Jessie's Yanmega

Jessie's Yanmega ムサシのメガヤンマ Musashi's Megayanma

Jessie's Yanmega

Debuts in The Thief That Keeps On Thieving! Caught at Around Route 213 Evolves in The Thief That Keeps On Thieving! Gender Female Ability Speed Boost Current location At Team Rocket headquarters

→ This Pokémon spent less than 1 episode as Yanma.

Voice actor Japanese English As Yanma Kiyotaka Furushima As Yanmega Kiyotaka Furushima

Jessie's Yanmega (Japanese: ムサシのメガヤンマ Musashi's Megayanma) is the only Pokémon caught by Jessie of Team Rocket during her travels through Sinnoh.

History

As a Yanma

Jessie caught Yanmega as a Yanma in The Thief That Keeps On Thieving! after Tyler battled and weakened her. After she captured her, Yanma was sent to Giovanni as their second successful theft. However, he immediately returned her after analyzing her and realizing she wasn't good enough, along with the fact that they already had plenty. Jessie then decided to train Yanma herself—unbeknown to the fact that Yanma already knew AncientPower, Jessie sent her into battle, who ended up quickly evolving into Yanmega.

She was used often by Jessie, sometimes replacing Seviper as her main fighter. So far she has shown herself to be a strong battler, as she destroyed Pikachu's Thunderbolt with her SonicBoom attack as seen in A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine.

Yanmega made her Contest debut in Battling the Generation Gap! where she was used in the Celestic Contest Appeal Rounds. However, she failed to get Jessie to the next round.

Yanmega's ability activated

In A Shield with a Twist, Jessie entered Yanmega in the Majolica Town Contest and won her second Ribbon. In Another One Gabites the Dust!, Jessie entered Yanmega in the Chocovine Town Contest where she passed the appeal round with a dazzling performance, while revealing Yanmega's ability to be Speed Boost.

In Pursuing a Lofty Goal!, James borrowed Yanmega in order to enter into a PokéRinger competition. Jessie was reluctant as James failed to win the competition with her Dustox before. Like before, James failed to win with Yanmega.

In Dawn of a Royal Day! she was used in the Arrowroot Town Contest appeal round where she created an amazing performance with her AncientPower.

She was also used in the Sinnoh Grand Festival where she helped Jessie get through to the semi-finals.

Following the Team Rocket trio's journey in Sinnoh, Jessie was forced to leave Yanmega at Team Rocket's headquarters as she is not a Pokémon native in the Unova region and would seem suspicious.

Moves used

Using SonicBoom	Move First Used In SonicBoom The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! Wing Attack The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! Quick Attack The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! AncientPower The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! Steel Wing † Hungry for the Good Life! Silver Wind Fighting Fear with Fear!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Moves improvised

Haze-SonicBoom

• Haze-SonicBoom - First used in Playing The Performance Encore!, Seviper uses Haze then Yanmega uses SonicBoom. The two moves fuse into a SonicBoom with streaks of smoke.
• Poison-Silver Wind - First used in Playing The Performance Encore!, Yanmega lifts Seviper into the air and Seviper then holds its Poison Tail towards the sky. Yanmega then uses Silver Wind on the tail causing streaks of purple like missiles.

Trivia

• This is Jessie's first capture since she caught her Wurmple in All in a Day's Wurmple, 257 episodes before, during the Advanced Generation series.
• Yanmega is the first Template:Type2 Jessie captured.
• Yanmega is the only Pokémon of Jessie or James to use its ability.

• In Where No Togepi Has Gone Before!, it was discovered that Yanmega is female, much to Jessie's apparent surprise. When Togepi used Attract, Yanmega was the only one unaffected while Pikachu, Meowth, Piplup, and Croagunk were.
• Unless counting the Gyarados that James lost in the first series, Yanmega has the highest stats of any Pokémon permanently owned by Team Rocket.
• Yanmega is the first of Jessie's Pokémon that needed to know a certain move before evolution: Ancient Power.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Yanma and Yanmega.

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

Giovanni's Pokémon
On hand:	Persian
Status unknown:	Golem	Kingler	Kingler	Machamp	Rhydon	Cloyster
Escaped:	Mewtwo
Given away:	Koffing	Woobat	Yamask	Frillish	Amoonguss
Controlled:	Meloetta	Landorus	Tornadus	Thundurus
Origins only:	Charmander
Pocket Monsters only:	Hitmonlee	Hitmonchan
For Pokémon owned by the version of Giovanni that appears in Pokémon Adventures, see here; for a full list of Pokémon owned by the version of Giovanni that appears in the Pokémon Pocket Monsters series, see here

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