Ash's Quilava

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Ash's Quilava
サトシのマグマラシ Satoshi's Magmarashi
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Quilava prepares to attack
Quilava prepares to attack
Debuts in Good 'Quil Hunting
Caught at Route 33
Evolves in DP182
Gender Unknown
Ability Unknown
Current location With Ash
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This Pokémon spent 507 episodes as Cyndaquil.
Voice actor Japanese English
As Cyndaquil Yuji Ueda Kayzie Rogers
As Quilava Yuji Ueda N/A

Ash's Quilava (Japanese: サトシのマグマラシ Satoshi's Magmarashi) was the third Pokémon that Ash caught during his travels through Johto. Its Japanese voice actor is Yuji Ueda, and its English voice actress is Kayzie Rogers.

History

Johto

Quilava first appeared as a Cyndaquil in Good 'Quil Hunting. Ash finds a forest reputed to be populated by Cyndaquil and decides to look for one. Ash was separated from his friends and chased by Team Rocket into a cave where he found Cyndaquil. After competing with Koji and Team Rocket for it, Ash was able to capture it.

Personality-wise, Cyndaquil was the "baby" of Ash's group. It started off very weak and lazy, and was easily tired out. In battles, it usually had to wait for the flame on its back to ignite before using any Template:Type2 attacks. After training with Ash in Hot Matches!, Cyndaquil was able to ignite at will.

Cyndaquil was also very speedy in battle, able to dodge attacks with ease. Arguably, its most notable battle appearance was in the episode Nerves of Steelix. Cyndaquil took down Jasmine's undeniably powerful Steelix. It has also been used in most of Ash's Johto gym battles and it was able to get at least one win in all the matches, defeating Bugsy's Scyther, Whitney's Nidorina and Clefairy, Morty's Gastly, Jasmine's Steelix and Pryce's Dewgong.

Ash left Cyndaquil along with the rest of his Johto team at Professor Oak's Laboratory when he wanted to start his journey fresh in the Hoenn region.

Sinnoh

Ash called Cyndaquil back into his party for the Suzuran Conference in DP182. It evolved into Quilava during a battle with Team Rocket's mecha.

In the following episode, Ash will use Quilava to battle Nando in the first round of the Suzuran Conference.

Moves used

Using Eruption Move First Used In
File:Quilava Eruption.png
Flamethrower Good 'Quil Hunting
Tackle Good 'Quil Hunting
Agility x Hot Matches!
SmokeScreen Hot Matches!
Swift From Ghost to Ghost
Quick Attack Nice Pryce, Baby!
Flame Wheel DP182
Eruption DP182
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.


Trivia

  • With his capture of Chimchar, Ash now has owned each Fire-type starter whose English name begins with a C and whose Japanese name begins with a ヒ hi: Charmander, Cyndaquil, and Chimchar. Incidentally, Charmander and Chimchar were either abused or abandoned by their former Trainers, while Cyndaquil narrowly avoided being captured by a potentially abusive Trainer.
  • Cyndaquil's body color changed, like Corphish's BubbleBeam, over the course of the series. It started off with the top half being royal blue and the bottom half being cream, while later the top half was colored a mossy green and the bottom half was a deep cream.
  • Quilava, as a Cyndaquil, took the longest to evolve out of any Pokémon in the anime, having been in its first stage for longer than a decade.
  • Quilava is Ash's only Fire-type Pokémon that is not yet fully-evolved.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Cyndaquil and Quilava.


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