Ash's Staraptor

Ash's Staraptor is one of Ash's Pokémon.

Biography
Ash captured Staraptor as a Starly, and it evolved into Staravia when battling Team Rocket. Then, when they were battling Paul in a Pokéringer Contest, Staravia soon evolved into Staraptor and learned Close Combat, defeating Paul's Honchkrow. When Ash finished the Sinnoh League and decided to begin a new start in the Unova region journey, he sent Staraptor to Professor Oak's Lab.

Voice actors and actress

 * Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese as a Starly and a Staravia)
 * Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese as a Staraptor)
 * Sarah Natochenny (English)

Trivia

 * Though Staraptor is confirmed to be male, in the Czech and Latin American Spanish dub, Staraptor is female.
 * Upon his final evolution, Staraptor became the 50th Pokémon that Ash has obtained, including evolutions, Seaking and Haunter. However, Haunter was not officially his and Seaking was released as part of contest rules.
 * Out of all of Ash's Bird Pokémon, Staraptor took the longest to fully evolve at 116 episodes: Pidgeot took 78, Noctowl was fully evolved upon capture, Swellow took 76 episodes and Unfezant took 66.
 * When Staraptor entered as a Staravia, he was the second of Ash's Pokémon to evolve during a PokéRinger tournament. The first was Swellow who entered as a Taillow.
 * Out of all of Ash's Bird Pokemon, Staraptor is the only one to learn a -type move.
 * Staraptor is one of Ash's strongest Pokémon.