Weezing
マタドガス Matadogas
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Height
3'11"
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1.2m
Metric
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3'11"/1.2m
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0.0m
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Weight
20.9lbs
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9.5kg
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20.9lbs/9.5kg
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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
2
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Sp.Atk
0
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Sp.Def
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Speed
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| Base Exp.: 173
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Battle Exp.: 1731*
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Weezing (Japanese: マタドガス Matadogas) is a Poison-type Pokémon.
It evolves from Koffing starting at level 35.
Biology
Physiology
Weezing mostly look like two Koffing stuck together, albeit both being a lighter shade of purple than an actual Koffing, with one being larger than the other is. The larger head sports the skull-and-crossbones design featured on its pre-evolution, while the smaller head only has a light yellow circle underneath the face. It also has a third chamber on its underside, presumably for storing extra toxins, which resembles a tiny version of a Weezing head, minus the face and skull-and-crossbones pattern. Two small appendages connect this extra chamber to the heads. The larger head has prominent eyebrows, pointed teeth protruding from its lower jaw, and flatter teeth on its upper jaw, while the smaller head simply has two pointed teeth, one at each corner of the mouth. Triplet Weezing have been discovered, although they are extremely rare.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Each head contains a different toxin. When one head inflates, the other deflates, mixing the gases. By doing this multiple times, it becomes more toxic and noxious, although it does have the side effect of making Weezing smell worse. Weezing is capable of expelling this gas in order to attack its enemies, and can also attack with globs of sludge. Ironically, exquisite perfumes can be extracted from Weezing's toxic secretions. A Weezing is capable of generating electricity, as well as breathing fire. It is also capable of exploding. In rare cases, a Weezing can also exhibit signs of limited psychic power. Like it pre-evolution, Weezing's gas contains flammable hydrocarbons, which makes it volatile and easily ignited by fire or electricity.
Behavior
A Weezing will find a dirty, unkempt house and nest there. At night, when the people in the house are asleep, Weezing will go through the trash. It constantly inflates and deflates its heads to mix its poison gases.
It has been explicitly stated that Koffing, Weezing's pre-evolution, is able to hover in midair due to its gases being lighter than air. Although the same has never been explicitly stated for Weezing, it can be assumed that this is the case, as Weezing displays an ability to float in midair seemingly identical to Koffing's ability. It is, however, a known fact that a Weezing's gases are less dense than water, enabling it to float on the surface of water effortlessly, although this also means that Weezing is essentially unable to spend any amount of time underwater.
Habitat
Weezing live in urban and suburban areas, and can often be found in dirty, unkempt houses. Active volcanoes are also a good place to find them. Their native range includes Kanto, Johto, and Sinnoh's Battle Zone.
Diet
- Main article: Pokémon food
Weezing feed on the dust, microorganisms, and especially gases emitted by garbage and toxic waste. Weezing consider gases that emanate from garbage to be the ultimate feast.
In the anime
Major appearances
James's Koffing evolved into Weezing during Dig Those Diglett. In A Poached Ego, it left them with Jessie's Arbok to protect a group of Koffing and Ekans that were freed from the captivity of Pokémon poacher Rico.
Ash used a Weezing in a Pokémon League entrance exam in The Ultimate Test. It defeated the instructor's Flareon with its Smog, SmokeScreen, and Tackle attacks. Later on, Ash commanded it to use Explosion against Team Rocket, causing them to blast off.
Minor appearances
A Weezing made a cameo during the "World of Pokémon" opening narration of the fourth and fifth movies.
In the manga
In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga
James's Weezing makes an appearance in the manga The Electric Tale of Pikachu. It first appears as a Koffing in Pikachu's Excellent Adventure. All of its subsequent appearances, beginning in You Gotta Have Friends, are as a Weezing.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Both Koga and his daughter, Janine, have Weezing as a part of their arsenals. Besides these, many Weezing have been shown in the wild, most notably in the Rocket-altered ecosystem of the Viridian Forest, or sometimes simply under Rocket command.
In the TCG
- Main article: Weezing (TCG)
In the TFG
One Weezing figure has been released.
Other appearances
When released from a Poké Ball, Weezing will hover in place and emit Poison Gas that juggles any opponent who comes near it, essentially serving the function of its pre-evolution, Koffing, from Super Smash Bros.
Weezing is also a float in the Poké Float stage. It appears as Chikorita leaves. Once Slowpoke appears, it will slowly deflate and move to the top of the screen.
Trophy information
The evolved form of Koffing, Weezing is basically a pair of Koffing fused together. They tend to float in the air and emit gas or noxious smoke from the outgrowths that cover their bodies. As strange as it may seem, diluting Weezing emissions as much as possible creates one of the most exquisite perfumes known to man.
Game data
Pokédex entries
| This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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| Generation I
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Where two kinds of poison gases meet, two Koffings can fuse into a Weezing over many years.
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It lives and grows by absorbing dust, germs, and poison gases that are contained in toxic waste and garbage.
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A twinned Koffing that forms on rare occasions where poisonous gases pool. Its two toxic gases appear to be different.
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| Generation II
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If one of the twin Koffing inflates, the other one deflates. It constantly mixes its poisonous gases.
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Top-grade perfume is made using its internal poison gases by diluting them to the highest level.
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When it inhales poisonous gases from garbage, its body expands, and its insides smell much worse.
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| Generation III
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Weezing loves the gases given off by rotted kitchen garbage. This Pokémon will find a dirty, unkept house and make it its home. At night, when the people in the house are asleep, it will go through the trash.
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Weezing alternately shrinks and inflates its twin bodies to mix together toxic gases inside. The more the gases are mixed, the more powerful the toxins become. The Pokémon also becomes more putrid.
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By diluting its toxic gases with a special process, the highest grade of perfume can be extracted. To Weezing, gases emanating from garbage are the ultimate feast.
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Very rarely, a sudden mutation can result in two small Koffing twins becoming conjoined as a Weezing.
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Where two kinds of poison gases meet, two Koffings can fuse into a Weezing over many years.
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It grows by feeding on gases released by garbage. Though very rare, triplets have been found.
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If one of the twin Koffing inflates, the other one deflates. It constantly mixes its poisonous gases.
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Top-grade perfume is made using its internal poison gases by diluting them to the highest level.
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| Generation V
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It grows by feeding on gases released by garbage. Though very rare, triplets have been found.
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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. 50
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At Lv. 100
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125 - 172
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240 - 334
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85 - 156
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166 - 306
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112 - 189
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220 - 372
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81 - 150
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157 - 295
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67 - 134
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130 - 262
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58 - 123
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112 - 240
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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 85.
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Pokéathlon stats
Type effectiveness
| Under normal battle conditions in Generation V, this Pokémon is:
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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 Weezing can be tutored the move in that game
- A colored abbreviation in a white box indicates that Weezing cannot be tutored the move in that game
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Weezing
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Weezing
- 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
- In the Pokémon Red and Blue beta, Weezing was originally known as "La", representing Los Angeles's polluted air.
- This would have made it and its pre-evolution (then known as "Ny") the Pokémon with the shortest names.
- Weezing and Koffing are the the only pure Poison-type Pokémon immune to Ground-type attacks, due to their in-game ability, Levitate.
- Weezing has the highest Defense out of all Poison-type Pokémon.
- In certain instances in the games, such as summary pages and Pokémon Contests, a Pokémon's sprite will be horizontally flipped, unless its body is asymmetrical. For some reason, Weezing's sprite will get flipped in all instances despite its asymmetrical body. However, it may be explained by the twin bodies alternately inflating and deflating, as mentioned in the Pokédex, although this wouldn't necessarily explain why the body patterns switch places.
- In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum Pokédex entries for Weezing state that triplet forms have been discovered; however, this variant has not been shown in any Pokémon media.
- However, a third section of Weezing (without a face) appears on every Weezing seen so far.
Origin
Considering its looks, its ability to float, and its tendency to explode, it may have been based upon a floating naval mine or living meteorite. It is also based on smog and other forms of air pollution. Weezing may also be based on the imagined fear that heavy pollution, caused by the leakage and/or improper disposal of toxic/radioactive waste, may result in the creation of new and undesirable life.
Name origin
Weezing's name is a corruption of the word wheezing, which means "producing a whistling sound while breathing with difficulty". Its Japanese name may come from 又 mata, again, and 獰 dō, meaning bad, or 毒 doku, meaning poisonous, and gas. Essentially, it is a doubling of Koffing's Japanese name, and thus a doubling of Koffing – which is exactly what Weezing is. It may also be a corruption of マスタードガス masutādogasu, mustard gas.
In other languages
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Name Origin
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| German
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Smogmog
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Doubling of Koffing's German name.
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| French
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Smogogo
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Doubling of Koffing's French name.
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| Korean
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또도가스 Ddodogaseu
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From 또 tto and 또가스 Ddogaseu.
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| Chinese (Mandarin)
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雙彈瓦斯 / 双弹瓦斯 Shuāngdànwǎsī
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Means "Double gas bomb",
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| Chinese (Cantonese)
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毒氣雙子 Duhkheisēungjí
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Literally "Toxic gas twin".
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Related articles
External links
Notes
Smoke Ball (5%)
For other sprites and images, please see Weezing images on Bulbagarden Archives.
