Ash's Tauros

Ash's Tauros サトシのケンタロス Satoshi's Kentaros
One of Ash's Tauros
Debuts in	The Legend of Dratini
Caught at	Safari Zone
Gender	Male
Ability	Unknown
Current location	At Professor Oak's Laboratory
Voice actors
As Tauros	Japanese VA Katsuyuki Konishi	English VA Katsuyuki Konishi

Ash's 30 Tauros (Japanese: サトシのケンタロス Satoshi's Kentaros) were caught during Ash Ketchum's travels in the Kanto region. Their voice actor in both Japanese and English is 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi.

History

Kanto

Ash spent some time in the Safari Zone in the episode The Legend of Dratini. He was attempting to catch as many Pokémon as possible, though all he ended up with were 30 Tauros as they always ran in front of his Safari Balls when he tried to make a catch. At the end of Ash's adventures in the Safari Zone, all thirty Tauros were sent to Professor Oak's laboratory. This episode has never been aired outside of Japan due to the firearms being a plot point. The dub merely mentions in Showdown at the Po-ké Corral that Ash caught the Tauros in the Safari Zone without the captures ever being depicted.

The Tauros' main characteristic is stampeding. This means that the lab is a good place for them, as there is plenty of space to run around. They have proved useful at the laboratory, stampeding to wake up Ash's Snorlax in times of crisis. However, the stampeding has caused mishaps. The first time Ash returned to Pallet Town, they stampeded through a fence. Later, they stampeded through the lab, leaving a mess and a large hole in the wall.

Orange Archipelago

Ash began using Tauros when he needed a replacement for Snorlax for his battle for the Winner's Cup of the Orange League in Hello Pummelo and Enter The Dragonite. He sent the now-sleeping Snorlax to Oak's for one of his Tauros to see if the "beginner's luck" strategy he had used in the Indigo Plateau Conference with Kingler and Muk would work again. After an initial failure when hit with a Gengar's Confuse Ray, Tauros managed to defeat a Venusaur on his own during the battle, subsequently helping to weaken Drake's Dragonite for Pikachu to land the final blow. He then stayed in his Poké Ball until Ash returned him to the herd when he returned to Pallet Town.

Johto

The Tauros was used again in early Johto during the Pokémon Swap Meet. One of the events was a Tauros-battling competition, which Ash entered after exchanging Heracross for Tauros. He ended up winning the competition — subsequently receiving multiple offers to trade Tauros before he explained that he wasn't there to trade — but sent Tauros back to Professor Oak in the next episode. Ash later used a Tauros in the Silver Conference, where it was defeated by Gary's Nidoqueen.

Kanto Battle Frontier

On Ash's return from Hoenn, the Tauros were seen running towards him with his other Pokémon. However, they were just stampeding as usual, and Ash had to be rescued before he could be reunited with the other Pokémon. He used Tauros again in the battle against Salon Maiden Anabel in Talking a Good Game and Second Time's the Charm.

Ash's Tauros preparing to use Fissure

Ash's Tauros

Tauros in the Battle Tower

Moves used

Using Fissure	Move	First used in
	Horn Attack	The Ties That Bind
	Earthquake	Unknown
	Take Down	Enter the Dragonite
	Fissure	Hello, Pummelo!
	Double Team	Second Time's the Charm
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

• Brock caught a Tauros at the same time that Ash caught his first Tauros. Because of this, some believe that Brock should own a Tauros, and the writers forgot about it in subsequent episodes. However, he caught it using one of Ash's Safari Balls, and therefore it is one of the 30 belonging to Ash.
• Despite them all being captured in green Safari Balls, they all have regular Poké Balls when Ash calls them into battle.
• It has never been revealed whether Ash uses the same Tauros whenever one of them is transferred to him or if Professor Oak simply sends him a random one each time.
• Ash's Tauros are the only Pokémon to be caught in a banned episode.
• Ash's Tauros knocked out Anabel's Metagross during Ash's rematch against her in Second Time's the Charm, becoming his second Pokémon to defeat a pseudo-legendary Pokémon. However, it knocked itself out in the process.

Related articles

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