Ash's Muk: Difference between revisions

==History==

[[File:Muk Grimer EP030.png|thumb|left|200px|Ash's Muk in its debut]]

Ash caught Muk in the episode ''[[EP030|Sparks Fly for Magnemite]]''. Ash and {{ashfr}} were traveling through [[Gringey City]], which was in the midst of a power failure. The local power plant was being overrun by the mysterious {{type|Poison}} {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}, {{p|Grimer}}. After the swarm was located, the Grimer's leader, a {{p|Muk}}, came and challenged the Trainers. However, the vast numbers of {{p|Magnemite}} and {{p|Magneton}} in the city combined attacks to clear out the Grimer, leaving only Muk. With the aid of {{AP|Pikachu}} and a {{p|Magnemite}} that was following it due to an electrical build up, Ash defeated and captured the Muk. It was then immediately sent to Oak's lab because its stench was so rancid that it could seep through the [[Poké Ball]]. However, Muk's horrid smell seemed to have disappeared in later episodes as neither Ash, nor anyone around him, was affected by it.

Muk appeared later in ''[[EP065|Showdown at the Po-ké Corral]]'' when Ash, {{an|Brock}}, {{an|Misty}}, and {{Gary}} visited [[Professor Oak's Laboratory]].

[[File:Jeanette Fisher Bellsprout Ash Muk.png|200px|thumb|Ash's Muk easily absorbing attacks]]

Muk was briefly called in ''[[EP102|The Mystery Menace]]'', where Ash used Muk to help him and {{Tracey}} find Misty, {{TP|Misty|Togepi}}, and {{AP|Bulbasaur}}, who was kidnapped by a giant {{p|Bulbasaur}} in a sewer. Muk and Kingler also offered to fight for Ash in the Orange Island Championship battle against {{OBP|Drake|Orange League}} in ''[[EP111|Hello, Pummelo!]]'', but Ash chose {{AP|Tauros}} instead.

[[File:Muk eager to fight.png|thumb|200px|left|Muk asking Ash to let it fight]]

[[File:Ash Muk Gary Scizor.png|thumb|200px|Muk battling Gary's Scizor]]

Muk appeared in ''[[AG133|The Right Place and the Right Mime]]'' when Ash returned to Pallet Town. It greeted [[Professor Birch]] with its usual friendliness.

===Best Wishes series===

==Personality and characteristics==

Ash's Muk is an extremely happy and affectionate Pokémon. It grew an attachment in particular to {{an|Professor Oak}} and as a recurring gag, it would always smother the Professor whenever Ash would make a call to the [[Professor Oak's Laboratory|lab]]. This was first seen twenty episodes after its capture, in ''[[EP050|Who Gets To Keep Togepi?]]''. Muk tackled Professor Oak in excitement in ''[[EP065|Showdown at the Po-ké Corral]]'', when Oak explained that Muk and {{AP|Krabby|Kingler}} had become just like him from its long period of living with him.

[[File:Ash Muk Jessie affection.png|thumb|left|220px|Muk loves humans and it's not too particular what kind.]]

Its affection even extends to antagonists, as seen both in the aforementioned encounter with Jessie and James, and also in a special episode, ''[[SS004|Showdown at the Oak Corral]]'', when it actually appeared sad that {{AP|Totodile}} drove [[Butch]] and [[Cassidy]] away. As Professor Oak said to Jessie, Muk loves humans, and it is not very particular to which kind.

==Moves used==

{{anmov|normal|Body Slam|EP077|The Fourth Round Rumble}}

{{anmov|poison|Sludge Bomb|EP270|Can't Beat the Heat!}}

{{anmov/f|poison}}

==In the manga==

===In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga===

[[Ash Ketchum (EToP)|Ash]] caught Muk off-screen in [[The Electric Tale of Pikachu]] manga. He later used it as his last Pokémon is his battle against [[Jeanette Fisher|Jeanette]] in ''[[ET12|Welcome to the Big Leagues]]''. Jeanette's {{p|Bellsprout}} had no chances of using its techniques against Muk's slimy body, and Ash won the battle.

==Trivia==

* Muk is Ash's only Pokémon in the {{egg|Amorphous}} Egg Group.

* Muk is Ash's only fully evolved Pokémon to know less than four moves.

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