Detective and Gym Leader Shinichi Kudou

Starter Pokémon: ♂Houndour – His starter Pokémon. A cool and calm Pokémon who has a good sniffer and he uses it to sniff out clues and suspects. Houndour isn’t used in gym battles all that often and although it’s Shinichi’s oldest Pokémon, it has yet to evolve.


Other Pokémon:


♀Xatu – Caught on Route 2 between the two Patoh and Hiri. He’s heard that they can look into the past and is interested in studying the uses of that for detective work.


♂Slowking – Slowking was sent to him as a gift from another region as a Slowpoke. Upon receiving it, it evolved into Slowking.


♀Gardevoir – It was a gift from his childhood friend, who had a matching Ralts at the time. Not that he’d say anything about it, but he cares deeply about this Gardevoir because of that and it makes him think of her.


♀Espeon – After solving a case just over in Hiri, he was gifted an Eevee as reward. Eventually it evolved into an Espeon. It’s very lazy like a cat, and loves to fall asleep on Shinichi.


♀Sigilyph – Shinichi’s main transportation across the region while also being a favourite in battle.



Shinichi is brilliant in terms of logic, but is somewhat socially awkward. He doesn’t understand how those who are close to him are feeling at times and instead of comforting those he is close to, he won’t realize or makes his focus on other things. When there is changes in their attitude, he’ll often be confused about it when to most people the reason why would be obvious. On top of that, he’s not afraid of pointing out the flaw in people’s logic, which tends to anger people. He’s very blunt and doesn’t hold back about much.

As awkward and arrogant as he can be, he sincerely cares about people. If he knows someone is in danger, he’ll do whatever he can to save them. He wants to see the best in everyone, even Old Man Ketchum, but he won’t look past the truth if the truth isn’t what he wants to hear. Even though he is a good person, he’ll try to make some excuse for why he did the thing he did with logic behind it, even though he was just being nice.

He is extremely smart. Shinichi has a bunch of seemingly useless information bouncing around his brain, but when he’s on a case, it can come in handy. Most people would look at a crime scene and see little details that no one else would and think outside the box. He also has an almost perfect memory, remembering even the tiniest details that anyone else would probably have forgotten about. Few people can escape his logic and stump him. When he is stumped and needs to think something through, he takes out a soccer ball and kicks it around. He’ll use other items if he must, but prefers a ball.