Typed Trainers

[ImMrRoboto]

Has anyone noticed that there's a trainer associated with each type in Sun/Moon except for ice?

Normal- Ilima
Fire- Kiawe
Water- Lana
Grass- Mallow
Electric- Sophocles
Rock- Olivia
Ground- Hapu
Bug- Guzma
Flying- Kahili
Psychic- Faba
Fighting- Hala
Dark- Nanu
Ghost- Acerola
Dragon- Ryuki
Fairy- Mina
Poison- Plumeria
Steel- Molayne

The closest thing to an ice trainer in the game is Sina, whom you fight only once, and that's only if you're playing Moon.

 

[Nah]

I mean....type specialists are kind of a normal thing for the franchise

 

[Lunar]

Yeah it is kinda standard but there should be a Ice type specialist god damn it #equalrightsforice

 

[blue]

my only guess is due to the lack of ice-types available in alola. sure there's the alolan forms, but as far as new species of ice-types go there is literally just one. D:

 

[Nah]

my only guess is due to the lack of ice-types available in alola. sure there's the alolan forms, but as far as new species of ice-types go there is literally just one. D:

it kind of makes sense thematically; Alola is a tropical island chain, there's not much ice to be found there typically

 

[blue]

it kind of makes sense thematically; Alola is a tropical island chain, there's not much ice to be found there typically

Yeah, I understand why there are very few Ice-types. That's just probably the main reason why there isn't a trainer who specializes in them.

 

[Hikamaru]

Like the others said, the lack of snow was the likely explanation why we had no Ice specialist in Alola. Sina however, does use Ice-types so she can qualify here as our Ice user, even if we don't battle her a lot.