Alexander Silph

**Alexander Silph** is the heir to Silph Co., a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and the inventor of the upgrade a Porygon needs to use to evolve into Porygon2.

He is also an extremely talented Pokémon Trainer having won the Johto, Unova, and Sinnoh Pokémon Leagues and gotten silvers and bronzes in Kanto, Hoenn, and Kalos. When battling, he breaks his teams up into Alpha and Beta teams, which team being used depending on the skill of his opponents.

His personal assistant is the A.I. Cepu, which has all the functions of Ash's Pokédex, while having more safeguards in place to prevent actions like detonating a reactor core to kill an opponent and catching innocents in the blast.

## History

### Indigo Training Arc

Wanting to learn what he can about upcoming rookie trainers for the approaching Indigo League Conference, Alexander had Cepu track down Ash. After locating him, Alexander donned a disguise and then challenged Ash to a battle with the hopes to evaluate the threat level of as many of Ash's Pokémon as possible. Ash accepted, so the battle commenced with Alexander using his Alolan Raichu against Ash's Ambipom. Raichu was able to put up a pretty good fight but ended up falling to the Normal-type after taking a powerful Double Hit. Alexander then brought out his Golisopod to face Ash's Boldore. Even though Boldore used Breakneck Blitz, Golisopod was able to avoid the hit thanks to a well timed Substitute, before taking the Rock-type out with a pair of Water Pulses. The third match of the battle was between Alexander's Lycanroc and Ash's Pikachu, which Alexander again lost this time to a surprise Volt Tackle. Alexander was prepared to send out a fourth Pokémon but Ash called him out on suspicious behavior, prompting Alexander to teleport away with the help of Cepu.

### Mewtwo Arc

Alexander received an invitation to an event happening on New Island where the "World's strongest Pokémon Trainer" was due to appear. When a freak storm caused the ferry to reach the island to be cancelled, Alexander decided to use a Silph Co. submarine to brave the storm. He allowed Gary Oak and Casey Snagem to join him in the submarine.

Upon reaching the island he along with his passengers exited the submarine and were confronted by a woman that Alexander suspected to be a robot until he observed her breathing. She had them join the other attendees in a large room and then had them all bring all of their Pokémon out of their balls. He used this opportunity to take note of all the Pokémon the other trainers around him had brought out around them. Silph continued observing everything while Mewtwo revealed himself and through the eventual battle between the Psychic-type and Casey and his Bond Phenomenon Chesnaught. When Casey was damaged at the same time as his Chesnaught, Silph was concerned as he did not know why the older man would be affected that way. He had his Blissey assist with healing the man after the battle concluded.

After Mewtwo captures all the Pokémon and Bloodliners present, he reveals his plans to clone Amber and use his memories to recreate her mind. Alexander alongside some of the other trainers there point out holes in the logic, and like them is targeted by one of Mewtwo's psychic attacks. This continues until Ash's Pokédex causes a massive explosion that threatens all uncaptured person's lives that Mewtwo is forced to exert all of his energy into stopping. Alexander is blown away that an AI would be capable of unleashing that amount of destruction. Mewtwo then reveals his newly cloned Pokémon army, shortly followed by Ash leading all of the originals back into the area. A massive battle takes place between both sides with Silph doing what he can to help lead his Pokémon to victory.

After the battle is won, Mewtwo erases Alexander's memories of the event, but Cepu was able to keep maintain a recording of everything. Upon waking where he was before the event, Cepu informs Alexander about the events and he then watches the recordings.

### Indigo Arc

Alexander makes his way to Indigo Plateau when it becomes time for him to have another try at the Indigo League Conference. In the first round, he is able to win the round using only his Alolan Raichu and Golisopod. He continues to win his battles, until he meets Red in the Top 16 battle.

With his knowledge about Red from his observations both through the tournament as well as on New Island, Alexander decides a team geared towards the unexpected rather than raw power. While his Alolan Marowak is unable to knock out any of Red's Pokémon before getting taken down, Alexander's Hydreigon is able to knock out all three of Red's Persian, Dodrio and Scyther, though the Bug-type is able to take the dragon down with it. Red has a much stronger showing in the second half of the battle, and is actually able to take the win away from Alexander. Alexander reflects on this as his own loss rather than his Pokémon's as it was his decision to play too hard into confusing Red. Silph then congratulates his opponent and promises himself that he won't underestimate the younger trainer next time.

## Pokémon

* Psychic
* Thunderbolt
* Eerie Impulse

* Electric Terrain

* Poison Jab
* Water Pulse

* Bulk Up
* Stone Edge

* Shadow Bone
* Ice Beam
* Flare Blitz

* Ice Fang
* Zen Headbutt
* Focus Blast
* Fire Spin

* Shadow Claw
* Ally Switch

* Giga Drain

## Achievements

 Indigo League Conference | Top 16

## Trivia

* Alexander Silph was designed as a foil for Ash Ketchum meant to challenge his belief about holding back against his opponents being a good thing.
* The basis for Silph was originally going to appear during the Red Sevii Islands Arc, but was removed because a sudden cutaway from Red and Yellow would be too jarring.
* Image created by acpeters.

## Links

1. ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/acpeters/art/Reset-Bloodlines-Alexander-Silph-Design-902411819