Trip

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Trip
シューティー Shooty
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Trip
Gender Male
Eye color Pale gray
Hair color Dirty blond
Hometown Nuvema Town
Region Unova
Trainer class Trainer
Anime debut In The Shadow of Zekrom!
English voice actor Jamie McGonnigal
Japanese voice actor Akeno Watanabe

Trip (Japanese: シューティー Shooty) is a Pokémon Trainer from the Unova region. He is Ash's first and main Best Wishes series rival.

History

Younger Trip

As a young child, Trip became inspired to be a Pokémon Trainer after watching Alder battle. He later met the Champion, who would let him pet and feed the Bouffalant Alder was battling with. This experience inspired him to work hard and train to become Champion. As such, Trip idolizes Alder and has great respect for him.

Trip was introduced in In The Shadow of Zekrom! as a beginning Trainer ready to choose his first Pokémon. After meeting with Professor Juniper, he chose Snivy as his new partner. Shortly after obtaining it, he challenged Ash Ketchum to a Pokémon battle. He had much interest in battling Pikachu, a species that is foreign in his region. Because Pikachu could not use any Electric-type moves at the time, Trip easily defeated Ash.

Trip appeared again at a Battle Club in A Rival Battle for Club Champ!, where he and Ash had a 5-on-5 battle, although Trip initially offered to have a Full Battle with Ash. His Tranquill defeated Ash's Oshawott and Tepig in just two hits with its Super Luck-boosted Aerial Ace, but lost to Ash's Pikachu. Pikachu was defeated by Servine again. Ash's Snivy defeated Trip's Servine by using Attract. Trip's Frillish later defeated Pidove and Snivy, causing Ash to lose the battle. Afterwards, Trip called Pikachu and Snivy "okay", but called the rest of Ash's team a joke.

Trip reappeared in A Venipede Stampede!, where he was training in Castelia City when a swarm of Venipede suddenly attacked. He used his Lampent to try to fight them off, but Ash yelled at him for doing so, saying that he was only making things worse. Trip insulted him, but was interrupted by Burgh, who agreed with Ash. Later, Trip went after the leader of the Venipede swarm and ordered Lampent to hit it with Shadow Ball, but Ash blocked the attack. Again, Burgh told him that he was going about it the wrong way, so he stopped. Trip then used Tranquill to help coax out the remaining Venipede and lead them safely out of the city.

Trip's next appearance was in Ash and Trip's Third Battle!, along with his Vanillite and Timburr, where he battled Ash. The battle ended in a tie after Servine defeated Snivy, Vanillite tied with Tepig and Oshawott defeated Timburr.

Trip appeared again in Reunion Battles In Nimbasa!, where he participated in a tournament held by Nimbasa Town's Don George. He was chosen to battle against Cilan in the first match up. In the next episode, he used his Gurdurr to battle against Cilan's Dwebble. Despite putting up a good fight, Gurdurr was defeated and Trip was knocked out of the competition. After his Pokémon healed at the Pokémon Center that night, he left Nimbasa Town believing that there was no point to staying there any longer.

Trip reappeared in Ash Versus the Champion! where he revealed he had already obtained five Badges. During that time he also got to reunite with Alder who couldn't remember him. Seeing how much Alder loafed about while battling Ash, Trip's opinion of him slightly changed.

Trip reappeared in The Clubsplosion Begins!, where he registered himself to compete in the Clubsplosion. He planned to compete with his newly-evolved Conkeldurr and his opponent in the first round was revealed to be Bianca who he considered to be just practice. He battled her and her Emboar in Search for the Clubultimate!. Though he and Conkeldurr put up a strong fight, he lost to her in the next episode. Like he did after his loss in the Club Battle, he left Ambiga Town that night rather than staying and watching the rest of the tournament.

He appeared again in BW090 in order to participate in the Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup. His goal was to win and get the chance to battle Alder. He was one of the first battlers in the tournament along with his first round opponent, Burgundy. Using his Serperior, which had since evolved from Servine, he was able to defeat her quickly and advanced to the second round.

Character

Trip's camera

Trip has a teal-colored digital camera, with which he takes photos for illustrating his journey. He also has an Xtransceiver so that he can keep in touch with Battle Clubs. Overall, he is a well-reserved individual who tends to keep his feelings to himself. But he expressed his emotions like Ash does now when he was younger. His strategy is all about planning ahead and completing the basics of Pokémon training. Compared to the other rivals of the Unova region, Trip is rather distant and prefers not to interact with them outside of battle.

Trip tends to think very little of the Kanto region—which he refers to as "the boonies"—and anyone from there. He thinks of Ash as a hillbilly who needs to go back to the basics of Pokémon training. However, he will help him out once in a while, as seen when he informed Ash that Oshawott's Aqua Jet was uncontrollable because he had his eyes closed.

Despite having just started out as a Trainer, Trip already implements many strategies in his battling. He has defeated Ash two times that they have battled and tied in the third, despite Ash being a much more experienced Trainer. However, he is less forgiving than Ash and takes losses harder. An instance of this is, when he lost to Cilan, he took a photo of Cilan and Dwebble. When Cilan asked him why he was doing that, Trip replied that he was recording this moment so that he would remember his frustration. Trip also actively insults and is at most as mature as Ash, as shown when he elbowed Ash (and Ash did the same) for the attention of Champion Alder.

Pokémon

This listing is of Trip's known Pokémon in the anime:

Snivy → Servine → Serperior
Trip's Serperior
Debut In The Shadow of Zekrom!
Voice actors
Japanese Kiyotaka Furushima
English Jason Griffith
Main article: Trip's Serperior

Serperior is Trip's starter Pokémon, given to him by Professor Juniper when he was a Snivy. He was used to battle Ash in The Shadow of Zekrom!.

He was revealed to have evolved into a Servine before Triple Leaders, Team Threats!. This was revealed to Ash in A Rival Battle for Club Champ!.

He was revealed to have evolved into a Serperior before BW090.

Tranquill
Trip's Tranquill
Debut A Rival Battle for Club Champ!
Voice actors
Japanese Unshō Ishizuka
English Erica Schroeder

Tranquill is the second Pokémon that Trip was revealed to have. It first appeared in A Rival Battle for Club Champ! where Trip used it to battle Ash's Oshawott, Tepig and Pikachu. It was shown to be powerful, as its Super Luck Ability allowed it to take down both Oshawott and Tepig with two hits. It defeated the former two, before losing to Pikachu.

It was later used in A Venipede Stampede! to rescue Ash's Pidove from a Venipede's Sludge Bomb attack and help round up the other Centipede Pokémon.

Tranquill's known moves are Aerial Ace, Double Team, Work Up and Air Cutter, and its Ability is Super Luck.

Frillish
Trip's Frillish
Debut A Rival Battle for Club Champ!
Voice actors
Japanese Misato Fukuen
English Kayzie Rogers

Frillish is the third Pokémon that Trip was revealed to have. He first appeared in A Rival Battle for Club Champ! where Trip used him to battle Ash's Snivy and Pidove. He defeated Pidove, and also Snivy after a long battle, where he was able to take advantage of Cursed Body due to Snivy's constant use of physical attacks.

Frillish's known moves are Protect, Water Pulse, Night Shade and Hex, and his Ability is Cursed Body.

Lampent
Trip's Lampent
Debut A Venipede Stampede!
Voice actors
Japanese Shin'ichirō Miki
English Sean Schemmel

Lampent is the fourth Pokémon that Trip was revealed to have. It first appeared in A Venipede Stampede! where Trip used it to battle wild Venipede in Castelia City.

Lampent's known moves are Flamethrower and Shadow Ball.

Vanillite
Trip's Vanillite
Debut Ash and Trip's Third Battle!
Voice actors
Japanese Chika Fujimura
English Emily Jenness

Vanillite appeared for the first time in Ash and Trip's Third Battle! where it was first seen when Trip tried to catch a Palpitoad, but Ash unintentionally interrupted him. Later it battled Ash's Tepig and tied with it.

Vanillite's known moves are Ice Beam, Icicle Spear, Ice Shard and Blizzard.

Timburr → Gurdurr → Conkeldurr
Trip's Conkeldurr
Debut Ash and Trip's Third Battle!
Voice actors
Japanese Kenta Miyake (As Timburr and Gurdurr)
Kensuke Satō (As Conkeldurr)
English Bill Rogers
Main article: Trip's Conkeldurr

Conkeldurr first appeared in Ash and Trip's Third Battle! as a Timburr. It battled against Ash's Oshawott, but lost.

It later evolved into Gurdurr sometime prior to Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia! and was used in the Club Battle against Cilan's Dwebble, but lost.

Conkeldurr was shown to have evolved again when Trip showed it to Ash during the registration for the Clubsplosion tournament in The Clubsplosion Begins!.

Badges

Trip's Badges

This listing is of the Badges Trip has obtained:

Pokémon competitions

Voice actors

Language Voice actor
Japanese 渡辺明乃 Akeno Watanabe
English Jamie McGonnigal
Croatian Dušan Bučan
Danish Jan Tellefsen
Dutch Thijs van Aken
German Henry Engels
Brazilian Portuguese Felipe Zilse
Spanish Latin America Jaime Alberto Carrillo
Spain Carlos Bautista


Trivia

Trip and his rival, Ash Ketchum

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese シューティー Shooty From the English word, shoot, as in "photo shoot".
English, Spanish Trip Possibly from tripod or Olympus Trip 35.
French Nico Possibly from Nikon, a brand producing cameras.
German Diaz Possibly from diapositive.
Italian Diapo Possibly from diapositive.
Korean 슈티 Syuti Transliteration of his Japanese name.
Chinese (Mandarin) 修帝 Xiū​dì​ Transliteration of his Japanese name.


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