Martinez's Kingdra

**Martinez's Kingdra** (Japanese: **マルティネスのキングドラ** *Maruteinesu's Kingdra*) is the second Pokémon that Martinez was known to own.

## **History**

### **Background**

Kingdra, as a Horsea, was one of two Pokémon (along with Sneasel) that Martinez owned during his time living with the Masked Man. Before Martinez and Roberta managed to escape from the Masked Man's grasp, Martinez gave Horsea to Roberta, while Roberta gave Martinez her Snubbull.

### **Kanto**

When Roberta invaded the Silph Co. during Team Rocket's invasion, she called out Horsea, who used Smokescreen to prevent Sabrina from seeing Roberta, and using her modified Silph Scope, Roberta taunts Sabrina.

### **Two Years Later**

Sometime after the crisis with the Elite Four, Roberta returned Horsea, now a Seadra, back to Martinez.

### **Johto**

When Martinez and Miguel are trapped within the collapsing Tin Tower, Martinez trades Seadra for Miguel's Poliwhirl, and with Poliwhirl holding onto a King's Rock, it evolves into a Politoed, and with the combined efforts of Politoed and Martinez's Croconaw, they manage to shoot themselves out of the tower with massive ammounts of water.

After escaping, and defeating Team Rocket Grunts that were waiting for them, Martinez and Miguel traded back, with Seadra evolving into Kingdra as a result. When Martinez and Miguel subsequently decide to battle each other, Martinez chooses Kingdra to battle against Miguel's Sudowoodo, whom Kingdra easily defeats with a single Dragon Rage attack.

When Martinez and Miguel are confronted by the Masked Man, Martinez summons Kingdra, who uses Twister to reveal the hidden ice spikes that the Masked Man scattered throughout the field.

When Martinez enters the southernmost isle of the Whirl Islands, Martinez sends out Gyarados, Kingdra, and Feraligatr and orders them to use Whirlpool, Waterfall and Surf, respectively.

### **Crisis of Deoxys**

Kingdra was summoned alongside Feraligatr and Gyarados to try and prevent the Team Rocket airship from crashing at Vermilion City. Although their efforts failed, the airship was safely landed by Mew's powers.

## **New Era**

### **Johto Journey**

During the finals of the Whirl Cup, Kingdra was Martinez's first Pokémon of choice to battle against Dwayne's Totodile. Dwayne takes the lead and commands Totodile to dive under the water, but Kingdra counters with a Twister. Martinez orders Kingdra to stop the Twister causing Totodile to freefall. Kingdra aims a Dragon Breath, but Totodile lands on one of the platforms. Martinez decides a Hydro Pump is in order, but Totodile simply walks along the attack and gets close enough to do a Slash attack. Kingdra dives to evade and Totodile does the same. Kingdra releases a Smokescreen to cloud the water. With no other option, Dwayne tells Totodile to jump out of the water. The battle comes to a standstill as Dwayne anticipates Kingdra's next move. Totodile begins to dance around, and this sign reassures Dwayne that everything will be fine. Fed up, Martinez has Kingdra resurface and try another Hydro Pump. Though Totodile Crunches onto Kingdra's snout, effectively stopping the Hydro Pump. With Kingdra being unable to release the water, it swells to enormous proportions as a result. After a while, Totodile releases its jaw and Kingdra goes flying across the stadium. It hits the water field hard and floats to the surface, knocked out.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Despite being with Martinez since his childhood, Kingdra isn't considered one of Martinez's most trusted Pokémon, due to the fact that Kingdra remained with Roberta for several years after Martinez and Roberta fled from the Masked Man, only returning to Martinez when the latter was a teenager.

## **Moves used**

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