Trip

Trip シューティー Shooty
Trip
Gender	Male
Eye color	Pale Gray
Hair color	Light Green
Hometown	Kanoko Town
Region	Unova
Anime debut	In The Shadow of Zekrom!
English voice actor	Jamie McGonnigal
Japanese voice actor	Akeno Watanabe

Trip (Japanese: シューティー Shooty) is a Pokémon Trainer from the Unova region and a rival of Ash.

History

Trip

Trip was introduced in In The Shadow of Zekrom! as a beginning Trainer ready to choose his first Pokémon. After meeting with Professor Juniper, he chose Snivy as his new partner. Shortly after obtaining it, he challenged Ash Ketchum to a Pokémon battle. He had much interest in battling Pikachu, a species that is foreign in his region. Because Pikachu could not use any Electric attacks, Trip easily defeated Ash.

Trip appeared again at a Battle Club in BW010, where he and Ash had a 5-on-5 battle. He offered to have a full battle with Ash, which means that he has access to at least 6 Pokémon. His Hatooboo defeated Ash's Oshawott and Tepig in just two hits with its Super Luck-boosted Aerial Ace. Afterwards, Trip called Ash's Pikachu and Snivy to be so-so, and the rest of his team to be hopeless causes.

Character

Trip's camera

Trip is a Pokémon photographer, in which he takes photos of Pokémon and places with a green digital camera. In BW010, he is also shown to possess a Xtransceiver.

He is a quiet individual who prefers to keep his emotions to himself and becomes annoyed by Ash's overly-expressive personality, referring to him as a hillbilly multiple times. He insults Ash by calling him a weak Trainer.

Despite having just started out as a Trainer, Trip already implements many strategies in his battling. He has defeated Ash both times that they have battled, despite Ash being a much more experienced Trainer.

Pokémon

Janovy ♂

Trip's Janovy

Debut	In The Shadow of Zekrom!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kiyotaka Furushima

Main article: Trip's Janovy

Janovy is Trip's starter Pokémon, given to him by Professor Juniper when he was a Snivy. He was used to battle Ash in The Shadow of Zekrom!.

He was revealed to have evolved into a Janovy before Triple Leaders, Team Threats. This was revealed to Ash in BW010.

Hatooboo

Trip's Hatooboo

Debut	BW010
Voice actors
Japanese	Unshō Ishizuka

Hatooboo is the second Pokémon that Trip was revealed to have. It first appeared in BW010 where Trip used it to battle Ash's Oshawott, Ash's Tepig and Ash's Pikachu. It was shown to be powerful, as its Super Luck ability allowed it to take down both Oshawott and Tepig with two hits. It defeated the former two, before losing to Pikachu.

Hatooboo's known moves are Aerial Ace, Double Team and Work Up, and its ability is Super Luck.

Pururiru ♂

Trip's Pururiru

Debut	BW010
Voice actors
Japanese	Misato Fukuen

Pururiru is the third Pokémon that Trip was revealed to have. He first appeared in BW010 where Trip used him to battle Ash's Snivy and Pidove. He defeated Pidove, and also Snivy after a long battle, where he was able to take advantage of Cursed Body due to Snivy's constant use of physical attacks.

Pururiru's known moves are Protect, Water Pulse, Night Shade and Hex, and his ability is Cursed Body.

Trip has access to at least another 3 Pokémon, because he offered to have a full battle with Ash.

Badges obtained

This listing is of the badges Trip has obtained:

• Trio Badge (prior to Triple Leaders, Team Threats)
• Unknown Badge (prior to BW010)

Trivia

Trip and his rival, Ash Ketchum

• Trip is Ash's third rival whose Japanese name starts with the kana シ shi, the other two being "Shigeru" and "Shinji" respectively.
  • Notably "Shū", the Japanese name of May's rival Drew, also starts with this same letter. This makes Trip the fourth major rival in the anime who's name starts with a シ or a variation of it.
• Similar to Gary and Paul, Ash's rivals in his previous journeys, Trip's name only has four letters.
• Trip owns a member from each of the only two Pokémon families in Generation V that have gender differences.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	シューティー Shooty	From the English word, shoot, as in "photo shoot".
English	Trip	Possibly from "Tripod".
Chinese (Mandarin)	修帝 Xiū​dì​	Transliteration of his Japanese name.

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