Wooper (Pokémon)
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Wooper (Japanese: ウパー Upah) is a dual-type Water/Ground Pokémon introduced in Generation II.
Biology
Wooper is a mostly blue, amphibious Pokémon that resembles an upright, armless axolotl. Wooper's head is large compared to its body, and it has small, round, black eyes. It has purple, branching gills on either side of its head; the males have more branches in its gills than the females. Wooper stands on two small, round feet, and it has a large, thick tail. On its belly are dark blue curved markings.
It is implied in the anime that Wooper is a dull-witted Pokémon oblivious to its surroundings. Wooper lives in cold water most of the time. When sleeping, it partially buries itself in the mud at the bottom. It will occasionally leave the water when the air cools in the evening to search for food along the shore. While walking on land, it coats its body with a slimy, toxic film that keeps its skin from dehydrating and insulates against the cold. The film causes a shooting pain if touched barehanded.
In the anime
In the main series
Major appearances
Wooper (anime)
A Wooper was close friends with Ash's Goodra when they lived together in the wetlands between Lumiose City and Laverre City. It made semi-regular appearances in the XY series, particularly in episodes revolving around Goodra.
Other
Wooper debuted in No Big Woop!. Ash, Misty, and Brock volunteered to watch over Olesia's school of Wooper for her.
A gang of Wooper appeared in Pikachu & Pichu as residents of Big Town.
A Wooper is one of the best friends of the two Pichu Brothers. It appeared in Pikachu and Pichu, Trouble in Big Town, Of Meowth and Pokémon, Big Meowth, Little Dreams, and Pichu Bros. in Party Panic. It also made a cameo appearance in Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
A Wooper was one of the Pokémon that Ash and his friends were taking care of while Nurse Joy was ill in Pinch Healing!. Wooper was being babysat by a Poké-Sitter named Matt. Brock took care of Wooper by having his Marshtomp use Water Gun to heal its wounds.
A Wooper appeared in Like It Or Lup It!. It was part of a group also consisting of a Poliwag and a Quagsire, and led by a Golduck.
A Wooper appeared in Hot Springing a Leak!, under the ownership of Leona's parents. They used Wooper to investigate a pipeline when they noticed their water was being drained, and it helped discover that Team Rocket were responsible.
Multiple Wooper appeared in flashbacks in A Slippery Encounter!, One for the Goomy!, An Oasis of Hope!, and Good Friends, Great Training!. They physically debuted in Defending the Homeland! and Beyond the Rainbow!, where it was captured by Florges's Bug-type and Poison-type Army, alongside Pikachu and Dedenne, to bring them to Team Rocket.They reappeared in Master Class is in Session! and Performing a Pathway to the Future!, where they watched Serena's performance with the rest of the wetland Pokémon. They appeared once again in A Diamond in the Rough!, when Ash and his friends returned to the wetlands. Four of them appeared again in Till We Compete Again!, where one of them was fighting with a Lotad, before Goodra settled the argument.
Minor appearances
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in Hook, Line, and Stinker, where it was used to aid its Trainer in the annual Seaking Catching Competition.
A Wooper appeared in Beauty and the Breeder, under the ownership of a Pokémon Breeder participating in a Pokémon breeding competition.
A Wooper appeared in Snorlax Snowman.
A Wooper appeared in The Heartbreak of Brock as one of the Pokémon living at Temacu's father's lab.
Five Wooper appeared in Got Miltank? as inhabitants of a Pokémon-exclusive oasis.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in Octillery The Outcast as one of the Pokémon participating in the Whirl Cup.
Two baby Wooper in Extreme Pokémon!, where they were seen in the pond near Mr. Shellby's house.
A Wooper appeared in Why? Wynaut!.
Two Wooper appeared in The Legend of Thunder! as some of the Pokémon seen at a Pokémon Center.
Multiple Wooper appeared in Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias.
A Wooper appeared in Gonna Rule The School!, under the ownership of the Pokémon Trainers' School. It was temporarily loaned to one of the school's underage students for use.
A Wooper appeared in Abandon Ship! as a resident of the Abandoned Ship.
A Wooper appeared in PK13.
A Wooper appeared in the opening sequence of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
Two Wooper appeared in Sweet Baby James, where they were being looked after by Nanny and Pop-Pop.
A Wooper appeared in On Olden Pond as a resident of an old lake.
A Wooper appeared in Off The Unbeaten Path!.
Multiple Wooper appeared in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, under the ownership of Lizabeth and her family. They were among the Water-type Pokémon used for their Marina Underwater Pokémon Show.
A Coordinator's Wooper appeared in Once More With Reeling!, where it was seen participating in the Terracotta Contest.
A Wooper appeared in Dawn Of A New Era!.
A Wooper appeared in Drifloon On the Wind!.
Multiple Wooper and a Quagsire appeared in The Rise of Darkrai.
A Wooper appeared in Camping It Up!.
A Wooper appeared in Up Close and Personable! as a resident of the lake near the Pokémon Summer Academy.
A Wooper appeared in the boss fantasy of A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine!.
Three Wooper appeared in Doc Brock!.
A Wooper appeared in To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!.
Multiple Wooper appeared in PK20, where they played with a ball with a group of Quagsire.
A Wooper appeared in Bagged Then Tagged!.
A Wooper belonging to a Coordinator appeared in Yes in Dee Dee, It's Dawn!. It was used along with a Snorlax for the Double Performance required during the Daybreak Contest.
Multiple Wooper appeared in Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
A Wooper appeared in The Island of Illusions! as a resident of Grand Spectrala Islet.
Multiple Wooper appeared in Genesect and the Legend Awakened as residents of Pokémon Hills.
Multiple Wooper appeared in Going for the Gold!, where they were among the Pokémon seen in the Ambrette Aquarium.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in Summer of Discovery!, Foggy Pokémon Orienteering!, and Battling Into the Hall of Fame!, where it was one of the Pokémon that participated in the Pokémon Summer Camp.
A Wooper appeared in Pikachu and the Pokémon Music Squad. It was among the Pokémon residing in a forest.
Two Wooper appeared in The Legend of the Ninja Hero! as residents of the Ninja Village.
A Wooper appeared in Loading the Dex! as an icon on Rotom.
Seven Wooper appeared in The Power of Us, with five each under the ownership of different Trainers.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in From Z to Shining Z!, where it watched the battle between Ash's Pikachu and Tapu Koko.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in SS004.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in SS009.
Pokédex entries
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In Pokémon Generations
Three wild Wooper appeared in a river in Ecruteak City in The Adventure. Red's Pikachu attempted to attack the Wooper with Thunder Shock from a tree above, but it was ineffective due to their immunity to electricity. The Wooper struck back with Mud Shot, sending Pikachu flying.
In the manga
In the Ash & Pikachu manga
A Wooper appeared in Do Your Best Bulbasaur!!, where it was seen at Professor Oak's Laboratory.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Wooper made a cameo in The Legend, where one was seen by the lake when Green had finished her message to Silver in Johto.
Wooper formally debuts in Murkrow Row, where it was one of the Pokémon in Joey's bag after Gold helped him get it back.
In Who Gives a Hoothoot?, a conman uses a swarm of Wooper as a part of his game stall. However, after Gold and Aibo had revealed his secret to the crowd, they were possibly boxed or released.
In the Goldenrod Game Corner, a Trainer is seen with a Wooper in Gligar Glide. Strangely, this Wooper has arms.
A Wooper appeared in Slugging It Out with Slugma as one of the Pokémon at Earl's Pokémon Academy in Violet City.
A Wooper appeared in The Last Battle XIII as one of the Pokémon sent to participate in the fight in Ilex Forest.
A Wooper appeared in the Trick Master's flashback in The Final Battle V, where it was one of the Pokémon calmed down by the homeland soil.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in Crafty Carnivine.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in a fantasy in Getting the Drop on Gallade I.
In the Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys manga
Chris owns a Wooper in Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys.
A Wooper appeared in The New Pokémon Is Hatched!!.
In the Pokémon Gotta Catch 'Em All manga
Shu caught a Wooper, as seen in GDZ47.
A Wooper appeared in GDZ61.
In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team manga
A Wooper appeared in I Want to be Human Again!.
In the Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition ~ Ranse's Color Picture Scroll ~ manga
A Wooper appeared in The White Scroll: Oichi's Worries.
In the TCG
- Main article: Wooper (TCG)
Other appearances
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Out of all the Pokéfloats, Wooper spends the most time onscreen. It first appears when the scene is on Slowpoke's tail and it then floats past Sudowoodo, Snorlax, Venusaur, and Seel before finally floating away. While its head is small, players can also stand on the gills.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Wooper appears as a Spirit in the game.
Game data
Pokédex entries
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In side games
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In events
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GSC | Pokémon Center Mystery Egg #1 Belly Drum Wooper | Japanese | Japan | 5 | December 15, 2001 to January 14, 2002 |
GSC | Gotta Catch 'Em All Station! Belly Drum Wooper | English | United States | 5 | May 5 to June 21, 2002 |
GSC | Gotta Catch 'Em All Station! Scary Face Wooper | English | United States | 5 | October 25 to 31, 2002 |
Stats
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HP: 55
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27 - 84 | 49 - 163 | |
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TCG-only moves
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Bubble | Wooper (Aquapolis 117) |
Anime-only moves
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Tackle | Normal | No Big Woop! |
Hydro Pump | Water | A Diamond in the Rough! |
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Evolution
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Trivia
- Wooper has the lowest base stat total of all Ground-type Pokémon and the lowest base Special Defense stat of all Ground-type Pokémon.
- Wooper is the only Ground-type to consist only of a head and legs.
- Wooper was one of the first Pokémon to have its gender differences revealed, along with Scizor.
- Wopper Footprint in Pokémon Gold and Silver has fingers according to the pokedex, but his feets are round-shape.
Origin
Wooper seems to be based on a larval salamander, which has a flat tail and feathery, external gills. Its Shiny sprite gives it a similar coloration to that of albino, leucistic, and flavistic color mutants, or an axolotl, a species of salamander that keeps its gills and remains in the water for all of its life because it never develops lungs.
Name origin
Wooper and Upah are derived from wooper looper, a marketing term created in Japan that started a pet salamander raising fad. Wooper loopers are the Japanese term for the axolotl, a species of salamander.
In other languages
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