OAK ACADEMY

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Oak Academy is a renowned pokemon academy that trains teenagers to become pokemon masters. Oak Academy follows a basic four-year program where students begin as fourteen year olds with little experience training pokemon, and graduate with a Pokemon Academy Badge that will legally get them into the pokemon league in any of the four regions (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh). Oak Academy searches far and wide, recruiting children who have a potential to be great trainers in the near future. Few let the opportunity go to waste: Oak Academy is always brimming with shiny new pokemon trainers ready to start their journey.

Oak Academy is very much unlike the pokemon games you may have played as a child or still play now as an adult. Students begin their experience at Oak Academy at age fourteen with little knowledge in the field of pokemon training. Few students enter the Academy with any previous knowledge on training pokemon.

Oak Academy students, like normal pokemon trainers, each have a PC and a pokemon storage system similar to the game version. However, the academy students are only able to carry four pokemon with them at a time during their normal school days, one pokemon being their companion pokemon, which is allowed out of its pokeball during class and around school. A student's four pokemon can be changed at will whenever they'd like, though it is highly recommended that the companion stay the same. The companion is typically the trainer's starting pokemon.

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[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,460,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][bg=777777] && STARTING OUT [div style="border-top: 1px dotted #000000;background: #555555;[br"]margin: 0px;padding: 0px;padding-top:2px;text-align:right;font-size:7pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family: georgia;text-transform:uppercase;color:#a2bfc9; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;]THE GEAR AND POKEMON YOU RECEIVE

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On the first day of the fall term each first year student is presented with their own PC which is set up in their dorm and wirelessly connected throughout the school so they can access their pokemon around campus. First years are also given their own PokeGear, a watch-like device that can be stashed in a pocket or worn around the trainer's wrist. it tells time like an average watch, tunes into the radio, and acts as a cellphone for trainers. First years are also given a starter pokemon from the list below:

Other pokemon are traded, captured, or received in some way after the trainer makes their decision on their starter. The starter does not have to be a part of their team once five or more pokemon have been captured or received; however, it is most common that students stick with their starter throughout their four years at the academy. Bans will be issued if too many students are choosing one starter (such as Eevee) and not the others. Balance is the key, people!

- - - With regards to the Hoenn and Sinnoh starters, they are not receivable as starters at this point in time. There is a good chance may be added later, if you would like one.

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[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,460,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][bg=777777] && POKEMON TEAMS [div style="border-top: 1px dotted #000000;background: #555555;[br"]margin: 0px;padding: 0px;padding-top:2px;text-align:right;font-size:7pt;letter-spacing:0px;font-family: georgia;text-transform:uppercase;color:#a2bfc9; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;]GUIDE TO THE POKEMON YOU MAY HAVE

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Your character's pokemon party may be comprised of any four pokemon at a time. Legendaries, of course are off limits - they are found in their respective regions, they have never been spotted in an area such as England) Rare pokemon are also, well... rare, and most students won't have them (however, teachers might).

students may only carry four pokemon at a time during the school day, two less than normal trainers in order to eliminate carrying extra equipment and pokeballs. It's likely that most class activities (unless otherwise told by a teacher) will only require four pokemon. Students may also carry less than four, but must always have their companion pokemon with them.

Each student has one companion pokemon which stays out of it's pokeball at all times during class, and is used in different exercises in every class. Companion pokemon follow their trainer around much like pikachu does in Yellow Version, no matter where he is placed in your team's lineup (the companion pokemon is not chosen by the same means as the new games, HGSS, due to that situation being the first pokemon in the party is the comapnion)

While most students don't change their companion pokemon during their four years, it is definitely possible. It is, however, recommended that a student should wait until the end of the term before switching, as the switch could potentially mess up a student's in-class work and participation. As stated before, the companion pokemon is typically the student's starter pokemon.

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