Don

If you were looking for the owners of the various Battle Clubs across Unova, see Don George.

Don ぷー Pū

Don

Debuts in A Big Stink Over Stunky Caught in Hurrah for Rapidash Caught at Canalave City Evolves in High-tailing It from Haunter Gender Male Ability Sturdy Nature Careful Current location With Diamond

→ This Pokémon spent 60 chapters as Shieldon.

Don (Japanese: ぷー Pū) is a Bastiodon that Diamond owns in Pokémon Adventures and his third Pokémon overall. He received him from Byron. As of The Final Dimensional Duel III, he is at level 49, and his Characteristic is that he is "somewhat stubborn."

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

History

Diamond & Pearl arc

With Byron

Don first appeared as a Shieldon in A Big Stink Over Stunky. He was seen walking alongside his Trainer Byron. He reappeared inside the Canalave Gym in Brash Bronzong I. During Byron's battle against Platinum, he attempted to flee but was caught up in Platinum's scarf, which revealed to Byron that Platinum had five Badges already.

In Hurrah for Rapidash, Byron offers to give Shieldon to Diamond after seeing how quickly the Shield Pokémon warmed up to him. Diamond decided to keep him and nicknamed him Don.

With Diamond

In Grumpy Gliscor, Don battled a wild Gliscor that was antagonizing Diamond. By rubbing his head off of Tru's tree he was able to increase his defense even farther than normal. Due to this Gliscor hurt its fangs when it bit down on Don, allowing Tru to finish it off.

In Lucky Lucario I, Riley trained Don, Lax, and Tru on Iron Island. The three started by battling against Riley's Lucario and were quickly defeated due to Lucario's speed. Despite the loss, Riley pointed out that the three have amazing defense and work wonderful together. After this, Riley took the group into a cave, where they were attacked by a wild Steelix. Don and Lax managed to hold it down long enough for Tru to attack with Crunch, making the Steelix flee. After the training Don learned to overcome his weakness in speed.

In Chancing Upon Chingling, after Diamond arrived on the Galactic Veilstone Building due to failing to stop Mesprit from being captured by Team Galactic, Don was used to help sneak around the base. Once Diamond was spotted by the Advanced level Grunt, Don participated with Diamond's other Pokémon to battle him but proved to be no match for his strength. Diamond attempted to escape but the Grunt caught up with him and had his Chingling, Staraptor, Gible, Cradily, and Haunter send a massive attack at him. As the attacks came at him, Don stepped in the way and took all five attacks head on. Just when he was about to give out he evolved into a Bastiodon and learned Metal Burst, sending all the damage he took back at his opponents. He then used Iron Head to finish off the ones that remained standing.

In Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia VI, Don was used alongside the other Pokémon to battle against the Legendary Pokémon Dialga and Palkia. Using his size, Don was able to do great damage to the Dragons with the help of Diamond and Pearl's Pokémon, and with a combined technique, they were all able to destroy the Red Chains controlling them.

Platinum arc

In The Final Dimensional Duel IV, Don was seen visibly upset when Diamond was sent to the Distortion World. Despite this though, he was not used when Pearl retaliated against Charon.

Personality and characteristics

As a Shieldon, Don was stubborn and picky, refusing to bond with Byron no matter how hard he tried. Upon meeting Diamond, however, he quickly grew attached to him. Like his Trainer, Don is gluttonous, lazy, and relaxed. He is a strong battler and has strong defenses, as shown when he took five attacks at once.

Appearance

As a Shieldon

Moves used

Using Iron Tail as a Shieldon	Move First Used In Iron Tail Lucky Lucario I Metal Burst High-tailing It from Haunter Iron Head High-tailing It from Haunter
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In animation

Main article: Byron's Bastiodon

In Ancient Family Matters!, Byron mentioned how he had obtained his Bastiodon as an Armor Fossil, which he had revived into a Shieldon and then evolved into its current form.

Trivia

• Don took the longest to evolve out of the Sinnoh Pokédex holder's Pokémon, having been a Shieldon for 60 chapters.
• Don, in both of his Evolution stages, was the only one of its species to appear in Pokémon Adventures.

Names

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Shieldon and Bastiodon.

• Byron's Bastiodon

Diamond's Pokémon
In rotation:	Lax	Tru		Kit	Moo	Reg
	Rotom
Temporary:	Drifblim	Chatler	Dialga
Raised:	Manaphy	Phione
Befriended:	Grumpy	Flaky

Byron's Pokémon
On hand:	Bastiodon	Bronzor	Steelix
At the Gym	Omanyte	Omastar	Kabuto	Kabutops	Cradily	Armaldo
Adventures only:	Bronzong (×2)
Diamond and Pearl Adventure! only:	Onix

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