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Height
2′00″ Imperial
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0.6 m Metric
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2′00″/0.6 m Red-Striped
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0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped
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0'0"/0.0 m
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Weight
25.4 lbs. Imperial
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11.5 kg Metric
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25.4 lbs./11.5 kg Red-Striped
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0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped
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0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
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EV yield
HP 0
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Atk 0
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Def 0
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Sp.Atk 0
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Sp.Def 0
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Speed 0
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Base Exp.: 111
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Battle Exp.: 1111*
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Corphish (Japanese: ヘイガニ Heigani) is a Water-type Pokémon.
Biology
Physiology
Gender differences
Special abilities
Behavior
Corphish try to compensate for their small size by being stronger than any other Pokémon on their territory. If a new Pokémon enters its territory, the resident Corphish will immediatly challenge it to battle.
Habitat
Diet
Main article: Pokémon food
In the anime
Corphish first appeared in Gone Corphishin'. Ash Ketchum battled and captured this Ruffian Pokémon at the end of the episode. Ash's Corphish serves as the main comedy relief member of Ash's team and the only Pokémon that Ash captured in Hoenn that hasn't evolved, save for his Torkoal (which doesn't have an evolved form).
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation III.
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Generation III
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Ruby
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Corphish were originally foreign Pokémon that were imported as pets. They eventually turned up in the wild. This Pokémon is very hardy and has greatly increased its population.
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Sapphire
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Corphish catches prey with its sharp claws. It has no likes or dislikes when it comes to food - it will eat anything. This Pokémon has no trouble living in filthy water.
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Emerald
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Once it grips prey with its large pincers, it will never let go, no matter what. It is a hardy Pokémon that can thrive in any environment.
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FireRed
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It came from overseas. It is a very hardy creature that will quickly proliferate, even in polluted streams.
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LeafGreen
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It came from overseas. It is a very hardy creature that will quickly proliferate, even in polluted streams.
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Generation IV
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Diamond
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Its hardy vitality enables it to adapt to any environment. Its pincers will never release prey.
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Pearl
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Its hardy vitality enables it to adapt to any environment. Its pincers will never release prey.
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Platinum
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{{{platinumdex}}}
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HeartGold
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{{{heartgolddex}}}
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SoulSilver
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{{{soulsilverdex}}}
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Game locations
In side games
Base stats
Stat
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Range
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At Lv. 50
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At Lv. 100
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43
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103 - 150
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196 - 290
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80
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76 - 145
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148 - 284
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65
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63 - 128
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121 - 251
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50
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49 - 112
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94 - 218
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35
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36 - 95
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67 - 185
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35
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36 - 95
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67 - 185
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Total: 308
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Other Pokémon with this total
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- Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and (if applicable) a hindering nature.
- Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.
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Type effectiveness
Under normal battle conditions in Generation V, this Pokémon is:
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Learnset
Side game data
Template:Side game
Evolution
Trivia
Origin
Based on the Pokémon Ruby Pokédex entry, Corphish is probably Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii). Native to North America, this species was introduced in Japan as food for bullfrogs. Today, these crayfish are popular pets in Japan.[1]
Name origin
Corphish's name is possibly a pun on crayfish.
Alternatively, it could be a homonymic play on the arcane Newfoundland fishing term corfish; the meaning of "corfish" is not clear. According to "West to Pemaquid,"[2], corfish were a "kind of dried fish," specifically, "a green variety." It goes on to say that the other kind of dried fish was called "dunfish," which we can ascertain from the 1913 Webster means "codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality." We can assume from this that "corfish" is thus probably a type of preserved, dried codfish, and, according to West to Pemaquid, lower quality than dunfish (corfish ... was suitable for sale ... as slave food ...). "Colony of Avalon,"[3] further asserts corfish to mean "wet-cured fish" (to cure being to preserve using salts or smoke). Corfish is mostly obsolete, but is still sometimes used, and can especially be found in old English; for example, see page 279 of Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings or New England Before the Pilgrim Fathers Landed[4]: "Of dry fish we made about 40000. of Cor fish about 7000," and "With these Furres, the Traine, and Corfish I returned for England in the Bark ..." (1614). The Dictionary of Newfoundland English defines "corfish," but it is not widely available.
Old English also used the forms "cor fish" and "cor-fish." Other references to corfish in archaic documents, particularily those authored by Captain John Smith, which provides clues to its meaning are as follows:
- "where they take nothing but small Cod, where of the greatest they make Cor-fish, and the rest is hard dried, which we call Poore-John, would amaze a man with wonder.[5]
- "Newfoundland doth yearly freight near eight hundred sail of ships with a silly, lean, skinny poor-john, and cor fish ..."[6]
Its Japanese name is based on 平家蟹 heikegani, Heike crab.
In other languages
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