Pokemon: Every Champion's Backstory, Explained
The crowning achievement across the Pokemon games remains the same no matter the region, version, or generation in which you're playing – catch your Pokemon, train them, and become the Champion with their help. You’ll follow your player character as they take on a Gym Challenge and prove to a handful of regional professionals that they have what it takes. Only after completing this preliminary test and besting the Elite Four, you can challenge the Champion.
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You’ll usually meet your Champion long before taking them on, and you’ll spend the duration of the game learning at least a little about their life outside the Championship. Many of them have auxiliary jobs, families, or passions that keep them busy when they’re not working with their Pokemon. But since there are so many of them spread so far and wide around the Pokemon world, we wanted to take a look back at all our Pokemon Champions so far.
Your rival in the Gen 1 games is consistently one step ahead – it’s his driving motivator.
Blue and your player character, ubiquitously known as Red in the English games, grew up together in Pallet Town. The pair were good friends growing up (depending on which game you're playing), but we learn that Blue gradually became meaner over time in his unending quest to be better than Red. He views you as his rival simply because you’re the same age and height, and he’ll crop up several times in your journey across Kanto for the occasional battle, “to test your skills.”
Canonically in the Gen 1 games, Blue (or Gary, in the anime) beats the Indigo League before Red, but Red shows up to challenge him and takes the title before Professor Oak can arrive to formally recognize Blue. The
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