Ash's Staraptor

This Staraptor is a /-type Pokémon owned by Ash. He is the first Pokémon Ash obtained in the Sinnoh region.
==Personality ==
Staraptor as a Starly from his debut appearance, he shows as a navigator like the other bird Pokémon Ash had caught but he was a very calm and demeanor bird. In A Staravia Is Born!, Starly demonstrates his leadership qualities and acts as a boss from a business company when he orders Meowth in his hypnotise state to make all of the flock of Pokémon to escape. 
Upon his evolution to Staravia, he is shown as a glamorous bird Pokémon when he demonstrates his Aerial Ace to blast Team Rocket off and also the way he spoke to Ash is much more glamorous and outspoken. In A Gruff Act To Follow!, he is also shown to get disappointed and dismayed towards Ash when he didn't chose him during Gym battles until The Grass Menagerie!.
As a Staraptor, he is a really strong battler when using Close Combat and is very competitive when fighting other Pokémon.
Staraptor's glamorous and outspoken behavior and his competitive in battling is later shared by Ash's Unfezant during Ash's travels in the Unova region within her evolutionary stage.
== Biography==
Ash captured Staraptor as a Starly in his first journey to the Sinnoh region it was also used to fight his new rival Paul who captures one of the three Starly but ends up defeated before Paul releases it. He serves as a navigator like the other bird Pokémon Ash had previously.
In A Staravia Is Born!, He was trained by Ash to use Aerial Ace properly in the target but ends up getting hurt his leg. Brock manages to treat his injured leg knowing that it is not serious. When Team Rocket captures all the flock of bird Pokémon in the forest when it follows a flock of wild Swellow before being caught in the net. Starly notices all flock of Pidgeot, Swablu, Fearow, Taillow and Swellow and a Hoothoot and they are threatened by Meowth. Hoothoot eventually hypnotizes Meowth when it returns to threat a wild Swablu and Starly allows to lead the flock by ordering Meowth to put them in escape. Just as the flock escape and their robot is down thanks to the dig. Starly wants to fight Team Rocket's Pokémon but it was blown away by Jessie's Dustox from its Gust. He does not give up the fight as he flies high and evolved into Staravia, much to Ash and his friends' surprise and Staravia demonstrates its abilities by blasting Team Rocket off with a powerful Aerial Ace. After that Ash decides to use it for his first gym battle. However, in A Gruff Act To Follow!, Ash didn't chose Staravia in its first Gym battle against Roark after he chose Pikachu, Aipom and Turtwig making the former got terrified and he was sad not to be chosen so Ash cheers him up. Staravia is also used to stop a rampaging Steelix to remove one of the three spades on its head before he was knocked down by its Slam. Then, fighting off Team Rocket while exposing James and Meowth when they attempt to steal Kenny's Prinplup with its Gust and onwards either it teams up with other Pokémon. In the first battle against Gardenia before she reveals she is the Gym Leader, he was used against Gardenia's Turtwig but lost. Therefore, it is used again in the official Gym battle against Gardenia in the episode The Grass Menagerie! against Gardenia's Cherubi and he manages to defeat it with a combination of both Wing Attack and Aerial Ace. However, he was defeated again by her Turtwig due to its Leech Seed and its Leaf Storm before Ash uses his own Turtwig to fight it.
In Lost Leader Strategy!, Ash allows Staravia to watch Pikachu's battle against Reggie's Staraptor demonstrating its Brave Bird so that Staravia will learn this ability. But in Crossing the Battle, Reggie let his Staraptor to help Staravia learn the Brave Bird. Both he and Ash watch Staraptor uses its Brave Bird which it was direct hit on the rock. Staravia also does the same but losing his balance. Reggie gives Ash some advice about Staravia's concentration. Ash also let himself the target to make Staravia trains its Brave Bird ability until he masters it in A Triple Fighting Chance! during its battle against the Gym Leader Maylene, Staravia fights against her Machoke and defeats it with a combination of Quick Attack and Aerial Ace, but when he faces Meditite, he is unable to hit her due to her Detect and gets hit by a Drain Punch and a Confusion, leaving him confused and forcing Ash to recall him and use his Chimchar. When Chimchar gets confused too after weakening Meditite, Staravia returns in battle and wins the round with Brave Bird after stopping her Drain Punch with Whirlwind and fights against Maylene's final Pokémon, Lucario, but he's already too tired from the previous battles and loses, with his Brave Bird countered by Metal Claw.
In Pursuing A Lofty Goal!, Ash enters a Pokéringer Contest for the second time and using Staravia to keep the goal. In the finals, Ash faces off Paul using his Honchkrow to get the ring and goal. Both Staravia and Honchkrow are having an equal fight but damages Staravia even further with its Sky Attack to knock him down while handling the ring on his beak. Staravia manages to dodge the final blow and evolved into Staraptor and learned Close Combat, defeating Paul's Honchkrow with this ability to keep it at bay but both are equally matched when using Sky Attack and Brave Bird. As Honchkrow is about to get through the goal post with the ring, Staraptor knocks the ring to the goal post with one of his wings, making Ash win the contest.
Staraptor is then used in Ash's Gym Battle against Candice, who uses -type Pokémon. He faces off against her Medicham and defeats it with Brave Bird, but quickly loses against her Abomasnow, getting hit by an Ice Punch when he tried to hit her with a super-effective Aerial Ace.
He is then used against Nando in the first round of the Sinnoh League and wins against his Roserade with Brave Bird, but lost against his Armaldo.
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.
In the Best Wishes series in the episode The Fires Of A Red-Hot Reunion!, Staraptor is mentioned alongside Swellow by Professor Oak when Ash decides to replace his Unfezant for his Charizard after he tells his previous journeys with Charizard to Iris, Cilan and N. He informs Ash that both Staraptor and Swellow will be intrigued to meet a new friend and Flying-type Pokémon are battling each other by racing in super speeds.
=== Journeys series ===
Staraptor returned in JN114. In this episode, he greets Ash's new team of Lucario, Dragonite, Dracovish, Gengar and Sirfetch'd. Later, he helped train Dragonite alongside Swellow, Unfezant and Noivern. He later watched Ash's match against Paul where Ash merged victorious.
Staraptor appeared in JN118 where he watched Ash's match against Steven Stone and is satisfied with Ash's victory. He would later watch Ash's other matches against Cynthia and Leon and celebrated once Ash won the Masters Eight Tournament.
==Known moves==
==Trivia==
*Though Staraptor is confirmed to be male, in the Czech and Latin American Spanish dub, Staraptor is female.
**In addition in the United States dubbing, Staraptor had a female sounding voice.
*Out of all of Ash's Bird Pokémon, Staraptor took the longest to fully evolve at 116 episodes. Starly took 11 episodes to evolve into Staravia and spent 105 episodes in his midstage.
*The way Staravia evolved into Staraptor in Pursuing a Lofty Goal, is similar to how Taillow evolved into Swellow to win a Pokéringer contest in That's Just Swellow. 
*Out of all of Ash's Bird Pokémon, Staraptor is the only one to learn a -type move.
==Gallery==
Ash, Pikachu, Aipom and Starly.png|As Starly with Ash, Pikachu and Ambipom, as Aipom
Ash and Staraptor.png|With Ash and Pikachu after winning the Squallville Pokéringer
Ash with his Pokémon.png
Ash's Sinnoh Pokémon.png|Staraptor with his teammates
==Notes==
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