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Sableye ヤミラミ Yamirami #302
Artwork from R/S/E
Type Dark Ghost Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Darkness Pokémon
Abilities Keen Eye or Stall Stall Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,059,860
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto #- Hoenn #068 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 24.3 lbs. Imperial 11 kg Metric 24.3 lbs./11 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Purple	Catch rate 45 (5.9%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Humanshape group 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 98 Battle Exp.: 981*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Sableye (Japanese: ヤミラミ Yamirami) is a Dark/Ghost-type Pokémon.

Biology

Physiology

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Behavior

There are old stories that say a Sableye will steal your soul if you look into its eyes. However, evidence suggests that these Pokémon are actually friendly, only playing their infamous tricks on travelers in order to get attention because they become lonely living in dark holes all by themselves.

Habitat

Sableye live in caves and abandoned mines, where they can readily find mineral deposits to eat.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

Sableye usually eat raw gems.

In the anime

Sableye first appeared in Ready, Willing, and Sableye. The Darkness Pokémon was playing tricks on Ash and co.

Cassidy's Sableye debuted in Oaknapped.

Game data

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Ruby

Sableye lead quiet lives deep inside caverns. They are feared, however, because these Pokémon are thought to steal the spirits of people when their eyes burn with a sinister glow in the darkness.

Pokémon Sapphire

Sableye digs the ground with sharpened claws to find rocks that it eats. Substances in the eaten rocks crystallize an rise up to the Pokémon's body surface.

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

It feeds on gemstone crystals. In darkness, its eyes sparkle with the glitter of jewels.

Pokémon Emerald

It digs branching holes in caves using its sharp claws in search of food — raw gems. A Sableye lurks in darkness and is seen only rarely.

Game locations

In side games

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Template:DP type effectiveness

Notes:

1. If a move such as Foresight is used, the effectiveness of Normal and Fighting becomes 100 and 200, respectively.
2. If Miracle Eye is used, the effectiveness of Psychic becomes 100.

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/HM

By breeding

If a male Kadabra that knows Recover breeds with a female Sableye, their child will know Recover.

By tutoring

Special moves

In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Sableye knows Shadow Blitz and Shadow Hold as a Shadow Pokémon, and learns Helping Hand after being purified.

Side game data

Template:Side game

Evolution

Trivia

There are only two Pokémon created so far that are naturally weak to no type, of which Sableye is the first. The other is Spiritomb.

Sableye is the only Generation III Pokémon to have a ruby and a sapphire on it.

Origin

Name origin

Sableye's name is a combination of sable and eye; it may also be a play on the word able-eyed. Its Japanese name may be a combination of 闇 yami, darkness, and 藪睨み yabunirami, a squint.

In other languages

• German: Zobiris
• French: Tenefix

External links

• Article on Wikipedia

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