Winstrate family

The Winstrate family (Japanese: カチヌキファミリー Kachinuki family) are a family of five who are obsessed with Pokémon battles and battling. The family consists of father Victor, mother Victoria, daughter Vivi, son Vito, and grandmother Vicky. The Winstrates live in a house on , north of Mauville City. Vito is not at home, however, as he has left to challenge the Pokémon League.
==In the games==
Winstrate/The Winstrates' (Japanese: カチヌキさんち Kachinuki Family) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that debuted in the Generation III games. It refers to members of the Winstrate family, who are found in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, , Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire. Unlike most Trainer classes, there is no determined sprite, and each of the Winstrates have the sprite of that of a different Trainer class. The Winstrates challenge passing Trainers to a string of successive Pokémon battles. If they can be defeated, they will yield the Macho Brace they use to toughen up their Pokémon.
According to Vivi, Vito was the best Trainer, followed by Grandma Vicky, herself, her mother, and her father. Vito can be battled on the bottom floor of in between two waterfalls near the end of the game, while the other members of the Winstrate family can be found at the southern half of .
===Pokémon===
====Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald====
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====Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire====
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=====Victory Road=====
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===Quotes===
===Sprites and models===
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
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==In animation==
===History===
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In Candid Camerupt, and became stranded in the heat of the desert, but were saved by the Winstrate family. Victor revealed that two months prior, Vito, the son of the family, had left on his own journey to become a Hoenn League Champion. After giving them a tour of their house and yard, which included a purpose-built battlefield, they decided to challenge them to a four-on-four . 
First, battled against Victor. Brock's Mudkip was quickly defeated by Victor's 's , much to the group's surprise. Next, , who used , fought against Victoria and her . May won the round by using a strategy similar to that of the one she used against Drew's Roselia in the Pokémon Contest, defeating her opponent with and . In the next round, Max borrowed Ash's Corphish to fight against Vivi and her . Max ordered Corphish to go easy on Marill, but Corphish ignored him and viciously attacked its opponent, causing an instant knockout. This gave Max the win, but it was a hollow victory, as he had a crush on Vivi and because of that loss she no longer showed interest in him.
For the final round, Ash and went up against Vicky and . Unfortunately, as Pikachu's hit Camerupt in the face, it got angry, and started using and rampaging around, threatening the Winstrate's crops. Thankfully, Vito who was on his way home to admit that he wished to pursue raising Pokémon instead of becoming a Champion, had been watching. He used his 's to calm down Camerupt. As the match between Pikachu and Camerupt was interrupted, Vicky granted Ash the victory.
Just then, arrived and attempted to steal Pikachu, but thanks to Vito, the villains were sent blasting off. Vicky was aware her grandson was nearby and declared that the family supported his ambitions, whatever path he wished. Vito was relieved, as he feared informing his family that he had failed their to meet their expectations. Without confronting his family Vito left again, this time on a journey to learn to raise Pokémon. Afterwards, the group also went on their way.
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Vito appeared again in Battling as Hard as Stone!, watching and Ash's Masters Eight Tournament battle on television.
===Pokémon===
====Victor's====
====Victoria's====
====Vivi's====
====Vicky's====
====Vito's====
===Voice actors===
==In the manga==
===Ash & Pikachu===
The Winstrate family appeared in A Pokémon Battle Against An Entire Family?!.
====Pokémon====
=====Victor=====
=====Victoria=====
=====Vivi=====
=====Vicky=====
=====Vito=====
======Status unknown======
These Pokémon appeared in the Winstrate family's flashback, it is not known if they were his:
			
			
==Trivia==
* The way the Winstrate family is challenged is similar to the way the player challenges the Elite Four in the games.
* The , , and translations of may not have caught on to Vito's relationship to the Winstrate family, as he is given a name that breaks from the family naming pattern in those translations.
* In , Vito's knows and , but they will always fail because it does not know . This is presumably because his Pokémon are only given standard level-up moves.
==Names==
 
Language	Name 	Origin
Japanese	カチヌキ Kachinuki 	From 勝ち抜く kachinuku (to win through)
English 	Winstrate 	From win straight
French 	Stratège 	From stratège (strategist)
German 	Sihgers 	From Sieger (winner)
Italian 	Vinci 	From vincitore (winner)
Spanish 	Estratega 	From estratega (strategist)
Korean 	연승 Yeonseung 	From 연승 yeonseung (winning streak)
Korean 	황보 Hwangbo 	
 	連勝 Liánshèng 	From 連勝 liánshèng (winning streak)
Winstrate / The Winstrates'
The Winstrates' English given names are a play on "victory". In the French versions of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, all of the Winstrates except Vito share their names with people from Greek mythology: , , , and .
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==Related articles==
Category:Trainer classes
Category:Game characters
Category:Ruby and Sapphire characters
Category:Emerald characters
Category:Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire characters
Category:Animation characters
Category:Manga characters
Category:Ash & Pikachu characters
Category:Groups consisting of characters with different genders
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zh:连胜家族