James's Carnivine

James's Carnivine コジロウのマスキッパ Kojiro's Muskippa

James's Carnivine

Debuts in Two Degrees of Separation Caught at Great Marsh Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location At Team Rocket headquarters

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Carnivine Daisuke Sakaguchi Billy Beach

James's Carnivine (Japanese: コジロウのマスキッパ Kojiro's Muskippa) was the only Pokémon that James obtained in the Sinnoh region.

History

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Carnivine showing affection

James originally caught Carnivine in the Great Marsh as a boy, as mentioned in a flashback in Cream of the Croagunk Crop!. It made its debut in Two Degrees of Separation. In this episode, Team Rocket went to James's parents' vacation home in Sinnoh and James found Carnivine's Poké Ball among a collection of bottlecaps, but left quickly after being told Jessiebelle was on her way. He decided to bring Carnivine with him. Carnivine continues the series' running gag of James's Template:Type2 Pokémon showing affection for him by hurting him whenever they are released from their balls. This affection is probably due to the fact that James and Carnivine shared a close bond when James was a child.

Since James found it, Carnivine has taken Cacnea's place as his main battling Pokémon.

In Jessilina's Sinnoh Contest debut, Carnivine was used in both Appeal and Battle rounds. In the Appeal Round, Carnivine used Bullet Seed on a lollipop that Jessie threw and amazed the crowd by biting Jessie's head. In the Battle round, it is seen defeating a Rhydon for Jessie, showing that it is a strong battler, and thanks to it, Jessie reached the final stage. However, it lost against Zoey's Glameow.

In Another One Gabites the Dust!, Jessie used Carnivine in the Chocovine Contest Battle Rounds, where it got to the semi-finals, losing to Ursula's Gabite.

Carnivine was also used in Dressed for Jess Success! to compete in the Lilypad Contest Battle Rounds. Together with James, who was the one disguised as Jessilina at that time, they defeated Dawn and her Mamoswine in the semifinals and eventually won the ribbon.

Carnivine was used by Jessilina multiple times in the Sinnoh Grand Festival, with the final one ending in her defeat to Dawn.

Following the Team Rocket trio's journey in Sinnoh, James was forced to leave Carnivine at Team Rocket's headquarters as it is not a Pokémon native to the Isshu region and would seem suspicious.

Moves used

File:Carnivine Bullet Seed.png Using Bullet Seed	Move First Used In Bite Dawn of a New Era! Bullet Seed † Gettin' Twiggy With It! Bind Arrival of a Rival! Vine Whip Saving the World From Ruins!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Trivia

• For Settling a Not-So-Old Score, Professor Oak's lecture is about James's Carnivine. He writes this Pokémon senryū about it: マスキッパ　きょうもはらぺこ　すきっぱら Muskippa is also starving today: empty stomach.
• Carnivine is the third Pokémon that James has owned that shows its affection for him at the same time hurting him in the process. The first one was Victreebel, followed by Cacnea.
  • All of them also happen to be Template:Type2s.
• Carnivine is the first of Jessie and James's Pokémon (including Meowth) to learn a new move while under their ownership. James's Cacnea learned a new move, Drain Punch, while training under Gardenia.
• In the Latin American Spanish dub it was given a nickname (Carnavalín) for comical purposes, like Victreebel. James usually uses the nickname, but he has also called it Carnivine on occasion.
• This is the second Pokémon of James' ownership that is based off of a real world carnivorous plant.

Related articles

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

External links

• Muskippa's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Team Rocket's Pokémon
Travel with:	Meowth	Rotom Phone
	Jessie			James
On hand:	Wobbuffet	Seviper	Yanmega	Mime Jr.	Carnivine	Yamask
	Woobat	Frillish	Gourgeist	Amoonguss	Inkay	Morpeko
In training:				Cacnea
At home:				Growlie	Chimecho
Released:	Arbok	Dustox	Mimikyu	Weezing	Gyarados	Mareanie
Traded away:	Lickitung			Victreebel
Lived with (all three):	Bewear	Stufful
Worked with (all three):	Delibird	Pelipper
Temporarily owned:	Porygon Zero	Shellder	Magikarp	Second Victreebel	Hoppip
	Mawile
Befriended:	Blissey
Status unknown:	Starmie			Pidgey	Numel
For a list of other Pokémon Team Rocket has commanded, see here and here

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