Miguel's Typhlosion

**Miguel's Typhlosion** (Japanese: **ミグエルのバクフーン** *Migueru's Bakphoon*) is the first Pokémon that Miguel captured after embarking on his journey, and his third overall.

## **History**

### **Johto**

Typhlosion first appeared as a Cyndaquil at Professor Elm's laboratory, alongside Totodile and Chikorita. Later, when Miguel and Martinez snuck into Elm's Lab, Miguel chose Cyndaquil to fight against Martinez due to how upset he was at seeing Totodile being stolen. Cyndaquil surrounds Martinez with a ring of fire while Miguel demands his backpack and Totodile back. Before Martinez can respond, however, a Team Rocket Grunt interrupts and knocks Miguel out of the way.

Cyndaquil fought against Totodile in the Sprout Tower. The two start out with Tackle and Scratch, respectively, and follow up with Ember and Water Gun, respectively, giving Totodile the lead. Due to this, Cyndaquil counters with Smokescreen and gives Miguel a chance to take Totodile back, but he refuses and bites him. The smoke soon sets off an alarm in the tower and activates its traps.

Although the two Trainers are able to avoid the first few traps, they get pushed into a tight spot when a massive metal ball starts to roll down the stairs they are on. With the staircase torn by Totodile's Slash attack, Martinez knows that there's nowhere to run, but then also adds that since these were for training purposes, their two Pokémon should be able to help. Cyndaquil and Totodile whisper to one another, and the former begins to set the iron ball on fire with its flames, after which the two Trainers figure what it's trying to do, and Martinez eventually orders an Ice Punch, shattering it and saving them both.

Cyndaquil battled alongside Miguel's other Pokémon against the Masked Man. Cyndaquil fought against the Masked Man's Houndour and lost due to Miguel not knowing how to handle battling with multiple Pokémon.

Cyndaquil is trained at the Pokémon Day Care. Cyndaquil starts by using Smokescreen and follows up with Ember, but a Donphan deflects it. Later in the day, he battles against a Primeape and defeats it with Ember thanks to a Sunny Day from Oddish. After the defeat, he evolves into Quilava.

Quilava was Miguel's first choice in his battle against Martinez, and fought against Croconaw again. Croconaw starts by drenching Quilava with Water Gun and biting down on him with Bite. Quilava manages to dodge the attack with Double Team, breaking Croconaw's teeth. Croconaw recovers and throws Quilava away, and Miguel sends out Oddish to support him with Sunny Day. Martinez counters this by having Sneasel use Blizzard, freezing her. Quilava attempts to help with Ember, but Miguel decides that Quilava cannot handle it and switches him out.

Quilava fought against the Masked Man again. He and Sneasel attack his Delibird and manage to put some distance between the Masked Man and their Trainers. The Masked Man then sends out his Shiny Ariados and Houndour, and Quilava and Sneasel attack with Flame Wheel and Icy Wind, respectively. The villain's two Pokémon suddenly disappear, and Miguel, Quilava, and Sneasel are hit by a minor surprise attacks afterwards.

Quilava fought against a wild Lugia and met back up with Croconaw and Bayleef. After a tiring battle with Lugia, the three starters evolve into their respective final forms due to the stress of the battle and the encouragement of the others. Miguel then attempts to capture Lugia, but it escapes.

Typhlosion fought in Miguel's last battle against the Masked Man at Ilex Forest. Typhlosion used his enhanced Fire-type attacks caused by Sunny Day to melt the Masked Man's ice and prevent him from regenerating his ice body. Then, Typhlosion fought alongside the other starters to try and stop Pryce from capturing Celebi.

### **Battle Frontier**

Prior to Miguel's arrival at the Battle Frontier, Typhlosion was revealed to have mastered Blast Burn from Ultima. Typhlosion is first seen alongside Aipom 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, Typhlosion teamed up with Robyn's Charizard and Gwendolyn's Blaziken to attack with Blast Burn to help destroy Guile Hideout's Kyogre-shaped monster.

### **Arceus Arise**

Typhlosion participated in the Pokéathlon alongside Politoed and Aipom. 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, Typhlosion fought against Arceus. He attacks with a powerful Blast Burn, but fails to do any real damage.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Typhlosion is a very kind and caring Pokémon and cares deeply for his friends, seen as when Typhlosion, along with the rest of Miguel's Pokémon, went to great lengths to rescue Togepi's Egg from a wild Gligar, all the while Miguel was asleep and unaware.

Having known Feraligatr ever since their Cyndaquil-Totodile days, the two starter Pokémon share a strong friendship and rivalry, seen as when the two were quickly able to work together to save their respective Trainers from the collapsing Tin Tower mere moments after they were battling one another.