Jessie's Lickitung

Jessie's Lickitung ムサシのベロリンガ Musashi's Beroringa

Jessie's Lickitung

Debuts in Princess vs. Princess Caught at O-Hina Town Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Traded in Tricks of the Trade Original Trainer Jessie Traded for Benny's Wobbuffet Current location With Benny

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Lickitung Chinami Nishimura Michael Haigney

Jessie's Lickitung (Japanese: ムサシのベロリンガ Musashi's Beroringa) was the second Pokémon Jessie appears with in Kanto. Lickitung was the first Pokémon Jessie was shown to catch, and is the first Pokémon to have been caught by a member of Team Rocket in the anime.

History

Kanto

Jessie catching Lickitung

In Princess vs. Princess, Team Rocket first encountered Lickitung while they were resting in a local park after Jessie's Princess Festival shopping spree. Lickitung quickly snatched up the food with its tongue, so Jessie sent out her Arbok to deal with the glutton, only for it to be stunned after being licked by Lickitung. In a fit of rage, Jessie threw a Poké Ball at the Lickitung, successfully catching it.

Later, Lickitung was Jessie's forgotten weapon in the finals of the Queen of the Princess Festival contest against Misty. After stunning and defeating a borrowed Pikachu, Bulbasaur, and Vulpix by licking them, Lickitung was defeated by Psyduck's Confusion after ignoring Jessie's command for Tackle due to hunger, resulting in Misty winning the contest. This was the only time Jessie used Lickitung in Kanto.

Orange Islands

Jessie used Lickitung rather sparingly for the rest of its time under her possession, making the pink Pokémon her second option after Arbok. Thus, it was one of the least used Pokémon that was owned by a main character. It most often appeared alongside all of the Rocket trio's other Pokémon in battles against the twerps.

In Pikachu Re-Volts, Lickitung was used for the first time since its capture, being used to try to nab the Pokémon Butch and Cassidy stole. Lickitung, along with the rest of Team Rocket's Pokémon, were hypnotized by Butch and Cassidy's Drowzee and forced to attack its Trainer. They were later freed by Ash and his Pikachu and joined together to battle Drowzee.

In In the Pink, Lickitung was called out to help lick up all the rare pink Pokémon on Pinkan Island. James declared that Lickitung was pink, but Jessie corrected him by admitting that Lickitung had always been pink. Lickitung chased two Nidoran into a cave, but it quickly ran out after angering a pink Nidoking. Later the Nidoking sent Lickitung and all the rest blasting off.

Jessie called on Lickitung to take on Ash and the others in A Tent Situation. However, Ash's Muk stepped in and was unaffected by Lickitung's immobilizing licks. It was then defeated by Gary Oak and his Nidoqueen.

Jessie unaware that her Lickitung had been traded to Benny for his Wobbuffet

Benny with his new Lickitung

Johto

In Tricks of the Trade, Lickitung was accidentally traded by Jessie to a Trainer named Benny for his Wobbuffet during the commotion at the Pokémon Swap Meet. As Team Rocket's scheme to steal Pokémon with a rigged trading device was discovered by the crowd, Lickitung's Poké Ball was dropped into the trade machine when Jessie was knocked backwards by the fleeing Magikarp salesman, and was swapped with Benny's Poké Ball already in the machine; the person Benny had been planning to trade with had changed his mind at the last minute. Jessie soon realized the trade when she sent Lickitung out to battle Ash, and the passive Wobbuffet emerged instead.

Lickitung was later seen happily with Benny, who informed Ash and friends about the accidental trade. However, there was never any indication that Ash and his friends ever identified the Lickitung as Jessie's old Pokémon, nor that Jessie's new Wobbuffet was originally Benny's.

Personality and characteristics

Jessie upset at Lickitung ignoring her orders

Lickitung and Jessie had a tumultuous relationship right from the beginning, where Lickitung ate all of the food Jessie bought for the Boss, to their last day together in Tricks of the Trade, where Jessie attacked Lickitung for licking her face just after she had washed up. Jessie used Lickitung infrequently in battle, namely because it ignored her instructions and was gluttonous. However it was a strong battler, with its tongue capable of immobilizing an opponent with ease. Lickitung did attempt to shows its affection for its Trainer with a lick to the face on several occasions, however Jessie found the habit to be disgusting. As such it didn't appear to have much of a bond with Jessie, and it was seen happily licking its new Trainer, Benny, who didn't seem to mind.

Moves used

Using Stomp	Move First Used In Tackle † Pikachu Re-Volts* Wrap Snack Attack! Supersonic The Whistle Stop Stomp The Whistle Stop Slam † Ignorance is Blissey
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Trivia

• Lickitung was the first Pokémon belonging to a main character to be permanently traded, and the only one who hasn't been seen since.
• Lickitung is the only Pokémon obtained by Jessie and James in Kanto that was not released at some point in time.
• Despite being in Jessie's possession for 94 episodes, it made only 17 appearances total.
• Not including temporary Pokémon, Lickitung is the only Normal-type Pokémon owned by either Jessie or James.
• Lickitung was mentioned by Jessie in So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd (while this episode aired before Princess vs. Princess in Japan, chronologically it occurs after it).

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Lickitung.

Team Rocket's Pokémon
Travel with:	Meowth	Rotom Phone
	Jessie			James
On hand:	Wobbuffet	Seviper	Yanmega	Mime Jr.	Carnivine	Yamask
	Woobat	Frillish	Gourgeist	Amoonguss	Inkay	Morpeko
In training:				Cacnea
At home:				Growlie	Chimecho
Released:	Arbok	Dustox	Mimikyu	Weezing	Gyarados	Mareanie
Traded away:	Lickitung			Victreebel
Lived with (all three):	Bewear	Stufful
Worked with (all three):	Delibird	Pelipper
Temporarily owned:	Porygon Zero	Shellder	Magikarp	Second Victreebel	Hoppip
	Mawile
Befriended:	Blissey
Status unknown:	Starmie			Pidgey	Numel
For a list of other Pokémon Team Rocket has commanded, see here and here

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