Aibo

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Aibo
エーたろう Etaro
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Debuts in Murkrow Row
Caught at New Bark Town
Evolves in VS. Ambipom
Gender Male
Ability Technician (Pick Up as an Aipom)
Nature Naive
Current location With Gold
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This Pokémon spent an unknown number of chapters as Aipom.

Aibo (Japanese: エーたろう Etaro), known as Ataro in Chuang Yi's translations, is an Ambipom owned by Gold in the Pokémon Adventures manga.

History

Aibo as an Aipom

Aibo is one of the family Pokémon at Gold's home in New Bark Town that Gold grew up with. Aibo has also been known to help around in Gold's house. Like Gold, he is mischievous. Aibo's tail allows him to hold items and use many different tricks and tactics in battles. He is capable of swimming as seen in Number One Donphan In battle, he is mostly used for distraction, not being very powerful, though he proved to be a critical asset in narrowing down the evil Masked Man's identity by scraping off a badge remnant from his clothes with his Scratch attack. He is also used to build up stats to Baton Pass to Sudobo using Agility.

In the Emerald arc, Aibo uses Gold's billiard cue to power up Exbo's attack on Guile Hideout.

In the HeartGold & SoulSilver arc, Aibo evolved into an Ambipom after learning how to use Double Hit. Even in his evolved state, he was almost subdued from a single Hyper Voice attack from Arceus with the rest of Gold's Pokémon.

Moves used

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Using Swagger as an Aipom
Move First Used In
Swagger Who Gives a Hoothoot?
Scratch Sneasel Sneak Attack
Double Team Number One Donphan
Agility The Last Battle VI
Baton Pass The Last Battle VI
Double Hit Unknown
A shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Trivia

  • The English name Aibo is very similar to the Japanese word Aibō – partner. Incidentally, “partners” is how Gold describes his Pokémon when asked by Professor Oak.
  • Aibo is the only Generation II Pokémon that Gold originally had in his house, although one of them eventually evolved into Politoed during his journey.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Aipom and Ambipom.


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