Biology
Dewpider resembles a spider with a water bubble over its head. Its head and most of its abdomen are dark gray, while its thorax and six legs are light green. All of its legs are thin with a knobby joint in the middle, and three of its legs are typically used to anchor the bubble on its head. The green on its thorax extends onto its abdomen in three triangular markings. There are also several triangular flaps that extend upward and attach to the bubble over its head. The head itself has large light blue eyes with darker pupils and sclerae, two blue bumps on top, and light green mouth similar to a spinneret. There is an actual spinneret on the tip of its abdomen, which the anime has shown as capable of producing both silk and water bubbles.
Dewpider can only breathe oxygen dissolved in water, so the bubble over its head allows it to breathe on land. Additionally, the bubble provides protection to its soft head, and can be slammed into both prey and enemies. If two Dewpider meet, they compare bubbles and the one with the smaller bubble will move out of the way.
In the anime
Major appearances
Multiple Dewpider debuted in Dewpider Ascending!, where they were told by their parent Araquanid to leave the nest and find their own places to call home. One Dewpider got separated from the group and came across Lana. Upon seeing Lana with a balloon on her head because of Popplio, it developed a crush on her. It then tried to find a new home, eventually finding one near the Pokémon School, but it had to battle a wild Surskit that already lived there. Dewpider lost the battle, but when Surskit evolved into Masquerain, it happily abandoned its home and flew off, allowing Dewpider to live there. Earlier, it challenged two other Dewpider over territory, only to lose.
Minor appearances
Pokédex entries
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Pokémon
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Source
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Entry
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SM071
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Dewpider
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Rotom Pokédex
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Dewpider, the Water Bubble Pokémon. A Water and Bug type. Dewpider come out of the water, looking for food. They create water bubbles to breathe and to protect their soft heads.
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In the TCGGame data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VII.
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Generation VII
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Alola SM: #141
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Alola USUM: #174
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Kanto #—
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This Pokémon has no Pokédex entries in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!.
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Sun
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It crawls onto the land in search of food. Its water bubble allows it to breathe and protects its soft head.
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Moon
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When it comes across enemies or potential prey, this Pokémon smashes its water-bubble-covered head into them.
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Ultra Sun
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When two Dewpider meet, they display their water bubbles to each other. Then the one with the smaller bubble gets out of the other's way.
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Ultra Moon
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It can only breathe oxygen that has dissolved in water, so it wears a water bubble on its head when it walks around on land.
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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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38
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98 - 145
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186 - 280
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40
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40 - 101
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76 - 196
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52
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51 - 114
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98 - 223
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40
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40 - 101
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76 - 196
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72
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69 - 136
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134 - 267
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27
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28 - 86
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53 - 168
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Total: 269
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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 Dewpider
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Dewpider
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Dewpider
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Dewpider
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- Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Dewpider 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 Dewpider in that game.
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Dewpider
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Dewpider
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- A black or white abbreviation in a colored box indicates that Dewpider can be tutored the move in that game
- A colored abbreviation in a white box indicates that Dewpider cannot be tutored the move in that game
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Dewpider
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Dewpider
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Side game data
Evolution
Sprites
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VII.
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Trivia
- Dewpider can be seen as a counterpart to Surskit. Both share the Water and Bug types and the same base stat total of 269, both evolve at the same level, and both can be found at Brooklet Hill in Pokémon Sun and Moon, taking the place of the other depending on the time, with Dewpider being found during the day and Surskit at night.
Origin
Dewpider may be based on the diving bell spider, a spider that lives primarily underwater, gathering air into a bubble around its abdomen to breathe and provide air supply to its nest.
Name origin
Dewpider may be a combination of dew and spider.
Shizukumo may be a combination of 滴 shizuku (drop) and 蜘蛛 kumo (spider).
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