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From “The International Pokémon League: A Casual History”
By Luci Hawthorne and Enzo Morgan
Anatoly “Antei” Aleks was a trainer from a Rosnian mining village. Between 1986 and 1997, he used a captive, intensively trained Latios, named “Zhuravlik”, to win a record number of international tournaments. You can find these listed above.
According to rumours (likely spread by himself), Anatoly found or rescued his Latios as a juvenile, and then raised it himself. However, it’s more likely that Anatoly obtained his Latios through the black market. Rebecca Johannson, better known as “Hunter J” was known to be active in Rosnia at the time, but a definitive connection between her and Anatoly’s Latios was never confirmed.
Regardless of how the Latios came into his care, it’s clear that Zhuravlik did not have much, if any, chance to interact with his own species.
In hindsight, this lack of socialization likely contributed to Zhuravlik’s atypically antisocial, moody, and aggressive personality. In contrast to most empathic psychics, Anatoly’s Latios never shied away from the violence or pain of battle. However, what appeared to be harmless - even exciting - quirks became increasingly unpredictable and intense as Anatoly and Zhuravlik’s careers progressed. Nevertheless, Anatoly was keen to play up his image as a rough-and-tough Siberian who was brave enough to play fast and loose with the League’s rules and good enough to get away with it. This was immensely popular with spectators, encouraging Anatoly and Zhuravlik to engage in a series of increasingly serious breaches of League safety protocol. And every time they returned to the arena, the crowds cheered.
But it was only a matter of time until someone got seriously hurt. In the summer of 1997, Zhuravlik was pulled from a match at Ever Grande and sidelined for the remainder of the year after a novel psychic attack failed, seriously injuring an opposing Pokémon, their trainer, and Zhuravlik himself.
Zhuravlik and Anatoly returned to the tournament scene the following year, accompanying a spate of more rigorous League regulations. Anatoly’s team’s performance declined markedly under these new rules, and they never won another tournament at the national level.
As his glory years faded, in 2001, Anatoly and his team departed on a training excursion and disappeared. Anatoly himself was found dead in a remote mountain pass, likely killed by a Latios that he could no longer control. Though the rest of his team was found still in their pokeballs, Zhuravlik had disappeared. Some believe that he is still out in the wild, raging at the sky, but always as lonely as ever.