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Ekans アーボ Arbo #023
Artwork from FR/LG
Type Poison ' Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Snake Pokémon
Abilities Intimidate or Shed Skin Shed Skin Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,000,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #023 Johto #050 Hoenn #225 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 0'0" Imperial 0.0 m Metric 0'0"/0.0 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 0.0 lbs. Imperial 0.0 kg Metric 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Unknown	Catch rate 255 (33.3%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Ground and Dragon groups 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 62 Battle Exp.: 621*
External links {{Links/{{{generation}}}|pokefordex=ekans|ndex=023|name=Ekans }}

Ekans (Japanese: アーボ Arbo, German: Rettan, French: Abo) is a Poison-type Pokémon.

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Red and Blue

Moves silently and stealthily. Eats the eggs of birds, such as Pidgey and Spearow, whole.

Pokémon Yellow

The older it gets, the longer it grows. At night, it wraps its long body around tree branches to rest.

Pokémon Stadium

Slithers silently through grass, searching for its favorite food--Pidgey and Spearow eggs.

Pokémon Gold

It can freely detach its jaw to swallow large prey whole. It can become too heavy to move, however.

Pokémon Silver

It always hides in grass. When first born, it has no poison, so its bite is painful, but harmless.

Pokémon Crystal

It flutters the tip of its tongue to seek out the scent of prey, then swallows the prey whole.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

Ekans curls itself up in a spiral while it rests. Assuming this position allows it to quickly respond to a threat from any direction with a glare from its upraised head.

Pokémon Emerald

An Ekans curls itself up in a spiral while it rests. This position allows it to quickly respond to an enemy from any direction with a threat from its upraised head.

Pokémon FireRed

A very common sight in grassland, etc. It flicks its tongue in and out to sense danger in its surroundings.

Name origin

Ekans's name is snake spelled backwards. Arbo is cobra spelled backwards with the c removed. When the kana in its name is reversed, however, it becomes a slightly corrupted boa.

It appears to be based upon a boa and rattlesnake.

Ekans was originally going to use its Japanese name,"Arbo", as its English name.

Base stats

Type effectiveness

RBY

Later versions

Learnset

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By leveling up

By TM/HM

In the anime

Jessie had an Ekans that eventually evolved into an Arbok.

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