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#44 Gloom

Interesting Facts: The English name Gloom refers to its seemingly sad appearance; the word bloom may be another influence on its name. The Japanese name Kusaihana is a combination of the Japanese words for stinky (臭, kusai?) and flower (花, hana?).

Poke'dex Entry: Gloom has indeed a gloomy [removed](Although it was revealed in the 3-D games that when they open their eyes, they look incredibly shocked). Bigger than Oddish, Gloom dribbles a kind of ooze from its mouth which is responsible, together with the pollen that emanates from its long petals, for its stench (however the stinking Gloom can become the beautiful Vileplume or Bellossom). Its body is purple and its petals orange. Its petals are similar to Oddish's leaves in a reference to the leaves dying. Its bud also resembles a closed rafflesia flower (a reference to Vileplume's flower).[3] The white markings on this bud are fewer but larger in the female than those of the male.[4]

The fluid that oozes from its mouth isn't drool. It is a sweet nectar that is used to attract prey. Once the prey is attracted, the nectar will cling to the prey, trapping it. The nectar mostly attracts prey that lack a sense of smell, as the nectar smells horrible.[3]

As well as its nectar, the pistil of Gloom's flower smells incredibly foul; it can be smelled from over a mile away. It has been found that approximately 1 in 1,000 people enjoy the scent that Gloom emits. Those that don't enjoy the smell have been known to faint upon smelling it. When Gloom is faced with danger, the stench worsens. If it is feeling calm or secure, it does not release the horrible aroma.[3]

Gloom itself loves the horrid stench it emits. It sniffs the noxious fumes and then drools even more of its nectar. Hence, it is possible that Gloom are attracted to other Gloom that have highly foul scents. However, Gloom are known to confuse themselves at times due to their pollen stench.[3]

Like most Grass Pokemon types, Gloom can hardly move, but it doesn't need to move its limbs to launch an attack.[5]

Strangely, Vilepume's ability is Chlorophyll, even though rafflesia contain neither chlorophyll nor chloroplasts.

Owned by: Hennajin

#46 Paras

Interesting Facts: The name Paras is a malformation of the word Parasect,[3] its evolved form, a portmanteau of the words, parasite, and insect.[4] The name Paras refers to both the species as a whole, as well as individual species in the games, anime and manga. Its name in the beta versions of Red and Blue was Parasyte.

Poke'dex Entry: Paras resemble a small, orange, coconut crab, with large, colourful fungi, growing from its back. Paras' legs resemble those of insects, and have pincers that are similar to those of a lobster. In the Pokémon universe, Paras would be born with tiny spores covering their body, which grow as the Pokémon feeds, called tochukaso mushrooms. It is noted in the Pokédex, that the mushrooms would sap energy from the host, causing the Paras to continuously burrow underground in forest areas to gnaw on tree roots, since the tuchokaso would draw most of the energy from the roots. The mushrooms themselves would have strong healing properties, and would be valued for their life extending properties.

Owned by: No one yet

#48 Venonat

Interesting Facts: The name "Venonat" is a combination of venom and gnat, a small insect.　Its Japanese name comes from the English word compound eyes, describing its appearance.

Poke'dex Entry: Venonat is a moderately large insect-like creature resembling a ball of purple fur with large red bee-eyes (or fly eyes as they look similar), a pair of pincers substituting for a mouth, rudimentary non-insectoid hands and feet, and a pair of grey antennae. Its fuzzy-but-stiff exterior seems to have evolved on Venonat over the ages which, along with the poison that consistently coats the whole body, serves to protect Venonat from being targeted as prey.

Venonat can be seen as the larval and pupal form of what it eventually becomes—the moth Pokémon Venomoth—but it already demonstrates characteristics of moths. It is a nocturnal insectivore in spite of being an insect itself. Since these bug Pokémon only appear at night, Venonat lives an arboreal lifestyle, sleeping in a hole in a tree until night falls, after which it will scavenge for food at the base of its tree.

Venonat’s distinctive eyes are its most notable feature. They are structured like the eyes of a bee, as in, its eyes are clusters of many, many tiny eyes. This is apparent to onlookers when observing Venonat in an especially bright setting. These optic arrays, allow the Pokémon to live and forage in darkness and to spot even the most minuscule of prey. Like a moth, Venonat is instinctively attracted to bright lights during the night-time, so it is often seen around city lamp posts. The most startling function of Venonat’s eyes are apparent in a trainer-directed Pokémon battle; it can shoot literal laser beams from its eyes at the opponent. (Psybeam attack: fires a psychic beam that may cause confusion)

Venonat also bears a strong resemblance to Butterfree, especially the facial features.

Owned by: No one yet

#50 Diglett

Interesting Facts: Diglett's name seems to combine dig and piglet or lett as a diminutive suffix. Its Japanese name simply refers to the word dig. In the English beta version of Pokémon Red and Blue, Diglett's name was still Digda.

Poke'dex Entry: Diglett is a small mole-like creature. The top of its head is rounded, and its thin skin is covered with short brown fur. It has two small black eyes and a large roundish pink nose. Interestingly, to date, no one has ever seen the entire body of a Diglett. If seen above ground, it usually only sticks its body out of the ground about 8 inches (0.2 meters). Therefore it is impossible to know Diglett's true size, even when they are called out of their Pokeballs. Some believe it has legs that it uses to dig, while others believe it is limbless and instead burrows like a worm or snake. The game Pokémon Snap appears to support the latter, as Digletts can be seen leaping out of their holes. However, in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, it was suggested that Diglett have legs. The best answer is that they have very small legs that make little difference in height. This also supports the reason they never walk; their legs are too small to walk with. An interesting thing to note about Diglett (and Dugtrio) is that they learn Cut, Scratch and Slash. This also supports the theory that they have arms/claws.

Diglett appears to be very similar to the artificial moles used in Whac-A-Mole arcade games.

Diglett's thin skin makes it vulnerable when it spends too much time aboveground. The sunlight can heat up its blood, weakening the Diglett. Therefore its natural habitat is underground, usually about one meter below the surface. When it burrows along at this shallow level, displaced soil can be seen along its path aboveground as a result. This makes it popular among farmers, who use Diglett to till their fields, preparing them to grow crops.

Diglett's natural diet consists of the roots of wild plants it finds while burrowing. It also likes to live in the huge tunnels made by the Pokémon Onix, due to leftover scraps of food.

Owned by: No one yet

#53 Meowth

Interesting Facts: It is one of the more popular Pokémon species, largely thanks to the Pokémon anime, which features a Meowth as a main character. This Meowth, belonging to Team Rocket, the anime's major antagonists, is one of the few Pokémon that can speak. He has a Koban on his forehead, a reference both to the traditional depiction of the maneki neko, which carries a koban, and to the Japanese idiom 'like a koban to a cat' (猫に小判, neko ni koban), which has a meaning approximately the same as the English phrase cast pearls before swine. (See Spoink)

Meowth's name probably comes from "meow", the sound made by cats, possibly by combining it with "mouth". This is supported in the cartoon; whenever Meowth says something rude or demoralizing to Jessie and James, Jessie usually retorts "Shut your big Meowth!". It is also possible that Meowth's name is an English approximation of its Japanese name (which can be Romanized as Nyarth), which is similarly derived from onomatopoeia for the sound cats make, which is commonly "nyā" in Japan.

Poke'dex Entry: Meowth has a distinctly feline appearance, resembling a small housecat. It has cream-colored fur, which turns brown at its paws and tail tip. Its oval-shaped head features prominent whiskers, black-and-brown ears and a gold oval coin (also known as "charm") embedded in its forehead. Meowth's coloration, its love of coins (see below) and its charm indicate that Meowth is based on the Japanese Maneki Neko, a cat-shaped figurine that is said to bring good luck and money to its owner.

Meowth is an urban nocturnal Pokémon. It spends most of the daytime sleeping and prowls the city streets at night. When hunting, Meowth organize themselves in groups that act like gangs, foraging or stealing food from people. They are aided in their mischief by their eyes which allow them night vision. They also retract their claws back into their paws, which grants them silent movement and protecting them from leaving distinctively incriminating pawprints that alert people to their actions.

Like the bowerbird, Meowth is attracted to certain objects that catch its attention, which it collects at every opportunity and hoards in its nest. Murkrow, a Pokémon which is even more like the bowerbird, exhibits similar behaviour and members of the two species have been known to steal from the collections of the other. Meowth loves round shaped objects, as well as shiny, glittering things. The item it adores collecting the most, however, are coins, since they are both round and shiny. Meowth is known to scour the pavements for dropped loose change and even to openly steal money from people to add to its collection.

In battle, Meowth can throw the coins it has accumulated at its opponents with the Pay Day attack, a technique unique to its evolution chain. If the player wins the battle, the scattered coins are picked up from the ground and are added to his account as profit, although the attack is quite weak and gives little money each time. This is a reference to the Maneki Neko, as in this way the Meowth essentially brings its trainer money, if somewhat indirectly.

Owned by: No one yet

#54 Psyduck

Interesting Facts: It is a Basic water type Pokémon, #54 in the National Pokédex, #138 in Johto and #158 in Hoenn. It first appeared in the Red/Blue games. Psyduck is a pre-evolution of Golduck, and possesses water, physical, and psychic attacks. It resembles a yellow duck (some say platypus), though quite cartoonish; besides its yellow feathers, it has three little black feathers on its head. Its expression is a constant empty stare. Despite psychic attacks being its trademark (especially in the anime), Psyduck is not a Psychic-type Pokémon, however it can learn psychic via being bred with a pokémon that knows psychic though it cannot learn it via TM.

According to the Pokédex, Psyduck's look is supposed to trick enemies into thinking that it is a weak Pokémon. It also suffers from vicious headaches, the reason why it clutches its head with its paws. Once its headache "peaks", its full power is shown. Psyduck is a parasomniac.

Even though this Pokémon is a duck-type, it is not type Flying and learns no Flying attacks (except Aerial Ace from a TM). This may be a proof that this Pokémon is more likely to be a platypus-type.

Poke'dex Entry: At first, Psyduck is a crazy Pokémon who possesses no ability to battle. Upon developing an intense headache, Psyduck releases mysterious psychokinetic powers. After performing these 'strange' powers, Psyduck goes promptly to sleep and when it awakes it has no recollection about the events. Thus, that is a likely reason why it has headaches. It's trying to remember what happened.

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