Lickitung (Pokémon)
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| Lickitung ベロリンガ Beroringa | |
 Artwork from FR/LG | |
| National Dex | #108 |
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| Johto Dex | #178 |
| Hoenn Dex | #276 |
| Sinnoh Dex | #— |
| Fiore Browser | R— |
| Almia Browser | R— |
| Type | Normal |
| Species | Licking Pokémon |
| Height | 3′11″ (1.2m) |
| Weight | 144.4 lbs. (65.5kg) |
| Abilities | Own Tempo |
| Oblivious | |
| Egg group | Monster |
| Time to hatch | 5,120 steps |
| Effort yield | 2 HP |
| Exp. yield | 127 base exp. |
| Lv100 at | 1,000,000 exp. |
| Gender | 50% ♀ / 50% ♂ |
| Pokédex color | Pink |
| Catch rate | 45 |
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Lickitung (Japanese: ベロリンガ Beroringa) is a Normal-type Pokémon.
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Biology
Physiology
The most famous feature Lickitung possesses is a long prehensile tongue, which it uses to manipulate objects and possibly to consume them, aside from being very receptive to all sorts of tastes, it is also very dexterous.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Licks from its 6' 6" long tongue can paralyze foes. Its saliva is gooey and sticks to everything.
Behavior
Habitat
Lickitung are a rare sight, usually staying in dense forests near large bodies of water.
Diet
Main article: Pokémon food
In the anime
Lickitung was first seen in Princess Versus Princess. Jessie captured it and used in the Princess Festival Tournament against Misty. After defeating Ash's Pikachu and Bulbasaur and Brock's Vulpix, it lost to Misty's Psyduck.
Jessie accidentally traded her Lickitung for Benny's Wobbuffet in Tricks Of The Trade.
In the manga
In Pokémon Special, Lickitung is one of the Pokémon seen in Gold's house.
Later, in Volume 12, a quad of Lickitung becomes attracted by the scent of Crystal's newly evolved Bayleef.
In the TCG
- Main article: Lickitung (TCG)
Other appearances
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Lickitung is a Pokéfloat. As fighting moves to the left, Lickitung will extend its tongue which must be used as a stepping stone to continue.
Game data
Pokédex entries
| Gen | Game | Pokédex entry |
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| I | Red | Its tongue can be extended like a chameleon's. It leaves a tingling sensation when it licks enemies. |
| Blue | ||
| Yellow | Its tongue spans almost 7 feet and moves more freely than its forelegs. Its licks can cause paralysis. | |
| Stadium | Its tongue, twice its body's length, moves around freely to catch prey. Its licks cause a tingling sensation. | |
| II | Gold | Its tongue has well-developed nerves that run to the very tip, so it can be deftly manipulated. |
| Silver | Its long tongue, slathered with a thick gooey saliva, sticks to anything, so it is very useful. | |
| Crystal | It has a tongue that is over 6'6" long. It uses this long tongue to lick its body clean. | |
| Stadium 2 | Its tongue has well-developed nerves that run to the very tip, so it can be deftly manipulated. | |
| III | Ruby | Whenever Lickitung comes across something new, it will unfailingly give it a lick. It does so because it memorizes things by texture and by taste. It is somewhat put off by sour things. |
| Sapphire | Whenever Lickitung comes across something new, it will unfailingly give it a lick. It does so because it memorizes things by texture and by taste. It is somewhat put off by sour things. | |
| Emerald | Whenever it sees something unfamiliar, it always licks the object because it memorizes things by texture and taste. It is somewhat put off by sour things. | |
| FireRed | Its tongue is twice the length of its body. It can be moved like an arm for grabbing food and attacking. | |
| LeafGreen | Its tongue can be extended like a chameleon's. It leaves a tingling sensation when it licks enemies. | |
| IV | Diamond | Instead of hands, it uses its tongue, which is twice its height. Its sticky saliva grips anything. |
| Pearl | Instead of hands, it uses its tongue, which is twice its height. Its sticky saliva grips anything. |
Game locations
| Gen | Game | Rarity | Location |
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| I | Pokémon Red and Blue | One | Route 18 (Trade Slowbro) |
| Pokémon Yellow | Few | Cerulean Cave | |
| II | Pokémon Gold and Silver | Common | Route 44 |
| Pokémon Crystal | Common | Route 44 | |
| III | Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire | None | Trade |
| Pokémon Emerald | None | Trade | |
| Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen | One | Route 18 (Trade Golduck) | |
| Pokémon Colosseum | None | Trade | |
| Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness | One | Citadark Isle (Shadow) | |
| IV | Pokémon Diamond and Pearl | Swarm | Lake Valor |
| Pokémon Platinum | Unknown | ||
| Pal Park | Field |
In side games
| Game | Location |
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| Pokémon Channel | Cobalt Coast |
| Pokémon Trozei! | Secret Storage 15 Trozei Battle Mr. Who's Den |
| Pokémon Mystery Dungeon | Western Cave (37F-44F) |
| Everyone's Pokémon Ranch | Random trade with Yukari * |
Base stats
| HP: | 90 | |
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| Attack: | 55 | |
| Defense: | 75 | |
| Special: | 60 | |
| SpAtk: | 60 | |
| SpDef: | 75 | |
| Speed: | 30 |
The Special stat was used only in Generation I; it was later split into Special Attack and Special Defense.
Type effectiveness
| Weakness | Resistance | |
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Learnset
Lickitung is capable of learning the following moves.
Moves in bold are damage moves to which STAB apply.
By leveling up
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By TM/HM
By breeding
Special moves
In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Lickitung knows Shadow Panic and Shadow Rush as a Shadow Pokémon, and learns Helping Hand after being purified.
Side game data
| Pokémon Pinball | ||
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| Acquisition: Catch | 
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| Pokémon Trozei! | ||
| Rarity: Rare |
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| Pokémon Mystery Dungeon | ||
| Body size: 1 | Recruit Rate: 8.6% | Friend Area: Sky Blue Plains |
| Phrases | ||
| 51%-100% HP | Are you sweet? Spicy? Salty? | |
| 26%-50% HP | I'm not feeling healthy at half HP! | |
| 1%-25% HP | I can't keep up... My tongue's gone all dry... | |
| Level Up | Yippee! There's my level! I want to lap things up!
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Evolution
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Basic
Lickitung
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Sprites
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| I | Red | Blue | Yellow | Red (Ja) | Green | Back | |
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| II | Gold | Silver | Crystal | Back | |||
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| III | Ruby | Sapphire | Emerald | FireRed | LeafGreen | Back | |
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| IV | Diamond | Pearl | Platinum | Back | |||
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For other sprites and images, please see Lickitung images on Bulbagarden Archives.Trivia
- Lickitung was originally to be called Tonguetyd but this changed before the release of the English versions of Pokémon Red and Blue.
- Ironically, even though it was repeatedly stated to attack using licks, it was not able to learn Lick until Generation II.
- Prior to Generation IV, Lickitung can learn Rollout by TM04 during Generation II, or when purified in Pokémon XD or tutored the move in Pokémon Emerald. In Diamond and Pearl, Lickitung needs to know the move Rollout to evolve. Of course, it could not evolve into Lickilicky before this, because it had not been created yet. This makes it and Piloswine the only Pokémon which met their Generation IV evolution criteria in games of prior generations.
Origin
It may have been based on any number of lizards with extending tongues, commonly the blue-tongued lizard.
Name origin
Lickitung's name is a combination and corruption of lick and tongue. The bero in Beroringa may be derived from ベロ bero, tongue, べろべろ, berobero, an onomatopoeia for a licking sound, or べろべろ嘗める beroberonameru, to lick up with one's tongue. Ringer is most likely derived from English ring, referring to the patterns on its body.
In other languages
- German: Schlurp - This name comes from the word slurp.
- French: Excelangue - Excellent means excellent, and langue means tongue. The word as a whole sounds like excellent.
- Korean: 내루미 Naerumi