Erick

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## Trainer Status

### Trainer Class

Electrical Engineer

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Erick is the Electric leader of the Aevium region who gives out the ninth badge. He specializes in Electric types. He is somewhat of a technical genius as he's responsible for building Sakitron.

## Appearance

Erick has blue hair that curves outward to the side and also downward, tied into a ponytail. He has a drill like hair accessory on each side of his head and wears a grey and red striped shirt. On top of that shirt, he wears a mostly white jacket with buttoned cuffs and a red and yellow striped band circling around each arm at the top. His pants are a dark grey, and his shoes are white with blue soles.

## Personality

Erick is an upbeat person. He's energetic and always ready for action. He is a competent hacker, as well as a frequent anime watcher, but the player won't get to see much of these traits. Said traits probably stem from his crush on Saki Blakeory. He's also never afraid to ask for help, even if he doesn't need it.

## Biography

Erick is first met right after the player, Melia, and Venam get to West Gearen on a boat stolen from Karrina. West Gearen will be under a green mist that knocks people out upon smelling it. After this, the group goes into the  West Gearen Sewers and encounters Erick. They find that Erick has been fighting a Dimensional Rift Garbodor for some time now.

After navigating through the sewers for a while, the player and the rest of the group corner by the Garbodor. The player will have to fight it and win in order to progress. After defeating the Garbodor, Melia will then acknowledge that the Garbodor is the one she created. Erick will then bring up that it's probably regenerating from something.

#### Without getting the notebook in Kugearen

After navigating through the sewers again, the Rift Garbodor is eventually cornered within a Corrupted Cave. Once again, the player will have to defeat it to progress. After this, the mist around West Gearen will dissipate and Erick will invite you to his Gym.

#### Getting the notebook in Kugearen

If the player gets the notebook, after defeating the Rift Garbodor in the corrupted cave, the player will have the choice to show Melia the notebook. Melia then shows it to Erick, who says he can figure out how it works. The notebook is a guide on how to cure Dimensional Rift Pokémon, and as such, Erick contains the Garbodor until he can figure it out fully. In the meantime, the mist around West Gearen dissipates and Erick invites you to his gym.

After being defeated, Erick will wish the player goodbye. Erick is not seen for a chunk of time until the player reaches Grand Dream City.

In Grand Dream City, there's a help quest involving Dimensional Rift Pokémon, and how there seem to be a lot of them on the lose. After a while of searching, Looker and Anabel, two researchers involved in the quest, recruit Erick for his knowledge of computers and hacking skills. Erick denies it at first, but ultimately gives in. Once everyone reaches the door in the Darchlight Caves, Erick will insist that only what's on the inside can open the door, and no computer can do it. The player will eventually use the badge obtained by Florin/Flora to open the door to fight and defeat the Rift Ferrothorn.

## Pokémon

* Casual
* Normal
* Intense

### West Gearen Sewage Management

Erick is fought on the Murkwater Surface field in Double Battle format.

Erick has 1 Hyper Potion.

### West Gearen Sewage Management

Erick is fought on the Murkwater Surface field in Double Battle format.

Erick has 2 Ultra Potions.

### West Gearen Sewage Management

Erick is fought on the Murkwater Surface field in Double Battle format.

Erick has 3 Full Restores.

## Strategy

Erick's signature move is Thunder Pulse. This move has a tendency to miss, but if it hits, it always paralyzes. It's essentially a more accurate version of Zap Cannon.

#### Normal

It is probably a good idea to have at least 1 Pokémon on your team that cannot be Paralyzed (any Electric or Ground Pokémon). A Pokémon with Limber could also be work, but the resistance/immunity to Thunder Pulse is very helpful. Poison Pokémon are also good to have because their attacks are significantly boosted by the field and they are immune to field damage unlike Erick's Pokémon, but keep in mind that he has 2 Pokémon with immunity to Poison (Togedemaru and Magneton). Regardless, it is best to knock out all Pokémon with Thunder Pulse (Magneton, Alolan Raichu, Eelektross, and Mega Ampharos) as soon as possible because they deal fairly high damage and will cripple your Pokémon with Paralysis. However, Wide Guard can stop this attack completely, which would be very useful and would give reason to keep these Pokémon in while focusing on the single-target Pokémon. Also, decently fast Pokémon can often still outspeed Mega Ampharos due to its pitiful Speed stat, so this is important to keep in mind. Try to keep in Erick's Togedemaru or Electivire when not having Wide Guard because they only have single-target attacks and with an Attack drop from Intimidate, they don't hit very hard. However, watch out for Togedemaru's high speed and flinching moves, but it doesn't hit as hard as Electivire. This will allow you to focus on knocking out his Pokémon with Thunder Pulse, as they (aside from Alolan Raichu) don't have any Speed investment and can pretty easily be outsped when the player's Pokémon are not Paralyzed. One can also succeed by using terrain-changing moves, as his signature move does not bring back the Murkwater Surface. However, the only real option is with Blizzard changing it to the Icy Field because the only other field that the Murkwater Surface can transform into is the Water Surface, which would only power up Erick's Electric moves even more.

## Trivia

* The West Gearen Gym Erick uses, used to be used by Saki.
* In earlier Versions Erick used to be the Reserve Electric Gym Leader, with the Primary Electric Gym Leader being Volta but the Player never got to battle her, as she was to busy with her Job as a News Reporter.