Kenny's Empoleon

Kenny's Empoleon ケンゴのエンペルト Kengo's Emperte

Kenny's Empoleon

Debuts in Getting the Pre-Contest Titters! Caught at Sinnoh Evolves in Prior to Arrival of a Rival Prior to DP174 Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With Kenny

→ → This Pokémon spent an unknown number of episodes as Piplup and at least 97 episodes as Prinplup.

Voice actor Japanese English As Piplup Not shown As Prinplup Katsuyuki Konishi Bill Rogers As Empoleon Katsuyuki Konishi N/A

Kenny's Empoleon (Japanese: ジュンエンペルト Kengo's Emperte) is Kenny's main Pokémon in the anime. It is also his starter Pokémon. It is voiced by 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi in Japanese and by Bill Rogers in English.

History

Empoleon was first seen as a Prinplup in Getting the Pre-Contest Titters!. It proved to be very strong when it was battling against Ash's Pikachu despite its disadvantage. In the next episode, it put up a good fight against Dawn's Piplup. At first Prinplup didn't want to be friends with its weaker, pre-evolved form, but after being saved by Piplup, they soon became friends.

As a Prinplup

Prinplup appears in a flashback in Buizel Your Way Out of This!. Prinplup also made a cameo with Kenny in Throwing the Track Switch. It won Kenny a ribbon on TV.

It appeared in Journey to the Unown!, at the start with Kenny. Prinplup was next seen in Team Shocker! where it helped Kenny get to the final round of the Solaceon Town Contest, but eventually lost to Jessie's Dustox.

Prinplup again made a cameo with Kenny on television in A Breed Stampede!. It is shown that it has helped him earned his third ribbon.

It also appeared in Stopped in the Name of Love, alongside Barry's Empoleon and Dawn's Piplup. In the following episode, it defeated Dawn's Ambipom in the Sandalstraw Town Contest, earning Kenny his fourth ribbon.

Between helping Kenny win the Sandalstraw Ribbon and Kenny's participation in the Grand Festival, Prinplup evolved into Empoleon and learned two new moves: Flash Cannon and Hydro Cannon. Kenny used Empoleon alongside his Floatzel in the Appeal Round, however during an attempt to create a Flash Cannon-Whirlpool combination, Empoleon accidentally knocked Floatzel out, its Flash Cannon being too powerful for Floatzel to handle. As a result of this huge mistake, Kenny failed to make it past the appeal round.

Kenny used Empoleon in DP180 in a battle against Ash's Buizel in which it was able to defeat Buizel. It also seemed to have developed a rivalry with Ash's Buizel in DP180.

Moves used

Using Drill Peck	Move	First Used In
File:K Empoleon Drill Peck.png
	Metal Claw	Getting the Pre-Contest Titters
	BubbleBeam	Getting the Pre-Contest Titters
	Drill Peck	Settling a Not-So-Old Score!
	Mist	Settling a Not-So-Old Score!
	Hydro Cannon	DP174
	Flash Cannon	DP174
An x shows that the move cannot be legitimately known by this Pokémon in the games.
Moves used recently are in bold unless all moves all fit this case.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Piplup, Prinplup, and Empoleon.

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