Can people be a apprentice

Can someone be a apprentice to someone like a gym leader to learn more about the type

I don't see why not?

I don't see why that would be a problem either. There are plenty of people who know a lot about all different pokes. Find a person or just enter the chatbox and start up a convo

You could be a Gym Trainer! They're pretty much Gym Leader apprentices… but there's no such thing as Gym Trainers on Pokemon Wars, you go straight to the Leader… hmm…

There's mini gym leader. You could start there with a mono type and just keep going until you're a hardcore gym leader. It'd be for the experience! Otherwise you could just get together and hangout with someone.

An example could be Dialga, you both like dragons, get him to tutor you. Just battle his dragons with your best dragons, after the battle ask for pointers and then schedule another battle with the same team, but by this time you'd have an improved team.

I'd personally tutor you, though I'm no gym leader.

I also have a topic in the guides section if you need any advice on Pokémon too.