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Ash's Heracross サトシのヘラクロス Satoshi's Heracros

Ash's Heracross

Debuts in A Sappy Ending Caught at Route 29 Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location At Professor Oak's Laboratory

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Heracross Katsuyuki Konishi

Ash's Heracross (Japanese: サトシのヘラクロス Satoshi's Heracros) was the first Pokémon Ash captured during his travels through Johto.

History

Heracross eating sap

Heracross first appeared in A Sappy Ending. In the episode, several Heracross and Pinsir were having a territorial dispute. One of the Heracross followed Ash and his friends as they tried to figure out a solution to stop the dispute, which, unsurprisingly, came in the form of Team Rocket. Team Rocket was stopped thanks to the Heracross, and the Pinsir were able to return to their forest, leaving the Butterfree and Heracross. However, the same Heracross was still intrigued by Ash and followed him for a little ways out of the forest. Eventually, Ash saw it following and the Heracross happily allowed itself to be captured.

Heracross proved to be a powerful battler in Roll On, Pokémon! where it battled a Donphan and against a Scizor in Wired for Battle!. It also likes to suck sap from plants or trees, as well as Bulbasaur's bulb whenever the two were together, annoying Bulbasaur enough to use Vine Whip on him.

Heracross was sent to Professor Oak's lab in Tricks of the Trade in exchange for one of Ash's Tauros. Ash sent Tauros back in the following episode, but Professor Oak informed Ash that he wanted to study Heracross's behavior and wanted it to stay with him for some more time.

In the Johto League Silver Conference, Ash used it in the league battle against Gary. Despite the type disadvantage, it was able to defeat Gary's Magmar but lost to his Blastoise. After Ash returned from Johto, he left Heracross with Professor Oak when he began to his journey into Hoenn.

In Ka Boom with a View!, Ash used Heracross again in the battle against Palace Maven Spenser. Upon being sent out, Heracross immediately went to eat the sap on Spenser's Venusaur. After putting up a good battle, it lost to Venusaur's SolarBeam.

Heracross reappeared in DP182, where it was seen sucking sap out of Bulbasaur's bulb and also sucking on Professor Oak's head, making him angry. It was used for Ash's battle with Nando in DP183. It was put up against Nando's Kricketune, which used Sing to put Heracross asleep. However, while asleep, it was able to dodge Kricketune's Fury Cutter attack, because of the newly learned Sleep Talk attack, and counter it with an also newly learned Focus Punch. After it woke up, it had a fierce battle with Kricketune, which Heracross ended with a powerful Megahorn/Horn Attack combo. After the battle, Heracross showed its affection towards Ash by "sucking on" his head.

In DP189, it was the first Pokémon to battle Takuto in the semi-finals of the Suzuran Conference. It was revealed to have learned Hyper Beam, which collided with Darkrai's Ice Beam. It tried to attack Darkrai with Horn Attack but was put to sleep by Dark Void. Due to Sleep Talk, it was able to hit the legendary Pokémon with a Megahorn, only to be defeated when Darkrai used Dream Eater to attack Heracross.

Moves used

Trivia

• The shape of its horn would suggest that Heracross is male, although prior to Generation IV all Heracross had horns shaped like this.
• Heracross is the 20th Pokémon species Ash has owned, counting Haunter and Raticate.
• Heracross is Ash's second Template:Type2 Pokémon, the first being Primeape. It is also his second Template:Type2 Pokémon, the first being Butterfree. Because both Primeape and Butterfree were eventually released, Heracross is Ash's first Bug-type and first Fighting-type to stay in his roster.
• Heracross wasn't used in gym battles in the Johto region, but it was used in the Silver Conference.
• Heracross was the first Pokémon Ash caught in the Johto region.
• Heracross is one of the two Pokémon (three if Haunter is counted) that Ash owns that has a unique type combination; the other being Torterra.
• Heracross only has two moves of the Bug and Fighting-types: Megahorn and Focus Punch. These moves have the highest base power of their types.
• Heracross is the fourth of Ash's Pokémon to know the move Hyper Beam, the first three being Kingler, Snorlax and Donphan.
  • Out of these, Heracross is the only one that doesn't have an evolutionary family
• Even though Ash has owned three bug type Pokémon, the others being Butterfree and Beedrill, Heracross is the only one still under his ownership.

Related articles

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

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	Meloetta	Rotom Pokédex
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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