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Height
1′04″
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0.4 m
Metric
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1′04″/0.4 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
14.3 lbs.
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6.5 kg
Metric
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14.3 lbs./6.5 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
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Sp.Def
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Speed
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| Base Exp.: 87
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Battle Exp.: 871*
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Cubone (Japanese: カラカラ Karakara) is a Ground-type Pokémon.
Biology
Physiology
Cubone appears to be a small brown dinosaur-like Pokémon, simaliar to Charmander that constantly wears a skull (supposedly the skull of its mother) like a helmet, which masks its true face from view. It carries another bone, which it uses to attack with moves like Bone Club.
It may be the more modern counterpart of Cranidos, but this is uncertain.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Because of the original appearance of Cubone in Generation I, it could be construed that Cubone have the ability of masking their appearance as ghosts. However, this could simply mean that these Cubone are already dead.
It has the ability to wield its bone as an effective weapon, or throw it in the same manner as a boomerang.
Behavior
It is constantly lonely, for one reason or another, and moans plaintively. It dislikes keeping company or making new friends.
Habitat
Cubone prefer to live in dark caves.
Because of where they appear in RBY, they may be capturable as ghosts, and if in this form, they take residence in Pokémon Tower.
Diet
Main article: Pokémon food
In the anime
Cubone first appeared in The School of Hard Knocks under the ownership of Giselle. She used Cubone against Ash's Pikachu.
Cubone also appeared in A Chansey Operation as an injured Pokémon.
A Cubone was among the four Pokémon that were causing trouble for Pikachu and co. during Pikachu's Vacation.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Special manga
Cubone makes a cameo in Onix is On!, part of the Red, Green & Blue chapter, battling against Red's Bulbasaur as a Pewter Gym trainer's Pokémon.
Crystal owns a Cubone, who has a star-shaped crack in its skull. Cubone's main role in the team is to take out targets from afar using its bone-based attacks.
Other Appearances
- In the Pokémon Stadium 2 stage, a Cubone can be seen on the Ground Terrain standing atop the highest platform built into a rock. Dugtrio & Pokémon fossils can also on the Ground Terrain.
Game data
Pokédex entries
| This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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| Generation I
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| Red
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Because it never removes its skull helmet, no one has ever seen this Pokémon's real face.
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| Blue
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| Yellow
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Wears the skull of its deceased mother. Its cries echo inside the skull and come out as a sad melody.
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| Stadium
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Always wears the skull of its deceased mother on its head and never shows its face. It cries mournfully in the moonlight.
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| Generation II
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| Gold
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If it is sad or lonely, the skull it wears shakes, and emits a plaintive and mournful sound.
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| Silver
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It always wears the skull of its dead mother, so no one has any idea what its hidden face looks like.
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| Crystal
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It lost its mother after its birth. It wears its mother's skull, never revealing its true face.
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| Stadium 2
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If it is sad or lonely, the skull it wears shakes, and emits a plaintive and mournful sound.
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| Generation III
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| Ruby
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Cubone pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull the Pokémon wears are made by the tears it sheds.
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| Sapphire
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Cubone pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull the Pokémon wears are made by the tears it sheds.
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| Emerald
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It pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull it wears are from its tears.
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| FireRed
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It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly.
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| LeafGreen
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Because it never removes its skull helmet, no one has ever seen this Pokémon's real face.
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| Generation IV
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| Diamond
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When it thinks of its dead mother, it cries. Its crying makes the skull it wears rattle hollowly.
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| Pearl
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When it thinks of its dead mother, it cries. Its crying makes the skull it wears rattle hollowly.
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| Platinum
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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
| This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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In side games
Base stats
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Range
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At Lv. 100
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50
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110 - 157
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210 - 304
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50
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49 - 112
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94 - 218
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95
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90 - 161
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175 - 317
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40
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40 - 101
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76 - 196
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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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Total: 320
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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.
- This Pokémon's Special base stat in Generation I was 40.
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Type effectiveness
| Under normal battle conditions in Generation V, this Pokémon is:
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Learnset
Template:Learnset intro
Side game data
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Evolution
Sprites
Trivia
Cubone's name for English audiences was originally going to be "Orphon", which is a referce on how it's orphaned at birth.
Origin
Name origin
Cubone's name might be a combination of cute and bone, or possibly cub and bone, or "cue", referring to a snooker cue, and "bone". Karakara may be taken to mean からから, clattering. It is worth noting that karakara denotes lighter clattering than garagara.
In other languages
- German: Tragosso - A combination of the word tragen, to carry or wear, or tragisch, which means "dramatically," and oss, a form of the Latin word for bone.
- French: Osselait - Osselet means small bone. Lait means milk, referring to the young age and need for a mother.
- Korean: 탕구리 Tangguri
External links
Template:Smash Bros. Brawl
For other sprites and images, please see Cubone images on Bulbagarden Archives.
