Cranidos (Pokémon)

Cranidos ズガイドス Zugaidos

Artwork from D/P

Type Species  Rock  Head Butt Pokémon Ability Exp. at 100 Mold Breaker 600,000 Pokédex National #408 Johto #— Hoenn #— Sinnoh #036 Browser Fiore R— Almia R-084 Height Weight 2'11" 69.4 lbs. Pokédex color Footprint Body style Catch rate Blue 45 Gender ratio 87.5% male 12.5% female Egg groups Egg cycles Monster 31 (7905 steps) EV yield HP 0 Atk 1 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Exp. 99 External links On Legendary Pokémon Pokédex On Smogon Pokédex On Eevee's Pokédex On Psypoke Pokédex On Pokecharms Pokédex On Marriland Pokédex Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Cranidos (Japanese: ズガイドス Zugaidos) is a Rock-type Pokémon.

It is resurrected from a Skull Fossil and evolves into Rampardos starting at level 30.

Biology

Physiology

Cranidos is a gray, dinosaur-like Pokémon. It is physically based on the Pachycephalosaurus. The back half of Cranidos's body has a large, spiky pattern of blue and it has a short tail. Cranidos also has stubby arms with three claws, which, despite apparent stubbiness, are still viable for usage in attacking. Cranidos has a hooked beak, red irises, and a hard, dome-shaped head that is colored blue with four spikes on its back. Crandos has feet with three claws forward and one backward.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Cranidos's main attacking prowess involves charging head-first into its opponents. Cranidos can also use various elemental attacks, but is much weaker with those kinds of moves.

Behavior

In the jungles it lived in 100 million years ago, it would snap obstructing trees with headbutts, and down prey with headbutts as well.

Habitat

Cranidos once lived in dense forests, but has been extinct from the wild for 100 million years and only exists via being cloned from fossil samples, and descendants of said clones.

Diet

Cranidos downs prey with headbutts.

Main article: Pokémon food

In the anime

Cranidos in the anime

A Cranidos appears in both Shapes of Things to Come and A Gruff Act to Follow under the ownership of Roark. In Wild in the Streets!, Roark's Cranidos evolved into Rampardos.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

Cranidos appeared in the fifth and sixth rounds of the Diamond & Pearl chapter Pokémon Adventures. A Cranidos is owned by Roark, which he sends out against Platinum in her gym match.

In the TCG

Main article: Cranidos (TCG)

Game data

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 Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness
Body size: 1	Recruit Rate: 8.2%	IQ Group: C
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Group:  Rock	Poké Assist: ( Rock )	Field Move: (None)
"It rams with its rock-hard head."

Evolution

Unevolved Cranidos  Rock

Level 30 →

First evolution Rampardos  Rock

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
	This Pokémon did not appear during Generation III.
IV	Diamond	Pearl	Platinum	HeartGold	SoulSilver	Back

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

Trivia

• Cranidos and its evolution, Rampardos are the only Pokémon that are revived from a fossil not to have a secondary type.
• Although Cranidos attacks primarily with its head, it could not learn Iron Head until Pokémon Platinum, and cannot learn Skull Bash. It also can't have the ability Rock Head.
• Cranidos and Shieldon evolve at level 30, the earliest of any fossil Pokémon.
• Out of all unevolved Pokémon, Cranidos has the highest Attack stat at Base 125.

Origin

Cranidos is based off of a baby Pachycephalosaurus.

Name origin

Cranidos's name is derived from cranium, referring to its thick skull, and dos, a common ending for dinosaur names. Zugaidos's name comes from the word 頭蓋骨 zugaikotsu, cranium.

In other languages

• German: Koknodon - From Kopf (head), Knochen (bone), and don, an ending used for names of dinosaurs.
• French: Kranidos
• Korean: 두개도스 Doogaedos - From 두개골 (cranium).

Related articles

• Roark's Cranidos

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