Athena, Kathy's Medicham

This **Medicham**, nicknamed **Athena**, is a **Fighting**/**Psychic** type Pokémon owned by Kathy.

## History

### As Meditite

She met Kathy after her battle with Roxanne. She sees the true strength in her and so she joined Kathy in her Hoenn Pokémon team. She made her physical debut in "*Sharpedo Attack*" where she helped rescue Miki using Psychic and by defeating several Sharpedo with Focus Punch.

She was present in "*Brave the Wave!*" after Ash's own arrogance ultimately led him to lose to Brawly and had a physical fight with Ritsu and for making Nodoka Miyazaki cry after she smacked him out of emotion, Ash couldn't bring himself to hurt the shy bookworm, so Gardevoir did her job for him after he yelled at her Pokémon, she was about to shock him again until Athena stepped in to protect Ash using Protect, causing the shy bookworm to give her the name, Athena.

In "*Hometown Rematch!*", Athena was first used to battle Hitmonlee during Kathy's rematch with Brawly, although she had superior power and psychic abilities, she got inflected with burn damage after getting hit by Blaze Kick.

All Althena could do was to go all out by countering it with High Jump Kick who the former had also used, the force of the collision knocked out both Pokémon, leaving both sides down to their last Pokémon.

In "*A Meditite Fight*", Athena sensed an incoming disaster, when another large boulder was falling towards Negi, Miya (which was Nodoka Miyazaki's nickname) and Aphrodite, without Kathy's command, she held the large boulder using her Pure Power Ability, then she threw it up so high that the force of its power caused her to evolve into Medicham.

### As Medicham

Her evolution into Medicham not only upgraded her power and psychic abilities, but it also granted her the ability to speak telepathically.

In "*Now That's Flower Power*", she had a battle with Aphrodite to see how strong she has become after her evolution, and she learned Poison Jab and easily defeated her.

In "*Pros and Con Artists*" Kathy showed Grace her own Medicham and reveals that she can speak via telepathy. During the confrontation with Team Rocket, Athena reveals that she learned how to use Ice Punch after watching Grace's own Medicham use it.

## Personality and characteristics

When Athena was a Meditite, she usually stays focused during battles. She and Kathy are exactly alike since they know fighting abilities.

As shown in "*Brave the Wave!*", Athena can be good at making Pokemon and people's judgement, she is also shown to be willing to help others when she protected Ash from Aphrodite, whom she had berated at him for his arrogance and attacked him with Hyper Voice, only for her to use Protect to stop Aphrodite's Thunderbolt shortly afterwards.

After she evolved into Medicham, her abilities were enhanced and also granted the ability to speak through telepathy. During this power of telepathy, she speaks in a Chinese accent.

## Win Percentage

### Wins

* Wild Sharpedo (Sharpedo Attack)
* Miyazaki's Gardevoir (Now That's Flower Power)

## Gallery

Medicham Ice PunchMedicham Focus PunchMedicham Fire Punch

## References

1. ↑ Revealed in Brave the Wave!
2. ↑ The name was given by Nodoka Miyazaki in *Brave the Wave!*
3. ↑ Shown in *Here's Meditite!*.