About Professor Birch
Birch prefers fieldwork to a stuffy lab. His introduction to most trainers is being chased by a wild Poochyena across Route 101.
Signature Pokémon
Other figures from Hoenn
Champion
Steven Stone
A wealthy Steel-type collector and the original Hoenn League Champion.
Gym Leader / Champion
Wallace
Sootopolis's Water-type artist who later became Champion.
Rival / Coordinator
May
A new trainer from Petalburg who rises to Pokémon Coordinator stardom.
Villainous Team
Maxie
Wishes to expand the land by awakening Groudon.
Villainous Team
Archie
Wishes to expand the seas by awakening Kyogre.
Gym Leader
Roxanne
Rustboro's scholarly Rock-type Leader, fresh from the Trainer's School.