Lenora is the Gym Leader of Shippo City Gym. Trainers that defeat her are given the Basic Badge. She met
Ash Ketchum and his friends at the Shippo City Museum where she arrived to help figure out the mystery behind the mysterious poltergeist that was scarring
Hawes. She agreed to battle
Ash Ketchum after she solved the mystery of Desumasu's mask.
The Shippo Gym is located inside the Shippo City museum and
Lenora also works as the curator of the museum itself. She runs an archive full of valuable books and research papers that ordinary people are not permitted to view without her permission. Only people who want to use it for examinations, research and Gym match challengers can use the book archive. The library in the museum that Aloe also runs has the most books in the Isshu region.
Lenora tests her challengers as soon as they enter the archive area. She suggests a book to each of them that leads them straight to the underground battlefield but most decide to read up on a subject they are proficient despite the fact that she is actually showing them the shortest route to the Gym.
Ash Ketchum straightforwardness did exactly as Aloe suggested and he picked the book that she suggested, revealing the stairs to the gym right away. Most challengers read too much into her actions and end up taking a detour.
In her first match against
Ash Ketchum she defeated him by studying him and getting to know his tenancies. She revealed her two Pokémon,
Lenora's Lillipup and
Lenora's Watchog before the match so he could study them as well. In the end, Aloe's studying of
Ash Ketchum proved to be the turning point in the match and she was able to defeat him. She told
Ash Ketchum to return and battle her again though.