Jessie's Seviper

Jessie's Seviper ムサシのハブネーク Musashi's Habunake

Jessie's Seviper

Debuts in A Tail with a Twist Caught at Petalburg Woods Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With Jessie

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Seviper Chie Satō Michael Sinterniklaas (4Kids) Chie Satō (4Kids) Bill Rogers (TPCi)

Jessie's Seviper (Japanese: ムサシのハブネーク Musashi's Habunake) was the first Pokémon caught by Jessie of Team Rocket during her travels through Hoenn, presumably as a replacement for her recently released Arbok. Its voice actress in Japanese is 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō, and its English voice actors are Michael Sinterniklaas (4Kids dub) and Bill Rogers (TPCi dub). In the 4Kids English dub, some of the noises made by Satō are retained along with Sinterniklaas's voice. When TPCi took over the dub, they stopped retaining Satō's voice.

History

Jessie and Seviper

Jessie caught Seviper in A Tail with a Twist after initially being impressed with its sneaky and aggressive demeanor. It had defeated Ash's Treecko earlier in the episode, which is why Jessie wanted it so much. Although Seviper was intelligent, and outsmarted Team Rocket's multiple attempts to ensure its capture, Jessie caught Seviper after it had bitten off a chunk of her hair, mangling poor Seviper with her "Fury Swipes" and "Mega Kick".

Seviper is, along with Yanmega, Jessie's primary battling Pokémon, often seen battling alongside James's Cacnea in Hoenn and later James's Carnivine in Sinnoh. While shown to be fairly powerful before being caught by Jessie, after it fell into her command, it suffered the inevitable fate that all Team Rocket Pokémon face- defeat by Ash or another good character. In the episode ZigZag Zangoose, Jessie and Seviper were determined to win a battle against Seviper's mortal enemy, a Zangoose belonging to the trainer Nicholai.

Seviper has also entered a few Contests. In Mademoiselle Jessica's contest debut, in All Things Bright and Beautifly!, Seviper was Jessie's chosen Pokémon to enter the contest, but miserably failed to pass the Appeal Round, as Jessie didn't prepare herself to the contest, and ordered Seviper to use attacks that Seviper can't learn, such as Blaze Kick. She is then seen apologizing to it, meaning she does care about Seviper. In Settling a Not-So-Old Score!, Jessilina used Seviper in the Appeal Round. Not much of the Appeal was seen, because while Seviper was performing it, Dawn was thinking about her Pachirisu's Appeal, focusing the attention on her, not in Jessie. However, Kenny stated that Seviper was being quite good. The appeal ends with Jessie ordering Seviper to perform Wrap and Bite on Jessie herself, and thus, amazing the crowd.

In the episode A Stand-Up Sit-Down!, Jessilina decided to face Dawn to "practice" for the Hearthome City contest. However, it was Zoey who accepted the challenge. Jessie used the combination of Seviper and Dustox and her idea was to make Dustox use Poison Sting and then to make Seviper use Poison Tail on Dustox's Poison Sting, making it spin and added extra-power to it. Brock even said that that was a smart combination. However, that didn't work as Zoey's Glameow countered with Iron Tail, making the combination going to other side around and then Zoey's Shellos used Mud Bomb, breaking the combination of Poison Sting and Poison Tail. Seviper and Dustox both were then easily defeated by Zoey's Glameow.

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Jessilina and Seviper

In Dawn's Early Night Seviper and Dustox were used in the Battle Round of the Hearthome City contest and lost against Nando. Not much of the battle was seen. In Old Rivals, New Tricks it was also used in the battle round of a Contest and it was quite successful until it lost to Dawn.

Since Jessie has caught Yanmega, Seviper isn't seen in as many battles as before. It is also used as Team Rocket's escapist rogue to blanket the area in Haze, replacing James's Weezing's duty to steal innocent Pokémon under the shrouded premises.

In Yes, in Dee Dee it's Dawn! and Playing the Performance Encore, Jessie used Seviper for the Daybreak Town Contest. In the appeals round, it made an entrance by coming out of its Poké Ball, which was placed inside James's Carnivine's mouth. In the next episode, it battled alongside Yanmega.

In DP167, Jessie used it this time for the Tonarino Town Contest, where it was used for the appeals round, aiding her win her fourth ribbon. In DP171, Jessie used again for the Katakuri Town Contest in the battle round, where it fought Princess Salvia (disguised as Dawn) and her Togekiss. After a fierce battle it lost, but Salvia gave her the ribbon for the performance she gave during their battle, allowing her to enter in the Sinnoh Grand Festival.

In the Grand Festival, Jessie used Seviper multiple times, including the Appeals Round and a battle with Yanmega and a battle with Carnivine. However, Jessie lost the final one to Dawn.

Moves used

Using Poison Tail	Move	First Used In
File:SeviperPoisonTail.png
	Haze	A Tail with a Twist
	Poison Tail	A Tail with a Twist
	Wrap	A Poké-BLOCK Party
	Bite	ZigZag Zangoose!
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

• In DP023, Professor Oak's lecture is about Jessie's Seviper. He writes this Pokémon senryū about it: あかいキバ　わわるとアブネー　ハブネーク The red fangs, it's dangerous to touch them; Habunake.
• In Jessie's first encounter with Seviper, she was taller than Seviper. However, in recent episodes, Seviper is much taller than her. This could be an error on the animator's part, or could just simply mean it has grown during its time under Jessie's ownership.
• Seviper also makes a second, low sound which sounds like purring. It usually does this when searching or surprised.
• Like its trainer, Seviper is "bossy", as shown in ZigZag Zangoose! when James insulted it and it hissed at him, in which James got scared and bowed to Seviper instead. It also hissed at Meowth when he called it a big overgrown Caterpie and slapped him with its tail.
• In Tears For Fears!, its Japanese voice could be heard during the brawls with Zangoose.
• Aside from Ash's Pikachu, Meowth, and her Wobbuffet, Seviper has been a part of a main character's party for longer than any other Pokémon, having been Jessie's main battler throughout all of Advanced Generation and much of Diamond and Pearl.
• Seviper is one of only two Pokémon in the anime (the other being Ash's Kingler) that was caught while battling a human, somehow, Jessie managed to defeat Seviper.
• Seviper is the only Pokémon caught by Team Rocket in Hoenn still on their team. Chimecho has been left with James's relatives, Cacnea is with Gardenia, and Dustox has been released.

Related articles

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

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

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