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Ash's Primeape (Japanese: サトシのオコリザル Satoshi's Okorizaru) was the eighth Pokémon caught by Ash Ketchum during his travels through Kanto. Its voice actor in both English and Japanese is 大竹宏 Hiroshi Ōtake, however, Michael Haigney provided its English voice in The Punchy Pokémon.
Ash caught Primeape on Route 7 in the episode Primeape Goes Bananas. On the road to Celadon City, Ash learned that Gary had already captured 30 Pokémon. Upon hearing this, Ash aspired to capture more for himself.
Soon afterwards, a friendly wild Mankey ate some of Brock's food. Ash took this opportunity to try to capture the little Pokémon, but the Poké Ball failed, and Mankey was angered. It chased the group, beat up Ash, and stole Ash's hat. Mankey gleefully teased Ash as the young trainer fumed about having his beloved cap stolen.
Team Rocket took this opportunity to try to capture Pikachu, knocking Mankey aside. The angry Pig Monkey evolved into Primeape, which viciously attacked the Team Rocket members. After several attempts to capture the berzerking Primeape, Ash's Charmander was finally able to defeat it. Ash captured it and unleashed it upon Team Rocket.
In The Punchy Pokémon, after leaving Celadon City, Ash and his friends met a man named Anthony who was training to win the P1 Grand Prix, a tournament for Template:Type2 Pokémon. Anthony's daughter, Rebecca, wanted him to stop spending so much time away from home training. Brock and Ash volunteered to enter the tournament to discourage Anthony. Ash entered Primeape.
In the first match, Ash saved Primeape from a nasty fall, which caused the usually angry Pokémon to become closer to Ash. Primeape eventually won the tournament. Anthony asked to train Primeape, so Ash gave it to him.
Primeape was only around for a couple of episodes, but it had a lot of personality. It was very mischievous, and would often fly into uncontrollable tantrums if it did not get what it wanted. This notably caused Ash to audibly reconsider using Primeape in a gym battle against Erika.
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Trivia
- It should be noted that Primeape's habit of taking Ash's hat has been passed down to Ash's Aipom, who is also a Pokémon based on a primate.
- This is Ash's second Pokémon that refused to obey him. The first was Pikachu and the third would eventually be Charizard, ironically the Pokémon that defeated Primeape when Ash captured it.
- This was the first Pokémon that took Ash's hat.
- Primeape was the first Template:Type2 Pokémon caught by Ash, as well as the only pure Fighting-type owned by a main character so far in the show.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Mankey and Primeape.
