Brock's Croagunk

Brock's Croagunk
Information
Type	Poison /  Fighting
Gender	Male
Ability	Anticipation
Trainer(s)	Brock
Appears in	Pokémon Journeys: The Series, Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
Debut	Gymbaliar!
Current location	At Pewter Gym
In other languages
Japanese	Name タケシのグレッグル (Takeshi's Guregguru) Voice actor(s) Katsuyuki Konishi Notes Depending on the context, "の" may be the possessive, unless it is used in the name of a character, Pokémon, or fossil.
Japanese	Name タケシのグレッグル (Takeshi's Guregguru) Voice actor(s) Katsuyuki Konishi Notes Depending on the context, "の" may be the possessive, unless it is used in the name of a character, Pokémon, or fossil.
English	Name Brock's Croagunk Voice actor(s) Bill Rogers
English	Name Brock's Croagunk Voice actor(s) Bill Rogers
Other details
Captured in	(location: Route 202)
Abilities and Held Items
Croagunk's Ability, Anticipation, activated.

This Croagunk is a Poison/Fighting-type Pokémon owned by Brock. It is the first Pokémon Brock acquired during his Sinnoh journey.

Personality

In his initial appearance, Croagunk was seen as a loner before being taken in by Jessie to fight opponents in their unofficial gym battles. After Team Rocket betrays him, Croagunk appears to show interest in Brock and began his close relationship with Brock. Similarly to Max and Misty as a running gag, whenever Brock tries to flirt with other women or his crushes of both Nurse Joy and Officer Jennys', Croagunk inexplicably appears (mostly by leaving his Poké Ball) and immediately using Poison Jab to incapacitate and drag him away. He also does this even when Brock daydreams, much to his astonishment. Rarely, he will appear but not use Poison Jab whenever Brock talks to women, usually as a result of him understanding what Croagunk intends to do.

In O'er The Rampardos We Watched!, Croagunk also has a grudge on Team Rocket after they betray and abandoned him from his debut and he demonstrates by using Poison Jab on Jessie's stomach causing James and Meowth to carry her in a stunned state to escape in fear. Croagunk is also expert in posing other Pokémon during the dress-up contest in All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go! where he poses as Politoed and it is the main reason for Brock to win the Pokémon egg. Therefore, in Enter, Galactic!, Croagunk has a very strong rivalry to Saturn's Toxicroak which is Croagunk's evolved form upon meeting and has a fierce battle with each other. This rivalry is also carried by Ash's Buizel when he has a strong rivalry with Crasher Wake's Floatzel which is Buizel's evolved form.

In one of the special episodes of The Arceus Who is Known as a God, Croagunk reignites his heated rivalry wirh Toxicroak when Brock encounters it as he immediately comes out of his Poké Ball to battle his rival.

In Cream of the Croagunk Crop!, Croagunk is very competitive and focus during the Croagunk Festival as Crasher Wake was impressed how outstanding Croagunk is especially during the championship challenge with another Croagunk, Craig to show how powerful Croagunk is.

It seems that Croagunk has a weird personality as he sometimes will look at his own reflection in mirrors or just standing alone. He hates sweets as well, since he always shows a disgusted appearance whenever he eats one.

Biography

Brock and Croagunk first met at an unofficial Pokémon Gym run by Team Rocket. They quickly gained a close connection; indeed it has been said that Croagunk is about as close to Brock as Ash is to Pikachu. Whenever Brock fell for a girl, Croagunk would use Poison Jab on him and drag him away. Croagunk actually seemed to enjoy doing this to Brock despite his close relationship with him.

Croagunk shared a very fierce rivalry with Saturn's Toxicroak which started the moment they first saw each other. It is unknown exactly why Croagunk hated Toxicroak so much but its rivalry with its evolved form was so strong that it would often ignore Brock's advances on women. Croagunk was once seriously injured by Toxicroak, who smashed him through a skylight and then stabbed him in the stomach with one of its claws. Croagunk eventually got his revenge during his final encounter with Toxicroak, smashing a Brick Break onto his evolved form's head and defeating it, ending their rivalry. Some people say that Croagunk has a crush on Cynthia.

In the episode Cream of the Croagunk Crop!, Croagunk becomes very competitive in the Croagunk Festival held in the Great Marsh. Crasher Wake and Nurse Joy was very impressed how outstanding it is even the Brick contest where it manages to break all the bricks with a single Brick Break. Therefore, in fighting against the champion which is a Croagunk nicknamed Craig. Croagunk manages to beat it with Poison Jab multiple times only to be interrupted by a giant robotic Croagunk manned by Team Rocket. Croagunk does its best to save all the captured Croagunk but it was rescued by Nurse Joy's female Croagunk named Chrissy.

After Team Rocket is blasted off by Ash's Pikachu, Crasher Wake declared Nurse Joy's Croagunk the winner as Croagunk didn't mind winning the festival after it saves all the Croagunk from Team Rocket.

Sun & Moon Series

During Ash's trip during Kanto, Brock left Croagunk at Pewter Gym.

Journeys

In the special episodes of The Arceus Who is Known as a God, Croagunk along with Brock's Chansey who was now evolved into a Blissey when Brock was working as a Pokémon Doctor at Sinnoh while his Trainer reunite with Ash and Dawn and met Goh. Later, Croagunk immediately released from Brock's Poke Ball on his own to battle his rival, Saturn's Toxicroak, finally reignited his rivalry towards his evolved form once his Trainer encountered it. Croagunk later teamed up with Brock's Blissey, and Cynthia's Roserade against the remaining members of Team Galactic.

Known moves

• Using Poison Jab
• Using Poison Sting
• Using Brick Break

1/3

Move	Type	First Used
Poison Jab	Poison	DP008: Gymbaliar!
Poison Sting	Poison	DP008: Gymbaliar!
Brick Break	Fighting	DP008: Gymbaliar!

Improvised move

Corkscrew Poison Jab

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