May's Blaziken

May's Blaziken ハルカのバシャーモ Haruka's Bursyamo

May's Blaziken

Debuts in Get the Show on the Road! Caught at Littleroot Town Evolves in A Shroomish Skirmish Once More with Reeling Gender Unknown Ability Blaze Current location Unknown

→ → This Pokémon spent 81 episodes as Torchic and 109 episodes as Combusken.

Voice actor Japanese English As Torchic Chinami Nishimura Rachael Lillis As Combusken Chinami Nishimura Rikako Aikawa Darren Dunstan (4Kids) Bill Rogers (PUSA) As Blaziken Katsuyuki Konishi Bill Rogers

May's Blaziken (Japanese: ハルカのバシャーモ Haruka's Bursyamo) was the first Pokémon acquired by May at the beginning of her travels in Hoenn. Its Japanese voice actor is 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi and its English voice actor is Bill Rogers. In Japanese, 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura voiced it as both a Torchic and Combusken (during her leave, it was voiced by Rikako Aikawa). In English, Rachael Lillis voiced it as a Torchic, as a Combusken it was voiced by Darren Dunstan (4Kids dub) and Bill Rogers (PUSA dub).

History

As a Torchic

In Get the Show on the Road!, Blaziken was given to May by Professor Birch in Littleroot Town when it was still a Torchic. She chose it as her starter Pokémon because she thought Treecko was creepy and scary (though she later called them cute in Trees a Crowd), while the starter Mudkip had attacked her earlier with a Water Gun to the face. However, she seemed to like Torchic's cute appearance and sweet nature. Early on in the journey, Torchic was very inexperienced and ditzy. It did not know how to battle, and tended to wander around obliviously; it also tended to panic when in dangerous situations. On the group's first encounter with Jessie's Seviper (still wild at the time), the Poison-type frightened Torchic by trying to eat it.

As a Combusken, using Mega Kick

When May started to ignore Torchic in favor of her new Beautifly, Torchic's personality began to change: it grew more determined to improve itself and recapture May's attention. Its competitive streak continued to grow as it lost most of its childishness and confusion; this culminated in its evolution into Combusken during A Shroomish Skirmish. Combusken itself had a period of being highly aggressive, but this seems to have passed and its personality seems to have evened out more now that it apparently feels that it no longer has to overcompensate.

In Once More with Reeling, during the break of a Pokémon Contest, Ash and co. were trying to stop Team Rocket from stealing Pikachu and other Pokémon. In the midst of the ensuing battle, Combusken evolved into Blaziken, and used its Blaze Kick to send Team Rocket flying. May then used Blaziken in the Battle Phase against Ash's Sceptile.

Blaziken appeared again when May made a guest appearance in A Full Course Tag Battle!. It was used in the Seven Stars Restaurant tag battles. It battled alongside Dawn's Piplup.

Moves used

Using Blaze Kick	Move	First used in
	Peck	A Ruin With A View
	Ember	A Ruin With A View
	Growl	Unknown
	Quick Attack	I Feel Skitty
	Fire Spin	A Shroomish Skirmish
	Sky Uppercut	A Shroomish Skirmish
	Mega Kick	Spontaneous Combusken
	Overheat	Channeling the Battle Zone!
	Blaze Kick	Once More with Reeling
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

• May's Blaziken is the only Hoenn starter belonging to a main character that did not fall in love: Sceptile fell in love with a Meganium, and Marshtomp fell in love with a Flaaffy.
• As a Combusken, it has participated in the battles of both Grand Festivals where May was defeated (Rhapsody in Drew for the Hoenn one, and Channeling the Battle Zone! for the Kanto one).
• Both its first battle as a Combusken (against the Wild Breloom) and its first official battle as a Blaziken (against Ash's Sceptile) resulted in a tie. Notably, in both times its enemy was a Grass-type Pokémon.
• Combusken evolved into Blaziken exactly 100 episodes after its first Contest victory (in Lilycove City).
• Like Ash's Sceptile, Blaziken was voiced by Darren Dunstan in its second stage followed by Bill Rogers after the voice switch, and Bill Rogers in its final form.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Torchic, Combusken, and Blaziken.

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