Ash's Donphan
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| Ash's Donphan サトシのドンファン Satoshi's Donfan | ||
 Ash's Donphan | ||
| Debuts in | Hatching a Plan! | |
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| Caught at | Around Route 44 | |
| Gender | Unknown | |
| Egg obtained | Extreme Pokémon | |
| Evolves in | Reversing the Charges | |
 →  →  This Pokémon spent 2 episodes in its egg and 198 episodes as Phanpy | ||
| Current location | At Professor Oak's lab | |
| Voice actors | ||
| As Phanpy | Japanese VA Megumi Hayashibara | English VA Tara Jayne Lindsey Warner (4Kids) Michele Knotz Jamie Peacock (PUSA) |
| As Donphan | Japanese VA Kenta Miyake | English VA Kenta Miyake |
Ash's Donphan (Japanese: サトシのドンファン Satoshi's Donfan) was the sixth Pokémon caught by Ash during his travels through Johto. Its voice actor in both Japanese and English is 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake. As a Phanpy, it was voiced by 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara in Japanese and by Tara Jayne (4Kids dub, EP230-EP273) and Lindsey Warner (4Kids dub, AG133-AG145) in English. In the PUSA dub, it has been voiced by Michele Knotz and Jamie Peacock.
Ash received a Phanpy egg in the episode Extreme Pokémon! after he won a competition hosted by a couple in the business of breeding Pokémon. Ash cared for it until it hatched in the episode Hatching a Plan! At first, the newly-hatched Pokémon was sad and felt that nobody cared about him and was overlooked but after a little time with the other Pokémon, it became one of the team.
Phanpy was the youngest Pokémon on Ash's team, though its power made up for his lack of experience. Throughout most of the Johto seasons however, Phanpy was rarely used and was known as the "baby" on the team. Its only major battle was a loss to Pryce's Dewgong in the episode Cold as Pryce!. However it did play a role in Ash's battle against Macey in the Silver Conference in the episode Love, Pokémon Style!
Soon after, Ash left Phanpy at Professor Oak's lab before travelling to Hoenn, but it returned to his party after his adventures there. After that day, it has shown signs that it had grown up beyond the young Pokémon seen in Johto. In Reversing the Charges, Phanpy battled a Team Rocket mech, and Phanpy evolved into the Donphan seen today in order to take it down. Since then, Ash has been vigorously training Donphan, and using him in many battles including one vs. Pike Queen Lucy and her Seviper; Donphan became a very strong battler, but still retained a somewhat child-like behavior when off-battles.
Donphan returned to Professor Oak's lab when Ash decided to go to Sinnoh.
Moves used
Trivia
- Donphan is the first Ground-type Pokémon that Ash actually owned. Larvitar isn't counted as it was merely befriended, not caught in a Poké Ball. The second is Gligar.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Phanpy and Donphan.
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