Aaron

Aaron リョウ Ryou
[[File:File:Ryou.png|{{{size}}}]] Art from Diamond and Pearl
Gender	Male
Eye color	Green
Hair color	Green
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Sinnoh
Trainer class	Elite Trainer
Generation	IV
Games	Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
Elite Four of	Indigo Plateau
Animated debut	A Trainer and Child Reunion
English voice actor	Tom Wayland
Japanese voice actor	Kenshō Ono Chinami Nishimura (child)

Aaron (Japanese: リョウ Ryou) is a master Template:Type2 Trainer and member of the Sinnoh Elite Four.

In the anime

Aaron in the anime

Aaron was briefly mentioned by Lucian in An Elite Meet and Greet. However, Aaron made his actual debut appearance in A Trainer and Child Reunion! where he was shown to be preparing for his championship battle against Cynthia. Finding out that Ash and his friends know Cynthia personally, he took them to his training center.

He also reveals that a Wurmple was his first ever Pokémon and friend when he was young but due to his anger at it for losing a match, he abandoned it. He regretted it later and from then on tried his best to train hard and to understand Bug-type Pokémon so that the same incident would not happen again. He eventually encounters it again as a Beautifly at the end of the episode, following a battle against Team Rocket.

He was seen again on television, one episode later, having his battle with Cynthia. It was also shown that he had lost the match.

Pokémon

This listing is of Aaron's known Pokémon in the anime:

→ → Wurmple → Silcoon → Beautifly
Skorupi	Drapion	Vespiquen

Voice actors

• Japanese
  • Kenshō Ono
  • Chinami Nishimura (child)
• English
  • Tom Wayland

In the games

In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, Aaron is the first member of the Sinnoh Elite Four.

Pokémon

The following are Aaron's different battling teams for the games he appears in.

Quotes

Before battle:
"Hello! Welcome to the Pokémon League! I'm Aaron of the Elite Four. It's good to meet you. Oh, I should explain, I'm a huge fan of bug Pokémon. Bug Pokémon are nasty-mean, and yet they're beautiful, too... Would you like to know why I take on challengers here, in this room? It's because I want to become perfect, just like my bug Pokémon! Ok! Let me take you on!"

During battle:
"Not yet! Your first Pokémon League victory doesn't come easily, kid."

When defeated:
"I will now concede defeat. But I think you came to see how great Bug-type Pokémon can be. I hope you also realized why you're up against in the Pokémon League. Battling is a deep and complex affair..."

After battle:
"I lost with the most beautiful and toughest of the bug Pokémon... We lost because I wasn't good enough... That's it! Back to training camp! Let's hear it for me! No... That was wrong... Anyway... Go on to the next room! Three Trainers are waiting for you. They are all tougher than me."

Last words:
"Go on, go to the next room. I'm going to become a top-level Trainer who can't be outclassed with my beautiful and tough bug Pokémon!

Trivia

• Aaron is the only trainer in Pokémon Platinum whose animated sprite enters the screen from the top.
• In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Aaron's Heracross knows Megahorn at level 54, a move it normally learns at level 55. The only way for this to happen normally would be for a female Heracross to be bred with a Pokémon that already knows the move, as the offspring would hatch with the move.
  • Interestingly, Megahorn was removed from its attacks in Platinum initially. Heracross does have the move in the rematch.
• In Platinum, he is the only Elite Four member who still has a Pokémon that is not of his specialty type. Drapion is a Poison/Dark Pokémon, though it evolves from the Poison/Bug Skorupi. Also, Drapion is part of the Bug Egg Group.
• In Platinum, all of his Pokémon except for Drapion have a 4x weakness: Heracross to Flying, Vespiquen and Yanmega to Rock, and Scizor to Fire.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	リョウ Ryō	Possibly derived from senryō, the Chloranthaceae family of plants. From 猟, "hunting" or "catching," possibly referring to bug catching, or 蜋, "insect."
English, French, Italian	Aaron	It's similar to arachnid.
German	Herbaro
Spanish	Alecrán	From alacrán, scorpion.
Korean	충호 Chungho	충 (蟲) is Sino-Korean for bug.
Chinese	阿柳 Ā Liǔ	柳 (willow) is read as ryuu in Japanese. May be a misinterpretation of his Japanese name.

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