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The most famous feature Lickitung possesses is a long prehensile tongue, which it uses to manipulate objects and possibly to consume them, aside from being very receptive to all sorts of tastes, it is also very dexterous.
It also has pink skin with yellow markings on its belly and a thick tail.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Licks from its 6' 6" long tongue can paralyze foes. Its saliva is gooey and sticks to everything.
Whenever Lickitung comes across something new, it will unfailingly give it a lick. It does so because it memorizes things by texture and by taste. It is somewhat put off by sour things.
Whenever Lickitung comes across something new, it will unfailingly give it a lick. It does so because it memorizes things by texture and by taste. It is somewhat put off by sour things.
Whenever it sees something unfamiliar, it always licks the object because it memorizes things by texture and taste. It is somewhat put off by sour things.
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Lickitung is the only Pokémon that evolves by learning Rollout; all other Pokémon which evolve after learning a move, besides Aipom, share that specific method of evolution with at least one other Pokémon.
The only sprite that shows Lickitung without its tongue out is in Pokémon Emerald, and even then, its tongue is only in its mouth in the second frame of animation.
Origin
It may have been based on any number of lizards with extending tongues, commonly the blue-tongued lizard. It also shares traits with anteaters.
Name origin
Lickitung's name is a combination and corruption of lick and tongue. The bero in Beroringa may be derived from ベロ bero, tongue, べろべろ, berobero, an onomatopoeia for a licking sound, or べろべろ嘗める beroberonameru, to lick up with one's tongue. Ringer is most likely derived from English ring, referring to the patterns on its body. It is also possible that ringa is a corruption of the English word lingua, which refers to a tongue or an organ resembling a tongue [1].
In other languages
German: Schlurp - This name comes from the word slurp.
French: Excelangue - Excellent means excellent, and langue means tongue. The word as a whole sounds like excellent.
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