Jessie's Lickitung

Jessie's Lickitung ムサシのベロリンガ Musashi's Beroringa

Jessie's Lickitung

Debuts in Princess vs. Princess Caught at O-Hina Town Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Traded in Tricks of the Trade Original Trainer Jessie Traded for Benny's Wobbuffet Current location With Benny

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Lickitung Chinami Nishimura Eric Stuart

Jessie's Lickitung (Japanese: ムサシのベロリンガ Musashi's Beroringa) was the second Pokémon Jessie appears with in Kanto. Lickitung was the first Pokémon Jessie was shown to catch, and is the first Pokémon to have been caught by Team Rocket in the anime.

History

Kanto

Lickitung in its debut appearance

Jessie upset at Lickitung ignoring her orders

Jessie unaware that her Lickitung has been traded to Benny

In Princess vs. Princess, during the Princess Festival Jessie had bought a large amount of food and gifts for Giovanni due to the discounts, when a wild Lickitung came along and ate her food and some of the gifts. Jessie sent out her Arbok, only for it to be stunned by being licked by Lickitung. In a fit of rage, Jessie threw a Poké Ball at the Lickitung, successfully catching it. In the same episode, Lickitung was Jessie's forgotten weapon in the finals of the Queen of the Princess Festival contest against Misty. After stunning and defeating a borrowed Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Vulpix by licking them, Lickitung was defeated by Psyduck's Confusion after ignoring Jessie's command for Tackle due to hunger, resulting in Misty winning the contest. This was the only time Jessie used Lickitung in Kanto.

Orange Islands

Jessie used Lickitung rather sparingly for the rest of its time under her possession, making the pink Pokémon her second option, after Arbok. Thus, it was one of the least used Pokémon that was owned by a main character. It most often appeared alongside Arbok, Weezing and Victreebel when Jessie and James used all four of their Pokémon in battle.

In Pikachu Re-Volts, Lickitung was used for the first time since its capture, being used to try to steal the Pokémon Butch and Cassidy stole. Lickitung, along with the rest of Team Rocket's Pokémon, were hypnotized by Butch and Cassidy's Drowzee.

In In the Pink, Lickitung was called out to help lick up all the pink Pokémon on Pinkan Island. James made a comment on how Lickitung was a pink Pokémon, but Lickitung had always been pink. Lickitung chases two Nidoran into a cave, but runs out again after angering a pink Nidoking. Later the Nidoking sends Lickitung and all the rest blasting off.

Johto

Benny with his new Lickitung

In Tricks of the Trade, Lickitung was accidentally traded by Jessie to a Trainer named Benny for his Wobbuffet during a commotion at the Pokémon Swap Meet. As Team Rocket's scheme to steal Pokémon with a rigged trading device is discovered by the crowd, Lickitung's Poké Ball was dropped into the trading machine when Jessie was knocked backwards by the Magikarp salesman who was escaping James, and is swapped with Benny's Poké Ball already in the machine; the person Benny had been planning to trade with had changed his mind at the last minute. Jessie soon realized the trade when she sent Lickitung out to battle Ash, and the passive Wobbuffet emerged instead.

Lickitung was seen living happily with Benny towards the end of this episode, and Benny tells Ash and friends to "thank the lady who traded him Lickitung". However, there is no indication that Ash and his friends ever identified the Lickitung as Jessie's old Pokémon, nor that Jessie's new Wobbuffet was originally Benny's. Lickitung and Benny have not been seen since in the anime.

Personality and characteristics

In its debut it was shown to be very gluttonous, eating all of the food Jessie bought for their boss. It was also shown to follow its own rules, ignoring Jessie's commands and stealing food without a second thought (though the Japanese version implied with the former that it disobeyed Jessie because of hunger). Lickitung is a strong battler as seen in its debut when it took out Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Vulpix with just one lick each (with the Japanese version strongly implying that it wasn't even fighting seriously). Lickitung, much like James's Victreebel, showed its affection for its Trainer rather openly. Lickitung licked Jessie's face on several occasions, but not nearly as often as the running gag of Victreebel latching onto James's head occurred. It didn't appear to have much of a bond with Jessie despite this, due to its lack of appearances, and it didn't seem upset about being traded to Benny.

Moves used

Using Supersonic	Move First Used In Tackle × † Pikachu Re-Volts* Wrap Snack Attack! Supersonic The Whistle Stop Stomp The Whistle Stop Slam † Ignorance is Blissey
An × shows that the move cannot be legitimately known by this Pokémon in the games.
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Moves improvised

Picture	First Used In	Moves Involved	Partnered With
	Princess vs. Princess	None	None
	Description: Lickitung shoots out its long tongue and licks the opponent, paralyzing them.

Trivia

• Lickitung was the first Pokémon belonging to a main character to be permanently traded, and the only one who hasn't been seen since.
• Lickitung is the only Pokémon obtained by Jessie and James in Kanto that was not released at some point in time.
• Despite being in Jessie's possession for 94 episodes, it made only 17 appearances total.
• Not including temporary Pokémon, Lickitung is the only Normal-type Pokémon owned by either Jessie or James.
• Lickitung was mentioned by Jessie in So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd (while this episode aired before Princess vs. Princess in Japan, chronologically it occurs after it).

Related articles

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

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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