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Tamer (Trainer class)
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Tamer もうじゅうつかい Fierce Beast User | |
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Introduced in | Generation I |
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Appears in | Red, Blue, and Yellow FireRed and LeafGreen Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! Stadium |
Gender | Male |
Manga debut | Punching Poliwrath (Adventures) |
A Tamer (Japanese: もうじゅうつかい Fierce Beast User) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation I games. They are men with whips and lollipops who generally use a variety of Pokémon that are based on real-life fierce beasts.
In Pokémon Stadium, they specialize in Pokémon with moves with a high critical-hit ratio, like Slash and Crabhammer. They tend to focus on a single strategy for their entire team, often having less than four moves on all of their Pokémon.
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Sprites and models
In the core series
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Sprite from Red and Blue |
Sprite from Yellow |
Sprite from FireRed and LeafGreen |
VS model from Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! |
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Overworld sprite from Generation I |
Overworld sprite from FireRed and LeafGreen |
In other games
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Portrait from Stadium |
Trainer list
Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow
Trainer name | Battle | Winnings | [show]Pokémon |
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Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Trainer name | Battle | Winnings | [show]Pokémon |
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Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
Trainer name | Battle | Winnings | [show]Pokémon |
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Pokémon Stadium
Trainer name | Battle | [show]Pokémon |
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In the manga

Pokémon Adventures
A Tamer made a cameo appearance in a flashback in Punching Poliwrath. He was one of the Trainers who wanted to challenge Red to a battle after his win at the Indigo League, but he was considered to be a "boring" match.
Trivia
- Some Tamers using Sandslash could be a reference to a comedy by William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew.
- Tamers are the only Trainers introduced in Generation I to still be shown holding whips in the remakes.
In other languages
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