Malamar is a dark-purplish squid-like Pokémon. Malamar's body style has flipped over upon evolving. Malamar has developed a pair of tentacles on the bottom of it's body that function as it's legs. Malamar's main body has six light-yellow spots and two light-yellow stripes on the front. The Pokémon's arm-like tendrils have grown scythe-like in appearance. Malamar has a reddish beak, black eyes with yellow irises and wavy "hair" made of seven tentacles.
Not only is Inkay's method of evolution into Malamar unique to it, but it would have been impossible to perform on any of the previous platforms the main series Pokémon games have been playable on.
No other Pokémon has the same typecombination as Malamar and its pre-evolution, Inkay.
Origin
Malamar is based on an upside-down squid.
Name origin
Malamar may be a combination of mal- (Latin for bad) and calamari.
Karamanero may be from 絡ます karamasu (to entangle), calamari, 魔 ma (demon), and possibly nero di seppia (Italian for cephalopod ink).
In other languages
Language
Title
Meaning
Japanese
カラマネロ Karamanero
Possibly from 絡ます karamasu, calamari, 魔 ma, and possibly nero di seppia