Tracey Sketchit

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Tracey Sketchit
Character information
Gender	Male
Region	Orange Islands
Friends	Ash, Misty, Brock, Max, May, Professor Oak
Tracey Sketchit in other languages
English	Name Tracey Sketchit
English	Name Tracey Sketchit

Tracey Sketchit is a Pokémon watcher who takes Brock's place during the time he spends with Professor Ivy. After Ash's Orange League adventures, he works as Professor Oak's assistant.

Appearance

Tracey's main outfit is a short-sleeved, green shirt with a darker green border on it, dark red shorts, a headband which was colored salmon in earlier, hand-colored episodes, and orange in later, digital-colored episodes, socks, an orange backpack, and tennis shoes colored purple and bright orange, with white soles.

Personality

Tracey is a kind and collected person. He is very passionate about studying Pokémon as he won't hesitate to stop what he's doing to do to sketch Pokémon he finds intriguing. He thinks Pokémon are fascinating and idolizes Professor Oak for it as he considers him famous for vast knowledge of Pokémon, and has shown to get upset if someone, like Misty at one point, doesn't recognize it.

Biography

Tracey made his first appearance in The Lost Lapras where he intervened in between Ash's battle with three trainers, pointing out the qualities of the Pokémon he got from his observation. While his statements to the three trainer's Pokémon were negative, Ash's Pikachu was a positive review. After Ash defeats the trainers, Tracey joins Ash and Misty as they bring an injured Lapras to the Pokémon Center to get treated. He decides the joins the two on their journey when he finds they have a connection to Professor Oak. After Lapras gets into perfect condition, he, Ash and Misty decide to bring it to the water. When Team Rocket appears and tries to snatch the Lapras, Tracey sends out his Venonat to help. Team Rocket is ultimately defeated and Lapras joins Ash's Pokémon team.

In Tracey Gets Bugged, he helps an elderly Scyther and forms a bond with it, and it willing decides to join his Pokémon team. It is also revealed in this episode that his favorite type of Pokémon is bug-types.

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Tracey with Misty and Daisy

When the group returned to Pallet Town after their adventures, Tracey learned that he would be meeting the "great" Professor Oak. This made Tracey nervous and shaky because he thought of Professor Oak as the most knowledgeable and greatest professor in the world. He even spent several minutes sorting out his sketches so he would see which ones Professor Oak would like. When he finally met Professor Oak, he gave him all of his sketches and watched him intently to see what his reaction was. At the end of the episode, Professor Oak revealed that he loved Tracey's sketches and thinks that he is a wonderful artist. Tracey then told Ash and Misty that he would no longer be traveling with them and that he would be staying with Professor Oak and become his pupil from now on. Ash and Misty were shocked and saddened for a moment because they wanted Tracey to join them and Brock through Johto, but it was understood what Tracey wanted.

Since then, Tracey usually makes appearances whenever Ash visits Pallet Town or calls Professor Oak.

He was mentioned in Crisis from the Underground Up! by Professor Oak because he was going to give Ash some advice for the Nimbasa Gym. He was together with Professor Oak in the screen in a row in The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!.

Pokémon

On hand

Pokémon	Information
		Venonat is one Tracey's Pokémon that he used during his travels. He often uses him to search for something due to his excellent eyesight.
Venonat

Pokémon	Information
		Marill is one of Tracey's Pokémon. She is often used during searches due to her extremely acute hearing. She is also the mother of Misty's Azurill.
Marill

Pokémon	Information
		Scyther was Tracey's most recent capture. He is old and has trouble fighting longer than a few minutes, causing him to be defeated by a younger Scyther who then exiled him from the group.
Scyther

Unknown

Pokémon	Information
		In the episode, The Lost Lapras, Tracey sits in a review of a Dodrio. He leaves it in his Poké Ball.
Dodrio

Voice Actors

• English: Ted Lewis (Season 2 - 8, Movie 2 - 3) (4kids)
• English: Craig Blair (Season 9 - present) (PUSA/TAJ)
• Japanese: Tomokazu Seki
• Dutch: Martin van den Dam † (season 2)
• Dutch: Rolf Koster (season 3 - 9)
• Italian: Patrizio Prata
• Greek: Loucas Fragoulis

Trivia

• Tracey's full name, Tracey Sketchit, comes from "Trace" and "Sketch It".
• Tracey has appeared in three Pokémon Movies: he was a supporting character in Pokémon the Movie 2000: The Power of One, and then he made brief appearances in Pokémon 3: The Spell of the Unown and Pokémon 4Ever - Celebi: Voice of the Forest.