Just cuz I'm a Gym Leader, that doesn't mean I'm old enough to get a normal sort of job, you understand? [Blue frowns] League officials are sort of a special case. It isn't as if just any children are given these roles. I don't know how it is in Hoenn, but I'm Kanto's only Gym Leader under high-school age. And I'm certainly not lending my Pokémon out to people that don't understand their abilities. Didn't you say people weren't respectful of them around here?

[He pauses with a moment of thought, but reluctantly draws out his Pokédex from his back pocket.] It's been almost 4 years. We've about finished the whole national Pokédex, by now. Sinnoh through Hoenn... But, overseas professors were a bit slower to sign on for the project, I guess. I don't have any data for regions outside of the country, yet.

--Of course, I've studied reports and seen plenty of battle broadcasts from overseas, though. Why?