Dawn's Buneary

Dawn's Buneary ヒカリのミミロル Hikari's Mimirol

Dawn's Buneary

Debuts in Setting the World on its Buneary Caught at Route 202 Gender Female Ability Unknown Current location With Dawn

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Buneary Tomoko Kawakami (DP009-DP100) Satsuki Yukino (DP103-present) Sarah Natochenny

Dawn's Buneary (Japanese: ヒカリのミミロル Hikari's Mimirol) was the first Pokémon captured by Dawn, and her second Pokémon overall.

History

Buneary's affection towards Pikachu

When Dawn first started on her journey, she ran into several Buneary and failed to catch any of them. However, one morning, this Buneary spotted Ash's Pikachu catching a stray potato and developed a crush on him. After a sequence of events that nearly got Pikachu run over, Dawn chased after Buneary, who then swiped Pikachu. After a while, Dawn finally found and caught her.

Buneary is used often in Dawn's Contests. She was first used in the Battle Round of the Jubilife City contest. She also helped Dawn win the Hearthome Collection in Arriving in Style!, her first battle in the Wallace Cup and her appeal in Battling the Generation Gap!. In Another One Gabites the Dust!, Buneary was used again in the appeal rounds of the Chocovine Town Contest. She managed to get Dawn to the battle round.

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Buneary wearing a vest made by Johanna

Buneary began wearing a vest with a heart on it in The Bells are Singing!. She appears to be very proud of it and, for the most part, only takes it off for contests and battles.

Despite her size, Buneary is very powerful and was able to tire out Maylene's Meditite enough so that Ambipom could defeat it. Her Ice Beam, which appears to be her main attack, is powerful enough to freeze an entire lake.

Buneary appears to be a helpful Pokémon, as seen when she took off her vest to give to Pachirisu when the Electric-type Pokémon was sick from storing too much electricity. When around Pikachu, she gets flustered and hides her face in its wool. However, she is always cheering for Pikachu when he participates in a gym battle and, when not being used herself, for Dawn during a contest.

In DP167, Dawn perfects a new combination move with the help of her Buneary and Pachirisu. Buneary used Ice Beam on Pachrisu and Pachirisu used Discharge to create a beautiful new contest combination for the Sinnoh Grand Festival.

Moves used

Using Ice Beam	Move	First Used In
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	Bounce	Setting The World On Its Buneary!
	Ice Beam	Setting The World On Its Buneary!
	Dizzy Punch	Setting The World On Its Buneary!
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.

Move improvised

• Spin was first used in Wild in the Streets! with Piplup. Together with it, they battled Aerodactyl. Buneary spun around and used Ice Beam.
• Ice Chandelier is a combination move which was created by Buneary and Pachirisu when they were training with Dawn in DP167. It involves Buneary using an Ice Beam around Pachirisu trapping it in a ball of ice. Pachirisu then runs around in the ball while using Discharge. The end result is a chandelier of ice that glows in a beautiful blue hue.

In the TCG

Dawn's Buneary is featured in the TCG as a Pokémon . The following is a list of cards named Buneary .

Name	Type	Level	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Buneary M		33	-	Movie Commemoration Random Pack (no English release)	019/022

Trivia

File:Hikaritomimirol.jpg

Dawn and Buneary

• For DP018, Professor Oak's lecture is about Dawn's Buneary. He writes this Pokémon senryū about it: ミミロルが　みみをまるめて　みみロール Mimiroru ga, mimi o marumete, mimi rōru "Mimirol, rolling up its ears, ear-roll."
• In a similar fashion to Misty's Corsola fascination in the Whirl Islands and Ash Ketchum fishing a Corphish a couple of episodes before catching his own, Dawn had wanted a Buneary for several episodes before catching it. The similar situation happened with May and her fascination of Beautifly and later catching one.
• Buneary is the third non-legendary Pokémon in the anime to defeat a legendary Pokémon, as seen in Hold the Phione!. The other two are Ash's Pikachu and Charizard.
• Dawn's Buneary seems to be a parallel to May's Beautifly:
  • Both were their Trainer's first capture.
  • Both were used in the battle round of their first Pokémon Contest.
  • Both were used in a different kind of Pokémon Contest (Beautifly in the PokéRinger competition and Buneary in the Hearthome Collection).
  • Both were used in the battle round of the Wallace Cup once.
• Buneary is the first Pokémon belonging to a main character to be seen wearing clothing on a regular basis (although her heart vest is usually removed before Buneary is used in a contest or a battle).
• Like Brock's Croagunk, Buneary has not learned any new moves since of its capture.

Related articles

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

External links

• Mimirol's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Dawn's Pokémon
On hand:	Piplup	Buneary	Pachirisu	Mamoswine	Quilava	Togekiss
In training:	Ambipom
Traded away:	Buizel
Released:	Oshawott
Temporary:	Pikachu	Croagunk	Chimchar	Staravia	Grimer	Dodrio
	Sharpedo
Befriended:	Mesprit

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