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Ambipom Long Tail Pokémon エテボース Eteboth #424 Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Normal Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Abilities Technician or Pickup Cacophony Cacophony Skill Link Hidden Ability Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Cacophony
Gender ratio Unknown 50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 45 (11.9%)
Breeding Egg Group Field Hatch time 20 cycles
Height 3'11" 1.2 m Ambipom 0'0" 0 m {{{form2}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form3}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form4}}}	Weight 44.8 lbs. 20.3 kg Ambipom 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form2}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form3}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form4}}}
Mega Stone [[|]] [[|]]
Base experience yield 186 Gen. IV Unknown IV 169 V+	Leveling rate Fast
EV yield Total: 2 Ambipom 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 2 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape	Footprint {{{form2}}}
Pokédex color   Purple	Base friendship 100
External Links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Ambipom (Japanese: エテボース Eteboth) is a Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation IV.

It evolves from Aipom when leveled up while knowing Double Hit.

Biology

Ambipom is a purple, simian Pokémon with two tails, each with a large, rounded hand with three red-tipped fingers. The tails also have a cuff of a rounded frill on the wrists. The bases of Ambipom's tails also have a similar frill. It has round ears with red insides. Ambipom has an arrangement of a split hair sticking out from the top of its head. These strands of hair are longer on a female. It has a purple, triangular nose and wide eyes.

Ambipom can leap from tree to tree with brilliant speed. To eat, it deftly shucks nuts with its two tails. As it has two hands on its tails, it rarely uses its arms. Ambipom works in large colonies in heavily wooded areas and makes rings by linking tails with another Ambipom, apparently in friendship. It also shows affection by using both of its tails to wrap and squeeze people. It lives along with its young, Aipom. It lives high in the treetops of tropical, temperate, and even boreal forests, using its tails for balance as it swings from branch to branch. In the Alola region, while searching for comfortable trees, Ambipom tend to get into territorial disputes with Passimian, in which they win half the time.

In the anime

Ambipom in the anime

Major appearances

Dawn's Ambipom

Ambipom debuted in Journey to the Unown!, where's Dawn's Aipom, formerly owned by Ash, evolved. Upon evolving, she matured greatly and became one of Dawn's most talented Pokémon, being used in many of her Contests. She was later given to O in To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!, in order to train and then become a ping-pong champion at his training center in Vermilion City.

Minor appearances

Three Trainers' Ambipom appeared in Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel as residents of the Azoth Kingdom.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

Ambipom in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl manga

Main article: Dawn's Ambipom

Dawn's Ambipom first appeared in PDP28.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Main article: Aibo

Gold's Aipom, Aibo, evolved into an Ambipom prior to his battle with Arceus. However, he debuted in Pleased as Punch With Parasect. This event, however, distressed Togebo, being the only Pokémon on his team that was in his basic stage.

In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga

A Trainer used an Ambipom against Hareta in Clash! Hareta vs. Koya.

In the TCG

Main article: Ambipom (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Held items

In-game trades

Game		Held Item(s)
Black 2	White 2	Sitrus Berry (100%)

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

Side game data

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky Body size: 1 Recruit rate: 8.2% IQ group: F
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia Group: Normal Poké Assist: Normal Field move: (Crush ×2) Browser entry R-109 It hurls rocks and stones with its tails to attack.
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Group: Normal Poké Assist: (present) Rock Field move: (present) (Crush ×2) Poké Assist: (past) Normal Field move: (past) (Crush ×1) Browser entry R-089/N-027 It throws stones to attack.
Pokémon Rumble Attack ●●●● Defense ●●● Speed ●●●●			Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ●●●● Defense ●●● Speed ●●●●
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure PokéPark Pad entry: Ambipom came to the PokéPark to visit Aipom. She enjoys Venusaur's Vine Swing and Tangrowth's Swing Along more than any other Attraction!
Pokémon Battle Trozei Normal Attack Power: ★★★★★			Pokémon Shuffle Normal Attack Power: 60 - 105 5 #610 Shock Attack Leaves the foe paralyzed for a longer period of time.
Pokémon GO Base HP: 181 Base Attack: 205 Base Defense: 143 Egg Distance: N/A Buddy Distance: 1 km Evolution Requirement: N/A Fast Attacks: Scratch, Astonish Charged Attacks: Low Sweep, Hyper Beam, Aerial Ace

Evolution

Unevolved Aipom  Normal

Level up knowing Double Hit →

First evolution Ambipom  Normal

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IV.
Generation IV Diamond Pearl Platinum HeartGold SoulSilver Front Back Front Back Front Back
Generation V Black White Black 2 White 2 Front Back Front Back
Generation VI X Y Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire Front Back Front Back
Generation VII Sun Moon Ultra Sun Ultra Moon Front Back Front Back

For other sprites and images, please see Ambipom images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Despite it learning Dual Chop via level-up starting in Generation VII, it can't learn it via Move Tutor in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.

Origin

Ambipom appears to be based on a New World monkey and the exaggerated concept of their prehensile tail. Ambipom also shares its large smile with a cymbal-banging monkey toy. It may vaguely reference the ahuizotl, a creature of Aztec mythology with monkey hands and a fifth human hand on its tail.

Name origin

Ambipom is a combination of the prefix ambi- (from the Latin for both), referring to ambidexterity, and a corruption of palm.

Eteboth may be a combination of 猿公 etekō (monkey), 得手 ete, meaning strong point, and both, possibly referring to the ambidextrous nature of the hands on its tail.

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese エテボース Eteboth From 猿公 etekō (monkey), 得手 ete (strong point), and both French Capidextre From Capucin and ambidextre Spanish Ambipom Same as English name German Ambidiffel From ambidexter and Griffel Italian Ambipom Same as English name Korean 겟핸보숭 Gethainbosung From get, hand, both, and 원숭이 weonsungi Mandarin Chinese 雙尾怪手 / 双尾怪手 Shuāngwěiguàishǒu Literally "Double tail, strange hand", references 長尾怪手 Chángwěiguàishǒu Cantonese Chinese

More languages Hindi अम्बिपोम Ambipom Transliteration of English name Russian Эмбипом Embipom Transcription of English name Thai เอเทโบธ Eteboth Transcription of trademarked Japanese name

Related articles

• Dawn's Ambipom
• Aibo

External links

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