Horsea (Pokémon)

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This article is about the species. For a specific instance of this species, see Horsea (disambiguation).

Horsea タッツー Tattu #116
Art by Ken Sugimori from FireRed and LeafGreen
Type Water Unknown Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Dragon Pokémon
Abilities Swift Swim or Sniper Sniper Blue-Striped ----- Damp Hidden Ability
Exp. at Lv. 100 1,000,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #116 Johto #190 Hoenn #184 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R-107 Almia R-229 Oblivia R-068
Height 1'04" Imperial 0.4 m Metric 1'04"/0.4 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 17.6 lbs. Imperial 8.0 kg Metric 17.6 lbs./8.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Blue	Catch rate 225 (29.4%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown 50% male, 50% female
Breeding Water 1 and Dragon groups 21 cycles (5355 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 1 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 83 Battle Exp.: 831*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Horsea (Japanese: タッツー Tattu) is a Water-type Pokémon.

It evolves into Seadra starting at level 32, which evolves into Kingdra when traded holding a Dragon Scale.

Biology

Physiology

Horsea is a small, light blue seahorse with tiny scales. It has no arms or legs, only a single fin on its back and a tightly curled tail. Its belly and fin are cream colored, and it has red eyes. There are three spike-like projections on either side of its head. The single fin on its back is used for locomotion in the water.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Horsea can spray ink from their mouth, and can swim in any direction while still facing forward.

Behavior

Horsea are always known by being sensitive to their surroundings. If they sense trouble, they spit ink towards the instigator and flee. Horsea also spit ink to shoot down flying bugs for food, using their tail to keep their balance. When they are a safe location, they can be seen playfully tangling their tails together. Horsea do like swimming around, making them adept at using their fin. If the ocean current turns fast, however, Horsea will anchor themselves by wrapping their tail around rocks or coral to prevent being washed away. Horsea are also known for creating many nests at different coral reefs in the sea.

Habitat

Sea Pokémon

Horsea are a very common sight in the ocean and ocean caverns. They tend to make their nests in coral. Their home range includes Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Unova.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

Horsea are insectivores, but they also eat moss off rocks.

In the anime

Horsea in the anime

Major appearances

Misty's Horsea

Misty captured a Horsea in Tentacool and Tentacruel.

Minor appearances

Horsea also appeared in the banned episode EP035.

Multiple Horsea were among the Pokémon seen at Professor Oak's Laboratory in Showdown at the Po-ké Corral.

A Horsea appeared in Misty's fantasy in Bye Bye Psyduck.

Multiple Horsea also appeared in The Power of One.

A Horsea appeared in Mantine Overboard! living underwater.

A Horsea was seen at a Pokémon Center in The Legend of Thunder!.

A Horsea appeared in Up Close and Personable!.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

Green's Horsea

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Green had a Horsea on her team that she received from Silver in exchange for her Snubbull following their escape from the Masked Man, using it in her crafty tricks such as cloaking areas with SmokeScreen or leaving ink trails. It was later transferred back to Silver, and eventually evolved into Kingdra.

Lance's Horsea was seen in a flashback of his and Clair's childhood.

In the Magical Pokémon Journey manga

Main article: Horsea (MPJ)

Horsea is a character from the Magical Pokémon Journey manga.

In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga

A Horsea is seen with Green during the curry cooking competition that went on in Curry Showdown! Which is the Most Delicious?.

Giovanni sent out a Horsea to catch the Slowpoke of the Slowpoke Well in PM078.

In the TCG

Main article: Horsea (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

In events

Held items

Game		Held Item(s)
Red*	Blue*	TM33 (Ice Punch) (100%)
Yellow*
Gold	Silver	Dragon Scale (8%)
Crystal
Ruby	Sapphire	Dragon Scale (5%)
Emerald
Diamond	Pearl	Dragon Scale (5%)
Platinum
HeartGold	SoulSilver	Dragon Scale (5%)
Black	White	Dragon Scale (5%)
Black 2	White 2	Dragon Scale (5%)
Pokéwalker		Dragon Scale (100%)

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/HM

Generation V Other generations: I - II - III - IV - VI - VII - VIII - IX
TM		Move	Type	Cat.	Pwr.	Acc.	PP
	TM06	Toxic	Poison	Status	0000—	090}}90%	10
	TM07	Hail	Ice	Status	0000—	—}}—%	10
	TM10	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	0000—	100}}100%	15
	TM13	Ice Beam	Ice	Special	09595	100}}100%	10
	TM14	Blizzard	Ice	Special	120120	070}}70%	5
	TM17	Protect	Normal	Status	0000—	—}}—%	10
	TM18	Rain Dance	Water	Status	0000—	—}}—%	5
	TM21	Frustration	Normal	Physical	0000—	100}}100%	20
	TM27	Return	Normal	Physical	0000—	100}}100%	20
	TM32	Double Team	Normal	Status	0000—	—}}—%	15
	TM42	Facade	Normal	Physical	07070	100}}100%	20
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	0000—	—}}—%	10
	TM45	Attract	Normal	Status	0000—	100}}100%	15
	TM48	Round	Normal	Special	06060	100}}100%	15
	TM55	Scald	Water	Special	08080	100}}100%	15
	TM87	Swagger	Normal	Status	0000—	090}}90%	15
	TM90	Substitute	Normal	Status	0000—	—}}—%	10
	TM91	Flash Cannon	Steel	Special	08080	100}}100%	10
	HM03	Surf	Water	Special	09595	100}}100%	15
	HM05	Waterfall	Water	Physical	08080	100}}100%	15
	HM06	Dive	Water	Physical	08080	100}}100%	10
Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Horsea Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Horsea Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations

By breeding

Generation V Other generations: II - III - IV - VI - VII - VIII - IX
Father	Move	Type	Cat.	Pwr.	Acc.	PP
	Aurora Beam	Ice	Special	65	100%	20
	Clear Smog*	Poison	Special	50	—%	15
	Disable	Normal	Status	—	100%	20
	DragonBreath	Dragon	Special	60	100%	20
	Dragon Rage	Dragon	Special	—	100%	10
	Flail	Normal	Physical	—	100%	15
	Muddy Water	Water	Special	95	85%	10
	Octazooka	Water	Special	65	85%	10
	Outrage	Dragon	Physical	120	100%	10
	Razor Wind	Normal	Special	80	100%	10
	Signal Beam	Bug	Special	75	100%	15
	Splash	Normal	Status	—	—%	40
	Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100%	20
Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Horsea in Generation V Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation. Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Horsea in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Horsea Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Horsea Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations

By tutoring

Dream World moves

TCG-only moves

Side game data

Pokémon Pinball     Acquisition: Catch		Pokémon Pinball RS     Acquisition: Catch		Pokémon Trozei!    Rarity: Common
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team File:MDP RT 116.png Body size: 1 Recruit rate: 12.4% Friend Area: Treasure Sea Phrases 51%-100% HP My Water Gun hits a perfect hundred out of a hundred! 26%-50% HP My HP's gone to half. 1%-25% HP It's bad... My Water Gun's falling short... Level up Yes! I leveled up! Makes me happy! Partner phrases 51%-100% HP <name>, my HP is between 51% and 100%. 26%-50% HP <name>, my HP is between 26% and 50%. 1%-25% HP <name>, my HP is between 1% and 25%. Level up Yes! I leveled up! Makes me happy!
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky Body size: 1 Recruit rate: 8.2% IQ group: C
Pokémon Ranger Group:  Water  Poké Assist: ( Water ) Field move: None Loops: 3 Min. exp.: N/A Max. exp.: N/A Browser entry   Don't be fooled by its cute looks--Horsea attacks with blasts of water.
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia Group:  Water  Poké Assist: ( Water ) Field move: (Tackle ×2) Browser entry   It blows bubbles from its mouth to attack.
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Group: Poké Assist: Field move:  Water  ( Water ) Past ( Normal ) (Tackle ×1) Past (Electrify ×1) Browser entry   It spits bubbles around itself that make Pokémon Slowed.
Pokémon Rumble Attack ●● Defense ●● Speed ●●● Attack Not Available Defense Speed			Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ●● Defense ●● Speed ●●● Attack Not Available Defense Speed Attack Not Available Defense Speed Attack Not Available Defense Speed
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure PokéPark Pad entry: This Pokémon has no PokéPark Pad entry.
PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond Strong: {{{Park2strong}}} Weak: {{{Park2weak}}} PokéPark Pad entry: This Pokémon has no PokéPark Pad entry.
Pokémon Conquest HP: Move: {{{ConquestMove}}} Attack: Ability 1: {{{ConquestAbility1}}} Defense: Ability 2: {{{ConquestAbility2}}} Speed: Ability 3: {{{ConquestAbility3}}} Does not evolve. Range: 0 Perfect Links: {{{ConquestLink}}}

Evolution

Unevolved Horsea  Water

Level 32 →

First evolution Seadra  Water

Trade holding Dragon Scale →

Second evolution Kingdra  Water  Dragon

Sprites

Gen	Game
I	Red	Blue	Yellow		Red (Ja)	Green	Back
II	Gold	Silver	Crystal				Back
III	Ruby	Sapphire	Emerald		FireRed	LeafGreen	Back
IV	Diamond	Pearl	Platinum		HeartGold	SoulSilver	Back
V	Black	White	Black 2	White 2			Back

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

Trivia

• Horsea and its evolutions share the same species name with Dratini, its evolutions, and Salamence. They are all known as Dragon Pokémon.
• In its original artwork, Horsea had a pair of fins instead of just one.

Origin

Horsea is based on a seahorse, though its ability to shoot ink resembles that of a squid. The fact that it's known as the Dragon Pokémon might be a reference to Leafy sea dragons.

Name origin

Horsea is derived from seahorse with reversed syllables, and a corruption of the diminutive horsie.

Tattu is a corruption of 竜 tatsu (dragon), which is part of the common name of a seahorse in Japanese: 竜の落し子 tatsu-no-otoshigo ("illegitimate child of a dragon").

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese タッツー Tattu From the Japanese term for seahorse, タツノオトシゴ/竜の落とし子 French Hypotrempe From hippocampe and trempé Spanish Horsea Same as English name German Seeper From Seepferd Italian Horsea Same as English name Korean 쏘드라 Ssodeura Mandarin Chinese 墨海馬 / 墨海马 Mòhǎimǎ Literally "Ink seahorse" Cantonese Chinese 噴墨海馬 Pānmahkhóimáh Means "Ink-squirting seahorse"

More languages

Related articles

• Misty's Horsea

External links

Notes

← #115: Kangaskhan

Pokémon

#117: Seadra →

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