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Qwilfish ハリーセン Harysen #211
Artwork from G/S/C
Type Water Poison Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Balloon Pokémon
Abilities Poison Point or Swift Swim Swift Swim Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,000,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto #161 Hoenn #354 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 1'8" Imperial 0.5 m Metric 1'8"/0.5 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 8.6 lbs. Imperial 3.9 kg Metric 8.6 lbs./3.9 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Gray	Catch rate 45 (5.9%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Water 2 group 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 100 Battle Exp.: 1001*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Qwilfish (Japanese: ハリーセン Harysen) is a Water/Poison-type Pokémon.

Biology

Physiology

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Behavior

Habitat

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

In the anime

In the manga

In the TCG

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Gold / Pokémon LeafGreen

To fire its poison spikes, it must inflate its body by drinking over 2.6 gallons of water all at once.

Pokémon Silver / Pokémon FireRed

The small spikes covering its body developed from scales. They inject a toxin that causes fainting.

Pokémon Crystal

When faced with a larger opponent, it swallows as much water as it can to match the opponent's size.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

Qwilfish sucks in water, inflating itself. This Pokémon uses the pressure of the water it swallowed to shoot toxic quills all at once from all over its body. It finds swimming somewhat challenging.

Pokémon Emerald

A Qwilfish uses the pressure of water it swallows to shoot toxic quills all at once from all over its body. It finds swimming to be somewhat challenging.

Game locations

In side games

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

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By leveling up

By TM/HM

By breeding

By tutoring

Special moves

Evolution

Trivia

Origin

It is most likely based on a porcupinefish or pufferfish.

Name origin

Qwilfish's name is a combination of quill and fish. Its Japanese name could be a contraction of 針千本 harisenbon, porcupinefish.

An early version of Qwilfish was called Bukū, which is probably a corruption of 河豚 fugu, pufferfish.

In other languages

• German: Baldorfish
• French: Qwilfish
• Korean: 침바루 Chimbaru

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