Venonat has a round body covered in purple fur. It has a pair of clodhopper feet and stubby forepaws. Venonat has a pincer-like mouth, red compound eyes, and white antennae.
Gender differences
None.
Venonat using its "Radar Eye" to find Team Rocket's truck
Special abilities
Venonat has highly developed eyes, which it uses to help find suitable prey. The eyes can also shoot powerful beams. Additionally, poison oozes from all over Venonat's body.
Behavior
The small bugs it catches and eats appear only at night, so it sleeps in a hole in a tree until night falls. Venonat's prey and Venonat itself are both attracted by bright light.
Venonat is said to have evolved with a coat of thin, stiff hair that covers its entire body for protection. It possesses large eyes that never fail to spot even minuscule prey.
Its coat of thin, stiff hair that covers its entire body is said to have evolved for protection. Its large eyes never fail to spot even miniscule prey.
Despite being part Template:Type2, Venonat could only learn one damage-dealing Poison-type move before Generation IV. In Generation I, Venonat could not learn any damage dealing Poison moves at all.
Despite this, Koga used three Venonat and a Venomoth in Yellow, and Venomoth was later used by Sabrina instead.
Origin
In spite of Venonat's name it is not similar to a gnat in size, physiology or behavior.
Name origin
Venonat's name is likely a combination of venom and gnat, a small insect. Its Japanese name is possibly a combination of こんちゅう konchū, meaning insect, and the word pang, which is the sound that a radar makes, referring to its radar-like eyes. It could also be a shortening of コンパウンド アイ, compound eye, both referring to its eyes and its ability.
In other languages
German: Bluzuk: from Blut (blood) and and a form of zutschen (to sip).
French: Mimitoss - From mignon (cute), mite (moth), and English toss.