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Pokmon Trainer In Pokmon, a Pokmon Trainer is a person who capture Pokmon with Pokballs, raise them and train them to battle other trainers that have Pokmon. The main character in each incarnation of the Pokmon games is an aspiring young trainer. A notable Pokmon Trainer is Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokmon TV series. Pokmon Trainer can also be used in a broader context: any person with a Pokmon can be considered a Pokmon trainer. In this sense, people in related Pokmon occupations, such as Pokmon Coordinators, can also be considered to be Pokmon Trainers. Pokmon Trainers carry a Pokdex with them, which serves as identification as well as a tool for keeping track of the Pokmon a trainer has seen or caught. The process of completing such a list is known as filling the Pokdex, with a trainer having filled the Pokdex (with minor exceptions) being a Pokmon Master. In the animated series, the Pokdex is already loaded with much of the information that a trainer needs in order to identify Pokmon, but in the video games, the data of a Pokdex starts empty and must be gradually filled as more Pokmon are seen or caught. Many Pokmon Trainers compete in a regional Pokmon League. To qualify for league competition, a trainer must win a number of Gym Badges from various Pokmon Gym Leaders throughout the region through Pokmon Battles. A person usually becomes a Pokmon Trainer when they are over ten years old. There, authorities chosen by the regional Pokmon League, usually a Pokmon expert such as Professor Samuel Oak, will allow a trainer to choose their first Pokmon from three, which vary from region to region. In the video games, a second trainer, generally referred to as the rival, will choose the Pokmon with the typewise advantage over your starting Pokmon. Of course, those people who already have possession of a Pokmon, either as a pet or inherited through family, may eschew this process and start their Pokmon Journey with that Pokmon. Types of Pokmon Trainers Although many Pokmon Trainers have no further distinctions, some are also further classified: A Pokmon Gym Leader is a trainer who runs a training facility for a specific type of Pokmon (or, in rare cases, a mixed team of Pokmon). Some gyms are authorized by a regional Pokmon League, and these gym leaders offer a Gym Badge upon their defeat in a special Pokmon Gym Battle. In the Pokmon animated series, this is often a Pokmon Battle in which Gym Leaders are not permitted to switch Pokmon, but the nature of a Pokmon Gym Battle is entirely up to the Gym Leader to decide. In the video games, Gym Leaders will also give a Technical Machine to any trainer able to defeat them in a Gym Battle. In the animated series, many Gym Leaders have a signature Pokmon that Ash must battle over or around. An Elite Four Trainer is one of the four trainers that a Trainer must beat in succession before facing the regional Pokmon League Champion. A Pokmon Master is a trainer that has, with few exceptions, filled their Pokdex. In the Pokmon animated series, many Pokmon Trainers set out to achieve the dream of becoming a Pokmon Master, but most give up trying either because of the lure of another career or an insurmountable obstacle. In the video games, this is an impossible task with one game alone - the trading of Pokmon between players with different versions of the game is necessary to become a Pokmon Master. Gym Badges The goal of many trainers is to not only raise powerful Pokmon (or help Pokmon become stronger battlers), but to also compete for league competitions. To do so, one must collect Gym Badges. In the video games, a Gym Badge serves as a symbolic marker of the progress of the game. Depending on the badge, it allows trainers to use Hidden Machines that allow you to use certain attacks outside of a Pokmon Battle, letting the trainer move certain obstacles, light up dark areas, or travel on water. Possession of Gym Badges may also reduce the likelihood of stronger Pokmon disobeying their trainers, and thus serves as a token of respect between Pokmon and their trainers. It is said in the games that badges are gifts from pokmon to trainers. This of course is merely symbolic of the bond one develops with their team. Pokmon Battles Pokmon Battles serve as a useful way of exercise for the Pokmon as well as the main source of income for a Pokmon Trainer. By weakening wild Pokmon and capturing it in a Pokball, it is also the primary method for trainers to acquire new Pokmon. A Pokmon Battle is essentially a tag team match where two teams of Pokmon battle each other until all the members of one team are knocked out, or fainted. In a normal Pokmon Battle (or elimination battle), only one member of a team may be battling at the time, although multiple battles where more than one Pokmon may be fighting at the same time exist. Pokmon Trainers, as a rule, cannot have more than six Pokmon on their active roster at a time, although they can have more than six Pokmon accompany them (as long as the trainer asserts ownership of up to six of them). In the video games, the winning trainer is also entitled a cash prize from the losing trainer, which can be used to buy items at a local PokMart, a supermarket that also sells Pokmon-related items. In the end, the losing trainer is likely to have their Pokmon either knocked out or in serious condition. In this case trainers try to proceed quickly to a local Pokmon Center, a place authorized by the regional Pokmon League to heal Pokmon for no charge (in the video games, this is done automatically). In the animated series, a Pokmon Center also serves as an inn for Pokmon Trainers.
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