May's Munchlax

May's Munchlax ハルカのゴンベ Haruka's Gonbe

File:Munchlax of May.png May's Munchlax

Debuts in Berry Berry Interesting Caught at Hoenn Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With May

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Munchlax Chie Satō Darren Dunstan (4Kids) Billy Beach (TPCi)

May's Munchlax (Japanese: ハルカのゴンベ Haruka's Gonbe) was the fifth Pokémon caught by May during her travels through Hoenn. Its voice actress in Japanese is 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō, and its English voice actors are Darren Dunstan (4Kids dub) and Billy Beach (TPCi dub).

History

Munchlax eating

May caught Munchlax in the episode Berry Berry Interesting. Munchlax was the only Pokémon May could find that liked her custom Pokéblocks, May's Purple Surprise, so she wanted to catch it. May threw a Poké Ball at it but Munchlax ate the Poké Ball. It then activated from inside Munchlax, and it was caught.

Munchlax seemed to take a liking to Max, spending a lot of time with him. Munchlax was also the only one of May's Pokémon that was not used in her first Grand Festival. During the festival when Skitty used Assist to show off all the moves of May's team, one of the moves it used was a Solarbeam, hinting it may have been Munchlax's.

Munchlax was one of the Pokémon May took with her when she traveled through the Kanto region. In A Real Cleffa Hanger, Munchlax was shown to know Metronome. In On Cloud Arcanine, after using it to use ExtremeSpeed, Munchlax quickly ate the Pecha Berries on the trees instead of attacking the Arcanine it was supposed to. In May's Egg-Cellent Adventure, Munchlax took part in its first battle against Nicolette's Vileplume, where it was revealed to know Focus Punch.

May entered Munchlax in a Contest in Harley Rides Again. It made it to the final round where it was up against Harley's Octillery. It put up a good fight before it eventually lost.

Munchlax continued traveling with May when she left to compete in the contests in Johto, and stayed with her when she returned to participate the Wallace Cup in A Full Course Tag Battle!.

Moves used

Using SolarBeam	Move	First Used In
File:Munchlax SolarBeam.png
	Metronome	A Real Cleffa-Hanger
	Focus Punch	May's Egg-Cellent Adventure
	SolarBeam	May's Egg-Cellent Adventure
	Tackle	Harley Rides Again
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

• Munchlax was the first Generation IV Pokémon to be caught by a main character.
• Munchlax seemed to obtain a counterpart in Dawn's Swinub in Hungry for the Good Life!. Both are gluttonous and have a love for their region's Pokémon delicacy.
• May's Munchlax is one of two Pokémon owned by a main character to use Metronome, the other being Misty's Togetic, although Togetic used Metronome as a Togepi.

Related articles

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

May's Pokémon
In rotation:	Blaziken	Beautifly	Skitty	Venusaur	Munchlax	Wartortle
	Glaceon
Temporary:	Mudkip	Hitmonchan
Befriended:	Swablu

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