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Samson Oak ナリヤ・オーキド Nariya Ōkido
Overworld model from the Sun and Moon
Gender	Male
Eye color	Black
Hair color	White
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Alola
Relatives	Professor Oak (cousin), Blue (cousin-twice-removed), Daisy (cousin-twice-removed)
Generation	VII
Games	Sun and Moon
Anime debut	Alola to New Adventure!
English voice actor
Japanese voice actor	Unshō Ishizuka

Samson Oak (Japanese: ナリヤ・オーキド Nariya Ōkido) is a Pokémon researcher in Alola. He studies the regional variants of the region. He is a cousin of Professor Oak, with whom he shares a striking resemblance.

In the games

Samson Oak is first met in Malie City on Ula'ula Island in Pokémon Sun and Moon, when the player's Rotom Dex recognizes him. He tells the player about his research on regional variants, and asks them to come meet him in Malie Library. When the player meets him in the library, he talks about regional variants again, before requesting that the player show him the local variant Persian. Upon being shown an Alolan Persian, he explains why regional variants exist, and tells of his theory on why the Alolan Persian looks the way it does before giving the player a Love Ball. He also talks about his cousin in Kanto, who gave him a Kanto Pokédex which he uses to compare the Alolan variants of Kanto Pokémon to their regular form counterparts. Finally, he tells the player about how his cousin's grandson might come visit Alola someday because of the Z-Crystals Samson has sent him.

Samson is later met behind the Malie City Recycling Plant, where he explains why the regional variant Grimer is the way it is and gives the player a Friend Ball before leaving for Malie Library. The player may encounter also Samson inside the Geothermal Power Plant on Blush Mountain, where he will be standing in front of a photo of the Kalos Power Plant. Here he will tell the player about the hair of Alolan Diglett before handing the player a Lure Ball. He is also met behind the Pokémon Center atop Mount Hokulani, where he talks about Minior's variants. Before going back to Malie Library again, he gives the player a Moon Ball.

Artwork

Official artwork from the Sun & Moon series

In the anime

Samson Oak in the anime

Samson appeared in Alola to New Adventure!. He is the principal of the Pokémon School and enjoys making puns using the names of Pokémon (while usually doing a visual impression too).

Pokémon

Given Away

		Egg
		In SM008, Samson Oak gave Lillie and her classmates a choice of two Pokémon Eggs to raise as a class. Lillie chose this Egg, discovered at Mount Lanakila.
Debut	SM008

Voice actors

Trivia

• In the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese versions of the game, Samson's name is written in Western order (given name placed before family name), as opposed to his cousin, Professor Oak, whose name is written in East Asian order (family name before given name).

Names

This game character article is part of Project CharacterDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each character found in the Pokémon games.