Mandi
- If you were looking for the character of the day in Weekend Warrior, see Mandy (anime).
The Astounding Mandi (Japanese: コーム Kom) was Ash's first opponent in the Indigo Plateau Conference. His Japanese voice actor is 緑川 光 Hikaru Midorikawa and his English voice actor is Ted Lewis.
He appeared in Round One - Begin!. Mandi was confident that Ash was going to be an easy opponent for the first round; however, due to his enormously over-inflated ego, he underestimated his opponent and had all three of his Pokémon taken out by Krabby, who evolved into Kingler during the battle.
He was a very popular Trainer who had many fans. One reason for his popularity was probably that he could perform magic tricks—for example, he made a group of Pidgey appear from nowhere.
His design basis is in the Juggler Trainer class, though his hairstyle is considerably different from them.
Pokémon
This is a listing of Mandi's known Pokémon:
| Mandi's Exeggutor | ||
| Mandi used his Exeggutor as his first Pokémon during his battle against Ash. Ash chose to send his Krabby against the Coconut Pokémon. Exeggutor first attacks with Psywave, forcing Krabby to the water. Exeggutor the uses its Psychic attack to turn the watery arena into a giant whirlpool, trapping Krabby to the vortex and making Ash unable to recall it. Exeggutor then launches a barrage of Egg Bombs to the vortex. However, Krabby finally manages to get out of the vortex and grabs Exeggutor's leaves with ViceGrip, causing it so much pain that it becomes unable to attack and commence Mandi's order for using Hypnosis. Krabby then uses Leer at Exeggutor and finishes it off with Stomp.
It made a cameo in the recap of the next episode. | ||
| Debut | Round One - Begin! | |
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| Mandi chose to send out his Seadra as his second Pokémon in his battle against Ash. Ash's Krabby had just evolved into Kingler, but Mandi stood calm and told his Dragon Pokémon to use Agility. With its Agility Seadra was easily able to dodge all of Kingler's Water Guns and some of its Bubbles, but it eventually hit to a wide-spreading Bubble foam. The hit caused Seadra to fly into the air, and Kingler finished it with Crabhammer.
It made a cameo in the recap of the next episode. | ||
| Debut | Round One - Begin! | |
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| Mandi send out his Golbat as his final Pokémon against Ash's Kingler. Ash tells Kingler to dive underwater and Mandi commands his Bat Pokémon to use Take Down. Kingler attempts to grab Golbat with ViceGrip, but Golbat evades the attack by using Double Team. Golbat then launches a Razor Wind attack, hurting Kingler badly. Mandi is about to finish Kingler with Mega Drain, but Kingler launches a strong Hyper Beam at Golbat, knocking it out.
It made a cameo in the recap of the next episode. | ||
| Debut | Round One - Begin! | |
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| Mandi used these multiple Pidgey while he was performing magic tricks before his battle. | ||
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This article is part of Project COD, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each one-time character of the Pokémon anime. |
