Piloswine (Pokémon)

Piloswine イノムー Inomoo

Artwork from HG/SS

Types Species  Ice  Ground  Swine Pokémon Abilities Exp. at 100 Oblivious or Snow Cloak 1,250,000 Pokédex National #221 Johto #196* Hoenn #361* Sinnoh #204Pt Browser Fiore R-173 Almia R-201 Height Weight 3'07" 123.0 lbs. Pokédex color Footprint Body style Catch rate Brown 75 Gender ratio   50% male   50% female Egg groups Egg cycles Ground 21 (5355 steps*) EV yield HP 1 Atk 1 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Exp. 160 External links On Legendary Pokémon Pokédex: Generation III Generation IV On Smogon Pokédex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV On Eevee's Pokédex (Gen. II-IV) On Psypoke Pokédex On Pokecharms Pokédex (Gen. III-IV) On Marriland Pokédex (Gen. IV) Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Piloswine (Japanese: イノムー Inomoo) is a dual-type Ice/Ground Pokémon.

It evolves from Swinub starting at level 33, and evolves into Mamoswine when leveled up while knowing AncientPower.

Biology

Physiology

Dawn's Piloswine's eyes

Piloswine are big brown furry Pokémon that have an impressive hump on their backs, giving them a hunchbacked appearance. They also have two tusks which seem small, but can be pretty lethal. Its shaggy coat makes it unable to see. It checks surroundings with its sensitive nose instead.

In the 3-D Pokémon console games, as well as the anime, it is shown that Piloswine has two beady eyes in its head; however, these are usually covered up by tufts of fur.

Gender differences

A female Piloswine has shorter tusks than a male.

Special abilities

Behavior

Piloswine are strong, brave, and undeniably stubborn. Wild Piloswine jealously guard their herd's territory, driving off any creatures that trespass. Domesticated Piloswine are loyal to a fault. There are stories of Piloswine who refuse to go down no matter how hard a battle becomes in an attempt to live up to their trainer's expectations of them.

Cave Pokémon

Habitat

Piloswine tend to inhabit cold places, such as icy caves, mountainous regions and frozen tundra.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

In the anime

Piloswine in the anime

Piloswine made its animated debut in Celebi: Voice of the Forest as one of the Pokémon captured in the Poacher's cage at the start of the film. Its appearance in the film was very brief, lasting barely a second.

Pryce's Piloswine first appeared in As Cold as Pryce. Pryce thought that his Piloswine had abandoned him when he was a young Pokémon Trainer after the two of them got hit by a Magmar's Fire Blast and thus became cold and bitter. When Pryce found his Piloswine in a cave and frozen solid with a Burn-Healing Herb, Pryce let go of his coldness. Pryce used his Piloswine in the Gym battle against Ash in the following episode.

In Pichu Bros. in Party Panic during the chase between the Pichu Brothers and a Houndour, the Pichu Brothers disguised themselves as a Piloswine but the Houndour wasn't easily fooled and eventually dismantled the disguise, revealing the Pichu Brothers.

Dawn's Swinub evolved into a Piloswine in Sleepless in Pre-Battle. It later evolved into Mamoswine in A Breed Stampede!.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Piloswine appeared in Volume 9 under the control of Keane, who used its sheer power to devastate Ecruteak City with an Earthquake. However, Silver defeated it easily with Gold's Politoed.

In the TCG

Main article: Piloswine (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Stats

Base stats

Pokéthlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

Piloswine is capable of learning the following moves (from its evolution onwards):
NOTE: Moves in bold are damage moves to which STAB apply.

By leveling up

By TM/HM

By breeding

By tutoring

TCG-only Moves

• Sheer Cold

Special moves

Pokémon Colosseum
Shadow moves		Level 43+	Purified moves
Shadow Rush	Shadow		Endure	Normal
--			Odor Sleuth	Normal
--			Dig	Ground
--			Blizzard	Ice

Side game data

Pokémon Trozei!
	Rarity: Rare
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team
Body size: 1	Recruit Rate: Evolve	Friend Area: Frigid Cavern
Phrases
51%-100% HP	Is there an enemy in front? I can't see what lies ahead of me...
26%-50% HP	My health is down by half already.
1%-25% HP	I'm run-down... I couldn't charge if I wanted...
Level Up	Leveled up! But I still can't see to the front...
Pokémon Ranger
Group:  Ground	Loops: 7	Minimum Experience: 70
Poké Assist: ( Ice )	Field Move: (Tackle ×3)	Maximum Experience: 80
"With incredible speed, Piloswine charges anyone it notices. Be wary around it."
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness
Body size: 1	Recruit Rate: -12%	IQ Group: A
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Group:  Ground	Poké Assist: ( Ice )	Field Move: (Tackle ×3)
"It breathes powdered snow to attack."

Evolution

Unevolved Swinub  Ice  Ground

Level 33 →

First evolution Piloswine  Ice  Ground

Level up knowing AncientPower →

Second evolution Mamoswine  Ice  Ground

Sprites

Gen	Game
I	Red	Blue	Yellow	Red (Ja)	Green	Back
	This Pokémon did not appear during Generation I.
II	Gold	Silver	Crystal			Back
III	Ruby	Sapphire	Emerald	FireRed	LeafGreen	Back
	File:Spr 3r 221 s.png		File:Spr 3e 221 s.gif	File:Spr 3f 221 s.png
IV	Diamond	Pearl	Platinum	HeartGold	SoulSilver	Back

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

Trivia

• Prior to Generation IV, Piloswine can learn AncientPower by breeding or by evolution of a Shadow Swinub caught in Pokémon XD. Despite this, it cannot evolve into Mamoswine in those generations because Mamoswine did not yet exist. This makes it and Lickitung the only Pokémon which could not evolve even if the criteria were met because their evolved forms were not yet created.
• Of all the Pokémon that need to know a certain move to evolve, Piloswine is the only one that has already evolved once.
  • It is also the only one of the move-based evolutions that does not learn the required move at a specific level. However, AncientPower is in Piloswine's list of level up moves and thus can be recovered by Pastoria City's move relearner in exchange for a Heart Scale.
• Pryce's Piloswine was defeated by Pikachu with several Thunderbolts with great effect, despite Piloswine being a Ground-type.
• The first syllable in Piloswine's name is pronounced with a short "i" by the announcer in Pokémon Battle Revolution; in keeping with its name origin, it is pronounced with a long "i" in the anime.

Origin

Piloswine's size/appearance seem to be based off a mix of a yak, whose mountainous habitat echoes that of the Ice Path in Northern Johto, and a boar.

Name origin

A combination of pilose, meaning "covered in distinct hairs", and swine (pig). Its Japanese name may be a combination of 猪 inoshishi, boar, and ブーブー bū bū, an onomatopoeia for oinking.

In other languages

• German: Keifel - From Keiler (boar) and Fell (fur). Possibly also from keifen (to nag or shriek).
• French: Cochignon - From cochon (pig) and chignon (hair bun).
• Korean: 메꾸리 Mekkuri

Related articles

• Pryce's Piloswine
• Dawn's Piloswine

External links

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