Sydney's Venusaur

**Sydney's Venusaur** (Japanese: **シドニーのフシギバナ** *Shidoni's Fushigibana*) is the fourth Pokémon that Sydney was known to have.

## **New Era**

### **Johto Journey**

Shortly before Sydney's match against Dwayne at the Silver Conference's robin-round stage, Venusaur and Slowking were relaxing at the Athlete's Village when they spotted an apple in a tree, and Venusaur used his Vine Whip to grab the apple. However, Dwayne's Chikorita also had the same idea, at the same time, and both Vine Whips grabbed hold of the apple at the same time. The two Grass-type Pokémon get into a heated tug-of-war over the apple. As Totodile and Slowking receive their halves, Slowking throws its piece towards Totodile, hitting it in the face and knocking off the other half of the apple. As Venusaur and Slowking laugh at Totodile's misfortunes, Totodile's short-tempered side rears itself, and he prepares to pick a fight with the two, only to be restrained by Chikorita.

As Chikorita tries to apologize, Slowking slaps her in the face, bringing out Totodile's anger once again. Chikorita easily shakes it off and tries once more to restrain Totodile. As the two leave, Venusaur's vine latches onto Chikorita, tripping her, and causing Slowking and Venusaur to laugh once again. Chikorita finally loses her temper and smacks Slowking in the face with Vine Whip, and she and Totodile laugh at them, and the four Pokémon begin fighting each other. Then, Dwayne hears that a Pokémon brawl is happening outside, with Chikorita and Venusaur involved. Dwayne and Sydney figure that their Pokémon are involved, and rush out. Seeing their Pokémon grappling, they try in vain to quell the fighting. Only when Raven appears with her Alcremie does the fighting stop, by way of Sweet Scent.

During their actual battle, Venusaur was selected as Sydney's third and final remaining Pokémon, facing off against Chikorita, who herself was also Dwayne's last standing Pokémon, and the prior bad blood is still fresh in their minds. Trading off Razor Leaves and Vine Whips, Venusaur appears to be more powerful as some of its Razor Leaves hit Chikorita and it manages to throw Chikorita while locked in the Vine Whip. Narrowly dodging several Petal Blizzard attempts, Chikorita connects with another Razor Leaf. Evading another Vine Whip from Venusaur with her own Vine Whip, however, allows Venusaur to hit Chikorita while airborne with a super-effective Sludge Bomb. However, Chikorita manages to evade Venusaur's follow-up Razor Leaf and uses another Vine Whip to hook on to Venusaur's bulb and pelt it with more Razor Leafs. Both slowly get back up and wear each other down by hitting each other in the face with Vine Whips.

On the sidelines, Skyler wonders why they aren't taking time to evade the attacks, in which Jade explains that the battle may be of pride as well, and thus both are willing to take as much as they are willing to give. As they talk, both Grass types cross counter with their Vine Whip attacks. Getting up one last time, Chikorita and Venusaur trade off Leaf Storm and Petal Blizzard, respectively. The pair emerge standing despite the large explosion. They both smirk at each other before collapsing on the battlefield, forcing the referee to declare a tied result. Despite the draw, both Trainers congratulate each other on a battle well fought, and the rival Grass types also shake vines.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Venusaur can be a very provocative Pokémon when he was shown bullying Dwayne's Chikorita and Totodile, and showed zero remorse for mocking them and starting a fight, simply laughing alongside Sydney's Slowking at their misfortune.

In battle, Venusaur has great power, while also having huge pride, which was noted by Jade, as both Venusaur and Chikorita began refusing to dodge each other's attacks to test whether they could take hits and withstand. Despite tying with the smaller Grass-type, Venusaur nevertheless can demonstrate mutual respect, seen when he and Chikorita ended their grudge with a Vine Whip handshake.

## **Moves used**

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