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Artwork from R/S/E
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Height
2'04" Imperial
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0.7 m Metric
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2'04"/0.7 m Red-Striped
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0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped
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0'0"/0.0 m
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Weight
33.1 lbs. Imperial
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15.0 kg Metric
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33.1 lbs./15.0 kg Red-Striped
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0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped
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0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
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EV yield
HP 0
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Atk 1
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Def 0
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Sp.Atk 0
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Sp.Def 0
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Speed 0
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Base Exp.: 73
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Battle Exp.: 731*
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Trapinch (Japanese: ナックラー Nuckrar) is a Template:Type2 Pokémon.
It evolves into Vibrava starting at level 35, who evolves into Flygon starting at level 45.
Biology
Physiology
Trapinch is an orange, bug-like Pokémon with a large jaw. Trapinch has a roundish body with short, stump-like legs. Trapinch has a big head in proportion to the rest of its body. Despite resembling an insect, Trapinch is actually a Template:Type2.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Trapinch's main weapon is its jaws, which can crush boulders. Trapinch are also known for their digging skills.
Trapinch is one of the few non-legendary unevolved Pokémon that can learn Hyper Beam and Giga Impact.
Behavior
Trapinch are patient Pokémon; despite this, they are avid hunters. After building pits in sand, they patiently await for their prey to fall.
Habitat
Trapinch live in sandy deserts. Trapinch's nest is a deep, inescapable pit dug in the sand. Trapinch have also been known to burrow complex tunnels deep underground.
Diet
- Main article: Pokémon food
In the anime
Trapinch made its debut in Beg, Burrow and Steal. The Trapinch of an area had dug a complex underground labyrinth. One reseacher named Hal wanted to find a lake that he claimed to see when he was a little boy. When Ash, May, Brock, Max, Hal, another researcher named Elisa and Team Rocket got lost in the labyrinth, they eventually found the underground lake Hal was talking about.
Trapinch also make a cameo as one of Noland's Pokémon in Numero Uno Articuno.
In Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! Part Two, Solana used her Capture Styler on a Trapinch and had it use Rock Tomb to trap a Golem, Graveler, Nidoking, Rhyhorn and Tyranitar that were attacking Dawn's, Brock's and Officer Jenny's Pokémon.
A Trapich also appeared in All Dressed Up with Somewhere To Go. It was dressed up as a Turtwig.
In the mangaIn the TCGGame dataTrivia
- Trapinch has a higher base Attack stat than its evolved form Vibrava. It also has the same base Attack stat as Vibrava's evolution, Flygon.
- Trapinch evolves at level 35, later than any Pokémon involved in a three-stage evolution by level only. Rhyhorn evolves the latest at level 42, into Rhydon, but Rhydon evolves into Rhyperior via trade, not level.
- Despite being based on an insect, and being in the Bug egg group, Trapinch is a Ground-type Pokémon, and doesn't have Bug as a type.
- Out of all unevolved Pokémon, Trapinch can learn the most moves by leveling up which its evolutions cannot, excluding Pokémon who evolve from stones such as Raichu and Arcanine.
- Trapinch's head is very similar to Scizor's claws.
- Along with Dratini, Larvitar, and Remoraid, Trapinch is one of the very few basic-stage Pokémon to learn Hyper Beam by level up.
Origin
It is based on the larval stage of the antlion, who spend their days in sandy pits before maturing into a winged, adult stage.
Name origin
Trapinch's name is a combination of trap and pinch. Its Japanese name may be a contraction of nutcracker.
In other languages
- German: Knacklion - A combination of Knack (snap) and the English antlion.
- French: Kraknoix - A corruption of craque-noix (nut-cracker).
- Korean: 톱치 Topchi
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