Miguel's Sudowoodo

**Miguel's Sudowoodo** (Japanese: **ミグエルのウソッキー** *Migueru's Usokkie*) is the third Pokémon that Miguel captured after embarking on his journey, and his fifth overall.

## **History**

### **Johto**

During Miguel and Whitney's bike race towards Route 37, their path was blocked by a mysterious tree. Angered, Whitney commands her Miltank to use Rollout on the tree to little effect. Millicas, who wants to prove he's better than her, tells his Poliwag to use Water Gun on the tree, which it finally reacts, revealing itself to be Sudowoodo.

Suddenly, a Rhydon appears and Whitney attacks it using Miltank, with little effect, and Rhydon then kidnaps Whitney. DJ Mary pleads for someone to save Whitney. The race is called off and all vans are sent after Rhydon. Before Miguel can go after Rhydon as well, he notices that Sudowoodo had let out a sigh of relief, and realizes that Sudowoodo had been pretending to be a tree because it was being chased by the Rhydon. Miguel tells Sudowoodo that it needs to stand up for itself and decides to teach it how to fight.

Miguel catches Sudowoodo, and sends it to battle Rhydon. Sudowoodo emerges from the Poké Ball and sucker punches Rhydon, defeating it instantly.

Sudoowodo was used to battle against Martinez's Tyranitar, but despite striking Tyranitar with super-effective attacks such as Low Kick and Dynamic Punch, Sudowoodo was overwhelmed by the Armor Pokémon, and ultimately defeated.

Sudowoodo battled alongside Miguel against Ho-Oh at the Indigo Plateau. Miguel gets attacked by Ho-Oh, but Sudowoodo manages to retaliate, using Flail. The Masked Man is angry and has both Lugia and Ho-Oh attack Miguel. Sudowoodo manages to momentarily blind Ho-Oh with Mud-Slap, while Lugia gets struck by Rosita's Natu's Future Sight.

During the final battle against the Masked Man at Ilex Forest, Miguel, now with his full team called out, throws a Focus Band to each of them, and retrieves all but Sudowoodo and Aipom. Aipom, thrown forward by Sudowoodo, uses Agility around the Masked Man, who swats it away. The Masked Man then knocks Miguel back, just as Miguel is about to strike his four other Poké Balls with his cue. At the next moment, the Masked Man sees the Poké Balls roll towards him. Typhlosion, Politoed, Gloom and Mantine pop out. Politoed grabs Delibird and makes a humming noise. The Masked Man goes for Politoed, but Sudowoodo, with Aipom's Agility transferred to it via Baton Pass, holds him back.

### **Arceus Arise**

Sudowoodo participated in the Pokéathlon alongside Togepi and Vileplume. They start with the Jump Course, and are shown competing in Disc Catch competition. Vileplume and Sudowoodo easily catch a disc that was thrown to them, and Miguel points out that most Pokémon would crowd together to catch a single disc, but since Togepi is small, he can easily move through crowds. Togepi pushes his opponents away and easily catches the disc, which signifies the end of the match. On the next round, they compete in is the Lamp Jump. While Sudowoodo and Vileplume easily touch some lights, Togepi rudely pushes his opponents out of the way, which gives Miguel enough points to earn the Jump Medal.

The same three later competed in the Speed Course and encounter a powerful Trainer, Jet. In the Hurdle Dash and Pennant Capture competitions, Jet's team easily defeats Vileplume and Sudowoodo. In the final match, Relay Run, while most Trainers are seen running with their Pokémon, Miguel is seen simply sliding on the ground slowly while riding on his skateboard in the wrong direction. An exhausted and in last place Sudowoodo struggles to move on, so he is switched for Vileplume. Seeing there is not much time left, Miguel switches her out for Togepi. Togepi's fast speed allows him to easily catch up to Jet's Dodrio, but he is kicked away into the gravel by Dodrio's foot. The dirt gets into Togepi's eyes, preventing him from being able to see and run properly. Miguel commands Togepi to keep going and gives him directions on where to move, having spent his time memorizing the course. Togepi continues running and eventually manages to make it past Jet's Dodrio, which gives Miguel the win.

Later, Sudowoodo fought Proton's Zubat, which was a distraction from Team Rocket so that Archer could remain uninterrupted during Arceus's enshrining process at the Sinjoh Ruins. Then, Sudowoodo fought against Arceus itself. He attacks with a powerful Double-Edge, but fails to do any real damage.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

When Sudowoodo first he appeared, he was rather intimidated by the wild Rhydon's chasing, seeing as Sudowoodo pretended to be a tree to escape its pursuit, and let out a sigh of relief after seeing that it was finally free. However, Miguel convinced Sudowoodo to stand up for himself, which gave Sudowoodo enough courage to confront, and defeat, the Rhydon.

After his capture, Sudowoodo quickly outgrew his fears, and became very brave and courageous, willingly battling against opponents twice its size and strength, without either flinching or hesitating, seen during his battles against Martinez's Tyranitar and Ho-Oh.

## **Moves used**

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

### **Moves used via Mimic**

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