Lazuli's Magmortar

**Lazuli's Magmortar** (Japanese: **ラズリのブーバーン** *Razuri's Booburn*) is Lazuli's Fire-type powerhouse of her team.

## **New Era**

### **Sinnoh**

Magmortar was captured as a Magmar shortly after Lazuli had released Chimchar, and Magmar quickly became one of Lazuli's powerhouses, easily defeating Maylene's Lucario with its Fire Spin and Fire Punch attacks to earn Lazuli the Cobble Badge.

Magmar was finally shown battling in Lazuli's match against Brandon. It was the first Pokémon chosen by Lazuli to battle him. However, she quickly recalled him after she saw Brandon chose Regirock to battle it. She sent Magmar out again to battle Registeel. Registeel was able to shrug off Flamethrower with little difficulty and struck with Iron Head, not causing much damage, but Magmar flinched and couldn't use Will-O-Wisp. Lazuli recalled Magmar, but after all of Lazuli's other Pokémon were defeated, she sent out Magmar to battle Regirock again, who absorbed Flamethrower and took Magmar out with Shock Wave.

Shortly thereafter, Magmar evolved into Magmortar and was chosen by Lazuli to battle against Dwayne's Gardevoir during their Full Battle at Lake Acuity. Dwayne orders Gardevoir to use Psyshock, but Magmortar dodges and uses Fire Punch, landing a direct hit. Worsening matters, once Gardevoir lands, she is immediately hurt by fire that surrounds her body. Rollins notes that Magmortar has the Flame Body Ability, which has a chance of burning an opponent if it makes physical contact. Lazuli smiles, and Dwayne asks Gardevoir if she wants to continue, and Gardevoir, desperate to help Dwayne defeat Lazuli, agrees. Dwayne thanks Gardevoir and commands a Shadow Ball, and Lazuli responds by ordering a Flamethrower. Magmortar fires Flamethrower from its massive bazooka-like arms and it connects with Gardevoir's Shadow Ball, causing a massive explosion. Dwayne then has Gardevoir Moonblast, and Gardevoir powers up and charges the attack. Lazuli commands Magmortar to use Rock Tomb, and Magmortar starts to fire purple energy which turns into rocks when they hit the ground. Gardevoir, unbale to cancel her attack in time to evade, gets struck by a direct hit, and subsequently continues to suffer from her burn. Lazuli then commands Magmortar to use Smog and Magmortar releases a massive poisonous cloud which heads straight towards Gardevoir. Realizing that there was nowhere for Gardevoir to dodge the massive cloud, Dwayne commands Gardevoir to dodge using Teleport, and she teleports herself within the lake to avoid getting consumed by Smog, which shocks Lazuli and impresses Rollins. However, Gardevoir is then hurt by his burn again just as Gardevoir teleports back to the battlefield. Rollins knows that this is bad and that the longer that Gardevoir carries on, the greater the disadvantage for her. Lazuli orders Magmortar to use Flamethrower. Dwayne tells Incineroar to jump and use Psyshock from above. Gardevoir jumps out of the Flamethrower's path and successfully strikes Magmortar across the head with Psyshock. Magmortar takes the hit and Gardevoir takes more burn damage. Dwayne then recalls Gardevoir for some rest after battling so hard.

Dwayne decides to use type advantage against Magmortar and sends out Buizel, who is ready to battle. Dwayne starts by ordering an Aqua Jet and Buizel speeds towards Magmortar and hits it directly on the chest, sending Magmortar reeling back, but despite the super-effective hit is still able to carry on. Dwayne then follows up with Water Pulse, and Buizel sends a wave of water towards his opponent, however Lazuli orders another Rock Tomb, and Magmortar creates a shield of rocks which protects itself from the Water Pulse. However, Dwayne quickly orders Aqua Jet. Buizel smashes through the rocks, only to find Magmortar gone. Dwayne and Buizel don't know where Magmortar is, and Buizel looks up to see a now aerial Magmortar release another Smog, which hits Buizel and poisons the Pokémon, causing Buizel to reel in pain. Rollins realizes that Rock Tomb was used to keep Buizel from seeing what Magmortar was up to. As Buizel tries to recover from his damage, Magmortar lands and Lazuli recalls him.

During Lazuli's battle against Vito in the third round of the Lily of the Valley Conference, Magmortar was chosen as her first Pokémon to battle against Vito's Forretress. After Forretress uses Spikes, Magmortar manages to knock out Forretress with a single Flamethrower attack, and Vito sends Empoleon out next. After taking on a powerful Hydro Cannon, Magmortar remains standing, but Lazuli decides to recall him, and Magmortar remains recalled throughout the remainder of the battle.

Magmortar 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**

Magmortar was shown to be a very calm and quite emotionless Pokémon, seen as during its battles, when Magmortar always retained an emotionless look on his face, even when firing or receiving attacks. With his variety of moves, Magmortar's main role in Lazuli's team is long-term effects against opponents, and with Magmortar's incredible durability, manages to weaken Lazuli's opponents enough for either Magmortar to knock out, or allow Lazuli's other Pokémon to do so.