Miguel's Politoed

**Miguel's Politoed** (Japanese: **ミグエルのニョロトノ** *Migueru's Nyorotono*) is the second Pokémon that Miguel was known to possess.

## **History**

### **Johto**

Politoed first appeared as a Poliwag as one of the family Pokémon at Miguel's home that he grew up with. When the Team Rocket Grunts stole Miguel's backpack, containing the Poké Balls of his family Pokémon, Poliwag's Poké Ball was washed away by the stream and ended up with a wild Granbull. Soon after, Miguel found and defeated the Granbull and regained Poliwag.

When Miguel had his first encounter with the Masked Man, his attempts to avoid him were ruined by Poliwag being curious about his Gastly, resulting in Miguel fighting him. Soon after the fight started, Poliwag was hit by Gastly's Shadow Ball, forcing Miguel to run and hide.

Poliwag was seen training inside the Pokémon Day Care, defeating a Donphan. After the training was over, the Day-Care Lady gave Miguel and Poliwag a King's Rock as a gift.

When Miguel and Martinez become trapped under the collapsed Tin Tower, Martinez tells Miguel to send out his Water-type Pokémon because water will pull up underground water, which will allow them to escape. Miguel sends out Poliwag, but the maximum amount of water that Poliwag can use is too small. Poliwag then evolves into Poliwhirl, and Martinez tells Miguel to trade using the Pokédex. Miguel trades him for Seadra just as the tower is completely filled with mud. Then, water shoots out of the tower, along with Martinez, Miguel, Croconaw, and Miguel's newly-evolved Politoed. After they escape, Team Rocket appears and attacks the group. After a brief fight, Miguel tells Politoed to use Water Gun, but Politoed ignores him. Martinez takes over and commands Politoed to attack their Piloswine, and with the power of liquefaction and Politoed's Whirlpool, Piloswine is defeated. Afterwards, Martinez trades Politoed back to Miguel.

Politoed is sent out to battle against Martinez's Tyranitar, and attempts to attack with his advantageous water attacks, but is thwarted by Murkrow and beaten. Politoed is later used to battle against the Masked Man again. Miguel has Politoed use Dynamic Punch, but Politoed's hand becomes frozen in the process.

Politoed battled against Sham and Carl. Politoed attacks with Hypnosis and manages to put his opponents to sleep, but is stopped when their Magcargo and Slowking continue to attack through Snore and Sleep Talk. Magcargo attacks with a powerful Fire-type attack and overwhelms Politoed, forcing Miguel to recall him.

Politoed participated in Miguel's last battle against the Masked Man. Knowing that Delibird was key to the Masked Man's strategy, he had Politoed defeat it with a Perish Song, though this also took him out of the fight.

### **Battle Frontier**

Politoed joined forces with Edge's Azumarill while battling against Guile Hideout. After saving Magna and his Dusclops from Jirachi's Doom Desire attack, Azumarill used Double Team to confuse Guile Hideout so that Politoed could get a chance to sneak closer and attack. Although Guile Hideout tried to send his Walrein and Masquerain to attack the Aqua Rabbit and Frog Pokémon, they simply threw them away and attacked Guile Hideout directly, breaking his armor.

### **Arceus Arise**

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

## **Personality and Characteristics**

As a Poliwag, Politoed was an innocent and absent minded individual, often getting into trouble by wandering away due to his curiosity, which continued even after reaching its fully evolved form. Politoed is also very high spirited and gets excited when he accomplishes something.

Despite being with Miguel since childhood, Politoed had no hesitancy in ignoring Miguel when he was under Martinez's command, showing a strong sense of commitment. After evolving, Politoed became a very confident and powerful battler, being one of Miguel's most trusted Pokémon.