Pokémon Trainer's Choice

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Pokémon Trainer's Choice is a feature from the English dub of the Pokémon anime. Starting from What You Seed is What You Get, Trainer's Choice was the lead-in to the mid-show advertisement break. It replaced the original series's Who's That Pokémon?. It was not used in the original Japanese version of the anime; instead, a simple eyecatch was shown. The final Trainer's Choice aired with Pasta La Vista!. It was not replaced with a similar feature.

Trainer's Choice follows a simple concept. Rather than recognizing the silhouette of a Pokémon, viewers are asked a question about a Pokémon and instructed to choose the best of three possible answers, usually over a commercial break when watched on TV. Generally, the viewer is asked to determine which Pokémon has a type advantage over another; although other questions have been asked for. The feature is guided by Ash Ketchum.

When Pokémon USA and TAJ Productions began dubbing the series, Trainer's Choice production ceased.

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Seviper evolves from Arbok?

As the successor to the long-running "Who's That Pokémon?", Trainer's Choice was initially met with criticism from some of the fandom, especially considering the change was in the middle of a newly-started saga. 4Kids Entertainment very frequently made Pokémon type match-up errors, resulting in many incorrect answers given, questions with multiple correct answers, questions with no possible correct answer and questions with no right or wrong answer at all. The company also frequently made spelling errors in the names of Pokémon. These constant mistakes were seen by many as an indication that 4Kids in actuality knew very little about the franchise. The most famous example is their erroneous claim that Seviper evolves from Arbok, featured in the Trainer's Choice of A Fan with a Plan; the Trainer's Choice scene in particular is a source of ridicule by many fans.

In Pokémon: Advanced Battle, the creation of questions for Trainer's Choice was credited to Lawrence Neves and the accuracy rate was greatly improved. Starting with Advanced Battle, the questions did not involve any relevance on another Pokémon. The question themes included best battle choice, evolutions, and others.

List of questions

Episode	Question	Choices						Image	Notes
AG041	Trainers, which Pokémon is the best choice to battle Poliwrath?	Combusken		Mudkip		Taillow
AG042	Trainers, which Pokémon would be most effective against Mudkip?	Roselia		Plusle		Torchic			Roselia, a part Grass-type, also has an advantage over Mudkip, a Water-type.
AG043	Trainers, which of these evolves into Grovyle?	Nincada		Lotad		Treecko
AG044	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Carvanha?	Diglett		Slugma		Minun
AG045	Trainers, which Pokémon evolves into Marshtomp?	Mudkip		Surskit		Marill
AG046	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Camerupt?	Beedrill		Nuzleaf		Magcargo			This is incorrect because the part Grass-type Nuzleaf is weak to the part Fire-type Camerupt. None of the choices has an advantage over Camerupt.
AG047	Trainers, which Pokémon would be the best choice to battle against Silcoon?	Sableye		Marill		Weezing
AG048	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle against Ninjask?	Torkoal		Dewgong		Nosepass			While the answer is correct, the Rock-type Nosepass would be doubly effective against the Bug/Flying-type Ninjask.
AG049	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Lombre?	Lotad		Electrike		Oddish
AG050	Trainers, which of these is the best to battle Magneton?	Crobat		Lanturn		Geodude
AG051	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Shelgon?	Bagon		Aron		Zangoose
AG052	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Shiftry?	Swampert		Taillow		Torkoal			Taillow, a part Flying-type, would also be a good choice against Shiftry, who is part Grass.
AG053	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Kirlia?	Togetic		Combusken		Graveler			This is incorrect due to the part Fighting-type Combusken's weakness to the Psychic-type Kirlia. None of the choices has an advantage over Kirlia.
AG054	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Medicham?	Magnemite		Machop		Meditite
AG055	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Tyrogue?	Dustox		Togetic		Suicune
AG056	Trainers, which Pokémon is the best choice to battle Foretresssic?	Minun		Swellow		Seviper			This is incorrect due to Forretress's immunity to Seviper's Poison type. The Electric-type Minun and the part Flying-type Swellow both affect Forretress neutrally, so either would be the best choice. Also, Forretress was misspelled as Foretress.
AG057	Trainers, which Pokémon is the best choice to battle Seedot?	Surskit		Delibird		Seel			Though the Grass-type Seedot is weak to the Bug/Water-type Surskit, the part Flying-type Delibird's resistance to Grass makes it the best choice.
AG058	Trainers, which Pokémon evolves into Camerupt?	Torkoal		Slugma		Numel
AG059	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Manectric?	Swampert		Larvitar		Torkoal			Swampert, also immune to Electric, would be correct as well.
AG060	Trainers, which of these evolves into Wobbuffet?	Wynaut		Horsea		Wailmer
AG061	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Crawdaunt?	Volbeat		Chinchou		Houndour
AG062	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Wooper?	Spheal		Delcatty		Zubat			This is incorrect, for Spheal has no advantage over Wooper. Zubat, however, is immune to Wooper's Ground-type attacks.
AG063	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Roselia?	Electabuzz		Grovyle		Camerupt
AG064	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Delcatty?	Spinda		Poochyena		Skitty
AG065	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Larvitar?	Treecko		Shedinja		Carvanha			The Rock/Ground-type Larvitar also has a double weakness to the part Water-type Carvanha.
AG066	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Numel?	Heracross		Pichu		Medicham
AG067	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Altaria?	Roselia		Swablu		Surskit
AG068	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Corphish?	Minun		Marowak		Nincada
AG069	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Combusken?	Nuzleaf		Togetic		Flareon
AG070	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Magcargo?	Torkoal		Corphish		Slugma
AG071	Trainers, which of one these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Slowking?	Nidoqueen		Jolteon		Makuhita
AG072	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Ariados?	Raichu		Onyxsic		Blaziken			The Fire/Fighting-type Blaziken resists Ariados's Bug attacks as much as the Rock/Ground-type Onix resists its Poison attacks. Also, Onix was misspelled as Onyx.
AG073	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Manectric?	Electrike		Mantine		Electrode
AG074	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Meditite?	Nuzleafsic		Combusken		Heracross			This is incorrect due to the part Fighting-type Combusken's weakness to the part Psychic-type Meditite. The part Flying-type Beautifly would be the best choice against the part Fighting Meditite. Also, Nuzleaf's name appears where Beautifly's image is.
AG075	Trainers, which of these Pokémon evolve into Vigoroth?	Machop		Slakoth		Zangoose
AG076	Trainers, which of these is the best to beat Illumise?	Crobat		Lotad		Togetic
AG077	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Seviper?	Sableye		Arbok		Suicune			This is incorrect. Seviper is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
AG078	Trainers, which of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Ludicolo?	Mightyena		Camerupt		Duskull			This is incorrect due to the Fire/Ground-type Camerupt's double weakness to the part Water-type Ludicolo. Mightyena and Duskull both affect Ludicolo neutrally, so either would be the best choice.
AG079	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Electabuzz?	Steelix		Cacnea		Shiftry
AG080	Trainers, which of these Pokémon evolves into Swampert?	Spheal		Marshtomp		Golduck
AG081	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Tyrogue?	Nuzleafsic		Exploud		Dustox			This is incorrect because the Normal-type Exploud is weak to the Fighting-type Tyrogue. The Bug/Poison-type Dustox would be the best choice for its double resistance to Fighting. Also, Nuzleaf's name appears where Sealeo's image is.
AG082	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Sunflora?	Venomoth		Wailmer		Gastly
AG083	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Weezing?	Cascoon		Koffing		Muk
AG084	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Magby?	Solrock		Lombre		Ponyta			The part Rock-type Solrock would be a better choice because it resists Fire.
AG085	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Baltoy?	Lapras		Meganium		Ledian			Although all of the choices have an advantage over the Ground/Psychic-type Baltoy, this is incorrect because Ledian bears an immunity to Baltoy's Ground attacks, whereas the Grass-type Meganium has only a resistance and Lapras takes neutral damage.
AG086	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Sandslash?	Kadabra		Sandshrew		Kecleon
AG087	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Illumise?	Parasect		Gulpin		Lanturn
AG088	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Whiscash?	Cacnea		Charizard		Delibird
AG089	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Raichu?	Pichu		Pikachu		Torchic
AG090	Trainers, which of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Spoink?	Makuhita		Swampert		Qwilfish			This is incorrect due to the Fighting-type Makuhita's weakness to the Psychic-type Spoink, which the part Poison-type Qwilfish has as well. Therefore, Swampert is the best choice.
AG091	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best choice to battle Flaafysic?	Swinub		Shroomish		Misdreavus			Flaaffy was misspelled as Flaafy.
AG092	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Nuzleaf?	Surskit		Seedot		Doduo
AG093	Trainers, which Pokémon would be most affected by Ember?	Seedot		Lapras		Ludicolo
AG094	Trainers, which Pokémon does Remoraid evolve into?	Octillery		Carvanha		Mantine
AG095	Trainers, which Pokémon would be most effective against Mudkip?	Treecko		Torchic		Mudkip
AG096	Trainers, which Pokémon comes first?	Poliwhirl		Poliwag		Poliwrath
AG097	Trainers, which Pokémon would be most effective against Plusle and Minun?	Mudkip		Torchic		Treecko			This is incorrect. The Water-type Mudkip is actually the only choice that is weak to Plusle and Minun's Electric type. The Grass-type Treecko is the best choice because it resists Electric.
AG098	Trainers, which is the final evolution of Totodile?	Scyther		Feraligatr		Gyarados
AG099	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon does not evolve?	Lileep		Tangela		Houndour			This was correct at the time, for Tangrowth was not introduced until Generation IV.
AG100	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon isn't a pure Fighting-type?	Makuhita		Blaziken		Machamp
AG101	Trainers, which Pokémon is Pikachu most effective against?	Wingull		Magcargo		Manectric
AG102	Trainers, which Pokémon was my original choice as a starter?	Squirtle		Bulbasaur		Charmander
AG103	Trainers, which Pokémon is Larvitar's final evolution?	Armaldo		Tyranitar		Dragonite
AG104	Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is not a Normal-type?	Flaafysic		Togepi		Cleffa			Flaaffy was misspelled as Flaafy again.
AG105	Trainers, what humble Pokémon is the first evolution of Flygon?	Altaria		Trapinch		Cacnea
AG106	Trainers, which Pokémon would last the longest against a Psychic attack?	Misdreavus		Teddiursa		Poochyena			This is incorrect due to Poochyena's immunity to Psychic.
AG107	Trainers, which of these Pokémon does not evolve?	Remoraid		Relicanth		Goldeen
AG108	Trainers, which Pokémon is the pre-evolved form of Pikachu?	Plusle		Pichu		Raichu
AG109	Trainers, which Pokémon is not a dual-type Pokémon?	Medicham		Linoone		Lunatone
AG110	Trainers, which Pokémon is the final evolution of Caterpie?	Venomoth		Butterfree		Beautifly
AG111	Trainers, which of these is not a Water-type Pokémon?	Golduck		Castform		Milotic			While this is correct, Castform can turn into a Water-type under rainy conditions.
AG112	Trainers, which of these Pokémon comes first?	Flaafysic		Mareep		Ampharos			Flaaffy was misspelled as Flaafy for the third time.
AG113	Trainers, which Pokémon is the final evolution of Bellsprout?	Gardevoir		Victreebel		Sunflora
AG114	Trainers, which Pokémon would not be affected by Earthquake?	Sandshrew		Lunatone		Whiscash
AG115	Trainers, which Pokémon comes first?	Jumpluff		Skiploom		Hoppip
AG116	Trainers, which Pokémon is super effective against its own type?	Salamence		Mudkip		Graveler			While this is correct, the Rock/Ground-type Graveler is weak to Ground attacks.
AG117	Trainers, which of these Pokémon is not an evolution Eevee?	Bagon		Vaporeon		Espeon
AG118	Trainers, which Pokémon goes from land to sky in one evolution?	Noctowl		Trapinch		Loudred
AG119	Trainers, which Pokémon is your best choice to battle Flygon?	Walrein		Espeon		Blaziken
AG120	This episode was not dubbed. Therefore, there is no Trainer's Choice for this episode.
AG121	Trainers, Which of these Pokémon comes first?	Slakoth		Slaking		Vigoroth
AG122	Trainers, which of these Pokémon is a Flying-type?	Combusken		Flygon		Tropius
AG123	Trainers, what is the final evolution of Geodude?	Dugtrio		Regirock		Golem
AG124	Trainers, which Pokémon remains the same type throughout its evolutions?	Torchic		Ralts		Horsea			This was correct at the time, for Gallade was not introduced until Generation IV.
AG125	Trainers, what humble Pokémon does Kingdra begin as?	Misdreavus		Marill		Horsea
AG126	Trainers, which Pokémon does Tentacool evolve into?	Tentacruel		Octillery		Remoraid
AG127	Trainers, which of these Pokémon would be considered legendary?	Salamence		Entei		Milotic
AG128	Trainers, which of these Pokémon has at least two evolutions?	Gulpin		Spheal		Wailmer
AG129	Trainers, which of these Pokémon is not a Ground-type?	Nosepass		Phanpy		Groudon
AG130	Trainers, which of these Pokémon would you catch by fishing?	Lickitung		Feebas		Wobbuffet
AG131	Trainers, which of these Pokémon does not evolve?	Baltoy		Aron		Mawile
AG132	Trainers, if Arcanine fought Kirlia, who would have the advantage?	Arcanine			Kirlia				This is incorrect because Fire-types and Psychic-types affect each other neutrally. Also, this is the first and only Trainer's Choice that has two choices instead of three.
AG133	Trainers, which of these Pokémon does not change during battle?	Kecleon		Castform		Swalot
AG134	Trainers, which of these Pokémon does not evolve?	Feebas		Luvdisc		Barboach
AG135	Trainers, which Pokémon is most effective against Machoke?	Sudowoodo		Gardevoir		Poochyena
AG136	Trainers, which of these Pokémon has only one evolution?	Spoink		Whismur		Beldum
AG137	Trainers, which Pokémon would be most affected by Earthquake?	Whiscash		Altaria		Flygon
AG138	Trainers, which of these Pokémon does not evolve?	Ralts		Machop		Ursaring
AG139	Trainers, which Pokémon would not be affected by Psychic?	Shuppet		Mightyena		Dusclops
AG140	Trainers, which species is the "Time Travel Pokémon"?	Mewtwo		Celebi		Deoxys
AG141	Trainers, which Pokémon is not a Flying-type?	Dustox		Swellow		Masquerain
AG142	Trainers, which of these Pokémon does not evolve?	Skitty		Sableye		Nincada
AG143	Trainers, which of these Pokémon is the tallest?	Registeel		Regice		Regirock
AG144	Trainers, which of these Pokémon is the heaviest?	Snorlax		Wailord		Groudon
AG145	Trainers, which of these Pokémon does not evolve?	Wynaut		Absol		Snorunt