Ash's Bayleef

Ash's Bayleef サトシのベイリーフ Satoshi's Bayleaf

Ash and Bayleef

Debuts in The Chikorita Rescue Caught at Route 29 Evolves in Current Events Gender Female Ability Unknown Current location At Professor Oak's Laboratory

→ This Pokémon spent 73 episodes as Chikorita.

Voice actor Japanese English As Chikorita Mika Kanai As Bayleef Mika Kanai

Ash's Bayleef (Japanese: サトシのベイリーフ Satoshi's Bayleaf) was the second Pokémon that Ash Ketchum caught in the Johto region. Her voice actress in both Japanese and English is Mika Kanai.

History

As a Chikorita

Bayleef was introduced in The Chikorita Rescue as a Chikorita. Chikorita was especially stubborn, going so far as to fight against Ash's Charizard despite obvious overwhelming odds; she was injured in the process. Team Rocket tried to convince the stubborn Pokémon to join them, but Ash eventually won her confidence.

Chikorita developed what seemed to be a crush on Ash, constantly fighting for his attention and trying to get his approval. In Gym Battles, she lost to Falkner's Hoothoot and defeated Bugsy's Spinarak.

In Current Events, Chikorita evolved into Bayleef to protect Ash from Team Rocket. However, it took a while for the amorous Pokémon to realize that she had grown so much - she continued to act as though she was still small enough to leap into Ash's arms for quite some time.

In Ash's Gym Battle against Chuck, Bayleef defeated his Poliwrath and Machoke. At the Silver Conference she lost to Gary's Blastoise despite a type advantage, but made up for it the next day by defeating Harrison's Houndoom, against whom she had a type disadvantage. Ash left Bayleef with Professor Oak when he left for Hoenn.

Bayleef's personality is stubborn, sometimes violent, and passionate. She easily gets jealous of the attention Ash's other Pokémon receive - especially Pikachu. Some of her more extreme personality traits seemed to have mellowed with evolution, however.

Moves used

Using Vine Whip	Move	First used in
	Razor Leaf	The Chikorita Rescue
	Vine Whip	The Chikorita Rescue
	Tackle	Chikorita's Big Upset
	Sweet Scent	Gettin' the Bugs Out
	Body Slam	Turning Over a New Bayleef
	Headbutt	Playing with Fire!
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

• Chikorita was the only Pokémon that Ash owned that evolved during the Johto saga. Despite this, he also had another evolved Pokémon: Noctowl.
  • Bayleef is the only Pokémon that Ash currently owns that is in its middle evolution, outside of his current party. The Pokémon in his party in this same state are Pikachu, Monferno, and Grotle.
• Chikorita took as many episodes to evolve as another Pokémon that had a crush on Ash: Aipom. They were both Generation II Pokémon before their evolution as well, and their Japanese names are both very similar to their English names. Both are also confirmed to be female, and both Pokémon also use their Japanese voices in the dub.
• Bayleef is the only one of Ash's current Pokémon to be confirmed as a female. Aipom is also a female, but was traded to Dawn and then left under O's care for training.
• Bayleef is the 25th Pokémon species that Ash obtained, including evolutions and not counting Haunter as it was not officially his.
• Bayleef was the second starter Pokémon caught by Ash to evolve, the first being Charizard.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Chikorita and Bayleef.

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