Barry's Empoleon

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 has not 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. It is voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi in Japanese and by Bill Rogers in English.

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.

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 Template:Type2. It appeared in Saving the World From Ruins! with its Trainer, bidding Ash and co. 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 DP183, where it got Barry through the preliminaries of the Suzuran Conference after defeating another trainer's Nosepass. In DP184, 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.

Moves used

Using Hydro Pump	Move	First Used In
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	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!
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

• 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.
• Empoleon seems to have the ability to continually execute the move Hydro Cannon without having to recharge.

Related articles

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

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