Dawn's Mamoswine

Dawn's Mamoswine ヒカリのマンムー Hikari's Manmoo

File:Mamoswine.png Dawn's Mamoswine

Debuts in Hungry for the Good Life! Caught at Mr. Backlot's Trophy Garden Evolves in DP104 DP106 Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With Dawn

→ → This Pokémon spent 20 episodes as Swinub and 2 episodes as Piloswine.

Voice actor Japanese English As Swinub Tomoe Hanba Kayzie Rogers As Piloswine ??? N/A As Mamoswine ??? N/A

Dawn's Mamoswine (Japanese: ヒカリのマンムー Hikari's Manmoo) was the fifth Pokémon captured by Dawn in the anime, and her sixth Pokémon in all. As a Swinub, it was voiced by Tomoe Hanba in Japanese, and its English voice actress is Kayzie Rogers.

History

Mamoswine's debut was in Hungry for the Good Life! as a Swinub. It appeared at Mr. Backlot's mansion from a nearby forest. It caused trouble by devouring all of Dawn's Poffins, much to the displeasure of Dawn's other Pokémon. This revealed its gluttonous nature. However, after helping take down Team Rocket and rescue the other Pokémon, Dawn decided she wanted Swinub to go with her.

In DP095, Swinub watched its first Contest when it saw Dawn, Buneary and Ambipom work together to win the Celestic Town Pokémon Contest.

While still a Swinub, it was not used very much due to it's relative lack of battling experience. It had a very cheeful personality and would often jump up and down in excitement.

Swinub evolved into Piloswine in DP104 in a battle against Team Rocket. After evolving, its personality drastically changed. Knowing numerous powerful attacks, Piloswine felt much stronger and more confident than it did as a Swinub, and began to disobey Dawn's orders. Despite this, Piloswine was still very affectionate towards Dawn, as seen in DP105 where it tackled her to the ground out of affection.

In DP106, just two episodes after evolving, Piloswine continued to disobey Dawn. It evolved again into Mamoswine after being attacked by Team Rocket while knowing the move AncientPower. Unfortunately, it has kept its bad behavior from when it was a Piloswine, and even charged at the gang in a rage, only to be stopped by Dawn, returning it to its Poké Ball. Despite this, Dawn is still eager to train Mamoswine well.

• Dawn&Swinub.jpg

  As a Swinub, with Dawn

• Piloswine.png

  As a Piloswine

Moves used

• Take Down
• Ice Shard
• Ice Beam
• Dig
• AncientPower

Trivia

• Mamoswine, alongside Ash's Gliscor, is the only Pokémon in the parties of Ash and his friends to be absent from the original Sinnoh Dex (though Jessie of Team Rocket has Yanmega, Seviper, and Wobbuffet, and Paul owns Electabuzz, Ursaring, and Gliscor).
• Mamoswine, as a Swinub, is the first capture Dawn has made since Buizel, exactly 50 episodes before. It is also her only capture in which she didn't battle the Pokémon twice, or even at all.
• Mamoswine, as a Swinub, is the fifth, and most recent, Pokémon introduced in Generation II that is in the party of a member of the main cast during the Diamond & Pearl series.
• Mamoswine, as a Swinub, is also the second Pokémon that Dawn owns that was introduced in a generation other than the one she was introduced in, the first being Aipom. Like Aipom, Piloswine has a Generation IV evolved form.
• Mamoswine is the fourth Pokémon in the Pokémon anime to evolve by knowing a certain move, following Brock's Sudowoodo, Dawn's Ambipom and Jessie's Yanmega, and is the second Pokémon of Dawn's to evolve by this method.
  • Mamoswine is also the second Pokémon to evolve by learning the move AncientPower, the first being Jessie's Yanmega, which also evolved rather quickly after being captured.
• Mamoswine, as a Swinub has some similarities with May's Munchlax: Mamoswine loves to eat mass quantities of Poffin; likewise, May's Munchlax enjoys mass quantities of Pokéblock (the Generation III counterpart of the Poffin).
• So far, Mamoswine is Dawn's only dual-type Pokémon.
• Mamoswine is Dawn's second evolved Pokémon, the first being Ambipom. Both are final forms of a Generation II evolution family.
• DP104, the episode in which Swinub evolves into Piloswine, first aired in Japan in the same week that Hungry For the Good Life!, the episode in which Swinub is captured, first aired in the United States. The same thing happened to Ash's Gliscor.
• Mamoswine is the first Pokémon in the current saga to appear evolved in an opening prior to its actual evolution being shown. Furthermore, it was as a Mamoswine. Therefore, Piloswine is one of few Pokémon to be owned by a main cast member but not ever appear in an opening in that form.
  • It was changed back to a Piloswine in the opening of DP106, despite it evolving in that episode. The inclusion as a Mamoswine in DP104's opening may have been an error.
• Mamoswine is similar to Ash's Charizard in many aspects.
  • Both were caught in their base forms.
  • Both are the fifth Pokémon captured by their trainers (Mamoswine is the sixth Dawn actually obtained, but Ambipom was obtained in a trade, and not truly captured).
  • Both of them disobeyed their trainers when they evolved, but were both quite loyal to their trainers in their base forms.
  • Both evolved to their final forms within a short span of episodes and retained their disobedience.
• Like many other main characters' Pokémon, Mamoswine was obtained after the Pokémon's species' debut in a movie.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Swinub, Piloswine, and Mamoswine.

Dawn's Pokémon
On hand:	Piplup	Buneary	Pachirisu	Mamoswine	Quilava	Togekiss
In training:	Ambipom
Traded away:	Buizel
Released:	Oshawott
Temporary:	Pikachu	Croagunk	Chimchar	Staravia	Grimer	Dodrio
	Sharpedo
Befriended:	Mesprit