| “ | Hold it! Don't go off without me! You're challenging the Pokémon League, aren't you? That's why I'm here, too. Let's see who’s more worthy of making the challenge with a battle! | „ |
| ~ Barry before the Pokemon League |
Summary
Barry is the childhood friend of Lucas and the rival in Sinnoh. Always in a hurry, Barry is the reason that Lucas and him get Pokémon, as Barry convinces his friend to go search for the Red Gyarados, and in the process, they run into Professor Rowan, his starter Pokémon, and some wild Starlys. The duo's adventure begins when they use Rowan's Pokémon to defend themselves.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B | At least 8-A | High 7-C | 2-B, likely 2-A
Key: By Himself | Early Game | Mid Game | End Game
Name: Barry
Origin: Pokémon
Gender: Male | Male for his Pokémon
Age: In his teens
Classification: Pokémon Trainer, Rival
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Healing | Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Statistics Reduction [All], Water Manipulation with Piplup, Flight with Starly | His Pokémon gained many abilities during his journey | Same as before, Fire Manipulation with Ponyta, Poison Manipulation, Plant Manipulation, Status Effect Inducement, Paralysis Inducement, Healing and Absorption with Roselia, Metal Manipulation with Prinplup | Same as before, except for Statistics Reduction and Paralysis Inducement, Martial Arts [Staraptor and Heracross], Metal Manipulation [Staraptor], Darkness Manipulation [Heracross and Snorlax], Earth Manipulation, Healing and Paralysis Inducement with Snorlax, Status Effect Inducement, Weather Manipulation and Flight with Rapidash, Ectoplasm Manipulation [Roserade and Empoleon], Sleep Manipulation with Roserade
Attack Potency: Wall level+ (Physically comparable to regular Trainers as Jessie, James or Lucas, who was casually able to to hit a punch bag and send it flying across a room and have enough force to knock over a stack of tires. ) | Multi-City Block level+ (His initial starter should be around Chimchar's level) | Large Town level (Stronger than Roark, Gardenia and Maylene. Comparable to Lucas. His team features Prinplup, Roselia and Staravia) | Multiverse level, likely Multiverse level+ (Battled Lucas/Dawn after they faced Giratina)
Speed: Peak Human with Relativistic+ reactions (Comparable to Trainers as Yellow or Cynthia who can dodge and react to attacks from fully evolved Pokémon) | At least Massively Hypersonic+ | Sub-Relativistic (Kept up with Lucas' Pokémon) | Relativistic+ (Matched Lucas' team before entering the Pokémon league)
Lifting Strength: Athletic Human | At least Class 5 | Class 50 | Class 100
Striking Strength: Wall level+ | At least Multi-City Block level+ | Large Town level | Multiverse level, likely Multiverse level+
Durability: Island level (Comparable to trainers such as Ash Ketchum) | At least Multi-City Block level+ (Took hits from Lucas team at the time) | Large Town level (Superior to Maylene) | Multiverse level, likely Multiverse level+
Stamina: Unknown| Superhuman for his Pokémon.
Range: Standard Melee Range | Standard Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters on the Pokémon and Move | Standard Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters on the Pokémon and Move | Standard Melee Range, Tens of Kilometers on the Pokémon and Move | Standard Melee Range, Tens of Kilometers on the Pokémon and Move
Standard Equipment: Poké Balls and his unique orange Pokétch
Intelligence: Gifted (He went through several ordeals as a trainer, with constant training. Helped take down an organization that wanted to remake the universe. Is trusted by a professor and said to have quickly memorized everything that was present on the blackboard of the Trainers' School at Jubilife City)
Weaknesses: He is only a human with normal human weaknesses. | Varies depending on the Pokémon.
Notable Attacks/Techniques: A full list of the potential moves his Pokémon can learn:
Empoleon | Heracross | Rapidash | Roserade | Staraptor | Snorlax
Note: Due to the anime's depiction of him, as well as Pokemon Masters, it is assumed that the starter he chose was Piplup.
Gallery
Early Game Team
Mid Game Team
End Game Team
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive: