He became a trainer when he was about fourteen. In the next twenty years, he tried to enter the Pokémon League but would give up part way through and instead would watch. He remains a bad trainer, and has given up on his dream, instead waiting on Route 1 for inexperienced trainers he might win against. His Pokémon, too, give up, his Cottonee becoming reluctant to even get near Andy, tired of disappointing its trainer in battle. Black revives Andy's dream of winning the Pokémon League, enough that Black's Munna is tempted to eat the dream. The two split ways.