Jolteon (Pokémon)

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

Jolteon Lightning Pokémon サンダース Thunders #135 Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Electric Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Abilities Volt Absorb Cacophony Cacophony Quick Feet Hidden Ability Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Cacophony
Gender ratio Unknown 87.5% male, 12.5% female	Catch rate 45 (11.9%)
Breeding Egg Group Field Hatch time 35 cycles
Height 2'07" 0.8 m Jolteon 0'0" 0 m {{{form2}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form3}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form4}}}	Weight 54.0 lbs. 24.5 kg Jolteon 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form2}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form3}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form4}}}
Mega Stone [[|]] [[|]]
Base experience yield 197 Gen. I-IV Unknown IV 184 V+	Leveling rate Medium Fast
EV yield Total: 2 Jolteon 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   Yellow	Base friendship 70
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

Jolteon (Japanese: サンダース Thunders) is an Electric-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I.

It evolves from Eevee when exposed to a Thunder Stone. It is one of Eevee's final forms, the others being Vaporeon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon, and Sylveon.

Biology

Jolteon is a quadruped, mammalian Pokémon. It is covered in yellow fur with a spiky fringe around its tail and a white ruff around its neck. Its ears are large and pointed with black interiors, and its eyes and small nose are black. It has slender legs and small paws, each with three toes and a pink paw pad.

Jolteon's prickly fur is made of electrically charged needles and generates negatively charged ions, which create a sparking noise as it moves. It also has an electricity generating organ in its lungs. The static electricity in its fur amplifies the low-level electricity generated by its cells and allow it to discharge 10,000-volt lightning bolts. This Pokémon is most often found in cities and towns under the ownership of Trainers. However, its high-strung nature and tendency toward mood swings can make it difficult to train.

In the anime

In the main series

Jolteon in the anime

Major appearances

Jolteon debuted in The Battling Eevee Brothers, under the ownership of Sparky. It was targeted in one of Team Rocket's schemes.

Ethan in Get Along, Little Pokémon, uses his Jolteon as a "sheep dog" of sorts. Whenever any of Ethan's Magnemite tried to escape, Jolteon would use Thunder Wave to lure them back.

A Jolteon in Trouble's Brewing and Espeon, Not Included, belongs to Satsuki, one of the Kimono Sisters. It battled Pikachu and ultimately lost after being hit with Pikachu's Thunder.

In The Eighth Wonder of the Sinnoh World!, Volkner used his Jolteon during his Gym battle with Ash. It was defeated by Infernape.

A male Jolteon appeared in Team Eevee and the Pokémon Rescue Squad!, with an Eevee and their other evolutionary relatives, allunder the ownership of Virgil. He handled several Cryogonal and powered up a generator. In the next episode he appeared in a flashback.

An affectionate Jolteon appeared in Eevee & Friends with an Eevee and its other evolutions, including the newly introduced Sylveon. It tends to shock those it hugs.

A Jolteon appeared in Mystery on a Deserted Island!, where it evolved from one of three Eevee with a Thunder Stone found on the Deserted Island.

A wild Jolteon was summoned to help Ilima's Eevee perform Extreme Evoboost in Turning Heads and Training Hard!. In the Poké Problem segment of the next episode, it saw Ilima and Eevee off.

Minor appearances

Ash battled a Jolteon during the Pokémon League entrance exam in The Ultimate Test.

A Jolteon was controlled by Cassidy and Butch via their Drowzee at Mandarin Island North in Pikachu Re-Volts.

A Jolteon appeared in the Japanese credits of Pikachu's Rescue Adventure.

A Jolteon was affected by a crystal that gave a lake the ability to heal Electric-type Pokémon in As Clear As Crystal.

A Jolteon evolved from an Eevee in Gary's demonstration in Johto Photo Finish.

A Jolteon evolved from an Eevee in Brock's demonstration in A Bite to Remember.

Multiple Jolteon appeared in the opening sequence of Destiny Deoxys.

A Jolteon made a brief cameo appearance in the opening sequence of Giratina and the Sky Warrior together with an Eevee and the other six Eeveelutions, at the time.

A Trainer's Jolteon appeared in a flashback in Flint Sparks the Fire!.

A Jolteon appeared in A Campus Reunion!.

A Jolteon was part of Serena's fantasy in Tag Team Battle Inspiration!, imagining what her Eevee could evolve into.

A Jolteon in a flashback in Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel belonged to Nikola.

A Trainer's Jolteon appeared in I Choose You!.

A Jolteon could be caught during the Pokémon Catch Race in The Power of Us.

A Trainer's Jolteon participated in a Raid Battle against a Lugia in Legend? Go! Friends? Go!.

Pokédex entries

In Pokémon Origins

Jolteon in Pokémon Origins

Red's Jolteon debuted in File 2: Cubone, where it was first sent out to battle a Team Rocket Grunt's Koffing. It eventually defeated the Poison Gas Pokémon with a Thunderbolt, forcing the Grunts to retreat. It then made further appearances in File 3: Giovanni, where it battled Giovanni's Rhyhorn during Red's Gym battle; and File 4: Charizard, where it was used at the Indigo Plateau.

In the manga

Jolteon in The Electric Tale of Pikachu

In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga

A Jolteon belonging to Sparky appeared in To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question!, where it was used to battle Mikey's Eevee in order to see if Mikey was worthy of joining the Knights of the E Stone. Thanks to Ash using a TM to teach Eevee Mimic, it was able to defeat Jolteon by using its own Pin Missile against it, winning the battle for Mikey.

Pokédex entries

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Main article: Vee

In Blame it on Eevee, a mutated Eevee could switch between his evolved forms, one of which is a Jolteon. Red caught him, added him to his team, and nicknamed him Vee. Later, it used the Fire, Water, and Thunder Stones of Vermilion Harbor, which were given to him by Giovanni, to evolve and devolve him freely and faster. Eventually, he lost the ability to devolve after permanently becoming an Espeon, but Red felt more content now that he'd been freed from the pain that Team Rocket's experiments had dealt.

A Jolteon appeared in The Kindest Tentacruel as one of the Pokémon in Yellow's fantasy about evolution via Evolution stone.

A Jolteon appeared in Pleased as Punch With Parasect, under the ownership of a Kimono Girl.

A Jolteon appeared in a fantasy in the X & Y arc.

In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga

A Jolteon appeared in Regain the Deserted Power Plant!.

A Jolteon appeared in Clefairy Evolves... At Last?!.

A Jolteon appeared in Curry Showdown! Which is the Most Delicious? as one of the participants of a curry cooking competition.

Giovanni sent out a Jolteon when he was about to destroy Pallet Town with a missile in Squirtle, the Crybaby Pokémon. It reappeared in Good-Bye, Pikachu?!.

In the Pokémon Zensho manga

A Jolteon appeared in a fantasy in PZ04.

In the TCG

Main article: Jolteon (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

In events

Pokémon Global Link promotions

Held items

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/TR

Generation VIII Other generations: I - II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - IX

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM02 TM02 Pay Day Normal Physical 04040 100}}100% 20 TM07 TM07 Pin Missile Bug Physical 02525 095}}95% 20 TM08 TM08 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150150 090}}90% 5 TM09 TM09 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150150 090}}90% 5 TM14 TM14 Thunder Wave Electric Status 0000— 090}}90% 20 TM15 TM15 Dig Ground Physical 08080 100}}100% 10 TM17 TM17 Light Screen Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TM21 TM21 Rest Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM24 TM24 Snore Normal Special 05050 100}}100% 15 TM25 TM25 Protect Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM29 TM29 Charm Fairy Status 0000— 100}}100% 20 TM31 TM31 Attract Normal Status 0000— 100}}100% 15 TM33 TM33 Rain Dance Water Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM34 TM34 Sunny Day Fire Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM39 TM39 Facade Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 20 TM40 TM40 Swift Normal Special 06060 00—}}—% 20 TM41 TM41 Helping Hand Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM46 TM46 Weather Ball Normal Special 05050 100}}100% 10 TM47 TM47 Fake Tears Dark Status 0000— 100}}100% 20 TM66 TM66 Thunder Fang Electric Physical 06565 095}}95% 15 TM76 TM76 Round Normal Special 06060 100}}100% 15 TM79 TM79 Retaliate Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 5 TM80 TM80 Volt Switch Electric Special 07070 100}}100% 20 TR01 TR01 Body Slam Normal Physical 08585 100}}100% 15 TR08 TR08 Thunderbolt Electric Special 09090 100}}100% 15 TR09 TR09 Thunder Electric Special 110110 070}}70% 10 TR12 TR12 Agility Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TR13 TR13 Focus Energy Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TR20 TR20 Substitute Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR26 TR26 Endure Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR27 TR27 Sleep Talk Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TR29 TR29 Baton Pass Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 40 TR31 TR31 Iron Tail Steel Physical 100100 075}}75% 15 TR33 TR33 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 08080 100}}100% 15 TR42 TR42 Hyper Voice Normal Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TR80 TR80 Electro Ball Electric Special 0000— 100}}100% 10 TR82 TR82 Stored Power Psychic Special 02020 100}}100% 10 TR85 TR85 Work Up Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TR86 TR86 Wild Charge Electric Physical 09090 100}}100% 15

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Jolteon Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Jolteon Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations

By breeding

Generation VIII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - IX

Parent   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  Curse Ghost Status — —% 10 Detect Fighting Status — —% 5 Double Kick Fighting Physical 30 100% 30 Flail Normal Physical — 100% 15 Mud-Slap Ground Special 20 100% 10 Tickle Normal Status — 100% 20 Wish* Normal Status — —% 10 Yawn Normal Status — —% 10

Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Jolteon in Generation VIII 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 Jolteon in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Jolteon Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Jolteon Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations

By tutoring

By a prior evolution

Generation VIII Other generations: I - II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - IX

Stage   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  † Celebrate Normal Status — —% 40

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Jolteon Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Jolteon Click on the generation numbers at the top to see moves from other generations

Side game data

Pokémon Pinball Acquisition: Evolve			Pokémon Trozei! Rarity: Rare
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team Body size: 1 Recruit rate: Evolve Friend Area: Transform Forest Phrases 51%-100% HP I turn negative ions into electricity! 26%-50% HP My HP is down to half. My negative-ion supply is running down. 1%-25% HP It's all over... I'm out of negative ions. Level up I leveled up! I'm brimming with negative ions!
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky Body size: 1 Recruit rate: -12% IQ group: F
Pokémon Ranger Group: Electric Poké Assist: Electric Field move: (Recharge ×3) Loops: 8 Min. exp.: 25 Max. exp.: 25 Browser entry R-185 Jolteon is a key to the Fiore Temple's mystery. It attacks with thunderbolts.
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia Group: Electric Poké Assist: Electric Field move: (Electrify ×3) Browser entry R-099 It attacks by discharging bolts of electricity from all over its body.
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Group: Electric Poké Assist: (present) Electric Field move: (present) (Electrify ×3) Poké Assist: (past) Electric Field move: (past) (Electrify ×1) Browser entry R-077/N-056 It causes thunderbolts to strike that make Pokémon Paused.
Pokémon Rumble Attack ●●●● Defense ●●●● Speed ●●●●●			Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ●●●● Defense ●●●● Speed ●●●●●
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure PokéPark Pad entry: Jolteon lives in the Granite Zone. He's a specialist at Bulbasaur's Daring Dash.
PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond PokéPark Pad entry: He likes cool stuff that makes his heart flutter. He had a fight with Flareon and came to the Arcane Area to cool down.
Pokémon Conquest HP: ★★★ Move: Thunderbolt Attack: ★★★★ Ability 1: Sprint Ability 2: Vanguard Ability 3: Volt Absorb Defense: ★★★ Speed: ★★★★★ Evolves from Eevee when its link is improved while its Warrior is equipped with a Thunderstone Range: 4 Perfect Links: Hero/Heroine
Pokémon Battle Trozei Electric Attack Power: ★★★★★			Pokémon Shuffle Electric Attack Power: 50 - 100 5 #25 Mega Boost Fills the Mega Gauge of a Pokémon of the same type. Swappable Skill(s): Eject+, Hammering Streak
Pokémon GO Base HP: 163 Base Attack: 232 Base Defense: 182 Egg Distance: N/A Buddy Distance: 5 km Evolution Requirement: N/A Fast Attacks: Thunder Shock, Volt Switch* Charged Attacks: Discharge, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Last Resort†

Costumes in Pokémon GO

Flower crown

Evolution

Unevolved Eevee  Normal

Thunder Stone →

First evolution Jolteon  Electric

Sprites

Generation I Red Green Red Blue Yellow Front Back Front Back Front Back

Generation II Gold Silver Crystal Front Back Front Back Front Back

Generation III Ruby Sapphire Emerald FireRed LeafGreen Front Back Front Back Front Back

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 Jolteon images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Jolteon shares its category name with Electrike. They are both known as the Lightning Pokémon.
• Jolteon and Zapdos's Japanese names are almost exactly the same as each other's, with a final s being the only difference.
• Jolteon was designed by Motofumi Fujiwara.^[1]
• Jolteon has the highest base Speed stat of all Eeveelutions.
• Jolteon is tied with Flareon, Vaporeon, and Espeon for the lowest base Defense stat of all Eeveelutions, and tied with Flareon, Espeon, Leafeon, and Glaceon for the lowest base HP stat of all Eeveelutions.

Origin

Jolteon's physical anatomy seems to be primarily based on a herding dog or possibly a fennec fox, with several traits of coyotes. It is also feline-like; its extremely high speed resembles that of a cheetah's. It may also be inspired by the raijū, a beast from Japanese mythology whose body is made of lightning, and may take the form of a cat.

Name origin

Jolteon is a combination of jolt and eon (an immeasurably long period of time, possibly referring to how long evolution takes naturally). Eon is a suffix all Eevee evolutions share and was Eevee's English prototype name.

Thunders is literally thunders (present tense of the verb to thunder).

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese サンダース Thunders From thunders French Voltali From volt. Ends with -li like every Eeveelution in French. Spanish Jolteon Same as English name German Blitza From Blitz. Ends with -a like every Eeveelution in German. Italian Jolteon Same as English name Korean 쥬피썬더 Jupithunder From Jupiter and thunder Mandarin Chinese 雷精靈 / 雷精灵 Léijīnglíng Means "Thunder spirit". Ends with -精靈 / -精灵 like every Eeveelution in Mandarin Cantonese Chinese 雷伊貝 Lèuihyībui Literally "Thunder Eevee". Ends with -伊貝 like every Eeveelution in Cantonese

More languages Hindi जोलटेओं Jolteon Transcription of English name Russian Джолтеон Dzholteon Transcription of English name Thai ธันเดอร์ส Thunders Transcription of trademarked Japanese name

Related articles

• Vee
• Eeveelution

Notes

External links

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