Magikarp salesman

Magikarp salesman コイキング売り Koiking salesman
The Magikarp salesman
Gender	Male
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Brown
Hometown	Unknown
Region	Unknown
Relatives	Wife and children
First episode	Battle Aboard the St. Anne
English voice actor	Eric Stuart (4Kids) Bill Rogers (PUSA)
Japanese voice actor	Unshō Ishizuka

Salesman redirects here. For the TCG card, see Traveling Salesman (Aquapolis 137).

The Magikarp salesman (Japanese: コイキング売り Koiking salesman) is a con man who is always getting James to buy one of his worthless Pokémon. He is voiced by 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka in Japanese and by Eric Stuart (4Kids) and Bill Rogers (PUSA) in English.

In the anime

His first appearance in the anime was on the St. Anne in Battle Aboard the St. Anne selling Magikarp to anyone foolish enough to buy one. He would tell them that they would reproduce and make the buyer rich. James was foolish enough to buy one which later evolved into a Gyarados. Some time after he appeared with the same "selling strategy" in Tricks of the Trade and Doin' What Comes Natu-rally. Later, in Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid, he would trade his Weepinbell for James's Victreebel. He has also appeared in Hoenn, selling a Hoppip disguised as Chimecho when James was searching for a Chimecho, and also selling Magikarp disguised as a Feebas for a Spoink's pearl which Team Rocket stole. Both of them were successfully sold to Team Rocket.

He tried his golden Magikarp scam on Tracey in Showdown at the Oak Corral claiming that the Magikarp could lay golden eggs. However, unlike Team Rocket, Tracey was too smart to fall for this trick. The Magikarp Salesman ran off when he discovered that it was Professor Oak's laboratory.

He made a cameo when Ash captured Aipom in Channeling the Battle Zone.

His latest appearance was in Ya See We Want an Evolution. He sold an Evolution machine/Mecha-bot to Team Rocket. While he did inform Team Rocket that the machine must warm up for at least a week before use, Team Rocket forgot to follow his instructions, which resulted in failure in evolving Pokémon and sustaining its Mecha-bot form. Therefore, it is unknown if this was another one of his scams, or if the machine would truly have worked. However, considering he ran off after telling them, it may have been another lie to keep them from following him.

He is the main reason why Jessie has a Wobbuffet. In Tricks of the Trade, he tries to sell a Magikarp to James, but James recognizes him as the one who tricked him into buying a Magikarp on the St. Anne, and chases after him, causing him to bump into Jessie, which sends her flying over to the trading machine. When she bumped into it, the Poké Ball containing her Lickitung fell onto the trading machine, trading it with Benny's Wobbuffet, which he was trying to trade throughout the episode.

Pokémon

On hand

Magikarp (many, some disguised as Feebas)

Hoppip (many, disguised as Chimecho)

Sold

Magikarp

Magikarp (disguised as a Feebas)

Hoppip (disguised as a Chimecho)

Traded away

Weepinbell

Released

Victreebel

In the games

In Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, as well as the remakes Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen, the Magikarp salesman appears in Route 4's Pokémon Center and sells the player a Magikarp for 500. He does not offer a refund. While this may seem something of a ripoff, it is actually worthwhile to raise a Magikarp from such an early point in the game, allowing the player to own a Gyarados earlier than if they had not bought the Magikarp.

Trivia

• The Magikarp salesman was given a Hispanic accent in all of the dubbed episodes except for Showdown at the Oak Corral where he speaks without an accent. This may have been an oversight of the Pokémon Chronicles production team, as after Pokémon USA took over the dubbing, his Hispanic accent returned in Ya See We Want an Evolution.

External links

• Koiking-uri's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

This article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.