Paul's Torterra

Paul's Torterra シンジのドダイトス Shinji's Dodaitose

File:Paul'sTorterra.jpg Torterra about to use Frenzy Plant

Debuts in Top-Down Training! Caught at Sinnoh Evolves in Prior to Top-Down Training! Prior to Top-Down Training! Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Current location With Paul

→ → This Pokémon spent an unknown number of episodes as Turtwig and an unknown number of episodes as Grotle.

Voice actor Japanese English As Turtwig Not shown As Grotle Not shown As Torterra Unshō Ishizuka Billy Beach

Paul's Torterra (Japanese: シンジのドダイトス Shinji's Dodaitose) is a Pokémon owned by Paul. It is his strongest Pokémon and his starter as well. It is voiced by Unshō Ishizuka in Japanese and Billy Beach in English.

Torterra made its first appearance in Top-Down Training! where it was used in a battle against Cynthia's Garchomp. Despite having many powerful attacks such as Giga Drain and Frenzy Plant, it was defeated easily.

It also appeared in Smells Like Team Spirit! where it was used in the semi-finals of the Hearthome City Tag Battle Competition. It was paired off with Ash's Staravia and was up against Brock's Croagunk and Holly's Farfetch'd. It defeated both its opponents single-handedly.

Torterra appeared again in Aiding the Enemy! where it saw the battle between Ash's Turtwig and Paul's Honchkrow. It also witnessed the evolution of Turtwig and its loss of speed. While Grotle was training to become faster, Torterra showed it that a Pokémon could still be powerful by coping with its lack of speed with strong defense. To prove this, it battled against Ash's Gliscor in a practice match.

File:Torterra hyper beam.jpg

Torterra using Hyper Beam

Moves used

• Frenzy Plant
• Giga Drain
• Hyper Beam
• Leaf Storm

Trivia

• This is the second time one of Ash's rivals have had an evolved form of a starter Pokémon that Ash owns. The first is Gary who owned a Blastoise. It could also be noted that both Pokémon were the rival's starter Pokémon and they are both turtle-like Pokémon. Likewise, neither was seen until after it had reached its final form.
• Unlike nearly all his other Pokémon, Paul has never sternly spoken to Torterra, even when it lost or did something that he didn't approve of. This may mean that despite his dislike of bonding with his Pokémon, Paul may have some sort of bond to Torterra, being his first Pokémon.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Turtwig, Grotle, and Torterra.

Paul's Pokémon
On hand:	Electivire	Gyarados	Garchomp	Metagross
At home:	Ursaring	Weavile	Honchkrow	Torterra	Ninjask	Gliscor
	Magmortar	Hariyama	Nidoking	Aggron	Gastrodon	Drapion
	Froslass
Released:	Starly (×3)	Stantler	Chimchar
Given away:	Azumarill