The Best Pokemon Professors to Grace Our Quest to Be the Very Best, Ranked

8. Elm

Elm isn’t much better than Magnolia, but at least Elm gives you your starters. Oh, and Togepi, which is pretty awesome. The professor of the Johto region studies abilities, breeding, and evolution, has a family, is lovably scatterbrained, but he’s just… boring. 

Compared to the other professors on this list, Elm is just so milquetoast. He disappears as soon as he appears, and that’s just it. He’s gone. He doesn’t even welcome you to the world of Pokemon, Oak does! The game even seems to prefer Oak over Elm, and thus, here is, closer to the bottom of the list.