Brock's Croagunk

Brock's Croagunk タケシのグレッグル Takeshi's Gureggru

File:Brock's Croagunk.jpg Brock's Croagunk.

Debuts in Gymbaliar! Caught at Sinnoh Gender Male Ability Unknown Current location With Brock

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Croagunk Katsuyuki Konishi Bill Rogers

Brock's Croagunk (Japanese: タケシのグレッグル Takeshi's Gureggru) was the first Pokémon Brock captured in the Sinnoh region, and the ninth overall. His Japanese voice actor is 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi and his English voice actor is Bill Rogers.

History

Croagunk was first seen resting outside a supermarket. When Meowth emerged from it, Croagunk followed him to where Team Rocket was using a fake gym to steal unsuspecting Trainers' Pokémon. While their plan was going badly, as it required Jessie to win, and her Dustox kept losing, she decided to use Croagunk and soon won many battles.

After Ash Ketchum and his friends entered the gym, Croagunk lost against Ash's Aipom. Team Rocket resorted to grabbing Ash's Pikachu and running off, leaving Croagunk behind in the process. Brock was the first to notice Croagunk, and feeling a connection, Croagunk later willingly went into Brock's Poké Ball.

Like Brock's Bonsly, Croagunk has attacked Brock in order to continue the series' running gag of keeping Brock away from the girls who are the objects of his affection, to the point that even Croagunk's presence can be sensed by Brock, which may make Brock suddenly halt his romantic advances. When forcefully dragging Brock away from girls, he usually uses Poison Jab, which usually makes Brock suddenly collapse so Croagunk can easily drag Brock away. However, when Brock pledged to save Oralie's Magikarp and Haley's Feebas, Croagunk jabbed Brock, which caused Dawn to remark that Croagunk may have gone too far. Many fans think Croagunk could be jealous or possessive. Croagunk generally chuckles or laughs after attacking Brock, so it is possible that he actually enjoys attacking Brock.

He has some unique characterization, as he acted alone many times. His actions were sometimes part of an episode plot. He has a unique fighting style, as shown in Leave It To Brocko, by defeating Seviper by repeatedly using Brick Break while Seviper was using Bind on him, eventually ending in a draw.

Croagunk has been shown to have his own pace for things like eating, attacking, or following Brock. Similar to Ash's Treecko, he is also a bit of a loner, preferring to sit alone when eating or just resting. Although he is seen mostly angry or without any emotion, he was seen happy in Doc Brock!. In An Angry Combeenation, he didn't like the sweet taste of honey, which may imply his nature is brave, relaxed, quiet or sassy. This makes sense, considering a nature which dislikes sweet flavors has a lowered amount of speed.

He is a very powerful Pokémon, as demonstrated in his debut episode where he beat many trainers while he was under the command of Jessie. He has since become Brock's main battling Pokémon and has proved his power again and again, even stopping a Draco Meteor attack in The Rise of Darkrai. He seems to have a rivalry developing with one of the other strength-oriented Pokémon on the cast, Ash's Buizel. He also has an extreme rivalry with Saturn's Toxicroak, to the point of actually ignoring Brock's advances on women. He lost to Toxicroak in DP097.

He also has good hearing, as he could hear Buneary in the bush in Setting the World on its Buneary and Team Rocket sneaking into Oreburgh Gym in O'er the Rampardos we Watched. He is sometimes aware of many strange or some unusual situations; in Malice in Wonderland!, he literally saves the day when he jabs Brock and saves him from Mismagius's illusions. This may be due to the fact he has the Anticipation ability, which warns of a foe's super effective moves. He later was able to sense the oncoming Galactic attack in Losing its Lustrous, in particular, the approach of Saturn's Toxicroak.

He also can do a remarkable impression of a Politoed, as seen in All Dressed up with Somewhere to Go, where his convincing cosplay and acting won a Pokémon Cosplay Competition.

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  Croagunk's impression of a Politoed.

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  Croagunk using Poison Jab on Brock...

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  And its effect.

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  Pulling Brock away.

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  Croagunk is happy in Doc Brock!.

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  Croagunk using Brick Break.

Moves used

• Poison Sting
• Poison Jab
• Brick Break

Trivia

• According to the Pokétch, Croagunk is very close to Brock. In fact, Croagunk is about as close to Brock as Pikachu is to Ash.
• Croagunk is the first Template:Type2 Pokémon owned by Brock.
• It should be noted that when Croagunk uses Poison Jab on his opponents, his "fingers" fully glow with poison. However when he uses it on Brock, only the tips of his fingers glow possibly meaning that he doesn't use nearly as much poison on Brock as he would an adversary.
• In Croagunk's anime debut, during the time under control of Jessie, he was told to use Poison Sting, yet he used Brick Break instead, probably because Croagunk was not captured by her.

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The Pokémon in the background

• Croagunk is the second Pokémon Brock owns that is a Template:Type2. His first was his Crobat. Coincidentally, both Pokémon are confirmed to be male and have names that start with "Cro".
• He is also Brock's first Pokémon in the Humanshape egg group.
• In Hungry for the Good Life!, it is seen that some Pokémon find Croagunk odd. In Croagunk's debut, many humans also found it to be disturbing, including Brock himself.
• Out of all the characters to stop Brock from making a fool of himself in front of girls, Croagunk is the only one shown so far to enjoy it, perhaps thinking of it as a game. This is shown in Hungry for the Good Life! when Brock is shot down and in Arriving in Style!.

Related articles

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

External links

• Gureggru's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Brock's Pokémon
On hand:	Steelix	Forretress	Ludicolo	Marshtomp	Croagunk	Blissey
At Pewter Gym / Home:	Geodude	Crobat	Sudowoodo	Comfey
Returned:	Vulpix
Caught for someone else:	Tauros
Temporary:	Hoothoot	Totodile	Ninetales	Shiftry	Staravia	Torterra
	Aipom	Magnemite	Onix	Feraligatr
Befriended:	Uxie
Ride Pokémon:	Charizard
Adventures only:	Kabutops	Graveler
Electric Tale only:	Golem	Vileplume
Pocket Monsters only:	Pikachu

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