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Porygon ポリゴン Porygon #137
Artwork from FR/LG
Type Normal ' Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Virtual Pokémon
Abilities Trace or Download Download Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,000,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #137 Johto #215 Hoenn #292 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 2′07″ Imperial 0.8 m Metric 2′07″/0.8 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 80.5 lbs. Imperial 36.5 kg Metric 80.5 lbs./36.5 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Pink	Catch rate 45 (5.9%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Mineral group 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 130 Battle Exp.: 1301*
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

Porygon (Japanese: ポリゴン Porygon) is a Normal-type Pokémon best known for its ability to change shape at will to fit its needs, shared only with Ditto.

Biology

Physiology

Porygon is the first artificial Pokémon that was ever created. Porygon has a pink polygonal body with a blue stomach, blue triangular prism feet and a blue rectangular prism tail. Porygon has a pink, polygonal head that ends in a blue beak and has hexagon eyes. It does not breathe. Porygon is made completely out of programming code. Built into this code is a Silph copyright protection preventing duplication through electronic means.

Gender differences

Porygon is a genderless species.

Special abilities

In Generation I, Porygon's move, Conversion, alters its own type to its opponent's type.

Porygon is capable of using various Ice and Electrical attacks, along with a few Psychic abilities, the rare ability to wield Tri-Attack and the one-of-a-kind ability to use Sharpen.

Even though Porygon is an unevolved and non-legendary Pokémon, it can learn Hyper Beam and Giga Impact.

Behavior

Habitat

Porygon, because they're man-made, are generally found in computers or in labs and other buildings working with people, which makes it almost uncatchable. However, Porygon are found wild in Sinnoh's Trophy Garden.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

Porygon is completely artificial and doesn't need to eat. However, it is still seen eating Pokémon food in Pokémon Snap.

In the anime

Porygon has only appeared in the scandal episode, Electric Soldier Porygon. This episode caused seizures to almost 700 children in Japan due to a flashing strobe effect, and was therefore never aired again anywhere in the world. Since then, Porygon and its evolutions have never appeared in another episode.

A Porygon made a cameo during the "World of Pokémon" opening narration of the first five movies.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Special manga

Green obtains a Porygon during his time in Celadon City, and it has since then become a core member of his team. Prior to Template:PSV, it has evolved into Porygon2.

In the TCG

Main article: Porygon (TCG)

Other appearances

Super Smash Bros.

Porygon pops out of a garage door on top of a building in the Saffron City stage.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Porygon is a Pokéfloat. When the fighting is on Slowpoke's tail, three will travel across the top of the screen. However, they move too quickly to land on and so are little more than decoration in practice.

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Porygon will not appear in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team until a rescue mission involving it has been completed, using the following Wonder Mail code:

1 ? 5 8 T 5 + ? 4 J 7 8

W S ? 7 F ? ? R N Q ? X

Objective: Rescue Porygon on floor 4 of Thunderwave Cave.

Base stats

Type effectiveness

The numbers written above are correct if Porygon hasn't changed its type using Conversion or Conversion2.

Learnset

Template:Learnset intro

By leveling up

By TM/HM

TCG-only Moves

• Peck
• Confuse Ray

Side game data

Template:Side game

Evolution

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 Porygon images on Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Porygon is the only Pokémon that evolves by trade twice: Once holding the Up-Grade into Porygon2, and a second time (as Porygon2) into Porygon-Z when holding a Dubious Disc.

• Electric Soldier Porygon, which featured Porygon, caused seizures and irritated eyes. It was not Porygon itself, but Pikachu's Thunderbolt which caused the problematic blue and red flash - even so, neither Porygon nor its evolutions have been seen in the anime since, except for the intro to one of the movies.

• Porygon is the only Pokémon who evolves into a smaller Pokémon, then evolves into a larger Pokémon

• Despite being "copy protected" by Silph Co., Porygon can be bred, and of course, be cloned.

• Porygon's evolutionary line is the only three-stage evolutionary line that has all three knowing Giga Impact and Hyper Beam.

• Porygon have three signature moves, along with its evolved forms and Vespiquen, the most out of all Pokémon.

Origin

It appears to be based on the concept of an origami crane made with primitive 3D graphics software.

Name origin

Porygon's name is a mix between polygon and origami.

In other languages

• German: Porygon
• French: Porygon
• Korean: 폴리곤 Polligon

Related articles

• Porygon (Team Rocket)

External links

• Article on Wikipedia

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