Dawn's Mamoswine: Difference between revisions

===History===

====''[[Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl]]''====

Mamoswine debuted in ''[[DP084|Hungry for the Good Life!]]'' as a stray and hungry Swinub. It appeared at [[Mr. Backlot]]'s mansion from a nearby forest and always came over for something to eat. It caused trouble by devouring all of Dawn's [[Poffin]]s showing a liking to them, but caused much displeasure to Dawn's other {{DL|Dawn (anime)|Pokémon}}. However, after helping take down {{TRT}} and rescue the other Pokémon, Dawn decided she wanted Swinub to go with her. It had a very cheerful, happy personality and would often jump up and down in excitement.

Its personality drastically changed in ''[[DP106|A Breed Stampede!]]''. Just two episodes after evolving, Piloswine started to develop an indifference towards Dawn and became prone to [[Obedience|disobedience]]. Knowing numerous powerful attacks, Piloswine felt much stronger and more confident than it did as a Swinub. It felt that it wasn't weak and was very powerful. On numerous occasions it tried to attack Dawn or her Pokémon. It attacked {{TP|Dawn|Piplup}} for touching its fur presumptuously, and tried to attack Dawn with {{m|Ice Shard}}, instead freezing half the body of {{AP|Grotle}} who tried to stop it from rampaging. Dawn agreed to have a battle with her Piloswine and Grotle. However, it ignored Dawn's commands and used {{m|Ancient Power}} instead. It later evolved again into {{p|Mamoswine}} after being attacked by Team Rocket. Unfortunately, it kept its bad behavior from when it was a Piloswine. Despite this, Dawn was still eager to train Mamoswine well.

In ''[[DP119|Trials and Adulations!]]'', Mamoswine was injured during a battle against a {{pkmn2|wild}} {{p|Aggron}}. Dawn and her Pokémon used the first aid skills taught to her by Brock in ''[[DP094|Doc Brock!]]'' to help Mamoswine recover, and later attempted to protect Mamoswine against Team Rocket. As a result, Mamoswine gained respect for Dawn and under her instructions, it was able to defeat Aggron. From then on, Mamoswine retained a tiny bit of a rebellious attitude, but when Dawn is in danger, it would not hesitate to help her.

In ''[[DP155|Double-Time Battle Training!]]'', Mamoswine was training to find its Contest partner. It failed to sync with both {{TP|Dawn|Piplup}} and {{TP|Dawn|Pachirisu}}. It finally found its partner after it worked well with {{TP|Dawn|Cyndaquil|Quilava}} after a successful Flame-Ice. Though the new partners were defeated during their practice battle against [[Zoey]], after Zoey's {{p|Kirlia}} used {{m|Psychic}} to control her {{p|Leafeon}}'s {{m|Magical Leaf}}.

In ''[[DP162|Playing the Performance Encore!]]'', Mamoswine and Cyndaquil were used for the battle round of the {{to|Daybreak}} {{pkmn|Contest}}. The Flame-Ice [[Contest combination|combination]] was used by Dawn in the battle against her first foe's {{p|Houndoom}} and {{p|Mightyena}}, but it failed due to the ice melting. In the battle with [[Ursula]], Dawn started using both of Mamoswine and Cyndaquil's capabilities. Mamoswine swallowed Ice Shard which made the fur on Mamoswine's back and head freeze into large spears of ice which cause extra damage when {{m|Take Down}} is used. It was also used in the [[Double Battle|two-on-two]] [[Contest Battle]] against Ursula's Minun and Plusle when Cyndaquil used {{m|Swift}} to surround Mamoswine. Cyndaquil then turned the flame on its back on as the two charged for Ursula's {{p|Plusle}} and {{p|Minun}}. Despite Ursula losing some points, the move failed to hit the two Pokémon. After managing to work together to both attack and defend against Ursula's Pokémon's attacks, as well as mastering the Flame-Ice combo, Dawn managed to win the battle, earning her fifth [[Ribbon]].

===Personality and characteristics===

[[File:Dawn Mamoswine sleep.png|thumb|250px|Mamoswine sleeping]]

Much like {{TP|May|Munchlax}} did with {{An|May}}, Swinub decided to follow Dawn for her cooking abilities. As a Swinub in its debut, it was shown to be quite lazy and gluttonous, and Dawn quickly realized it was too early to use it for battles and decided to put its Contest debut on the hold until it matured a little more.

Even after it began to obey Dawn, it sometimes still proved to be an out-of-control Pokémon, as seen in its Contest debut where it suffered a catastrophic loss due to its short fuse. After Dawn began training for [[Double Performance]]s, it froze several of Dawn's Pokémon in trying to partner up for an appeal, albeit all were unintentional, until it found its perfect partner: Cyndaquil. After that, Mamoswine soon returned to its friendly personality, thus becoming a more serious Pokémon.

Mamoswine wasn't interested to watch Dawn compete in Pokémon Contests initially; instead, it just slept with a pompom on its head. Later on, however, during Dawn's battle with [[Ursula]] in ''[[DP114|Another One Gabites the Dust!]]'', Mamoswine sparked an interest after seeing Dawn and {{TP|Dawn|Pachirisu}} use Pachirisu's {{m|Super Fang|new move}} to the fullest.

* ''[[DP104|Sleepless In Pre-Battle]]'', the episode in which {{p|Swinub}} evolves into {{p|Piloswine}}, first aired in Japan in the same week that ''[[DP084|Hungry For the Good Life!]]'', the episode in which Swinub is {{pkmn2|caught}}, first aired in {{pmin|the United States}}. The same thing happened to [[Ash's Gliscor]] and Gligar.

* Both of Mamoswine's evolutions happened during a battle with {{TRT}}.

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