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Jessie's Lickitung ムサシのベロリンガ Musashi's Beroringa

File:Jessie lickitung.jpg Jessie's Lickitung

Debuts in Princess vs. Princess Caught at Kanto Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Traded in Tricks of the Trade Original Trainer Jessie Traded for Benny's Wobbuffet Current location With Benny

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Lickitung Chinami Nishimura Eric Stuart

Jessie's Lickitung (Japanese: ムサシのベロリンガ Musashi's Beroringa) was the second Pokémon Jessie appears with in Kanto; Jessie captured Lickitung in a fit of rage after it ate all her food and temporarily paralyzed her Arbok. Lickitung was the first Pokémon Jessie captured in the anime and in Kanto, and it is the first Pokémon Team Rocket as a whole captured in the anime. Its English voice actor is Eric Stuart and its Japanese voice actress is 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura.

History

Lickitung was first mentioned by Jessie in So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd; however, she did not capture it for another three episodes where it first appeared and had its most central role in Princess Versus Princess. Lickitung was Jessie's forgotten weapon in the finals of the Queen of the Princesses contest against Misty. After stunningly defeating a borrowed Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Vulpix with its effective Lick, Lickitung was defeated by Psyduck, ending Jessie's run in the contest.

Jessie used Lickitung rather sparingly for the rest of its time under her possession, making the pink Pokémon her second option, after Arbok. Thus, it was one of the least used Pokémon that was owned by a main character. It most often appeared alongside Arbok, Weezing and Victreebel when Jessie and James used all four of their Pokémon in battle.

Lickitung, much like James's Victreebel, showed its affection for its Trainer rather openly. Lickitung licked Jessie's face on several occasions, but not nearly as many times as the running gag of Victreebel latching onto James' head.

In Tricks of the Trade, Lickitung was accidentally traded by Jessie to a Trainer named Benny for his Wobbuffet during a commotion at the Pokémon Swap Meet. As Team Rocket's scheme to steal Pokémon with a rigged trading device is discovered by the crowd, Lickitung's Poké Ball was dropped into the trading machine when Jessie was knocked backwards, and is swapped with Benny's Poké Ball already in the machine; the person Benny had been planning to trade with had changed his mind at the last minute. Jessie soon realized the trade when she sent Lickitung out to battle Ash, and the passive Wobbuffet emerged instead.

Lickitung was seen living happily with Benny towards the end of this episode, and Benny tells Ash and friends to "thank the lady who traded him Lickitung". However, there is no indication that Ash and his friends ever identified the Lickitung as Jessie's old Pokémon, nor that Jessie's new Wobbuffet was originally Benny's. Lickitung and Benny have not been seen since in the anime.

Moves used

Using	Move	First Used In
	Bind	Unknown
	Lick	Princess vs Princess
	Slam	Unknown
	Stomp	Unknown
	Supersonic	The Whistle Stop
	Tackle	Unknown
	Wrap	Princess vs Princess
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

• Lickitung was the first Pokémon belonging to a main character to be permanently traded. Coincidentally, the third permanently-traded Pokémon is also of the Template:Type2,receives an evolution in Generation IV, as well as evolving by leveling up with a certain move in the same generation: Aipom.
• Despite being in Jessie's possession for 94 episodes, it made only 17 appearances total.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Lickitung.

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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