Lorelei's Cloyster

Lorelei's Cloyster
カンナのパルシェン Kanna's Parshen
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Lorelei's Cloyster
Debuts in Do Wrong, Dewgong!
Caught at Unknown
Gender Unknown
Ability Shell Armor*
Current location With Lorelei
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This Pokémon is fully evolved.
Voice actor Japanese English
As Cloyster Katsuyuki Konishi Michael Haigney

Lorelei's Cloyster (Japanese: カンナのパルシェン Kanna's Parshen; known in the anime dub as Prima's Cloyster) is a Pokémon owned by Lorelei in the anime, games, and manga.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

History

Yellow arc

 
Cloyster and Lorelei

Lorelei's Cloyster is one of her main Pokémon. It first appeared along with her Dewgong in Do Wrong, Dewgong!. Cloyster traps Yellow and Bill in a cave by collapsing the entrance with a Spike Cannon. When Yellow tries to escape, Cloyster sends an Ice Beam-powered Spike Cannon which stops them. Eventually, they do escape and Yellow attacks with Pika, with it using Thunder Shock. Lorelei tells Cloyster to Withdraw into its shell and Pika's ThunderShock bounces off harmlessly, though it became too stunned to move.

After a long chase, Lorelei gets Cloyster to Aurora Beam Yellow and Bill, freezing them in place along with an entire tidal wave. Then, Lorelei tries to extract information from Yellow by getting Cloyster to bombard them with its Supersonic, Yellow's Rattata comes and rescues them at the last minute with its Super Fang.

In Valiant Venomoth!, Lorelei appears again, this time riding in her Cloyster, to battle Green and Sabrina. She uses voodoo dolls made from her Jynx to freeze their hands together and present the threat that any part of the dolls that are destroyed means they will, too. Cloyster then uses Ice Beam on them, but it barely misses them. Green sends out Nidorina and Sabrina uses Venomoth. Nidorina charges at Cloyster and Venomoth uses Sleep Powder. Cloyster uses Blizzard to blow the Sleep Powder into Nidorina's face which puts her to sleep. Venomoth charges again and again, with Cloyster withdrawing each time so that all the attacks don't hit. Eventually Cloyster falls over, fainted, and Lorelei then realizes that it had been using Mega Drain the whole time.

Cloyster also makes a small appearance getting defeated by a Blastoise's Hydro Pump in Clefabulous Clefable.

FireRed & LeafGreen arc

When Lorelei later reappeared in the FireRed & LeafGreen arc, she used Cloyster again to defeat countless Unown with another Spike Cannon blast, but was taken by surprise when Sird's Starmie used Camouflage to approach them whilst disguised as part of the terrain before it defeated both Cloyster and Lorelei with a Hyper Beam.

Personality and characteristics

Cloyster has no problem in following Lorelei's commands as shown when she relied on it in order to do dangerous tasks and to prevent anyone from interfering with her plans.

Moves used

 
Using Spike Cannon
 
Using Supersonic
Move First Used In
Spike Cannon  Cloystered
Withdraw Cloystered
Aurora Beam Cloystered
Supersonic Cloystered
Ice Beam Valiant Venomoth!
Blizzard Valiant Venomoth!
A shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Moves improvised

Picture First Used In Moves Involved Partnered With
  Cloystered Spike Cannon and Ice Beam Lorelei's Dewgong
Description: Ice Missile - A combination of Cloyster's Spike Cannon and Dewgong's Ice Beam, strong enough to penetrate even bedrock.

In the anime

History

 
Cloyster in the anime
 
Cloyster and Prima

In The Mandarin Island Miss Match, Prima used Cloyster against numerous opponents in a tournament and defeated them all. Eventually, Ash challenged Prima to a battle. They agreed to use one Pokémon each, and Prima used Cloyster against Pikachu. Pikachu used a Thunderbolt, but Cloyster shielded itself by Withdrawing into its shell. Pikachu then used Agility, but Cloyster used Reflect and Pikachu got thrown backward. After getting back on his feet, Pikachu used Thunder to hit Cloyster, who started to glow red after using Rage to enhance its attack power. Pikachu tried to use Quick Attack, but was defeated by an Aurora Beam-Take Down combo, causing Ash to lose.

Personality and characteristics

Very little is known about Prima's Cloyster, as it and its Trainer have only been in one episode. However, being a Pokémon owned by an Elite Four member, it was shown to be quite strong, as it defeated Ash's Pikachu despite being at a type disadvantage.

Moves used

 
Using Blizzard
 
Using Rage
Move First Used In
Blizzard The Mandarin Island Miss Match
Withdraw The Mandarin Island Miss Match
Reflect The Mandarin Island Miss Match
Rage The Mandarin Island Miss Match
Aurora Beam The Mandarin Island Miss Match
Take Down The Mandarin Island Miss Match
A shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In other manga

 
Cloyster in Pokémon Zensho
 
Cloyster in Pokémon Pocket Monsters

Pokémon Pocket Monsters

Lorelei's Cloyster appeared in To The Pokémon League. It first appeared along with Lorelei's other Pokémon when Lorelei welcomed Red to her school. Jynx used it as a weapon by smacking Clefairy. Later, it sneaked in Clefairy's food bowl, much to his ire. When Lorelei revealed herself to be an Elite Four member, Cloyster, along with Lorelei's team, had a battle with Red. Cloyster attacked Clefairy in which Clefairy dodged. Since Clefairy dodged, Cloyster crashed into a wall. It became the second opponent to be knocked out.

Pokémon Zensho

During Satoshi's time at the Pokémon League in PZ10, Lorelei sends out her Cloyster. Cloyster goes up against Satoshi's Raichu who has the type-disadvantage against the Electric-type. It wasn't long before Cloyster gets taken out by Raichu's Thunderbolt, advancing Satoshi to the next room. Cloyster was not seen using any moves due to its brief appearance.

In the games

Lorelei uses Cloyster in every game she appears in, being the only one to do so.

In the core series

Pokémon Red and Blue Pokémon Yellow Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
First battle Rematch
 
Types:
Water Ice
Cloyster Lv.53
Supersonic
Normal
Clamp
Water
Aurora Beam
Ice
Spike Cannon
Normal
 
Types:
Water Ice
Cloyster Lv.53
Supersonic
Normal
Clamp
Water
Ice Beam
Ice
Spike Cannon
Normal
 
Types:
Water Ice
Ability:
Shell Armor
Held item:
None
Cloyster Lv.51
Spikes
Ground
Dive
Water
Hail
Ice
Protect
Normal
 
Types:
Water Ice
Ability:
Shell Armor
Held item:
None
Cloyster Lv.63
Rain Dance
Water
Surf
Water
Ice Beam
Ice
Supersonic
Normal
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
First battle Rematch
 
Types:
Water Ice
Cloyster Lv.51
Ice Beam
Ice Special
Spike Cannon
Normal Physical
Hydro Pump
Water Special
  --  
   
 
Types:
Water Ice
Cloyster Lv.61
Blizzard
Ice Special
Spike Cannon
Normal Physical
Hydro Pump
Water Special
Poison Jab
Poison Physical

Pokémon Stadium series

Pokémon Stadium
Round 1 Round 2
 
Types:
Water Ice
Cloyster Lv.50-100
Supersonic
Normal
Clamp
Water
Spike Cannon
Normal
Explosion
Normal
 
Types:
Water Ice
Cloyster Lv.50-100
Toxic
Poison
Clamp
Water
Ice Beam
Ice
Explosion
Normal

In the side series

Pokémon Masters EX

Main article: Lorelei (Masters) → Cloyster

Cloyster pairs alongside Lorelei in Pokémon Masters EX.

Sync Dex Trainer NDex Pokémon Type Weakness Role Base Potential Availability
#007   Lorelei #0091   Cloyster
Ice
 
Electric
 
  ★★★★★☆EX Variety Sync Pair Scout

Pokémon Puzzle League

Cloyster is one of Lorelei's three Pokémon in Pokémon Puzzle League.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Cloyster

  This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.