Professor Sada

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Professor Sada オーリム Olim
Art from Pokémon Scarlet
Gender	Female
Eye color	Cyan
Hair color	Blonde
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Paldea
Relatives	Arven (son)
Trainer class	AI
Generation	IX
Games	Scarlet

Professor Sada (Japanese: オーリム Olim) is a Pokémon Professor in Pokémon Scarlet. Along with Professor Turo, she is the only character in the games to have the Trainer class AI.

In the core series games

Professor Sada first contacts the player when they enter the Naranja Academy for the first time, asking them to take care of the Koraidon that was once under her possession. Throughout the game, she frequently contacts the player as Koraidon gradually regains the powers it once lost. Once Koraidon is fully powered, Sada asks the player to travel to her laboratory at the Great Crater of Paldea. As the player, Nemona, Arven, and Penny traverse the area to reach Sada's laboratory, the Professor reveals that she succeeded in creating a time machine, which has brought Pokémon known as Paradox Pokémon from the distant past into modern time, including two specimens of Koraidon.

At the Zero Lab, the player discovers that the Professor Sada they've been talking with has actually been a robot the whole time, infused with an artificial intelligence copy of the real Professor, who was killed by one of the Paradox Pokémon. While the original Professor Sada wished to let Pokémon of the past keep entering the modern day through the time machine, the AI refuses to let the Paldea region's ecosystem be ruined by these time-displaced Pokémon and asks for the player's help in shutting down the time machine. The AI is, however, programmed to protect the time machine, so the player is forced to battle it and the Paradox Pokémon it wields against the AI's will.

After the AI is defeated, the security system seals all Poké Balls not labeled with Sada's ID, forcing the player to confront the AI's Koraidon with the one they've spent the entire game with. Once the opposing Koraidon has been defeated, AI Sada understands that the time machine cannot be shut down as long as it remains present to reboot the system, so it chooses to travel to the distant past its creator had hoped to see, bidding farewell to the player and their friends as it disappears into the time machine.

Pokémon

Sada's Pokémon are contained in Master Balls.

First battle

AI Sada Zero Lab Scarlet

Types: Bug Fighting Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Slither Wing Lv.66 Lunge Bug Physical   --       Leech Life Bug Physical   --       Low Sweep Fighting Physical   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Types: Fairy Psychic Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Scream Tail Lv.66 Play Rough Fairy Physical   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Ice Punch Ice Physical   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Types: Grass Dark Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Brute Bonnet Lv.66 Earth Power Ground Special   --       Giga Drain Grass Special   --       Payback Dark Physical   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Types: Ghost Fairy Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Flutter Mane Lv.66 Power Gem Rock Special   --       Mystical Fire Fire Special   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Types: Electric Ground Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Sandy Shocks Lv.66 Discharge Electric Special   --       Earth Power Ground Special   --       Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Power Gem Rock Special   --       Types: Dragon Dark Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: Booster Energy Roaring Moon Lv.67 Dragon Claw Dragon Physical   --       Night Slash Dark Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --

Second battle

Paradise Protection Protocol Zero Lab Scarlet
Types: Fighting Dragon Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Orichalcum Pulse Held item: Heat Rock Koraidon Lv.72 Giga Impact Normal Physical   --       Bulk Up Fighting Status   --       Taunt Dark Status   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --

Formerly owned

	Types: Fighting Dragon Tera Type: Dragon  or  Unknown Ability: Orichalcum Pulse Held item: None
Koraidon Lv.68
Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Collision Course Fighting Physical   --       Endure Normal Status   --       Tera Blast Dragon Special   --

Quotes

Main article: Professor Sada/Quotes

Naranja Academy

"Hello, <player>. It is nice to meet you."

"My name is Professor Sada. I carry out Pokémon research within the Great Crater of Paldea—at a site known as Area Zero."

"Well. Allow me to get straight to the point. <player>, student ID number 805C393... You are the student who travels with the unusual Pokémon Koraidon, is that correct?"

Yes: "Thank you. I appreciate that you were honest in confirming the facts."

No: "Why would you attempt to lie? You appear in any number of clips from security camera footage together with Koraidon."

"Ah, not that I— I do not mean to offend you. In fact, I wish to ask for your assistance."

"Oh. How good to see that you are well. It has been quite a while since we last met. Koraidon was once in my care, you see."

"Its Poké Ball was also originally mine. I assume you received it from a young man called Arven. I am no longer in any position to be able to manage that Pokémon myself. This is what I would ask of you: Will you continue looking after Koraidon on my behalf?"

Yes: "I do appreciate your agreement."

No: "And yet, it is clear to see from the way Koraidon reacts to you that you must be a kind Trainer. Your bond seems quite undeniable."

"Koraidon has been greatly weakened and is currently incapable of battle. It can, however, take on a form specialized for mobility. In all likelihood, it will require some time to fully regain the capabilities it once had."

"I will provide you with my contact information. If you would please get out your phone?"

"I will be in regular contact going forward to keep tabs on your status. Until then."

South Province (Area Three)

• After defeating Klawf the Stony Cliff Titan

"Hello, <player>. This is Sada."

"I detect that Koraidon has regained some of its original power. It seems it will now be able to dash at high speeds while you're riding upon it."

"I hope you will continue to explore Paldea with Koraidon, as you have done here. Your route is not fixed but open before you. Seek out your own path, using your map and the tools you have at hand. Whenever you find your curiosity piqued, you should go and explore as your heart desires. All that you experience will help you grow in some way, great or small."

"Go forth on your journey...and take good care of Koraidon for me."

East Province (Area Three)

• After defeating Orthworm the Lurking Steel Titan

"Hello, <player>. This is Sada."

"I detect that Koraidon has regained some of its original power. While you're riding upon it, it seems it can now jump higher if you press and hold the B button."

"I am relying on you to continue taking good care of Koraidon."

Trivia

• She and Professor Turo are the first Pokémon Professors from the core series:
  • To not have a name derived from flora.
    • However, her son Arven has a name based on flora.
  • To have been confirmed deceased.
    • They are also the first Trainers in the core series to be battled post-mortem, via an AI.
  • To serve as the final main game opponent in a core series game.
• AI Sada is one of five Trainers to battle the player with more than six Pokémon. The others are Greevil in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Ghetsis in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, Volo in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and her counterpart AI Turo in Pokémon Violet.
  • However, unlike in these battles (aside from AI Turo), the player also uses a seventh Pokémon against AI Sada.
• Sada's eye color changes from blue to brown after she is fought for the first time, and remains brown for the remainder of her appearance in Pokémon Scarlet.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	オーリム Olim	From olim (Latin for "once upon a time")
English	Sada	From pasada (Spanish for past)
German	Antiqua	From antiqua (Latin for ancient)
Spanish	Albora	From albor (Spanish for beginning)
French, Italian	Olim	From her Japanese name
Korean	올림 Olim	Transcription of her Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin)	奧琳 / 奥琳 Àolín	Transcription of her Japanese name
Chinese (Cantonese)	奧琳 Oulàhm	Mandarin-based transcription of her Japanese name
European Portuguese	Professor Sada	Same as English name

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Non-player characters in the core series games

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