Misty's Gyarados

This article is about the anime counterpart of Misty's Gyarados. For the manga counterpart, see Gyara.

Misty's Gyarados カスミのギャラドス Kasumi's Gyarados

Misty's Gyarados

Debuts in The Misty Mermaid Caught at Kanto Evolves in Prior to Cerulean Blues Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location Cerulean Gym

→ This Pokémon spent an unknown number of episodes as Magikarp.

Voice actor Japanese English As Magikarp Unshō Ishizuka Maddie Blaustein As Gyarados Unshō Ishizuka

Misty's Gyarados (Japanese: カスミのギャラドス Kasumi's Gyarados) was Misty's tenth Pokémon; she adopted it in the Kanto region after she returned home in Cerulean Blues. Its voice actor in both Japanese and English is Unshō Ishizuka.

In the anime

Taking over the Cerulean Gym wasn't easy for Misty. Not only were there rumors of PIA inspectors arriving, an angry Gyarados that recently evolved from one of the Cerulean Gym's Magikarp was causing chaos. Misty tried many attempts to stop it but had to resort to locking it in a cage for a while. However, when the Invincible Pokémon Brothers got their Tentacruel to attack it with Poison Sting, Misty took the attack for Gyarados and earned its trust. Calmed, it finally allowed her to return it to its Poké Ball.

The capture of Gyarados is significant as Misty had been afraid of the species up until this point. This came from a traumatic event in her childhood when she had crawled into the mouth of a sleeping Gyarados. Getting it to earn her trust also led to her passing the inspection and truly earning Gym Leader status.

Gyarados is officially a Gym Pokémon. However, in A Togepi Mirage!, when Misty visited Ash in Hoenn, she used Gyarados to defeat Colonel Hansen's Shedinja with a Flamethrower attack. It also appeared in The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon.

Gyarados appeared before its capture as a Magikarp in The Misty Mermaid.

Moves used

Using Flamethrower	Move	First used in
	Headbutt	Cerulean Blues
	Whirlpool	Cerulean Blues
	Hydro Pump	Cerulean Blues
	Flamethrower	A Togepi Mirage!
	Hyper Beam	Cerulean Blues
	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 manga

In Electric Tale of Pikachu

Misty also has a Gyarados in the manga counterpart to the anime, but, unlike in the anime, it was the first Pokémon she ever caught. She trained it carefully until it evolved, due to this, it's extremely loyal to its trainer.

In Pokémon Adventures

Main article: Gyara

Gyara attacking Misty

Misty's Gyarados, who was nicknamed Gyara, first appeared in Gyarados Splashes In!. It was stolen and used for experiments by Team Rocket, causing it to go berserk and attack Misty. Then Red appeared, recaptured Gyarados and returned it to her. After that, in You know... Articuno!, Red tried to get the HM Surf but he couldn't, so, Misty offered to trade Gyara with Red's Krabby, Kra, because Gyrara already knew that move. With Gyara he could reach Cinnabar Island.

Gyara seems to have a cheerful personality, as after it was caught by Red, it was constantly singing and moving. The other Pokémon seem to be afraid of it after it does this.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Magikarp and Gyarados.

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