Dawn's Mamoswine
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Dawn's Mamoswine (Japanese: ヒカリのマンムー Hikari's Mammoo) was the fourth Pokémon captured by Dawn in the anime, and her sixth Pokémon in all.
History
Mamoswine's debut was in Hungry for the Good Life! as a stray and hungry Swinub. It appeared at Mr. Backlot's mansion from a nearby forest and always came over for something to eat. It caused trouble by devouring all of Dawn's Poffins showing a liking to them, but caused much displeasure to Dawn's other Pokémon. However, after helping take down Team Rocket and rescue the other Pokémon, Dawn decided she wanted Swinub to go with her. It had a very cheerful, happy personality and would often jump up and down in excitement.
While still a Swinub, it was not used very much due to its relative lack of battling and contest experience. In Battling The Generation Gap!, Swinub watched its first Contest when it saw Dawn, Buneary and Ambipom work together to win the Celestic Town Contest. Swinub evolved into Piloswine in Sleepless In Pre-Battle! in a battle against Team Rocket. After evolving Piloswine was initially still very affectionate towards Dawn, as seen in Get Your Rotom Running! where it tackled her to the ground out of affection. This affection would be short lived, however.
Its personality drastically changed in A Breed Stampede!. Just two episodes after evolving, Piloswine started to develop an indifference towards Dawn and became prone to disobedience. Knowing numerous powerful attacks, Piloswine felt much stronger and more confident than it did as a Swinub. It felt that it wasn't weak and was very powerful. On numerous occasions it tried to attack Dawn or her Pokémon. It attacked Piplup for touching its fur presumptuously, and tried to attack Dawn with Ice Shard, instead freezing half the body of Grotle who tried to stop it from rampaging. Dawn agreed to have a battle with her Piloswine and Grotle. However, it ignored Dawn's commands and used AncientPower instead.
It later evolved again into Mamoswine after being attacked by Team Rocket. Unfortunately, it has kept its bad behavior from when it was a Piloswine. Despite this, Dawn is still eager to train Mamoswine well.
In battle, Mamoswine had shown to be incredibly powerful thanks to its large and powerful physique. It was shown to take Piplup's BubbleBeam, Whirlpool and Peck in quick succession with no resistance at all as well as knocking it out for the third time in A Breed Stampede!.
Mamoswine wasn't interested to watch Dawn in contests initially. Instead, it just slept with a pompom on its head. Later on, during Dawn's battle with Ursula in Another One Gabites the Dust!, Mamoswine sparked an interest after seeing Dawn and Pachirisu use Pachirisu's new move to the fullest.
In Trials and Adulations!, Mamoswine was injured during a battle against a wild Aggron. Dawn and her Pokémon used the first aid skills taught to her by Brock in Doc Brock! to help Mamoswine recover, and later attempted to protect Mamoswine against Team Rocket. As a result, Mamoswine gained respect for Dawn and under her instructions, it was able to defeat Aggron. From then on, Mamoswine still has a tiny bit of a rebellious attitude, but when Dawn is in danger it does not hesitate to help her.
In Old Rivals, New Tricks, although it pretended not to be interested, Mamoswine helped Ambipom train for the upcoming Pokémon Ping Pong Tournament. Later during the contest it tried to sleep instead of cheerleading, as usual. Although when Ambipom started battling Kenny's Prinplup, it started to watch and eventually got completely drawn into the excitement with wide eyes.
In Promoting Healthy Tangrowth!, Dawn decided to train the Twin Tusk Pokémon for her upcoming Contest. All was going well until Mamoswine causes an accident and runs off into a jungle, angry and embarrassed, causing Dawn to go after it. A wild Tangrowth appears and attacks Mamoswine, defeating it with Absorb. Team Rocket later appears to cause havoc, and Mamoswine successfully learns Hidden Power in the process of attacking Team Rocket.
In Dressed for Jess Success!, Dawn used Mamoswine in its first contest during the battle round of the Lilypad Contest. Earlier in the episode, Dawn taught it a trick that utilizes swallowing Ice Shard to create ice spikes on its back, inspired by Grotle swallowing its own Energy Ball. Unfortunately however, during the Contest battle against Carnivine, it lost its temper and began rampaging out of control, resulting in a loss. However, Mamoswine was sadden by the loss, it was eager to begin training again.
In Double-Time Battle Training!, Mamoswine was training to find its contest partner. It failed to sync with both Piplup and Pachirisu. It finally found its partner after it worked well with Dawn's Cyndaquil after a successful Flame-Ice. Though the new partners were defeated during their practice battle against Zoey, after Zoey's Kirlia used Psychic to control her Leafeon's Magical Leaf.
In Playing the Performance Encore!, Mamoswine and Cyndaquil were used for the battle round of the Daybreak Contest. The Flame-Ice combination was used by Dawn in the battle against her first foe's Houndoom and Mightyena, but it failed due to the ice melting. In the battle with Ursula, Dawn started using both of Mamoswine and Cyndaquil's capabilities. Mamoswine swallowed Ice Shard which made the fur on Mamoswine's back and head freeze into large spears of ice which cause extra damage when Take Down is used. It was also used with the double contest battle against Ursula's Minun and Plusle when Cyndaquil used Swift to surround Mamoswine. Cyndaquil then turned the flame on its back on as the two charged for Ursula's Plusle and Minun. Despite Ursula losing some points, the move failed to hit the two Pokémon. After managing to work together to both attack and defend against Ursula's Pokémon's attacks, as well as mastering the Flame-Ice combo, Dawn managed to win the battle, earning her fifth ribbon.
In Opposites Interact!, Mamoswine was used alongside Pachirisu in the first battle round of the Grand Festival against Gabite and Flareon. Despite a good start, Mamoswine and Pachirisu soon found themselves struggling and Mamoswine found itself overpowered by Flareon's Template:Type2 moves as well as a powerful Scary Face and Shadow Ball. However Pachirisu and Mamoswine were able to pull off Dawn's newest improvised move, Ice Chandelier, despite Pachirisu having originally practiced with Buneary. As a result, both Gabite and Flareon were defeated.
Mamoswine's final appearance in the series came in Familiarity Breeds Strategy!, where it was briefly seen helping Ash's Gliscor train its Giga Impact.
Moves used
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Moves improvised
- Ice Armour: By swallowing its own Ice Shard, Mamoswine can create ice spikes on its back.
- Flame Ice is a combination which was created by Mamoswine and Cyndaquil when they were training with Dawn in Double-Time Battle Training!. It involves Cyndaquil being trapped by Mamoswine's Ice Shard while utilizing Flame Wheel. It was perfected in the battle against Ursula in Playing the Performance Encore!.
- Quadruple Combination was first used in a battle with Ursula in Playing the Performance Encore! Mamoswine uses the Swallowing Ice Shard Technique to create the Ice Armour. Cyndaquil then uses Swift in a Circle around Mamoswine. Then Cyndaquil makes the flame on it's back split into two. Mamoswine then uses Take Down while Cyndaquil is on the top part of the Ice Armour.
- Ice Chandelier was used first used with Mamoswine in Opposites Interact!, once again against Ursula. It involves Mamoswine using Ice Shard to trap Pachirisu in a ball of ice, after which it uses Discharge. Using AncientPower on it allows it to float while still under Pachirisu's control while Hidden Power adds power to the combination.
Trivia
- Sleepless In Pre-Battle, the episode in which Swinub evolves into Piloswine, first aired in Japan in the same week that Hungry For the Good Life!, the episode in which Swinub is captured, first aired in the United States. The same thing happened to Ash's Gliscor and Gligar.
- Mamoswine, as a Swinub, was the first capture Dawn made since Buizel, exactly 50 episodes before. It is also her only capture in which she didn't battle the Pokémon twice, or even at all.
- Mamoswine, as a Swinub, has some similarities with May's Munchlax: Mamoswine loves to eat mass quantities of Poffin; likewise, May's Munchlax enjoys mass quantities of Pokéblock (the Generation III counterpart of the Poffin).
- Mamoswine is similar to Ash's Charizard in several aspects. Both Pokémon began disobeying their respective trainers after evolution, only to begin following orders after each facing another Pokémon who severely injured them. However, Mamoswine took at least 13 episodes (DP106-DP119) to start obeying Dawn, while Charizard, not counting it's time as a Charmeleon, took a full 59 episodes (EP046-EP105) to start obeying Ash once again. It was also captured in an episode featuring a character sharing an English voice actress with Liza, whom Ash left Charizard with.
- Mamoswine is Dawn's second evolved Pokémon, the first being Ambipom. Both are final forms of a Generation II evolution family. Coincidentally, both need to know a specific move to evolve.
- Mamoswine is the only Pokémon in the Diamond & Pearl series to appear evolved in an opening prior to its actual evolution being shown.
- Both of Mamoswine's evolutions happened during a battle with Team Rocket.
- Mamoswine is similar to Ash's Gliscor in a couple of ways. Both of them were their Trainer's fourth capture in Sinnoh, both are part of a Generation II evolution family and are both Ground types. They also sat out of exactly three Contests/Gym battles before finally participating.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Swinub, Piloswine, and Mamoswine.
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