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* Until the release of {{game|Platinum}}, when it became able to learn {{m|Bug Bite}}, Caterpie was unable to do anything to a {{type2|Ghost}} outside of {{m|Struggle|struggling}} except {{m|String Shot|lower its Speed}}. It shares this trait with its evolution, {{p|Metapod}}. This is also true for {{p|Weedle}}, and its evolution, {{p|Kakuna}}, against {{type2|Steel}}s before {{game|Platinum}} was released. | * Until the release of {{game|Platinum}}, when it became able to learn {{m|Bug Bite}}, Caterpie was unable to do anything to a {{type2|Ghost}} outside of {{m|Struggle|struggling}} except {{m|String Shot|lower its Speed}}. It shares this trait with its evolution, {{p|Metapod}}. This is also true for {{p|Weedle}}, and its evolution, {{p|Kakuna}}, against {{type2|Steel}}s before {{game|Platinum}} was released. | ||
* Caterpie is the first Pokémon in [[National Pokédex]] order that isn't related to a starter Pokémon. | * Caterpie is the first Pokémon in [[National Pokédex]] order that isn't related to a starter Pokémon. | ||
Caterpie is the first Pokémon in National Pokedeex order not being able to learn any TM/HMs. | |||
===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
Caterpie is a stylized {{wp|caterpillar}}, most resembling a {{wp|Spicebush Swallowtail}} caterpillar. Its "antenna" is an {{wp|osmeterium}}, an organ unique to Swallowtail caterpillars which, like Caterpie, they use to emit a foul odor. | Caterpie is a stylized {{wp|caterpillar}}, most resembling a {{wp|Spicebush Swallowtail}} caterpillar. Its "antenna" is an {{wp|osmeterium}}, an organ unique to Swallowtail caterpillars which, like Caterpie, they use to emit a foul odor. | ||