May's Blaziken

May's Blaziken ハルカのバシャーモ Haruka's Bursyamo

May's Blaziken

Debuts in Get the Show on the Road! Caught at Littleroot Town Evolves in A Shroomish Skirmish Once More with Reeling Gender Unknown Ability Blaze Current location Unknown

→ → This Pokémon spent 81 episodes as Torchic and 109 episodes as Combusken.

Voice actor Japanese English As Torchic Chinami Nishimura Rachael Lillis As Combusken Chinami Nishimura Rikako Aikawa* Darren Dunstan (4Kids) Bill Rogers (TPCi) As Blaziken Katsuyuki Konishi Bill Rogers

May's Blaziken (Japanese: ハルカのバシャーモ Haruka's Bursyamo) was the first Pokémon acquired by May at the beginning of her travels in Hoenn.

History

As a Torchic

In Get the Show on the Road!, Blaziken was given to May by Professor Birch in Littleroot Town when it was still a Torchic. She chose it as her starter Pokémon because she thought Treecko was creepy and scary (though she later called them cute in Trees a Crowd), while the starter Mudkip had attacked her earlier with a Water Gun to the face. However, she seemed to like Torchic's cute appearance and sweet nature. Early on in the journey, Torchic was very inexperienced and ditzy. It did not know how to battle, and tended to wander around obliviously; it also tended to panic when in dangerous situations. On the group's first encounter with Jessie's Seviper (still wild at the time), the Template:Type2 frightened Torchic by trying to eat it.

As a Combusken

When May started to ignore Torchic in favor of her new Beautifly, Torchic's personality began to change: it grew more determined to improve itself and recapture May's attention. Its competitive streak continued to grow as it lost most of its childishness and confusion; this culminated in its evolution into Combusken during A Shroomish Skirmish. Combusken itself had a period of being highly aggressive, but this seems to have passed and its personality seems to have evened out more now that it apparently feels that it no longer has to overcompensate.

Combusken also appeared in Second Time's the Charm!. May wanted to try to communicate to her Pokémon like Anabel could. Combusken didn't respond quite so favorably. In Once More with Reeling, during the break of a Pokémon Contest, Ash and co. were trying to stop Team Rocket from stealing Pikachu and other Pokémon. In the midst of the ensuing battle, Combusken evolved into Blaziken, and used its Blaze Kick to send Team Rocket flying, upon which Ash remarked "would I love to battle you". Afterwards, May used Blaziken in the Battle Phase against Ash's Sceptile. Although it had a type advantage over Sceptile and its Blaze ability activated at the same time Sceptile's Overgrow did, the battle ended in a tie. Later, it left for Hoenn with the rest of May's Pokémon, along with May herself and Max.

File:Blaziken Blaze.png

With Blaze activated

Blaziken appeared again when May made a guest appearance in A Full Course Tag Battle!. It was used in the Seven Stars Restaurant tag battles, in which it battled alongside Dawn's Piplup. When it was first called out, Ash seemed to be pleased at seeing it again, and Brock remarked that it had gotten stronger as well.

Moves used

File:Blaziken Overheat.png Using Overheat	Move First Used In Peck A Ruin with a View Ember A Ruin with a View Quick Attack I Feel Skitty! Fire Spin † A Shroomish Skirmish Sky Uppercut A Shroomish Skirmish Mega Kick Spontaneous Combusken! Overheat Channeling the Battle Zone! Blaze Kick † Once More with Reeling!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Trivia

• May's Blaziken is the only Hoenn starter belonging to a main character that did not fall in love: Sceptile fell in love with a Meganium, and Marshtomp fell in love with a Flaaffy.
• As a Torchic, it was very fond of tasty Bluk Berries.
• As a Combusken, it has participated in the battles of both Grand Festivals where May was defeated (Rhapsody in Drew in Hoenn, and Channeling the Battle Zone in Kanto).
• Both its first battle as a Combusken (against the wild Breloom) and its first official battle as a Blaziken (against Ash's Sceptile) resulted in a tie. Coincidentally, in both instances it fought against a Template:Type2 Pokémon.
• Combusken evolved into Blaziken exactly 100 episodes after its first Contest victory (in Lilycove City).
• Like Ash's Sceptile, Blaziken was voiced by Darren Dunstan in its second stage followed by Bill Rogers after the voice switch, and Bill Rogers in its final form.

Related articles

• For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Torchic, Combusken, and Blaziken.

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

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