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James's Weezing コジロウのマタドガス Kojirō's Matadogas

James's Weezing

Debuts in Pokémon Emergency! Caught at Unknown Evolves in Dig Those Diglett! Gender Male* Ability Unknown Released in A Poached Ego! Current location Hoenn

→ This Pokémon spent 29 episodes as Koffing.

Voice actor Japanese English As Koffing Unshō Ishizuka Michael Haigney As Weezing Unshō Ishizuka Eric Stuart

James's Weezing (Japanese: コジロウのマタドガス Kojirō's Matadogas) was the first Pokémon James was known to have, and his third overall. He received it as a year-end gift (a Christmas gift in the dub).

In the anime

History

Original series

Kanto

As a Koffing

It was revealed in Island of the Giant Pokémon that James received Koffing as a gift last Christmas, oseibo in the original Japanese version. It is unknown who gave it to him.

Weezing first appeared in Pokémon Emergency! as a Koffing. James used it alongside Jessie's Ekans to quickly overtake the defenseless Viridian Pokémon Center. Koffing's job was to create a Smokescreen while Ekans destroyed the computers. Chasing everyone into the back room, Koffing and Ekans accompanied their Trainers in intimidating Ash, Misty, and Nurse Joy, which caused Misty to decide to battle Team Rocket. This was a failed effort, however, as both of them managed to catch up to Ash in no time at all. However, Nurse Joy's Pikachu came out and healed Ash's Pikachu with a Thunder Shock attack, while at the same time attacking the Team Rocket trio. Giving Ash's Pikachu enough power to stand up, Ash charged up Pikachu using Misty's charred bike, and he let him use his own Thunder Shock. As the group were electrocuted, Koffing used Smog, and the electricity climbed up the toxic gas, causing the entire Pokémon Center to explode, and sending Team Rocket blasting off for the first time.

Weezing and James

It was used constantly by James as his main battling Pokémon throughout Kanto. It eventually evolved into a Weezing in Dig Those Diglett!, along with Ekans, after James and Jessie were desperate for them to evolve.

In Princess vs. Princess, Jessie used Weezing during the Queen of the Princess Festival contest. Weezing helped Jessie make it to the finals, but ultimately failed against Pikachu's Thunder Shock.

In The Evolution Solution, Weezing assisted James in catching his Weepinbell. James then used it to battle a Shellder he dug up. Weezing was easily able to defeat it with its Haze after dodging its Ice Beam. Just as James was about to catch it, Jessie jumped in and caught it herself.

Johto

Throughout the Johto region, James tended to use Victreebel for combat over Weezing. During this time, Weezing was mainly used to create smoke to cover the trio's escapes and entrances.

Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

In A Ruin With A View, James sent out Weezing alongside Arbok to battle the Team Magma Grunts who approached them. Not long after being sent out, Team Magma's Houndoom used Roar to send Weezing and Arbok back into their Poké Balls.

In A Poached Ego!, Team Rocket took on Rico, a Pokémon poacher who had captured a herd of Ekans and Koffing in Petalburg Woods. Eventually, James and Jessie reluctantly ordered Weezing and Arbok to stay in the wild and guard the young Ekans and Koffing. The pair tearfully escaped into the wilderness as Jessie, James, and Meowth fought Rico and his Tyranitar by themselves.

Personality and characteristics

Weezing fighting alongside Arbok

Weezing was extremely loyal to James, caring about him a great deal and only taking orders from him. In Island of the Giant Pokémon, as a Koffing, it refused to attack Ash's Pokémon on Meowth's orders, simply because he was not James. In addition, both Koffing and Ekans were very sad about being separated from their Trainers, and they cried happily upon being reunited with them.

Despite its loyalty to James, Koffing showed a moral conscience of its own, revealing in Island of the Giant Pokémon that there is no such thing as an evil Pokémon; rather, that moral responsibility lies with the Trainer. There have also been rare occasions where Weezing and Arbok refused to obey their Trainers, such as in A Chansey Operation, where they refused to attack a Chansey because it had treated the injuries they suffered from Team Rocket's schemes, and Got Milktank? where Weezing, along with the rest of Team Rocket's Pokémon, agreed to not attack the Miltank or any of the Pokémon at an oasis where only humans are not welcomed out of respect for the Pokémon.

Weezing and Arbok, even prior to their evolutions, were a deadly duo. In The Flame Pokémon-athon!, Weezing defended Arbok after it was injured by a Ponyta's flames and retaliating with Smog, even though its Smog ignited the flames. Weezing often provided the Smokescreen for Team Rocket's grand entrances and escapes. Its Sludge was also commonly used to blind Pokémon like in Ash Catches a Pokémon.

Moves used

Using Poison Gas as a Koffing	Move First Used In Smog Pokémon Emergency! Smokescreen † Pokémon Emergency! Sludge † Ash Catches a Pokémon Tackle Clefairy and the Moon Stone Poison Gas The Ghost of Maiden's Peak*
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

• In the dubbed version of The Evolution Solution, James told Weezing to use Haze. In the original Japanese version, he simply told Weezing to counterattack.

In the games

In the core series

Weezing appears in Pokémon Yellow and Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! as part of Jessie and James's team each time they appear, alongside Meowth/Arbok and its pre-evolved form.

Pokémon Yellow
First and second battle (Mt. Moon/Rocket Hideout)	Third and fourth battle (Pokémon Tower/Silph Co.)
Type: Poison Unknown Koffing Lv.14/25 Tackle Normal   --       Smog Poison   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Type: Poison Unknown Weezing Lv.27/31 Tackle Normal   --       Smog Poison   --       Sludge Poison   --       Struggle Normal   --
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
First battle (Mt. Moon)	Second battle (Team Rocket Hideout)	Third battle (Pokémon Tower)	Fourth and fifth battle (Silph Co./Route 17)
Type: Poison Unknown Ability: No Ability Held item: None Koffing♂ Lv.12 Poison Gas Poison Status   --       Tackle Normal Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --	Type: Poison Unknown Ability: No Ability Held item: None Weezing♂ Lv.32 Toxic Poison Status   --       Sludge Poison Special   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --	Type: Poison Unknown Ability: No Ability Held item: None Weezing♂ Lv.34 Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Sludge Bomb Poison Special   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --	Type: Poison Unknown Ability: No Ability Held item: None Weezing♂ Lv.36/52 Sludge Bomb Poison Special   --       Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --

In spin-off games

Pokémon Zany Cards back boxart

Pokémon: Catch the Numbers!

Weezing appears in Pokémon: Catch the Numbers!.

Pokémon GO

James always leads with a Shadow Koffing, impiled to have been borrowed from Giovanni. The player has a chance to catch it after defeating him. Unlike most Shadow Pokémon, the Shadow Koffing has a chance to be Shiny.

Pokémon Masters EX

Main article: James (Masters) → Weezing

James's Weezing appears alongside James as a sync pair.

Pokémon Puzzle League

Weezing was one of Jessie and James's three Pokémon in Pokémon Puzzle League.

Pokémon Zany Cards

Weezing is depicted on a photograph on the box art for Pokémon Zany Cards, along with Arbok and Wobbuffet. However, it does not make an appearance in the game.

In the manga

In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga

Weezing in The Electric Tale of Pikachu

As a Koffing

James's Weezing first appears as a Koffing in Pikachu's Excellent Adventure. All of its subsequent appearances, beginning in You Gotta Have Friends, are as a Weezing. Like in the anime, Weezing is James's primary battling Pokémon.

Moves used

Using Smog	Move First Used In Smog You Gotta Have Friends
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In the TCG

James's Weezing is featured in the TCG as of one James's Pokémon. The following is a list of cards featuring Weezing.

Weezing Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Weezing		Hidden Fates		29/68	Sky Legend		028/054

Trivia

Weezing in Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution

• In The Misty Mermaid, Weezing was shown as less dense than water, causing it to float.
• Though Team Rocket began chasing Pikachu mainly because it was powerful enough to blow up the Pokémon Center, it should be noted that James's Koffing was part of the cause — its gas reacted with the electricity to create the explosion.
• Koffing and Weezing used Poison Gas in Pokémon: Indigo League, even though they couldn't learn the move in the games until Generation II.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Koffing and Weezing.

Team Rocket's Pokémon
Travel with:	Meowth	Rotom Phone
	Jessie			James
On hand:	Wobbuffet	Seviper	Yanmega	Mime Jr.	Carnivine	Yamask
	Woobat	Frillish	Gourgeist	Amoonguss	Inkay	Morpeko
In training:				Cacnea
At home:				Growlie	Chimecho
Released:	Arbok	Dustox	Mimikyu	Weezing	Gyarados	Mareanie
Traded away:	Lickitung			Victreebel
Lived with (all three):	Bewear	Stufful
Worked with (all three):	Delibird	Pelipper
Temporarily owned:	Porygon Zero	Shellder	Magikarp	Hoppip	Second Victreebel
	Mawile
Befriended:	Blissey
Status unknown:	Starmie			Pidgey	Numel
For a list of other Pokémon Team Rocket has commanded, see here and here

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