Lorelei's Cloyster

Lorelei's Cloyster カンナのパルシェン Kanna's Parshen

Lorelei's Cloyster

Debuts in Do Wrong, Dewgong! Caught at Unknown Gender Unknown Ability Shell Armor (Games) Current location With Lorelei

This Pokémon is fully evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Cloyster Katsuyuki Konishi Michael Haigney

Lorelei's Cloyster (Japanese: カンナのパルシェン Kanna's Parshen; known in the Pokémon the Series dub as Prima's Cloyster) is a Pokémon owned by Lorelei in the games, animation, and manga.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Yellow arc

Cloyster and Lorelei

Lorelei's Cloyster is one of her main Pokémon. It first appeared along with her Dewgong in Do Wrong, Dewgong!. Cloyster traps Yellow and Bill in a cave by collapsing the entrance with a Spike Cannon. When Yellow tries to escape, Cloyster sends an Ice Beam-powered Spike Cannon which stops them. Eventually, they do escape and Yellow attacks with Pika, with it using Thunder Shock. Lorelei tells Cloyster to Withdraw into its shell and Pika's ThunderShock bounces off harmlessly, though it became too stunned to move.

After a long chase, Lorelei gets Cloyster to Aurora Beam Yellow and Bill, freezing them in place along with an entire tidal wave. Then, Lorelei tries to extract information from Yellow by getting Cloyster to bombard them with its Supersonic, Yellow's Rattata comes and rescues them at the last minute with its Super Fang.

In Valiant Venomoth!, Lorelei appears again, this time riding in her Cloyster, to battle Green and Sabrina. She uses voodoo dolls made from her Jynx to freeze their hands together and present the threat that any part of the dolls that are destroyed means they will, too. Cloyster then uses Ice Beam on them, but it barely misses them. Green sends out Nidorina and Sabrina uses Venomoth. Nidorina charges at Cloyster and Venomoth uses Sleep Powder. Cloyster uses Blizzard to blow the Sleep Powder into Nidorina's face which puts her to sleep. Venomoth charges again and again, with Cloyster withdrawing each time so that all the attacks don't hit. Eventually Cloyster falls over, fainted, and Lorelei then realizes that it had been using Mega Drain the whole time.

Cloyster also makes a small appearance getting defeated by a Blastoise's Hydro Pump in Clefabulous Clefable.

FireRed & LeafGreen arc

When Lorelei later reappeared in the FireRed & LeafGreen arc, she used Cloyster again to defeat countless Unown with another Spike Cannon blast, but was taken by surprise when Sird's Starmie used Camouflage to approach them whilst disguised as part of the terrain before it defeated both Cloyster and Lorelei with a Hyper Beam.

Personality and characteristics

Cloyster has no problem in following Lorelei's commands as shown when she relied on it in order to do dangerous tasks and to prevent anyone from interfering with her plans.

Moves used

Using Withdraw Using Ice Beam	Move First Used In Spike Cannon † Cloystered Withdraw Cloystered Aurora Beam Cloystered Supersonic Cloystered Ice Beam Valiant Venomoth! Blizzard Valiant Venomoth!
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Moves improvised

Picture	First Used In	Moves Involved	Partnered With
	Cloystered	Spike Cannon and Ice Beam	Lorelei's Dewgong
	Description: Ice Missile - A combination of Cloyster's Spike Cannon and Dewgong's Ice Beam, strong enough to penetrate even bedrock.

Cloyster in Pokémon Zensho

Cloyster in Pokémon Pocket Monsters

Pokémon Pocket Monsters

Lorelei's Cloyster appeared in To The Pokémon League. It first appeared along with Lorelei's other Pokémon when Lorelei welcomed Red to her school. Jynx used it as a weapon by smacking Clefairy. Later, it sneaked in Clefairy's food bowl, much to his ire. When Lorelei revealed herself to be an Elite Four member, she and Red had a battle, with Cloyster being the second Pokémon that she sent out. It charged at Clefairy, but Clefairy dodged, causing Cloyster to crash into a wall, being knocked out in the process.

Pokémon Zensho

During Satoshi's time at the Pokémon League in PZ10, Lorelei sends out her Cloyster. Cloyster goes up against Satoshi's Raichu who has the type-disadvantage against the Electric-type. It wasn't long before Cloyster gets taken out by Raichu's Thunderbolt, advancing Satoshi to the next room. Cloyster was not seen using any moves due to its brief appearance.

In animation

Cloyster in Pokémon the Series: The Beginning

Cloyster and Prima

Pokémon the Series

Pokémon the Series: The Beginning

In The Mandarin Island Miss Match, Prima (Lorelei's name in the Pokémon the Series dub) used Cloyster against numerous opponents in a tournament and defeated them all. Eventually, Ash challenged Prima to a battle. They agreed to use one Pokémon each, and Prima used Cloyster against Pikachu. Pikachu used a Thunderbolt, but Cloyster shielded itself by Withdrawing into its shell. Pikachu then used Agility, but Cloyster used Reflect and Pikachu got thrown backward. After getting back on his feet, Pikachu used Thunder to hit Cloyster, who started to glow red after using Rage to enhance its attack power. Pikachu tried to use Quick Attack, but was defeated by an Aurora Beam-Take Down combo, causing Ash to lose.

Personality and characteristics

Very little is known about Prima's Cloyster, as it and its Trainer have only been in one episode. However, being a Pokémon owned by an Elite Four member, it was shown to be quite strong, as it defeated Ash's Pikachu despite being at a type disadvantage.

Moves used

Using Withdraw Using Aurora Beam	Move First Used In Blizzard The Mandarin Island Miss Match Withdraw The Mandarin Island Miss Match Reflect The Mandarin Island Miss Match Rage The Mandarin Island Miss Match Aurora Beam The Mandarin Island Miss Match Take Down The Mandarin Island Miss Match
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In the games

Lorelei uses Cloyster in every game she appears in, being her only Pokémon to do so.

In the core series

Pokémon Red and Blue	Pokémon Yellow	Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
		Before Sevii Islands	After Sevii Islands
Types: Water Ice Cloyster Lv.53 Supersonic Normal   --       Clamp Water   --       Aurora Beam Ice   --       Spike Cannon Normal   --	Types: Water Ice Cloyster Lv.53 Supersonic Normal   --       Clamp Water   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Spike Cannon Normal   --	Types: Water Ice Ability: Shell Armor Held item: None Cloyster♀ Lv.51 Spikes Ground   --       Dive Water   --       Hail Ice   --       Protect Normal   --	Types: Water Ice Ability: Shell Armor Held item: None Cloyster♂ Lv.63 Rain Dance Water   --       Surf Water   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Supersonic Normal   --
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
First battle	Rematch
Types: Water Ice Mega Stone: None Cloyster♀ Lv.51 Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Spike Cannon Normal Physical   --       Hydro Pump Water Special   --       Curse Unknown Status   --	Types: Water Ice Mega Stone: None Cloyster♀ Lv.61 Blizzard Ice Special   --       Spike Cannon Normal Physical   --       Hydro Pump Water Special   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --

Pokémon Stadium series

Pokémon Stadium
Round 1	Round 2
Types: Water Ice Cloyster Lv.50-100 Supersonic Normal   --       Clamp Water   --       Spike Cannon Normal   --       Explosion Normal   --	Types: Water Ice Cloyster Lv.50-100 Toxic Poison   --       Clamp Water   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Explosion Normal   --

In the spin-off games

Pokémon Masters EX

Main article: Lorelei (Masters) → Cloyster

Cloyster pairs alongside Lorelei in Pokémon Masters EX.

Dex	Trainer		NDex	Pokémon		Type	Weakness	Role	EX role	Base potential	Availability
#007		Lorelei	#0091		Cloyster♀	Ice	Electric			★★★★★☆EX	Variety Sync Pair Scout

Pokémon Puzzle League

Cloyster is one of Lorelei's three Pokémon in Pokémon Puzzle League.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Cloyster. 

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.