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 Inuko Inuyama Kayzie Rogers As Piloswine Inuko Inuyama N/A As Mamoswine Unshō Ishizuka 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. Its Japanese voice actor is Unshō Ishizuka. In Japanese, it was voiced by Inuko Inuyama as a Swinub and Piloswine. In English, it was voiced by Kayzie Rogers as a Swinub.

History

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With Dawn, as a Swinub

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As a Piloswine

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 cheerful 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. 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 started to disobey Dawn. Knowing numerous powerful attacks, Piloswine felt much stronger and more confident than it did as a Swinub. It then attacked Piplup for touching its fur presumptuously. It started to develop an indifference towards Dawn and rushed towards her only after she threw its favorite food, Poffins, around, forcing it to run around to eat the Poffins. It even tried to attack Dawn with Ice Shard. It used Ice Shard and froze half the body of Grotle, who tried to stop it from rampaging. Immediately after that, it rushed all the way towards Dawn and the others, nearly crushing everyone, only to be stopped by the muscular Happiny. Dawn agreed to have a battle with her Piloswine and Ash's Grotle. However, it ignored Dawn's commands and used AncientPower instead.

It later evolved again into Mamoswine after being attacked by Team Rocket. 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 Brock, who told Dawn to return it to its Poké Ball. Despite this, Dawn is still eager to train Mamoswine well.

In battle, Mamoswine has shown to be incredibly powerful thanks to its large and powerful physique. It was shown to take Piplup's BubbleBeam, Whirlpool and Peck in quick succession with no resistance at all as well as knocking it out for the third time in DP106.

Moves used

• Take Down
• Ice Shard
• 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. Cooincidentally, both need to know a specific move to evolve.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • Both were the second Pokémon on their respective teams to evolve to their final forms (the first being Butterfree for Ash and Ambipom for Dawn).
  • Both were caught in their base forms without having to be fought.
• Like many other main characters' Pokémon, Mamoswine was obtained after the Pokémon's species' debut in a movie.
• As of the latest Japanese episode, Mamoswine is the only Pokémon belonging to Dawn that has evolved twice, and one of only two capable of doing so. The other is Piplup.

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