Ash's Muk

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Ash's Muk
Pokémon information
Type	poison
Trainer	Ash Ketchum
Debut	Sparks Fly for Magnemite!
Current location	At Professor Oak's laboratory

This Muk is a poison-type Pokémon owned by Ash. It was the ninth Pokémon caught by Ash in Kanto.

Personality

Muk is an extremely happy and affectionate Pokémon. It grew an attachment in particular to Professor Oak and it would always smother him whenever Ash would make a call to the lab. This was first seen twenty episodes after its capture, in Who Gets To Keep Togepi?. Muk tackled Professor Oak in excitement in Showdown at the Po-ké Corral, when Oak explained that Muk and Krabby had become just like him from its long period of living with him.

Muk's affection also extends to its Trainer, second in enthusiasm only to Bayleef, despite only having fought for him on three occasions. Muk obligingly crushes Ash in excitement whenever Ash returns to the lab or summons it to his party. Its affection also extends to complete strangers, as was seen when it completely ignored Jessie's Lickitung in order to hug her, also smothering James's Victreebel in excitement. It also smothered Professor Birch upon meeting him in The Right Place and the Right Mime.

Its affection even extends to antagonists, as seen both in the aforementioned encounter with Jessie and James, and also in a special episode, Showdown at the Oak Corral, when it actually appeared sad that Totodile drove Butch and Cassidy away. As Professor Oak said to Jessie, Muk loves humans and it is not very particular to which kind.

Muk differs from most of Ash's other Pokémon in that it is a defensive Pokémon. It has never been shown to be damaged by a physical attack due to its opponents' moves always absorbed by its odd body type. Despite being quite powerful and good in battle, it has only defeated one opponent, Bellsprout, was put to sleep by Victreebel and knocked out against Gary without a win.

Biography

Original Series

Ash and his friends were traveling through Gringey City, which was in the middle of a blackout. The reason for this is due to the power plant being over run by a gang of Grimer. After the Grimers were defeated, the gang's leader, a Muk, challenged Ash who used Pikachu and a wild Magnemite who had been following Pikachu do to an electrical build-up. After Muk was weakened by Magnemite and Magneton, Ash managed to catch it. However, since its smell could be smelt even through the Poké Ball, Ash sent Muk straight to Professor Oak.

During his stay at the lab, Muk developed an attachment to Prof. Oak and would constantly smother him whenever Ash would make a call to the lab. Muk has been used in only two major battles since it was captured; the first of which was in IL077: The Fourth Round Rumble where it defeated Jeanette Fisher's Bellsprout in the fourth round of the Indigo League.

Ash returned Muk to his team for a brief period in The Mystery Menace, where it was used to find a large Bulbasaur that was residing in the sewers.

During the Silver Conference, Muk battled against Gary. It actually caused probems for Gary's Powerful Blastoise, as it was able to endure all of his attacks with ease, but it was a stalemate, as even it's strongest attack Sludge Bomb was deflected by Rapid Spin. Muk was also able to tank all of his Scizor's attacks as well, but it was thrown into the air and was hit with Swift, which was a 1 hit KO.

Muk has appeared in several of the special episodes. It was shown to crush Butch and Cassidy and the Poké Balls they had stolen. It also crushed Tracey when he opened the door for Delia.

Sinnoh

Muk was transferred to Ash for a brief reunion in An Old Family Blend, where it smothered Ash upon meeting him again. Muk was not seen on-screen to participate in the Sinnoh Pokémon League.

Unova

In BW111: New Places... Familiar Faces!, Ash called Professor Oak to inform him of his loss at the Vetress Conference. However, Muk smothered him in mid-call. Ash was happy to see one of his old friends, but Professor Oak was not happy being crushed.

Known moves

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Voice actors

• Unshō Ishizuka (Japanese)
• Michael Haigney (English 4Kids dubbed)
• Tom Wayland (English PUSA dubbed)

Trivia

• Ash's Muk has used less moves than any of Ash's other Pokémon, having only used three attacks on screen.
• Ash's Muk has only one on-screen victory so far, against a Bellsprout.
• Muk was Ash's first non-Unova Pokémon (excluding Pikachu) to appear in the Best Wishes Series.
• Muk is Ash's first Pokémon, aside from Pikachu, to appear at least once in every series.
• Muk is Ash's only pure Poison-type Pokémon.

Gallery

Using Body Slam

Using Poison Gas