Ash's Gliscor

Ash's Gliscor サトシのグライオン Satoshi's Glion

Ash's Gliscor

Debuts in Riding the Winds of Change! Caught at Around Route 215 Evolves in Fighting Fear with Fear! Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With Ash

→ This Pokémon spent 21 episodes as Gligar.

Voice actor Japanese English As Gligar Katsuyuki Konishi As Gliscor Katsuyuki Konishi Marc Thompson

Ash's Gliscor (Japanese: サトシのグライオン Satoshi's Glion) is the fourth Pokémon caught by Ash Ketchum in the Sinnoh region. Its Japanese voice actor is Katsuyuki Konishi and its English voice actor is Marc Thompson. As a Gligar, it was voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi in both Japanese and English.

History

Ash caught Gliscor as a Gligar in Riding the Winds of Change! It, along with many other Gligar and a Gliscor had become trapped in a city after being blown there by a violent windstorm. Gliscor's attempts at using sonar to navigate out of the city were blocked by the tall buildings, and only served to attract more Gligar and the Pokémon soon formed a pack.

As a Gligar, with Ash

The pack survived by picking fruit from trees and stealing food from humans. After Ash and his friends helped the pack, Gligar decided to travel with Ash, allowing him to capture it.

Gligar seems to have a habit of sticking out its tongue and winking when appearing. It also has the tendency to crash land on top of Ash due to its inability to glide properly. It would also cry when scolded by Ash as shown in Chim - Charred! and Fighting Fear with Fear!. Not only that, Gligar seems to be a crybaby of sorts, tearing up very often, especially in fear. As a Gligar, it was terribly afraid of heights. Additionally, Gligar seems to be extremely eager to win Ash's attention and approval.

It evolved into a Gliscor in Fighting Fear with Fear! in order to save Ash from a fall. It used the Razor Fang Ash received from Gary after Gligar had a practice battle with his Umbreon. It appears to have kept its personality traits even after evolution, as it still cries when scolded by Ash and also winks and sticks its tongue out.

Since evolution, Gliscor has been used in more battles. In Aiding the Enemy, Gliscor was used as a sparring partner by Torterra to help illustrate how Grotle could deal with its reduced speed. In Barry's Busting Out All Over!, Gliscor battled Barry's Roserade and the battle ended in a tie, with both Pokémon knocking each other out at the same time. In A Breed Stampede!, Gliscor learned Fire Fang after being hit by an Ice Shard from Piloswine, and is revealed to have learned Screech some time off-screen. In Dealing With Defensive Types! it was used in its first gym battle, against Byron, defeating his Bastiodon, earning Ash his Mine Badge. In Sliding Into Seventh! it was used in the gym battle against Candice, where it was easily defeated by her Snover.

In Pedal to the Mettle!, Gliscor battled Paul's Torterra in Ash's full battle against Paul. Although it was able to cause a good amount of damage as well as using its speed to dodge Torterra's attacks, it couldn't escape Giga Drain, as a result being weakened while Torterra's health was restored. Ash then decided to recall Gliscor, only to use it again against Torterra later on where it was defeated after being hit with Frenzy Plant.

In Mastering Current Events!, Gliscor battled against McCann's Scizor and lost. After training with Ash it challenged Scizor to a rematch. During the battle, Gliscor learned Giga Impact, and although it improved overnight, it eventually lost. Ash then left Gliscor with McCann for further training. It returned to Ash's party in DP185 for its Trainer's battle against Paul in the Suzuran Conference.

It was seen training alongside Ash for his upcoming battle against Paul in DP186, where it was revealed to have grown significantly during its time with McCann. It was also shown to have perfected Giga Impact in a practice match with Dawn's Mamoswine. In DP187 it battled Paul's Ninjask and was shown to have lerned Stone Edge while training with McCann. Ash will be using it in his battle against Paul in DP188.

Moves used

Using X-Scissor	Move	First Used In
File:Gliscor XScissor.png
	X-Scissor	The Bells are Singing!
	Sand-Attack	The Bells are Singing!
	Steel Wing	The Bells are Singing!
	Screech	A Breed Stampede!
	Fire Fang	A Breed Stampede!
	Giga Impact	Mastering Current Events!
	Stone Edge	DP187
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

Gliscor carrying Ash and Pikachu

• Gligar's means of capture was similar to Squirtle, in that it was part of a group of Pokémon of its species causing trouble for a town, joined because it wanted to go with Ash, filled Ash's party with six members, and was captured shortly before Ash met up with the region's third Gym Leader.
• Gligar was the fourth Pokémon caught by Ash to debut with no revealed attacks, after Krabby, Muk, and Tauros.
• In A Triple Fighting Chance!, Professor Oak's lecture is about Ash's Gligar.
• Fighting Fear with Fear!, the episode in which Gligar evolved into Gliscor, first aired in Japan on the Thursday of the same week that the dub of Riding the Winds of Change, the episode in which Gligar is captured, first aired in the United States. The same thing happened to Dawn's Piloswine.
• Gliscor is Ash's only Pokémon that has evolved via an item (Razor Fang).
• Gliscor now shares a trait with Glalie as the Pokémon that filled up Ash's sixth party slot in Hoenn and Sinnoh, respectively, and evolving soon after. Coincidentally, they share their Japanese voice actor and both struggled with a move/moves before their evolution (X-Scissor and Steel Wing for Gliscor and Ice Beam for Glalie) before mastering the moves after evolution.
• As of Mastering Current Events!, Gliscor became the fourth Pokémon Ash has left with someone for training. It is also the first Pokémon that Ash released under this circumstance that wasn't from Generation I
• Two of Ash's rivals have had one of Gligar's evolution stages. Morrison has a Gligar, while Paul has a Gliscor.
• Gliscor is one of only two of Ash's Pokémon that know no damaging moves of their own types, the other being Butterfree; however, Ash no longer posses Butterfree.
• Gliscor is the only member of Ash's team in Sinnoh that evolved under his ownership and did not learn a new move immediately afterwards (Staraptor learned Close Combat, Torterra learned Leaf Storm, and Infernape, as a Monferno, learned Mach Punch).
• Gliscor was Ash's first Pokémon on his Sinnoh team to reach its final evolutionary form.
• While other Pokémon (Kingler, Snorlax and Donphan) owned by Ash have used Hyper Beam itself, Gliscor is Ash's first Pokémon to use a variant of Hyper Beam, in this case, Giga Impact.

Related articles

• For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Gligar and Gliscor.
• Paul's Gliscor

External links

• Glion's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Ash's Pokémon
On hand:	Pikachu
Traveling with:	Rotom Phone
At Oak's/In rotation:	Pidgeot	Bulbasaur	Charizard	Kingler	Muk	Tauros (×30)
	Snorlax	Heracross	Bayleef	Quilava	Totodile	Noctowl
	Donphan	Swellow	Sceptile	Corphish	Torkoal	Glalie
	Staraptor	Torterra	Infernape	Buizel	Gliscor	Gible
	Unfezant	Oshawott	Pignite	Snivy	Scraggy	Leavanny
	Palpitoad	Boldore	Krookodile	Talonflame	Hawlucha	Noivern
	Dragonite	Gengar	Lucario	Sirfetch'd	Dracovish
With Kukui/In rotation:	Rowlet	Lycanroc	Incineroar	Melmetal
At home:	Mr. Mime
In training:	Squirtle	Primeape
Released:	Butterfree	Lapras	Larvitar	Greninja	Goodra	Nebby
	Naganadel
Temporarily owned:	Seaking	Buzzwole	Stakataka	Pheromosa	Rowlet
Traded away:	Raticate	Aipom
Given away:	Beedrill
Traveled with:	Haunter	Azelf	Meowth	Meloetta	Rotom Pokédex	Latias
The Power of Us only:	Ekans	Sentret
EToP only:	Fearow	Oddish	Mankey	Slowpoke
Newspaper Strip only:	Starmie	Clefairy
For a list of Pokémon Ash has temporarily owned, used, or commanded, see here

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