Lazuli's Ursaring

**Lazuli's Ursaring** (Japanese: **ラズリのリングマ** *Razuri's Ringuma*) is the fifth Pokémon that Lazuli was shown to possess, and one of the few she was shown capturing.

## **New Era**

### **Sinnoh**

Dwayne became lost at Bewilder Forest, and while looking for a way out, Ryder encountered an angry Ursaring, which started chasing him. After getting out of the forest, Ryder encountered Lazuli. Using her Chimchar, Lazuli weakened Ursaring and caught it. Afterwards, Lazuli used her Pokédex to scan its attacks, and satisified with Ursaring's power, decides to keep the Hibernator Pokémon.

Ursaring was chosen by Lazuli as her second Pokémon to battle against Dwayne's Chimchar during their three-on-three battle. The battle begins with Chimchar's Flamethrower. Ursaring uses Focus Blast, and both attacks cancel each other out. Chimchar uses Dig, but Ursaring uses Hammer Arm on the ground, unearthing Chimchar and knocking him into the air. Chimchar dives down with a Flame Wheel, but Ursaring catches him. Ursaring uses Secret Power at close range. Due to the mysterious power of Ursaring's Secret Power attack, Chimchar was flinched and can't attack. Despite encouragement from Dwayne and the other Pokémon, Ursaring uses Hammer Arm on Chimchar, burying him in a pile of rubble. Chimchar emerges in a flaming fury, having accessed Blaze, although it's not like any Blaze anyone's seen before. Remembering how Chimchar activated Blaze during his battle with the Zangoose, Lazuli knows that Chimchar is finally awake, as this is the power she was trying to unlock all along. Dwayne suggests that Chimchar is trying his best to defeat Lazuli, and has accessed Blaze due to the encouragement from him and the other Pokémon. Ursaring is ordered to use another Focus Blast, however Chimchar's Flame Wheel smashes through it and collides with Ursaring, knocking it out.

During Lazuli's battle against Brandon, Ursaring was chosen to battle against Brandon's Regice. After a clash of its Hammer Arm and Regice's Focus Punch, it attacked Ursaring with Zap Cannon, which paralyzed it. Brandon then recalled Regice and sent out Regirock. Lazuli, having given up on Ursaring's chances, remained still and allowed Ursaring to be defeated by Regirock's Stone Edge.

Ursaring was used in the Full Battle between Lazuli and Dwayne at Lake Acuity, and squared off against Dwayne's Buizel, with Buizel starting their battle with Water Gun. Lazuli is prepared for this and orders a Hammer Arm, which successfully counters the attack. Lazuli then orders Bulk Up, which increases Ursaring's strength and defense. Dwayne knows what Bulk Up does, but foolishly believes Buizel can handle it and has him use Aqua Jet while Lazuli orders Ursaring to use Slash. Ursaring, after resisting Aqua Jet, hits Buizel with its sharp claws, sending Buizel to the ground. Ursaring uses Focus Blast, and Dwayne responds by having Buizel use an Aqua Jet Counter Shield, which creates a typhoon of water upon which Focus Blast backfires onto Ursaring. Dwayne then orders a Sonic Boom, and Lazuli tells Ursaring to use Hammer Arm. Ursaring runs through the Sonic Boom and lands a direct hit on Buizel, smashing him to the ground. At this point, Dwayne is ready to recall Buizel, but Buizel wants to stay in the battle so Dwayne allows him to stay. This turns out to be a mistake, because when Buizel is ordered to use Aqua Jet, the attack is countered by a dead on Focus Blast which takes Buizel out of the battle.

Dwayne then sends out Crobat, launching Brave Bird. Lazuli orders another Hammer Arm, but Crobat dodges it and scores a clean hit with Aerial Ace. Lazuli orders Focus Blast, which hits Crobat in mid-air, but not critically damaging it. Dwayne orders Crobat to use Cross Poison, but despite the damage, Ursaring seems unfazed, and Hammer Arms Crobat into the ground, taking it out of the match, after which Lazuli also recalls Ursaring.

Ursaring gets called back out to face off against Gardevoir. Dwayne orders Moonblast, while Lazuli orders yet another Hammer Arm. Gardevoir launches the attack, but Ursaring's Hammer Arm knocks the attack out of the way and sends Gardevoir flying back after connecting with Hammer Arm. Gardevoir recovers and Dwayne orders Gardevoir to use Psyshock. Lazuli orders Ursaring to counter, but Ursaring suffers from poison, and Psyshock scores a clean hit, although Gardevoir still suffers damage from the burn she received from Magmortar earlier. Rollins comments that Ursaring's poison was a delayed reaction from Crobat's Cross Poison, as Lazuli had recalled Ursaring before poison could take effect on Ursaring. Just then, Ursaring's eyes begin to glow red, pleasing Lazuli.

Rollins notes that Ursaring's Guts Ability has been activated by its poison. Gardevoir sees Ursaring glowing red and screaming with rage, having suddenly just gained a lot of power. Lazuli commands Hammer Arm, while Dwayne orders Gardevoir to counter, and Gardevoir responds with a massive Moonblast, but it does not stop Ursaring. Gardevoir is Hammer Arm'd, and heaved into Lake Acuity, where after disappearing under the water, she lets out a final burst of energy. Dwayne runs into the lake looking for Gardevoir. Rollins becomes worried about Gardevoir, and even Lazuli casts a glance towards the lake where Dwayne is looking, and seemingly becomes quite worried, knowing that she probably used too much force. Gardevoir emerges from the water, seemingly okay, but she quickly faints in Dwayne's arms, not only exhausted but injured from Ursaring's attacks. Dwayne helps Gardevoir to the sidelines and promises to get her to a Pokémon Center after the battle. Dwayne attempts to recall her, but Gardevoir refuses, wanting to watch the remainder of the battle, and Dwayne relents, and Gardevoir sits next to Rollins. Dwayne knows that Lazuli still has five Pokémon while he is down to only Chimchar, but he also knows that all of Lazuli's Pokémon have taken damage and he is still determined to continue.

Dwayne sends out Chimchar while Lazuli leaves Ursaring in. Chimchar uses Flame Wheel, but Ursaring knocks it back with Slash. Dwayne then tells Chimchar to use Flamethrower, which scores a direct hit, and Dwayne has Chimchar follow up with Dig. Lazuli commands Ursaring to use Hammer Arm on the ground like before, but this time, Chimchar emerges from the ground before Ursaring can pull off the attack and causes even more damage to it. Chimchar is then commanded to use another Flamethrower, which hits Ursaring dead-on finally bringing it down.

Ursaring was sent out to battle against Vito's Empoleon in the third round of the Lily of the Valley Conference. However, Vito replaced Empoleon with his Hitmonlee. During a very close match between the two, Ursaring was burned by Hitmonlee's Blaze Kick, activating its Guts Ability again, giving Ursaring enough power to defeat Hitmonlee. He then fought against Vito's Empoleon again, but after having a Focus Blast fired back to it, Lazuli recalled him.

Ursaring appeared again shortly after Lazuli's elimination from the Lily of the Valley Conference, when he, and along with the other Pokémon left behind, were informed of her loss by Rollins.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

True to its species, Ursaring is a highly aggressive and hostile Pokémon, seen as when it attacked Dwayne for no apparent reason, other than the Trainer being around his territory. Despite his hostile nature, Ursaring became completely loyal towards his new Trainer, Lazuli, upon being captured, and like the majority of Lazuli's Pokémon, easily blended in with his new atmosphere, as Lazuli's training methods were as ruthless and brutal as Ursaring's own personality.

Ursaring quickly proven himself to be one of Lazuli's strongest and resilliant Pokémon, being able to easily defeat half of Dwayne's team during the latter's Full Battle against Lazuli at Lake Acuity, all the while being capable of taking several super-effective and close-range attacks without fainting, and only after Ursaring was exhausted from defeating several Pokémon was capable of being defeated.