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Panpour is a primate-like, blue-and-yellow Water-type Pokémon. The proportion of its head and large ears are similar to that of Aipom, although the insides of its ears are light blue. The upper half of its head and the puffy, wave-like feature atop is blue. Panpour's eyes are oval-shaped, and the lower half of its face is yellow with a small, dot-like nose. It also possesses a blue, frilled-like feature on its neck and upper shoulders. Its upper body and its skinny forelimbs are yellow, and its hands seem to have no fingers, aside from thumbs. Panpour's lower body is yellow with small feet, and its wiry tail is tipped with a clover-shaped feature. Its feet both have three toes each.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Panpour gathers water, stored in its tuft, to dampen its body, sprinkling itself with its tail. The water stored in the tuft on its head is full of nutrition and plants watered with it will grow well.
Behavior
Panpour always have their eyes closed.
Habitat
Panpour do not do well in dry environments and most likely live where it's damp.
Panpour, the Spray Pokémon. Panpour lived in forests long ago, but developed a body that makes it easy to live near water. It can store water in the tufts on its head.
Panpour, along with Pansage and Pansear, and their respective evolutions, are the only non-starter Pokémon that can have a starter Pokémon-exclusive Ability. In Panpour and Simipour's case, this is Torrent.
Panpour and its evolution are the only Pokémon capable of learning Scald by level-up.
Origin
Panpour is based on a monkey and a fountain. It may also be based on a geyser or may be a visual pun on Sea-Monkeys. It, along with its two contemporaries, seem to inspired by the three wise monkeys motif; with its eyes closed, Panpour represents "see no evil".
Name origin
Panpour may be a combination of Pan (the genus of Chimpanzees) and pour.
Hiyappu may be a combination of 冷や hiya (cool water) and ape.
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.