I'm Bugsy! I never lose when it comes to Bug-type Pokémon. My research is going to make me an authority on Bug-type Pokémon! Let me demonstrate what I've learned from my studies.
Bugsy (Japanese: ツクシ, Hepburn: Tsukushi) is the Gym Leader of the Azalea Town Gym. Beating him earns the player the Hive Badge. He specializes in using Bug-type Pokémon. The player character can challenge Bugsy only after Team Rocket is defeated in the Slowpoke Well.
Appearance[]
Bugsy is a young boy with a feminine purple bob and purple eyes (Sometimes appears with grayish-blue and brown in the old days). He is almost always seen carrying a net. Bugsy wears a green shirt and has a pair of green shorts with a light green collar (Formerly white), suspended with a brown belt (Used to be black) and white socks included with brown shoes. In his newer design he has a yellow handkerchief attached on his collar.
Gold and Silver[]
He also wears a green collared shirt and white ankle socks.
Crystal[]
Bugsy's appearance remains the same as it is in Gold and Silver.
HeartGold and Soul Silver[]
His shirt has different shades of green and wears a neckerchief, and he wears yellow-striped knee socks.
Personality[]
Bugsy is a gym leader who loves his profession and the Bug-type Pokémon he trains, he claims that someday this type of Pokémon will conquer the world. His combat techniques are characterized by being unpredictable, but very effective and useful.
Etymology[]
The name Bugsy comes from "bugs".
His Japanese name, Tsukushi, originates from 虫 (mushi, insect) or つくつく法師 (tsukutsukubōshi, a type of cicada). Following the plant-based naming with most Gym Leaders, it may also literally be 土筆 (tsukushi, the Japanese name for the horsetail plant which often grows in Japan).
Biography[]
Games[]
He claims to have discovered Fury Cutter move. After the player character defeats him, he will give the player character the Hive Badge and TM49 (Fury Cutter) in Gold, Silver and Crystal. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, it is TM89 (U-Turn).
Other appearances[]
Sprites[]
Pokémon[]
Gold and Silver[]
Metapod |
Kakuna |
Scyther |
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Lv. 15 | ♀ | Lv. 14 | ♂ | Lv. 17 | ♂ | ||||||
Item: None | Item: None | Item: None | |||||||||
Tackle | Harden | Quick Attack | |||||||||
String Shot | Poison Sting | Leer | |||||||||
Harden | String Shot | Fury Cutter | |||||||||
- | - | - |
Crystal[]
Metapod |
Kakuna |
Scyther |
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Lv. 15 | ♀ | Lv. 14 | ♂ | Lv. 17 | ♂ | ||||||
Item: None | Item: None | Item: None | |||||||||
Tackle | Harden | Quick Attack | |||||||||
String Shot | Poison Sting | Leer | |||||||||
Harden | String Shot | Fury Cutter | |||||||||
- | - | - |
HeartGold and SoulSilver[]
Kakuna |
Metapod |
Scyther |
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Lv. 15 | ♀ | Lv. 16 | ♀ | Lv. 17 | ♀ | ||||||
Ability: Shed Skin | Ability: Shed Skin | Ability: Technician | |||||||||
Item: None | Item: None | Item: None | |||||||||
Poison Sting | Tackle | Leer | |||||||||
Harden | String Shot | Focus Energy | |||||||||
- | Bug Bite | Quick Attack | |||||||||
- | - | U-Turn |
Scizor |
Shedinja |
Vespiquen |
Yanmega |
Heracross |
Pinsir | ||||||
Lv. 56 | ♀ | Lv. 50 | - | Lv. 52 | ♀ | Lv. 52 | ♀ | Lv. 54 | ♀ | Lv. 54 | ♀ |
Ability: Technician | Ability: Wonder Guard | Ability: Pressure | Ability: Tinted Lens | Ability: Guts | Ability: Mold Breaker | ||||||
Item: Sitrus Berry | Item: None | Item: Sitrus Berry | Item: None | Item: None | Item: None | ||||||
Bullet Punch | Protect | Protect | Hypnosis | Counter | Rock Tomb | ||||||
Iron Defense | Toxic | Sludge Bomb | AncientPower | Stone Edge | Guillotine | ||||||
U-Turn | Shadow Sneak | Heal Order | Air Slash | Close Combat | Stone Edge | ||||||
Superpower | Swagger | Defend Order | Bug Buzz | Megahorn | X-Scissor |
Black 2 and White 2[]
Stadium 2[]
Trivia[]
- Bugsy is the first Gym Leader that specializes in Bug-type Pokémon.
- At first Bugsy appeared to be androgynous, until it was immediately revealed that he is a boy.
- His HeartGold and SoulSilver artwork, he has pale skin, but in the anime and game sprites, he appears to have a less pale skin coloring. This trait is shared with Pike Queen Lucy, there is a chance that this is a probability due to the shading and darkness of the room he's in, though, in the interior of the Azalea Town's roof in the anime, it looks bright.
- In Gold and Silver all of Bugsy's Pokémon are male, but in HeartGold and SoulSilver, they are female.
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