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James's Amoonguss コジロウのモロバレル Kojirō's Morobareru

James's Amoonguss

Debuts in New Places... Familiar Faces! Caught at Unova Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With James

This Pokémon is fully evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Amoonguss Unshō Ishizuka N/A

James's Amoonguss (Japanese: コジロウのモロバレル Kojirō's Morobareru) is the second Pokémon that James obtained in the Unova region.

History

James's Amoonguss first appeared in New Places... Familiar Faces!, debuting along with Jessie's Frillish when Team Rocket attacked Ash and his friends for the first time since their "Operation Tempest" and temporary retreat back to Kanto.

When Ash and friends were helping the rookie Trainer Nanette to gain some experience, Team Rocket surprised them, sent out their new Pokémon, and used a combination of Mist and Stun Spore on them and their Pokémon, reducing the visibility to almost nothing and paralyzing Iris's Emolga and Cilan's Stunfisk at the same time, thus leaving Ash alone to face Team Rocket with Pikachu. Using the Mist as his advantage, James had Amoonguss use Body Slam, which was strong enough to actually knock Pikachu out. As Ash sent out his Unfezant to blow the Mist away, Team Rocket was close to stealing Pikachu inside of their mecha. However, thanks to the distraction of Nanette and her Tepig, Pikachu was freed, although Tepig got caught in the process. For a getaway distraction, Team Rocket fired a combination attack of BubbleBeam and Hidden Power, which, much to their surprise, was endured by Unfezant, followed by an Air Cutter and an Aerial Ace to defeat Frillish and Amoonguss, respectively.

Amoonguss reappeared in The Name's N!, where James sent it out after catching Pikachu. It distracted Ash from holding on to his Snivy when she used Vine Whip to grab onto their balloon. It once again battled Unfezant after Axew freed Pikachu with Dragon Rage. Pikachu joined in the battle and tried to finish off Team Rocket but Amoonguss paralyzed him with Stun Spore before the attack completely blasted them off. Amoonguss was taken out along with Frillish by Unfezant's Air Cutter which slammed them into Team Rocket's balloon.

James send it out in BW113 in order to use Hidden Power against Ellie's Ampharos, who was protecting the Mareep Team Rocket wanted to stole. It worked with Jessie's Woobat, preventing the Electric Pokémon to escape, until Ash and his friends found them and Iris commanded her Dragonite to use Ice Beam on it. Following James's orders, Amoonguss tried to attack Ampharos again with Hidden Power, but Dragonite blocked it. Finally, Ellie comanded Ampharos to use ThunderPunch, a still unmastered move. With Dragonite's encouragement, Ampharos successfully controlled the move, defeating both Woobat and Amoonguss and sending Team Rocket blasting off.

Later, in BW117, Amoonguss and Woobat battled against Angie's Liepard so Jessie, James and Meowth could stole Colress's Pokémon Control Machine, stored inside Team Plasma's helicopter. Although Team Rocket didn't know it, the battle was useful to make time for Looker to discover the machine that was controlling the Pokémon in the area. Using Hidden Power, Amoonguss was quickly countered by Liepard's Shadow Ball, however, Amoonguss dodged the second Shadow Ball attack, causing the machine to receive damage and stop working. Amoonguss was not seen after the battle, so it was probably called back while Team Plasma were fleeing on their helicopter.

After Team Plasma took control of Meowth with their machine in BW119, Jessie and James decided to attack their friend in order to get him out of the trance. James commanded Amoonguss to use Stun Spore and paralyze Meowth, then use Body Slam so they could completely weaken him, orders that it didn't hesitate to fulfill. Having Meowth out of Team Plasma's control, Team Rocket managed to get out of their headquarters using Frillish's Mist.

Personality and characteristics

Following Team Rocket's change to more serious, Amoonguss doesn't have a comic or goofy personality, but a serious one, mimicking its Trainer. It has also never smiled onscreen, in contrast to Jessie's mischievous-looking Frillish. It doesn't appear to have bonded with James like his previous Pokémon did, but in terms of loyalty, it is not hesitant to follow James's orders.

In battle it can be physically tough, being shown to be capable of knocking out Pikachu with just one Body Slam.

Moves used

Using Hidden Power	Move First Used In Stun Spore New Places... Familiar Faces! Body Slam New Places... Familiar Faces! Hidden Power New Places... Familiar Faces!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Trivia

• Excluding his temporary Pokémon, Amoonguss is James's fourth Grass type.
• Amoonguss is James's second Pokémon to debut in its fully evolved form, the first one being his Victreebel. Like Victreebel, Amoonguss was acquired off-screen.
  • While Victreebel was also shown as a Weepinbell, Amoonguss is the only one not to be seen in his pre-evolved form.
• Amoonguss is James's only Grass-type battler that doesn't show any kind of special affection on him when released from its Poké Ball.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Amoonguss.

Team Rocket's Pokémon
Travel with:	Meowth	Rotom Phone
	Jessie			James
On hand:	Wobbuffet	Seviper	Yanmega	Mime Jr.	Carnivine	Yamask
	Woobat	Frillish	Gourgeist	Amoonguss	Inkay	Morpeko
In training:				Cacnea
At home:				Growlie	Chimecho
Released:	Arbok	Dustox	Mimikyu	Weezing	Gyarados	Mareanie
Traded away:	Lickitung			Victreebel
Lived with (all three):	Bewear	Stufful
Worked with (all three):	Delibird	Pelipper
Temporarily owned:	Porygon Zero	Shellder	Magikarp	Hoppip	Second Victreebel
	Mawile
Befriended:	Blissey
Status unknown:	Starmie			Pidgey	Numel
For a list of other Pokémon Team Rocket has commanded, see here and here

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