Party
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- "Team" redirects here. For the groups responsible for exploiting Pokémon in the main series, see villainous teams.
A party or team is a group of up to six Pokémon that a Trainer carries with him or her. Only Pokémon in a Trainer's party may be used in battle. After this team of six is filled, Pokémon are sent to a PC to be stored. Trainers may have any Pokémon in their party, and newly captured Pokémon will automatically fill empty slots in the party. If a Trainer wishes to change Pokémon into or out of the party, however, they must travel to a Pokémon Center or another PC-enabled place and use its storage system to do so.
When entering a wild Pokémon single battle or a Trainer single battle, the first Pokémon that has not fainted in the party list is the one that will be drawn first. For double battles, the first two Pokémon that have not fainted in the party list are the ones that will be drawn first by the Trainer.
Appropriately, any Pokémon currently in the party is called a party Pokémon. All Pokémon in a Trainer's party will slowly gain trust towards him or her as the Trainer walks around.
