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Three trainers are honored in your hometown, and well known across the region, not only for their role in defeating Team Galactic, but for the work they continue to do in Sinnoh.

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Lucas has now largely taken over Professor Rowan’s work. He can often be found in the lab in Sandgem Town, where he primarily studies the history of Pokémon species and their relationships with humans. He’s the one who gives you and your rivals your first Pokémon and a Pokédex. Lucas will also meet you a few times on your journey to check in on your progress or help investigate the actions of Team Dimensional. He will also introduce players who choose the “male” player character to Super Contests, and can appear as a coordinator in the highest-rank contests.

Barry is going strong as the gym leader of Sunyshore City. High-speed life in a port city is a great fit for him, though he still finds it too slow at times. He’s always rushing, and is likely to run into you or other NPCs in his haste. He has little time for Team Dimensional’s ideas and spirituality, but he does sometimes join Dawn or Lucas to investigate the team’s actions.

You first encounter Dawn in Eterna Forest, where Team Dimensional is holding up trainers. Upon discovering that you have received a Pokémon and Pokédex from Lucas, she encourages you to take on Acolyte Spatia. She can handle the grunts. She continues to monitor Team Dimensional’s actions, and you’ll meet her again many times. First she Dawn is also there to introduce the player to Super Contests if they have chosen the “female” player character, and can appear as one of the coordinators in the highest-rank contests. She is seen again when she looks into Team Dimensional’s Veilstone HQ with Barry, when she faces Team Dimensional with you and Lucas at the Verity Lakefront, and she attempts to stop Team Dimensional from summoning the Pokémon that created Sinnoh. 

However,you will also meet Dawn one more time before your journey is over...

You are far from the first person to take on the Kanto league, or even to fight against Team (Neo)Rocket. This is all very familiar to a few people you will meet along your journey: Red, Blue, and Professor Leaf Orchid.

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Gym Leader Blue is the golden boy of Viridian City. His very brief stint as champion of the Indigo League made him an easy pick for the position, and he’s practically become the city’s protector and spokesperson in the following years. Blue revels in the variety of trainers that he faces as a part of the gym challenge, and brings trainers with many different specialties into his gym to strengthen his gym challenge. His reputation and persistence have also allowed him the privilege of only facing trainers who have earned all seven other gym badges, where most other gyms have designated teams for trainers at different stages. He’s determined to keep Team Neo-Rocket away from his city and his gym, even though they continue to seek out any connections to Giovanni, Team Rocket’s former leader, that they can find.

Professor Leaf Orchid has been studying Pokémon for almost two decades, and took over as the resident Professor of the Kanto region when Professor Samuel Oak retired. Leaf’s focus is on the sheer variety of Pokémon, especially variations in form or differences found between regions. She approaches her work with one mantra in mind: Gotta’ catch ‘em all! She is also dedicated to making sure any young people who want to can go on Pokémon journeys, and to this end travels the region, handing out starter Pokémon. You meet her for the first time in Lavender Town, when she gives you your starter.  

Red is a man of few words. Perhaps that’s part of what’s made him so legendary. After spending some years traveling, as well as training on Mt. Silver, Red has taken up the mantle of Indigo League Champion that he earned so many years ago. He takes his role seriously. At least, as far as anyone can tell. Not many are able to read his inscrutable expressions, or make much sense of his continual silence. Blue is his best translator, though Leaf and a few other residents of Pallet Town are also fairly adept at understanding him. He has been keeping an eye on Team Neo-Rocket’s activities, and will appear at times to scare them off or investigate them, like at their HQ.

Your childhood friends and rivals in your journey across the Sinnoh region!

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Matilda

Matilda is the driving force behind your group of friends. She has the get-up-and-go attitude to turn any plan into a reality. She loves Pokémon battles, and faces every challenge along her path with gusto! She is chosen by the legendary Pokémon Azelf to protect it from Team Dimensional.

Her starter, “Buddy,” has type advantage over your starter. When you face Matilda for the last time on Victory Road (and any other times you battle with her in the post-game) her team is made up of her starter (Buddy), Luxray (Sparky), Floatzel (Bubbles), Drifblim (Puff), Weavile (Scritchy), and Gabite (Chompers).

Matilda may appear as a competitor in the highest rank of contests in the Toughness and Coolness categories. In Toughness contests she will use Buddy, and in Coolness contests she will use Sparky. Matilda will also be at the Battle Frontier on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, where she can be teamed up with for double battles, or may appear as a challenger in higher-level single battles.   

Cato

Cato is a methodical and studious young man. He takes it upon himself to learn all he can, and think through his actions (not to mention yours and Matilda’s!) as best as he can before moving forward. Throughout your journey he seems to be one step behind you and Matilda, but he is still a formidable trainer. He is a great asset to you in double battles against Team Dimensional, and he successfully collects all eight badges, making all three of you impressively powerful trainers and the pride of Twinleaf Town. However, Cato is more focused on his Pokédex, working to document and (if possible) catch every Pokémon he can. He is chosen by Uxie to protect it from Team Dimensional.

Cato starts his team with the starter that is weak to yours. By the time you battle him for the last time in Sunyshore City (and in any battles thereafter) his team is made up of his starter, Staraptor, Lopunny, Alakazam, Lumineon, and Hipowdown.

Cato may appear as a competitor in the highest level of contests in the Cleverness and Beauty categories. In cleverness contests he will use his starter, and in Beauty contests he will use Lumineon. Cato can be found in the battle frontier on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, at which time he can join you for double battles, or may be a challenger in higher-level single battles.

On Saturdays both Cato and Matilda can be found in the town square in Twinleaf town. There you can talk to them, battle them individually, or take them both on in a double battle.

Matilda and Cato balance each other well, but that doesn’t mean you’re not an important part of this dynamic. As much as Cato’s intelligence needs Matilda’s energy to motivate him to act, and Matilda needs Cato’s level head to balance her recklessness, they both need your heart to better inform their thoughts and actions. The same way that their knowledge and enthusiasm improve your journey, your empathy makes a great fulcrum to keep things from swinging too far toward thoughts or actions.

Together, you three can take on any challenge the Sinnoh region can throw at you!

Things are not so peaceful in the Kanto region. Some hooligans calling themselves Team Neo-Rocket are stealing people’s Pokémon, making threats, searching for legendary Pokémon, and attempting to take control of the region.

To learn more about Team Neo-Rocket, keep reading! You can also find out more about this project in the Memories of Kanto tag. 

The first way you may encounter Team Neo-Rocket is on TV or over the radio. They have their own broadcasting setup in their headquarters in Vermillion City, though they really want to take over the radio tower in Lavender Town. If you tune in to one of their broadcasts, you’ll hear a lot about how powerful Team Neo-Rocket is, as well as hear promotions for the lottery that they run from their HQ. 

You’ll run into Team Neo-Rocket in many places along your journey. They generally have teams of poison-, normal-, or ground-type Pokémon, and can often be found hassling lower-level trainers and causing problems for the gym leaders. Janine, Erica, and Blue in particular are consistently at odds with Team Neo-Rocket. Janine considers them a bad influence on poison-type trainers and the reputation of the poison type, whereas Erica takes responsibility for keeping them away from the old Celadon game corner, which has long-since been converted into a community center, and Blue is consistently working to keep them away from the Viridian City gym, where Team Neo-Rocket wants to search for any artifacts relating to the old leader, Giovanni. 

The Celadon Community center is also home to the Pokémon Fan Club, as they were ousted from their original location in Viridian City when Team Neo-Rocket took over. Vince, Viridian City’s gym leader, also tries to keep Team Neo-Rocket in check, but their primary function in the city is broadcasting, and he has a difficult time catching them doing anything more nefarious in the city itself. (However, they have managed to build a new headquarters under their small broadcasting studio, and manage much of their operations from there.)

Alongside controlling the Kanto region through fear and force, Team Neo-Rocket also aims to capture all of the region’s legendary Pokémon. They can be found going after the legendary birds, as well as searching for Mew and Mewtwo. 

In fact, chasing after legendaries is where you will first encounter…

Dante, leader of Team Neo-Rocket

Dante first became a trainer by joining Team Rocket, and stayed with the organization until the defeat of the Rocket Executives by a couple powerful young trainers. He remembers his time with Team Rocket, and the control that the organization had, very fondly, and he is determined to return to that status quo. He’s also determined to make lots, and lots of money. Team Neo-Rocket will sell you Pokémon out of their broadcasting studio, and their lottery is pay-to-enter. They also have a deal with Vermillion City’s shop, and they receive a cut of all the money made there.

Legendary Pokémon hold the possibility of both money and power, and so Dante is hell-bent on getting as many legendaries under Team Neo-Rocket’s control as possible. In the Kanto region, his highest priorities are Mew and Mewtwo. 

You first see Dante when Mew appears to you at Mt. Moon. He has only just managed to chase the Pokémon there, but is still unable to capture it. He dismisses you as a child and therefore not a threat at the time. He also asks you which way the Pokémon went. If you choose to lie, Mew teleports back briefly to wave at/thank you, but even if you tell Dante the truth, Mew will float back past you, heading the opposite direction, confirming that Dante has no hope of capturing the legendary Pokémon.

Dante is determined to catch Mewtwo, and, in doing so, rectify Team Rocket’s failure to keep control of the Pokémon in the first place. In stopping Dante from attempting to capture the legendary Pokémon, you will need to battle him.

Datne’s full team consists of Wynaut/Wobbuffet, Meowth/Persian, Ariados, Nidoking, and Crobat. He has made sure his team is built for capturing evasive legendaries, as Wynaut/Wobbuffet has the ability Shadow Tag, Ariados eventually learns the move Spider Web), and Crobat has the move Mean Look.

Even after you thwart Team Neo-Rocket’s efforts in Kanto, they expand their mission into Johto, where they continue to seek out legendary Pokémon for power and profit. Even if he has failed to capture Mew or Mewtwo, Dante has set his sights on the elusive Celebi…