Stat Trainers

Stat Trainers is a fan term for a group of five Generation IV Pokémon Trainers—Cheryl, Mira, Riley, Buck, and Marley—who specialize in that excel in a certain stat.
==In the core series games==
The stat Trainers first appeared in , where each is encountered at a certain point during the 's journey. Unlike other Trainers, the stat Trainers ask the player to help them to navigate their way through a certain area, participating in Multi Battles against other Trainers and wild Pokémon, and healing the player's Pokémon after each battle. They will follow the player until they reach the end of the area; once this happens, they cannot be encountered in the same area in future visits.
After the player has entered the Hall of Fame, the stat Trainers that the player has encountered so far will be waiting in the to participate in Multi Battles. In Generation IV, they act as NPC partners the player can pair with. In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, however, they appear in Master Class Doubles Battle as opponents.
In Diamond, Pearl, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl, only Cheryl is required to be encountered during the game's storyline; the others are optional. In , in addition to reprising their role from Diamond and Pearl, the stat Trainers the player has encountered will also appear in the Battleground in the Survival Area as potential opponents. Buck is also now required to complete the game's storyline, with his scenario involving Team Galactic.
The stat Trainers also appear in as Multi Battle partners in the Battle Tower.
==In animation==
All five Trainers have appeared in , doing so in the same order they can first be encountered in the games.
Cheryl was the first to appear, in Some Enchanted Sweetening! and the two episodes that followed. As in the games, she traveled with and through the Eterna Forest. After finding the Honey she was looking for in An Angry Combee-nation!, she left the group.
The next to appear was Mira, in Sandshrew's Locker!. Unlike in the games, she was not lost in Wayward Cave, but instead needed Ash and his friends to help her, using their Pokémon to retrieve her from her sunken school. After this was done, she had her the group to Hearthome City.
Riley appeared more than 50 episodes later, when Ash journeyed to Iron Island in Steeling Peace of Mind!, after facing Byron. Like Ash, Riley has the ability to use Aura. He and his , along with Ash and his friends, stopped Team Galactic's plot to discover the location of the Spear Pillar on Mt. Coronet. Then, they attempted to calm the types that were disturbed by the beam the villainous team was sending at the mountain in Saving the World from Ruins!.
Marley appeared in Keeping in Top Forme!, where she was helping a get to a field of Gracideas. was after Shaymin, and Marley, along with her , helped Shaymin escape by hiding it in her basket. Marley asked , along with Ash and , to escort her to the garden to find the field of Gracidea flowers for Shaymin. After Shaymin had changed into its , it helped to defeat Team Rocket and left.
Buck appeared in Bucking the Treasure Trend!, where he was looking for a hidden treasure near Lily of the Valley Island. As he parted ways with Ash and his friends at the end of the episode, he planned to head to Stark Mountain.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Riley debuted in Epilogue, where he was seen heading towards the aboard the S.S. Sinnoh.
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By the request of Byron, Riley trained on Iron Island to prepare him for his upcoming confrontation with Team Galactic.
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All the stat Trainers appeared at the Battle Zone. Buck tried to protect from Team Galactic, only to unwittingly unseal it and thus allow Charon to it. The other stat Trainers later accompanied to the Distortion World for the final confrontation against Charon.
==Models==
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VS model 	VS model 					 	 				
Name 	Name 					 	 				
Back model	Back model					 	 				
Met in 	Met in 					 	 				
 	 					 	 				
==Trivia==
* All of the Pokémon used by the stat Trainers when they team up with the player are Pokémon that, as of Generation IV, have evolved once.
* All the stat Trainers' names are based on a variety of grains in the original Japanese and all translated versions.
* In , they are the only Pokémon Trainers to use animated sprites but have the standard Trainer battle music, though other Trainers would gain this trait in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
==Related articles==
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Category:Fanon terminology
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