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Mareep メリープ Merriep #179
Artwork from GSC
Type Electric ' Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Wool Pokémon
Ability Static Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,059,860
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto #053 Hoenn #327 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 2′00″ Imperial 0.6 m Metric 2′00″/0.6 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 17.2 lbs. Imperial 7.8 kg Metric 17.2 lbs./7.8 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color White	Catch rate 235 (30.7%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Monster and Ground groups 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 59 Battle Exp.: 591*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Mareep (Japanese: メリープ Merriep) is an Electric-type Pokémon.

Biology

Physiology

Mareep is based on a sheep. It has yellow wool and blue head and feet.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Mareep's wool stores electricity, and it swells when there is a buildup of static electricity. Touching it while this happens induces a nasty shock.

Behavior

Habitat

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

In the anime

Mareep made its anime debut in EP139, in which a flock is shepherded by a young girl and her mother.

In the manga

In the TCG

In the TFG

One Mareep figure has been released.

• Next Quest: Mareep

Game data

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Gold / Pokémon LeafGreen

If static electricity builds in its body, its fleece doubles in volume. Touching it will shock you.

Pokémon Silver / Pokémon FireRed

Its fleece grows continually. In the summer, the fleece is fully shed, but it grows back in a week.

Pokémon Crystal

It stores lots of air in its soft fur, allowing it to stay cool in summer and warm in winter.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

Mareep's fluffy coat of wool rubs together and builds a static charge. The more static electricity is charged, the more brightly the lightbulb at the tip of its tail grows.

Pokémon Emerald

Its fluffy wool rubs together and builds a static charge. The more energy is charged, the more brightly the lightbulb at the tip of its tail glows.

Pokémon Diamond

Its fluffy coat swells to double when static electricity builds up. Touching it can be shocking.

Game locations

In side games

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

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By leveling up

By TM/HM

By breeding

• Take Down
• Body Slam
• Safeguard
• Screech
• Reflect
• Odor Sleuth
• Charge
• Flatter
• Sand Attack

By tutoring

Special moves

In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Mareep knows Shadow Blitz and Shadow Shed as a Shadow Pokémon, and learns Heal Bell after being purified.

Side game data

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Evolution

Trivia

Origin

It appears to be simply based on a sheep, although it might borrow its electric aspect from the way wool builds up static charges.

Name origin

Mareep's name appears to be a combination of the word Mary — as in the girl who owned a little lamb in the nursery rhyme — and sheep; Mareep is also an anagram of the word ampere, a unit of electric current. The French meaning is corruption of Cotton Watt. It's also a fun play on words since Watt and ouat are pronounced exactly the same way. The German name seems to be based off of a combination of volt and lamb, which is a young sheep.

In other languages

• German: Voltilamm
• French: Wattouat
• Korean: 메리프 Meripeu

External links

• Article on Wikipedia

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