Mallow's Tsareena

Mallow's Tsareena (Japanese: マオのアマージョ Mao's Amajo) is 's only known. She is often seen outside of her Poké Ball.

History
Prior to the, Mallow met Tsareena as a Bounsweet in the forest behind the Pokémon School.

Tsareena first appeared as a Bounsweet in Alola to New Adventure! alongside her. Bounsweet accompanied Mallow on her tour of the Pokémon School for and, happily sharing her pleasant  for them to enjoy. She later watched battle.

In First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-Style!, Bounsweet was attacked by a, who was attracted to her scent and mistook her for a fruit. Bounsweet quickly responded to the attack, deflecting the Rowlet multiple times with ease before it tired out.

In A Seasoned Search!, Bounsweet helped Ash and Mallow lure in and subsequently follow a wild to the Melemele Meadow, so that they could collect the Nectar necessary for the food Mallow was trying to perfect. However, soon after finding the meadow, they were attacked by, who tried to steal the Nectar for themselves. In order to save everyone, Bounsweet attacked Team Rocket and proceeded to evolve into. This allowed it to recover the stolen Nectar, free Ash and Mallow, and defeat Team Rocket.

In When Regions Collide!, Steenee was used in a battle against 's alongside 's. Steenee started the battle with while Popplio quickly followed with. Psyduck then counterattacked with. Popplio then created a water balloon, absorbing the Water Gun, which it then launched at the Duck Pokémon, trapping it inside. Misty commanded Psyduck to use, but Psyduck didn't respond. Steenee then attacked with another Magical Leaf, breaking the balloon and causing Psyduck land on its head, giving it a headache. This allowed Psyduck to successfully use Confusion, but before it could do anything more to its opponents, Misty told Psyduck to put Popplio and Steenee down, saying that they had had enough.

In Rescuing the Unwilling!, Steenee was among those used to fight Lusamine's, , and , which were under 's control, to allow Ash to save Lusamine. Going up against Milotic, Steenee countered its attack with. Lilligant then made her dance with, but Ash's Litten and Rowlet released her from the dance, joining the fight. In the next episode, Steenee emitted her own Sweet Scent to lure Rowlet back to her. She then launched Rowlet into the air with her Double Slap, and asked Mallow to throw her up as well. Steenee kicked Rowlet back towards the ground, and, combined with Rowlet's high-speed attack, they used a move Lana dubbed "Rowlaunch" on Lilligant. The attack angered Lilligant, causing it to charge up its attack, but Litten interrupted the move with. Although Lilligant appeared to have been defeated by this move, Nihilego made it get back up and continue battling. The battle ended when Ash and Pikachu performed to defeat Nihilego.

In All They Want to Do is Dance Dance!, in preparation for the PokéDance class set up by, Steenee was taught a dance called the "Alola Hula" by Anela's Oricorio. When the day of the dance class finally came, Steenee stepped away from the others to do some last-minute practice. Due to this, she failed to notice how all of the humans and the rest of the Pokémon present stepped into what turned out to be a pair of cage traps set up by Team Rocket. Noticing that Steenee was still free, Team Rocket fired a net at her, binding her arms and sepals. When accidentally revealed that the cages have a weak point at the top, Mallow told Steenee to attack it. With her sepals and hands binded by the net, Steenee had to resort to using her feet in order to attack the weak point. While doing this, Steenee unexpectedly learned, which immediately triggered her evolution into. After evolving, Tsareena demonstrated her increased leg strength by using on Meowth and breaking the cages open with ease. After Team Rocket had been carried away by, Mallow happily greeted her newly evolved partner, who proceeded to perform a new, enhanced version of "Rowlauch" with Rowlet.

In Securing the Future!, Tsareena joined the rest of Alola in showering with light so it could return to its.

Personality and characteristics
Tsareena is a friendly, happily interacting with people and Pokémon. She is not easily discouraged, staying positive even after was frightened by her attempts to play with her. She has a strong relationship with her. As a Bounsweet, she was normally seen resting on Mallow's shoulder. Tsareena also likes to help Mallow out at her family's restaurant, serving food to customers as the restaurant's poster Pokémon. In addition, she loves flowers, as shown in The Ol' Raise and Switch. According to Mallow, she likes floral-patterned Poké Beans. In SM104, Tsareena was shown to like the taste of Poni Island daikon.

Tsareena is shown to be very agile. As a Bounsweet, she often used her quick reflexes to deflect as it flew toward her. However, after evolving for the first time, she started displaying this trait much less often, due to no longer needing to worry about being consumed by other Pokémon. After evolving again, Tsareena also gained great kicking strength, as well as a more proud and mature personality, although she still remains friendly and respectful towards Mallow.

Tsareena is shown to enjoy relaxing, as evident in I Choose Paradise! where whilst most of the Pokémon were playing in the pool, Tsareena was shown lying on a sun lounger at the Pokémon Paradise Resort.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Steenee first appeared in PASM11. She was called out alongside 's Pokémon to assist them in finding a Mirage Berry at Lush Jungle. Steenee asked the wild Pokémon in the area to help by gathering several Berries into a large pile. Once the task was complete, Moon successfully found a Mirage Berry from the gathered pile. Afterwards, Steenee was used at Memorial Hill to battle a group of s that claimed to have attacked Kiawe.

Later, Steenee was used to battle the Ultra Beasts used by Guzma at Po Town. Together with Kiawe's, she fought against a before later being defeated by a.

In the games
Mallow's Steenee and Tsareena appear in the following games:

Ash's Classmates' Partner Pokémon
A Japanese event distributed an in-game representation of Mallow's Steenee, along with Kiawe's Turtonator and Lillie's Alolan Vulpix via serial code and local wireless. The serial codes were available at stores in Japan from June 17 to 25, 2017, and could be used until July 4, 2017. The local wireless were available at stores and Pokémon Stores in Japan from July 22 to August 13, 2017.

Trivia

 * Out of all the walking Pokémon owned by and, Tsareena is the first one to evolve twice.

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