James's Carnivine

James's Carnivine コジロウのマスキッパ Kojiro's Muskippa

James's Carnivine

Debuts in Two Degrees of Separation Caught at Great Marsh Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With James

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Carnivine Daisuke Sakaguchi Billy Beach

James's Carnivine (Japanese: コジロウのマスキッパ Kojiro's Muskippa) was the first Pokémon that James obtained in the Sinnoh region. Its Japanese voice actor is 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi, and its English voice actor is Billy Beach.

History

James originally caught Carnivine in the Great Marsh as a boy, as mentioned in a flashback in Cream of the Croagunk Crop!. It made its debut in Two Degrees of Separation. In this episode, Team Rocket went to James's parents' vacation home in Sinnoh and James found Carnivine's Poké Ball among a collection of bottlecaps, but left quickly after being told Jessiebelle was on her way. He decided to bring Carnivine with him.

Hugging James

Carnivine continues the series' running gag of James's Grass-type Pokémon showing affection for him by hurting him whenever they are released from their balls. This affection is probably due to the fact that James and Carnivine shared a close bond when James was a child.

Since James found it, Carnivine has taken Cacnea's place as his main battling Pokémon.

In Jessalina's Sinnoh Contest debut, Carnivine was used in both Appeal and Battle rounds. In the Appeal Round Carnivine used Bullet Seed on a lollypop that Jessie threw, and amazed the crowd by biting Jessie's head. In the Battle round, it is seen defeating a Rhydon for Jessie, showing that it is a strong battler, and thanks to it, Jessie reached the final stage. However, it lost against Zoey's Glameow.

In Another One Gabites the Dust!, Jessie used Carnivine in the Chocovine Contest Battle Rounds, where it got to the semi-finals, losing to Ursula's Gabite.

Carnivine was also used in DP146 to compete in the Suiren Contest Battle Rounds. Together with James, who was disguised as Jessalina, they defeated Dawn and her Mamoswine in the semifinals and eventually won the ribbon.

Moves used

Using Bullet Seed	Move	First used in
Bite	Dawn of a New Era!
Bind	Dawn of a New Era!
Bullet Seed	Dawn of a New Era!
Vine Whip	Saving the World From Ruins!
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

• For Settling a Not-So-Old Score, Professor Oak's lecture is about James's Carnivine. He writes this Pokémon senryū about it: マスキッパ　きょうもはらぺこ　すきっぱら Muskippa is also starving today: empty stomach.
• Carnivine is the third Pokémon that James has owned that shows its affection for him at the same time hurting him in the process. The first one was Victreebel, followed by Cacnea.
  • All of them also happen to be Grass-types.
• Carnivine is the first of Jessie and James's Pokémon (including Meowth) to learn a new move while under their ownership. James's Cacnea learned a new move, Drain Punch, while training under Gardenia.
• In the Latin American Spanish dub it was given a nickname (Carnavalín) for comical purposes, like Victreebel. James usually uses the nickname, but not always, he has also called it Carnivine.

Related articles

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

External links

• Muskippa's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

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