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Paras パラス Paras #046
Artwork from FR/LG
Type Bug Grass Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Mushroom Pokémon
Ability Effect Spore Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,000,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #046 Johto #070 Hoenn #235 Sinnoh Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "?". Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 0'0" Imperial 0.0 m Metric 0'0"/0.0 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 0.0 lbs. Imperial 0.0 kg Metric 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Unknown	Catch rate 190 (24.8%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Bug and Plant groups 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 70 Battle Exp.: 701*
External links {{Links/{{{generation}}}|pokefordex=paras|ndex=046|name=Paras }}

Paras (Japanese: パラス Paras) is a Bug/Grass-type Pokémon.

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Red and Blue

Burrows to suck tree roots. The mushrooms on its back grow by drawing nutrients from the bug host.

Pokémon Yellow

Burrows under the ground to gnaw on tree roots. The mushrooms on its back absorb most of the nutrition.

Pokémon Stadium

Grows by sucking nutrients from the roots of trees. The mushrooms on its back grow by drawing nutrients from the bug host.

Pokémon Gold

It is doused with mushroom spores when it is born. As its body grows, mushrooms sprout from its back.

Pokémon Silver

As its body grows large, oriental mushrooms called tochukaso start sprouting out of its back.

Pokémon Crystal

The tochukaso growing on this Pokémon's back orders it to extract juice from tree trunks.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

Paras has parasitic mushrooms growing on its back called tochukaso. They grow large by drawing nuitrients from this Bug Pokémon host. They are highly valued as a medicine for extending life.

Pokémon Emerald

A Paras has parasitic tochukaso mushrooms growing on its back. They grow by drawing nutrients from the host. They are valued as a medicine for long life.

Pokémon FireRed

Growing out of the bug's back are mushrooms called tochukaso. The mushrooms grow with the bug host.

Pokémon LeafGreen

Burrows to suck tree roots. The mushrooms on its back grow by drawing nutrients from the bug host.

Name origin

Paras's name is a shortening of the word parasite, referring to the parasitic mushrooms growing on its back.

There are many forms of fungus that grow on insects, any one of which could have inspired Paras's design, like the entomophthora muscae, which grows on the back of the common housefly.

Paras's name was originally "Parasyte".

Base stats

Type effectiveness

RBY

Later versions

Learnset

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By leveling up

By TM/HM

Special Moves

In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Paras knows Shadow Blitz and Shadow Shed as a Shadow Pokémon, and learns Refresh after being purified.

Evolution

In other languages

• German: Paras
• French: Paras
• Korean: 파라스 Paraseu

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