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Ash's Charizard
サトシのリザードン Satoshi's Lizardon
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Charizard helping to rebuild a playground.
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Ash's Charizard (Japanese: サトシのリザードン Satoshi's Lizardon) was the fifth Pokémon acquired by Ash Ketchum in the Kanto region. His voice actor in both Japanese and English is Shin'ichirō Miki. In English, Michael Haigney was the voice of him as a Charmander and Eric Stuart was his voice as a Charmeleon.
Charizard was originally obtained as a Charmander in Charmander the Stray Pokémon. The Charmander was abandoned by Damian, and Ash and his friends found and nurtured him back to health. Charmander then chose to join Ash. He was immediately one of Ash's most used Pokémon.
Charmander evolved into Charmeleon in March of the Exeggutor Squad and quickly lost his loyalty to Ash. A few episodes down the line, he evolved again into Charizard in Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon. From the time of his becoming Charmeleon to the Orange Islands episode Charizard Chills, Charizard refused to obey Ash. After Charizard Chills, however, he became one of Ash's most reliable Pokémon, considered by many to be his strongest, even stronger than Pikachu. Charizard's return to Ash's side is due to being frozen by a powerful Poliwrath; Ash stayed up all night trying to help him.
In Charizard's Burning Ambition, Ash left his Charizard in the Charicific Valley with Liza to train become more powerful. While there, he has taken the role of bodyguard for Lisa's Charizard, Charla, and the two have struck up a romantic relationship. The two Charizard occasionally visit the Dragon's Valley in Blackthorn City, one such visit coincidentally being when Ash was there for his final Johto gym battle.
Charizard can be called upon at any time and has been used in major battles including the series' first double battle and more recently in The Symbol Life, where he took on Noland's Articuno at the Battle Factory and won.
Charizard also battled and lost against Brandon's Dusclops. He learned Steel Wing in the time between the battle against Articuno and the battle against Dusclops.
Moves used
Trivia
- Out of all of Ash's Pokémon, Charizard has used the most moves (14) followed by Ash's Snorlax (10), Ash's Pikachu (9) and Ash's Chimchar (8).
- Since Charizard was technically originally owned by Damian, this might explain why he evolved so quickly and would not obey Ash.
- Paul's Chimchar was later in a similar situation to Charmander. Likewise, the original trainer released it and it went with Ash.
- Because of his capture of Chimchar, Ash now has owned each Fire-type starter whose English name begins with a C and whose Japanese name begins with a ヒ hi: Charmander, Cyndaquil, and Chimchar. Incidentally, Charmander and Chimchar were either abused or abandoned by their former trainers, while Cyndaquil narrowly avoided being captured by a potentially abusive trainer.
- This wasn't Ash's first Pokémon to disobey him. The first two were Pikachu and Primeape.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Charmander, Charmeleon, and Charizard.
