Ash's Snorlax
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Ash's Snorlax (Japanese: サトシのカビゴン Satoshi's Kabigon) was the second Pokémon caught by Ash Ketchum in the Orange Islands.
History
During his travels in the Orange Islands in Snack Attack, Ash discovered a grapefruit orchard that was under attack by a Snorlax that was eating everything in sight, and was consuming many of the nearby islands' vegetation within days. Ash, Misty, Tracey plotted to lure Jigglypuff out to sing Snorlax to sleep. The plan succeeded and eventually managed to stop the Snorlax. This gave Ash the perfect opportunity to catch it.
Ash kept the Snorlax on his team for the remainder of his time in the Orange Islands, but could not use it in the finals due to the fact that it would not wake up and needed to be switched with one of Ash's Tauros. After the tournament was won, Ash then decided to keep his Snorlax at Professor Oak's permanently because he could no longer feed it and only called upon its power in major battles.
Since then, Snorlax has become one of the senior members of Ash's team, along with Charizard and Pikachu and has provided much needed comic relief in many situations. Ash called upon it for the Sumo Conference in Ring Masters, winning the subsequent fight as a result, and later used it to defeat Clair's Kingdra in their rematch. He also used Snorlax during the Johto League competition, first against Gary Oak where it overpowered Gary's Arcanine with Hyper Beam and Nidoqueen with Ice Punch, but could not keep up with Scizor's speed and was knocked out by a Metal Claw to the face.
Snorlax then fought during Ash's following match against Harrison, although it was fast asleep when sent out to fight Hypno. It was awoken unpleasantly by Dream Eater and quickly put Hypno down with Hyper Beam. It bested Harrison's Steelix in the same way, but could not pull off a third Hyper Beam victory when Houndoom reflected it back onto Snorlax with Counter.
In a special episode, Snorlax made a cameo appearance and was seen being awakened by the herd of Tauros.
When Ash returned from Hoenn, with May and Max, Snorlax befriended May's Munchlax. Later Snorlax helped Ash earn the Guts Symbol from Greta in Wheel of Frontier by defeating her Hariyama with an Ice Punch and literally flattening her Medicham with Body Slam.
It appeared in An Old Family Blend!, alongside Ash's other Pokémon. It was not in its Poké Ball, like many of Ash's other Pokémon, but was found in the kitchen, eating restaurant food. It was later used in the battle against Team Rocket, but it was sleeping. Ash tried to wake up Snorlax, but it accidentally rolled over, tipping the Team Rocket mecha over.
It was most recently seen in Casting a Paul on Barry! where it defeated a female Trainer's Grumpig with a powerful Body Slam, helping Ash progress to the third round.
Moves used
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Trivia
- In Wheel Of Frontier, Snorlax's Harden was erroneously named Protect in the Japanese version of the anime. The error was carried on into the dub.
- In Pokémon Food Fight, Misty says, "That is if you can ever get him to wake up", but only in the dub. Another instance of gender confirmation in the dub was in Playing with Fire!, when Professor Oak says "Snorlax's Hyper Beam was sent back to him at double the power."
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Snorlax.
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