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* [[An Ice Person|An Ice Pokémon]]: Like most Water-types, it can be taught Ice-type moves. This makes its only weakness (Grass) rather difficult to exploit.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Swampert is statistically the strongest of the starters, and it's also one of the most useful ones. Unlike every other starter, it has remained consistently popular and useful in the competitive scene since its debut, though it has taken a bit of a hit in usefulness in Generation V.
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* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: The line is of the Ground type from Marshtomp onward; additionally, it has access to numerous useful Rock moves.
* [[For Massive Damage]]: It's a single weakness, but a crippling one: any powerful Grass-related will wreck Swampert. (On the other hand, it's the only Water-type starter, and one of a small handful of Pokémon, that's immune to Electric.)
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* [[Action Bomb]]: Exploding acorns/tengus!
* [[Berserk Button]]: Nuzleaf apparently does not like having its nose pinched.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: They have ''no'' honor whatsoever when it comes to fighting.
* [[Foil]]: See Lotad's entry.
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* [[Action Initiative]]: Both of these Pokémon can learn Quick Attack, a weak priority move. However, not only do these birds get STAB from it, but it is boosted by Guts also; and given Swellow's respectable base 85 Attack, a STAB/Guts boosted Quick Attack can really help against faster, weakened opposition.
* [[Always Accurate Attack]]: The ever-present Aerial Ace is a popular move of choice this Pokémon.
* [[Balance Buff]]: Swellow's Special Attack was boosted from a meagre 50 to a far more usable 75 in Gen VII, thus allowing it to use special moves like Boomburst and Hurricane much more effectively.
* [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]]: And it's a ''swallow'', too!
* [[Blow You Away]]: Natural Flying-types, and they can have Hurricane as an Egg Move.
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* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Among the fastest of the starter Flying-types with a base 125 speed, but can't take a hit very well with its 60 HP/Defense and 50 Sp.Def.
* [[For Massive Damage]]: Don't let the anime tell you otherwise, Electric-type attacks DO hurt them.
* [[Game Charger|Game Changer]]: The aforementioned balance buff proved to be one for Swellow; more Swellow users in the competitive scene swap out Guts and Facade for Scrappy and Boomburst instead, bringing it from the pits of PU in Gen VI, up to RU in Gen VII. Getting Hurricane as a egg move definitely helps, too.
* [[Heal Thyself]]: As with almost every other Flying-type, Taillow and Swellow can Roost to heal off any damage it takes.
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Not Swellow itself, but rather anything it goes up against that can inflict a burn; doing so will only make Swellow even stronger!
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Water and Flying-type Pokémon that are found everywhere while surfing. Wingull is a [[Fragile Speedster]], learning speed-based attacks like Quick Attack and even Agility, but Pelipper has a much different moveset, learning Hydro Pump and the Stockpile trio, and having a Defense stat of 100 but a Speed stat lower than Wingull.
* [[Balance Buff]]: Pelipper was given a small buff to its Special Attack in ''Sun/Moon'' (85 to 95), but the biggest buff is its access to Drizzle, summoning rain onto the field and
* [[Blow You Away]]: Wingull learns more wind-based attacks than Pelipper, though.
* [[Com Mons]]: On water routes.
* [[Flight]]: Pelipper can learn Fly, and it can transport small small Pokémon in its oversized beak.
* [[For Massive Damage]]: Zap it with a well-placed Electric attack [[Book Ends|for massive damage]].
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Oddly, Wingull fits this, but Pelipper doesn't.
* [[Healing Factor]]: Its Dream World ability, Rain Dish, lets it regain health in the rain.
** It also learns Roost, something which an AI-controlled Pelipper tends to spam repeatedly.
** Wingull now has access to the ability Hydration, which heals status ailments in the rain.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Pelipper ''tries'' to be this. Unfortunately, the fact that [[Weaksauce Weakness|Electric attacks will turn it into Hoenn Fried Pelican makes its defensive value questionable]].
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* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Kirlia and Gardevoir, though they can be male.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Kirlia and Gardevoir, despite 50% of them being male. Gallade, with his more masculine appearance, was probably added to fix this.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: The fact that they are in the Indeterminate egg group suggests this. Gen VIII added the whole family to the Human-Like egg group as well.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Gardevoir will protect their trainer, no matter what.
* [[Metal Slime]]: Ralts is rare in every game it can be encountered. Made even more frustrating in that it's the first Pokémon your rival Wally encounters in ''Ruby'', ''Sapphire'', and ''Emerald''.
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* [[One-Gender Race]]: Gallade can only evolve from male Kirlia.
* [[Power Floats]]: In ''Sword and Shield'', if Gardevoir is in your party when you make a campsite, you'll see it doesn't walk; it seems to use its psychic powers to float.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: All of them are Psychic-types.
* [[Super Mode]]: Gardevoir and Gallade can Mega Evolve, making them stronger and faster. Both receive 40 point boosts to their stronger attacking stats.
** While Gardevoir gets 20 points added to its Attack, Sp.Def, and Speed, Gallade foregoes a Sp.Def buff, and gets 30 points added to its Defense and Speed instead.
* [[Synchronization]]: 2 out of 3 of this family's abilities, Trace (copying the opponent's own ability) and the one which is actually '''called''' Synchronize (passing status effects).
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Gardevoir towards its trainer.
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A [[Metal Slime|very rare]] Pokémon, respectively based on a water-strider and an eye-spotted moth. Surskit is Bug and Water-typed and has a movepool with limited offensive abilities. Masquerain uses its eye-spotted wings to intimidate the opponent and has a natural moveset that is more in line with the likes of other flying insects. This line is notable for having a unique type combination (Bug/Water) removed upon evolution.
* Balance Buff: Masquerain's Sp.Atk and Speed are buffed tremendously in ''Sun/Moon'', receiving 20 points each, taking them from 80 and 60, to a far more serviceable 100 and 80, respectively.
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]
* [[Blow You Away]]: Masquerain
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* [[Delayed Reaction]]: Numel only.
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]
* [[For Massive Damage]]: [[Kill It with Water|Water is its major weakness.]] Mitigated slightly by Solid Rock, but that's still not saying much.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Even more so when Camerupt Mega Evolves, as its Speed is cut in half.
* [[Playing with Fire]]
* [[Signature Move]]: Prior to Generation IV, the only Pokémon to learn Eruption naturally, apart from [[Olympus Mons|Groudon]].
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* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: In this case, Vibrava and Flygon are draconic ''antlions''.
* [[Status Buff]]: Averted. Despite being a dragon that looks very nimble, it can't learn Dragon Dance or '''any''' buffs beyond Hone Claws.
** Finally played straight; after years of lacking the move, Flygon can now learn Dragon Dance in ''Sun/Moon'' via Move Relearner!
* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: Sadly appears the case, as Salamence is no longer banned in Generation V. There's Haxorus and Hydreigon, too, and Team Preview makes its scouting moveset moot, which was its one major niche.
* [[You Will Not Evade Me]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Arena Trap]] is essentially the Magnemite line's Magnet Pull, with different limitations.
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* [[Palette Swap]]: Mentioned only because of an amusing fact: their "Shiny" forms switch colors with ''each other''.
* [[Prehistoric Monster]]
* [[Stone Wall]]: Practically a ''Diamond'' Wall against special attacks during a sandstorm. Rock-types get their special defense
== Anorith (Anopth) and Armaldo ==
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* [[Psychic Powers]]
* [[Signature Move]]: [[Megaton Punch|Meteor MASH (novel)]] is heavily associated with Metang and Metagross. Mostly because the only other Pokémon to learn it is ''Clefairy''.
* [[Super Mode]]: Metagross can Mega Evolve; all of its stats are boosted, in particular, its shaky Speed goes from a paltry 70 to a frightening 110, its Defenses are buffed more than the offensive ones, and it gets Tough Claws to make its already deadly attacks even more powerful.
* [[Spider Tank]]
* [[Use Your Head]]: Besides Take Down, Beldum can only be taught head-based moves for attacking.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Registeel's cry resembles the famous sound effect used when the ''[[Transformers]]'' transform.
* [[Stone Wall]]: Registeel's stats are more balanced than its brethren, but it can't hit hard from either side.
== Latias and Latios ==
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* [[For Massive Damage]]: Rayquaza has trouble surviving Ice-type attacks. Too bad Ice-type Pokémon have trouble surviving Rayquaza's attacks.
** Kyogre's boosted Water-type attacks, thanks to its Drizzle ability that causes endless rain. Specifically, a successful Choice Specs-boosted Water Spout is the near equivalent of [[Instant Kill]] on Pokémon.
** Averted for Primal Groudon: after undergoing Primal Reversion, Groudon gains Fire as a secondary type, which usually goes down easily to Water-type attacks, but its ability, Desolate Land, nullifies Water-type moves completely, making it immune to Water instead of doubly weak to them.
** Downplayed for Mega Rayquaza: its unique ability, Delta Stream, neutralises the Flying-type's weakness to where it becomes neutral to Rock, resistant to Electric, and only somewhat vulnerable to Ice.
* [[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]: The opening measure of this trio's battle theme is nothing more than 4 bell chimes, which sounds just like impending doom!.
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Kyogre and Groudon in ''Emerald'', Rayquaza in all three versions.
* [[Land, Sea, Sky]]: Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza respectively
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** [[Glass Cannon]]: Rayquaza, who hits as hard as the others on both sides, but takes hits as bad as the others in their weak sides.
* [[Magma Man]]: Groudon. It's a Ground-type, but like Lugia's association with water, it's strongly associated with volcanoes and magma and sunlight (and by extension, [[Playing with Fire|fire]]). The reason why it wasn't given a secondary Fire type was probably to [[Blessed with Suck|not let it be killed too easily by Water-types, especially its nemesis Kyogre]].
** In ''OR/AS'' however, Groudon does now become part Fire-type as a result of Primal Reversion, but its new ability in this form still prevents Water-type moves from doing '''''anything''''' to it.
* [[Making a Splash]]: Kyogre. It's the very representation of the seas.
* [[No Biological Sex]]
* [[Olympus Mons]]: In fact, the first to be treated as such instead of simply "very powerful."
* [[One of These Is Not Like the Others]]: For Rayquaza specifically, it is capable of Mega Evolution, but unlike all the other Pokémon that can do so, Rayquaza does not have a Mega Stone accociated with it; instead, it needs to learn its signature move, Dragon Ascent, in order to do this. This does however, give Rayquaza the advantage of being able to hold other items while in this mode.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Rayquaza, although rather close to the traditional Chinese version.
* [[Plot Coupon That Does Something]]: This is the generation that introduced Abilities, and it just so happens that all three of their signature Abilities were relevant to the stories of their respective games.
* [[Physical God]]s: They created/rule over the oceans, continents and atmosphere respectively. "Gods" are the only way you can describe them.
* [[Purposefully Overpowered]]: You won't be able to use them in the Battle Tower, most official tournaments, and most cups in 3D fighters. In fact, in the metagame, if every Pokémon is allowed to be used, Kyogre and Groudon tend to be number 1 and 2 or 3 (usually competing with Dialga) respectively, and both of them, but especially Kyogre, are ''insanely'' powerful, to the point that things like Quagsire are used exclusively for countering it (Quagsire can absorb Kyogre's Water-type attacks and nullify its popular Thunder, then force it into an Encore. And even ''Quagsire'' can't handle some Kyogre variants, even those that that don't wield Hidden Power Grass-type). Rayquaza is no slouch either, usually sitting above number 10 and having one of the most powerful Dragon-type moves outside of Latios (who is quite viable on the Special side of things with Soul Dew attached). And finally Groudon, who is so versatile you won't be able to guess its full moveset easily, and after proper set-up, becomes one of the, if not ''the'', deadliest sweeper in the games.
* [[Secret Art]]: Along with new forms and new signature abilities, they now have their own signature moves: Groudon gets Precipice Spikes, Kyogre gets Origin Pulse, and Rayquaza gets Dragon Ascent (which it needs to learn in order to Mega Evolve).
* [[Signature Move|Signature Abilities]]: Prior to Generation V, the weather-altering abilities Drought and Drizzle were exclusive to Groudon and Kyogre, respectively. However, with the introduction of the Dream World in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', Ninetales and Politoed gained access to these abilities.
** Rayquaza is also one of only two Pokémon to know V-Create (an event-exclusive move), the other one being Victini (whom the move was originally designed for). [[Oh Crap|Yup, 180 Base Power coming off of 150 Base Attack. And even the rain won't save you thanks to Air Lock.]]
** All 3 get new signature abilities with their new forms. Primal Groudon gets Desolate Land, Primal Kyogre gets Primordial Sea, and Mega Rayquaza gets Delta Stream.
* [[Single Specimen Species]]: One would imagine. Could you picture two of any of these guys running around?
** You do find one of the two(and the third if you trade the other over) in [[Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver]]. Of course this could just mean the Hoenn protagonist wasn't able to hold onto them/it's the Weather Pokemon you didn't catch in Ruby/Sapphire.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: In Japan, "Kaiorga" and "Kyogre" have both been seen.
* [[Super Mode]]: All 3 have more powerful forms; Primal Reversion for Groudon and Kyogre, and Mega Evolution for Rayquaza.
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: Kyogre and Groudon in their respective versions, to an extent. They must be encountered and either defeated or captured to progress with the plot, so they aren't ''technically'' required. Few players will pass on their chance to catch a [[Lost Forever]] [[Game Breaker]], though.
* [[Time Abyss]]: Rayquaza is hundreds of millions of years old. Given they created the seas and land, so would Kyogre and Groudon.
* [[Tron Lines]]: Red, blue (Groudon's are slightly hard to see at times), and yellow. Coincidentally, they represent the main colors used in subtractive color mixing. The patterns are also heavily featured in Emerald's pre-battle cutscenes and on the floor of the ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' remakes'
* [[Weather Control Machine|Weather Control Creatures]]: Played straight by Groudon and Kyogre, and inverted by Rayquaza since it blocks out any weather (but doesn't remove it, so its effects come back into play as soon as Rayquaza leaves the field).
* [[Yin-Yang Clash]]: Groudon vs. Kyogre, requiring Rayquaza to break them up.
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* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: All around high stats.
** [[Jack of All Stats]]: Equal stats, as expected of the Mew expy. Accordingly, beating one is pretty much down to luck. It is THE incarnation of [[Luck-Based Mission]] in the competitive metagame (alongside Shaymin-S).
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]:
* [[Make a Wish]]
* [[No Biological Sex]]
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* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Certainly gives off this feel. The fact it's a sentient virus doesn't help.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Three rather creepy [[For Doom the Bell Tolls|bell strikes]].
* [[Master of All]]: with the except of HP, Deoxys had the best stats of any Psychic-type, depending on the forme it takes. It at one point had the highest Attack, Sp.Atk and Speed of '''all''' Pokémon.
** It eventually became outclassed in Attack, Defense, and Sp.Atk when Mega Mewtwo (X and Y) and Mega Slowbro were introduced, but Deoxys still has the best Sp.Def and Speed of all Psychic-types. Even recently, it can now be outsped by the newest of the Regis, Regieleki.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: '''Deoxy'''ribonucleic acid or... DNA.
* [[Multiform Balance]]
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* [[No Biological Sex]]
* [[Power Crystal]]: the source of its powers. Also probably its brain.
* [[Promoted to Playable]]: in this case, "Promoted to Catchable", as Deoxys can be encountered and caught through normal gameplay in ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.''
* [[Psychic Powers]]
* [[Purposefully Overpowered]]: Won't see any use in the Battle Tower or in tournaments.
* [[Signature Move]]: Psycho Boost.
* [[Starfish Alien]]: While all Pokémon are theorised to be this, Deoxys is the only Pokémon that is downright proven to be an alien. Well, an alien space virus.
* Strong but Frail: Normal and Attack formes have insane attacking stats in adittion to being lightning quick, but neither can take a hit to save their souls!
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