Iris's Haxorus

Iris's Axew アイリスのキバゴ Iris's Kibago ?

Iris and her Axew

Debuts in In The Shadow of Zekrom! Caught at Unova Gender Male Ability Mold Breaker* Current location With Iris

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Axew Minami Tsuda Kayzie Rogers

Iris's Axew (Japanese: アイリスのキバゴ Iris's Kibago) is the first Pokémon that Iris was known to have. He debuted alongside his Trainer in In The Shadow of Zekrom!.

History

Axew upon meeting Iris for the first time

Axew is the first Pokémon that Iris is known to have obtained. She obtained Axew from the matriarch of her hometown when Axew was just a few days old. She was given the task of journeying with Axew in order to help raise it into a great Haxorus.

Axew was the first Pokémon that Ash scanned with his new Pokédex in Enter Iris and Axew!, though he was actually aiming it at Iris's hair and wondering why Axew looked nothing like what the Pokédex showed. Axew appears to be a friendly Pokémon, making quick friends with Ash's Pikachu. They are shown to have a strong relationship such as in A Sandile Gusher of Change! where a Sandile had caught him in its jaws, Iris tried everything to get it out.

In Triple Leaders, Team Threats!, Cilan tells the two that Iris and Axew have perfect compatibility. In Dreams by the Yard Full! it was revealed that Axew wants to evolve to his final stage, unlike most of the other walking Pokémon in the anime.

Axew has been shown to have some childish traits, such as in Saving Darmanitan From the Bell!, where he fought Pikachu when he thought Pikachu was the one who ate all the food. In The Bloom Is on Axew!, it was shown that Axew has not had much experience in battling, crying when he was hit by weakened attacks from Cilan's Pansage; however, he was shown to be able to produce an extremely powerful Dragon Rage that can cause massive destruction, but is uncontrollable and has a tendency to explode in all directions rather than beam at a specific target as is meant to. Both Ash and Cilan playfully refer to it as a "Dragon Sneeze", much to Iris's annoyance.

Axew in Iris's hair

In BW017, Axew seemed excited about Ash's Pokémon egg being ready to hatch; so much so that he accidentally sends it rolling down a hill. After it hatches into Scraggy, Axew becomes afraid of it after seeing how aggressive it was with the other Pokémon. Even so, he kept his eye on it and was the first to notice that it ran off in the middle of the night. Axew assisted Iris in finding a plant that would help Scraggy recover after it was paralyzed by a wild Galvantula. The next day when Scraggy felt better, Axew battled it. Both Pokémon ended up knocking each other out. The two have another battle in BW020, however it is stopped after Axew attempts, again, to use Dragon Rage.

Like Pikachu and Dawn's Piplup, Axew appears to prefer being outside of his Poké Ball (if Axew even has a Poké Ball), but unlike them, he likes to travel inside Iris's long hair, while Pikachu and Piplup usually go on their Trainer's shoulder.

Moves used

File:Axew Scratch.png Using Scratch	Move First Used In Scratch The Bloom Is on Axew! Dragon Rage The Bloom Is on Axew!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In the games

Main article: Mystery Eggs

A Japanese event randomly distributed an egg that contained an in-game representation of Iris's Axew, Ash's Pidove, or Cilan's Pansage via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Like its anime counterpart, this Axew knows Scratch and Dragon Rage and is male. It also, interestingly, always has Mold Breaker as its ability. This event started on December 17th, 2010, and ended on January 11, 2011.

Pokémon Info				Trainer Memo	Battle Moves		Ribbons
キバゴ	♂	Dex No.	0610	Naive nature.	Normal	Scratch	no Ribbon
Lv. 1		Type		Dec. 17, 2010	Dragon	Dragon Rage
		Dragon		Unknown	Pokémon Event	--		--
		OT	(Hatcher's)	Egg received.	--	--
		ID No.	(Hatcher's)	Dec. 17, 2010	This Pokémon was available in Japan from December 17, 2010 to January 11, 2011.
Item		Ability		(Place hatched)
None		Mold Breaker		Egg hatched.
The date this Pokémon was received is determined by the date on the DS when it was hatched by its original Trainer. This may differ for every Pokémon.
This Pokémon is English in origin.
Can be obtained with: D P Pt HG SS
Obtained from: PBR Ranch Ra SoA GS Distribution

In the TCG

Axew was featured in the TCG. The following is a list of cards featuring Iris's Axew.

Name	Type	Set	Set no.
Axew		BW-P Promotional cards	003/BW-P
			006/BW-P

Trivia

• Axew is the first Dragon-type Pokémon to be owned by a main character other than Ash.
• The method used by Axew to charge up Dragon Rage before firing is very similar to the way that Ash's Gible would charge up Draco Meteor.
  • Coincidentally, both Axew and Gible have trouble executing these Dragon-type moves at first.
  • Also, Axew and Gible are both part of a three-stage evolutionary line that retain the same type throughout their evolution.
• Like Ash's Butterfree during his time as a Caterpie, both revealed that their primary goal is to reach their final evolutionary stage.
• Axew's gender and ability were confirmed through a Nintendo Event. Axew is male and his ability is Mold Breaker.

Related articles

• For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Axew.
• Episodes focusing on Axew

Iris's Pokémon
On hand:	Haxorus	Excadrill	Emolga	Dragonite	Gible
Traveling with:	Rotom Phone
Temporary:	Vanilluxe	Virizion	Snivy	Fraxure
Adventures only:	Druddigon	Lapras