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Ash's Primeape
サトシのオコリザル Satoshi's Okorizaru
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Ash's Primeape
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Training with Anthony
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Japanese
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English
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Hiroshi Ōtake
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| As Primeape
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Hiroshi Ōtake
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Hiroshi Ōtake
Michael Haigney
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Ash's Primeape (Japanese: サトシのオコリザル Satoshi's Okorizaru) was the eighth Pokémon caught by Ash Ketchum during his travels through Kanto. Its voice actor in both English and Japanese is 大竹宏 Hiroshi Ōtake; however, Michael Haigney provided its English voice in The Punchy Pokémon.
History
Ash caught Primeape on Route 7 in the episode Primeape Goes Bananas. On the road to Celadon City, Ash learned that Gary had already captured 30 Pokémon. Upon hearing this, Ash aspired to capture more for himself.
Soon afterwards, a friendly wild Mankey ate some of Brock's food. Ash took this opportunity to try to capture the little Pokémon, but the Poké Ball failed, and Mankey was angered. It chased the group, beat up Ash, and stole Ash's hat. Mankey gleefully teased Ash as the young trainer fumed about having his beloved cap stolen.
Team Rocket took this opportunity to try to capture Pikachu. Mankey came up to Team Rocket, then James kicked it out of sight. The angry Pig Monkey evolved into Primeape, punched Jessie in the face sending her face-first into a rock, then viciously attacked the Team Rocket members as well as Jessie again. After it beat up Brock, chased Ash and Misty down Route 7 and followed Ash into one of Team Rocket's pitfalls, Ash made several attempts to capture the berserking Primeape, and eventually, his Charmander was finally able to defeat it. Ash captured it and unleashed it upon Team Rocket, where it brutalized them and sent them blasting off into a nest full of wild Primeape.
In The Punchy Pokémon, after leaving Celadon City, Ash and his friends met a man named Anthony who was training to win the P1 Grand Prix, a tournament for Template:Type2 Pokémon. Anthony's daughter, Rebecca, wanted him to stop spending so much time away from home training. Brock and Ash volunteered to enter the tournament to discourage Anthony. Ash entered Primeape.
In the first match, Ash saved Primeape from a nasty fall, which caused the usually angry Pokémon to become closer to Ash. Primeape eventually won the tournament. Anthony asked to train Primeape, so Ash gave it to him.
Primeape was only around for a few of episodes, but it had a lot of personality. It was very mischievous, mercilessly vicious, extremely violent, almost always out of control, had a very short fuse and was prone to an explosive rage. This notably caused Ash to audibly reconsider using Primeape in a gym battle against Erika. Despite this, it was given away after only five episodes and only appeared in the episode it was caught and the episode it was given away in. But under the explosively violent personality, it had a softer side, which allowed it to bond with Ash.
Moves used
Trivia
- This was the first Pokémon that took Ash's hat.
- Primeape shares some similarities with another of Ash's primate Pokémon, Aipom.
- Both evolved while not owned by him - Primeape in the wild and Ambipom with Dawn.
- Both of these Pokémon have annoyed Ash by stealing his hat.
- Both were also given to another Trainer for training, Primeape to Anthony and Ambipom to O.
- This is Ash's second Pokémon that refused to obey him. The first was Pikachu and the third would eventually be Charizard, who, ironically, was the Pokémon that defeated Primeape when Ash captured it.
- Primeape was the first Template:Type2 Pokémon caught by Ash, as well as the only pure Fighting-type owned by a main character so far in the anime.
- Primeape is the only one of Ash's Pokémon that evolved prior to its capture in the same episode.
- During Pokémon Sunday of June 27th, 2010, presenter Shokotan the chosen in her ideal team for Ash.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Mankey and Primeape.
