User blog comment:KirbiMiroir/Red - the Pokemon Trainer Replacement!/@comment-25096445-20160822182425

This basically is the Pokemon Trainer. In Brawl, it wasn't stated, but the Pokemon Trainer is Red. The same design, same Pokemon, I don't think Sakurai would replace the Pokemon Trainer. I expect him to be back in the next game.

On a completely different note, one always refers to a Pokemon as "it."