List of Pokémon (341–360)
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At the core of the multi-billion dollar Pokémon media franchise of various electronic games, ongoing anime, several manga series, collectible cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri are 493 distinctive fictional species classified as the titular Pokémon. These creatures and entities reside throughout the various regions of the fictional Pokémon world and can be caught by humans designated as Pokémon Trainers, and Trainers use Pokémon for a variety of purposes, such as being pets and loyal companions and/or being pitted against other trained Pokémon in competitive Pokémon battles. Pokémon are potentially powerful and magical creatures that can employ a variety of talents such as generating fire or heat, martial arts, telekinesis, and so on, and through age and experience many species undergo a metamorphosis and transform into a similar but stronger specie in a process referred to as Pokémon evolution.
This is a selected listing of twenty of the Pokémon species, arranged as they are in the main game series' National Pokédex.
Corphish
Corphish (ヘイガニ, Heigani in original Japanese language versions) are crab-like Pokémon that can be found in the Hoenn region. They are mostly found by fishing in the many water areas of the land. Corphish have one of two abilities: Hyper Cutter, which protects Corphish from losing Attack, and Shell Armor, negating critical hits from effecting Corphish. In Pokemon Advanced, Ash catches a wild Corphish which has been used in many battles. It unforunately has a short temper and usually gets in a tussle with other Pokémon including May's Skitty. Unlike it's evolved form, Corphish are pure Water type Pokémon.
Crawdaunt
Crawdaunt (シザリガー, Shizariger in original Japanese language versions) are large crab-like Pokémon that evolve from Corphish and are a Water/Dark type (which is also the same type for Carvanha and Sharpedo.) Crawdaunt are described to be very destructive creatures that challenge any other living being in it's territory to battle if necessary. Crawdaunt are commonly used by Team Aqua members in the Pokémon anime.
Baltoy
Baltoy (?????, Yajilon in original Japanese language versions) are small Pokémon that appear to stand on a needle and spin around like a top. They have the form of a clay figurine from Japanese history. Baltoy also have the unique ability Levitate, which protects it from Ground attacks. Like it's evolved form, Baltoy is a Ground/Psychic type. In a episode from the Pokemon Advanced series entitled Me, Myself and Time, Ash and Pikachu rescue a Baltoy from falling off a cliff which later is revealed to be a key to a ancient time machine made by a very advanced civilization.
Claydol
Claydol (????, Nendoll in original Japanese language versions) are Pokémon that are larger versions of the clay figurine with two levitating arms and eyes that extend to around it's entire head. Claydol, like it's pre-evolved form Baltoy, also are Ground/Psychic types and have the ability Levitate. In the Pokemon anime, Spencer of the Battle Palace owns a Claydol. It defeated most of Ash's team until it was taken down by Ash's Sceptile when it learned AND used Solar Beam during the battle.
Lileep
Lileep had been extinct for approximately 100 million years (during the Cretaceous, between the Cenomanian and the Albian faunal stages), but due to scientific advances, can be resurrected from their fossils.
They are an aquatic, carnivorous species; they use their petal-like tentacles to catch slow prey and ingest it whole. Their coloring assists in this, as it resembles harmless seaweed. Although capable of movement, in the wild, Lileep choose one location to stake out and stay there.
Lileep is based upon Crinoids. Even though it is part grass, it is able to breed with pokémon like Tentacool.
Most Lileep that are resurrected are male. The reason for this is to make breeding more of them a little harder, one in eight of them are female though (this same gender ratio exists for other non-legendary Pokémon that you usually only receive one of).
Cradily
Cradily are large crinoids with a black face, green outer layer and an array of eight pink petals used as tentacles. It also has a small tail that is hardly noticeable. Cradily has been extinct for 100 million years, having been common in the Cretaceous. Its appearance is comprised of characteristics of a crinoid, a barnacle, a flower, a piranha plant, a sauropod and an anchor.
Cradily is an aquatic creature that makes its nest in the shallows of warm seas. For this reason, when the tide goes out, Cradily can be seen on what are now wet beaches. In a particularly turbulent area of the sea shore, Cradily anchors itself to the sea floor with its heavy, particularly shaped lower body so as to prevent itself from being washed out to sea.
When hunting marine creatures, Cradily makes its way deeper into the ocean, dragging its heavy body along as its body’s anchor-like composition prevents Cradily from floating off the sea floor and to the surface. When Cradily spots its prey, it extends its trunk-like neck and its eight tentacles to ensnare its target, where it uses powerful acid secreted in its tentacles to melt the prey before feeding.
Anorith
Anorith are ancient Pokémon that strongly resemble the real-life Anomalocaris. Its many legs have reformed into "wings" along its side that enabled it to swim by undulating them in a fashion to similar to a sting ray. The forelimbs are claws which it uses to hunt prey. Anorith lived in warm seas millions of years ago. Anorith hunts its prey by stabbing it with its two front claws but, it might also paralize the target with a blast of energy from its mouth.
Armaldo
Armaldo was a Pokémon that lived in prehistoric times and became extinct soon afterwards, but it has been reincarnated through fossil-resurrection technology. In its heavily textured, scaled appearance it is similar to a bipedal version of the ancient sea dwelling Anomalocarid, which this Pokémon or at least its pre-evolution Anorith, was most likely based on.
Armaldo's armor is very tough, making many attacks against it seem to bounce off. The frontal claws are freely extendable and contractible, and the Pokémon can wield enough propulsional force in its claws to punch through a slab of steel. The fact that Armaldo walks on its hind legs suggests that it was able to live on land as well as water, as it does now. In fact, Armaldo prefers land as its residence and the ocean as its hunting ground. The beetle-like back-wings are used for swimming underwater, and its claws are used to skewer its prey before feeding.
Feebas
Feebas is an aquatic Pokémon which can survive in both fresh and salt water thanks to its hardy nature. It prefers best ponds that are filled with weeds.
Feebas has an unattractive, shabby appearance and it looks (and is) weak and worthless (like Magikarp), as its fins are ragged and tattered from the moment of its birth. It is hard to find, but it is an easy Pokémon to catch if encountered since it is slow and dimwitted, but not many people in the Pokémon world take the trouble to capture, study or raise it, as they find it a boring species. However, Feebas can evolve into a much more interesting Pokémon: Milotic.
Milotic
Milotic evolves from feebas, when given high doses of beauty poffins. (Sinnoh region)
Milotic are sea serpents and have several gill slits, much like the lamprey, an eel-like type of fish. They have long, silky, red extremities and fan-shaped tails covered in blue, textured designs; due to this, Milotic vaguely resemble mermaids. This appearance, along with their long red eyelashes, make Milotic some of the most beautiful of all Pokémon in the eyes of many humans. Ironically, its pre-evolved form, Feebas is considerably unattractive to most humans.
Milotic primarily live at the bottom of large lakes, suggesting that they have both lungs and gills. Because they are considered the most beautiful of all Pokémon, they have been depicted in paintings and statues.
Milotic have the power to becalm such emotions as anger and hostility to quell bitter feuding. Those that see it are said to forget their combative spirits right away; in particularly strong cases of anger, however, a Milotic’s body can glow a vivid pink and release a pulsing wave of energy that brings soothing calm to the restless spirits of the people and Pokémon involved.
Milotic have a distinctly feminine, elegant appearance, and, because of this, they can be seen as the feminine counterpart of the distinctly masculine-looking and similarly serpent-like Gyarados. However they can be male; in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the female's eyebrow is significantly bigger than the male's.
Castform
Castform's appearance is a small, grey, cloud-like creature with a rounded body that can transform. It has an odd antenna on its head used for an unknown purpose. Castform appears to be wearing goggles, or a print to resemble such. It might be used like a satellite dish to sense upcoming weather changes. Castform has a distinction from other Pokémon in the fact that depending on the weather, it can transform into different shapes, described below.
Like Porygon, Castform is one of few human-made "artificial" Pokémon. It was created on purpose by the researchers of the fictional Weather Institute in Hoenn region as an experiment in weather forecast and manipulation. However, in an Arceus legend, a story states that it created a single speck of time and space, and then left it on Earth for future living things to create yet another thing that controls climate, which could be a reference to Kyogre and Groudon.
Castform's cellular structure is closely related to the weather conditions, meaning that Castform can both affect and be affected by the weather. Depending on the current weather and climate, Castform's emotions and even body are altered. In this way, Castform tries to adapt itself to multiple environments.
Kecleon
Kecleon's appearance is somewhat based on the chameleon. It is a mostly green, bipedal lizard, with a yellow crest and eye markings. Its waist is circled by a red zigzag band, and it has a long curled tail.
Much like the real world chameleon, Kecleon possesses the ability to change its body coloration at will in order to blend with its surroundings, approaching invisibility. Kecleon puts this stealthy trait to good use when hunting, as it can sneak up on its prey undetected and trap it with its long and stretchy tongue.
Kecleon does not have absolute control of its appearance, however: it can never change the color of the zigzag band in the middle of its body, which renders his cloaking useless to any fairly keen observer. Secondly, a Kecleon can involuntarily shift colors based on its emotions, so that a sudden mood swing will change its looks completely. Finally, a Kecleon will revert to its original colors if it is startled.
Shuppet
Shuppet are nocturnal entities, that feed on feelings of envy, vengeance, malice, and other negative emotions. In the Pokédex, they are described as being able to capture negative feelings in the atmosphere by channeling them into its horn. The captured energy is used by Shuppet as sustenance, allowing it to grow. At the same time, the projected person feels much better as his negative emotions leaves him. These Pokémon are therefore attracted to people who hold negative emotions, and are known to roam cities in the night in search of such grudges. If someone develops especially strong feelings of vengeance, Shuppet can group in a swarm to line up beneath the eaves of that person’s home. It has eyeballs looking at it's nose in the image (Compare with Duskull).
Banette
The origins of the Banette species are unusually sinister. They are said to come from plush toys that were thrown away, similar to how Grimer and Koffing are formed by industrial waste. Shuppet possesses a discarded doll, growing into and forming Banette, a being which is actually somewhat large for a toy (3 foot 7 inches on average). It is also said that Banette live in garbage dumps of back alleys and wander around looking for the children that disposed of them, most likely in order to harm or kill them as its revenge.
A Banette is filled with strong feelings of hate, which it expresses by laying powerful curses. It gains power to cast those curses by sticking pins into its own body, turning itself into a voodoo doll.
Banette's weakness lies in that its vital force is artificial, since it is an inanimate object infused with a cursed energy. This energy can be removed and effectively exorcized by forcing its zipper-like mouth open. Surprisingly, Banette can learn Screech, a vocal attack which would seem to require opening of the mouth, theoretically killing it; however it may produce noise by supernatural means. Other than its aforementioned feature, Banette is blackish-gray, has creepy-looking red eyes, small pointy ears, a horn, a long strand of hair drawn like a cartoon ghost, flipper-shaped arms, and a yellow tail shaped like a spiky doorknob, although, this could represent a broom, the object of flight for stereotypical witches. This is probably why, in Pokémon Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness, Banette opens its mouth just before fainting, so that the evil spirit can escape before Banette is recalled. The evil inside of it is likely the Shuppet which possessed what once was a doll and is now Banette.
Furthermore, the idea of Banette being a puppet controlled by a spirit is illustrated by Banette's name. As mentioned earlier, its name comes from the word "marionette", a puppet on strings controlled by a human. However, it bears little or no resemblance to a marionette (even though it is classified as such).
Duskull
Duskull is styled after a stereotypical personification of Death, the Grim Reaper. It resembles a small hooded masked form in a black robe with a crossbone drawing on its back. In its "shiny" alternate coloring, its robe is curiously bright red. Its mask resembles the front of a skull. It also seems to have a single eye that floats between the eye sockets in its mask
As a Ghost-type Pokémon, Duskull has some characteristic features traditionally associated with ghosts: it can become insubstantial and pass through solid objects such as walls, it can become invisible to stalk its prey and it is nocturnal, abandoning its chase at sunrise. Barring the arrival of dawn, Duskull relentlessly pursues its intended victim everywhere.
Its macabre image and habits make it a much feared Pokémon. In the Pokémon world, mothers use stories of Duskull to chastise their misbehaving children, scaring them into believing that if they don't behave properly, Duskull will take them away. In this respect, Duskull parallels the bogeyman of real world folk lore. Duskull is even feared by adults, although their fear is based on first-hand experience rather than terrifying stories.
It should be noted that Duskull, like other Ghost-type Pokémon, perplexingly exhibits many traits uncharacteristic of spirits, such as having a weight and the potential to be poisoned, put to sleep, faint and be bred, not to mention with other Pokémon in addition to other Duskulls.
Dusclops
Dusclops resembles 2 classic mythical/fictional monsters: the Cyclops and a Mummy. Dusclops has one eye, the most notable characteristic of the Cyclops. It's "skin" resembles the wrapping of cloth which a Mummy is covered in. The way Dusclops walks, with its hands outstretched (as though it were trying to grab a victim) and its feet stomping is also reminiscent of both the Cyclops and the Mummy. Dusclops also bears slight resemblances to a chochinobake, a Japanese ghost.
Dusclops is said to be like a black hole: it absorbs matter into its body, through its mouth, never releasing the matter. What happens to the absorbed matter is unknown; it is possible that the matter is turned into energy to be used by Dusclops, or that the matter is taken to another dimension. Other theories suggest that inside Dusclops' body is a spectral ball of fire, similar to that of a Will-o-Wisp attack. This theory cannot be proved or disproved. However, if this were true, it would likely be the source of energy for Dusclops' Will-o-Wisp attack. Either that, or the opinion that the Will-o-Wisp attack is quite "ghostly."
Dusclops also possesses the gift of hypnosis; it can control other conscious beings. It sways the victim into hypnosis by waving its hands and gazing into the victim's eyes.
Tropius
Tropius's natural habitat is the jungles of the southern tropics. It is a frugivore. It is theorized that Tropius's love of fruit eventually resulted in the species incorporating fruit as part of its very anatomy: bunches of banana-like fruit can be seen growing under a Tropius's neck. These fruit are deliciously sweet and particularly popular among the children in south tropical villages, who eat it as snacks. It may also be that Tropius eats so much fruit that it gets an excess of vitamins and minerals, so it grows fruit to get rid of excess nutrients.
Tropius also has broad leaves on its back, which, if flapped hard enough, can be used as wings, enabling this bulky Pokémon to fly. Tropius' design may be based somewhat on the legendary creature, Mokele Mbembe. The connection is further evidenced by Tropius' diminutive size compared to other sauropods and the fact that it is found in the wild and not as a fossil.
Chimecho
Chimecho is styled like a wind chime. It has a small round head and a long, wide tail, both blue with red markings. On top of its head is a yellow knob-like projection. This projection acts as a special sucker that it uses to attach itself to the bottom of overhanging objects so that it can sway freely.
Chimecho's light frame and its psychic powers enable it to freely fly around, especially during the hot season. If a Chimecho wishes to remain in one place for a while, it employs its suction cup to affix itself on trees or the eaves of a building. Chimecho is a herbivore - its diet consists of berries and nuts, which it plucks using its long tail.
Chimecho has the distinctive ability to produce a ringing cry, the volume of which is amplified inside its hollow head and comes out as a chiming sound. A Chimecho can produce seven different tones to communicate various messages to its kindred (possibly do, re, mi, fa, so, la, and ti). If threatened, Chimecho can use its cries as a defensive weapon, turning them into ultrasonic waves that knock its foes back.
Absol
Absol has a dark blue face, tail, and scythe-like growth on the right side of its head. Some believe this to be an abnormal development of its right ear. Despite its appearance, this "scythe" is actually very soft to the touch, particularly whenever Absol is not tense or angry; when it does become so, the "scythe" lights up and becomes dangerously strong and sharp, though Absol will not use this to actually harm its instigator. Like owls, it seems to have one ear point upward and one point downward, supposedly to hear the exact location a sound is coming from. Absol is a very good-natured Pokémon that warns people of up-coming disasters by appearing before them. When it is not warning people in nearby cities, it spends its time up in the mountains. They have a snowy-white coat that is very soft to the human touch.
Absol is widely believed to be based on the Barghest, a mythical nocturnal spectre-hound that lives in the mountains. However, it may also be based on the Egyptian Sphinx. Also worth noting is the design of the head: mostly white fur on the head with a small dark blue gem in the forehead, a dark blue face, and a scythe-like blade along its face. This design, and Absol itself, seems to be based on the symbol and principles of yin and yang. Also, it has some characteristics of the Maned Wolf.
Absol’s claim to fame (or infamy, depending on the observer) is that it appears whenever a natural disaster is about to happen. Absol uses its sharp senses to detect subtle changes in the sky and the land, and with its knowledge of natural balance it can predict oncoming natural disasters (it may also be able to use Future Sight technique in a similar way that Gardevoir or Espeon use to sense dangers to its trainer). It apparently carries a concern for the safety of humans because, once it detects the coming of a disaster, it goes off to the nearest human settlements to give warnings to the people. Absol is a popular pet in earthquake areas because it warns its owners when one is coming. In addition to Absol's personality, Absol's cry easily resembles a warning siren. Unfortunately, over time people have developed a misunderstood view of the Pokémon; they held a superstitious belief that Absol had a cause-and-effect relationship with disasters like earthquakes, gaining it a classic “bad luck” image. However, to the population of people who have come to understand the Pokémon, Absol is popular as a pet and as a Pokémon partner in areas prone to natural disasters because it can warn its owners of large-scale danger, making it a significantly valuable Pokémon for any trainer to have when facing the many dangers of the Pokémon world.
Wynaut
Wynaut are cute, little, bluish Pokémon with a black, one-eyed tail. Sometimes docile, sometimes mischievous, but they are always playful. When Wynaut gather, they rub against each other to practice fighting techniques.
Wynaut is always seen with a big, happy smile on its face, regardless of what its actual mood is. To determine its real mood Pokémon Trainers must look at a Wynaut's tail. If it can be seen slapping its tail on the ground continuously, it can be presumed that it is in an angry temperament.
Wynaut evolves into the enigmatic Wobbuffet, a complicated, yet incredibly powerful Pokémon, and can be assumed to have many of the same habits as its relative. Unlike Wobbuffet, however, Wynaut likes light and has been known to play on islands in the middle of the ocean, known in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire as Mirage Island.
Notes and references
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External links
- Bulbapedia - The Pokémon encyclopedia
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