Corsola is a small, pink, roundish Pokémon with branch-like growths on its back, which are similar to coral. There is a smaller, blunt horn on its forehead, and it has black, oval eyes. It has a white underside, which speckles towards the sides. Its four legs and two arms are blunt and stubby.
Found in the warm shallow waters of southern seas, Corsola requires clean water to live. If its habitat is dirty, the growths on its back become discolored and degenerate. However, when it is healthy, its growths regularly shed and grow back. It is able to regrow them over the course of a single night. It forms large social groups. Occasionally, these groups get so large that people may live atop them, as is the case in Pacifidlog Town. Corsola's horn is a prized material, commonly used for jewelry and carving, as seen in the anime. Smaller Pokémon like Seadra and Luvdisc are sometimes sheltered by Corsola's branches, and even offer it protection from foes.
Galarian Corsola were wiped out by sudden changes in ocean temperature caused by a meteor impact, turning them into Ghost-types. Its body is a bleached white with half-closed pink eyes and a perpetual frown, and its arms and branches have a distinctly semitransparent appearance to them; the branches can be used to take root inside and drain the life force of others.
The branches cannot cause injures or pain, but they immobilize the victim until Galarian Corsola lets them go. They are commonly found in the remains of prehistoric seas, and while they can be mistaken for ordinary rocks, they will curse anybody who kicks them by accident.[1]
In the Alola region, Mareanie and Toxapex are natural predators of Corsola. However, they do not fulfill those roles in the Galar region, having not realized the branches of Corsola are delicious.
In the main series
Major appearances
Misty has a Corsola that she caught in the Whirl Islands in A Corsola Caper!. It wandered into a group of Corsola raised by a family living in Yellow Rock Isle. It caused trouble for them as it was very energetic and tackled all the Corsola, scaring them away. Things were solved when Misty battled and caught the Coral Pokémon in a Lure Ball.
Other
Corsola made its main series debut in Around the Whirlpool, under the ownership of Professor Elm. It has a fondness for pools. The sight of Corsola inspired by Misty to catch her own.
Multiple Corsola appeared in A Corsola Caper! alongside Misty's; they were all under the ownership of Andrea and her family. They were scared off by Misty's Corsola and the group spent the episode trying to recover all of them. They each had a unique nickname: Annie, Danny, Connie, Bonnie, Johnny, Donnie, Ronnie, and Lonnie.
A Corsola appeared in The Great Eight Fate!, under the ownership of Juan. It was one of his Pokémon used in the Sootopolis City Water Exhibit. It and Juan's other Pokémon were captured by Team Rocket, but they all worked together to escape.
Minor appearances
Corsola debuted in Pikachu's PikaBoo.
Four Corsola appeared in Fly Me to the Moon, spotted by Misty.
A Corsola appeared in Takin' It on the Chinchou, standing on a wave barrier.
A Corsola 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 Corsola appeared in The Evolutionary War, under the ownership of Midori. She sent it to the Nurse Joy of the A-B-C Islands so she could check if it had caught itself a bad cold.
Multiple Corsola appeared in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea. present during the final showdown with The Phantom and his crew.
A Corsola appeared in Up Close and Personable! as a resident of the lake near the Pokémon Summer Academy.
A Coordinator's Corsola in Dressed for Jess Success! competed in the Battle Stage of the Lilypad Contest.
A Coordinator's Corsola in Yes in Dee Dee, It's Dawn!, participated in a Double Performance along with a Hitmontop during the Daybreak Contest.
A Corsola appeared in Going for the Gold!, where Serena failed to catch it.
Two Corsola belonging to Trainers and one wild Corsola appeared in Alola to New Adventure!.
A Corsola residing in Professor Kukui's lab appears in The Guardian's Challenge!, A Shocking Grocery Run!, That's Why the Litten is a Scamp!, and Night of a Thousand Poses!.
Three Corsola appeared in Yo, Ho, Ho! Go, Popplio!, with two being wild and the third appearing in a fantasy. One of the wild Corsola was walking along an island where Ash, his classmates, and Professor Kukui were taking a break from fishing.
Five Corsola appeared in The Sun, the Scare, the Secret Lair!. Ash attempted to catch one, only for them to swim off as a group of Mareanie arrive.
Six Corsola appeared in Partner Promises!.
A Corsola appeared underwater in A Shivering Shovel Search!, when Pikachu and Popplio were searching for Palossand's lost shovel.
Three Corsola appeared in The Island Whisperer!.
A wild Corsola appeared in Alola, Kanto!.
Four Corsola appeared in Dewpider Ascending!.
A Trainer's Corsola in Battle Royal 151! competed in the Battle Royal preliminary round of the Manalo Conference but was defeated by Sandy and Shaymin.
Pokédex entries
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EP210
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Corsola
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Ash's Pokédex
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Corsola, the Coral Pokémon. A combination of both Water and Rock types. It sheds and regrows the horns on its head numerous times.
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In Pokémon Generations
A wild Corsola appeared in The Cavern, where it was seen in the waters that surrounded the Seafloor Cavern.
In Pokémon: Twilight Wings
Two Corsola appeared in Early-Evening Waves as residents of a lake where Nessa was doing a photo shoot.