Trip

Trip シューティー Shooty
Trip
Gender	Male
Eye color	Pale gray
Hair color	Dirty blond
Hometown	Nuvema Town
Region	Unova
Anime debut	In The Shadow of Zekrom!
English voice actor	Jamie McGonnigal
Japanese voice actor	Akeno Watanabe

Trip (Japanese: シューティー Shooty) is a Pokémon Trainer from the Unova region. He is Ash's first and main Best Wishes series rival.

History

Younger Trip

As a young child, Trip became inspired to be a Pokémon Trainer after watching Alder battle. He later met the Champion, who would let him pet and feed the Bouffalant Alder was battling with. This experience inspired him to work hard and train to become Champion. As such, Trip idolizes Alder and has great respect for him.

Trip was introduced in In The Shadow of Zekrom! as a beginning Trainer ready to choose his first Pokémon. After meeting with Professor Juniper, he chose Snivy as his new partner. Shortly after obtaining it, he challenged Ash Ketchum to a Pokémon battle. He had much interest in battling Pikachu, a species that is foreign in his region. Because Pikachu could not use any Electric-type moves at the time, Trip easily defeated Ash.

Trip appeared again at a Battle Club in A Rival Battle for Club Champ!, where he and Ash had a 5-on-5 battle, although Trip initially offered to have a full battle with Ash. His Tranquill defeated Ash's Oshawott and Tepig in just two hits with its Super Luck-boosted Aerial Ace, but lost to Ash's Pikachu. Pikachu was defeated by Servine again. Ash's Snivy defeated Trip's Servine by using Attract. Trip's Frillish later defeated Pidove and Snivy, causing Ash to lose the battle. Afterwards, Trip called Ash's Pikachu and Snivy "okay", but called the rest of Ash's team a joke.

Trip

Trip reappeared in A Venipede Stampede!, where he was training in Castelia City when a swarm of Venipede suddenly attacked. He used his Lampent to try and fight them off, but Ash yelled at him for doing so, saying that he was only making things worse. Trip insulted him, but was interrupted by Burgh, who agreed with Ash. Later, Trip went after the leader of the Venipede swarm and ordered Lampent to hit it with Shadow Ball, but Ash blocked the attack. Again, Burgh told him that he was going about it the wrong way, so he stopped. Trip then used Tranquill to help coax out the remaining Venipede and lead them safely out of the city.

Trip appeared again in BW031, along with his Vanillite and Timburr, where he battled Ash. The battle ended in a tie after Servine defeated Snivy, Vanillite tied with Tepig and Oshawott defeated Timburr.

Trip appeared again in BW039, where he participated in a tournament held by Raimon Town's Don George. He was chosen to battle against Cilan in the first match up. In BW041 it will be reveled that his Timburr has evolved into a Gurdurr.

Character

Trip's camera

Trip is a Pokémon photographer, in which he takes photos of Pokémon and places with a green digital camera. He also has an Xtransceiver so that he can keep in touch with the Battle Clubs. Overall, he is a well-reserved individual who tends to keep his feelings to himself. But he expressed his emotions like Ash does now when he was younger. His strategy is all about planning ahead and completing the basics of Pokémon training.

Trip tends to think very little of the Kanto region, which he refers to as "the boonies", and anyone from there. He thinks of Ash as a hillbilly who needs to go back to the basics of Pokémon training. However, he will help him out once in a while, as seen when he informed Ash that Oshawott's Aqua Jet was uncontrollable because he had his eyes closed.

Despite having just started out as a Trainer, Trip already implements many strategies in his battling. He has defeated Ash two times that they have battled and tied in the third, despite Ash being a much more experienced Trainer.

Pokémon

This listing is of Trip's known Pokémon in the anime:

		Servine ♂
		Main article: Trip's Servine Servine is Trip's starter Pokémon, given to him by Professor Juniper when he was a Snivy. He was used to battle Ash in The Shadow of Zekrom!. He was revealed to have evolved into a Servine before Triple Leaders, Team Threats!. This was revealed to Ash in A Rival Battle for Club Champ!.
Debut	In The Shadow of Zekrom!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kiyotaka Furushima
English	Jason Griffith

		Tranquill
		Tranquill is the second Pokémon that Trip was revealed to have. It first appeared in A Rival Battle for Club Champ! where Trip used it to battle Ash's Oshawott, Tepig and Pikachu. It was shown to be powerful, as its Super Luck ability allowed it to take down both Oshawott and Tepig with two hits. It defeated the former two, before losing to Pikachu. It was later used in A Venipede Stampede! to rescue Ash's Pidove from a Venipede's Sludge Bomb attack and help round up the other Centipede Pokémon. Tranquill's known moves are Aerial Ace, Double Team, Work Up and Air Cutter and its ability is Super Luck.
Debut	A Rival Battle for Club Champ!
Voice actors
Japanese	Unshō Ishizuka

		Frillish ♂
		Frillish is the third Pokémon that Trip was revealed to have. He first appeared in A Rival Battle for Club Champ! where Trip used him to battle Ash's Snivy and Pidove. He defeated Pidove, and also Snivy after a long battle, where he was able to take advantage of Cursed Body due to Snivy's constant use of physical attacks. Frillish's known moves are Protect, Water Pulse, Night Shade and Hex, and his ability is Cursed Body.
Debut	A Rival Battle for Club Champ!
Voice actors
Japanese	Misato Fukuen
English	Kayzie Rogers

		Lampent
		Lampent is the fourth Pokémon that Trip was revealed to have. It first appeared in A Venipede Stampede! where Trip used it to battle wild Venipede in Castelia City. Lampent's known moves are Flamethrower and Shadow Ball.
Debut	A Venipede Stampede!
Voice actors
Japanese	Shin'ichirō Miki
English	Sean Schemmel

		Vanillite
		Vanillite appeared for the first time in BW031 where it was first seen when Trip tried to catch a Palpitoad, but Ash unintentionally interrupted him. Later it battled Ash's Tepig and tied with it. Vanillite's known moves are Ice Beam, Icicle Spear, Ice Shard and Blizzard.
Debut	BW031
Voice actors
Japanese	Chika Fujimura

		Timburr
		Timburr first appeared in BW031. It battled against Ash's Oshawott, but lost. Timburr's known moves are Strength, Low Sweep, and DynamicPunch.
Debut	BW031
Voice actors
Japanese	Kenta Miyake

Badges obtained

This listing is of the badges Trip has obtained:

• Trio Badge (prior to Triple Leaders, Team Threats!)
• Unknown badge (prior to A Rival Battle for Club Champ!)
• Two unknown badges (prior to BW031)

Voice actors

Trivia

Trip and his rival, Ash Ketchum

• Trip owns a member from each of the only two Pokémon families in Generation V that have gender differences.

Names

Template:Trip's Pokémon

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