Ash's Larvitar

Ash's Larvitar サトシのヨーギラス Satoshi's Yogiras
Ash's Larvitar
Debuts in	Hatch Me If You Can!
Caught at	Route 46 Mt. Silver
Gender	Unknown
Ability	Unknown
Egg obtained	Lapras of Luxury
→ This Pokémon spent 1 episode(s) in its egg
Released in	Mother of All Battles!
Current location	Unknown
Voice actors
As Larvitar	Japanese VA Miyako Itō	English VA Tara Jayne

Ash's Larvitar (Japanese: サトシのヨーギラス Satoshi's Yogiras) is a Pokémon owned by Ash briefly during the Master Quest season of the anime. Its Japanese voice actress is Miyako Itō and its English voice actress is Tara Jayne. Like Haunter, some say Ash did not "catch" this Pokémon (and therefore did not officially own it), but he at least befriended it. He also did use it to battle once, in Address Unown.

History

In its egg

Ash received an egg that he was supposed to deliver to Professor Elm in Johto. It hatched into Larvitar while Ash had it and became very close to Ash and his Pikachu, but Hardened if anybody else approached it.

Its life in the egg was the reason it was traumatized and mistrustful. This was revealed in the episode Address Unown: when Ash and friends are teleported to another dimension, they eventually find an egg with a dark crystal-like thorn in it. They are shown a flashback, hear a child's voice crying that he was scared and calling for his mother, then figured out that it was Larvitar's voice. Poachers had kidnapped it in its egg and fired at its mother several times, leaving a scar on her body. The thorns start to cover everything while Ash calls for Larvitar. Once the three manage to get through to Larvitar, the thorns — and its fear of them — disappear. They then return to the real world.

The poachers are stopped at Mt. Silver in the episode Mother of All Battles! and Larvitar is reunited with its mother Tyranitar.

Moves used

Using	Move	First used in
	Screech	Hatch Me If You Can
	Hidden Power	Hatch Me If You Can
	Harden x	Hatch Me If You Can
	Bite	You're a Star, Larvitar!
	Dig	You're a Star, Larvitar!
Moves used recently are in bold and have been italicized unless all moves all fit this case.
An x shows that the move cannot be legitimately learned by this Pokémon in the games.

Trivia

• Despite not officially being his, Larvitar appeared in the Spurt! opening, along with its mother.
• Despite its weight (158.7 lbs, or 71.98 Kg according to the Pokédex), it was seen being carried by Ash on his bag. This is a possible example of anime physics.
• Throughout its duration on the show, Larvitar had continually used Harden whenever it was scared, the only problem being that Larvitar can't learn Harden in the games.
• Out of all of the on-screen hatchings, Larvitar took the shortest amount of time after it was obtained by Ash.
• Larvitar was the only Rock-type that Ash owned, despite the fact that he did not actually capture it (as he had six in his party at the time). Since he was entrusted with its egg, hatched it, cared for it, and used it to battle, it is widely considered to have belonged to him until it was released.

Related articles

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