Ash's Donphan

Ash's Donphan サトシのドンファン Satoshi's Donfan

Ash's Donphan

Egg obtained in Extreme Pokémon Hatches in Hatching a Plan! Hatched at Around Route 42 Evolves in Reversing the Charges Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With Ash

→ → This Pokémon spent 2 episodes in its Egg and 198 episodes as Phanpy.

Voice actor Japanese English As Phanpy Megumi Hayashibara Tara Jayne Lindsey Warner (4Kids) Michele Knotz Jamie Peacock (TPCi) As Donphan Kenta Miyake

Ash's Donphan (Japanese: サトシのドンファン Satoshi's Donfan) was the sixth Pokémon caught by Ash during his travels through Johto. Its voice actor in both Japanese and English is 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake. As a Phanpy, it was voiced by 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara in Japanese and by Tara Jayne (4Kids dub, EP230-EP273) and Lindsey Warner (4Kids dub, AG133-AG145) in English. In the TPCi dub, it has been voiced by Michele Knotz and Jamie Peacock.

History

As a Phanpy

Johto

Ash received a Phanpy egg as a prize in the episode Extreme Pokémon! after he won a race hosted by an old couple who were breeders. It hatched in the episode Hatching a Plan!. It was shown to be a very playful Pokémon.

Phanpy was the youngest Pokémon on Ash's team, though its power made up for his lack of experience. Throughout most of Ash's travels through Johto, Phanpy was rarely used and was the baby on the team. Its only major battle was a match against Pryce's Dewgong in As Cold as Pryce. It lost the match.

Phanpy, however, played a role in Ash's battle against Macey in the Silver Conference in the episode Love, Pokémon Style!. It battled against and defeated Macey's Slugma.

Kanto Battle Frontier

Ash left Phanpy at Professor Oak's lab before traveling to Hoenn, but it returned to his party when Ash took on the Battle Frontier challenge. It had shown signs that it had grown up beyond the young Pokémon seen in Johto.

In Reversing the Charges, Phanpy battled a Team Rocket mecha and evolved into a Donphan in order to take it down. Ash also used Donphan in the match against Pike Queen Lucy and her Seviper. Donphan had become a very strong battler, but still retained its child-like behavior it had when it was a Phanpy.

Donphan returned to Professor Oak's lab when Ash left for Sinnoh.

Sinnoh

Donphan appeared in DP182, alongside Ash's other Pokémon. It was shown training with Ash.

In DP185, Ash will be using Donphan in his battle against Conway in the Suzuran Conference.

Moves used

Using Rollout	Move	First Used In
File:AshDonphan Rollout.png
	Tackle	Hatching a Plan
	Rollout	Hatching a Plan
	Take Down	Hatching a Plan
	Earthquake	Love, Pokémon Style!
	Defense Curl	Love, Pokémon Style!
	Hidden Power	Hooked on Onix
	Hyper Beam	Reversing the Charges
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

• The length of its tusks would suggest that Donphan is male, although prior to Generation IV all Donphan had long tusks. A similar issue surrounds another of Ash's Pokémon: Heracross.
• Donphan is the first Template:Type2 Pokémon to be owned by Ash.
• It took Phanpy a total of 198 episodes to evolve into Donphan; this is the longest time it took for one of Ash's Pokémon to reach its final form so far.
• It is the only Pokémon that Ash owns that had been in his team once before, left at Oak's Lab, and then again returned to his main team for a longer second time. The rest of Ash's Pokémon were in his team only once and then left behind at Oak's, excluding Pikachu of course.
  • Ambipom has a similar history, but she ran to be with Ash rather than Ash picking her from storage.
• Donphan is Ash's third Pokémon to learn Hyper Beam. The first two were Kingler and Snorlax.
  • Interestingly, the three are part of one-evolutionary families.

Related articles

• For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Phanpy and Donphan.
• Ash's Phanpy (8th Movie Half Deck 4)

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

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