Ash's Scraggy

Ash's Scraggy サトシのズルッグ Satoshi's Zuruggu

Ash's Scraggy

Egg obtained in Here Comes the Trubbish Squad! Hatches in Scraggy—Hatched to Be Wild! Hatched at Near Nacrene City Gender Male Ability Unknown* Current location At Professor Oak's Laboratory

→ This Pokémon spent 5 episodes in its Egg.

Voice actor Japanese English As Scraggy Akeno Watanabe Jason Griffith

Ash's Scraggy (Japanese: サトシのズルッグ Satoshi's Zuruggu) is the fifth Pokémon that Ash Ketchum obtained in the Unova region.

History

Unova

Scraggy's Egg

Ash received Scraggy's Egg in Here Comes the Trubbish Squad! as a parting gift from Karena for helping her settle a conflict between her granddaughter Daniela and her students, who had befriended a Trubbish.

In Scraggy-Hatched to Be Wild!, when the Egg started hatching, Axew accidentally knocked it over in excitement, causing it to roll down a hill towards some sharp rocks, but Pikachu used Quick Attack to catch it in midair just in time.

Scraggy hatched from his Egg shortly after and he wasted no time showing off his headstrong nature. When Pikachu tried to greet him, he used Leer on him and then attempted to Headbutt him, but missed. Ash and Pikachu decided to have a small battle with Scraggy as a "welcome gift". Scraggy was easily subdued by a weakened version of Pikachu's Thunderbolt attack, while his attacks hardly did anything on Pikachu. He later tried to pick fights with Ash's other Pokémon, Pidove, Oshawott, Tepig and Snivy. Since he was newly hatched, he was easily subdued by their weak attacks. Ash attempted to catch him with his Poké Ball but Scraggy refused, wanting to explore the outside world a little longer.

Later, Scraggy wandered off and started headbutting a tree which was the home of a group of Galvantula. He became paralyzed, and was heavily injured by Galvantula's attacks and needed to be healed. With no Pokémon Centers around, Iris quickly made up a potion for him to cure his paralysis. He felt better the next morning and left to confront the Galvantula that attacked him. Again he was outmatched as the entire colony appeared to battle him and was saved by Ash and the rest of his Pokémon. Seeing what they were willing to do for him, Scraggy began to trust his new teammates.

Ash and Scraggy

After returning to camp, Cilan suggested that Scraggy battle Iris's Axew. The battle ended in a draw when both Pokémon knocked each other out. After the battle, Scraggy happily agreed to go inside his Poké Ball.

Scraggy was used to battle Axew on two more occasions, but each had the same result as their first battle. Their third battle however, Scraggy lost because Axew was able to execute a perfect Dragon Rage.

In Cottonee in Love!, Scraggy met a wild Cottonee who tried to play with him. Like with every new Pokémon he meets, he tried to attack him but was distracted by his Cotton Spore. He eventually befriended the Cottonee after he was shot down by a female Cottonee he was trying to court. Scraggy helped him train in order to prove to his love interest that he was a capable battler. By the end of the episode, Scraggy was called out of his Poké Ball in order to say goodbye to Cottonee and chased him and his lover while waving.

In Facing Fear with Eyes Wide Open!, his aggressive attitude landed him and the other Pokémon in trouble when he attacked a group of wild Foongus. In retaliation, they engulfed the Pokémon in a cloud of PoisonPowder, poisoning them. Though, with the combined effort of Ash, Oshawott and Cilan, everyone was cured of their poison.

In Meowth's Scrafty Tactics!, Scraggy was used to assist Meowth in negotiating with a wild Scrafty to rescue Axew who Scrafty had kidnapped. In the process, the Scrafty taught him how to use High Jump Kick. Once Axew was rescued, Scraggy wished to assist Scrafty whose home had been taken by a Mandibuzz as a return favor. Using his new High Jump Kick, Scraggy was able to subdue Mandibuzz.

He battled with Axew once more in Scraggy and the Demanding Gothita! to play, until they ran into a Gothita that took a liking to Scraggy. Gothita's Trainer challenged Ash to a battle on the condition that if she won, he'd have to trade Scraggy away to her. After Ash won, they all stayed the night together in a cabin. Scraggy left with Gothita while everyone was sleeping for a mid-night snack, but Axew came out to bring him back. Gothita ended up disturbing a wild Garbodor. Scraggy attempted to stand up to the Trash Heap Pokémon, but they were only safe when Snivy turned up to defend them. The next day Scraggy was happy to see Gothita storm away after Snivy defeated her.

Scraggy was Ash's chosen Pokémon for the Clubsplosion tournament in The Clubsplosion Begins!. He battled Angus's Simisage in the first round. While the match started of with both Pokémon avoiding each others attacks, Scraggy was eventually able to land a High Jump Kick on Simisage. However, Simisage countered by stepping on Scraggy's "pants", so that he couldn't defend with them again, and hit him with Low Sweep. After Scraggy's next High Jump Kick missed, he was hit by a barrage of Low Sweeps while he thrived in the pain of his unsuccessful High Jump Kick. Simisage was about to finish the match with Giga Impact when Scraggy formed a Focus Blast between his hands, learning a new move, and used it to shield himself from Simisage's attack. Unfortunately; when it came to launching his Focus Blast, Scraggy was unable to keep it on target, though he made up for it by using Leer on Simisage and with its effects, hit it with a Headbutt attack, winning the match. Scraggy continued to watch the first round matches in the next episode. While watching, he became annoyed by Bianca's admiration of him and hit her with Headbutt. During the break between battles, he and Ash began practicing Focus Blast, however, not making any progress. In A Clubsplosion of Excitement!, Scraggy battled Betty's Simipour. After defending against Simipour's Aqua Tail and Brick Break, Scraggy once again attempted Focus Blast but to no result. After enduring an Acrobatics attack, Scraggy was able to hit Simipour with Leer, block a second Brick Break with Headbutt and win the match with High Jump Kick. In Commanding the Clubsplosion Crown!, Scraggy faced off against Montgomery's Throh during the semi-finals. After persistently trying to weaken Throh's defense with Leer, Scraggy was heavily damaged by Throh's Circle Throw and Superpower attacks. Scraggy then released a barrage of Focus Blasts, all of which failed to hit his target. Scraggy was then defeated by Seismic Toss, eliminating him and Ash from the tournament.

In Battling the Leaf Thieves!, Scraggy watched a battle between Iris's Emolga and Ash's Swadloon, with his friend Axew and was excited to see Swadloon evolve into Leavanny. When Leavanny first looked upon his young friends, he pranced of and made leaf hoods for them both, which Scraggy was very happy to receive. Whilst the gang were taking a nap, a group of Durant took Axew away, believing he was food, as he was still wearing his leaf outfit. When Scraggy first awoke and found that Axew was missing, he screamed and shouted for him, waking the others up and alerting them to the situation. The gang soon discovered a swarm of Durant's nest, where Scraggy and Ash were both wrapped up in leaves so that they'd be taken to the Durant's food pile so that they could retrieve Axew. However, they were noticed and a huge battle broke out between Scraggy, Pikachu, Emolga and Leavanny and the dozens of Durant. Scraggy was able to easily dodge the various Iron Head, Shadow Claw and Guillotine attacks that came his way but like his teammates, he was unable to land a hit on the Durant because of their excessive use of Protect. After all but one Durant was infatuated by Emolga's Attract, Scraggy and Pikachu were able to defeat her and allow Iris to rescue a still sleeping Axew. Leavanny led the gang back through the Durant maze and Scraggy stayed out his Poké Ball with the gang until Axew woke up.

In Caution: Icy Battle Conditions!, Ash used Scraggy as his second Pokémon in his Icirrus Gym Battle against Brycen, he went up against Vanillish. Initially, Scraggy sustained damage from a failed High Jump Kick and missed his target again with Headbutt, having trouble maintaining his balance on the iced over battle field. On the defensive, Scraggy was able to deflect Vanillish's Icicle Spear with his "pants" and launch a Focus Blast attack. Like before, Scraggy's attack missed, but by chance the Focus Blast fell backwards and struck Vanillish. Scraggy then knocked out his opponent with Headbutt. Cryogonal was brought out subsequently to fight Scraggy. His Headbutt attack was blocked by a fearsome Rapid Spin and then took more Rapid Spin attacks, and after a failed Focus Blast, despite using his "pants", Scraggy was knocked out by Cryogonal's powerful Aurora Beam.

In Lost at the League!, Scraggy was seen defeating a Darumaka with Headbutt after using High Jump Kick and Leer and winning Ash's third round battle of the Vertress Conference.

Decolore Islands

In Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!, Professor Juniper sent Scraggy to Professor Oak's Laboratory before Ash left for Kanto, touring through the Decolore Islands. He was brought back to Ash's team prior to The Path That Leads to Goodbye!. In the episode, Scraggy became very upset at Axew's absence after Ash and Iris had fallen out. He set off with Pikachu to find them before being captured by Team Rocket and subsequently rescued by Iris. Scraggy later returned to Oak's lab in The Dream Continues! where he reunited with the entire Unova team. Scraggy joined in with them to launch a group attack on Team Rocket, using Focus Blast to send them blasting off for the final time in the Best Wishes series. Scraggy was left at the lab before Ash set off for the Kalos region.

Personality and characteristics

Scraggy and Axew playing together.

From the moment he hatched, Scraggy has been shown to be a headstrong Pokémon who views new Pokémon as opponents. He will Leer at his potential opponents to show his toughness before trying to Headbutt them. His overconfidence often gets him into trouble as he believes he is much stronger than he actually is, as seen in Scraggy-Hatched to be Wild! when he took on a whole group of Galvantula by himself or in Facing Fear with Eyes Wide Open! when he took on a group of angry Foongus. A stubborn Pokémon, Scraggy will not give up on trying to defeat an opponent even if he is injured. Despite disliking to do so, he knows when to accept help from his friends and Trainer. He is also shown to care about those who he considers his friends. This is shown in both Cottonee in Love! and Meowth's Scrafty Tactics! when Ash tried to recall him to his Poké Ball but he didn't want to go in because he wanted to help his new friends on both occasions.

In Scraggy and the Demanding Gothita!, his relationship with Axew was shown to have become strong. Numerous training battles had led the two to become best friends. Both being very young, they are quite playful together, akin to human children.

Moves used

Using High Jump Kick	Move First Used In Leer Scraggy-Hatched to Be Wild! Headbutt Scraggy-Hatched to Be Wild! High Jump Kick Meowth's Scrafty Tactics! Focus Blast The Clubsplosion Begins!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Moves improvised

• Pants Block — Scraggy lifts its loose skin and blocks the incoming attack.

In the games

A Japanese event distributed a game counterpart of Ash's Scraggy via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Interestingly, it always has Moxie as its Ability and knows Low Kick in addition to Leer, Headbutt and Hi Jump Kick, since its anime counterpart currently only knows the latter three moves. This event started on January 28, 2011 and ended on February 10, 2011.

Pokémon Info				Trainer Memo	Battle Moves		Ribbons
ズルッグ	♂	Dex No.	0559	Adamant nature.	Normal	Leer
Lv. 1		Type			Fighting	Low Kick
		Dark	Fighting	Pokémon Event	Normal	Headbutt
		OT	サトシ	Apparently had a	Fighting	Hi Jump Kick
		ID No.	01281	fateful encounter at	This Pokémon was available in Japan and Wi-Fi from January 28 to February 10, 2011.
Item		Ability		Lv. 1.
Muscle Band		Moxie
The date this Pokémon was received is determined by the date on the DS when the Wonder Card is received.
This Pokémon is English in origin.
Can be obtained with: B W B2 W2

In the manga

Ash's Scraggy in the manga

Scraggy appears in the manga adaptation of the fourteenth movie. During his appearance, he volunteers to go up against Carlita's Hydreigon. During the battle, he had trouble handling Hydreigon as the opponent was too strong due to it being fully evolved. However, with a power-up received from Victini, Scraggy managed to defeat Hydreigon.

Moves used

Using Headbutt	Move First Used In Headbutt White—Victini and Zekrom
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Trivia

• Scraggy is the first Dark-type Pokémon owned by any main character in the anime.
• Scraggy's Egg was the first Egg owned by a main character, that appeared onscreen, not to be taken from its owner by another person or a Pokémon.
• Scraggy is the only Pokémon that Ash used in Unova that is not a member of a three-stage evolutionary line.
  • Scraggy is also Ash's only non-starter Unova Pokémon that is unevolved.
  • Scraggy was the last of Ash's Unova Pokémon to be used in a Gym battle, and the only one that wasn't used in at least two.
• Scraggy is Ash's only Unova Pokémon that didn't battle any of Ash's rivals in the Vertress Conference.

Related articles

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

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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