Ash's Torterra

This Torterra is a /-type Pokémon owned by Ash.
==Personality==
In its debut appearance as a Turtwig, it is shown to be nice, kind and a street-smart Pokémon who shares other Pokémon's food and giving them some fruits. He's also shown to be overprotective to fellow Pokémon when he protects Pikachu from Ash. This is similar to Ash's Bulbasaur and Brock's Mudkip. Torterra is also shown to settle feuds with angry Pokémon. When he likes the trainer, such as Ash and Clara, he is seen to bite their heads in affection, much like James' Carnivine and later Ash's Gible.
In The Champ Twins!, Torterra, as a Turtwig, had an initial argument with Dawn's Piplup when Ash and Dawn are arguing at each other during their tag battle against The Champ Twins which resulted in their first loss. Both continues to argue until Pikachu breaks up by hitting them with a Thunderbolt. Both of them later teamed up to fight Team Rocket's Pokémon and finally against The Champ Twins and the two became best friends, after both Ash and Dawn win.
Torterra has a very close relationship with both Ash and its teammates, especially with Pikachu and Infernape, who are its other best friends.
As a Grotle, it retains its pre-evolved personality and showing its determination to train harder by itself as seen in Aiding The Enemy!, although in here, it actually feels sad about its lower speed until Paul's Torterra instructed him to rely on its defense. Grotle also makes friends with a wild Snover in The Lonely Snover and they had share their innate ability to grow Snover berries and Grotle nuts.
As a Torterra, its behavior is similar to Paul's Torterra and retains its determination from the time he was a Grotle, and can defend fellow Pokémon from any attacks as possible as seen in The Fleeing Tower of Sunyshore!.
==Biography==
===Diamond and Pearl series===
Torterra was first caught as a Turtwig after battling Ash and his Pikachu. In its debut appearance, it manages to save Pikachu from Team Rocket and also shows its overprotective nature when protecting Pikachu from Ash. Turtwig is also friends with an old lady named Clara and its affection is to bite someone's head like Ash while showing affection to Clara when she blocks him with just a long twig. After Team Rocket is blasted off, Turtwig decides to challenge Ash using Pikachu to fight but was defeated and allows Ash to capture it. Clara tells Ash to take good care of Turtwig. Turtwig is also used by Ash while fighting Paul's Chimchar, but he lost, as despite him fighting well, it seemed hesitant when ordered to dodge.
Turtwig was used to face several opponents. As Ash's last Pokémon, it fought against Roark's Cranidos after it defeated Aipom and wins after Pikachu weakened it, but due to it being weakened by Cranidos's Flamethrower, it loses against his Onix, who later defeated Pikachu too, causing Ash to lose the match. However, in the rematch, it faces a newly evolved Rampardos after it defeated both Pikachu and Aipom, and wins. It also faced Gardenia's Turtwig twice, and Crasher Wake's Quagsire.
In The Grass Menagerie!, Turtwig battles Gardenia's Turtwig after it loses the battle against her in their first bout upon meeting. Both are equally matched even it got a disadvantage when it took the effects of its Leech Seed. Turtwig eventually heals itself from its Synthesis as both of them charge head on using Tackle, with Ash's Turtwig managing to defeat Gardenia's. Therefore, Turtwig was easily defeated by Gardenia's Roserade in one hit by Weather Ball, which became a -type attack, causing Ash to use Aipom as his final Pokémon to fight until she defeats it.
Turtwig participated in the second round of the Hearthome City tag battle tournament. Seeing Paul's Chimchar in a week condition and through Ash's instruction, Turtwig defends his tag battle partner and his new friend, which the Chimp Pokémon appreciated. Turtwig's selfless act in defending him inspired Chimchar to do the same thing for him. Turtwig and Chimchar managed to defeat their opponents, which got their Trainer's to the semi-finals. After the battle, Turtwig was worried about Chimchar as he accompanied Ash and their friends in order to make sure that he's okay. Although, upon arriving at their location, Turtwig witness Chimchar get abounded by Paul as he and his friends feel bad for him. However, Turtwig agreed with Ash's idea of having Chimchar join them as he would like to have a friend like him for a teammate. After Team Rocket tried to take Chimchar away and he managed to escape on his own, Turtwig, Ash, Piplup and Pikachu go to help their friend. When Ash caught Chimchar, Turtwig was relived that he was okay then he, Puplup and Pikachu encouraged him to join them. After Chimchar accepted the offer and was caught by Ash, Turtwig was pleased to have his new friend become one of his teammate.
In some episodes, Ash does his best to train Turtwig of learning Energy Ball until in the episode, Riding the Winds Of Change!. Ash tells Turtwig to use Energy Ball against Team Rocket when they attempt to steal all the Gligar. Turtwig finally masters this move when it focuses on using its full extent of its power and unleashes it to hit Team Rocket's Meowth Balloon to blast them off.
After Turtwig learned Energy Ball, it fought against Crasher Wake's Quagsire. Despite the big type advantage (Quagsire is a Water and Ground type Pokémon), it has difficulty against it, being hit by two super effective attacks: Sludge Bomb and Ice Beam, so it gets recalled.
In Aiding the Enemy!, Turtwig trains along with Dawn's Pokémon along with Ash's Pikachu, Buizel and Chimchar. When Paul arrives to see them while it was with Brock, Chimchar was afraid to see Paul again as both Piplup and Turtwig defend it. Turtwig battles against Paul's Honchkrow but it was attacked by its attacks multiple times. Turtwig, desperate to fight against Honchkrow, evolved into Grotle, but lost due to its lowered Speed and unable to dodge due to its larger size and increased weight. After Honchkrow defeats it, Grotle is brought to the Pokémon Center. Paul's Torterra was watching the whole time while being groomed by Team Rocket who is disguised as Gardeners to tend its trees from its shell. It also convinces Paul during its practice to help Ash's Grotle but he tells it to let them be. As everyone is asleep, Grotle decides to leave on its own and desperately trains itself to regain its speed but it tripped and failed multiple times. This is very upsetting for it, to the point that it is about to cry, but it was found by Pikachu, Buizel, Chimchar and Gliscor while Piplup, Staravia and Croagunk tries to wake Ash, Dawn and Brock. The group are confronted by Paul's Torterra which it allows Gliscor to attack both X-Scissor and Steel Wing at it but Torterra does a Body Slam but spares Gliscor when unleashes its Frenzy Plant. Torterra did this as a pointers for Grotle to fight on the ground rather than speed before walking away back to its trainer, Paul who remarks how curious it is. With that, Ash decides to train Grotle to fight on the ground after Paul's Torterra's advice to help Grotle fighting on the grounds.
Grotle became friends with a wild Snover in The Lonely Snover when it spends time with Ash and his friends along with their Pokémon. After Ash and his friends are done eating breakfast, they discovered Grotle had grown several nuts from the trees in its shell as Brock states that it was the adjustment to Grotle's evolution and all of the wild Pokémon are here to eat its nuts. Suddenly, both Grotle and Snover are captured in the cage by Team Rocket for the second time after they fail the first time. Pikachu tries his best to release them with Thunderbolt but it was unaffected and Grotle manages to get free with Energy Ball except Snover. When Ash and his friends chase Team Rocket's Meowth Balloon, Grotle tries to follow them but it got tripped due to its heavier size. Desperate to rescue its friend, Grotle learns Rock Climb as it climbs faster to save Snover and manages to destroy the balloon to blast Team Rocket off. Grotle also saves Snover while it catches him to Brock's Happiny to safety and soon becomes tired after saving it.
Since evolution, Grotle managed to defeat Candice's Sneasel despite the type disadvantage, taking Icy Wind and hitting it with Razor Leaf before knocking it out with Rock Climb. but quickly lost to her Abomasnow.
Grotle is among of Ash's Pokémon are in a bad shape after it lost to Paul in the first Full Battle. It was used against Electabuzz, but after its Energy Ball was blocked by Light Screen, it was switched for Honchkrow, which combined with the effects of Light Screen, it's too much for Grotle, as after it heals itself with Synthesis, it gets defeated by a Sky Attack, being the first to lose in battle. After Pikachu is rescued while Team Rocket are blaming each other, Ash commands, Staraptor, Buizel, Grotle, Pikachu, Gliscor and Monferno to blast Team Rocket off with their powerful abilities after Ash fully restores his confidence and determination from his first loss.
In The Fleeing Tower of Sunyshore!, during a Gym Battle against Volkner, Ash uses Grotle to fight Volkner's Luxray which got postponed soon after it was caused a black out even his electric creations as well. As they get out of the Gym in a manual situation, Volkner was informed by Officer Jenny that all of the electricity of the Sunyshore City was cut off. Volkner decides to investigate the matter after it tells Ash and his friends and Flint about the Solar Power it had made for the city until Team Rocket shows up at the top of the tower to confront them. They reveal that they are here to steal the Sunyshore Tower which it manage to steal by moving heavily in wheels. Volkner would never allow someone to get his tower, it chases Team Rocket followed by Flint along with Ash and the group to stop them. By the time they arrived, Team Rocket had modeled the Sunyshore Tower into a rocket tower. As it started to blast off, Ash, Flint and Volkner manage to hang on the rocket leaving Brock and Dawn behind. However, Flint falls into the rocket and land into the water. Only Ash and Volkner are able to enter inside the tower. Upon going to the observatory, they got caught in the cage even both Pikachu and Raichu's electric attacks are negated due to absorbing electricity from the tower. With no other choice, Ash releases Gible to smash the bars from the cage with Rock Smash to free them and attacks Team Rocket at the same time with its Bite. James and Jessie release both Carnivine and Seviper to attack both Raichu and Pikachu. Despite their efforts to electrocute them it got attacked quickly with both Vine Whip and Poison Tail forcing Ash to use Grotle to attack Team Rocket's Pokémon with Tackle and eventually evolved into Torterra while defending both Pikachu and Raichu and knocks their Pokémon with its newly learned Leaf Storm and finally blasts Team Rocket off with another Leaf Storm. Torterra was watching Pikachu, Raichu and Luxray with their Thunder ability to keep the electricity at bay while Volkner did his best to return the tower back to the city. After the tower is restored but with light damage, Dawn was amazed to see Torterra even in her Pokédex. Volkner tells Ash that it needs some time to repair the tower and their Gym battle as Ash accepts and decides to keep training while Flint cheers Dawn to win the Grand Festival.
With his new size and strengths, Torterra now knows more powerful moves such as Leaf Storm in addition to the moves Energy Ball, Rock Climb and Synthesis. Despite his size and power, he has no problems battling Team Rocket, but he has been defeated in several battles against Pokémon that he should have an advantage over: Volkner's Electivire, Bertha's Hippowdon and Paul's Drapion, though most likely because not only did they have moves that Torterra was vulnerable against, but they also had better maneuverability than it, and its massive size and inability to dodge because of it made it an easy target. Also, even when it lost, it managed to at least put up a close fight: first, Torterra was used against Volkner's Electivire, giving it the type advantage due to its -type. It manages to hit Electivire with an Energy Ball, but it knows Fire Punch and Ice Punch to counter its weakness, and when the Continent Pokémon tries to hit it with Rock Climb, it is unable to handle a super-effective Ice Punch due to the combination of its - -type types, and gets defeated. It then fights with Bertha's Hippowdon and fought well, but despite its type advantage, it lost. Torterra is then used on the quarter-finals of the Pokémon League against Paul as Ash's fifth Pokémon, and fights Drapion, who defeated Buizel (who previously weakened it) and Staraptor. Despite being poisoned by Drapion's Toxic Spikes, it fights very well, hitting its opponent with an Energy Ball that overpowers its Cross Poison, followed by a Leaf Storm, but when it tries to hit it with Rock Climb, it gets intercepted and gets hit by Poison Fang, causing it to slide down shell-first, and a super-effective Pin Missile is too powerful for it to take despite it healed itself with Synthesis, so it was defeated. However, it managed to weaken Drapion enough for Gliscor to defeat it.
Ash finally use Torterra again during the final battle against Team Rocket's Pokémon while teaming up with Ash's Pikachu, Dawn's Piplup and Brock's Sudowoodo before they leave back to Kanto and Torterra uses both Leaf Storm and Energy Ball to hit them before blasted off by Pikachu and Piplup's Volt Tackle and Hydro Pump combination.
Ash decided to leave Torterra at Professor Oak's Lab when he made a fresh start for Unova. It currently resides at Professor Oak's Lab.
===Journeys series===
Before Ash and Volkner partook in their World Coronation Series battle, they remembered Ash's Torterra battling Volkner's Electivire in their previous battle.PJ077: Excitement From the Ultra-Shocking Start!
Torterra appeared in Friends, Rivals, Lend Me Your Spirit! He reunited with Ash and took a nap with Scraggy while Ash, Goh and Paul hung out together. Later, he watched Ash's 3 on 3 match with Paul, where Ash merged victorious.
Torterra appeared in Battling as Hard as Stone! watching Ash's match against Steven Stone. He later watched Ash's battles against Cynthia and Leon where Ash won both of these matches. After Ash decided to reuse his reserves again after beating Leon, he used Torterra to free a trapped Wailord. It's also revealed that Torterra also learned Frenzy Plant which helped make the rescue mission a success.PJ143: Ride Lapras Ride!
==Known moves==
===Improvised moves===
*Spin
*Swallowing Energy Ball
==Trivia==
*When he was a Turtwig, Torterra had a way of showing affection by biting on someone's head.
*Throughout his entire evolutionary line, Torterra has relied on specific stats to battle:
**As a Turtwig, Torterra relied on speed, accuracy, and evasiveness.
**As a Grotle, Torterra relied on defense, patience, and precise attacks.
**As a Torterra, he relied on attack power, strength, and healing.
*After evolving from Grotle to Torterra, it was the first time Ash had two fully-evolved starter Pokémon from the same region.
*Torterra is Ash's first Pokémon to learn a Hidden Move, Rock Climb.
*Ash's Torterra is the oldest Pokémon Ash owns that still has a unique type that is Grass and Ground.
*As a Turtwig, he shares some similarities to Ash's Bulbasaur:
**Both are peacekeeping Grass-type Starters that were once "owned" by someone living in the forest.
**Both lost to Pikachu before being captured by Ash.
**Both relied on speed in their base forms.
*There are some differences between the two:
**Bulbasaur and its evolutionary line are Grass and Poison Types. Turtwig started as a pure Grass Type before gaining the Ground type as a Torterra.
**Bulbasaur chose not to evolve, while Turtwig evolved all the way into his final form.
**While Bulbasaur kept its speed battle style as it refused to evolve, Torterra had to keep adapting to change up his strategy upon evolution.
==Gallery==
Ash and Turtwig.png|As a Turtwig with Ash in Oak's Lecture
Turtwig giving affection to Ash.png|As a Turtwig giving Ash affection
Grotle powered up.png|As a Grotle, powered up
Ash Grotle Swallowing Energy Ball.png|Swallowing Energy Ball as Grotle
Ash and Grotle.png|As a Grotle with Ash
Ash and Torterra.png
Ash with his Pokémon.png
Ash's Sinnoh Pokémon.png|Torterra with his teammates
==Notes==
==References==
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