Jessie's Yanmega

Jessie's Yanmega ムサシのメガヤンマ Musashi's Megayanma

Jessie's Yanmega

Debuts in The Thief That Keeps On Thieving! Caught at Around Route 213 Evolves in The Thief That Keeps On Thieving! Gender Female Ability Speed Boost Current location At Team Rocket HQ

→ This Pokémon spent less than 1 episode as Yanma.

Voice actor Japanese English As Yanma Kiyotaka Furushima As Yanmega Kiyotaka Furushima

Jessie's Yanmega (Japanese: ムサシのメガヤンマ Musashi's Megayanma) is the only Pokémon caught by Jessie of Team Rocket during her travels through Sinnoh.

History

As a Yanma

Jessie caught Yanmega as a Yanma in The Thief That Keeps On Thieving! after Tyler battled and weakened her. After she captured her, Yanma was sent to Giovanni as their second successful theft. However, he immediately returned her after analyzing her and realizing she wasn't good enough, along with the fact that they already had plenty. Jessie then decided to train Yanma herself—unbeknown to the fact that Yanma already knew Ancient Power, Jessie sent her into battle, who ended up quickly evolving into Yanmega.

She was used often by Jessie, sometimes replacing Seviper as her main fighter. So far she has shown herself to be a strong battler, as she destroyed Pikachu's Thunderbolt with her Sonic Boom attack as seen in A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine!.

Yanmega made her Contest debut in Battling the Generation Gap! where she was used in the Celestic Contest Appeal Rounds. However, she failed to get Jessie to the next round.

Yanmega's Ability activated

In A Shield with a Twist, Jessie entered Yanmega in the Majolica Town Contest and won her second Ribbon. She was also used in the Chocovine Town Contest during Another One Gabites the Dust! where she passed the appeal round with a dazzling performance, while revealing Yanmega's Ability to be Speed Boost.

"Jessilina" and Yanmega

In Pursuing a Lofty Goal!, James borrowed Yanmega in order to enter into a PokéRinger competition. Jessie was reluctant as James failed to win the competition with her Dustox before. Like before, James failed to win with Yanmega.

In Playing the Performance Encore, Jessie used Yanmega for the Daybreak Town Contest. It battled alongside Seviper against Ursula and her Plusle and Minun. Seviper and Yanmega were able to combine their attacks well, creating a Haze-Sonic Boom and Poison-Silver Wind. However, Plusle and Minun were able to defeat them using their Spark and Helping Hand attacks, knocking Jessie out of the competition.

In Dawn of a Royal Day! she was used in the Arrowroot Town Contest appeal round where she created an amazing performance with her Ancient Power.

She was also used in the Sinnoh Grand Festival where she helped Jessie get through to the semi-finals.

Following the Team Rocket trio's journey in Sinnoh, Jessie was forced to leave Yanmega at Team Rocket's headquarters as she is not a Pokémon native in the Unova region and would seem suspicious.

Personality and characteristics

Though not much is known about Yanmega's personality to distinguish her from others of her species, she is shown to have a habit of landing on the heads of people and other Pokémon. She has been shown to land on Jessie, James, and Seviper's heads, and even Ash, Dawn, and Brock's as a Yanma before she was caught by Jessie. Yanmega is shown to be exceptionally powerful compared to the rest of Team Rocket's Pokémon, being the closest of any of them to send Ash and his friends blasting off. In Playing The Leveling Field!, Yanmega is shown to care about Jessie's approval, crying when she couldn't imitate Fantina's Drifblim for Jessie. She is very loyal to her Trainer.

In Where No Togepi Has Gone Before! she was shown to be annoyed when Jessie didn't know she was female as seen after Jessie shockingly questioned "YOU'RE A FEMALE?!" and in response Yanmega nodded her head which was flashing red.

Moves used

Using Wing Attack as a Yanma Using Steel Wing	Move First Used In Sonic Boom † The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! Wing Attack The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! Quick Attack The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! Ancient Power † The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! Steel Wing † Hungry for the Good Life! Silver Wind † Fighting Fear with Fear!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Moves improvised

Haze-Sonic Boom

• Haze-Sonic Boom - First used in Playing The Performance Encore!, Seviper uses Haze then Yanmega uses Sonic Boom. The two moves fuse into a Sonic Boom with streaks of smoke.
• Poison-Silver Wind - First used in Playing The Performance Encore!, Yanmega lifts Seviper into the air and Seviper then holds its Poison Tail towards the sky. Yanmega then uses Silver Wind on the tail causing streaks of purple like missiles.

Trivia

• This is Jessie's first capture since she caught her Wurmple in All in a Day's Wurmple, 257 episodes before, during the Advanced Generation series.
• Yanmega is the first Flying-type Jessie captured.
• Yanmega is the only Pokémon of Jessie or James to use her Ability.
• In Where No Togepi Has Gone Before!, it was discovered that Yanmega is female, much to Jessie's apparent surprise. When Togepi used Attract, Yanmega was the only one unaffected while Pikachu, Meowth, Piplup, and Croagunk were.
• Yanmega is the only main characters' Pokémon so far to have fully evolved in the same episode she debuted while being under her Trainer's ownership, as although Ash's Caterpie evolved in the same episode where he was caught, he had already debuted at the end of the episode proceeding the episode where he was caught, and Ash's Primeape evolved before it was later caught in the same episode where it debuted.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Yanma and Yanmega.

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	Second Victreebel	Hoppip
	Mawile
Befriended:	Blissey
Status unknown:	Starmie			Pidgey	Numel
For a list of other Pokémon Team Rocket has commanded, see here and here

Giovanni's Pokémon
On hand:	Persian
Status unknown:	Golem	Kingler	Kingler	Machamp	Rhydon	Cloyster
Escaped:	Mewtwo
Given away:	Koffing	Woobat	Yamask	Frillish	Amoonguss
Controlled:	Meloetta	Landorus	Tornadus	Thundurus
Origins only:	Charmander
Pocket Monsters only:	Hitmonlee	Hitmonchan
For Pokémon owned by the version of Giovanni that appears in Pokémon Adventures, see here; for a full list of Pokémon owned by the version of Giovanni that appears in the Pokémon Pocket Monsters series, see here

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