Ash's Staraptor

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Ash's Staraptor
サトシのムクホーク Satoshi's Mukuhawk
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Ash's Staraptor
Debuts in Two Degrees of Separation!
Caught at Route 202
Evolves in A Staravia is Born!
Pursuing a Lofty Goal!
Gender Male
Ability Unknown
Current location With Ash
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This Pokémon spent 11 episodes as Starly and 105 episodes as Staravia.
Voice actor Japanese English
As Starly Kiyotaka Furushima Sarah Natochenny
As Staravia Kiyotaka Furushima Sarah Natochenny
As Staraptor Katsuyuki Konishi Sarah Natochenny

Ash's Staraptor (Japanese: サトシのムクホーク Satoshi's Mukuhawk) is the first Pokémon that Ash Ketchum caught in the Sinnoh region. Its Japanese voice actor is Katsuyuki Konishi. As a Starly and Staravia, it was voiced by Kiyotaka Furushima in Japanese and Sarah Natochenny in English.

In the anime

Ash caught it as a Starly in Two Degrees of Separation while searching for Pikachu, who was missing due to the antics of Team Rocket. Aipom was swinging through the trees and accidentally bumped into Starly, so the two Pokémon battled. Weakened by Aipom, Starly was captured and immediately used in the search for Pikachu. In When Pokémon Worlds Collide, Starly had its first battle against another Starly belonging to Paul and lost.

In A Staravia is Born, Starly evolved into a Staravia during a battle with Team Rocket. Immediately after its evolution Staravia had perfectly learned Aerial Ace. Evolving has also allowed it to grow much stronger and become very useful in searches.

Staravia was the only one of Ash's Pokémon who didn't participate in Ash's first Sinnoh Gym battle against Roark; however, Staravia helped out in Ash's second Sinnoh Gym battle, defeating Gardenia's Cherubi. After seeing Reggie's Staraptor use the powerful Brave Bird attack, Ash was inspired to teach it to Staravia. In the third Sinnoh Gym battle, Staravia defeated Maylene's Machoke and Meditite, as well as successfully mastering Brave Bird.

In Pursuing a Lofty Goal!, a PokéRinger competition was held in Squallville where Ash entered and won with Staravia, who evolved into a Staraptor in the process. Shortly after its evolution, Staraptor learned Close Combat and defeated Paul's Honchkrow, earning Ash his first victory over Paul.

In DP127 it was used in the gym battle against Candice, where it was easily defeated by her Abomasnow after winning against her Medicham.

It battled in Ash and Paul's full battle in DP131 where it went up against Torterra and Weavile. It managed to defeat Weavile. In DP132 it also fought against Paul's Ursaring, but lost quickly.

Moves used

Using Aerial Ace Move First Used In
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Wing Attack Two Degrees of Separation!
Whirlwind Two Degrees of Separation!
Gust x Two Degrees of Separation!
Quick Attack Two Degrees of Separation!
Aerial Ace A Staravia is Born!
Brave Bird Crossing the Battle Line!
Close Combat Pursuing a Lofty Goal!
An x shows that the move cannot be legitimately known by this Pokémon in the games.
  Moves used recently are in bold unless all moves all fit this case.

In the TCG

Ash's Staraptor is featured in the TCG as a Pokémon Pokémon M. The following is a list of cards named Staraptor Pokémon M.

Name Type Level Rarity Set Set no.
Staraptor M Colorless 41 - Movie Commemoration Random Pack (no English release) 018/022

Trivia

  • Despite the fact Ash's Staraptor and other members of his evolution family know Gust, it is impossible for Starly, Staravia, or Staraptor to learn it in the games. This error was also present in the Japanese version. The dub changed it to Whirlwind in Starly's initial appearance, but left it as Gust until One Big Happiny Family, when it was dubbed as Whirlwind again, and has been since.
  • For Shapes of Things to Come, Professor Oak's lecture is about Ash's Staravia. He writes this Pokémon senryū about it: ムックルが ムクムクしんか ムクバード Mukkuru mukumuku-evolved; Mukubird
  • In Jumping Rocket Ship!, it fell in love with a Staravia doll that was designed to appear female. It is noteworthy that Staravia's "dot" is noticeably larger than that of the doll's.
  • Though Staraptor is confirmed to be male, the Czech dub refers to it as female. The same happens in the Latin American Spanish dub.
  • Upon evolution into Staravia, it was the 40th Pokémon species Ash has owned, counting the technically unoffical Larvitar and Haunter.
  • Staraptor's method of evolving to its final stage is similar to Ash's Swellow, through a PokéRinger competition.
  • Upon its final evolution, Staraptor became the 50th Pokémon that Ash has obtained, including evolutions and counting Seaking and Haunter. However, Haunter was not officially his and Seaking was released as part of contest rules.
  • Staraptor is Ash's second Pokémon to evolve while battling against one of Ash's rivals, the first being Ash's Grotle.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Starly, Staravia, and Staraptor.

External links



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