Tamato Berry

Tamato Berry マトマのみ Matoma Berry No.26

Size Firmness Tree 7.9" Soft Tag description Generation III This berry is lip-bendingly spicy. It takes time to grow. Generation IV This Berry is large and spicy. When eaten during the cold season, it warms the body from inside. Effect Makes a Pokémon more friendly, but lowers Speed effort valueEDPPt Name origin Design basis Tomato Horned melon, Tomato Growth time Generation III Sprout 6 hours Taller 12 hours Flowering 18 hours Berries 24 hours Generation IV Sprout 8 hours Taller 16 hours Flowering 24 hours Berries 32 hours Flavor Generation III Spicy +1     Dry +1     Sweet 0     Bitter 0     Sour -2     Generation IV Spicy 20   Dry 10   Sweet 0   Bitter 0   Sour 0

A Tamato Berry is a type of berry introduced in Generation III.

Locations

Generation IV

• Sometimes given from the Berry Master

Growth and Harvest

Generation III

Tamato berries mature from planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in one day, with 6 hours per stage. A Tamato Tree will yield 2-5 Berries.

Generation IV

Tamato Berries mature from planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 32 hours, with 8 hours per stage.

Berry Blending

Berry Crushing

At 100% performance, a Tamato Berry will contribute 150 units of powder.

Poffin cooking

Tamato Berries will make a level 9 Spicy-Dry Poffin when cooked alone.

In the anime

Whenever an episode features berries, such as The Lotad Lowdown, or Berry, Berry Interesting, a character may come across this berry and decide to eat it. They instead experience its intense spiciness, and may end up with swollen lips for a while.

Names

Trivia

The Tamato Berry is the only one of the EV-reducing Berries that did not have the same growth time as the rest in Generation III, and the only Berry of its flavor group that does not have the same growth time as the rest in Generation IV.

← Grepa Berry

Berries

Cornn Berry →

This Pokémon article is part of Project BerryDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each berry in the Pokémon series.