Physiology

Gender differences

Special abilities

Behavior

Habitat

Diet

Biology

Physiology

Minccino is a furry, gray-colored chinchilla Pokémon, sporting scruffs of fur on its head, ear insides, and neck. Minccino's large ears, located to the sides of its head, have red insides partly covered by the aforementioned tufts of fur there. Its eyes are large and brown, with a small, dot-like nose. Its limbs are somewhat rounded and small, and its tail is long and particularly furry.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Minccino's tail acts like a broom and uses it to clean its den.

Minccino cleaning Behavior

Minccino brush each other with their tails as a greeting. They are obsessed with cleaning dirty items.

Minccino in the anime Major appearances

Bianca's Minccino

Bianca's Minccino appears in BW013, where it was initially a wild Pokémon. It stole Ash's new badge case in order to clean it, and ultimately gets caught in one of Bianca's Poké Balls.

Minor appearances

A Minccino appears in In The Shadow of Zekrom!, where it was running alongside some children in the streets of Nuvema Town.

Another Minccino belonging to a little boy appears in BW019 where it was being examined by an S-class Pokémon Connoisseur.

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Physiology

Piplup resembles a penguin chick and also looks a little bit like Torchic. It has yellow feet and a light-blue body. There are two white spots on its chest that seem to resemble buttons on a suit. It also appears to have a blue cape. It has a circular, blue head with white circles around its eyes and a small, yellow beak.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Piplup mainly know how to use Water attacks such as Bubble, but they also know pecking attacks.

Behavior

Piplup have a large sense of self-pride. Because of this, a Piplup has a hard time accepting food from humans.

Habitat

Piplup live along the sea shore in colder climates. However, Piplup are quite rare and they're usually given out by Proffessor Rowan to new Pokémon trainers in the Sinnoh Region.

Physiology

Tentacruel are large blue jellyfish with two big red crystal spheres which refract sunlight, and can use to store energy. It can extend up to 80 tentacles out of its body, most of which are hidden, leaving up to 14 exposed. It has two beak-like appendages, used mostly to leech caught prey.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Tentacruel wraps its prey in its long tentacles and stings it. Its stings are known to cause excruciating pain.

Behavior

Habitat

Tentacruel can be found throughout the ocean, usually congregating in places where warm currents and cold currents come together, and where minerals are plentiful.

Trivia

• Tentacruel's original English name was "Man O War".
• Although it is stated to have 80 tentacles, only a little more than 10 can often be seen.
• Despite what the Generation III and beyond Pokédex entry states, Tentacruel cannot learn Flash.

Origin

Tentacruel is similar to the Man O War, which is not a jellyfish but a cluster of polyps.

Name origin

Tentacruel's name may be a combination of tentacle and cruel. Dokukurage literally means 毒水母, poison jellyfish.

Physiology

As first revealed by Japan's CoroCoro Magazine, Shaymin has two forms. The first (Land Forme) and the second is the Sky Forme. Shaymin will change into Sky Forme and back if it touches a Gracidea. Shaymin can't be in this form at night or if it's Frozen. Shaymin's Sky Forme has a canine-like appearance. It has a small, slender body. The fur on its back appears to have shifted into a mohawk; it has a red flower petal on the right side of its neck, looking like a scarf or cape, and flat wing-like ears. It has a small ruff on the front of its neck and a stumpy tail.

Gender differences

Shaymin is genderless.

Special abilities

Shaymin have the ability to instantly purify any ruined land of all pollutants in the air and transform it into a lush field of Flowers. They can take in polluted air, purify it inside their bodies, break it down into water and light, and release the purified substance in a violent, explosive burst. This ability is known as Seed Flare. Its power varies on the type of polution is absorbed. Shaymin can communicate with telepathy.

Behavior

Shaymin have a habitual trait called "Flower Carrying". Each season, Shaymin gather in a flower field somewhere and migrate from there. This behavior is called Flower Carrying because a new field of flowers grow where they land. Their personalities are almost opposite with each form-- Land Forme is shy and easily scared, while Sky Forme is courageous and playful.

Habitat

Shaymin live in fields of flowers. Since a Shaymin camouflages by curling itself up, it can easily escape people's notice, similar to Geodude Geodude on rocky terrain.