Ash's Gible: Difference between revisions

===Diamond & Pearl series===

Ash first met Gible in ''[[DP156|A Meteoric Rise to Excellence!]]''. [[Wilma]] explained that Gible was trying his best to learn the move {{m|Draco Meteor}}. But for some reason, the move always failed; instead of exploding in the sky, it always fell to the ground and hit {{TP|Dawn|Piplup}}. Ash wanted to help the wild Gible learn Draco Meteor and achieve his dreams. He successfully used the move against {{TRT}}, but failed again in his next attempt. By the end of the episode, Gible decided to start following Ash. Gible, with Ash's help, has tried to master using the move. Most of the time, the move fails and, in a recurring gag, accidentally hits {{TP|Dawn|Piplup}}, although it has been used [[DP164|on one occasion]] to find Piplup once the latter went missing, and on [[DP173|another occasion]] to differentiate him from another Piplup, which turned out to be a {{p|Ditto}}. Since the addition of {{TP|Dawn|Togekiss}} to {{an|Dawn}}'s party, it became a recurrent gag that Togekiss would defend Piplup from Gible's slowly improving, but still failing, Draco Meteor and gracefully shoot it back to Gible and Ash. Eventually, Gible mastered Draco Meteor in ''[[DP185|Working on a Right Move!]]''.

Like {{AP|Torterra}} during its time as a {{p|Turtwig}}, Gible seems to enjoy latching onto Ash's head as well as other peoples' heads (at first, like Turtwig, he used to chomp onto Ash's and other people's heads but after a little while he seemed to just latch onto people's heads without actually hurting them). Later on, he showed his habit also included rocks and tree trunks, among other objects. This also goes for things that look like those, as seen when Gible started to bite on [[Conway]]'s Shuckle, as though it were a rock. Gible also has the ability to devour almost any kind of metals, seen when Gible devoured two of Team Rocket's giant robots, and half of a city park. Ash also said in ''[[DP185|Working on a Right Move!]]'' that Gible can bite at anything, including moves. Despite appearing to be quite gutsy, he is not very bright and is slow to understand simple requests or orders; on one occasion, he chewed away a section of rock despite him falling into a creek as a result, and still chewed at the rock underwater not seeming to realize he could drown and had to be saved by {{AP|Buizel}}.

Ash used Gible in ''[[DP185|Working on a Right Move!]]'' in his [[Lily of the Valley Conference]] battle against [[Conway]]. Gible was called in when Conway's Shuckle proved to be too strong for both {{AP|Donphan}} and {{AP|Noctowl}}. Gible managed to defeat Shuckle with a very close-range Draco Meteor and perfect the move at the same time. He was then briefly used against Lickilicky before being recalled. Finally, Gible was called out after Noctowl and Donphan fell to {{p|Dusknoir}}. After a tough battle, Gible emerged victorious, giving Ash access to the quarter-finals.

In ''[[DP189|The Semi-Final Frontier!]]'', he appeared again in the semi finals, to battle {{si|Tobias}}. Although he managed to hit Tobias's {{p|Darkrai}} with {{m|Rock Smash}}, Darkrai recovered almost immediately and used {{m|Ice Beam}} on Gible. Gible dodged it and used Draco Meteor back at Darkrai. Darkrai also dodged it and finished Gible with a {{m|Dark Pulse}} attack.

===Best Wishes series===

Gible is quite a powerful battler, but outside of battle tends to be quite clumsy and oblivious. Gible can also be very destructive, destroying a whole park, Barry's bike and Team Rocket's mecha using nothing but his teeth. He is also quite sociable, biting people's heads to show affection.

[[Dawn's Piplup]] dislikes him due to constantly being hit by his failed {{m|Draco Meteor}}s, but Gible has no harsh feelings towards Piplup, even refusing to fight Piplup after accidentally hitting him several times with a failed Draco Meteor. After being severally scolded by [[Dawn's Togekiss]], he reveals that he doesn't intend to hurt him, but he simply cannot avoid it, showing that he does care about Piplup.

* Gible is the first {{type|Dragon}} Pokémon that any main character has owned. He is also Ash's only Pokémon that can evolve into a [[pseudo-legendary Pokémon]].

* Gible is the only one of Ash's Sinnoh Pokémon that hasn't been used in a Gym battle or to battle against [[Paul]].

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