Ash's Quilava

Ash's Quilava サトシのマグマラシ Satoshi's Magmarashi

Ash's Quilava

Debuts in Good 'Quil Hunting Caught at Route 33 Evolves in DP182 Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With Ash

→ This Pokémon spent 507 episodes as Cyndaquil.

Voice actor Japanese English As Cyndaquil Yuji Ueda Kayzie Rogers As Quilava Yuji Ueda N/A

Ash's Quilava (Japanese: サトシのマグマラシ Satoshi's Magmarashi) was the third Pokémon that Ash caught during his travels through Johto. Its Japanese voice actor is Yuji Ueda, and its English voice actress is Kayzie Rogers.

History

As a Cyndaquil

Johto

Quilava first appeared as a Cyndaquil in Good 'Quil Hunting. On the way to Azalea Town, Ash hears from a trainer named Koji that the forest he and his friends were traveling through was reputed to be populated by Cyndaquil and decides to look for one. Ash was separated from his friends and chased by Team Rocket into a cave where he found Cyndaquil. After competing with Koji and Team Rocket for it, Ash was able to capture it.

Personality-wise, Cyndaquil was the "baby" of Ash's group. It started off very weak and lazy, and was easily tired out. In battles, it usually had to wait for the flame on its back to ignite before using any Template:Type2 attacks. After training with Ash in Hot Matches!, Cyndaquil was able to ignite at will.

File:AshQuilavaNoFlame.png

Ash's Quilava without its flames lit

Cyndaquil was also very speedy in battle, able to dodge attacks with ease. When it was being pursued by Team Rocket's mecha in DP182, it was able to dodge it easily, unlike most other Pokémon Team Rocket tried to capture. Arguably, its most notable battle appearance was in the episode Nerves of Steelix. Cyndaquil took down Jasmine's undeniably powerful Steelix. It has also been used in most of Ash's Johto gym battles and it was able to get at least one win in all the matches, defeating Bugsy's Scyther, Whitney's Nidorina and Clefairy, Morty's Gastly, Jasmine's Steelix and Pryce's Dewgong.

Ash left Cyndaquil along with the rest of his Johto team at Professor Oak's Laboratory when he wanted to start his journey fresh in the Hoenn region.

Sinnoh

Ash called Cyndaquil back into his party for the Suzuran Conference in DP182. It was separated from Ash along with Bayleef, Totodile, Snorlax and Corphish when Team Rocket attempted to steal them. After finding the others, Cyndaquil was the only one left for Ash to search for. While looking for Ash, it was attacked by one of Team Rocket's mechas. During the battle, it showed that it had learned the move Flame Wheel during its time at the lab. When the mecha had Cyndaquil cornered, it evolved into Quilava and used its newly learned attack Eruption to destroy it.

In the following episode, Ash used Quilava to battle Nando in the first round of the Suzuran Conference. It battled Nando's powerful Armaldo. During battle, it was revealed Quilava learned Aerial Ace. After a fierce battle, both Quilava and Armaldo were knocked out.

Moves used

Using Eruption	Move	First Used In
File:Quilava Eruption.png
	Flamethrower	Good 'Quil Hunting
	Tackle	Good 'Quil Hunting
	Agility x	Hot Matches!
	SmokeScreen	Hot Matches!
	Swift	From Ghost to Ghost
	Quick Attack	Nice Pryce, Baby!
	Flame Wheel	DP182
	Eruption	DP182
	Aerial Ace	DP183
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

Ash's Cyndaquil in its debut

• With his capture of Chimchar, Ash now has owned each Fire-type starter whose English name begins with a C and whose Japanese name begins with a ヒ hi: Charmander, Cyndaquil, and Chimchar. Incidentally, Charmander and Chimchar were either abused or abandoned by their former Trainers, while Cyndaquil narrowly avoided being captured by a potentially abusive Trainer.
• Cyndaquil's body color changed, like Corphish's BubbleBeam, over the course of the series. It started off with the top half being royal blue and the bottom half being cream, while later the top half was colored a mossy green and the bottom half was a deep cream.
• Quilava, as a Cyndaquil, took the longest to evolve out of any Pokémon in the anime, having been in its first stage for longer than a decade.
• Quilava is Ash's only Fire-type Pokémon that is not fully evolved, and the only Fire-type starter to have been on the main cast without evolving fully.
• Ash considered evolving Cyndaquil into Quilava before the Silver Conference in You're a Star, Larvitar! but decided not to force Cyndaquil to evolve, which aired nearly eight years before its actual evolution.
• Before evolution, it was revealed that Cyndaquil learned Flame Wheel at some point before it was recalled, very similar to Torkoal learning Heat Wave before it was recalled.
• Quilava is Ash's first non-Template:Type2 Pokémon to use Aerial Ace.
  • Also, it is the only one Ash didn't train to use it.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Cyndaquil and Quilava.

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

This article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation.