Biology
Solgaleo is a large, white Pokémon resembling a white lion. It has a blunt muzzle with a blue-gray nose and pale blue eyes. The top half of its face is a deep blue area that shows a constantly changing starscape. Four yellow spikes frame Solgaleo's head like a crown and two more pairs of spikes adorn either side of its lower jaw, and each spike separates large tufts of Solgaleo's mane. Solid ridges—red nearest Solgaleo's head and yellow farther away—poke out of each tuft along the middle, except on the tufts on its cheeks and chin, with the topmost part wrapping around the tip of the tuft. Overall, its mane creates the impression of a stylized sun. Around each leg is a dark orange band, and there is a black spot on each foot. It has three black toes on each foot with long yellow claws. At the tip of its tail is a large black spot with a thin yellow rim.
When Solgaleo enters its Radiant Sun phase, a light blue symbol appears on its forehead and the starscape turns to streaks of light. The fur on its body glows a pale yellow and all other parts of its body except its nose turn bright yellow.
Known as the "beast that devours the sun," Solgaleo has long been honored as an emissary of the sun. Its body is capable of holding a vast amount of energy and glows when active. [1] Solgaleo can travel between Earth and Ultra Space there and back through Ultra Wormholes. Solgaleo along with its counterpart Lunala can create Cosmog.
Solgaleo is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move Sunsteel Strike.
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VII.
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Generation VII
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Sun
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It is said to live in another world. The intense light it radiates from the surface of its body can make the darkest of nights light up like midday.
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Moon
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This Pokémon is said to be a male evolution of Cosmog. At the activation of its third eye, it departs for another world.
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Game locations
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VII.
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In side games
Held items
Stats
Base stats
Stat
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Range
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At Lv. 50
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At Lv. 100
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137
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197 - 244
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384 - 478
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137
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127 - 207
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251 - 410
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107
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100 - 174
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197 - 344
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113
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106 - 181
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207 - 357
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89
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84 - 155
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164 - 304
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97
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91 - 163
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179 - 322
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Total: 680
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Other Pokémon with this total
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- Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and (if applicable) a hindering nature.
- Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.
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Type effectiveness
Under normal battle conditions in Generation IX, this Pokémon is:
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Learnset
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Solgaleo
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Solgaleo
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Solgaleo
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Solgaleo
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- Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Solgaleo in Generation VII
- Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation.
- Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Solgaleo in that game.
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Solgaleo
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Solgaleo
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- A black or white abbreviation in a colored box indicates that Solgaleo can be tutored the move in that game
- A colored abbreviation in a white box indicates that Solgaleo cannot be tutored the move in that game
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Solgaleo
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Solgaleo
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Solgaleo
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Solgaleo
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Evolution
Trivia
- Solgaleo and its evolutionary relatives are the only Legendary Pokémon that are part of an evolutionary family.
- Solgaleo has the highest base HP of all Steel-type Pokémon.
Origin
Solgaleo is based on a lion with a sun motif, a fairly common motif in many Western and Middle-Eastern cultures. In particular Solgaleo might reference the alchemical lion, being described as "devouring the sun", as well as connected to metals via its Steel-type. Finally, being the emissary rather than personification of the sun as well as being able to pass through different dimensions, Solgaleo might lend some inspiration from the eye of Ra, a goddess usually described as a lion that is the sun's protector in Egyptian mythology as it travels through the underworld.
Name origin
Solgaleo may be a combination of sol (Latin for sun) and leo (Latin for lion). It may also incorporate Galileo, an Italian astronomer who presented evidence that the Earth rotated around the Sun and advocated Copernican heliocentrism.
Solgaleo's verbal cry in Pokémon Sun, "La-liona", is based on the words lā (Hawaiian for Sun) and "liona" (Hawaiian for lion)
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