Skyler's Meganium

**Skyler's Meganium** (Japanese: **スカイラーのメガニウム** *Sukaira's Meganium*) is the first Pokémon that Skyler ever owned.

## **New Era**

### **Johto Journey**

Meganium first appeared as a Chikorita while he and Skyler were battling a wild Wooper. Chikorita's first Tackle misses its target, but the next attack knocks Wooper out. The young Trainer sees her opportunity and pulls out her bow and arrow, places a Poké Ball at the tip and shoots it towards the Wooper, successfully catching it.

Moments later, Chikorita was used to battle Dwayne's Kirlia. Chikorita quickly goes in the offensive with Razor Leaf, but Kirlia uses Teleport to dodge the attack. Chikorita then uses Vine Whip, wrapping it around Kirlia's arm. However, Kirlia reels Chikorita in with her sheer physical superiority and knocks out Chikorita with a single Shadow Ball.

During the Bug-Catching Contest, Chikorita was Skyler's Pokémon of choice to accompany her during the contest. While pursuing a Scyther, Skyler notices Chikorita lagging behind, still tired from its previous battles. Still wanting to win she tells it not to give up, and the pair continues their hunt. Despite Chikorita's obvious exhaustion, Skyler orders it to attack and the tired Pokémon soon finds itself in a battle it can't win. At the last moment, Dwayne appears with Kirlia and saves Chikorita. He yells at Skyler for being an irresponsible Trainer then lures the Scyther away so that she and Chikorita can rest. Not wanting to listen to him, Skyler tries to encourage Chikorita, only to realize that it has run away. Chikorita hides in a bush, and tries to cheer it up, and Skyler stumbles upon it a moment later. She calls Chikorita over to her but is surprised to find that it refuses to listen to her. Skyler then realizes Chikorita is refusing to obey because she'd ignored Chikorita's feelings, and made it fight until it collapsed. Realizing her mistake, Skyler tearfully apologizes to Chikorita, who joyfully jumps into her arms.

Later, Skyler and Chikorita become trapped within a large forest fire, caused by a participant's Charmeleon using Flamethrower recklessly. Scyther attempts to save them, but some trees are falling, and block its path. Scyther then uses X-Scissor to cut up some of the trees, but Scyther can't do anything as more trees are burning and falling. Skyler sees a falling, flaming, branch, and grabs Chikorita and jumps out of the way, although Skyler's leg gets burned as she wasn't able to move away in time. Seeing this, Chikorita frantically tries to help its Trainer, but Skyler's burn proves too much for her to handle and she can't walk properly because of the pain. As Kirlia and Scyther struggle with the fire, Skyler's Chikorita suddenly evolves into Bayleef and uses Body Slam to cause sand to erupt and put out the fire, and Skyler marvels at seeing her Bayleef saving her. Seeing how Bayleef was handling itself, Kirlia and Scyther then decide to work together to save the Bug-type Pokémon, and they successfully manage to rescue a group of Caterpie, Pineco, Venonat, Ledyba, and Spinarak from the fire, and Bayleef successfully manages to take Skyler away from the fire, just as the Bug-Catching Contest's officials come with several Water-type Pokémon to put out the fire.

Later, Bayleef was shown to have evolved into Meganium, when Skyler summoned him to use Solar Beam on the pack of Ursaring attacking them, who finally feel some level of damage. The Ursaring are infuriated and begin charging up an Earthquake. Skyler orders Meganium to use Vine Whip, and sends the Ursaring flying off. Then, Meganium battles the wild Elekid that Skyler was looking to capture. Elekid uses its Thunder Punch attack to fend off Meganium's Razor Leaf attack. Meganium then Body Slams Elekid before landing a direct Solar Beam on it. Elekid falls backwards and Skyler pitches a Poké Ball at her target. Elekid enters the Ball, and after a few sways, Elekid is officially caught.

During the Silver Conference, Meganium was chosen to battle against Dwayne's Roserade. Roserade starts off with Poison Jab, but it is countered with Solar Beam, followed by Body Slam. Roserade's attempt at a Power Whip is met with another Body Slam, which knocks Roserade out of the battle. Meganium gets promptly recalled for some rest. He gets called back out as Skyler's final remaining Pokémon to battle against Dwayne's Heracross. Heracross opens with a Megahorn, which Meganium counters with Razor Leaf and Vine Whip. Heracross responds to the Vine Whip with Arm Thrust. The attacks collide, creating an opening for a Double-Edge to hit Meganium. Another Megahorn attack is met with a Razor Leaf, which sends Heracross reeling, with Heracross ending up on its back. As Heracross struggles to get back up, Meganium sees an opening and rushes in for a finishing Body Slam. In a last-minute move, Heracross slams his horn into the ground and uses his sheer force to toss large amounts of dust onto Meganium, whose Body Slam cancels because of the dust, and Heracross defeats Meganium with a super-effective Megahorn, and Dwayne wins the match.

## **Personality and Characteristics**

Meganium shares a close bond with Skyler, often being seen outside of his Poké Ball. Even when during a disagreement where he ran away from Skyler briefly, he was quickly able to forgive his Trainer after Skyler had genuinely apologized for not thinking about his feelings.

Meganium seems to share Skyler's fighting spirit and enthusiasm, celebrating openly whenever they are successful at a certain task, seen when Meganium celebrated with Skyler after catching Elekid.

## **Moves used**

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