Goh's Heracross

Kricketina Kylie's Heracross redirects here. For the other Heracross belonging to Kricketina Kylie, see Kricketina Kylie → Heracross.

Goh's Heracross ゴウのヘラクロス Go's Heracros

Goh's Heracross

Debuts in Trade, Borrow, and Steal! Caught at Unknown Gender Male Ability Unknown Traded in Trade, Borrow, and Steal! Original Trainer Kricketina Kylie Traded for Goh's second Pinsir Current location In rotation

This Pokémon is fully evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Heracross Yūji Ueda

Goh's Heracross (Japanese: ゴウのヘラクロス Go's Heracros) is the twenty-eighth Pokémon that Goh obtained in the Kanto region, and his fifty-seventh overall.

History

With Kricketina Kylie

Heracross and Kricketina Kylie

Heracross was Kricketina Kylie's first known Pokémon. In Trade, Borrow, and Steal!, Heracross was used to battle Ash in the World Coronation Series, where he went up against Pikachu. Despite a good fight and using powerful moves, Heracross was defeated.

Shortly thereafter, Kricketina took Heracross to the Pokémon Center to recover. There, he showed himself off to the people in the place. When Kricketina saw that Goh had a Pinsir, she offered Heracross in exchange for it, since it was a rare Pokémon in her home region.

Later, Heracross assisted Kricketina Kylie, Goh, and Ash in searching for a Pinsir. During this search, Heracross helped cleared the way in the forest. After it threw a tree away, Kricketina used Heracross to defeat a wild Ekans. The group then decided to cook and use the food to try to attract something close to them. To this end, Heracross and Kricketina started cooking a portion of "Kricketina Treats" to spread in the forest.

The Kricketina Treats ended up catching the attention of Team Rocket, who was days without food, and they decided to capture the group's Pokémon. Despite this, they only captured Ash, Goh's Sobble, and Kricketina while leaving Goh and Heracross. This forced the two to battle a Drapion and a Scolipede that Jessie and James received from the Rocket Prize Master, alongside Meowth.

This battle ended up catching the attention of Goh's Pinsir, who started to develop feelings for Heracross. Eventually, Heracross and Goh managed to defeat Team Rocket and send them blasting off. Afterwards, Goh caught a Pinsir who was attracted to Kricketina Treats. With his first Pinsir in love with Heracross, Goh agreed to trade his newly caught Pinsir for Heracross.

With Goh

Heracross and Goh

In Getting More Than You Battled For!, during a search for Mew, Goh used Heracross to save Ash from sinking in a swamp. Due to his enormous strength, he ended up throwing Ash into the air, catching him shortly after.

In JN094, the arrival of a Lilligant with a sweet smell makes Heracross pay more attention to her than to Pinsir, which makes Pinsir jealous of this relationship. During an attack by Team Rocket on the Celadon Gym, Goh uses Heracross against a Lurantis but is defeated. At the moment when the Pokémon used by Team Rocket are going to launch the final attack, Pinsir places herself in front of Heracross, protecting him, making the two Pokémon end up reconciling.

In JN107, Heracross was still seen suffering the effects of Lilligant's ability, which aroused jealousy in Pinsir. To resolve this, Yamper had Panpour throw a Water Gun move at Heracross' face, which temporarily fixed the problem until Alcremie passed in place.

Personality and characteristics

Heracross and Pinsir

Heracross infatuated by Lilligant's scent

Heracross is a powerful battler. During his battle against Ash's Pikachu, he was able to use powerful moves against his opponent and was able to easily defeat Meowth and Jessie's Wobbuffet. When Goh's Pinsir saw Heracross in action, it fell in love with Heracross, and the two have been seen spending a lot of time with each other at the Cerise Laboratory. Their relationship evolved to the point that Heracross was a kind of "bodyguard" to Pinsir, as seen in Not Too Close for Comfort!, where Heracross rushed to throw Drizzile away after it started Pinsir. Despite their affection for each other, Heracross is easily distracted by pleasant scents, most notably from Lilligant. This often results in Pinsir getting jealous and Heracross trying to apologize once he snaps out of it.

Heracross is also quite sociable, accepting Goh's commands even when he was not his Trainer yet or showing off to people who were at the Pokémon Center. Heracross is also an excellent cook, helping Kricketina Kylie prepare food meant to attract Bug-type Pokémon around the forest.

During his time at Laboratory, Heracross enjoys training with some of Goh's Pokémon, such as Darmanitan.

Moves used

Using Megahorn	Move First Used In Arm Thrust Trade, Borrow, and Steal! Fury Attack Trade, Borrow, and Steal! Megahorn Trade, Borrow, and Steal! Aerial Ace Trade, Borrow, and Steal!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Artwork

Artwork from "After the story"

Trivia

• Heracross is Goh's first Fighting-type Pokémon.
• Heracross is the first Pokémon Goh obtained through a method other than catching.
• Heracross is the first of Goh's Pokémon to have had a Trainer before him.

Related articles

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

References

Goh's Pokémon
On hand:	Cinderace	Inteleon	Grookey
Traveling with:	Rotom Phone
With Professor Cerise:	Caterpie	Venomoth	Butterfree	Pinsir	Beedrill	Scizor
	Taillow	Mantyke	Misdreavus	Dewgong	Greedent	Darmanitan
	Golurk	Cubone	Grimer	Farfetch'd	Magikarp (giant)	Heracross
	Raichu	Trapinch	Flygon	Pyukumuku	Aerodactyl	Boldore
	Absol	Panpour	Frogadier
Roaming the world:	Suicune
Released:	Floette	Ninetales	Cyndaquil
Traded away:	Second Pinsir
Given away:	Eternatus	Dugtrio
Status unknown:	Kingdra
Temporary:	Pikachu	Sunflora
For a detailed list of Pokémon currently owned by Goh, see here