Donphan (Pokémon)

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Donphan (Japanese: ドンファン Donfan) is a introduced in Generation II.
It evolves from starting at level 25.
Donphan was officially revealed in the May 1997 issue of CoroCoro, along with and .https://www.zoidsland.com/1rebyu-/koro97-5b.html
The Paradox Pokémon and are said to be ancient and future relatives of Donphan, respectively, or counterparts of it from parallel timelines.
==Biology==
Donphan is a gray, with a thick, black band of hide running down the length of its back and extending to the tip of its long trunk. When this Pokémon curls up, the band resembles a car tire. This tough hide prevents regular attacks from inflicting even a scratch. A pair of white tusks, which are smaller on the female, extend from the corners of its mouth. It has thin, elongated ears held out almost perpendicular to its body. Its four short legs are each encircled with a broken, black band and have three toes.
Donphan has the ability to curl up into a ball and violently roll around like a wheel. These rolling tackles are strong enough to knock down a house. While normally calm, Donphan can become enraged and start a rampage. Once it starts its rampage, it will be almost unstoppable. Donphan will chase after anyone who angers it. The episode Date Expectations showed that this ability is further used as a form of courtship. The male Donphan have rolling competitions to demonstrate their toughness to the females. A Donphan's tough hide is so strong, not even a car can scratch it. Despite this, the armor is extremely vulnerable to rain.
In the episode Roll On, Pokémon!, it is shown that Donphan has a keen sense of smell, capable of sniffing out a gem known as amberite (Agate in the Japanese version). Donphan travels in herds with a ranking system. The larger its tusks, the higher its rank in the herd. It lives in , mountainous terrain. 
Both and share a resemblance to Donphan. Great Tusk is theorized to be Donphan's ancestor from the dinosaur era, while Iron Treads is believed to be a descendant of Donphan or a scientific weapon sent to the Pokémon world by aliens, but, according to a Professor Sada/Turo brought to the Crystal Pool by Terapagos, both Pokémon are counterparts of Donphan from parallel timelines.
===Evolution===
Donphan evolves from .
(For specifics on this Pokémon's Evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
==Game data==
===Pokédex entries===
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Donphan in the
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===Held items===
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
====Pokéathlon stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
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===Side game data===
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Main series===
====Major appearances====
=====Ash's Donphan=====
In Reversing the Charges, 's Phanpy evolved into a Donphan. It proved to be an excellent member of his team, showing its strength in every .
=====Other=====
Donphan debuted briefly at the beginning of Mewtwo Strikes Back, under the ownership of Raymond. It battled Ash's Bulbasaur and managed to land two successive hits with , only to then be defeated by Bulbasaur's . At the time, Donphan was an unknown Pokémon. In the film's remake, Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution, it played the same role.
Four Donphan made their animated series debut in Roll On, Pokémon!, under the ownership of Rochelle. She would use them to find amberite.
In Date Expectations, a was the center of romantic attention for multiple male Donphan. Ash and eventually helped one such Donphan to succeed and mate with the Shiny Donphan.
In Choose It or Lose It!, used a Donphan in his Ever Grande Conference battle against Ash. It went up against but was soon defeated.
In Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! (Part 2), Kellyn used his Capture Styler to capture a Donphan. He then had it smash through the cave-ins that were caused by an belonging to .
====Minor appearances====
In Tricks of the Trade, a Donphan was at the Pokémon Swap Meet in Palmpona.
A Donphan appeared in The Legend of Thunder!.
A Donphan appeared in Pikachu's PikaBoo.
In Gotta Catch Ya Later!, 's flashback featured multiple Donphan.
In Beg, Burrow and Steal, a Donphan was living in an underground paradise.
A 's Donphan appeared in Deceit and Assist.
In Battling The Generation Gap!, a Coordinator's Donphan competed in the .
In Challenging a Towering Figure!, a 's Donphan battled a during the Festival Battle Challenge.
In An Old Family Blend!, a Trainer's Donphan was at the Lily of the Valley Conference.
In the opening of Zoroark: Master of Illusions, used a Donphan to battle Ash and , though the outcome of that battle was left unknown.
A Trainer's Donphan appeared in Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel.
In The Power of Us, a Trainer's Donphan competed in the Pokémon Catch Race.
A Trainer's Donphan appeared in Trending Terastallization! Dance, Dance, Quaxly!.
====Pokédex entries====
===Pokémon Masters Animated Trailer===
In the Pokémon Masters Animated Trailer, a Trainer's Donphan was in a town square in Pasio.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
A silhouette of a Donphan appeared in Ponyta Tale, when Professor Oak mentioned new Pokémon beyond the previously known 151 species.
In Number One Donphan, a thieving ruffian used multiple Donphan, but they were defeated by afterwards. They reappeared in Bellsprout Rout.
In Quilava Quandary, the Day-Care Couple used a Donphan to .
In The Last Battle XIII, a Donphan was sent to participate in the fight in Ilex Forest.
In I'm Your Biggest Fan, Donphan, Wattson accidentally caught in a trap designed to catch a wild, rampaging Donphan. After coming across New Mauville, Sapphire used the wild Donphan to help Wattson shut down a power generator, adding it to her team in Plugging Past Electrike II and naming it .
In a flashback in Innocent Scientist, the International Police trained a Donphan.
====Pokédex entries====
===Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys===
A Donphan appeared in The Secret Of The Fighting Type Pokémon.
===Pokémon: Yeah! I Got Pokémon!===
A Donphan appeared in GDZ40, under the ownership of a male Trainer.
===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
In Clefairy, the Battle Instructor, a boy who had trouble controlling a Donphan. It would usually fall asleep and did so since its loss to 's .
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Donphan shares its with . They are both known as the Armor Pokémon.
* Donphan and , along with their pre-evolved forms, are the only Pokémon to swap version-exclusive status between localizations. While Phanpy and Donphan are found only in the Japanese and Korean Gold, they are not found in Gold in other languages, being found in the Silver Version of those languages instead, with Teddiursa and Ursaring getting the opposite treatment. This is changed in the remakes , where they follow the Japanese and Korean Gold and Silver.
* Donphan, , and are the only Pokémon to have both a past and future Paradox counterpart.
===Origin===
Donphan seems to be based on an adult , possibly the or the extinct due to its relatively small size (if compared to ). The ridges on its dark gray backside are similar to s, causing it to resemble a spinning car when using its attack. Its armored body may be a reference to that were trained by humans for combat. Donphan's type may come from the fact that elephants like to play in mud or that tyres always stick to the ground and are made out of which is known as a great fitting the immunity.
====Name origin====
Donphan and Donfan may be a combination of don (Spanish for lord or master) or -don (common suffix in names of prehistoric animals derived from the Ancient Greek word for tooth) and elephant.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Ash's Donphan
==References==
==External links==
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