Pokémon Trainer

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Pokémon Trainer, as seen in Super Smash Bros. Brawl

A Pokémon Trainer is a person whose life is dedicated to catching Pokémon and using them in battles. Their goal in life is to capture and train all the Pokémon in the world. They also hope to defeat the Elite Four of their respective league. A Pokémon Trainer appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, having Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard as his Pokémon. Squirtle is fast and agile, but can be KO'ed easily reason being that he's lightweight. Ivysaur has many attacks which deal alot of damage, but his only recovery is a tether. Charizard has many good damaging moves that could have high knockback, but is very slow. His Final Smash is called Triple Finish, where all 3 Pokémon come out and attack. Squirtle uses Hydro Pump, Ivysaur uses Solar Beam, and Charizard uses Flamethrower in their Final Smash. The English voice over is done by Michelle Knotz.

In games

Generation I

In the first generation of Pokemon, their was only one form of the main Pokemon Trainer which was male. Pokemon Trainer's only had 151 Pokemon to choose from to catch, and the universe of Pokemon wasn't very open to a Pokemon Trainer. The Pokemon Trainer's main focus was to catch many strong Pokemon and train them to high levels, and then defeat eight gyms and defeat the Pokemon League. Raising Pokemon for a Pokemon Trainer in the first generation was concidered to be easy unless a Pokemon like Charizard or Gyarados was involved.

Generation II

The female playable character was introduced in the second generation and trained Pokemon and battled the same way as the male trainer in the original generation. Both males and females alike were very good trainers commonly. There were now more options for Pokemon Trainers. They could now access new locations and were open to over 200 Pokemon, harder to train and catch. The gyms were more scattered around in the Johto region in Generation II, so almost any gym could be accessed first. It was not unlikely to end up battling Clair's gym before battling Bugsy's or another's. The Pokemon Trainers were more difficult by this generation.

Generation III

In the third generation, the Pokemon Trainer now had more paths to choose then gyms. They could now attend a "Pokemon Contest" and win a ribbon when in a gym (which was also accessible) you would earn a badge. The Pokemon League ended up having two champions at one point, Steven and Wallace. Pokemon Trainers were sometimes male and sometimes female.

Generation IV

The fourth generation had the same options for Pokemon Trainers as in the third. Contests and gyms were active, however, in the Sinnoh region, there was originally only one contest in the games which was found in Hearthome City.

Generation V

There is no information confirmed about a fifth generation. The rest is to be announced.

Super Smash Bros.

The Pokemon Trainer appears as a playable character in this game, however, he doesn't fight using his own force. He calls on three Pokemon, Charizard, Ivysaur, and Squirtle. The Pokemon fight against the enemy.

In the anime

Pokemon Trainers are found everywhere and train with many different Pokemon. Like in the games, they can only hold up to six Pokemon in their party. Some trainers in the anime will always leave an open spot in their Pokemon party just incase a new Pokemon comes around and they would more enjoy that one in their party. For the most part, Pokemon Trainers are the same as they are in games.