Su Yiqin

Biodata

Power Progression

Su Yiqin’s documented progression concerns her Pokémon and Trainer career; no personal numerical level is given.

Appearance

• Hair and build: Long chestnut hair, later described as wavy; tall, slender, and curvaceous 10 107 659.
• Face: Initially described as cute and sweet-looking, with soft skin; later appearances emphasize her mature elegance and striking beauty 10 107 183.
• Clothing: Wears a black dress and stockings at the Pokémon Center, a black cheongsam aboard her family’s ship, and a beige coat with a pleated skirt and silver ankle boots during a later reunion 107 183 659.
• Formal attire: Appears in a white evening gown on Mewtwo’s island and a white wedding dress during the forced ceremony with Williams 227 1043.

Personality

Su Yiqin initially appears shy, somewhat absentminded, and easily flustered. She is nervous walking beside Ye Qing and objects to exploring Back Mountain because their Pokémon are too weak. Despite her fear during the resulting forest crisis, she thanks him for protecting her and worries about their separated friends 10 12 14.

Her generosity is practical rather than merely ceremonial. She gives Ye Qing information about the Wild Area, offers her access card, arranges a free transfer of Feebas, and provides accommodation when he needs somewhere to stay. Ye Qing explicitly recognizes her skill at maintaining relationships through thoughtful favors 51 453 660.

She understands the consequences of confronting powerful families. She warns Ye Qing against impulsive retaliation against Luo Moyun and concedes to Long Zinuo before their tournament match, a decision welcomed by her father and his business associates. Nevertheless, she condemns Bai Jingbo’s abuse of women and helps Ye Qing deceive him into a losing wager 185 187 486 529.

Her willingness to accommodate family interests has limits. When ordered to marry Williams, she insists that her work for the company should have earned her freedom and refuses to excuse her uncles’ dealings with Team R. Even under Hypno’s control, she continues resisting the wedding 1043.

Abilities & Skills

Pokémon Training

Su Yiqin competes in major tournaments and actively seeks to improve, but remains substantially weaker than several of her peers.

• Commands Swablu in dangerous encounters, including an attempted Fury Attack against Ekans 14.
• Supplements National Team training with evening practice sessions 659.
• Repeatedly asks Ye Qing for advice and arranges meals and accommodation around opportunities to receive his guidance 660 661 869.
• Recognizes her disadvantage after watching Infernape overwhelm Long Zinuo’s Blaziken and declines a spar 662.
• Uses lavish Pokémon equipment, although Ye Qing notes that items cannot overcome an overwhelming difference in strength 529.

Business and Administration

Su Yiqin carries out work for her family’s companies and uses their commercial network to resolve logistical problems.

• Visits the family-operated Wild Area to experience working life and inspects staff operations while vacationing aboard a family-owned ship 51 183.
• Scouts Ice and Snow Town for investment at her father’s request, considering its defensive strength when assessing the location 355 358.
• Presents plans for the country’s largest Mythical Pokémon Theme Amusement Park beside Ye Qing’s Gym and is assigned to coordinate remaining Gym details with Wang Yao 990.
• Identifies herself as the Gemstone Group’s heir when establishing her credibility with Lin Yi 1051.

Information and Logistics

• Knows where Feebas live in the Wild Area and draws Ye Qing a route map 51.
• Explains that the area’s Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon are boarded there by influential owners and that claims about obtainable offspring are advertising 51.
• Investigates the shipwreck associated with the GS Ball through several telephone calls and arranges an expedition to it 752.
• Arranges delivery of urgently requested potency pills for Garchomp within six hours 1011.

Pokémon

Equipment & Resources

• Silver Wild Area card: Offers it to Ye Qing before discovering that he already has a higher-status gold card 51.
• Sharp Beak: Purchases it at auction for three million; Ye Qing recognizes its value for her Swablu 184.
• High-quality Pokéblocks: Gives Milotic a golden Top-tier Water-type Pokéblock before riding her and later offers Gardevoir an Advanced Pokéblock 108 356.
• Pokédex: Uses it to assess the Pokémon defending Ice and Snow Town 357.
• Family facilities and transport: Has access to a family-owned ship, a hotel presidential suite, several homes in the city visited by Ye Qing, and a family helicopter 183 660 990.

History

Jinxi Forest Crisis

Sun Xiaowei introduces Su Yiqin to Ye Qing during a weekend outing with Wang Yao. Su Yiqin reluctantly agrees to explore the undeveloped mountain after the others dismiss her concerns about danger 10.

The group encounters Fearow and is subsequently pursued by hundreds of Spearow. Ye Qing and Su Yiqin flee separately from Wang Yao and Sun Xiaowei, jump into a river, and are swept over a waterfall. Ye Qing pulls her unconscious body ashore and treats her bruised back beside a campfire 11 12.

Their ordeal continues when Ekans attacks their Pokémon. Su Yiqin orders Swablu to use Fury Attack, but freezes when Ekans swallows her partner. Swablu subsequently survives and receives treatment. During their campfire conversation, Su Yiqin explains that her family is in business and that Swablu came from her mother’s Pokémon 14.

Wild Area and Growing Friendship

Su Yiqin is astonished to encounter Ye Qing alive at the Wild Area. In gratitude for his earlier help, she shares information about Feebas and draws him a route map despite that information not normally being given to outsiders 51.

She continues helping him through her family’s operations. When he later wants to relocate the remaining Feebas to his home lake, she arranges permission without payment and calls it an early New Year’s gift 453.

Shipboard Auction and Mewtwo’s Island

While vacationing aboard a family-owned ship, Su Yiqin also checks on its operations. At the auction, she buys a Sharp Beak and accompanies Ye Qing when he obtains the GS Ball 183 184 185.

After explaining Bai Jingbo’s history of abusing women, she helps Ye Qing persuade him to wager Mystic Water on a battle. She is delighted by Bai Jingbo’s defeat but considers the loss minor compared with the harm he has caused 185 187.

During the subsequent wild Pokémon attack at sea, sailors help her escape the immediate fighting while she searches for Ye Qing. She later reunites with him on Mewtwo’s island, where Kirlia shields her while she changes out of her soaked evening gown 190 227.

Investment Work and Tournament Career

Su Yiqin travels to Ice and Snow Town to assess investment opportunities for the Gemstone Group. She witnesses its emergency preparations and participates among the visiting Trainers in its defensive formation. Afterward, she tells Ye Qing that development has received an Elite Four member’s approval; the Dragon Tamer thanks them with Earthquake and Protect TMs 355 358 367.

At the National Tournament, she concedes before fighting Long Zinuo. Her father’s associates praise the decision as beneficial to their business prospects 529.

Her later National Team selection comes through substantial corporate sponsorship rather than solely competitive qualification. She trains seriously nonetheless, participates in the Arceus Cup campaign, and tries to intervene in Ye Qing’s battle with Mizuno Jeff before Morikawa Minako blocks her. Following the team’s victory, she calls her father, hoping the result will finally persuade her family to invest in Ye Qing 659 701 719 730.

Family sponsorship also secures her entry into the Elite Four Tournament. Her Mega Altaria loses heavily to Su Qi’s Mega Alakazam, leaving her disappointed by the scale of the gap between them 866 867.

GS Ball Investigation and Water Palace

At Ye Qing’s request, Su Yiqin investigates the ship from which the GS Ball originated. She learns that the private vessel sank during wartime after an attack by wild Pokémon and accompanies him to the wreck. During the underwater expedition, she and Uncle Hu fight one of the two Dhelmise guarding its hull while Milotic handles the other 752 755.

She later brings Ye Qing the Su Group’s amusement-park plans and accepts his invitation to train at Manaphy’s Water Palace. Ye Qing asks her and Zhang Na to protect Ye Menghan on the journey. When they part after the six-month interval, Su Yiqin promises to attend the Masters Eight tournament and cheer for him 990 1000.

Forced Wedding and Departure

A crisis in the Su Group leads Su Yiqin’s father and stepmother to demand that she marry Williams. Her uncles have been imprisoned for colluding with Team R, but she rejects the claim that she owes the family her marriage as compensation 1043.

At the American wedding, Hypno controls her movements despite her continued resistance. Ye Qing arrives after receiving a plea for help apparently sent from her account, uses Mega Rayquaza to defeat the Legendary Pokémon guarding the ceremony, and takes her away. Su Yiqin later reveals that she never sent the message and that her phone is missing 1043.

Feeling that nothing remains in the Su family for her, she asks to accompany Ye Qing on his next journey. He agrees after warning her that it will be dangerous 1043.

Later Side Stories

While traveling with Ye Qing, Su Yiqin encounters Ye Xingchen, a boy who falls out of a spacetime passage and resembles Ye Qing. She subsequently watches his Greninja battle Infernape 1045 1046 1048.

During the Mid-Autumn reunion, she and Ye Qing share a kiss before noticing Ditto’s loneliness. She joins the search for its missing Trainer, traveling with Celebi to September 25, 2012. After meeting Lin Yi, she explains their identity and accompanies the group to ancient Draconid ruins 1050 1051 1052.

Relationships

• Ye Qing — Begins as a fellow traveler and becomes her close friend, frequent beneficiary of her assistance, and eventual romantic partner. He rescues her from the forced wedding and accepts her as a traveling companion; they later kiss during the Mid-Autumn reunion 10 51 453 1043 1050.
• Xiao Qing — Her starter Pokémon and longtime companion. She is terrified when Swablu is swallowed by Ekans and later relies on Altaria for travel and tournament battles 14 227 866 867.
• Sun Xiaowei — Her best friend, who introduces her to Ye Qing. Su Yiqin worries about her safety after they become separated in the forest 10 14.
• Wang Yao — A mutual friend who initially hopes to match her with Ye Qing. She later brings both men homemade pastries 11 507.
• Father — Sends her on investment work and initially places business relationships above her association with Ye Qing. He later orders her marriage to Williams 355 515 1043.
• Mother — Deceased; owned the Pokémon that produced Su Yiqin’s starter Swablu 14 1043.
• Stepmother — Initially maintains a polite but distant relationship with her, then pressures her into marriage to resolve the family’s crisis 1043.
• Grandfather — Lends her a Pokémon for protection during her journey to Ice and Snow Town 355.
• Luo Jiujiu — A close acquaintance employed as a streamer by a family subsidiary. Their conversations alert Su Yiqin to the conflict involving Luo Moyun 486.
• Williams — Intended husband in an arranged marriage she vehemently rejects; the ceremony ends when Ye Qing rescues her 1043.
• Ditto — Described by Su Yiqin and Ye Qing as effectively half their matchmaker because it gave them reasons to stay in contact. She helps search for its original Trainer 1050 1051.

Notable Quotes

“I think the value I've created for the company over these years is enough to buy my freedom. All I want is freedom, nothing more!” 1043

“They brought that on themselves! They colluded with Team R. What good could come of associating with a criminal organization?” 1043

“I'm not afraid of danger.” 1043