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Darkrai ダークライ Darkrai #491
File:491-Darkrai-sm.png Artwork from Diamond/Pearl
Type Dark ' Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Pitch-Black Pokémon
Ability Bad Dreams Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,250,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto #— Hoenn Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "—". Sinnoh Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "—". Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 4′11″ Imperial 1.5 m Metric 4′11″/1.5 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 111.3 lbs. Imperial 50.5 kg Metric 111.3 lbs./50.5 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Black	Catch rate 3 (0.4%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Undiscovered group 1 cycles* (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 210 Battle Exp.: 2101*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Darkrai (Japanese: ダークライ Darkrai) is a Dark-type Legendary Pokémon of Generation IV.

Biology

Physiology

Darkrai is a black, ghostly looking creature. It has a small black head with blue eyes and a long, white substance erupting from it's head and also has a red growth around its neck. It has skinny arms and long black tatters hang from its shoulders. It has an hourglass figure and appears to be wearing an old, ripped cloak. It normally doesn't have any sort of legs, but it is able to extend stilt-like appendages in their place.

Gender differences

Darkrai is genderless.

Special abilities

Apparently, Darkrai's signature move is Dark Void. Darkrai can also trap people in nightmares.

Behavior

This Pokémon "inhabits" people's dreams and causes them to have unending nightmares.

Habitat

Whilst Darkrai isn't nesting in the dreams of humans, it lingers around a lost island called Newmoon Island.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

Possibly dreams, characterized by its association with never-ending nightmares and the ability to learn the move Dream Eater.

In the anime

Darkrai co-starred in Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai. Darkrai is the protagonist in the movie. Darkrai took the task upon itself to stop the fighting between Dialga and Palkia. In the movie, Darkrai is very protective to one of the characters Alice, because her grandmother Alicia helped Darkrai when it was injured.

In the manga

In the TCG

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Template:DP type effectiveness

If Miracle Eye is used, the effectiveness of Psychic becomes 100.

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/HM

Promotional moves

Darkrai was given out via Mystery Gift in Japan to celebrate the release of Movie 10. This Darkrai came with the moves Spacial Rend and Roar of Time.

Evolution

Trivia

• Darkrai is the first Dark-type legendary Pokémon. This is the first event legendary Pokémon of Generation IV, which can only be received during a Pokémon event or a Nintendo event. However in the Japanese version of Diamond and Pearl, It can be caught through the Surf glitch of the first room of the Sinnoh Elite Four.
• Darkrai was officially revealed to Japan in the March 2007 edition of Coro Coro. It is yet to be officially acknowledged elsewhere.
• Cheaters can reach Darkrai by using the infamous walk anywhere cheat. If they start at Fullmoon Island and walk across the water to the right, they will reach Newmoon Island. Between these islands is the Mystery Zone. From the island, they can simply take a boat back to Canalave City.
• The boy of the sailor who owns the boat that normally goes to Iron Island says "DAR... DARK... Is watching me..." He may mean Darkrai.
• If Darkrai was indeed the cause of Eldritch's son's nightmares, it is highly likely that it is aware that the player cured the boy using Cresselia's Lunar Wing. This can be speculated due to the fact that, when the player takes the Member's Card to the Canalave Inn, the innkeeper (presumably a shade of Darkrai) states that he has been waiting for the player's arrival. The player then falls asleep at the inn, only to 'awaken' at an abandoned Newmoon Island, where Darkrai must be caught or defeated in order for the player to awaken from their nightmare at the inn.
• Whilst in the tenth movie Darkrai is portrayed as a hero, in the games it's the only Pokémon truly portrayed as evil, in a sense.
• There was an event giving away Darkrai through Mystery Gift that was held at participating theaters in Japan when Movie 10 was first released. This special edition Darkrai was contained in a Cherish Ball, with the OT of えいがかん Movie Theatre and an ID No. of 07147. It was also holding an Enigma Berry and had the normally unobtainable moves Roar of Time and Spacial Rend.
• Darkrai, along with Shaymin, do not appear in Pokemon.com's searchable Pokedex.

Origin

Darkrai's appearance suggests it is based on the concept of nightmares. It also resembles a shadow.

Also, due to the fact that it causes some people to never awake from their nightmares, some say it is the Pokémon version of Freddy Krueger.

Name origin

Darkrai's name is a combination of the word dark and the Japanese word for "dark" (暗いkurai).

External links

• Article on Wikipedia

Legendary Pokémon

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Generation IX

See also: Mythical Pokémon

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