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Qwilfish (Pokémon)/Beta

Qwilfish (Japanese: プクー Pukū) is a Water-type Pokémon from the 1997 Spaceworld demo of Pokémon Gold and Silver.

It evolves into Shibirefugu at level 18.

Qwilfish is present in the final version of the game.

Biology

Qwilfish is a fish-like Pokémon with a spherical body and a flat, paddle-shaped tail. The upper half of its body is dark blue and the lower half is white or light blue. Its tail is tall and thin with a dark blue outline, white or light blue inside, and two dark blue dots in the center. Its eyes are even with its body, and are always seen slanted angrily. Below its eyes are its puffy lips. All around its body are sharp, conical spikes.

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Beta sprites			Final sprites

Game data

Pokédex entries

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II.
Generation II Gold はっけんされた ばかりの ポケモン げんざい ちょうさちゅう。 * Silver

Stats

Base stats

Stat
HP: 55
Attack: 80
Defense: 50
Sp.Atk: 60
Sp.Def: 50
Speed: 45
Total: 340

Type effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions in Generation V, this Pokémon is:

Damaged normally by: Normal 1× Fighting 1× Flying 1× Poison 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 1× Steel ½× Fire ½× Water ½× Grass 2× Electric 2× Psychic 1× Ice ½× Dragon 1× Dark 1× None

Weak to: Normal 1× Fighting 1× Flying 1× Poison 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 1× Steel ½× Fire ½× Water ½× Grass 2× Electric 2× Psychic 1× Ice ½× Dragon 1× Dark 1× None

Immune to: Normal 1× Fighting 1× Flying 1× Poison 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 1× Steel ½× Fire ½× Water ½× Grass 2× Electric 2× Psychic 1× Ice ½× Dragon 1× Dark 1× None

Resistant to: Normal 1× Fighting 1× Flying 1× Poison 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 1× Steel ½× Fire ½× Water ½× Grass 2× Electric 2× Psychic 1× Ice ½× Dragon 1× Dark 1× None

Learnset

By leveling up

Generation II Other generations:

Level   Move   Type   Power   Accuracy   PP  011 Poison Sting Poison 01515 100}}100% 35 066 Tail Whip Normal 0000— 100}}100% 30 1212 Water Gun Water 04040 100}}100% 25 1919 Selfdestruct Normal 200200 100}}100% 5 2727 Thunder Wave Electric 0000— 100}}100% 20 3636 Pin Missile Bug 01414 085}}85% 20 4646 SmokeScreen Normal 0000— 100}}100% 20 5757 Explosion Normal 250250 100}}100% 5

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Qwilfish Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Qwilfish

Trivia

Qwilfish's back sprite had three dots on the tail instead of two in both the demo and the Japanese final version of the game.

Origin

Qwilfish is based on both pufferfish and porcupinefish. Its ability to shoot its toxic quills somewhat resembles explosions, which could mean it may have been based on a naval mine.

Name origin

Qwilfish is a combination of quill and fish. Pukū may come from a corruption of 河豚 fugu meaning "pufferfish."