Miguel's Ambipom

**Miguel's Ambipom** (Japanese: **ミグエルのエテボース** *Migueru's Eteboth*) is the first Pokémon that Miguel was known to possess.

## **History**

### **Johto**

Aipom alongside Miguel's mother, who asked him to go wake Miguel up. Along with the other Pokémon living at the house, they manage to wake Miguel up, who proceeds to play with them. Later at night, Miguel and Aipom encounter a Trainer named Joey who had his bag stolen by a wild Murkrow. Together, Miguel and Aipom manage to defeat the thieving Pokémon.

Later, Aipom battled against Martinez's Sneasel in an attempt to get Professor Elm's Totodile back. Aipom attacked with Scratch, and Sneasel blocked it with Protect. Miguel then recalled Aipom and used his billiard cue to shoot Aipom behind Sneasel, landing a direct hit.

Aipom battled alongside Miguel's other Pokémon against the Masked Man at Ilex Forest. Aipom fought against his Delibird and lost due to Miguel not knowing how to handle battling with multiple Pokémon. Despite their defeat, Aipom managed to scratch pieces of his mask off, which later proves to be instrumental in finding out his true identity.

Right after Miguel goes to sleep in the woods on the outskirts of Goldenrod City, a Gligar swoops down and snatches Miguel's Egg. Aipom tries, unsuccessfully, to wake Miguel and he rallies his teammates to chase after it. Aipom catches up first and tries to attack Gligar, but it uses Poison Sting, causing Aipom to fall. Then, Gligar kicks Poliwag, who has just jumped out of the water. Pretending to be a tree, Sudowoodo catches Gligar, and Cyndaquil uses a powerful Ember. Gligar flies away to a tree to eat the Egg, but Oddish lands on Gligar's head. Unfortunately, this makes Gligar headbutt the Egg, creating a crack in the shell. Pieces of the Egg fly off, and Togepi appears. Gligar, still hungry, attempts to eat Togepi anyway. Togepi retaliates with Double-Edge and Metronome; Metronome comes out as Supersonic, which scares Gligar off.

Aipom is sent out to battle against Martinez's Tyranitar, but is quickly pushed back by his Sandstorm attack. Aipom later battled against the Masked Man again, where Aipom manages to defeat his Houndour and Shiny Ariados by using Double Team to have them attack each other, but is knocked out alongside Miguel when the Masked Man attacks them with a barrage of ice.

Aipom later participated in Miguel's last battle against the Masked Man. Despite easily being defeated, Aipom manages to send his boosted stats to Sudowoodo, giving him the speed needed to get the upper hand in the match.

### **Battle Frontier**

Aipom fought alongside Typhlosion to fight Guile Hideout. Typhlosion lets up a powerful Flamethrower, which Aipom increases by spinning Miguel's pool cue to fan the flames in Guile's direction. Guile attempts to block the flames with his sword, but he is quickly overpowered and knocked to the ground.

Later, Aipom was seen battling Guile Hideout's stolen Battle Tower Pokémon.

### **Arceus Arise**

Aipom participated in the Pokéathlon alongside Politoed and Typhlosion. They start with the Skill Course, which ends with the round Snow Throw. The team throws snowballs at their opponents, but Miguel commands Aipom to create a gigantic one. Aipom throws it, giving Miguel enough points to win the Skill Course. The same three are later entered into the Stamina Course and manage to win that one as well. In the next round, the three enter the Power Course and go up against Koga, Bruno and Will, members of the Elite Four.

When the match starts, Miguel is shocked to see his team being defeated by his opponents. At Circle Push, Koga's Muk easily pushes Aipom, Politoed, and Typhlosion away from it. In Goal Roll, Will's Exeggutor kicks several balls into a goal while Aipom, Politoed, and Typhlosion fail to block them. In Block Smash, Miguel faces Bruno and his Machamp as his final opponents. Machamp does a powerful blow that destroys a whole row of blocks instantly. Whitney is shocked to see how powerful Machamp is as it destroys another set of blocks. On Miguel's side, Aipom attacks the cracked area in the center, but doesn't do much to the block. He switches to Politoed, but he only manages to destroy one. Miguel switches to Typhlosion next, who manages to break more blocks and is the closest to matching Machamp, but not by much. To Whitney's confusion, Miguel switches Typhlosion with Aipom.

Bruno confidently states that it's over, but Miguel begins laughing smugly. Bruno questions Miguel's motives, but he reveals that although he knew that he can't possibly beat Bruno with power, Miguel can win by getting critical hits on the blocks. By doing so, it sends Miguel's team into High Tension mode, allowing him to quickly catch up with Bruno. Bruno tries to fight back, but Machamp's arms have become too injured to be used again. Miguel has Aipom leap into the air and send a powerful strike in the dead center of the block, destroying them all and giving Miguel the win.

Later, Aipom was training with Typhlosion to learn the move Double Hit. Soon after mastering the move, Aipom evolved into Ambipom, much to the admiration of everyone around him, making Togepi jealous in the process. Soon afterwards, Ambipom fought against Arceus. He attacks with a powerful Double Hit, but fails to do any real damage.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Ambipom is one of the family Pokémon that lived with Miguel in the house he grew up in. As a result, he is very close to his Trainer. Much like his Trainer, Ambipom tends to be very mischievous and cunning, but is shown to care for others, going to great lengths to rescue Togepi's Egg. Ambipom is also very motivated to become stronger and draws strength from watching tough opponents. With his prehensile tail, Ambipom can grab objects to be used to help in battle. After his evolution, Ambipom's second hand improves his skill even further.

Being Miguel's primary Pokémon, Ambipom also acts as the de-facto leader of Miguel's party, leading them to rescue Togepi when its Egg was stolen by a wild Gligar and through its orders and quick thinking, Ambipom and the other Pokémon were successfully able to rescue Togepi, all the while Miguel was asleep, demonstrating Ambipom's leadership skills.

## **Moves used**

 A **†** shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.