Pokemon is such a popular series that it extends to various mediums of entertainment. Between the anime, new video games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and even toy merchandising, it's hard to find something with as much global appeal as the series known for pocket monsters.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ash Ketchum is the primary character in the long-running animated show, and over the years has caught and logged dozens of different Pokemon. It's important to remember the journey and looking at the first Pokemon Ash ever caught is a whirlwind of joy and nostalgia.
10 Muk
When Ash and his friends arrived in Gringey City they were met with what appeared to b🌠e a city-wide power fai🅠lure thanks to an occupation of Grimer, led by a Muk.
A group of Magnemite and Magneton used Electric-type attacks to rid the city of the Grimer, leaving only the Muk in Ash's way. With the aid of Pikachu and a random Magnemite Ash not only caught and defeated the Muk but sent it back to Professor Oak in Pallet Town due to how awful the creature smelt.
9 Lapras
After the events of the Indigo League, Ash and his🐓 friends traveled to the Orange Islands in the second season of the anime titled Adventures in the Orange Islands. Lapras is notable for b🌄eing the first Pokemon Ash captures during his time visiting these islands.
Not only was the sea creature separated from its family, but upon washing up on the shores of Tangelo Island it was abused by three random boys. It served as Ash and company's primary mode of transportation on the water before finally reuniting with its family in an episode called 'Viva Las Lapras'.
8 Krabby
Krabby shares a special place in Ash's journey as it happened to be the first Pokemon he ever sent to live with Professor Oak back at his laboratory in Pallet Town. This Pokemon served as a moment in which Ash wanted to168澳洲幸运5开奖网: prove to Misty that the other creatures he caught weren't flukes.
This is the episode where Ash learned that he can only ever carry a maximum of six Pokemon at a time. Though he didn't use Krabby much, he was able to evolve the tiny crab into Kingler when it fought and defeated an Exeggcutor in battle.
7 Tauros
Every Pokemon trainer knows the frustration of trying to catch creatures in the Safari Zone, even Ash. As he was attempting to catch as many Pokemon as possible in the banned 35th epis🐭ode of the series, he managed to haul in a staggering 30 Tauros.
This giant herd of buffalo-inspired Pokemon were quickly all sent to live on the pastures located behind Professor Oak's laboratory. In terms of the population, no other Pokemon comes close to being owned by Ash at the sheer volume of these Tauros from the Safari Zone.
6 Pidgeotto
In the same episode where Ash catches his first Pokemon in the form of Caterpie, he also happens to catch his second Pokemon, the Flying-type known as Pidgeotto. Though Ash evolved it into a Pidgeot, and it fought by his side for most of his Kanto region journey, their relationship doesn't have a happy ending.
Before departing for the Orange Islands Ash left his Pidgeot to protect a group of local Pidgey and Pidgeotto from predatory Fearow, vowing to return for it when he was done on the islands. He hasn't returned, and it's unclear whatever happened to his Pidgeot after all this time.
5 Primeape
Ash's Primeape is a rare case of him capturing and training a Pokemon that he ends up lending to someone, and it never appears in the anime ever again.
Every other Pokemon he's done this with has come back in some fashion, except for Primeape. Following Ash lending it to a man named Anthony in 'The Punchy Pokemon', its only other appearance is when Ash reminisced about it in Pokemon the Series: Black & White's 'The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!' episode years later.
4 Squirtle
The Pokemon anime episode 'Here Comes the Squirtle Squad' is as iconic of an episode as the series has ever seen. Ash and his friends are tasked with stopping and reigning in a rogue group of Squirtle that have been causing trouble for locals ever since they were abandoned by their trainers.
Not only does Ash help this group of creatures use their powers for good and convince them to become local firefighters, he eve꧃ntually let his Squirtle rejoin his friends on the Sওquirtle Squad following his battle with Brandon in the Kanto Battle Frontier.
3 Bulbasaur
All of the Kanto region starter Pokemon that join Ash's team, do so after Ash and his friends prove that they are genuine, kind, and respectful when it comes to their relationships with Pokemon. During 'Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village' Ash runs into a Bulbasaur that is protected a hidden village filled with young and/or abandoned Pokemon.
The village caretaker, Melanie, convinces Bulbasaur that it has protected them for long enough and that it should join Ash in his journey. It agreed to do so, but only ꦯif Ash defeated it in battle. Pikachu fainted the creature which resulted in Ash throwing a pokeball, catching Bulbasaur, and making it a member of the team.
2 🌳 Charmander
The way 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Charmander came to be in Ash's ownership is the central focus of one of the anime's most notable and emotionally engaging episodes. In 'Charmander - The Stray Pokemon' Ash comes across a feisty Charmander he tries and fails to catch, twice. The creature explains to Pikachu that it's waiting for its trainer to return.
By the end of the episode, Charmander joins Ash's team as it witnesses first-hand the difference between its heartless original trainer Damian, and a caring and kind trainer like Ash.
1 Caterpie
Caterpie was never the strongest Pokemon in Ash's party, even when it eventually evolved into a Butterfree. The reason it lands at the top of the list in terms of Pokemon Ash captured is that it was his first.
He was originally gifted his Pikachu by Professor Oak, but Caterpie is the first Pokemon that he caught and trained all by himself. During the episode in which he catches it, he spends most of the time convincing his friend Misty that insect Pokemon don't need to be feared.