Ash's Larvitar

Ash's Larvitar サトシのヨーギラス Satoshi's Yogiras

File:Ash larvitar.jpg Ash's Larvitar

Egg obtained in Lapras of Luxury Hatches in Hatch Me If You Can! Hatched at Route 46 Mt. Silver Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Released in Mother of All Battles! Current location Unknown

→ This Pokémon spent 1 episode in its Egg.

Voice actor Japanese English As Larvitar Miyako Itō Tara Jayne

Ash's Larvitar (Japanese: サトシのヨーギラス Satoshi's Yogiras) is a Pokémon owned by Ash briefly during the Master Quest season of the anime. Its Japanese voice actress is Miyako Itō and its English voice actress is Tara Jayne. Like Haunter, some say Ash did not "catch" this Pokémon (and therefore did not officially own it), but he at least befriended it. He also did use it to battle once, in Address Unown.

File:Larvitar Egg.jpg

In its egg

Ash received an egg that he was supposed to deliver to Professor Elm in Johto. It hatched into Larvitar while Ash had it and became very close to Ash and his Pikachu, but Hardened if anybody else approached it.

Its life in the egg was the reason it was traumatized and mistrustful. This was revealed in the episode Address Unown: when Ash and friends are teleported to another dimension, they eventually find an egg with a dark crystal-like thorn in it. They are shown a flashback, hear a child's voice crying that he was scared and calling for his mother, then figured out that it was Larvitar's voice. Poachers had kidnapped it in its egg and fired at its mother several times, leaving a scar on her body. The thorns start to cover everything while Ash calls for Larvitar. Once the three manage to get through to Larvitar, the thorns — and its fear of them — disappear. They then return to the real world.

The poachers are stopped at Mt. Silver in the episode Mother of All Battles! and Larvitar is reunited with its mother Tyranitar.

Moves used

Using	Move	First Used In
	Screech	Hatch Me If You Can
	Hidden Power	Hatch Me If You Can
	Harden x	Hatch Me If You Can
	Bite	Hatch Me If You Can
	Dig	Hatch Me If You Can
An x shows that the move cannot be legitimately known by this Pokémon in the games.
Moves used recently are in bold unless all moves all fit this case.

Trivia

• Despite not officialy being his, Larvitar appeared in the Spurt! opening, along with its mother.
• Despite its weight (158.7 lbs, or 71.98 Kg according to the Pokédex), it was seen being carried by Ash on his bag. This is a possible example of anime physics.
• Throughout its duration on the show, Larvitar had continually used Harden whenever it was scared, the only problem being that Larvitar can't learn Harden in the games.
• Out of all of the on-screen hatchings, Larvitar took the shortest amount of time after it was obtained by Ash.
• Larvitar was the only Template:Type2 that Ash owned, despite the fact that he did not actually capture it. Since he was entrusted with its egg, hatched it, cared for it, and used it to battle, it is widely considered to have belonged to him until it was released.

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

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