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Height
1'04"
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0.4m
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1'04"/0.4m
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0.0m
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Weight
14.3lbs
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6.5kg
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0.0kg
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EV yield
HP
0
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Atk
0
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Def
1
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Sp.Atk
0
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Sp.Def
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Speed
0
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| Base Exp.: 87
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Battle Exp.: 871*
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Cubone (Japanese: カラカラ Karakara) is a Ground-type Pokémon.
It evolves into Marowak starting at level 28.
Biology
Physiology
Cubone appears to be a small, brown theropod-like Pokémon, which constantly wears a skull (supposedly the skull of its mother) like a helmet. The skull masks its true face from view, which makes it a puzzlement for many Trainers and researchers. It carries another bone, which it uses to attack with moves like Bone Club.
Cubone is a bipedal Pokémon with a plump body and a paler-colored underbelly, with strong, clawed limbs to carry its bone as a weapon around wherever it goes. Cubone has a single, nailed toe on each foot, with two spikes on its back. A small tail is also present for balance, but it can be used for attacking.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
It has the ability to wield its bone as an effective weapon, or throw it in the same manner as a boomerang.
Cubone, and its evolved form, Marowak, are the only known Pokémon that learn Bone Club and Bonemerang, and they used to be the only Pokémon that could learn Bone Rush until it was discovered Lucario could learn the move.
Behavior
It is constantly lonely, due to the fact that it is without its mother, and moans plaintively. It dislikes keeping company or making new friends, and its social skills are almost non-existent.
During the night, it cries for its lost mother and it is unable to let go of the memory of her. Its cries echo within the skull and it comes out as a pained and sad melody that can travel for miles around its mountain homeland. Sometimes, it can emit mournful sounds during the day. On the night of a full moon, its cries are the loudest - for it seems to recognize its mother's face in the moon.
The exact whereabouts of the mothers are unknown; however, the people of Lavender Town acknowledge that Marowak skulls are considered highly expensive. Team Rocket has been blamed for killing Marowak in exchange for money, and the claim is supported by the ghost of a Marowak haunting the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town. These deaths may set the basis of personality for all Cubone.
Habitat
Cubone live in rocky areas where they can easily find bones in old sediment that can be millions of years old. They use the bones they find as weapons. Sometimes, they prefer to live in dark caves where they can mourn alone. It is predominantly a Kanto-native Pokémon, but sightings in Sinnoh have been reported as well.
Diet
- Main article: Pokémon food
In the anime
Major appearances
Cubone first appeared in The School of Hard Knocks under the ownership of Giselle. She used Cubone against Ash's Pikachu, where it lost.
A Cubone was among the four Pokémon that were causing trouble for Pikachu and co. during Pikachu's Vacation.
A Cubone was helping Meowth preparing his party in Pichu Bros. in Party Panic. This Cubone played drums in Meowth's band and got easily sad and gloomy when Meowth chewed it out, but it was also easily consolable.
Minor appearances
Cubone also appeared in A Chansey Operation as an injured Pokémon.
A Cubone was used by one of the students of the Pokémon Trainer's School in Gonna Rule The School!.
A Cubone appeared in Showdown at Linoone.
Pokédex entries
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Cubone
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Dexter
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A Ground-type Pokémon, Cubone. Cubone has earned its classfication as the Lonely Pokémon from its usual attitude of caring only for itself.
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| This concludes the entries from the original series.
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In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
Cubone makes a cameo in Onix is On!, part of the Red, Green & Blue chapter, battling against Red's Bulbasaur as a Pewter Gym trainer's Pokémon.
Crystal owns a Cubone, who has a star-shaped crack in its skull. Cubone's main role in the team is to take out targets from afar using its bone-based attacks.
In the TCG
- Main article: Cubone (TCG)
Other appearances
In the Pokémon Stadium 2 stage, a Cubone can be seen on the Ground Terrain standing atop the highest platform built into a rock. Dugtrio and Pokémon fossils can also be seen on the Ground Terrain.
Trophy Information
"A Lonely Pokémon. It wears its mother's skull as a helmet--for this reason, no one has ever seen its face. It sometimes sees its departed mother's face in the full moon, which causes it to grow sad and cry. The stains on the skull are tracks of its tears. When it cries, the skull shakes and emits a mournful sound. When it levels up, it evolves into Marowak."
Merchandise
Cubone was one of the first four Pokémon designs revealed when the Pokémon 151 brand was first announced. In the shirt design, Cubone's skull is in the center of the shirt, with two Thick Clubs in crossing below it.
Game data
Pokédex entries
| This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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| Generation I
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Because it never removes its skull helmet, no one has ever seen this Pokémon's real face.
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Wears the skull of its deceased mother. Its cries echo inside the skull and come out as a sad melody.
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Always wears the skull of its deceased mother on its head and never shows its face. It cries mournfully in the moonlight.
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If it is sad or lonely, the skull it wears shakes, and emits a plaintive and mournful sound.
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It always wears the skull of its dead mother, so no one has any idea what its hidden face looks like.
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It lost its mother after its birth. It wears its mother's skull, never revealing its true face.
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Cubone pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull the Pokémon wears are made by the tears it sheds.
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It pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull it wears are from its tears.
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It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly.
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Because it never removes its skull helmet, no one has ever seen this Pokémon's real face.
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When it thinks of its dead mother, it cries. Its crying makes the skull it wears rattle hollowly.
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If it is sad or lonely, the skull it wears shakes, and emits a plaintive and mournful sound.
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It always wears the skull of its dead mother, so no one has any idea what its hidden face looks like.
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When it thinks of its dead mother, it cries. Its crying makes the skull it wears rattle hollowly.
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No Pokédex data is available.
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Game locations
| This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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In side games
Held items
Stats
Base stats
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Range
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At Lv. 100
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110 - 157
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210 - 304
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49 - 112
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94 - 218
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90 - 161
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175 - 317
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40 - 101
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76 - 196
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49 - 112
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94 - 218
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36 - 95
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67 - 185
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- Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and a hindering nature.
- Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and a helpful nature.
- This Pokémon's Special base stat in Generation I was 40.
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Pokéathlon stats
Type effectiveness
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Learnset
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| This Pokémon learns no moves by tutoring.
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- A black abbreviation in a colored box indicates that Cubone can be tutored the move in that game
- A colored abbreviation in a white box indicates that Cubone cannot be tutored the move in that game
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Cubone
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Cubone
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see move tutor moves from other generations
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Side game data
Evolution
Sprites
Trivia
Cubone with its face partially revealed
- In the Pokémon Red and Blue beta, Cubone was originally known as "Orphon," a corruption of the word "orphan," based on its abandonment at birth.
- Cubone is Midori Harada's favorite Pokémon.
- Despite the Pokédex's statement that it wears the skull of its dead mother, Cubone can be bred in the games with no ill effects on its mother. This is due to Cubone being created before breeding in the games was possible.
- Cubone is one of the Pokémon that appears in the Pokémon 151 clothing line.
- Despite not being a Ghost-type Pokémon, it is still encountered as a ghost in the Pokémon Tower without the aid of a Silph Scope.
Origin
Cubone is possibly based on a dinosaur or a dinosaur fossil, and, like dinosaurs, nobody has ever seen a Cubone's real face; only its mother's skull. It also could be based off of primitive cultures that wore bones for decoration and used them for weapons.
Name origin
Cubone's name might be a combination of cute and bone, cub and bone, or cue ball (a reference to its pale white head, or to the fact that its bone resembles a billiards or snooker cue) and bone. Karakara may be taken to mean からから, clattering. It is worth noting that karakara denotes lighter clattering than garagara. Cubone's name could also be a combination of the Latin word "cubo", meaning "recluse", and "bone". This can refer to its lonely nature.
In other languages
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| German
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Tragosso
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A combination of tragen or tragisch, and oss, a form of the Latin word for bone.
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Osselait
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A combination of osselet and lait, referring to the young age and need for a mother.
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탕구리 Tangguri
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| Chinese (Mandarin)
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可拉可拉 Kělākělā
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Transliteration of its Japanese name.
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| Chinese (Cantonese)
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卡拉卡拉 Kālāaikālāai
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Transliteration of its Japanese name.
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External links
Notes
Thick Club (8%)
For other sprites and images, please see Cubone images on Bulbagarden Archives.
