Corphish (Pokémon)

Corphish ヘイガニ Heigani

Artwork from R/S/E

Type Species  Water  Ruffian Pokémon Abilities Exp. at 100 Hyper Cutter or Shell Armor 1,640,000 Pokédex National #341 Johto #— Hoenn #129 Sinnoh #— Browser Fiore R-071 Almia R— Height Weight 2'00" 25.4 lbs. Pokédex color Footprint Body style Catch rate Red 205 Gender ratio   50% male   50% female Egg groups Egg cycles Water 1, Water 3 16 (4080 steps*) EV yield HP 0 Atk 1 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Exp. 111 External links On Legendary Pokémon Pokédex: Generation III Generation IV On Smogon Pokédex: Generation III Generation IV On Eevee's Pokédex (Gen. III-IV) On Psypoke Pokédex On Pokecharms Pokédex (Gen. III-IV) On Marriland Pokédex (Gen. IV) Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Corphish (Japanese: ヘイガニ Heigani) is a Water-type Pokémon.

It evolves into Crawdaunt starting at level 30.

Biology

Physiology

Corphish are crustacean Pokémon with a red shell. They possess four pairs of limbs in total: two claws and three pairs of legs used for walking about.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Corphish has the ability to live in polluted water, where it will quickly reproduce. Its powerful pincers allow it to use the moves ViceGrip and Crunch, and ultimately, the one-hit-knockout move Guillotine.

Behavior

Corphish try to compensate for their small size by being stronger than any other Pokémon on their territory. If a new Pokémon enters its territory, the resident Corphish will immediately challenge it to battle.

Habitat

Water's-edge Pokémon

Corphish can live in any body of water that can support them.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

Corphish are willing to eat anything that is edible.

In the anime

Corphish in the anime

Corphish first appeared in Which Wurmple's Which?. Ash caught in on his fishing line and then it attacked him and his friends.

Another Corphish appeared in Gone Corphishin'. Ash battled and captured this Ruffian Pokémon at the end of the episode. Ash's Corphish serves as the main comedic relief member of Ash's team and the only Pokémon that Ash captured in Hoenn that hasn't evolved, save for his Torkoal (which doesn't have an evolved form).

Corphish appeared in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness. He was one of the two Pokémon (the other being Chatot) who kicked Team Razor Wind out of their guild.

A Corphish also appeared in Cheers on Castaways Isle!.

Pokédex entries

In the TCG

Main article: Corphish (TCG)

Game data

NPC appearances

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 2: Corphish is a member of the Wigglytuff Guild. His catchphrase is "Hey, hey, hey!".

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Stats

Base stats

Pokéthlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/HM

By breeding

By tutoring

Side game data

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire
	Acquisition: Catch
Pokémon Trozei!
	Rarity: Common
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team
Body size: 1	Recruit Rate: 8.8%	Friend Area: Turtleshell Pond
Phrases
51%-100% HP	Hey, you don't have a clue how hardy my kind can be!
26%-50% HP	Hey, there. My HP's down halfway.
1%-25% HP	Hey, I've had it. My pincers lost their grip...
Level Up	Hey, I leveled up! That's happy news!
Pokémon Ranger
Group:  Water	Loops: 6	Minimum Experience: 16
Poké Assist: ( Water )	Field Move: (Soak ×1)	Maximum Experience: 19
"Corphish blows bubbles from its mouth. It stops moving, then scurries about."
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness
Body size: 1	Recruit Rate: 8.2%	IQ Group: B

Evolution

Unevolved Corphish  Water

Level 30 →

First evolution Crawdaunt  Water  Dark

Sprites

Gen	Game
I	Red	Blue	Yellow	Red (Ja)	Green	Back
	This Pokémon did not appear during Generation I.
II	Gold	Silver	Crystal			Back
	This Pokémon did not appear during Generation II.
III	Ruby	Sapphire	Emerald	FireRed	LeafGreen	Back
IV	Diamond	Pearl	Platinum	HeartGold	SoulSilver	Back

For other sprites and images, please see Corphish images on Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Corphish is the only Pokémon to date with a catch rate of 205.
• Corphish can be found in the Hoenn region, but it says in its Pokédex entries that it came from another region overseas. This would make it the first exotic species in the Pokémon world.
  • Assuming that most regions of the Pokémon nation are based on areas in Japan, it can be inferred that Corphish is originally from the United States, which is the same country the Kanto Gym Leader Lt. Surge is from.
• Corphish only has eight limbs, including claws, whereas both crayfish and lobsters have ten limbs.

Origin

Based on the Pokémon Ruby Pokédex entry, Corphish is probably based on the Red Swamp Crayfish. Native to North America, this species was introduced in Japan as food for bullfrogs. Today, these crayfish are popular pets in Japan.^[1]

Name origin

Corphish's name is possibly a pun on crayfish.

Alternatively, it could be a homonymic play on the arcane Newfoundland fishing term corfish; the meaning of "corfish" is not clear. According to "West to Pemaquid,"^[2], corfish were a "kind of dried fish," specifically, "a green variety." It goes on to say that the other kind of dried fish was called "dunfish," which we can ascertain from the 1913 Webster means "codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality." We can assume from this that "corfish" is thus probably a type of preserved, dried codfish, and, according to West to Pemaquid, lower quality than dunfish (corfish ... was suitable for sale ... as slave food ...). "Colony of Avalon,"^[3] further asserts corfish to mean "wet-cured fish" (to cure being to preserve using salts or smoke). Corfish is mostly obsolete, but is still sometimes used, and can especially be found in old English; for example, see page 279 of Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings or New England Before the Pilgrim Fathers Landed^[4]: "Of dry fish we made about 40000. of Cor fish about 7000," and "With these Furres, the Traine, and Corfish I returned for England in the Bark ..." (1614). The Dictionary of Newfoundland English defines "corfish," but it is not widely available.

Old English also used the forms "cor fish" and "cor-fish." Other references to corfish in archaic documents, particularly those authored by Captain John Smith, which provides clues to its meaning are as follows:

• "where they take nothing but small Cod, where of the greatest they make Cor-fish, and the rest is hard dried, which we call Poore-John, would amaze a man with wonder.^[5]

  "Newfoundland doth yearly freight near eight hundred sail of ships with a silly, lean, skinny poor-john, and cor fish ..."^[6]

Its Japanese name is based on 平家蟹 heikegani, Heike crab.

In other languages

• German: Krebscorps
• French: Ecrapince - From écrase (crush) and pince (pincer). May contain a corruption of écrevisse (crayfish).
• Korean: 가재군 Gajaegun

Related articles

• Ash's Corphish

External links

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