Jessie's Seviper
ムサシのハブネーク Musashi's Habunake
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Jessie's Seviper (Japanese: ムサシのハブネーク Musashi's Habunake) was the first Pokémon caught by Jessie of Team Rocket during her travels through Hoenn, presumably as a replacement for her recently released Arbok. Its voice actress in Japanese is 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō, and its English voice actors are Michael Sinterniklaas (4Kids dub) and Bill Rogers (PUSA dub). In the 4Kids English dub, some of the noises made by Satō are retained along with Sinterniklaas's voice. When PUSA took over the dub, they stopped retaining Satō's voice.
History
Jessie showing her love towards Seviper
Jessie caught Seviper in A Tail with a Twist after initially being impressed with its sneaky and aggressive demeanor. It had defeated Ash's Treecko earlier in the episode, which is why Jessie wanted it so much. Although Seviper was intelligent, and outsmarted Team Rocket's multiple attempts to ensure its capture, Jessie caught Seviper after it had bitten off a chunk of her hair, mangling poor Seviper with her "Fury Swipes" and "Mega Kick".
Seviper is, along with Yanmega, Jessie's primary battling Pokémon, often seen battling alongside James's Cacnea in Hoenn and later James's Carnivine in Sinnoh. While shown to be fairly powerful before being caught by Jessie, after it fell into her command, it suffered the inevitable fate that all Team Rocket Pokémon face- defeat by Ash or another good character. In the episode Zig Zag Zangoose, Jessie and Seviper were determined to win a battle against Seviper's mortal enemy, a Zangoose belonging to the trainer Nicholai.
Seviper has also entered a few Contests. In Mademoiselle Jessica's contest debut, in All Things Bright and Beautifly!, Seviper was Jessie's chosen Pokémon to enter the contest, but miserably failed to pass the Appeal Round, as Jessie didn't prepare herself to the contest, and ordered Seviper to use attacks that Seviper can't learn, such as Blaze Kick. She is then seen apologizing to it, meaning she does care about Seviper. In Settling a Not-So-Old Score!, Jessalina used Seviper in the Appeal Round. Not much of the Appeal was seen, because while Seviper was performing it, Dawn was thinking about her Pachirisu's Appeal, focusing the attention on her, not in Jessie. However, Kenny stated that Seviper was being quite good. The appeal ends with Jessie ordering Seviper to perform Wrap and Bite on Jessie herself, and thus, amazing the crowd.
In the episode A Stand-Up Sit-Down!, Jessalina decided to face Dawn to "practice" for the Hearthome City contest. However, it was Zoey who accepted the challenge. Jessie used the combination of Seviper and Dustox and her idea was to make Dustox use Poison Sting and then to make Seviper use Poison Tail on Dustox's Poison Sting, making it spin and added extra-power to it. Brock even said that that was a smart combination. However, that didn't work as Zoey's Glameow countered with Iron Tail, making the combination going to other side around and then Zoey's Shellos used Mud Bomb, breaking the combination of Poison Sting and Poison Tail. Seviper and Dustox both were then easily defeated by Zoey's Glameow.
In Dawn's Early Night Seviper and Dustox were used in the Battle Round of the Hearthome City contest and lost against Nando. Not much of the battle was seen. In Old Rivals, New Tricks it was also used in the battle round of a Contest and it was quite successful until it lost to Dawn.
Since Jessie has caught Yanmega, Seviper isn't seen in as many battles as before. It is also used as Team Rocket's escapist rogue to blanket the area in Haze, replacing James's Weezing's duty to steal innocent Pokémon under the shrouded premises.
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Trivia
- In DP023, Professor Oak's lecture is about Jessie's Seviper. He writes this Pokémon senryū about it: あかいキバ わわるとアブネー ハブネーク The red fangs, it's dangerous to touch them; Habunake.
- In Jessie's first encounter with Seviper, she was taller than Seviper. However, in recent episodes, Seviper is much taller than her. This could be an error on the animator's part, or could just simply mean it has grown during it's time under Jessie's ownership.
- Seviper also makes a second, low sound which sounds like purring. It usually does this when searching or surprised.
- Like its trainer, Seviper is "bossy", as shown in Zig Zag Zangoose! when James insulted it and it hissed at him, in which James got scared and bowed to Seviper instead. It also hissed at Meowth when he called it a big overgrown Caterpie and slapped him with its tail.
- In Tears For Fears!, its Japanese voice could be heard during the brawls with Zangoose.
- Aside from Ash's Pikachu, Meowth, and her Wobbuffet, Seviper has been a part of a main character's party for longer than any other Pokémon, having been Jessie's main battler throughout all of Advanced Generation and much of Diamond and Pearl.
- This is one of the two Pokémon in the series that were caught while battling a human (the other being Ash's Kingler), and somehow, the human (Jessie) defeated Seviper.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Seviper.
