Gary's Arcanine
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Gary's Arcanine (Japanese: シゲルのウインディ Shigeru's Windie) was a Pokémon obtained by Gary during his journey in Kanto.
History
Kanto
Arcanine's first appearance was in the Viridian City Gym, in the episode The Battle of the Badge. Gary sent it out to battle Giovanni's Kingler. Despite a type disadvantage, Arcanine came out on top and defeated the Water-type. However, both his Arcanine and Nidoking were defeated by Mewtwo, leaving Gary confused as to both why he lost and what Pokémon he had just battled.
This battle was seen again briefly from Mewtwo's perspective in Mewtwo Strikes Back.
Johto
Arcanine's next appearance was in Extreme Pokémon!, where he used it to compete in the Extreme Pokémon Race. Ash initially thought Gary was mistreating the Pokémon, but after learning that it wasn't hurt, he competed as well. Ash decided to compete with his Bayleef, which proved to be a good choice. During the competition, Team Rocket tried to catch Arcanine. They failed however, thanks to Ash's intervention and after defeating the trio with the help of Gary, both decided to continue the competition where Ash ultimately defeated Gary with great effort in his first victory over his great rival.
Arcanine then appeared as a Pokémon displayed in Gary's profile when Ash researched about Gary in The Ties That Bind!.
Arcanine made another appearance in Can't Beat the Heat! during the Silver Conference in Gary's battle against Ash. It was pitted against Ash's Snorlax. Gary used it during the beginning of the second half of the battle after having used Blastoise in the previous round of battles. Although it dodged Snorlax's Body Slam, despite Gary's efforts, Arcanine's Take Down and Fire Spin had minimal effect on Snorlax, who then knocked it out with Hyper Beam and attempting to stand up.
After he decided to become a Pokémon Researcher, Gary left his Arcanine along with most of his other Pokémon with his grandfather.
Personality and characteristics
Arcanine is one of the strongest Pokémon in Gary's team. In its first appearance, it was strong enough to beat an opponent with a type advantage in only three blows. Arcanine was fast enough to put Gary in a comfortable position in the Extreme Pokémon Race even with the many unforeseen events that occurred during the race's duration. Gary appears to have enough confidence in Arcanine that he even kissed his Poké Ball before sending it into battle. In addition, in the Japanese version of its debut episode, Gary refers to Arcanine as being "My honey" (ぼくのハニー), strongly suggesting that it was one of his favorite Pokémon.
Moves used
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In the manga
In the Ash and Pikachu manga
Arcanine only appeared on the scoreboard in One Half Of A Poké Ball.
In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga
Gary also owns Arcanine in The Electric Tale of Pikachu. It appears to be his main Pokémon in The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga.
He is first shown in the chapter Ash vs. Gary where Gary uses it to try to capture a giant Slowpoke. When the Slowpoke was taken away by some mysterious people, he sends it out to search for the people responsible for stealing the Slowpoke. It was able to find them at the same time Ash did. It was stopped by Team Rocket's transforming machines when Meowth sprayed water. Despite his efforts Arcanine has had little success in battle. Arcanine continued the search for Team Rocket afterwards. Unlike the last time, Arcanine was able to get to Team Rocket before Ash arrived. Pikachu was able to find the giant Slowpoke and they find out that this Slowpoke can hypnotize people. Gary has Arcanine battle it to prevent it from hypnotizing people but it had very little success in doing so as Arcanine was stopped by a Disable and was frozen by Ice Beam. Afterwards, it becomes hypnotized along with Gary's other Pokémon.
Arcanine also appears in the following chapter Epilogue: Wild Type alongside to Ash's Pikachu.
In the games
Pokémon Puzzle League
Arcanine appears under Gary's ownership in Pokémon Puzzle League. He is one of three Pokémon options that Gary uses in the game's final challenge.
Trivia
- In the opening The Rivals and Pokémon World, Gary is shown with a Growlithe. Gary's counterpart in Pokémon Puzzle League also appears to use the same Pokémon which evolves in the progress of the game, but it's unknown if it is the same case in the anime.
- During its debut episode, Arcanine was seen using Fire Spin. However, Arcanine was unable to learn Fire Spin at the time, only becoming able to learn it from Generation II onwards.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Arcanine.
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