Tentacool (Pokémon)
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Tentacool (Japanese: メノクラゲ Menokurage) is a dual-type Water/Poison Pokémon.
It evolves into Tentacruel starting at level 30.
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Biology
Physiology
Tentacool resembles a box jellyfish. It has a light blue, clear body with two large red spots on each side of its body, and one small one in the middle. It has two tentacles laced with stinging cells. This invertebrate can also ooze a poison if threatened.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Behavior
Tentacool often spend their time drifting at sea.
Habitat
Tentacool can be found throughout the ocean, usually congregating in places where warm currents and cold currents come together, and where minerals are plentiful.
Diet
Main article: Pokémon food
In the anime
Tentacool's debut appearance was in Tentacool and Tentacruel.
It also appeared in Friends to the End during Ritchie and Assunta's battle. However, it is unknown who it belonged to.
A school of Tentacool appeared in a flashback in A Cacturne for the Worse. May fears them due to being surrounded by them at one point, and her mother trying to catch her, thinking that she was a Tentacool.
A Tentacool appeared in Up Close and Personable!.
Pokédex entries
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In the manga
Pokémon Special
Tentacool's first appearance is a cameo in Bulbasaur, Come Home! as one of the Pokémon that escapes from Professor Oak's Laboratory.
One of the members of the Pokémon Fan Club in Vermilion City apparently bathes with her Tentacool on a regular basis. She is seen again with her Tentacool in Volume 14 during the Chairman's call out to all Trainers to send their Pokémon to help the fight in Ilex Forest.
In the TCG
- Main article: Tentacool (TCG)
Game data
Pokédex entries
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| I | Red | Drifts in shallow seas. Anglers who hook them by accident are often punished by its stinging acid. |
| Blue | Drifts in shallow seas. Anglers who hook them by accident are often punished by its stinging acid. | |
| Yellow | It can sometimes be found all dry and shriveled up on a beach. Toss it back into the sea to revive it. | |
| Stadium | Fires beams of light from its clear eyes. Floats around in shallow waters and may sting unwary anglers. | |
| II | Gold | When the tide goes out, dehydrated Tentacool remains can be found washed up on the shore. |
| Silver | It drifts aimlessly in waves. Very difficult to see in water, it may not be noticed until it stings. | |
| Crystal | As it floats along on the waves, it uses its toxic feelers to stab anything it touches. | |
| Stadium 2 | When the tide goes out, dehydrated Tentacool remains can be found washed up on the shore. | |
| III | Ruby | Tentacool's body is largely composed of water. If it is removed from the sea, it dries up like parchment. If this Pokémon happens to become dehydrated, put it back into the sea. |
| Sapphire | Tentacool absorbs sunlight and refracts it using water inside its body to convert it into beam energy. This Pokémon shoots beams from its crystal-like eyes. | |
| Emerald | Its body is almost entirely composed of water. It ensnares its foe with its two long tentacles, then stabs with the poison stingers at their tips. | |
| FireRed | Its eyes are as transparent as crystals. From them, it shoots mysterious beams of light. | |
| LeafGreen | Drifts in shallow seas. Anglers who hook them by accident are often punished by their stingers. | |
| IV | Diamond | Its body is virtually composed of water. It shoots strange beams from its crystal-like eyes. |
| Pearl | It drifts in sea currents. Countless fishermen are hurt by its poison stingers. | |
| Platinum | Because its body is almost entirely composed of water, it shrivels up if it is washed ashore. |
Game locations
In side games
| Game | Location |
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| Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire | Ocean (Sapphire Field) |
| Pokémon Trozei! | Secret Storage 1 Secret Storage 13 Endless Level 8 Mr. Who's Den |
| Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue Rescue Team | Stormy Sea (1F-8F) Silver Trench (1F-9F) Far-off Sea (1F-9F) Marvelous Sea (B1-B9) Fantasy Strait (B1-B9) |
| Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness | Brine Cave (B6-B9) Lower Brine Cave (B1-B5) |
Held items
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| Gold, Silver, and Crystal | Berry (trade from Generation I) |
| Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum | Poison Barb (5%) |
Base stats
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Type effectiveness
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Learnset
Tentacool is capable of learning the following moves in Generation IV.
- Moves in bold are damaging moves to which STAB applies.
By leveling up
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TCG-only Moves
Side game data
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| Rarity: Common |
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| Body size: 1 | Recruit Rate: 8.3% | Friend Area: Bountiful Sea |
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| 51%-100% HP | I shoot weird beams! They're really weird! | |
| 26%-50% HP | Uh, you'd better see this. My health isn't looking half good. | |
| 1%-25% HP | Uh, listen. I'm ready to go belly-up. | |
| Level Up | Woohoo, leveled up! Time to shine! | |
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 Body size: 1
| Recruit Rate: 8.2% | IQ Group: C |
Evolution
| Unevolved | → Level 30 | First evolution | ||
 Tentacool Water Poison |  Tentacruel Water Poison | |||
Sprites
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| I | Red | Blue | Yellow | Red (Ja) | Green | Back |
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| III | Ruby | Sapphire | Emerald | FireRed | LeafGreen | Back |
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For other sprites and images, please see Tentacool images on Bulbagarden Archives.Trivia
- Tentacool's prototype English name was "Jilly".
- Tentacool and Tentacruel are in all the regional Pokédexes.
- Tentacool's Red and Blue and Red and Green sprites have much shorter tentacles than other sprites.
- Tentacool and Tentacruel are the only non-genderless Pokémon that get Clear Body.
- Tentacool was the first DP hybrid glitch Pokémon discovered.
Origin
Tentacool is based on a jellyfish. It also shares the same traits of a Ctenophore.
Name origin
Tentacool's name is a combination of tentacle and the adjective cool. Its Japanese name may be a combination of 目の敵 menokataki, enemy, and 水母 kurage, jellyfish.
In other languages
- German: Tentacha
- French: Tentacool
- Korean: 왕눈해 Wangnunhae
- Chinese (Taiwan): 瑪瑙水母 - Literally "Agate jellyfish".
- Chinese (Hong Kong): 大眼水母 - Literally "big eyed jellyfish".
External links
Notes
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| This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon as a species. |
Categories: Water-type Pokémon | Poison-type Pokémon | Dual-type Pokémon | Pokémon in the Slow experience group | Pokémon | Blue-colored Pokémon | Body style 10 Pokémon | Water 3 group Pokémon | Pokémon with a gender ratio of one male to one female | Generation I Pokémon | Pokémon with a base stat total of 335 | Pokémon whose Special stat became their Special Defense | Body size 1 Pokémon | Pokémon that are part of a two-stage evolutionary line
