Pokemon: Water-Type Champion

A Che, a poor boy from a seaside fishing village, can't even afford the Starter Pokémon set that every new trainer is expected to have. All he can do is squat on the pier and pick up a Horsea, washed ashore by the waves and barely clinging to life.

“Water-types are useless, as fragile as paper!” “A Horsea that's almost drowned? A Che, you should just go home and fish. Stop making a fool of yourself!”

The sneers of his neighbors and the disdain of Gym trainers drenched A Che again and again, like icy seawater poured over his head.

But he refuses to believe fate has decided his future.

He saves the money he would have spent on bread to buy Pokéblocks for Horsea, and takes it to practice Aqua Ring in the shallows through pouring rain. To save a Krabby injured by a bully of a trainer, he takes three Thunder Punches without backing down. In a shipwrecked ruin, he uses his own body to shield a sleeping Kabuto from falling rocks.

Horsea evolves into Seadra, its Dragon Breath wrapped in rushing water as it smashes through the Rock-type Gym's ironclad defenses. Krabby transforms into Kingler, and a single swing of its claw is enough to make even Dark-type Pokemon keep their distance. Kabuto awakens its ancient power, bursts from its shell, and becomes Kabutops, raising waves powerful enough to overturn warships!

With no powerful family backing him and no Legendary Pokemon at his side, A Che relies on nothing but his passion, leading this group of Water-type Pokemon that everyone else dismisses as “weaklings” through canyons, against Gyms, and into the Pokemon League.

When he stands atop the Champion's throne, with an army of Water-types stretching behind him across the vast sea, A Che cries out, “Water-types were never the weak ones! The weak ones are those who look down on them! Today, I am the strongest Water-type Champion!”