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Noctowl ヨルノズク Yorunozuku #164
Artwork from GSC
Type Normal Flying Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Owl Pokémon
Abilities Insomnia or Keen Eye Keen Eye Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,000,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto #016 Hoenn #319 Sinnoh Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "?". 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 90 (11.8%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Flying group 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 162 Battle Exp.: 1621*
External links {{Links/{{{generation}}}|pokefordex=noctowl|ndex=164|name=Noctowl }}

Noctowl (Japanese: ヨルノズク Yorunozuku) is a Normal/Flying-type Pokémon.

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Gold / Pokémon LeafGreen

Its eyes are specially adapted. They concentrate even faint light and enable it to see in the dark.

Pokémon Silver / Pokémon FireRed

When it needs to think, it rotates its head 180 degrees to sharpen its intellectual power.

Pokémon Crystal

Its extremely soft feathers make no sound in flight. It silently sneaks up on prey without being detected.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

NOCTOWL never fails at catching prey in darkness. This POKéMON owes its success to its superior vision that allows it to see in minimal light, and to its soft, supple wings that make no sound in flight.

Pokémon Emerald

It unfailingly catches prey in darkness. Noctowl owe their success to superior vision that allows them to see in minimal light, and to their supple and silent wings.

Name origin

Noctowl's name is a combination of nocturnal and owl. Its Japanese name is a combination of 夜 yoru, night, and 木菟 mimizuku, horned owl. The French corruption stands for nocturnal Snowy Owl.

Noctowl's appearance is based on that of the Japanese Eagle Owl. Who were seen as wise divine messengers of the gods.

Base stats

Type effectiveness

In other languages

• German: Noctuh
• French: Noarfang
• Korean: 야부엉 Yabueong

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