Brock's Marshtomp

Brock's Marshtomp タケシのヌマクロー Takeshi's Numacraw
Brock's Marshtomp
Debuts in	A Mudkip Mission
Caught at	Near Dewford Town
Gender	Unknown
Ability	Unknown
Evolves in	A Chip Off the Old Brock
→ This Pokémon spent 123 episodes as Mudkip
Current location	Pewter Gym
Voice actors
As Mudkip	Japanese VA Megumi Hayashibara	English VA Lindsey Warner (4Kids) Michele Knotz (PUSA)
As Marshtomp	Japanese VA Shin'ichirō Miki	English VA Jamie Peacock

Brock's Marshtomp (Japanese: タケシのヌマクロー Takeshi's Numacraw) was the second Pokémon acquired by Brock in Hoenn, and his seventh altogether. Its Japanese voice actor is 三木眞一郎 Shin'ichirō Miki and its English voice actress is Jamie Peacock. As a Mudkip, it was voiced by 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara in Japanese and Lindsey Warner (4Kids dub) and Michele Knotz (PUSA dub) in English.

History

As a Mudkip

Brock caught Mudkip in A Mudkip Mission. Mudkip lived at a pond where a number of Mudkip were bred. While most of the Pokémon left the pond as they grew older, the one that Brock caught was already mature and acted as a guardian of the younger, smaller Mudkip. It joined Brock and left the pond after he helped it rescue itself and the younger Mudkip from a Team Rocket attack.

In A Chip Off the Old Brock, Mudkip evolved into a Marshtomp during a training battle versus Ash's Grovyle. It then became smitten with a Flaaffy, as Brock was smitten by its trainer.

Marshtomp is among the more behaved of the gang's Pokémon. It is often seen helping Ash's Pikachu break up scuffles between Pokémon. Being a Water-type Pokémon, it usually worked with Brock's Ludicolo to launch double Water Gun attacks. It is also called upon to search for things underwater. It is also often used to help track down a missing Pokémon or object (usually due to Team Rocket stealing it) using the fin on its head as a radar.

Brock left his Marshtomp at the Pewter Gym when he decided to join Ash in the Sinnoh region.

Moves used

Using Water Gun	Move	First used in
	Water Gun	A Mudkip Mission
	Mud Shot	A Chip Off the Old Brock
	Tackle	Unknown
	Protect	What I Did for Love
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.

In the TCG

Brock's Marshtomp was featured in the TCG multiple times. The following is a list of cards named either Brock's Mudkip or Brock's Marshtomp.

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Brock's Mudkip		-	-	"ADV-P" Promotional cards (no English release)	38/ADV-P
Brock's Marshtomp		-	-	9th Movie Half Deck (no English release)	8/19

Trivia

• Out of the main characters' Hoenn starter Pokémon, Marshtomp is the only one that didn't fully evolve.
• Before Brock captured Marshtomp (as a Mudkip), it acted tough to protect Old Man Swamp's Mudkip, similar to Bulbasaur who protected a village of Pokémon from intruders.
• This is Brock's second Pokémon to fall in love. The first was Ludicolo in Once in a Mawile.
• Out of all Pokémon belonging to the main cast, Mudkip took the longest to evolve while its Trainer was continuously part of the main cast (May's Squirtle and Bulbasaur were revealed after her 76-episode absence, Brock's Zubat evolved after Brock's return from his Orange Islands absence, Misty's Togepi evolved after Misty's 45-episode absence, Ash's Phanpy evolved after he picked it up at Professor Oak's lab near the end of the Advanced Generation series (having been hatched in Johto), and Brock's Onix evolved under his brother's care).

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Mudkip and Marshtomp.