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Corsola is a small, pink, roundish Pokémon with branch-like growths on its back. It has a white underside with four stubby legs. Corsola also has a pair of pink, stubby arms.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Corsola are known to have great regenerative powers. Unlike real coral, which can take years to grow, if any of their horns are broken, it can grow back in as little as a single night. However, in order for this to function properly, they need clean ocean water. They cannot survive in polluted water.
Corsola is somewhat of a defensive Pokémon. It is capable of using self-healing attacks such as Recover and Aqua Ring. Corsola is also capable of using a few stat-boosting moves such as Barrier, Calm Mind, and Amnesia. Corsola is one of the few Pokémon that can learn Power Gem and also learns some Ground-type moves, such as Earth Power.
Behavior
Corsola often have a plucky, cheerful disposition and often form large social groups in their habitats. Occasionally these groups get so large that people may live atop them - as is the case in Pacifidlog Town. Although they gear towards the defensive side of battling, Corsola usually show a cheerful determination and are prepared to do the best that they can.
Misty has a Corsola she caught in the Whirl Islands in A Corsola Caper!. It wandered into a group of Corsola raised by a family living in Yellow Rock Isle. It caused trouble for them as it was very energetic and tackled all the Corsola, scaring them away. Things were finally solved when Misty battled and caught her.
A herd of Corsola appeared in Volume 10 where they weighed down Lt. Surge's miniature submarine. However, Crystal (who had been accidentally kidnapped into the submarine) used her capturing skills to free the submarine from the Corsola.
Corsola's branches glitter very beautifully in seven colors when they catch sunlight. If any branch breaks off, this Pokémon grows it back in just one night.
Clusters of Corsola congregate in warm seas where they serve as ideal hiding places for smaller Pokémon. When the water temperature falls, this Pokémon migrates to the southern seas.
Corsola was the only Rock-type Pokémon that could learn Power Gem before Platinum, despite Power Gem being a Rock-type move.
Corsola (with the possible exception of the Nosepass line) is the only Pokémon without a gem on its body to learn Power Gem, though coral is often used in jewelry.
Corsola is the only non-Grass Pokémon to learn Ingrain. This may be due to the fact that corals are often rooted to a single spot and grow like plants.
Corsola and Relicanth are the only Water/Rock Pokémon that are not revived Fossil Pokémon.
However, Relicanth is considered to be an ancient Pokémon nevertheless.
This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.