Robyn's Charizard

**Robyn's Charizard** (Japanese: **ろびんのリザードン** *Robyn's Lizardon*) is the second Pokémon that Robyn Oak captured during his journey.

## **History**

### **Kanto**

Robyn received Charizard as a Charmander from his grandfather. Although he was given as a starter Pokémon, Charmander was not Robyn's first Pokémon, as he already owned Pinsir. Robyn tried using him against a Mew, but failed and withdrew him partly due to Edge accidentally catching his attention, which resulted in Azumarill's embarrassing defeat.

Prior to challenging the Pewter Gym, Charmander had already evolved into Charmeleon and battled against Brock in the Pewter Gym, which he apparently won, as Edge states that he and Robyn were the only ones to win the Boulder Badge.

Robyn and Charmeleon became possessed in the Pokémon Tower by a Gastly. Edge shows up and manages to save the two, at which point they head further into the tower, as Robyn is determined to find the individual responsible for turning him into a mindless slave. On the way up, Edge barely avoids touching the corrosive venom from a Poison-type Pokémon, and at Robyn's demand, the culprit reveals himself to be Koga; an elite agent of Team Rocket. Koga reveals that Team Rocket had been using the Tower as a base of operations, and thanks to the townspeople fear of the Tower they had managed to carry out operations undisturbed. Robyn has his Charmeleon attack Koga; however, it proves to be only a projection, with the real Koga controlling his Pokémon from elsewhere.

Koga sends his Arbok after Edge and Robyn, who quickly unleashes its corrosive Acid. The boys run back to where Edge had encountered the zombies, and Robyn orders a Reflect from Charmeleon. Outside the tower, Koga observes the battle from a Golbat-shaped screen, and commands another Acid that appears to break past Charmeleon's defense and corrode it as well. Koga gloats at his victory, but is soon surprised as Charmeleon slashes Arbok cleanly in two. Robyn explains that Arbok had instead melted the Psyduck corpse from earlier, and points out that Koga's strategy of controlling his Pokémon from a distance meant that he couldn't see through the substitution ploy. Edge silently concedes Robyn's skill while Koga, crushing his screen in anger, swears vengeance on the two boys. Sometime later, Mr. Fuji thanks Edge for restoring life back to Lavender Town, and for giving his deceased Doduo a proper resting place, but Edge modestly credits Robyn for what happened.

Shortly thereafter, Charmeleon is accidentally traded to Edge alongside Robyn's other Pokémon. During the three days that Edge has them, he attempts to get them to relax and open up to him, with little success. They later traded back, while keeping the caring attitude that Edge installed in them.

At some point afterwards, Charmeleon evolved into Charizard, and was used by Robyn to fly into Saffron City. He later helped defeat Koga by melting his ice-cold Blizzard room by setting the whole building on fire. Charizard then joins forces with Edge's Ivysaur and Roberta's Blastoise to battle against the monstrous hybrid of Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno. Edge, Robyn, and Roberta counter with Ivysaur's Vine Whip, Charizard's Flamethrower, and Blastoise's Hydro Pump, respectively, and in the process, Ivysaur evolves into Venusaur. Amidst the collapse of Silph Co.'s building, the combined attacks finally defeat Sabrina, and also separates the conjoined Legendary Birds. The three Trainers immediately evacuate.

Charizard was Robyn's first choice in his battle against Edge and Venusaur during the finals of the Indigo Plateau Conference. Robyn orders a Fire Spin that Venusaur barely dodges, but as Charizard lunges in for a follow-up attack, Venusaur surprises it with a burst of Poison Powder. Edge follows with a Razor Leaf that Robyn is forced to assist his addled Charizard in dodging, before switching for Machamp to continue. He is later sent back out to fight against Venusaur once again, but was defeated due to a combo attack from Azumarill, Venusaur, and Pikachu, who had created a thundercloud that struck Charizard from Venusaur's Vine Whip.

### **Two Years Later**

Charizard defeated a Gastly that was attacking Bayley. He is later seen training with Robyn and Pinsir by throwing rocks down at them.

Charizard is used alongside the rest of Robyn's team to attack Agatha's Gengar. Despite a group attack, Gengar escapes into Robyn's shadow and attacks Charizard. Not wanting to give Gengar more places to hide, Robyn recalls his Pokémon, including Charizard. After Gengar gets weakened, Robyn brings Charizard back out, who finally defeats Gengar with a powerful Flamethrower.

### **Johto**

Charizard is traded to Edge for his Edge's Gyarados so that he could make it across the ragged mountains of Mt. Silver. He is is returned to Robyn and used in the final battle against the Masked Man at Ilex Forest.

### **Crisis of Deoxys**

In the Sevii Islands, Charizard learned the move exclusive to the Fire-type starter families, Blast Burn, after training on Ultima's Jump Path, Catch Path, and Battle Path courses. Afterwards, Edge and Robyn's inability to perfect their respective move's accuracy would come to haunt them in the battle against Sird, Carr and Orm.

Soon afterwards, Robyn sends Charizard out to use Flamethrower on Orm's Shuckle, but fails due to its hard shells. Several Shuckle soon pop out of the ground and poisons Charizard with Toxic.

Charizard still managed to gather the strength to fight and participated in the battle at the Trainer Tower against Deoxys's clones. Charizard then agreed to be traded to Edge again to allow Edge to Fly on him, and defeat Giovanni as Edge's Aerodactyl was too badly injured from its earlier encounter with Deoxys and therefore couldn't use Fly in his current condition.

Later, Charizard was seen joining Edge's other Pokémon and Chuchu to take down the ten Forretress that Carr had placed inside the Team Rocket airship that were set to explode. After Giovanni's defeat, Charizard was traded back to his original owner, but the two soon found themselves petrified by Sird with the four other Pokédex holders and their Pokémon.

### **Battle Frontier**

Charizard becomes unpetrified and regained mobility, upon which Charizard, Miguel's Typhlosion and Gwendolyn's Blaziken attack with Blast Burn to help destroy Guile Hideout's Kyogre-shaped creature.

## **New Era**

### **Indigo Challenge**

When Dwayne challenged the Viridian Gym, Robyn selected Charizard as his third and final Pokémon to battle against Dwayne's Watortle. Dwayne orders a Water Pulse, but Robyn orders Charizard to dodge, which it does, and Charizard uses Mega Punch on the floor to cause the ground to shake violently, causing Wartortle to lose his balance. Dwayne tells Wartortle to use Iron Defense to predict another physical attack, but Robyn surprises him by ordering a Hyper Beam, which Iron Defense is useless against, and Wartortle gets knocked out. Dwayne sends out Roselia as his fifth Pokémon. Dwayne orders a Solar Beam, but Charizard once again dodges before calling for Fire Punch, which Roselia counters with Petal Dance, cancelling it out. Dwayne orders another Petal Dance, but Charizard responds with Flamethrower, launching a blast of fire that meets Petal Dance head-on. Robyn follows up with Mega Punch as Charizard punches the Grass-type Pokémon towards the ceiling. As Roselia falls down, Dwayne commands her to use Bullet Seed, which scores a direct hit, although Charizard shakes it off and knocks Roselia out with Fire Punch.

Dwayne finishes up with Kirlia as his final Pokémon. Robyn begins by ordering Mega Punch, and Charizard charges towards Kirlia. Dwayne orders continuous dodges with Kirlia weaving in and out of Charizard's punches, and Kirlia ultimately grabs both of Charizard's arms, canceling out Mega Punch, before scoring a point-blank hit with Psybeam. Charizard tries to attack again, but Kirlia dodges and fires Dazzling Gleam to knock Charizard over. As Charizard gets up, Dwayne orders a Shadow Ball, but Robyn has Charizard swing its arms to throw Kirlia off, and orders a flurry of Flamethrowers. Kirlia is cornered by the exploding blasts, and Robyn calls for Charizard to grab Kirlia and pin her to the ceiling before releasing, letting Kirlia plummet into range of Mega Punches and unable to counter.

After continuous Mega Punches, Charizard notices that its arm is somehow getting numb. Robyn orders for another Mega Punch, but Charizard suddenly punches himself on the face, leaving everyone shocked, and suddenly, Robyn realizes that Charizard has become confused, but wonders how did that happen, and Dwayne theorises that Kirlia's Psybeam had a delayed effect on Charizard. Kirlia fires another Psybeam, which Charizard unwillingly takes. Robyn calls for Hyper Beam. Charizard attacks, but Dwayne orders Kirlia to use Teleport. Teleporting behind Charizard, Kirlia swoops Charizard's leg, causing him to fall flat on his back, and this makes the Hyper Beam be launched directly towards the sky, before raining down directly onto Charizard's face, which knocks it out, giving Dwayne the victory.

### **Sinnoh**

Charizard appeared when he helped Robyn and Dwayne in protecting a group of Shieldon from Cage and his henchmen. Charizard first used Dynamic Punch to stop Cage's henchmen's vehicle. Charizard battled the henchmen's Golbat until it was recalled after Charizard disturbed some Beedrill with Hurricane that drove Golbat and the henchmen away. Robyn used Charizard again in a battle against Cage's Salamence and Drapion along with Magnezone. The battle ended without a result after Cage captured one of the Shieldon that his client had requested.

Robyn used Charizard to battle against Saturn's Toxicroak when trying to stop Cage from giving the three lake guardians to the Team Galactic Commander. However, Toxicroak had Charizard under control all the time. When Charizard attempted to use Hurricane to stop Cage, it was badly hurt by Toxicroak's Poison Jab before it could attack.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Due to Robyn's influence, Charizard is a very serious Pokémon, often ignoring those he didn't respect, or paying little attention to events that weren't important to either him or his Trainer. During his brief period under Edge's ownership, however, Charizard became more friendly and relaxed, something that bothered Robyn, although he quickly grew to accept it.

Nonetheless, Charizard is also very brave and outgoing. He is very loyal and had an extremely strong relationship with Robyn. Regardless of their strong bond, Charizard does not hesitate to let Robyn know when it disagrees with him. When Robyn ordered Charizard to set the entire Silph Co. building on fire to stop Koga, Charizard briefly growled, as if to inquire if Robyn was sure about what he was doing.