Sashay: The Dancer Who Closes Out Two Masters Battle Sets

An opponent who turns the battle hall into a stage. Sashay runs the Sunny Park Colosseum in Pokémon Battle Revolution, where she welcomes the challenger with an invitation to watch her dance. Behind the act is a character built entirely on her name — and three teams of six Pokémon that the source details one by one.

Contents

• Master of the Sunny Park Colosseum
• An Opponent the Masters Battle Brings Back Twice
• The Ribbon and the Dance: A Character Defined by Her Name
• A Balanced Team, and Three Lineups of Six Pokémon
• Sashay at a Glance
• Frequently Asked Questions

Master of the Sunny Park Colosseum

Pokémon Battle Revolution hands out no badges and has no Gym circuit: instead, it lines up battle venues, the Colosseums, which the player takes on one after another. Each one has its own appointed head, and Sashay is the one in charge of the Sunny Park Colosseum.

Her official title is Colosseum Master, and the game ranks her sixth among its Masters. The role puts her close to Dusty, who runs the Sunset Colosseum in the same game.

It's a role that turns up from one game to the next under different names: the authority doesn't come from a town to defend but from the facility you run, exactly as with the bosses of Unova's Battle Subway, a group that Emmet is part of.

An Opponent the Masters Battle Brings Back Twice

Sashay isn't limited to her own Colosseum. She returns in the Masters Battle, the long string of sets that structures the game's progression — and that's where, at the Stargazer Colosseum, you meet her outside the Sunny Park Colosseum.

In this run, she holds the same spot twice: that of the opponent who closes out the set. The second set ends with her, and so does the sixth.

The player therefore meets her at two points far apart in their progress, once early on and again much later. Her defeat line, in which she immediately demands a rematch, takes on special weight coming from an opponent the mode really does bring back a second time.

The Ribbon and the Dance: A Character Defined by Her Name

Her French name, Rubana, is built on the word ruban, "ribbon," and some of the other languages didn't look any further. Spanish calls her Cinta, Japanese リボン — the ribbon both times, taken as is.

The remaining localizations slide from the ribbon to the movement: Sashay in English and Arabeske in German refer to dance steps, while the Italian Graziella holds on to grace. One character, one semantic field, four different ways into it.

The game follows the same line. Sashay presents herself as an accomplished dancer and opens the battle by inviting the challenger to admire her dance; she then compliments them on their grace, teases them about their stage fright, and admits a strong fondness for cute Pokémon. The vocabulary is that of the stage, never that of sport.

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A Balanced Team, and Three Lineups of Six Pokémon

On the style of her Pokémon, the source first lays down a general rule: the team is balanced and no type dominates it. That's rarer than it sounds in a series where the memorable opponent is almost always the one you associate with a type.

The consequence is immediate for anyone preparing to face her: there's no single answer to throw at her. A Pokémon picked in advance to hit a weakness has nothing in particular to exploit, and the battle comes down to versatility rather than counters.

One point remains that this profile would rather own up to than hide: databases link eighteen species to Sashay, three times what a team can hold.

Sashay at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

• Who is Sashay in Pokémon Battle Revolution?
  She's the Master of the Sunny Park Colosseum, the sixth of the game's Colosseum Masters. She presents herself as a dancer and opens her battles by inviting the challenger to watch her dance.
• Where and when do you battle Sashay?
  In her Colosseum, and in the Masters Battle, where she's the opponent who closes out the second set, then the sixth.
• What is Sashay's team?
  The source describes her team as balanced, with no dominant type, and credits her with three lineups of six Pokémon: Plusle, Cherrim, Minun, Lopunny, Castform and Shuckle at the Sunny Park Colosseum; Raichu, Gengar, Weavile, Mismagius, Vespiquen and Spiritomb in the second set of the Masters Battle; Milotic, Registeel, Togekiss, Umbreon, Deoxys and Giratina in the sixth set.
• Where does Sashay's name come from?
  It depends on the language. The Japanese name is literally リボン (Ribbon), the French Rubana comes from ruban (ribbon) and the Spanish is Cinta, while the English Sashay, the German Arabeske and the Italian Graziella shift the idea toward dance and grace.

In short

Sashay comes down to a single motif carried through without a misstep: a name drawn from ribbons and dance steps, a danced entrance, a compliment on the challenger's grace and a rematch demanded right away. The character has no story, she has a stance, and the Masters Battle puts her to use twice by placing her at the end of two sets. The most interesting part remains her battle record: her three teams are documented right down to their moves, and none of them is built around a type, which paradoxically makes her harder to prepare for than many type-specialist opponents.