Pokémon Sword / Shield characters
Meet 16 characters from Pokémon Sword / Shield. Open a card for the full profile.
Profiles discuss story events. Artwork may depict a different release.
16 character profiles · one picture per entry · open a card for the profile.
Main characters
Gloria
Gloria is the other protagonist choice, beginning the same journey from Postwick with Hop.
Hop
Hop begins the Gym Challenge with the player and wants to follow his older brother Leon’s success.
Marnie
Marnie enters the Gym Challenge with support from Team Yell and her home town, Spikemuth.
Victor
Victor is one of the two protagonist choices.
Bede
Bede starts the Gym Challenge as an endorsed rival before Opal chooses him to succeed her.
Gym Leaders
Allister
Allister fills Shield’s fourth Gym slot and returns during that version’s first Cup finals.
Bea
Bea occupies the fourth Gym slot in Pokémon Sword and is also a Sword-exclusive Cup finals opponent.
Gordie
Gordie runs the sixth Gym in Pokémon Sword, specialising in Rock Pokémon.
Kabu
Kabu is Motostoke’s experienced Fire specialist and the third Gym opponent.
Melony
Melony is Shield’s sixth Gym Leader and Gordie’s mother.
Milo
Milo runs the first Gym in the Galar badge sequence, introducing the stadium format in Turffield.
Nessa
Nessa leads Hulbury’s Water Gym and later returns as a Champion Cup finals opponent.
Opal
Opal leads Ballonlea’s fifth Gym and searches for a successor while overseeing the challenge.
Piers
Piers leads Spikemuth’s seventh Gym and is Marnie’s older brother.
Raihan
Raihan is the eighth Gym opponent and one of Leon’s main rivals.
Champion
Leon
Leon is Galar’s reigning Champion and Hop’s older brother.
References
Covered edition: Original Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield for Nintendo Switch (2019). Version-exclusive Gyms and starter-dependent teams are labelled. These guides cover the first story challenge, before Expansion Pass tournaments.