Danny's Charmeleon

**Danny's Charmeleon** is the first Pokémon Danny acquired on his journey as a Pokémon Trainer.

## History

As a Charmander, it was one of the Pokémon Professor Oak selected to be given to trainers.

### Adventures in Kanto

Professor Oak presented Charmander as one of the three options for Danny to choose from, and Danny ended up choosing the Fire-type. Charmander seemed overly excited to join and soon got to have his first battle, which ended up in the capture of Weedle.

It did a lot of battling, going up against Eric's Gastly in Viridian City and in the forest against an angry flock of Beedrill. With the type disadvantage, Danny decided not to use Charmeleon in his gym battle against Brock, but he did help with the capture of Bellsprout right before that. Being afraid of water, Charmander didn't like spending time at the beach.

Along with his trainer, Charmander was caught in Mt. Moon after a collapse and was eventually returned to his Pokéball to save oxygen, the following day, when the path was cleared, he functioned as a flashlight to get everyone safely out of the mountain.

Taking Misty's type speciality in consideration, Danny chose to battle her with Beedrill and Bellsprout instead of Charmander. When the duo lost, Beedrill volunteered to give up his spot in favor of Pidgey and Danny won the gym battle. After seeing his trainer turned into a Charmander as well, Charmander had a lot of fun playing with Danny.

Charmander finally had a shot at battling a Gym Leader when facing Lt. Surge. During the battle, Charmander went up against Raichu but had trouble keeping up. Once he managed to release a Flamethrower the Electric-type was knocked out, but Charmander fainted in the progress. Since Beedrill was still conscious, Danny won the battle. Afterwards, Danny and Charmander trained so Flamethrower could be mastered.

During the Celadon City Takeover, Charmander was one of the Pokémon not captured and he aided Danny and Gregg with taking back the Game Corner. When Beedrill got injured, Charmander angrily jumped into battle and defeated Dawson's Golbat with ease, evolving in the process, after which he also beat Dawson's Grimer.

Now evolved, Charmeleon took the lead of the group of Pokémon still free, mainly Danny's team and Richard's Squirtle. Together, they managed to join the larger Pokémon army on top of the Department Store. Here, Charmeleon became one of the leaders, together with Erika's Victreebel. He helped beat the NTR and later assisted in defeating Gordon's Machoke, who had been left behind.

   Charmeleon, giving his typing, participated in Danny's gym battle against Erika. He defeated Erika's Vileplume, but was switched out so Pidgey could face Victreebel. When Kadabra leff the team, he and Charmeleon had a tearful goodbye. Later in Enveriss, Charmeleon was the Pokémon Danny showed to the inhabitants to convince them Pokémon weren't evil creatures.

## Personality and Characteristics

Charmeleon is seen to be extremely loyal to his trainer, Danny. As a Charmander, he loved to play. Now a Charmeleon, he has grown more serious. He is really afraid of water, something that has been shown on several occasions.

As a Charmander, he had trouble accepting Weedle into the team, as he still saw Weedle as the enemy. This only happened once though, and Pokémon captured after Weedle were all accepted by the starter. After evolving, Charmeleon became the leader of the group in Danny's absence, like seen during the Celadon City Takeover. He didn't always feel like a leader though, and often relied on a second-in-command to help him with tough decisions.