Barry's Empoleon

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Barry's Empoleon ジュンのエンペルト Jun's Emperte

Barry's Empoleon

Debuts in Barry's Busting Out All Over! Caught at Sinnoh Gender Unknown Ability Torrent Current location With Barry

This Pokémon is fully evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Empoleon Katsuyuki Konishi Bill Rogers

Barry's Empoleon (Japanese: ジュンのエンペルト Jun's Emperte) is a Pokémon owned by Barry and his main battling Pokémon.

History

Barry and his Empoleon

Empoleon first appeared along with Barry in Barry's Busting Out All Over! where it was revealed to be a strong Pokémon in a battle against Ash's Pikachu. However, after a hard-fought battle, it lost the match. It was revealed in the same episode that Barry had Empoleon by the time he challenged the Eterna City Gym, where it fought a very hard battle against Gardenia's Cacnea and won.

In A Shield with a Twist, it was revealed that Empoleon had trained with Barry in Iron Island before they defeated Byron. It also appeared in Jumping Rocket Ship where it got separated with Brock's Happiny, Dawn's Piplup and Ash's Grotle.

It appeared again in Steeling Peace of Mind! with Barry and was one of the victims of Team Galactic's tampering on Iron Island, due to it being part Steel-type. It appeared in Saving the World From Ruins! with its Trainer, bidding Ash and his friends a farewell. It appeared again in Stopped in the Name of Love! alongside Barry.

In To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!, it competed in the Pokémon Ping Pong Tournament together with Barry. They were both defeated by O and his Shiftry.

Torrent activated

In Challenging a Towering Figure!, it was used in the Twinleaf Festival in the Battle Tournament, but soon lost to Ash's Pikachu once again.

It fought Ash's newly obtained Gible in Gotta Get a Gible!, where it won, giving Barry his first victory over Ash. It appeared again in Fighting Ire with Fire!, where it started a battle with Ash's Monferno, due to the activating of Blaze, the battle had no conclusion.

Empoleon's next appearance came in League Unleashed!, where it got Barry through the preliminaries of the Lily of the Valley Conference after defeating another Trainer's Nosepass. In Casting a Paul on Barry!, it was used in Barry's battle against Paul. It battled against Paul's Magmortar briefly before Paul recalled his Pokémon, then Barry recalled Empoleon. It was used again to fight against Paul's Ursaring, where it was able hit a Focus Blast back to Ursaring before Paul recalled Ursaring for his newly evolved Electivire. Empoleon eventually activated Torrent after a long battle and then used Hydro Cannon. However, Electivire used Protect and was soon defeated by a powerful Thunder, making Barry lose the battle. It fainted standing up.

Empoleon also appeared alongside Barry during the credits of Zoroark: Master of Illusions.

Moves used

Using Hydro Pump Using Metal Claw	Move First Used In Hydro Cannon † Barry's Busting Out All Over! Hyper Beam † Barry's Busting Out All Over! Steel Wing † Barry's Busting Out All Over! Hydro Pump Jumping Rocket Ship! Drill Peck † Gotta Get a Gible! Metal Claw Fighting Ire with Fire!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In the games

In the Generation IV games, in case the player chooses Chimchar as their starter, Barry will eventually use an Empoleon in his team.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Tag Battle with player

	Types: Water Steel Ability: Torrent Held item: None
Empoleon♂ Lv.41
Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --       Curse Unknown Status   --

Fifth battle

	Types: Water Steel Ability: Torrent Held item: None
Empoleon♂ Lv.53
Brine Water Special   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --

Weekend battles

	Types: Water Steel Ability: Torrent Held item: None
Empoleon♂ Lv.64
Brine Water Special   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --

After the Elite Four have been defeated 20 times, Barry's Empoleon will be at level 74.

Pokémon Platinum

Fifth battle

	Types: Water Steel Ability: Torrent Held item: None
Empoleon♂ Lv.38
Pound Normal Physical   --       Peck Flying Physical   --       BubbleBeam Water Special   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --

Weekend battles

	Types: Water Steel Ability: Torrent Held item: Sitrus Berry
Empoleon♂ Lv.65
Hydro Pump Water Special   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --       Drill Peck Flying Physical   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --

After the Elite Four have been defeated 10 times, Barry's Empoleon will be at level 75. After the Elite Four have been defeated 20 times, Empoleon will be at level 85, making it the highest level Trainer-owned Pokémon in the series at the time, only to lose the status just a year later back to the previous record holder, Red's Pikachu (which is at level 88), as Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver versions were released.

Trivia

• During Stopped in the Name of Love!, Barry said, "The evolutionary road from Piplup to Empoleon only gets harder and harder." This could mean that he obtained his Empoleon as a Piplup and it is his starter Pokémon.

Related articles

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

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