Jessie's Wobbuffet

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Jessie's Wobbuffet
ムサシのソーナンス Musashi's Sonans
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Jessie's Wobbuffet
Debuts in Tricks of the Trade
Caught at Johto
Gender Unknown
Ability Unknown
Traded in Tricks of the Trade
Original Trainer Benny
Traded for Jessie's Lickitung
Current location With Jessie
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This Pokémon has not evolved.
Voice actor Japanese English
As Wobbuffet Yūji Ueda Kayzie Rogers

Jessie's Wobbuffet (Japanese: ムサシのソーナンス Musashi's Sonans) was the only Pokémon caught by Jessie during her travels through Johto. Its voice actor in Japanese is 上田 祐司 Yūji Ueda, and its English voice actress is Kayzie Rogers.

History

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Wobbuffet's first appearance, under the ownership of Benny
 
Jessilina and Wobbuffet

Jessie obtained Wobbuffet in the episode Tricks of the Trade after accidentally trading her Lickitung for it, with Wobbuffet's previous trainer, a boy named Benny who had trained Wobbuffet hard but wanted to try training a new Pokémon.

Wobbuffet is used occasionally for battles. Wobbuffet's knowledge of moves like Counter and Mirror Coat comes in handy, since Team Rocket often finds itself on the receiving end of powerful attacks.

Wobbuffet usually serves as a comic relief character. It emerges from its Poké Ball frequently and often at inappropriate times. Since the episode Tunnel Vision, Wobbuffet had his place in the Team Rocket motto, right after Meowth. It can often be heard crying out subsequent to the "Team Rocket is blasting off again!" line, even if it was not out of its Poké Ball when the team was sent blasting off. Wobbuffet is thus somewhat a fourth team member.

Even though Jessie often seems annoyed with Wobbuffet, she was shown to truly care for it. This is showcased in a handful of episodes, including Who What When Where Wynaut, in which Wobbuffet temporarily went missing. Jessie was very worried and desperately went searching for it on the island. Wobbuffet also seems to care for her deeply, although its loyalty has sometimes been in question, such as in Fear Factor Phony, Wobbuffet ran away from the group after the fake ghost made by some Ghost Pokémon scared it off. While it was running scared, it saw a Kirlia dancing and Wobbuffet fell in love with the Kirlia. When Team Rocket caught Pikachu and Kirlia, Wobbuffet jumped into the mecha after it and after breaking the Kirlia and its Psychic Pokémon friends free from Team Rocket's capture, their operation was completely ruined thanks entirely to Wobbuffet.

Episodes primarily featuring Wobbuffet are Wobbu-Palooza, in which Ash, his friends, and Team Rocket came across a festival honoring Wobbuffet and Jessie's Wobbuffet saved the day, and The Wayward Wobbuffet, in which Wobbuffet became separated from Jessie and went on an action-packed adventure. Team Rocket have also had various vehicles and robots based on it.

Moves used

Using Counter Move First Used In
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Counter Tricks of the Trade
Mirror Coat Imitation Confrontation
Bide x A Hot Water Battle
An x shows that the move cannot be legitimately known by this Pokémon in the games.
  Moves used recently are in bold unless all moves all fit this case.


Trivia

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Jessie and Wobbuffet
  • Wobbuffet was the first, and for a while, only (besides Buizel and Ambipom) traded Pokémon to become an important part of the main cast. This excludes Ash's Raticate which he only had for one episode.
  • For Cooking up a Sweet Story!, Professor Oak's lecture is about Jessie's Wobbuffet. He writes this Pokémon senryū about it: きがつけば なのりもやってる ソーナンス
  • Wobbuffet is generally assumed to be male, though there is no concrete proof for this assertion. While female Wobbuffet are portrayed with lipstick, gender differences such as this were not introduced until six years after Jessie's Wobbuffet first appearance.
  • Until Duplica pointed it out, Wobbuffet always used Counter to deflect attacks. Although this should only work against physical attacks, it actually worked against any. Even though Jessie gets confused as to whether to use Counter or Mirror Coat, whenever Jessie wants to counter an attack using Wobbuffet, she would just say "Wobbuffet, counter that attack" or similar since she told Wobbuffet to use its head when countering a physical or special attack.
  • Wobbuffet was the technical first of seven Pokémon to have been introduced in Generation II and be on the team of the main cast during the Diamond & Pearl series. Many, however, do not count it as heavily as the other six (Aipom, Sudowoodo, Gligar, Yanma, Swinub and Cyndaquil) because it joined Jessie's party long before the beginning of the series, while the others were, with the exception of Aipom, captured or evolved into their Generation II form within the series. Aipom, of course, was captured shortly before the beginning.
  • As of Dawn of a New Era!, Wobbuffet has been with a main character more that any other Pokemon besides Pikachu and Meowth. It replaced Brock's Forretress who had been on Brock's team for 328 epsiodes.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Wobbuffet.

External links



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