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Snorlax カビゴン Kabigon #143
Artwork from FR/LG
Type Normal ' Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Sleeping Pokémon
Abilities Immunity or Thick Fat Thick Fat Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,250,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #143 Johto #230 Hoenn #298 Sinnoh #113 Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 6'11" Imperial 2.1 m Metric 6'11"/2.1 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 1014.1 lbs. Imperial 460.0 kg Metric 1014.1 lbs./460.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Black	Catch rate 25 (3.3%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown 87.5% male, 12.5% female
Breeding Monster group 41 cycles (10455 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 2 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 154 Battle Exp.: 1541*
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

Snorlax (Japanese: カビゴン Kabigon) is a Template:Type2 Pokémon.

It evolves from Munchlax via Happiness.

In the Generation I and II games and their remakes, wild Snorlax can be found sleeping in inconvenient locations throughout Kanto. In order to catch one, a trainer must first awaken it with music from either a Poké Flute^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.} or PokéGear^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.}.

Biology

Physiology

Snorlax's body is composed of mostly its belly, where most of its fat reserves accumulate. It wakes up only to eat and seldom exercises. Its head is also large, and it has two pointed teeth sticking out. Its feet, with three claws and a circular brown paw pad, are extremely large compared to most Pokémon, assisting its balance when it chooses to stand. Its arms and foreclaws are short, but are long enough for Snorlax to grab its food and eat it, and strong enough to deliver powerful blows. It is usually dark blue or green in color.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

When trained and exercised properly, Snorlax can gain supreme strength and ability. They can throw incredibly powerful punches and cause immense earthquakes.

Behavior

Snorlax spend the majority of their time sleeping, surviving on their stored fat. Many Snorlax only awaken once a month, spending their waking time finding more food. A hungry Snorlax isn't satisfied until it consumes 900 pounds of food, and then it goes back to sleep. If one ever sees a sleeping Snorlax, he or she should not wake it up, because these Pokémon become very grumpy if their peaceful dreams become interrupted. Several Template:Type2 Pokémon using Dream Eater find this out the hard way.

Habitat

Snorlax are often in mountains and forests. However, they sometimes wander into towns and streets and sleep there.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

Snorlax is not very picky, and will eat anything and everything that is edible. They are fond of large, thorny vines or their diet may compose of bananas found in grasslands. Snorlax must eat 900 pounds of food each day.

In the anime

Major appearances

Ash's Snorlax

In Snack Attack!, a Snorlax was eating the grapefuits of the Grapefruit Islands. Ash managed to capture it near the end of the episode. After the adventures in the Orange Islands, Ash's Snorlax spent most of its time at Professor Oak's lab.

Other

Snorlax first appeared in Wake Up Snorlax!. This Snorlax was blocking the water flow to a small village.

In The Garden of Eatin', another Snorlax was causing trouble for a man named Marcel by eating the bananas in his Slakoth Banana Garden. Marcel's newly evolved Vigoroth defeated the Snorlax, allowing him to capture it. Afterwards, Marcel made an attraction around his new Snorlax: a relaxation room.

Minor appearances

Training Daze featured a red Snorlax which Jessie, James, and Meowth, while competing with Butch, Cassidy, and TRRaticate ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]), were sent to steal in order to become official Team Rocket field agents. The Snorlax turned out to be Viper, the Team Rocket Academy Drill Sergeant in disguise.

In Lights, Camerupt, Action, a Snorlax was a sheriff in a western-themed Pokémon movie.

A Snorlax also appeared near the end of Destiny Deoxys, evolving from Munchlax in order to stay afloat during a 'flood' of malfunctioning robots.

In Queen of the Serpentine, a Snorlax made a cameo as one of Lucy's pets.

Roman, who appeared in A Full Course Tag Battle!, owns a Snorlax.

A Snorlax also appeared in the Pikachu short Pikachu and Pichu.

A Snorlax appeared in Challenging a Towering Figure!.

Another will appear in DP160.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

Red caught a Snorlax on Cycling Road.

In the TCG

Main article: Snorlax (TCG)

Other appearances

Super Smash Bros.

When released from a Poké Ball, Snorlax will ascend into the air before descending over a large area of the screen with a Body Slam that sends any opponent underneath flying.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Snorlax does the same maneuver as it did in the previous game, but covers a smaller area.

Snorlax is also a Poké Float. It is lying down asleep and so fighting occurs on its head and belly.

Trophy information

Snorlax love to sleep and love to eat: these portly Pokémon get grumpy if they don't get 888 pounds of food per day. After snacking out, they always nap. They have cast-iron stomachs and can eat moldy and even rotten food with no digestion problems. They are the heaviest Pokémon on record, weighing in at over 1,000 pounds.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Snorlax once again performs the same maneuver as the previous games.

Game data

NPC appearances

• Pokémon Ranger: Snorlax will be seen sleeping throughout the game, effectively cutting off certain areas until later on. It will eventually remain in a cave in the Sekra Mountain Range. Once the rest of the Ranger Browser has been completed, it will wake up and can be captured.

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Held items

Game		Held Item(s)
Red*	Blue*	Leftovers (100%)
Yellow*
Gold	Silver	Leftovers (33%)
Crystal
Pokémon XD		Leftovers (100%)
FireRed	LeafGreen	Chesto Berry (100%)
Diamond	Pearl	Leftovers (100%)
Platinum

Stats

Base stats

Pokéthlon stats

Type effectiveness

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Learnset

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By leveling up

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Special moves

Side game data

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Evolution

Baby form Munchlax  Normal

Friendship → ← Breed holding Full Incense

First evolution Snorlax  Normal

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 Snorlax images on Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Until Generation III, Snorlax was the heaviest Pokémon. It was later out-massed by both Metagross and Groudon. In Generation IV, Dialga and both forms of Giratina are heavier than it as well, setting it back to its present state of the sixth-heaviest Pokémon known.
• Snorlax has the fifth highest base HP of all Pokémon, after Blissey, Chansey, Wobbuffet, and Wailord, in that order.
• Snorlax could learn or know the move Headbutt from Generation I to Generation III, but can't naturally learn it as of Generation IV.
• Unusually, in Pokémon Stadium (and later 3D games), Snorlax open their eyes when they faint. Also, when they use special attacks, they stand up.
• In Pokémon Snap, when using the Pokéflute it stands up and dances to the music.
• At 110, Snorlax and Dodrio have the highest base Attack stat of all Generation I Normal-types.
• In Generations I to III, Snorlax could learn Hyper Beam by leveling up. However, in Generation IV, possibly due to the Physical/Special split, Snorlax can no longer learn it by leveling up and instead can learn Giga Impact, Hyper Beam's physical variant, possibly referencing its large body mass.
• Though Snorlax appears to be dark blue or green in color, it belongs to the black color group.
• Snorlax is the heaviest Pokémon that can legally hatch from an egg.
• As mentioned above, a red Snorlax appeared in H012. While red isn't the alternate coloration for Snorlax, it had a reddish tinge in the main series Generation I games.
• Snorlax's HGSS sprite is almost identical to it's Generation III stock art.

Origin

It may be loosely based on hibernating bears or teddy bears.

Some speculate that the "Totoro" from the movie, My Neighbor Totoro, was partly the basis for Snorlax, with the chibi version being the basis for Munchlax.

Name origin

Snorlax's name is a combination of snore and lax. The lax in its name might also come from relax. Its Japanese name may come from an alternate reading of sleep, 寐 bi, and a corruption of 鼾酔 kansui, snoring, or 憩う ikou, rest. It may also incorporate mold, 黴 kabi, noting the fact that Snorlax will eat anything, even moldy food. 잠만보 is derived from "Sleepy-head".

In other languages

• German: Relaxo - From relax.
• French: Ronflex - From ronfler (snore).
• Korean: 잠만보 Jammanbo
• Chinese: 卡比兽

Related articles

• Ash's Snorlax

Notes

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