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Koga (Japanese: キョウ Kyou) is the former Gym Leader of Fuchsia City's Gym. He is a student of ninjutsu who specializes in . He handed out the to s who defeated him in .
He became a member of the Indigo Elite Four some time after the events of Generation I and its remakes, but before the events of Generation II and its remakes, thus leaving his daughter Janine in charge of the Fuchsia Gym.
==In the core series games==
Koga, known as the Poisonous Ninja Master, serves two roles in the Pokémon games. In and Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, he is the Leader of the Fuchsia Gym, but is promoted to be the second trainer of the Indigo Plateau Elite Four in . Koga is a user of the ; he likes the despair and horror that Poison-type Pokémon can inflict on others.
Koga has studied medicine and antidotes; he makes his own potions to heal his Pokémon. He also serves as a teacher. Many students come to him to be trained in the arts of and Pokémon. One of his students is his own daughter, Janine, who takes over his Gym in Generations and storyline. In addition to these roles, Koga also patrols the grounds of the Kanto Safari Zone, to ensure that the players of the Safari Game are safe from the wild Pokémon within.
In Generations , , and , Koga's Gym is typically the fifth Gym to be challenged. He has built invisible walls in the Fuchsia City Gym, constructing a confusing maze out of them. Koga awaits challengers in the center of the maze, clearly visible, but a group of Koga's students must be fought first. Defeating him will earn the successful Trainer the and the TM for , a move which, according to him, is a secret technique that has passed down his family for over 400 years.
With the future of the Gym in his daughter's hands, Koga advances to a role in the Pokémon League of Kanto and Johto before the events of Generations II and IV. In these games, he is the second member of the Elite Four to be faced. The team he uses in this role is similar to his Gym Leader's teams; the main difference is the introduction of . Koga's battle style as an Elite Four member is designed to confound and destroy his opponent in battle. Rather than using brute force, Koga attempts to confuse, put to sleep, and poison his opponent.
He speaks with a Japanese accent, as evidenced in Pokémon Masters EX. In the same game, he reveals that be became interested in Poison-type Pokémon after he was once exposed to a 's poison.
===Fame Checker===
This is a list of the Fame Checker's information on Koga in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Versions.
;Fuchsia City - Sign
* What does this person do?
:"<sc>Fuchsia City Pok</sc>é<sc>mon Gym</sc>
:<sc>Leader: Koga</sc>
:The Poisonous Ninja Master"
;Fuchsia Gym - Koga
* Favorite kind of <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc>?
:"Despair to the creeping horror of <sc>Poison</sc>-type <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc>!"
;Fuchsia Gym - Kirk
* What is this person like?
:"Even though I've lost, I will keep training according to the teachings of <sc>Koga</sc>, my ninja master."
;Fuchsia City - Charine
* Family and friends?
:"My father is the <sc>Gym Leader</sc> of this town.
:I’m training to use <sc>Poison Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc> as well as my father."
;Safari Warden's Home - 
* There’s a rumor...
:"<sc>Koga</sc> is said to have a thorough knowledge of medicine.
:He even concocts medicine to nurse his <sc>Pok</sc>é<sc>mon</sc> to health."
; - Man
* What does this person do?
:"The <sc>Safari Zone</sc>'s huge, wouldn't you say?
:<sc>Fuchsia</sc>'s <sc>Gym Leader, Koga</sc>, patrols the grounds every so often.
:Thanks to him, we can play here knowing that we're safe."
;Message from <sc>Koga</sc>
* From: <sc>Koga</sc>
* To: [Player]
:"You and I, we must both set our sights higher and work towards meeting our challenges.
:Now, I must go train my daughter."
===Pokémon===
This is a listing of Koga's Pokémon in the in which he has appeared.
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Koga has two X Attacks per Pokémon, using them randomly 25% of the time.
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Koga has two X Attacks per Pokémon, using them randomly 25% of the time.
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Koga has a Full Heal and a Full Restore.
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Koga has two Hyper Potions and a Full Heal.
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=====First battle=====
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=====Rematch=====
This team is used once the player has earned all 16 Badges.
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====Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!====
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==In the side series games==
===Pokémon Stadium===
Koga appears in Pokémon Stadium as the fifth Gym Leader the player faces during the Gym Leader Castle challenge. In Round 2, he also uses Pokémon outside his specialty type.
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===Pokémon Stadium 2===
Koga returns in as the second Elite Four member in the Johto Gym Leader Castle. His strategy revolves around using to poison his opponents and to evade their attacks.
During the game's end credits, Koga is seen having a battle with his daughter Janine at the Fuchsia Gym.
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==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Puzzle League===
In Pokémon Puzzle League, Koga, as he appears in , is one of the opponents in the 1P Stadium mode, and one of the characters available in the 2P Stadium mode.
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===Pokémon Puzzle Challenge===
Koga appears as an opponent in Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, where he uses a .
===Pokémon Zany Cards===
Koga appears, along with Sabrina, as the Stage 4 opponent of Special Seven mode.
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Koga, in his design, forms a sync pair with in Pokémon Masters EX. Koga became a playable sync pair since the game's release, with him joining the after completing the sixteenth chapter of the PML Arc.
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===Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket===
Koga makes an appearance as a card in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket's first expansion, . When the player plays this card, they may take a or from the Active Spot and put it into their hand.
==Gallery==
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====In other games====
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==Quotes==
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===Pokémon the Series===
==== History ====
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Koga appeared in The Ninja Poké-Showdown. He operates the Fuchsia Gym in the woods outside Fuchsia City. , Koga's younger sister, is one of his students.
 and managed to overcome the Gym's traps before meeting Koga, and Ash challenged him to a Gym . During the match, Ash's Pidgeotto initially lost to Koga's newly evolved , prompting Ash to call out . However, their match was interrupted when tried to steal Koga's large supply of Voltorb, even though they originally raided the Gym with the intent of getting Pokémon. Team Rocket was eventually stopped by 's unexpectedly powerful attack. Koga then offered to trade his Venomoth for Psyduck, but declined. Ash and Koga then had a rematch; pitting Charmander against Koga's Golbat, Ash triumphed and won the .
In Bad To The Bone, Otoshi revealed through a flashback that he defeated Koga's with his and obtained the Soul Badge.
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He reappeared in a flashback in The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!.
====Character====
Koga is dedicated to perfecting his techniques. Like the traps in his Gym, he attempts to confuse and disorientate his opponents to get the upper hand during a match.
====Pokémon====
=====On hand=====
This listing is of Koga's known in :
=====At Fuchsia Gym=====
====Voice actors====
===Pokémon Origins===
Koga appeared briefly in File 3: Giovanni. He was seen losing a Gym against and handing him a as a proof of his victory.
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===GOTCHA!===
Koga briefly appeared in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
Koga uses custom-made Poké Balls that can be thrown as —perhaps an inspiration for Falkner's later boomerang Poké Balls.
====History====
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Koga is one of the three villainous heads of Team Rocket, and he serves under .
Koga debuts in Raging Rhydon, where he is searching the Moon Stone in Mt. Moon. Here, Koga fights with and Misty and forces his Rhyhorn to evolve with a mysterious injection, revealing what happened to Misty's Gyarados when it was kidnapped, but the mission fails. Koga later tries to scare off Red in Lavender Town's Pokémon Tower, and uses a Gastly to reanimate the corpses of dead Pokémon buried there. He also attacks Red with his Arbok. However, has his slice Arbok in half. Under his boss's orders, he captures and brings it to Saffron City. He is once again defeated by Blue at Silph Co., albeit that he almost killed both of them by not allowing them to reach their Poké Balls by using his Muk, then almost freezing them to death with his Articuno. After he is defeated and knocked out, Red claims Koga's Soul Badge and Blue uses his special Golbat to find out where Team Rocket is holding his grandfather.
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Koga helps the Pallet Town Trainers in the fight against the Elite Four at Cerise Island. Koga is paired with Blue and battles Agatha, but Blue first returns his Golbat to him. When the two of them finally meet Agatha in a cave, she uses her Arbok to cause stalactites to rain down on them, separating them. Agatha then makes Blue and Koga's Golbat (that he got paired up with again) face Agatha's Golbat. Meanwhile, Koga's Arbok had to face Agatha's Arbok, which could change its patterns, allowing it to gain the upper hand over Koga. When Blue was blinded from a Haunter's Lick, Koga started throwing his shuriken balls. Agatha thought this was a desperate tactic, but in reality they were Pokémon holding Paralyze Heals. Koga was hoping at least one of them would get to Blue, which it did. Blue then joins him, and Koga commands his Golbat to use Leech Life on himself. His blood is then put on Arbok's torso to prevent its ability to change its pattern. Without Arbok's ability, Agatha was seemingly defeated.
However, in reality, Agatha just pretended to be defeated and had her masquerade as Koga and Blue's shadow to slowly suck the life out of them. The two did not realize this at first, and reasoned Koga's loss of energy was due to his sudden loss of a large amount of blood. After traveling through the maze of stalactites for a while, they found themselves back where they started with Agatha nowhere to be found. They then figured out her plan and defeated the Gengar, but not before Koga is nearly crushed in the collapsing terrain of the destroyed battleground. He narrowly escapes using his to defend him in his wounded state.
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Unlike the other two Rocket Admins, who were instructed to return and manage their Gyms, Koga could not be reached by Giovanni following the events in Cerise Island. His status for most of this chapter was unclear, with his daughter Janine being left in charge of the Gym and with no knowledge of his whereabouts. Janine is worried for her missing father, but nonetheless opposes his criminal ties.
Eventually Koga would reappear with a new partner, Bruno, an unwilling member of the Elite Four who had saved Koga when Cerise was about to collapse. The two had since been training together for a while until they met their former opponents Red and Blue, whose Rhydon was drilling underground towards Ilex Forest. Towards the end of the series, Koga and Bruno meet Will and Karen in the Ilex Forest and persuaded the pair of defeated Team Rocket members to work together with them, thus forming what would eventually become a new and official Elite Four.
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After a long absence, Koga returns, along with the rest of the Elite Four, in Attaway, Aipom!. They face in the Pokéathlon Power Course, with Koga taking part in the Circle Push event and easily winning it. Despite this, however, Gold manages to later make a comeback in the final event and win the course.
====Pokémon====
This is a listing of Koga's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
=====Released=====
====Pokémon competitions====
Koga has competed in the following :
* Pokéathlon - Circle Push; Winner (Attaway, Aipom!)
===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
Koga first appeared in Save The Chansey!!. At the beginning of the story, he was depicted as having a greedy personality.
He hired a Chansey torturer to kidnap several because he wanted them for himself. sneaked in with and to rescue the Chansey. However, Koga spotted them and sent out and to stall them. However, Clefairy defeated them both and rescued the Chansey.
In Aim to be the No. 1 Pokémon!!, Koga, now reformed, was revealed to have registered for the No. 1 Pokémon Contest. Koga participates with Ninetales but loses since Ninetales did not dazzle the audience.
After Red's travels in Johto, Koga is revealed to have joined the Johto Elite Four in A Challenge to the Elite Four!. He, along with Will and Bruno fell from the Elite Four Tower, seemly defeated by Karen. Red asks them what happened, but Koga asks him to ask Karen directly. It is later revealed that Karen decided to tell them a joke after an exhausting training session, and they fell down the building after hearing the joke.
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=====Escaped=====
===The Electric Tale of Pikachu===
Koga makes a cameo appearance in Pikachu's Excellent Adventure.
In the manga, Jessie, James, and get trapped in Koga's Gym while searching for the Hidden Village with , a , a , a , and . Their battle is only shown briefly in a montage sequence and it is unknown whether Team Rocket was victorious or not. It is also never shown if himself battles Koga.
===Magical Pokémon Journey===
Koga makes a brief cameo in The Wal Comes Tumbling Down. Walnut, an aspiring ninja master, mentions that Koga is a big inspiration to him.
===Pokémon Zensho===
Koga appeared in PZ06, where he attacked at the , demanding he hand over the Gold Teeth he had discovered and challenging him. At first, Satoshi was unable to battle due to having left all of his Pokémon at the reception desk, until the he had met at the Safari Zone came to his help. After being defeated, Koga admitted that he had originally stolen the Gold Teeth from the Safari Zone Warden as a petty revenge for having built the Safari Zone where a ninja village had once stood.
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==In the TCG==
Koga has an Theme Deck in the expansion.
===Artwork===
 	
Koga and the Soul Badge	Koga's updated art
===Cards===
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Koga or his Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==In the TFG==
 appears as a in the expansion pack of the Pokémon Trading Figure Game.
==Trivia==
* Out of the original Generation I Gym Leaders, Koga has the fewest Trainer cards in the Gym Leader sets of the TCG.
* Koga is the first Elite Four member who was introduced in an earlier generation and then attained the title in a later generation.
* Koga is the only Gym Leader introduced as of Generation V who does not appear in . This is due to his status as an Elite Four member in the Generation II and games.
* Koga uses a on his team in all of the games in which Sabrina does not use one on her team, and vice-versa.
* Koga and Janine are the only two Gym Leaders to have the same slogan in different generations.
==Names==
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	キョウ Kyou 	From 杏 kyō (), corresponding to the character's kun'yomi reading being anzu
English, German, Spanish,French, Italian,Brazilian Portuguese	Koga 	From 甲賀流 Kōga-ryū, a school of ninjutsu
Korean 	독수 Doksu 	From 독 (毒) dok (poison) and 독수 (毒手) doksu (vicious means)
Chinese () 	阿桔 Ā Jié 	From 桔梗 jiégěng / gitgáng ()
Chinese () 	阿桔 Ā Git 	From 桔梗 jiégěng / gitgáng ()
Chinese () 	阿梗 Ā Gáng 	From 桔梗 jiégěng / gitgáng ()
Thai 	เคียว Khiao	Transcription of his Japanese name
Vietnamese 	Kyo 	Transcription of his Japanese name
==References==
==Related articles==
* Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
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