigon, the only card she plays on screen, has its spot among our Pokémon figures.

Aliana at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

• Who is Aliana in Pokémon?
  She's a Team Flare Scientist in Pokémon X and Y, and one of the organization's four female lieutenants. The player battles her twice, and she reappears in both the anime and the manga.
• Where do you battle Aliana in Pokémon X and Y?
  Twice. First in the Kalos Power Plant, where she diverts the facility's electricity with a Team Flare Admin, then in Lysandre Labs, where she lets the player through after her defeat.
• Why does Team Flare steal energy from the Kalos Power Plant?
  To power the ultimate weapon. Aliana herself points out that the group had the technology needed to produce that energy: the theft was only meant to save on the cost.
• Which Pokémon does Aliana use?
  In Pokémon X and Y, a Mightyena at the Kalos Power Plant, then a Mightyena and a Druddigon at Lysandre Labs; the anime leaves her only her Druddigon. The manga also gives her a Pyroar, which sets X's house on fire, and a Diggersby, which pins down Li'l Kanga in Aquacorde Town.
• What happens to Aliana at the end of the anime?
  She fights alongside Bryony in the decisive battle of the Kalos saga, gets beaten and then tied up by Clembot, and is presumed to have been sent to prison once the fight is over.

In short

Aliana has neither the stature of a boss nor the narrative weight of a rival, but she is the voice that puts a price tag on Team Flare's project. Where the rest of the group talks about a new world, she talks about cost, resources and stored energy — and robs an entire power plant just to dodge a bill. The manga rounds out the portrait with her brutality toward her own Pokémon, something the games merely hint at behind her laughter.