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Parasect パラセクト Parasect #047
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 #047 Johto #071 Hoenn #236 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 3'3" Imperial 1 m Metric 3'3"/1 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 65 lbs. Imperial 29.5 kg Metric 65 lbs./29.5 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Red	Catch rate 75 (9.8%)
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.: 128 Battle Exp.: 1281*
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

Parasect (Japanese: パラセクト Parasect) is a Bug/Grass-type Pokémon.

Biology

Physiology

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Behavior

Habitat

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

In the Anime

Cassandra use a Paras what evolve in EP44

A trainer have a Parasect in Oak`s lab

Parasects lives in Olivine,Tin Tower

Oficer Jenny have a Parasect

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Gold

It stays mostly in dark, damp places, the preference not of the bug, but of the big mushrooms on its back.

Pokémon Emerald

Parasect are known to infest the roots of large trees en masse and drain nutrients. When an infested tree dies, they move onto another tree all at once.

Pokémon LeafGreen

A host-parasite pair in which the parasite mushroom has taken over the host bug. Prefers damp places.

Game locations

In side games

Base stats

Of the first generation Bug Pokemon, Parasect ties with Butterfree, Beedrill and Scyther for the highest base SpDef.

Type effectiveness

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In Generation I, the effectiveness of Poison-type moves is 400.

Learnset

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By leveling up

By TM/HM

Evolution

Trivia

Origin

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

Name origin

Parasect's name is a combination of parasite and insect, referring to the parasitic mushroom on this insect's back.

In other languages

• German: Parasek
• French: Parasect
• Korean: 파라섹트 Parasekteu

External links

• Article on Wikipedia

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