Pokémon Trainer

"Just a little more, Charizard!"

- Pokémon Trainer

The Pokémon Trainer is a new character in the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl. He is the main male character of the games in the Pokémon series that took place in the Kanto region, portrayed in the Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen games. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he will stay in the background, and use three Pokémon, Squirtle, Ivysaur and Charizard to fight for him. His down special move, Pokémon Change, will switch out between these three Pokémon. The player chooses the Pokémon to start with, and they will then be changed in the order Squirtle → Ivysaur → Charizard → Squirtle. This is the first time this kind of fighting style has been used in the Super Smash Bros. series.

The Pokémon Trainer is the first playable Pokémon character in the Super Smash Bros. series who is not an actual Pokémon.

In the Subspace Emissary, he allies with Lucas who helps him find his Charizard and Ivysaur. The two also encounter Wario and a large Subspace Army robot, saved by the robot's detonation by Meta Knight and they team with him, Marth and Ike afterwards. When encountering a huge Subspace Army group on the foothills of a mountain (and Meta Knight has left to retake the Halberd), they are saved by Mario and his team (Link, Yoshi, Pit and Kirby).

Solid Snake Codec Conversation

 * Snake: Pokémon Trainer... That's the guy giving orders behind a Pokémon, right?
 * Colonel: Right, and this Pokémon Trainer is controlling Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard. They represent water, grass, and fire, and they're all powerful.
 * Snake: So he makes his Pokémon fight while he sits back and watches. Sounds like a good deal if you ask me.
 * Colonel: It's not like that, Snake. Those Pokémon wouldn't know what to do if the Pokémon Trainer wasn't there giving orders. In every battle, there's a soldier doing the fighting, and a commander telling him what to do. By working together as a team, they accomplish much more than either could on their own. So let's do this together, partner.
 * Snake: ...Yeah... Whatever you say, Colonel.