Latias (Pokémon)

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Latias ラティアス Latias #380
Artwork from R/S/E
Type Dragon Psychic Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Eon Pokémon
Ability Levitate Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,250,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto — Hoenn #196 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 4'07" Imperial 1.4 m Metric 4'07"/1.4 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 88.2 lbs. Imperial 40.0 kg Metric 88.2 lbs./40.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Red	Catch rate 3 (0.4%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown 100% female
Breeding Undiscovered group 121 cycles* (30855 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 3 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 211 Battle Exp.: 2111*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Latias (Japanese: ラティアス Latias) is a dual-type Dragon/Psychic legendary Pokémon.

It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.

Biology

Physiology

Latias is a bird-like dragon Pokémon vaguely resembling Lugia. The lower half of her body is red with jet-plane wings and stubby feet that are similar to ones Crobat has. Latias has a blue triangle-shaped ring on her chest that resembles one of the spots Togepi and Togetic have. Latias's white and red arms can be tucked into her body in order to reduce air-resistance when in flight. The upper-half of Latias's body is white. She has triangle-shaped ears and a red face with a white pentagon in the middle.

Gender differences

Latias is a female-only species. Her male counterpart is Latios.

Special abilities

Latias comes with the ability Levitate, which causes Template:Type2 moves to miss. Latias can enfold her body with glass-like down to refract light and alter her appearance. She is highly intelligent and can understand human speech. She can telepathically communicate with others. Latias's Dragon and Psychic typing has given her the ability to wield attacks of many different elements (expect for Fire).

In the movie Pokémon Heroes Latias and Latios also had the ability "Sight Sharing" which allowed Latias and people around her to see exactly what Latios is seeing.

Latias is the only known Pokémon that can learn Mist Ball.

Behavior

Latias will form small herds of several members. They will rarely make contact with people or other Pokémon. If Latias senses hostility towards herself, she will ruffle the feathers all over her body and cry shrilly to intimidate her foe. However, she will usually disappear if she senses an enemy.

Habitat

Latias rarely shows herself to humans, so her location is often found in isolated areas, or in secret havens. However, wherever they do make their homes usually has a body of fresh water.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

In the anime

Latias has had only made one appearance in the anime so far, in the fifth movie, Pokémon Heroes. Latias and her brother, Latios were the targets of Annie and Oakley. Latias assisted Ash in the mission to save Latios.

In the manga

Latias, along with Latios, was befriended by Emerald and took the young Trainer to the Battle Frontier. She has appeared in human form a few times as the saga continues.

In the TCG

Main article: Latias (TCG)

Other appearances

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

After Latias appears from its Poké Ball, she will fly off the stage. She and Latios will then alternately zoom onto the stage with Aerial Ace, damaging any opponent that collides with them. It may also cause movement of items as well.

Game data

NPC appearances

• Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire: If the ball drops out of the Sapphire Field while the "Ball Saver" is active, Latias will rescue it and place it on Spoink without the ball being lost.

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In Pokémon Emerald, the roaming Pokémon is chosen in a sequence immediately after the credits where, after hearing a television report, the player is asked the color of the Pokémon in it. If red is selected, Latias roams Hoenn and Latios is found at the island. If blue is selected, Latias is found at the island and Latios roams Hoenn.

In side games

Held items

Game		Held Item(s)
Ruby	Sapphire	Soul Dew (100%)
Emerald*

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

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By leveling up

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|- style="background:#8D98EC" | colspan="13" | Bold indicates a move that gets STAB
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Side game data

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Evolution

Does not evolve Latias  Dragon  Psychic

Sprites

Gen	Game
I	Red	Blue	Yellow		Red (Ja)	Green	Back
	This Pokémon did not appear during Generation I.
II	Gold	Silver	Crystal				Back
	This Pokémon did not appear during Generation II.
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 Latias images on Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Even though Latias could shapeshift in the anime, it cannot learn Transform.
• Latias and Latios were the first legendary Pokémon to have set genders, or even genders at all.
  • Despite this, they belong to the No eggs Egg Group, and cannot breed.
• Latias is one of the few non-Template:Type2s who can learn Fly. The others are Mew, Smeargle (by Sketch), Vibrava, Flygon, Latios, Giratina, and Arceus (though Arceus can be a Flying-type by holding a Sky Plate).
• Before Generation IV, Latias either resisted or was weak to every type classified as special, taking no neutral hits from any. It shares this trait with Latios.
• Despite being legendary Pokémon, regular battle music is played when Latias and Latios are encountered. They share this trait with Shaymin and Cresselia. However,for Latias and latios, this only applies to when they are encountered in the Hoenn based games, when latios and latias are encountered in Heartgold and Soulsilver, the legendary battle music of Kanto will play.
• In Generation III, Latias had two noticebly different back sprites. Its normal sprite shows it with its hand raised, and its shiny sprite doesn't show its hand. This was corrected in Generation IV.

Origin

Latias appears to be a cross between a jet plane and a dragon, although it and Latios may also draw inspiration from the philosophy of Yin/Yang and psychology of id/ego.

Name origin

It is possible that Latias's name is based on the Latin word lateo, hidden. The -as suffix in its name indicates that it is female, while the -os in Latios indicates that it is male.

In other languages

• German: Latias
• French: Latias
• Korean: 라티아스 Latias
• Chinese: 拉帝亞斯

Related articles

• Latias (movie 5)
• Lati@s

Notes

Legendary Pokémon

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III

Generation IV

Generation V

Generation VI

Generation VII

Generation VIII

Generation IX

See also: Mythical Pokémon

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External links

• Gentle Soul, the approved fanlisting for Latias