Trapinch (Pokémon)
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Trapinch (Japanese: ナックラー Nuckrar) is a Ground-type Pokémon introduced in Generation III.
It evolves into Vibrava starting at level 35, which evolves into Flygon starting at level 45.
Biology
Trapinch is an orange, insectoid Pokémon. It has a round body with a white underside and four stumpy legs. It has a proportionally large head, small eyes, and a zigzagging mouth. Its large jaws are powerful enough to crush boulders. This Pokémon lives in arid deserts, where it builds its nest in a bowl-shaped pit dug in sand. It sits in its nest and waits for prey to stumble inside. Once inside, the prey cannot climb back out. Trapinch can go a week without having water available. Sandile is a natural predator of Trapinch.
In the anime
Major appearances
Trapinch debuted in Beg, Burrow and Steal. The Trapinch of an area had dug a complex underground labyrinth. One researcher named Hal wanted to find a lake that he claimed to see when he was a little boy. When Ash, May, Brock, Max, Hal, another researcher named Elisa, and Team Rocket got lost in the labyrinth, they eventually found the underground lake Hal was talking about.
In Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! (Part 2), Solana used her Capture Styler on a Trapinch and had it use Rock Tomb to trap a Golem, Graveler, Nidoking, Rhyhorn, and Tyranitar that were attacking Dawn, Brock, and Officer Jenny's Pokémon.
A Trapinch appeared in A Rivalry to Gible On! as a resident of Mt. Shady. It used its Arena Trap to capture Ash while he and Khoury were trying to catch a Gible.
Minor appearances
Trapinch made a cameo as one of Noland's Pokémon in Numero Uno Articuno.
A Trapinch appeared in All Dressed Up with Somewhere To Go. It was dressed up as a Turtwig.
A Trainer's Trapinch appeared in A Shocking Grocery Run!.
A Trapinch appeared in Lillie's Egg-xhilarating Challenge!, where it was among the Pokémon playing in Lillie's garden. It appeared again in The Ol' Raise and Switch!.
A Trapinch appeared in the Haina Desert in Some Kind of Laziness!, where it ate an Oran Berry.
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In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
A Trainer's Trapinch appeared in Bubble Bubble Toil and Azumarill I.
A Trapinch appeared in Facing Gulpin Is Hard to Swallow as a rental Pokémon that Guile Hideout stole.
A Trapinch belonging to Hugh appeared in The Transfer Student.
In the TCG
- Main article: Trapinch (TCG)
Game data
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BW | Year of the Dragon Egg Trapinch | Japanese | Japan | 1 | January 6 to February 5, 2012 |
BW | Year of the Dragon Trapinch | Korean | Wi-Fi | 1 | August 23 to October 4, 2012 |
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Ruby | Sapphire | Soft Sand (5%) | |
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Diamond | Pearl | Soft Sand (5%) | |
HeartGold | SoulSilver | Soft Sand (5%) | |
Black | White | Soft Sand (5%) | |
Black 2 | White 2 | Soft Sand (5%) | |
X | Y | Soft Sand (5%) | |
Omega Ruby | Alpha Sapphire | Soft Sand (5%) | |
Sun | Moon | Soft Sand (5%) | |
Ultra Sun | Ultra Moon | Soft Sand (5%) |
Stats
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105 - 152 | 200 - 294 | |
100
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94 - 167 | 184 - 328 | |
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45 - 106 | 85 - 207 | |
45
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45 - 106 | 85 - 207 | |
45
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45 - 106 | 85 - 207 | |
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13 - 68 | 22 - 130 | |
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TCG-only moves
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Fling | Trapinch (EX Legend Maker 67) |
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Trivia
- Trapinch is the only one in its evolutionary line to have a Hidden Ability.
- Trapinch is the lowest base Speed stat of all Ground-type Pokémon.
- Trapinch's base Attack stat is higher than its evolved form's and is the same as its final evolved form's. That may be a reference to the fact that antlion larvae are more aggressive and predatory than their adult stages.
- It has the highest base Attack stat of all Pokémon that can evolve twice.
Origin
It is based on the larval stage of the antlion, which live in conical sandy pits before maturing into winged adults.
Name origin
Trapinch is a combination of trap (describing traps it uses to catch prey) and pinch (referring to its powerful jaws).
Nuckrar may be a contraction of nutcracker, referencing its nutcracker-like jaws. Nuckrar may also be a play on the word "knucker", a type of folkloric dragon which lives in a hole.
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This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon as a species. |