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* [[Mighty Glacier]]
** [[Lightning Bruiser]]: "Torterra used Rock Polish!"
* [[
* [[Signature Move]]: As a Grass starter, it can learn Grass Pledge and Frenzy Plant.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To the [[wikipedia:World Turtle|World Turtle]]
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** Becomes a [[Lightning Bruiser]] by using Agility. Throw in a Petaya Berry boost and it can wipe out your entire team.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Piplup more so than its evolutions, despite the names. Its Dex entries suggest it is particularly pompous and prideful - perhaps it just mellows out as it grows up.
* [[
* [[Pride]]: According to the Pokédex, most Trainers have a hard time fully befriending them because they're so stuck up and full of themselves.
* [[Prongs of Poseidon]]: Take a closer look at Empoleon.
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* [[Glass Cannon]]: And its best attacks either damage it or reduce its defenses. Defenses that are already so poor that even having Intimidate doesn't make up for their fragility. Its Dream World Ability, Reckless, increases the power of its recoil moves, which naturally increases the amount of recoil as well, furthering Staraptor's reputation as a "live hard, die young" kind of fighter.
** To put this into perspective, its most powerful attack is Brave Bird, which does recoil damage. It can actually OHKO ''itself'' when using it against a Blissey.
* [[Idiot Hair]]: Starly and Staravia; [[Took a Level
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Combined with [[Crutch Character]], of all things. This thing starts off useful (like most early birds), tends to become slightly inferior to the rest of the team in its 20s, but once it's fully evolved, it becomes a powerhouse. Staraptor also learns the very powerful Fighting-type move Close Combat when it evolves, which by itself puts it head and shoulders above all other Normal/Flying Pokémon.
* [[
== Bidoof and Bibarel (Bippa and Beadull) ==
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* [[Making a Splash]]: Bibarel.
* [[Non-Elemental]]
* [[
== Kricketot and Kricketune (Koroboshi and Korotock) ==
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Based on a Pachycephalosaurus, this dinosaur Pokémon has an extremely thick skull which it uses to smash things with. If there is a single thing that this Pokémon does well, it's definitely smashing things. Rampardos has the highest attack stat of any non-legendary Pokémon, making it 2nd if you do include legendaries. Unfortunately, it is held back by its speed and defenses, which prevent it from steamrolling everything in its path. Its fossils are
* [[Cast from Hit Points]]: Rampardos' former signature move - Head Smash - is tremendously powerful with 150 base power, but it also deals a horrific 50% recoil damage to the user. Cranidos gets a weaker version of this move in the form of Take Down, only with 25% recoil damage.
* [[Crippling Overspecialization]]: Its only focus is having a ''really'' high base Attack stat. Its slow speed and bad defenses combined though means that it could very well get knocked out before it can even make use of its Attack. Worse, having an Attack ''this'' high can be a detriment; if Rampardos gets confused, it could inflict huge amounts of self-damage. And if its opponent has Foul Play, then its power can be used against it.
** To put its massive attack into perspective, Rampardos' Attack stat alone accounts for '''one third''' of its base stat total!
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Being a Rock-type, it has access to the popular Earthquake.
* [[The Ditz]]: Cranidos may have had a thick skull, it apparently wasn't very bright.
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: ''Finally'', a fossil Pokémon that's actually based on dinosaurs!
* [[Fossil Revival]]: If you can find a Skull Fossil, then Cranidos is yours.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: It has the second-highest Attack in the game after Attack Forme Deoxys, but everything else <ref>except for its [[Hit Points]]</ref> is rather lacking.<ref>And its good HP stat is really only good for absorbing recoil from its own attacks; its pathetic defenses don't let it take hits from ''opponents'' very well, even ''with'' a lot of Hit Points.</ref>
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Its HP stat is fairly high, the same cannot be said of its poor Speed stat though.
* [[Prehistoric Monster]]
* [[Use Your Head]]: The preferred method of attack for both Pokémon; Cranidos also did so to obtain food when it roamed the world by headbutting trees to get their berries.
* [[Yin-Yang Clash]]: Cranidos and Rampardos represent the unstoppable spear from the Han Feizi, with Shieldon and Bastiodon playing the unbreakable shield.
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* [[For Massive Damage]]: 4x weakness to Fighting- and Ground-type attacks. Thankfully, it can learn Magnet Rise ([[Fridge Logic|just don't ask how]]) to counter the latter.
* [[Fossil Revival]]
* [[
* [[Prehistoric Monster]]
* [[Stone Wall]]: So freaking much.
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* [[For Massive Damage]]: Plant Cloak is super-weak to Fire and Flying, Trash Cloak is ''badly'' hurt by Fire, and Mothim has that classic crippling weakness to Rock that makes Bug/Flying Pokémon the [[Tier-Induced Scrappy|unfavorites]] of the Pokémon world.
* [[Flight]]: Mothim
* [[
** Also, Wormadam's hidden ability Overcoat makes her immune to hail and sandstorm damage.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Wormadam and Mothim naturally learn a few Psychic-type attacks.
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* [[Metal Slime]]: Female Combee.
* [[Multiple Head Case]]: Combee
* [[
* [[One-Gender Race]]: Female Combee become Vespiquen.
* [[Signature Move]]: [[Attack Pattern Alpha|Attack Order, Defend Order, and Heal Order]] for Vespiquen. As of Gen V, it's the only Pokémon with more than two signature attacks.
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* [[Making a Splash]]
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Gastrodon.
* [[
* [[Stock Ness Monster]]: Despite being sea slugs.
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** [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Drifloon ''tries'' to kidnap children, but it's so light, the kids end up tagging it along like a common balloon. Drifblim, in contrast, can actually carry the kids off the ground.
* [[Flight]]
* [[
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: ''Balloon''-ghosts. Perhaps they're the lingering spirits of popped balloons...
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Nicknaming either one of them "[[Hindenburg]]" (''and'' having either one of them with the Explosion attack) was already a pretty common joke, but then they got an exclusive Dream World Ability, Flare Boost, that increases their Special Attack while [[Standard Status Effects|Burned]] -- ''and'' right in step with the games that debut the series's equivalent of America, too. [[Oh, the Humanity!]]...
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* [[Jack of All Stats]]
* [[Non-Elemental]]
* [[
* [[Playboy Bunny]]: Lopunny is said to be based on them.
* [[The Klutz]]: One of its abilities is literally "Klutz", which prevents it from utilizing held items.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Their characterization is that of a spoiled cat.
* [[Non-Elemental]]
* [[
== Stunky (Skunpoo) and Skuntank ==
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* [[Casting a Shadow]]: Both of them
** [[Playing with Fire]]: They learn Flamethrower by level up, despite not being Fire-types (though see [[Smelly Skunks]] below)
* [[
* [[Smelly Skunk]]s: And smellier still knowing that both can Self-Destruct/Explode and use Flamethrower. [[Nausea Fuel|Can you imagine the smell of a skunk that exploded or can shoot fire from its rear glands]]?
* [[Poisonous Person|Poisonous Pokémon]]
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* [[Glass Cannon]]: For a single-stage bird that can only be caught late in the game (if you don't trade) its stats aren't all too bad. It's no Staraptor, for sure, but it's not terrible either.
* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]
* [[
* [[Polly Wants a Microphone]]
* [[Repeat What You Just Said]]
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* [[108]]: Spiritomb is formed from 108 evil spirits that are bound together to the Odd Keystone (compare with Ninetales from Generation I, which is said to be the reincarnation of nine saints). In addition, Spiritomb weighs 108 kilograms, its Sinnoh region Pokédex number is 108, and its base Defense and Special Defense are 108. 108 is considered a mystical number in Buddhism (108 is said to be the number of temptations one must overcome to reach nirvana).
* [[Casting a Shadow]]: It fits into the traditional idea of a shadow elemental, unlike [[Combat Pragmatist|most Dark-types]] who are based on criminals, trickery, impending doom, and evil (cf. Honchkrow, Absol, Scrafty, Weavile, Cacturne, Shiftry, etc).
* [[
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: It's not one ghost; it's 108 spirits forever encased in a keystone as punishment for the evil those spirits have committed in life.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Spiritomb is said to be formed from the souls of 108 people who were evil in life and now are bound to the Odd Keystone for eternity as punishment.
* [[Shout-Out]]: It looks a tad like [[
** [[What Could Have Been|It was originally going to be named]] [[Super Metroid|Phantomb]].
* [[Soul Power]]
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Dragon Pokémon that superficially resemble sharks with limbs, they are found in caves with geothermal heating. Gible looks somewhat silly due to its pudgy appearence, but as it evolves, it gets "sharper" and dangerous-looking. It is among the fastest of the Pseudo-legendaries and its stats are in just the right places to make it an extremely powerful threat.
* [[Badass]]: There's a reason it's
* [[Big Eater]]: What would you expect from names like those?
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: A part Ground-type family. Garchomp also gets Sand Force when it Mega Evolves to boost its Ground moves further.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: Cave-dwelling, ''flying'' landsharks!
* [[For Massive Damage]]: To Ice-type attacks, but too bad most Ice- and even Water-types have trouble getting to hit Garchomp with those. [[It Got Worse|And then there are the Yache Berry sets...]]▼
* [[Flight]]: [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|In their pokedex entry, at least...]]
▲* [[For Massive Damage]]: To Ice-type attacks, but too bad most Ice- and even Water-types have trouble getting to hit Garchomp with those. [[It Got Worse|And then there are the Yache Berry sets...]]
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: And so good that the unofficial metagame banned it in standard battles, in both generations, simply because the metagame revolved around this guy.▼
** [[Mighty Glacier]]: Becomes closer to this when Garchomp Mega Evolves, since it trades 10 points in Speed for extra Sp.Def, in addition to its Defense going up from 95 to 115. Gible was actually this (well, as far as basic forms go, at least).
* [[Magikarp Power]]: In ''Diamond/Pearl'', where they can only be caught after the sixth gym, at which point they're rather underleveled. Not as much as most pseudo-legendaries, though, since Gible/Gabite evolve earlier than their predecessors and they don't have any limitations as severe as Beldum's Take Down only phase.
** ''Platinum'' made Gible available immediately after the second gym at the same levels as in ''Diamond/Pearl'' and added high level wild Gabites in Victory Road, arguably turning the line into an [[Infinity-1 Sword]] considering how effective [[Lightning Bruiser|Garchomp]] is.
▲* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: And so good that the unofficial metagame banned it in standard battles, in both generations, simply because the metagame revolved around this guy.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Its final form looks like a shark, a dragon, and a jet had a threesome.
* [[No Sell]]: Against Electric-type attacks.▼
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Dragon landsharks.
* [[Sand Is Water]]: Desert dwelling sharks.
* [[Super Mode]]: Garchomp gained a Mega Evolution in ''X/Y'', giving it large boosts to its Attack and Sp.Atk, but dropping its Speed slightly.
* [[Weak to Magic]]: The whole line is weak to Fairy-types, after all. Garchomp also has fewer resists than any other Pseudo-Legendary.
== Riolu and Lucario ==
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* [[Ki Attacks]]
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Riolu has quite low stats and a much smaller movepool than Lucario, even by pre-evolution standards.
* [[
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: When written in katakana. "Lucario" reversed is "Oricalu"—which is close to how the English word "oracle" would be written in katakana.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Lucario is quite clearly based on the Egyptian god Anubis in terms of physical appearance.
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* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: Learns the three fang attacks (Ice, Fire, and Electric).
* [[Mighty Glacier]]
* [[
* [[Sand Is Water]]: Desert hippopotami.
* [[Palette Swap]]: The gender differences amount to this... with the ''same'' base palette (well, in Hippopotas's case, that is; Hippowdon has a true coloration difference), which is [[Truth in Television]] considering that hippos actually are differentiated by gender based on their hide color.
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* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: Learns the three fang attacks.
* [[Four-Legged Insect]]
* [[
* [[Poisonous Person|Poisonous Pokémon]]
* [[Scary Scorpions]]: Both of them, but, according to the Pokedex, Drapion can crush a car with its claws.
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* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Mostly balanced stats, except for Speed.
* [[Man-Eating Plant]]
* [[
* [[Perpetual Smiler]]
* [[Power Floats]]: Has the ability Levitate. Why? [[A Wizard Did It|Um,]] [[Atop the Fourth Wall|because the Kool-Aid man is red?]]
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** Lumineon does have one thing going for it since 5th gen improved Storm Drain (it now not only draws water attacks to the user, but prevents them from doing damage and provides a Special Attack boost) - it is, by a significant margin, the fastest user of this ability. It still has a narrow movepool, and its Special Attack is still the weakest of all Storm Drain users, but it might be able to do something.
* [[Making a Splash]]
* [[
* [[The Generic Guy]]: It's a highly generic Water type that looks like a fish. It's so generic that even a lot of dedicated fans of the Pokemon series tend to forget about it completely.
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* [[Haunted Technology]]
* [[No Biological Sex]]
* [[
** [[For Massive Damage]]: It is possible to bypass Rotom's Ground-type immunity. Heat Rotom takes it the worst.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Rotom isn't so much a ghost as it's a plasmatic force that likes to possess machinery.
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* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: They are among the smallest Pokémon, but their stats are as expected of a legendary trio.
* [[Psychic Powers]]
* [[Single
== Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina ==
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* [[No Biological Sex]]: In the main games. Dialga and Palkia are genderless in gameplay but identified as male by other characters in ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]: Explorers''.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The "violence" that resulted in Giratina being labeled the Renegade Pokemon, getting banished to the Distortion World, and its monument alongside Dialga's and Palkia's in Eterna City being removed.
* [[
* [[Number of the Beast]]: A bit subtle, but Giratina's Altered Forme has six legs, six ribs, and six spikes on its wings. This also ties into its overall Satan motif.
* [[Olympus Mons]]
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* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Palkia.
* [[Signature Move]]: Roar of Time for Dialga, Spacial Rend for Palkia, and Shadow Force for Giratina.
* [[Single
* [[Space Is an Ocean]]: Palkia, the master of space, is a Water-type Pokémon. Allegedly because pearls = water.
** Their secondary types allude to the three phases of matter: Steel = solid, Water = liquid, and Ghost = gas.
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* [[Mighty Glacier]]
* [[No Biological Sex]]/[[One-Gender Race]]: Averted: it's the only legendary that can have ''both'' genders.
* [[
* [[Playing with Fire]]
* [[Signature Move]]: [[You Will Not Evade Me|Magma Storm]]
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* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Its Slow Start ability, and the fact that a common Fighting type can take it out with one kick or punch, much like the Regi Pokemon from Genration III (all of which have types that are weak to Fighting).
* [[Golem]]
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: Well, at least that was the intention, as a [[Lightning Bruiser|VERY good Pokémon stat-wise]] [[Blessed with Suck|that would be hindered and kept away from brokenness by its trait]]. However, said trait is so hindering that it's ''too'' difficult to use Regigigas effectively against an intelligent opponent (especially when you can't use items for healing). Lacking [[Heal Thyself|Rest]] and [[
** If you can remove the trait, which can be done in Double Battles with a little planning, you can bring it up to its full potential. You can tell that Game Freak wants you to do this, as ability-changing moves work on it (unlike Slaking's Truant). It's made even easier to do in ''Pokémon Black and White''. (Whimsicott with the Prankster Ability used a +1 priority Worry Seed. Not to mention the addition of Simple Beam and Entrainment for more ways to change a Pokémon's ability.) You could also use Heal Pulse to help Regigigas survive until Slow Start wears off naturally.
* [[Joke Character]]: Out of the legendaries. Not only because of its unfortunate ability which holds it back, but also the fact it is a ''level one pokemon'' when you first encounter it in Platinum. Scary legendary boss fight it ain't.
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** [[Lightning Bruiser]]: ...and turns into this if you manage to get rid of the effects of its ability. Added emphasis on the "if".
* [[No Biological Sex]]
* [[
* [[Human Popsicle|Pokémon Popsicle]]
* [[Required Party Member]]: In ''Diamond'', ''Pearl'', and ''Platinum Versions'', Regirock, Regice, and Registeel of the Hoenn region are needed in order to wake Regigigas up. ''Platinum Version'' also features an additional situation that is inverted, with a special-event Regigigas being the requisite for accessing the Hoenn golems within the Sinnoh region.
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* [[Purposefully Overpowered]]: Restricted in the Battle Tower, official tournaments, and random Wifi. Phione gets the treatment due to being related to Manaphy and nothing else, though.
* [[Signature Move]]: Heart Swap for Manaphy.
* [[Single
* [[Super Prototype]]: Well, they're not artificial, but Phione is basically the weaker mass-produced version of Manaphy in gameplay terms, since you can get as many Phione as you want by breeding, but can't get more than one Manaphy per event.
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* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Like Togekiss and Jirachi before it. Shaymin's Sky Forme has serene grace and a high rate flinching move with it's high speed anything slower than it will not attack 60% of the time.
* [[No Biological Sex]]
* [[
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: or, in this case, exposure to Gracidea flowers.
* [[Purposefully Overpowered]]: Restricted usage in the Battle Tower, official tournaments, and random Wifi.
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** It was discovered that Arceus has a ???-type sprite hidden in the games code, although there is no corresponding plate for it. Although it could just be a fail-safe just in case someone were to change its type to that.
* [[No Biological Sex]]
* [[
* [[Palette Swap]]: What its different formes (according to type) account to, appearance-wise.
* [[Pals with Jesus|Pals With Arceus]]: You can take it to Dr. Footstep and find that [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl/Heartwarming|it finds you to be a true friend and Trainer]].
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* [[Shrug of God|Shrug Of Arceus]]: All three of Arceus' name pronunciations, noted in the [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]] entry, are correct.
* [[Signature Move]]: [[Death From Above|Judgment]]
* [[Single
* [[Truly Single Parent]]: In the Sinnoh Mythos, it is said that it created Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Mesprit, Uxie, and Azelf. Whether or not it created other Legendaries is still up for debate.
** In ''Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver'' it will even create an egg containing either Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina if you take it to the Ruins Of Alph.
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