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Brock's Marshtomp (Japanese: タケシのヌマクロー Takeshi's Numacraw) was the second Pokémon acquired by Brock in Hoenn, and his seventh altogether.
History
Brock caught Mudkip in A Mudkip Mission. Mudkip lived at a pond where a number of Mudkip were bred. While most of the Pokémon left the pond as they grew older, the one that Brock caught was already mature and acted as a guardian of the younger, smaller Mudkip. It joined Brock and left the pond after he helped it rescue itself and the younger Mudkip from a Team Rocket attack.
In A Chip Off the Old Brock, Mudkip evolved into a Marshtomp during a training battle versus Ash's Grovyle and automatically learned Mud Shot due to it's new type gain. It then became smitten with a Flaaffy, as Brock was smitten by its Trainer.
Marshtomp is among the more behaved of the gang's Pokémon. It is often seen helping Ash's Pikachu break up scuffles between Pokémon. Being a Template:Type2 Pokémon, it usually worked with Brock's Ludicolo to launch double Water Gun attacks. It is also called upon to search for things underwater, and often used to help track down a missing Pokémon or object (usually due to Team Rocket stealing it) using the fin on its head as a radar.
Brock left his Marshtomp at the Pewter Gym when he decided to join Ash in the Sinnoh region.
Moves used
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In the TCG
Brock's Marshtomp was featured in the TCG multiple times. The following is a list of cards named either Brock's Mudkip or Brock's Marshtomp.
Trivia
- Out of the main characters' Hoenn starter Pokémon, Marshtomp is the only one that didn't fully evolve.
- This is Brock's second Pokémon to fall in love. The first was Ludicolo in Once in a Mawile.
- Marshtomp is the only middle evolution of a main character's Hoenn starter not to be voiced by Darren Dunstan followed by Bill Rogers.
- Marshtomp shares similarities with Cilan's Stunfisk. Both are owned by the male protaganist travelling with Ash at the point of capture.
- Both are fish-based Pokémon.
- Both are ground types.
- Both were caught at a pond.
- Both know a projectile-based mud attack, and a status-based Normal-type attack.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Mudkip and Marshtomp.
