Kingdra is a larger, more elegant version of Seadra. It has beautiful fins that wave in the water as it swims. Its head has a crest-like fin along its cheeks. Its head can also turn 360 degrees. Its belly scales are now more compact, unlike Seadra. The snout has also become thinner and more powerful, allowing squirts of water jets with devastating power.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
The yawn of a sleeping Kingdra is powerful enough to create undercurrents capable of destroying small ships.
Behavior
When a storm arrives, Kingdra is said to awaken and wander about in search of prey.
Kingdra, the Dragon Pokémon. Normally at rest on the ocean floor, but in theories of high activity, even a yawn has enough power to create whirlpools.
In the manga
Kingdra in Pokémon Adventures
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Silver's Seadra evolved into Kingdra when he traded it to Gold for Poliwhirl, which also evolved. The two then traded back, so that each would have their original, though evolved, Pokémon. It was then used in his battle with Gold in the ruins of Ecruteak City, where it defeated Sudobo after being switched in. He also uses it to climb waterfalls.
Kingdra lives at extreme ocean depths that are otherwise uninhabited. It has long been believed that the yawning of this Pokémon creates spiraling ocean currents.
Kingdra sleeps on the seafloor where it is otherwise devoid of life. When a storm arrives, the Pokémon is said to awaken and wander about in search of prey.
Though many of Kingdra's Pokédex entries state that it can create whirlpools, it can only learn the move via HM.
However, many of its Pokédex entries state it creates whirlpools by yawning, and it can learn the move Yawn.
Kingdra is the only Dragon-type Pokémon introduced in Generation II, and is, along with Misdreavus, the only Pokémon introduced in a generation in which there are no other Pokémon of one of its types.
Kingdra is the only Pokémon introduced in Generation II whose name starts with K.
Kingdra, along with Gyarados and Milotic, has the highest base stat total of any non-legendary Water-type Pokémon.
Origin
Kingdra is based on a weedy sea dragon, but still shares many characteristics with regular Seahorses. The fact that it dwells on the sea floor while creating whirlpools may be based on the mythical monster Charybdis. Its secondary Dragon-type may be a reference to a Japanese name for seahorses, 竜の落し子 tatsu-no-otoshigo, which means "dragon's child".
Name origin
Kingdra may be a combination of king and dragon or hydra (a mythological sea creature).