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
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 and 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.

Trip reappeared in BW052 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 changed.

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.

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
Main article: Trip's Servine

Servine 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!.

Debut In The Shadow of Zekrom!
Voice actors
Japanese Kiyotaka Furushima
English Jason Griffith
 
Tranquill
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.

Debut A Rival Battle for Club Champ!
Voice actors
Japanese Unshō Ishizuka
English Erica Schroeder
 
Frillish
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.

Debut A Rival Battle for Club Champ!
Voice actors
Japanese Misato Fukuen
English Kayzie Rogers
 
Lampent
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.

Debut A Venipede Stampede!
Voice actors
Japanese Shin'ichirō Miki
English Sean Schemmel
 
Vanillite
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.

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

 
Timburr → Gurdurr
Gurdurr 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. However, it was defeated by Dwebble's combination of Rock Slide and Slash.

Gurdurr's known moves are Strength, Low Sweep*, DynamicPunch, Rock Smash and Stone Edge.

Debut Ash and Trip's Third Battle!
Voice actors
Japanese Kenta Miyake
English Bill Rogers

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
Dutch Thijs van Aken
German Henry Engels
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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Protagonists Ash Ketchum (Pikachu) • Misty (Togetic) • BrockTracey SketchitMayMaxDawn (Piplup) • Iris (Haxorus) • CilanSerenaClemontBonnie (Dedenne) • LanaKiaweLillieSophoclesMallowRotom PokédexGoh (Grookey)
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Professors Professor OakProfessor IvyProfessor ElmProfessor BirchProfessor RowanProfessor CarolinaProfessor JuniperDr. FennelCedric JuniperProfessor SycamoreProfessor KukuiProfessor BurnetProfessor CeriseProfessor MagnoliaSoniaProfessor Amaranth
Relatives Delia KetchumDaisyVioletLilyJames's parentsFlintLolaForrestBrock's siblingsNormanCarolineJohannaChiliCressGraceMeyerLana's fatherLana's motherHarper and SarahRangoSimaMimoKiawe's grandfatherMohnLusamineGladionSophocles's parentsMolayneAbeMallow's motherUluWalkerCamilleHalta
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See also: Pokémon Horizons characters


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