Hayden's Beartic

Hayden's Beartic is the sixth Pokemon obtained by Hayden while in the Unova region.

As a Cubchoo
Beartic made its first appearance in Gotta Adopt a Cubchoo! where it was found as a Cubchoo injured near Route 5 where Hayden and friends encountered the injured little Pokemon. It later was shown that a group of Beartics bullied Cubchoo out of its habitat due ot being weak and unable to use any strong attacks, including Ice Beam. Hayden then showed compassion for the Chill Pokemon and managed to help with its buddies. Cubchoo later joined Hayden's team to help him challenge the Unova League.

Cubchoo tries to master its Ice Beam and Icicle Crash attacks, but always ended up in failure. In PBW057, during its first Pokemon battle with Clyde's Sawk, he tries to use a powerful Icicle Crash. But the Ice-type attack smashed in the air and hit Andrea's Zorua by accident. This is done again three more times until it manages to master the attack in PBW068 when Team Magma were attacking at the Cold Storage. Cubchoo finally used all its power to finally master and perfect Icicle Crash, but its Ice Beam is still uncontrollable.

In The Driftvel Gym Under the Quake Boss!, Clay confirmed Cubchoo was a male due to it defeating his Krokorok and mastering Ice Beam in use like a squirtgun, freezing it in the process. He then battled against Clay's Excadrill where it was too much for the Chill Pokemon as Cubchoo evolved into Beartic, using its leveled up attacks and more powerful strength to defeat Excadrill with use of its brand-new Superpower attack, winning Hayden's fifth Gym badge.

Moves improvised

 * Ice Beam-Crash was first used by Beartic after using his might to throw Clay's Excadrill back into the hole of the Driftveil Gym in The Driftveil Gym Under the Quake Boss!. Beartic used a combination of Icicle Crash and Ice Beam to make a large chandelier-shaped block of ice to do heavy damage on Excadrill.
 * Superpower-Blizzard was also used by Beartic in The Driftveil Gym Under the Quake Boss!. Beartic combined his Superpower with Blizzard to crash on Excadrill's Drill Run to defeat it.

Trivia

 * Beartic was captured in PBW056 after Hayden's Lampent was released in the previous episode.
 * Beartic is the only Pokemon on Hayden's team that evolved into its final form.