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[[Category:{{{type1}}}-type Pokémon|{{{ndex}}}]]
Piplup (Japanese: ポッチャマ Pochama) is a Template:Type2 Pokémon.
It evolves into Prinplup starting at level 16, who evolves into Empoleon starting at level 36.
Along with Turtwig and Chimchar, it is one of the three starter Pokémon the player receives at the beginning of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum.
Biology
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 moves.
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 Professor Rowan to new Pokémon Trainers in the Sinnoh region.
Diet
- Main article: Pokémon food
In the anime
Dawn began her journey in Sinnoh with a Piplup. In Following a Maiden's Voyage, Piplup and the starter Chimchar got into a fight over their food, with Piplup causing chaos by using BubbleBeam on the interior of Professor Rowan's lab in pursuit of Chimchar. The two escape, and Dawn is given the task of finding them. She finds Piplup, and the two narrowly escape an Ariados attack. Back at Rowan's lab, Chimchar having been found by Rowan's Staraptor, Dawn chooses Piplup.
As the Diamond & Pearl series continued, Dawn kept Piplup out of its Poké Ball more and more often, much like Ash does with his Pikachu.
Kenny also had a Piplup at one time. It evolved into Prinplup before his first appearance.
Tyler, a rookie Trainer that appears in The Thief That Keeps on Thieving!, has a Piplup which appears to be female.
A Piplup, who used to be a human, is also one of the two main members of Team Poképals in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness.
Pokédex entries
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DP003
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Piplup
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Ash's Pokédex
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Piplup, the Penguin Pokémon. It's very proud, and its thick down protects it from the cold.
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In the manga
Pokémon Special
Much like her anime counterpart, Platinum of Pokémon Special began her journey with a Piplup. Unlike Dawn's, however, it eventually evolved into a Prinplup, and later, into an Empoleon.
Pokémon Diamond and Platinum Adventure!
Hareta randomly selects Piplup to battle the enraged Onix in the first chapter. After their first encounter with Onix, Hareta chooses Piplup as his first Pokémon. Piplup is originally disobedient to Hareta, but listens to him in order to defeat the Onix in their second battle.
In the TCGOther appearances
On being released from a Poké Ball, Piplup slides along the stage using Surf. Anyone caught in it will be pushed, possibly off the stage.
Game dataTrivia
- Piplup is the only Water-type starter Pokémon that can't learn Water Gun.
- Piplup is the second starter Pokémon based on a bird, the first being Torchic. Coincidentally, neither evolve into a Template:Type2, as both are based on flightless birds.
- Piplup is the most selected Sinnoh starter in the anime. It has been the starter of Dawn, Kenny, and Tyler.
Origin
Piplup is based on a baby penguin.
Name origin
Piplup may be derived from "Pip", a stage of growth in baby birds immediately before they hatch from the eggshell, and possibly "plop" or "plup", the sound of hitting the water.
Also, the name "Piplup" may come from the Greek noun, "Piplos", which means "cloth" or "robe", which may refer to Piplup's final evolved form being based on an Emperor Penguin - as Greek Emperors used to wear robes.
Pochama may be derived from 坊っちゃま botchama, meaning child, with the P perhaps coming from penguin. It may also be based on ぽちゃぽちゃ pochapocha, which means either splashing in water or having a plump appearance. Alternatively, it may be derived from おぼっちゃま obotchama, a term that refers to children with wealthy parents.
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