Ash's Noivern

Ash's Noibat サトシのオンバット Satoshi's Onbat

Ash's Noibat

Egg obtained in A Not-So-Flying Start! Hatches in A Not-So-Flying Start! Hatched at Route 15 Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With Ash

→ This Pokémon spent less than 1 episode in its Egg.

Voice actor Japanese English As Noibat Yuka Terasaki Marc Thompson

Ash's Noibat (Japanese: サトシのオンバット Satoshi's Onbat) is the fifth Pokémon that Ash caught in the Kalos region.

History

Noibat's Egg

In A Not-So-Flying Start!, Noibat was in its Egg when it was first found by Hawlucha, who was doing training exercises. The Wrestling Pokémon brought the Egg back to Ash and his friends, where it was about to hatch. In response, Ash, Pikachu, Fletchinder, Hawlucha, Bonnie, Dedenne, Pancham and Chespin covered the Egg to keep it warm whilst it hatched, with Fletchinder using its Flame Body Ability to help.

When it hatched, Noibat first saw Ash and was introduced to him and his Pokémon. Noibat was very stressed out, so it let out a powerful Supersonic attack, hurting everyone's ears. It was eventually calmed down by Ash. Afterwards, the group found apples for it with Noibat using its ultrasonic waves to sense the apples' taste. Noibat then attempted to fly, but failed causing it to launch another Supersonic until it was calmed down by Ash again. The group decided to help teaching Noibat how to fly with Hawlucha and Fletchinder aiding it. Despite Noibat improving he was still unable to fly. Whilst training with Hawlucha and Fletchinder, Team Rocket appeared and fired a net at Noibat whom they wanted to evolve into a Noivern. In the process of the kidnapping, they also captured Hawlucha, who attempted to protect it.

Ash and his Noibat

The two Flying-types were then tied up to a tree. Noibat tried to use Supersonic on them, but failed due to Team Rocket's soundproof earphones. Hawlucha managed to cut the rope using its nails and tried to sneak away along with Noibat, but they were soon spotted by Team Rocket. Hawlucha successfully escaped with Noibat, after attacking Inkay with High Jump Kick, and knocking it down together with Pumpkaboo. As they were still being pursued by the trio, Noibat spotted a cave and told Hawlucha to hide in there. Inside the pitch black cave, Jessie, James and Meowth tried to capture them and lure them into a trap set by Inkay and Pumpkaboo. Noibat used its ultrasound waves to sense the trio and had Hawlucha kick off their soundproof headphones, which allowed Noibat to use Supersonic, causing Team Rocket to flee. After Ash appeared and defeated Team Rocket with Frogadier and Pikachu, the two Flying-types left the cave. Afterwards, Noibat accepted Ash's offer to go with him and allowed itself to be captured in a Poké Ball. It was then let out and it trained to fly with Hawlucha and Fletchinder again.

In A Relay in the Sky!, it continued to train how to fly along with Fletchinder and Hawlucha, Noibat struggled at tackling high winds, but Hawlucha taught Noibat how to deal with it. Afterwards the group noticed a Starly, Staravia and Staraptor. They went to the source of this, the Pokémon Sky Relay, where they discovered that the birds came from the Sky Relay Champion, Orson. Later Ash used Fletchinder, Hawlucha and Noibat in the relay. Ash used Noibat in the last segment of the race. It started out in first place, but Starly was right behind it and had the advantage since Noibat hadn't fully mastered flying yet. Although it remained in first place initially, it encountered high winds, which Noibat struggled with. Starly used this to its advantage to pass Noibat and gain first place. After remembering its training with Hawlucha and everyone's support, it managed to overcome this and managed to get neck-to-neck with Starly. It eventually ended up second after barely losing to Starly, and was disappointed at first, but found that it had made its friends happy by learning to fly.

Personality and characteristics

After hatching, it quickly imprinted on Ash, presumably because it is who Noibat first saw. It was also impressed by Hawlucha's abilities in its debut. As a newborn Pokémon, it struggled to fly and was upset when it failed. When stressed or upset, it lets out a powerful Supersonic attack. In A Relay in the Sky!, it did the same when it was happy. Like all Noibat, it has an affinity toward fruit, but it can be a picky eater and refused to eat apples which it thought were bad.

Noibat has the ability to use ultrasonic waves, which it first used in A Not-So-Flying Start! to tell if a fruit was bad or good. It later used these to spot Team Rocket in pitch darkness, allowing Hawlucha to attack them without being seen.

Noibat is shown to have a very parent-child like relationship with Ash. As such, Noibat is able to be calmed down easily by Ash, and very much enjoys being around him. It also has a close relationship with Hawlucha and Talonflame, since they helped Noibat learn how to fly and seems to enjoy being with them. Noibat also seems to take after Ash, acting very similarly to him, and seems to take inspiration from him. When in the Pokémon Sky Relay race, Noibat was determined to win and managed to come second place due to Ash's encouragement. Much like Gliscor, Noibat seems to want Ash's approval and is upset when it is denied a chance to prove itself, as shown when it was very upset at narrowly losing the Pokémon Sky Relay. Once Ash gave Noibat the praise it desired, it quickly cheered up.

Moves used

Using Supersonic	Move First Used In Supersonic A Not-So-Flying Start!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Trivia

• Noibat's capture was first teased in the poster for PK27.
• Noibat is the only Kalos Pokémon currently owned by Ash that is not weak to the Electric-type.
• Noibat took the shortest time to hatch out of all of the Pokémon owned by the main cast that hatched from Eggs, with the Egg being ready to hatch before being given to its Trainer.
• Out of all of Ash's Pokémon that hatched from eggs, Noibat knew the least amount of moves in its debut with only one.

Related articles

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

Ash's Pokémon
On hand:	Pikachu
Traveling with:	Rotom Phone
At Oak's/In rotation:	Pidgeot	Bulbasaur	Charizard	Kingler	Muk	Tauros (×30)
	Snorlax	Heracross	Bayleef	Quilava	Totodile	Noctowl
	Donphan	Swellow	Sceptile	Corphish	Torkoal	Glalie
	Staraptor	Torterra	Infernape	Buizel	Gliscor	Gible
	Unfezant	Oshawott	Pignite	Snivy	Scraggy	Leavanny
	Palpitoad	Boldore	Krookodile	Talonflame	Hawlucha	Noivern
	Dragonite	Gengar	Lucario	Sirfetch'd	Dracovish
With Kukui/In rotation:	Rowlet	Lycanroc	Incineroar	Melmetal
At home:	Mr. Mime
In training:	Squirtle	Primeape
Released:	Butterfree	Lapras	Larvitar	Greninja	Goodra	Nebby
	Naganadel
Temporarily owned:	Seaking	Buzzwole	Stakataka	Pheromosa	Rowlet
Traded away:	Raticate	Aipom
Given away:	Beedrill
Traveled with:	Haunter	Azelf	Meowth	Meloetta	Rotom Pokédex	Latias
The Power of Us only:	Ekans	Sentret
EToP only:	Fearow	Oddish	Mankey	Slowpoke
Newspaper Strip only:	Starmie	Clefairy
For a list of Pokémon Ash has temporarily owned, used, or commanded, see here

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