Red Gyarados

Lance's Gyarados
ワタルのギャラドス Wataru's Gyarados

File:Lance Gyarados.jpg
The Red Gyarados


Debuts in	Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution


Caught at	Johto


Gender	Unknown


Ability	Unknown

Current location	With Lance



This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor	Japanese	English
As Gyarados	???

The red Gyarados (Japanese: 赤いギャラドス red Gyarados) is an alternate colored Gyarados.

In the games

In Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal, the red Gyarados is found in the Lake of Rage. The player has one chance to catch it and the incident triggers the battle against Team Rocket in the Rocket Hideout in Mahogany Town. When captured or defeated, the Red Gyarados drops a Red Scale.

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, in the Rocket Warehouse located on Chrono Island, one of the computers displays information about induced evolution using electromagnetic waves, hinting at what occurs to other Gyarados in Generation II's Lake of Rage. This is not a direct reference to the red Gyarados, since the two events are supposedly independent of each other.

Sightings of the red Gyarados were national news. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl begins with a news report broadcast in Twinleaf Town of Sinnoh, according to which the red Gyarados had eluded detection by a research crew; it is unknown to which point in time this corresponds in the Johto-based games. The player accompanies his best friend, Pearl, to Lake Verity in hopes of seeing a similar Pokémon.

While the most common way to obtain a red Gyarados is at the Lake of Rage in Generation II, any alternate color Gyarados will be the same. This is currently the only way to obtain a red Gyarados from Generation III onwards.

In the anime

The red Gyarados was first seen in Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution and Rage of Innocence. It was the result of a Team Rocket plot to induce evolution. The process was successful, but as the evolution was forced, it kept the red coloration it had as a Magikarp. It went on a rampage down a river towards Mahogany Town, but Lance eventually captured and calmed it.

It returned, along with its trainer, Lance, to help out Brock, May and Max during the fight between Groudon and Kyogre in Gaining Groudon and The Scuffle of Legends.

Lance's Gyarados appeared in Marina's scrapbook and fantasy, along with its trainer and his Dragonite. However, instead of red, the color of the Pokémon in The Legend of Thunder! was the regular blue. This may have been because the original airing of EP235 in Japan was after The Legend of Thunder! already had aired. This may also mean that Lance also possesses another, normally-colored Gyarados.

Moves used

In the manga

In Pokémon Special, the red Gyarados was the leader of a bunch of Gyarados. When Team Rocket used the Goldenrod City Radio Tower to disturb Pokémon, these Gyarados went crazy. At the end it was caught by Silver.

In the TCG

The red Gyarados serves as the basis for the Shining Gyarados card in the Neo Revelation expansion and the Gyarados δ card in the EX Holon Phantoms expansion.