Paul's Ursaring

Paul's Ursaring シンジのリングマ Shinji's Ringuma

Paul's Ursaring

Debuts in Different Strokes for Different Blokes Caught at Bewilder Forest Gender Unknown Ability Guts Current location With Reggie in Veilstone City

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Ursaring Unshō Ishizuka

Paul's Ursaring (Japanese: シンジのリングマ Shinji's Ringuma) is the fifth Pokémon that was shown to be owned by Paul.

History

Guts activated

Ash and his friends had gotten lost in Bewilder Forest in Different Strokes for Different Blokes. While looking for a way out, they encountered an angry Ursaring, which started chasing them. After getting out of the forest, the group encountered Paul. Using his Chimchar, Paul weakened Ursaring and caught it. Afterwards, Paul used his Pokédex to scan its attacks, and then decided to keep it.

In Top-Down Training!, Paul used Ursaring to save Chimchar from Team Rocket.

In Glory Blaze!, Paul used it in training Chimchar.

In Chim - Charred!, Ursaring was used in a battle against Chimchar, who, by that point, had come under Ash's ownership. With its brute strength and power, it almost defeated Chimchar when he activated his Blaze Ability. However, after Chimchar lost control of Blaze, he defeated Ursaring.

Ursaring was used against Brandon's Regice in A Pyramiding Rage!. After a clash of its Hammer Arm and Regice's Focus Punch, it attacked Ursaring with Zap Cannon, which paralyzed it. Brandon then recalled Regice and sent out his Regirock. Paul gave up on Ursaring and did not command it to attack, resulting in it getting knocked out by Regirock's Stone Edge.

Ursaring battling Chimchar

In Evolving Strategies! Ursaring was used in the Full Battle against Ash as Paul's sixth Pokémon, which took place at Lake Acuity. With the power of Bulk Up, it easily defeated Ash's Buizel and Staraptor before being recalled. During the battle with Pikachu, it got paralyzed by Pikachu's Static Ability. However, this, in turn, activated its Guts Ability, giving the Hibernator Pokémon the power that it needed ultimately take Pikachu down. Ursaring was eventually brought down by Chimchar once again after being attacked with a Flamethrower.

In Casting a Paul on Barry!, Ursaring was sent out to battle against Barry's Empoleon in the third round of the Lily of the Valley Conference. However, Barry replaced Empoleon with his Hitmonlee. During a very close match between the two, Ursaring was burned by Hitmonlee's Blaze Kick, activating Ursaring's Guts Ability again, giving Ursaring enough power to defeat Hitmonlee. Ursaring fought against Barry's Empoleon again, but after having a Focus Blast fired back to it, Paul recalled it.

In Battling a Thaw in Relations!, Ursaring was at Reggie's house along with Torterra, Weavile, and Honchkrow. It was unhappy to hear that Paul had lost in the quarterfinals of the Lily of the Valley Conference.

Personality and characteristics

Ursaring and Paul

Ursaring's hostile nature

Like most Ursaring, Paul's Ursaring was shown to be aggressive and hostile toward everyone, often screaming when exiting its Poké Ball. This has led to others being intimidated by it and cowering in fear, seen most particularly in a battle against Ash's Chimchar when this trait was exacerbated by Chimchar flinching as a result of Ursaring's Secret Power. Paul has never shown any concern with Ursaring's personality, apparently encouraging such violent behavior as a means of drawing out its strength.

It is an extremely powerful battler with high amounts of stamina and resilience, being able to use its Guts Ability effectively as well as defeat strong opponents with relative ease. These traits were shown most prominently when it single-handedly beat half of Ash's team during Ash and Paul's Full Battle at Lake Acuity and when it defeated Barry's Hitmonlee in a prolonged battle after taking several super-effective hits.

Moves used

Using Focus Blast Using Bulk Up	Move First Used In Hyper Beam Different Strokes for Different Blokes Focus Blast † Glory Blaze! Hammer Arm † Glory Blaze! Secret Power Chim - Charred! Bulk Up † Evolving Strategies! Slash † Evolving Strategies!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Artwork

Official artwork from Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl

Trivia

• For DP086, Professor Oak's Big Pokémon Encyclopedia is about Paul's Ursaring. He writers this senryū about it: 「バトルなら　パワーでしょうぶ　リングマよ」 "Use your power to fight in battles, Ringuma."
• Ursaring is the only Pokémon still under Paul's ownership to not be fully evolved, although it has not physically appeared since the introduction of its evolution.
• Because Paul's Electivire and Honchkrow evolved from Electabuzz (who was initially an Elekid) and Murkrow and gave away Azumarill, Ursaring is the only Johto Pokémon that Paul currently owns.

Related articles

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

Paul's Pokémon
On hand:	Electivire	Gyarados	Garchomp	Metagross
At home:	Ursaring	Weavile	Honchkrow	Torterra	Ninjask	Gliscor
	Magmortar	Hariyama	Nidoking	Aggron	Gastrodon	Drapion
	Froslass
Released:	Starly (×3)	Stantler	Chimchar
Given away:	Azumarill

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