Kenny's Empoleon

Kenny's Empoleon
ケンゴのエンペルト Kengo's Empoleon

Kenny and Prinplup


Debuts in	Getting the Pre-Contest Titters!


Caught at	Sinnoh


Evolves in	Prior to Arrival of a Rival
Evolves in	Prior to DP174


Gender	Unknown


Ability	Unknown

Current location	With Kenny


	→	→
This Pokémon spent an unknown number of episodes as Piplup and an unknown number of episodes as Prinplup.

Voice actor	Japanese	English
As Piplup	Not shown
As Prinplup	Katsuyuki Konishi	Bill Rogers
As Empoleon	{{{java3}}}

Kenny's Empoleon (Japanese: ジュンエンペルト Kengo's Emperte) is Kenny's main Pokémon in the anime. It is also his starter Pokémon. It is voiced by 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi in Japanese and by Bill Rogers in English.

History

Prinplup was first seen in Getting the Pre-Contest Titters!. It proved to be very strong when it was battling against Ash's Pikachu despite its disadvantage. In the next episode, it put up a good fight against Dawn's Piplup. At first Prinplup didn't want to be friends with its weaker, pre-evolved form, but after being saved by Piplup, they soon became friends.

Prinplup appears in a flashback in Buizel Your Way Out of This!.

Prinplup also made a cameo with Kenny in Throwing the Track Switch. It won Kenny a ribbon on TV.

It appeared in Journey to the Unown!. It appeared at the start with Kenny.

Prinplup was next seen in Team Shocker! where it helped Kenny get to the final round of the Solaceon Town Contest, but eventually lost to Jessie's Dustox.

Prinplup again made a cameo with Kenny on television in A Breed Stampede!. It is shown that it has helped him earned his third ribbon.

It also appeared in Stopped in the Name of Love, alongside Barry's Empoleon and Dawn's Piplup. In the following episode, it defeated Dawn's Ambipom in the Sandalstraw Town Contest, earning Kenny his fourth ribbon.