Ash's Donphan

Ash's Donphan サトシのドンファン Satoshi's Donfan
Ash's Donphan
Debuts in	Hatching a Plan!
Caught at	Around Route 44
Gender	Unknown
Ability	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.

History

Phanpy's egg

Ash received a Phanpy egg as a prize in the episode Extreme Pokémon! after he won a race hosted by an old couple who were breeders. It hatched in the episode Hatching a Plan!. It was shown to be a very playful Pokémon.

Phanpy was the youngest Pokémon on Ash's team, though its power made up for his lack of experience. Throughout most of Ash's travels through Johto, Phanpy was rarely used and was the baby on the team. Its only major battle was a match against Pryce's Dewgong in As Cold as Pryce. It lost the match.

Phanpy, however, played a role in Ash's battle against Macey in the Silver Conference in the episode Love, Pokémon Style!. It battled against and defeated Macey's Slugma.

Ash left Phanpy at Professor Oak's lab before traveling to Hoenn, but it returned to his party when Ash took on the Battle Frontier challenge. It had shown signs that it had grown up beyond the young Pokémon seen in Johto.

In Reversing the Charges, Phanpy battled a Team Rocket mecha and evolved into a Donphan in order to take it down. Ash also used Donphan in the match against Pike Queen Lucy and her Seviper. Donphan had become a very strong battler, but still retained its child-like behavior it had when it was a Phanpy.

Donphan returned to Professor Oak's lab when Ash left for Sinnoh.

Moves used

Using Hyper Beam	Move	First used in
	Tackle	Unknown
	Rollout	Hatching a Plan
	Take Down	Hatching a Plan
	Hidden Power	Hooked on Onix
	Hyper Beam	Reversing the Charges
	Earthquake	Unknown
	Defense Curl	Unknown
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

As a Phanpy

• The length of its tusks would suggest that Donphan is male, although prior to Generation IV all Donphan had long tusks. A similar issue surrounds two of Ash's other Pokémon (these being Pikachu and Heracross).
• Donphan is the first Ground-type Pokémon to be captured by Ash.
• It took Phanpy a total of 198 episodes to evolve into Donphan; this is the longest time it took for one of Ash's Pokémon to reach its final form so far.

Related articles

• For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Phanpy and Donphan.
• Ash's Phanpy (8th Movie Half Deck 4)