Ash's Staraptor

Ash's Staraptor サトシのムクホーク Satoshi's Mukuhawk

File:Ash's Staraptor.png Ash's Staraptor

Debuts in Two Degrees of Separation! Caught at Route 202 Evolves in A Staravia is Born! DP118 Gender Male Ability Unknown Current location With Ash

→ → This Pokémon spent 11 episodes as Starly and 105 episodes as Staravia.

Voice actor Japanese English As Starly Kiyotaka Furushima Sarah Natochenny As Staravia Kiyotaka Furushima Sarah Natochenny As Staraptor Katsuyuki Konishi Has not yet appeared

Ash's Staraptor (Japanese: サトシのムクホーク Satoshi's Mukuhawk) is the first Pokémon that Ash Ketchum caught in the Sinnoh region. Its Japanese voice actor is Katsuyuki Konishi. As a Starly and Staravia, it was voiced by Kiyotaka Furushima in Japanese and Sarah Natochenny in English.

History

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As a Starly

Ash caught it as a Starly in Two Degrees of Separation while searching for Pikachu, who was missing due to the antics of Team Rocket. Aipom was swinging through the trees and accidentally bumped into Starly, so the two Pokémon battled. Weakened by Aipom, Starly was captured and immediately used in the search for Pikachu. In When Pokémon Worlds Collide, Starly had its first battle against another Starly belonging to Paul and lost.

In A Staravia is Born, Starly evolved into a Staravia during a battle with Team Rocket. Immediately after its evolution Staravia had perfectly learned Aerial Ace. Evolving has also allowed it to grow much stronger and become very useful in searches.

Staravia was the only one of Ash's Pokémon who didn't participate in Ash's first Sinnoh Gym battle against Roark; however, Staravia helped out in Ash's second Sinnoh Gym battle, defeating Gardenia's Cherubi. After seeing Reggie's Staraptor use the powerful Brave Bird attack, Ash was inspired to teach it to Staravia. In the third Sinnoh Gym battle, Staravia defeated Maylene's Machoke and Meditite, as well as successfully mastering Brave Bird.

In DP118, a PokéRinger competition was held in Wind Town where Ash entered and won with Staravia, who evolved into a Staraptor in the process. Shortly after its evolution, Staraptor learned Close Combat and defeated Paul's Honchkrow, earning Ash his first victory over Paul.

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As a Staravia

Moves used

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Staraptor using Close Combat

• Wing Attack
• Whirlwind/Gust
• Quick Attack
• Aerial Ace
• Brave Bird
• Close Combat

Moves that have been used most recently are italicized.

Trivia

• Despite the fact Ash's Staraptor and other members of his evolution family know Gust, it is impossible for Starly, Staravia, or Staraptor to learn it in the games. This error was also present in the Japanese version. The dub changed it to Whirlwind in Starly's initial appearance, but left it as Gust until One Big Happiny Family, when it was dubbed as Whirlwind again, and has been since.
• For Shapes of Things to Come, Professor Oak's lecture is about Ash's Staravia. He writes this Pokémon senryū about it: ムックルが　ムクムクしんか　ムクバード Mukkuru mukumuku-evolved; Mukubird
• In A Jumping Rocket Ship, it fell in love with a Staravia doll that was designed to appear female. It is noteworthy that Staravia's "dot" is noticeably larger than that of the doll's.
• Though Staraptor is confirmed to be male, the Czech dub refers to it as female.
• Upon evolution into Staravia, it was the 40th Pokémon species Ash has owned, counting Larvitar, Haunter, and Raticate.
• Staraptor's method of evolving to its final stage is similar to Ash's Swellow, through a PokéRinger competition.
  • The evolution is also similar to that of Ash's Grotle, having evolved against Paul's Honchkrow.
• Upon its final evolution, Staraptor became the 50th Pokémon that Ash has obtained, including evolutions and counting Seaking, Beedrill, Haunter and Raticate, even though Haunter was not officially his, Beedrill was given away nearly immediately, and Seaking was released as part of contest rules.
• Staravia took the most amount of episodes so far to evolve to a certain stage in the Sinnoh series, taking 105 episodes to evolve from Staravia to Staraptor.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Starly, Staravia, and Staraptor.

External links

• Mukuhawk's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Ash's Pokémon
On hand:	Pikachu
Traveling with:	Rotom Phone
At Oak's/In rotation:	Pidgeot	Bulbasaur	Charizard	Kingler	Muk	Tauros (×30)
	Snorlax	Heracross	Bayleef	Quilava	Totodile	Noctowl
	Donphan	Swellow	Sceptile	Corphish	Torkoal	Glalie
	Staraptor	Torterra	Infernape	Buizel	Gliscor	Gible
	Unfezant	Oshawott	Pignite	Snivy	Scraggy	Leavanny
	Palpitoad	Boldore	Krookodile	Talonflame	Hawlucha	Noivern
	Dragonite	Gengar	Lucario	Sirfetch'd	Dracovish
With Kukui/In rotation:	Rowlet	Lycanroc	Incineroar	Melmetal
At home:	Mr. Mime
In training:	Squirtle	Primeape
Released:	Butterfree	Lapras	Larvitar	Greninja	Goodra	Nebby
	Naganadel
Temporarily owned:	Seaking	Buzzwole	Stakataka	Pheromosa	Rowlet
Traded away:	Raticate	Aipom
Given away:	Beedrill
Traveled with:	Haunter	Azelf	Meowth	Meloetta	Rotom Pokédex	Latias
The Power of Us only:	Ekans	Sentret
EToP only:	Fearow	Oddish	Mankey	Slowpoke
Newspaper Strip only:	Starmie	Clefairy
For a list of Pokémon Ash has temporarily owned, used, or commanded, see here