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Tyrogue バルキー Balkie

Tyrogue

Debuts in Togepi's Determination! Caught at Johto Gender Male Ability Unknown Nature Unknown Traded in Togepi's Determination! Original Trainer Pokémon Fan Club President Traded for Red's Togepi Released in PMHGSS23 Current location Unknown

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Tyrogue (Japanese: バルキー Balkie) belongs to Red. He is level-headed and the only one of Red's team who is actually concerned with training and battling. This often gets him into fights with Clefairy.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

History

With the Fan Club Chairman

Tyrogue first appeared as the Pokémon Fan Club Chairman's Pokémon where he jumped down from a high wall only to hurt himself. Later, when Clefairy held out a box, Tyrogue appeared covered in mud out of the exit to an underground place. The Fan Club Chairman then cleaned Tyrogue off. The Fan Club Chairman then gives Red's Togepi a choice if it wants to come with him or stay with Red. Togepi chose to go with the Fan Club President.

With Red

Johto

Tyrogue in his debut

While the Pokémon Fan Club President sailed on a boat with Togepi to the Pokémon, Tyrogue stayed behind. Red, Clefairy and Pikachu tried running away from him. When the three ended up getting infected from plants, Tyrogue was the only one that didn't have it. Tyrogue ends up reading a book and told the group that he only touched the ones that didn't have any pollen. Tyrogue holds out the leaves and they ran off to a hospital. After finding out the pollen was from a Vileplume, the group go out to the mountains in order to catch it. However, an accident renders them useless, including Tyrogue. Back in the hospital, the group notice a Vileplume walking and were upset at the fact that they had to deal with the mountains. As a result, they give Tyrogue a good scolding and slowly chase him.

Red and Tyrogue

Continuing their travels, Tyrogue and the group encounter a Sudowoodo blocking the way to the other side of the bridge. Clefairy builds a catapult in order for them to bypass Sudowoodo easily. Tyrogue goes on the catapult but crashes onto the bottom of the ledge and falls into a river. He then watches Clefairy challenging a Sudowoodo to a building contest which resulted in the whole building to collapse after Clefairy putted too much weight on it. Tyrogue continued to watch Clefairy's participation and witnessed Sudowoodo sadly walking away after the bridge was destroyed.

In Ecruteak City, Tyrogue lounges around the front of the Brass Tower. When Bill arrived with his time machine, Tyrogue stood in a guy's place when he was about to get slammed by a car. Bill used his time machine to stop the car and Tyrogue ended up getting hit instead. He goes in Bill's time machine along with Red and his Pokémon. Arriving at their destination, Tyrogue goes inside the Brass Tower from the past and notices it different from before. A younger kimono girl notices their presence, which surprised Tyrogue. The kimono girl tells them the story about how the Legendary beasts were born. Tyrogue and Red asks her about their presence during their time. This made the three appear behind her. They were very fast as Clefairy kept on crashing onto the wooden floor. Tyrogue and Pikachu ended up battling them but all three of Red's Pokémon were sent flying by Suicune's Mirror Coat. Before Tyrogue could counterattack, Clefairy made a campfire inside the Brass Tower, causing it to burn down. Tyrogue and the group got out safely. The group then goes back to the present time.

Tyrogue meets a Smeargle who is painting a portrait of Clefairy. This made Tyrogue want to become an artist. Smeargle noticed that Tyrogue's paintings were excellent. This made Smeargle want to sell Tyrogue's paintings in a museum, in which it was successful. Clefairy, jealous of Tyrogue, gave him some pep talk to make a sculpture. However, unbeknownst to Tyrogue, Clefairy was planning on sabotaging it. The next day, when he revealed the sculpture, it turned out to be vandalized by Clefairy. This made Tyrogue upset and threw the sculpture at Clefairy. The sculpture broke into pieces and the head landed onto Tyrogue. After getting the design taken off, Tyrogue heads to a building which contains the legendary Pokémon but ends up finding out that it was a restaurant. When Clefairy finds a trap door, thinking that it was a bathroom for him, Tyrogue follows a man to the basement where Morty resides. In the basement, a buffet is set up in which Tyrogue was tempted to eat the food there, only to be restrained by the man. While no one was looking, he disguises himself as a Ho-Oh. Tyrogue that has Clefairy and Morty's Gengar do some challenges. After Gengar hypnotized Clefairy into believing that Ho-Oh was food, Clefairy ended up attacking the Ho-Oh which led it into revealing itself as Tyrogue. Red and the group became angry at Tyrogue for tricking them and gave chase, where a real Ho-Oh resides behind them.

Later, he goes to the Olivine Lighthouse when a guy mentions about the light not working. When Tyrogue got to the top, the sight of Jasmine's shadowed form caused him to fall down off of the lighthouse and somehow manages to get back up there. He along with Red and his Pokémon volunteer to get medicine for her sick Ampharos. When they arrived at the pharmacy that has the SecretPotion, they noticed that it is locked. Tyrogue knocks on the door, demanding an answer. The shopkeeper opens the door and tells Tyrogue and the group a story. After the story, he gives out the SecretPotion. The shopkeeper waves farewell to Tyrogue and the others as thy set back to the lighthouse via boat to cure Amphy. As soon as they got back, Tyrogue watches as Clefairy does a silly dance and notices that Clefairy had a pill in his mouth. This act made Amphy feel better.

Tyrogue goes to Professor Oak's and is lectured about a green guardian. After the lecture, he along with the group walk out on the hot sun searching for the green guardian. Not being able to handle it, Tyrogue collapses from exhaustion and gets revived from some villagers at the area. Celebi arrives and is considered the green guardian. As Celebi drops some seeds, one by one, Tyrogue and Pikachu are given the job to do so as well. When Team Rocket arrive with their bulldozers and destroy the forest, Clefairy fights them but gets sent to the edge of the cliff. Tyrogue tries to save him but it was too late as he lost his grip. However, Celebi was able to save him. However, Clefairy pretended to be sorry for his rude actions towards Celebi and took advantage of the situation in order to catch Celebi. With Celebi caught, Tyrogue and the others return to Professor Oak's and Clefairy shows him Celebi. Celebi uses the power of time to give Professor Oak a big makeover and chases Tyrogue and company for wasting their time.

While Red, Clefairy and Pikachu were at a park, they notice Tyrogue walking and heavily breathing. Tyrogue keeps inside a secret but tells them something else. He then reveals that he fell in love with Jasmine but is shy to admit it. As the group return to the gym, Tyrogue tries to tell Jasmine that he loves her but was almost able to do as Jasmine screamed in joy. After he tried again, Jasmine was about to accept the flowers until her Steelix arrives and interferes. Clefairy interrupts and hosts a contest between Tyrogue and Steelix. The first challenge was who could drink more milk in which Tyrogue was able to win. In the next one, he ate a giant snack roll which was very spicy. The last one was where Tyrogue and Steelix fought. Jasmine stops them and takes out a machine to see who is compatible. The machine tells them that Pikachu was compatible, which made Steelix fall onto it. Tyrogue was appalled by this and disguised himself as a Pikachu to win back Jasmine's love.

He left the Olivine Gym and went out to continue the adventure with Red. Tyrogue mocked Clefairy after Clefairy saved a Squirtle from drowning. After Squirtle was saved, Squirtle took Tyrogue and the others to its own kind and they take them to the Dragon Palace which is located underwater. After getting past a strong whirlpool, Tyrogue was able to get inside the Dragon Palace along with the others. Wartortle rewards him with food and a box. As soon as Tyrogue opened the box, the box turned him into an old man but Clefairy stepped in and closed it. Tyrogue and the others take their leave but are stopped by two Squirtle who are guarding the exit. As a Blastoise came by, Clefairy made it a deal which Blastoise accepted. However, Blastoise quickly turns on it and battles with Tyrogue, Clefairy and Pikachu. Blastoise manages to send both Tyrogue and Pikachu flying with Hydro Pump. After it crashed through the front entrance, Tyrogue and the others managed to escape onto a Lugia that the Squirtle family tied up before. With the gang back on shore, they find a treasure chest in which Clefairy opens and finds a Voltorb that Squirtle and its evolutions somehow planted. The Voltorb exploded which led Tyrogue and the others in a daze.

After dealing with the Squirtle family's shenanigans, Tyrogue goes to a concert and watches some Pokémon perform. As soon as Clefairy performed, Tyrogue watched from the audience his performance. When Clefairy's talent was falling apart unfortunately, Tyrogue stepped in and became his backup singer.

After watching Chuck's Primeape lift a car and slam another one, Tyrogue battles it but due to Primeape being well-trained, Tyrogue could not defeat it. After Clefairy defeated Primeape using his gag moves, Tyrogue and the others went to an amusement park. He tried the roller coaster first but an accident with the railing led them going underground. He notices an abandoned amusement park and meets Kiyo along with two of his evolved forms, Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan. This made Tyrogue want to stay. He goes on a roller coaster ride made out of logs. During the duration of the ride, only Tyrogue and Red were able to stay on until Hitmonlee pushed the switch to make it go to fast. As the switch broke, Kiyo tried to stop the ride with his own strength and when he used a sword, it sent Tyrogue and Red flying. They go to the aquarium section afterwards and when Clefairy jump kicked a window, it caused the window to shatter, which sent the group swimming. After Tyrogue and the others were camping out, they noticed that Clefairy rebuilt himself an amusement park. Tyrogue then explained that he must have taken the material from the other amusement park. As Clefairy cheaply built the amusement park, everyone including Tyrogue got angry at him.

Tyrogue began to look pale, much to Red's surprise. However, a truck came by, with a box of sushi dropped off. Before the group can get it, a shadowed figure takes the sushi which reveals itself to be a Togepi. Tyrogue identifies it as the one that went with the Pokémon Fan Club Chairman. He follows it to the Chairman's house. As the Chairman told the gang a joke, this made Tyrogue go flying. Tyrogue then goes to the Chairman's house which was dangling on a bridge. However, he was not paying attention to the movement when the rope snapped. The house led them to a food eating contest in which Clefairy and the Chairman's Togepi participated. Tyrogue watched them in the audience. As Clefairy lost, Tyrogue was then forced to clean up the place along with the gang, much to their frustration.

Arriving at the Lake of Rage, Tyrogue goes fishing. As soon as Clefairy caught a bite, which revealed itself to be a Red Gyarados, Tyrogue became surprised at its appearance. When the Gyarados puffed up, this made Tyrogue laugh. The villagers came by and tell Tyrogue and the gang about the Gyarados's destruction. A strange sonic sound is heard and Tyrogue hears it. This turned him, Pikachu and Clefairy into darker versions of themselves. A villager deflects the soundwaves and they turn back to normal. The villager points out the location and Tyrogue and the gang go there. With Clefairy's invention, he deduced the location to be in the Magohany Town shop. They go inside and get through the grunts there. Tyrogue entered the room containing a generator which was playing the noise and the Electrode trapped inside, running the generator. Tyrogue tries freeing the Electrode but gets shocked in the process. He tries other means to stop the generator but to no avail. Giovanni, after revealing himself, mentioned that a CD rom controls the activity in the machine. When Clefairy went inside the hard drive, it made the generator do something else. One zap turned the individuals inside into rotund beings, including Tyrogue.

Tyrogue returned to normal and is freezing. He is hit by two icicles thrown by Clefairy which hurted his bottomside. He helps out Pryce look for his Swinub. He found it stuck inside ice. Inside the Gym, Tyrogue goes in a spa that looked warm at first, but when he got out, a cube of ice surrounded him. Clefairy did everything to get rid of the cube. The cube managed to disappear. He then watches the battle between Clefairy and Swinub after Swinub broke free of the ice. During the middle of the battle, after Pryce's Piloswine blasted Clefairy off, Tyrogue then witnesses Swinub and Piloswine reunite.

Tyrogue and the group go climbing on the mountains, once again freezing. During their hike, they ended up going to the villagers's home and stay there. While Tyrogue and the group relaxed in a spa, one of the people pointed out a sign. This made them run off but when they returned to their igloo, they noticed a guy not feeling well. As soon as Tyrogue got an ice pack and placed it on the guy's head, he was automatically feeling better. Afterwards, Tyrogue and the others move some bricks made out of ice. Clefairy uses them for his dome and Tyrogue watched in amusement. Tyrogue was having fun until he finds out that the dome was built on the tip of the mountain, causing it to fall on top of the villagers's homes.

Following the accident, Tyrogue arrives in a forest where he notices a guy who turns out to be Red's rival lying down. Green gets back and takes Red, Tyrogue, Pikachu and Clefairy to an underground area known as the Dragon's Den. They stumble across a giant gap that they had to get across. Green, Tyrogue and the group managed to jump over the gap. After Clefairy stepped on a whirlpool that caused it to disappear, Tyrogue went down the area that was a tunnel to the prize that they wanted. As soon as Green got the prize, Tyrogue noticed that Green double-crossed them. After Green escaped the Dragon's Den, Tyrogue and the group had to bypass a rock slide and some giant Poké Balls thrown at them. They held on to one of the Poké Balls in order to escape the Dragon's Den and it squished Green, causing him to drop the Dragon's teeth.

Clefairy tried on the Dragon's teeth to open up a snack that he couldn't eat. The giant Poké Ball that Tyrogue and the group held on to revealed itself to be Clair and explained what happened in Dragon's Den as well as the teeth. Tyrogue then starts to introduce himself and laughs at Clefairy for his foolishness with the dragon's teeth. This caused the two to get into a fight. As soon as the group arrived to the Gym in Blackthorn City, they noticed a beaten up Green and his Charizard, which made Tyrogue scared of the opponent. Tyrogue arrived at the Gym and noticed that he had to get past the molten lava in order to get to Clair. Clefairy decided to form a bridge to get across. However, Clefairy's grip gets loose and they fall in the lava. Clair cools them off and somewhat praises them for trying. During the battle between Dragonair and Clefairy, Tyrogue was reluctant to work with him due to their fighting but Red forced him to work with Clefairy as Clefairy could not handle Dragonair by himself. With much encouragement, Tyrogue fights the Dragonair, and he and Clefairy get in sync with each other, causing them to defeat Dragonair. Unfortunately, they brought along some clones in which they did some work for Clair, only for the real Tyrogue and Clefairy to start fighting again.

With the final Gym Battle over, Tyrogue mentioned about picking up a Larvitar from the Day Care Center. To get there, Tyrogue and the group took the Magnet Train which took them to the Day Care. Inside was the Larvitar that Tyrogue was talking about. After arrival, Tyrogue went with Larvitar to the house and after Clefairy drew a silly face on it, Tyrogue started running after Larvitar grew several sizes from eating tons of food.

On his way to the Pokémon League, Tyrogue met Gold and Silver for the first time. He then tried to pull a heavy door and got inside a dark room. When Pineco lit up and Bellossom blasted a hole through the roof, Tyrogue and the others were sent flying out of the building.

When they arrived in the Pokémon League, Tyrogue notices three figures that are falling from the sky and thinks that it was a UFO but Clefairy stops him. As the figures which turn out to be Koga, Will and Bruno fell on top of Clefairy, they tell Tyrogue and the group that they should find out from Karen herself. Arriving at the top, Tyrogue notices that Karen has a huge advantage against Red due to the fact that she has the Pokémon belonging to the other members of the Johto Elite Four since the dumb joke she told them caused them to fall off the building. After the battle between Clefairy and Umbreon, Karen tells Tyrogue and Red the same joke which made them and Pikachu fall off the building and only Clefairy found it funny.

As Clefairy was reading a book about being a wizard, Tyrogue points out some stuff that Clefairy missed and then read it himself. Tyrogue then goes to a house in order for them to get taught. Tyrogue tries it out but it didn't work out. As Clefairy successfully got hypnotized the technique of being a wizard, Tyrogue gets transformed into an old man and a vegetable, and then back to normal.

Hoenn

Tyrogue went to Hoenn along with Red, Clefairy and Pikachu in Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire. In I Won't Let You Lead!!, he is challenged by Professor Birch to various contests. Due to Clefairy's foolishness, Tyrogue did not manage to win any. In the next chapter, he plans out a rescue mission in order to get Pikachu after Pikachu was taken by Ruby.

Sinnoh

Tyrogue then went to Sinnoh in Pocket Monsters DP. 

HGSS

Tyrogue went back to Johto in Pocket Monsters HGSS. He stayed with the group until PMHGSS23 where he stayed behind with his pals, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan and Hitmontop.

Personality and characteristics

Tyrogue is very different from Clefairy and Pikachu as Tyrogue is the only one that actually cares about training and battling. Due to this, he often fights with Clefairy as Clefairy is the complete opposite. Despite their opinions about each other, Tyrogue ends up working with Clefairy when an opponent that is too strong is impossible to beat as shown in The Ultimate Battle...?! when he couldn't take on Clair's Dragonair by himself.

Tyrogue appears to be very flirtatious as shown in Tyrogue's In Love where he fought Jasmine's Steelix for Jasmine's love as Steelix was considered her bodyguard and in Take me to the Dragon Palace! where he was enamored by a Wartortle dressed up.

Moves used

Using Rock Smash	Move First Used In Rock Smash The Ultimate Battle...?!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Trivia

Tyrogue painting a picture of Clefairy

• Tyrogue was shown to possess good painting skills as shown in Tyrogue the Artist where he perfectly painted a picture of Clefairy. This is also evidenced by most of his work being sold to an art museum.

Related articles

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

Red's Pokémon
On hand:	Clefairy	Pikachu	Conkeldurr
Other:	Machamp	Articuno	Tauros	Kingler	Venusaur	Rattata
	Jigglypuff	Primeape (×2)	Cubone	Dragonite	Pidgey	Arcanine
	Larvitar	Scyther	Slugma	Alakazam	Shiftry	Ditto
Befriended:	Lapras	Mew
Seen in a baseball match:	Diglett	Golem	Slowbro	Magneton	Farfetch'd	Gastly
	Onix	Chansey	Tangela	Snorlax	Jynx
Seen in a curry cooking competition:	Blastoise	Diglett	Rapidash	Onix	Scyther	Exeggutor
	Eevee	Voltorb
Status unknown:	Gastly	Haunter	Exeggcute (×2)	Miltank	Snubbull
Traded away:	Togepi
Released:	Tyrogue
Temporary:	Mew	Torchic	Treecko	Clefable	Raichu	Hitmontop
Borrowed:	Meowth	Togepi
Escaped:	Unnamed Bug

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