Grass Type Gardenia
Eterna City Gym Leader
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3 theories of why...This. Even if Gloria appears in the anime, she's just as likely to own Sobble or Scorbunny as she is to own Grookey, and that's assuming that she'd own a starter Pokemon at all.
Also, I don't get that "It's likely Gloria would be in the game based on the Calender 2020 cover" part of one of the previous posts; we already know that she's in the game, but what does an anime calendar have to do with Gloria's in-game self?
1. The Colors - May and Serena both wore red, yet in the anime they both had Fire Type Starters, Torchic and Fennekin. Dawn, though wearing pink and black, had blue hair and had a Water Type Starter, Piplup. Gloria (Similar to Dawn) wears pink and grey, but has a green Tam O' Shanter and socks, plus dark brown hair, boots and bag, matching colors for a Grass Type Starter, Grookey. Honestly, I would think they would pick any other Starter if their Pokemon were not revealed, but yet it seems like they're chosen to suite their colors, and with Grookey in the calendar alongside Lillie's Snowy, Serena's Sylveon and Mallow's Shaymin in the background, that only adds more to this curious theory.
By comparison, Hilda, Rosa and Selene don't have that kind of theme to their character, meaning that Gloria must have been tailor made for that role as companion. Just as Serena mirrors May (ORAS), so does Gloria with Dawn, especially with the Gen 4 Remake most likely coming out next year.
2. The New Consoles - Since AG, it seems like every time a new console Pokemon game comes out, Ash would have a Female Trainer Companion...
GBA = May
DS = Dawn
3DS = Serena
Switch = Gloria
Hilda, Rosa and Selene were not made Ash's companions because their main games for Gen 5 and Gen 7 were on the same consoles as Dawn and Serena's main games, which were the very first for the consoles, Gen 4 for DS and Gen 6 for 3DS.
3. The Remakes - Could also be in relation to the Remakes (not including Let's Go)
GBA = Gen 1 Remake
DS = Gen 2 Remake
3DS = Gen 3 Remake
Switch = Gen 4 Remake
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