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Tentacool (Japanese: メノクラゲ Menokurage) is a dual-type Water/Poison Pokémon.
It evolves into Tentacruel starting at level 30.
Biology
Physiology
Tentacool resembles a box jellyfish. It has a light blue, clear body with two large red spots on each side of its body, and one small one in the middle. It has two tentacles laced with stinging cells. This invertebrate can also ooze a poison if threatened.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Behavior
Tentacool often spend their time drifting at sea.
Habitat
Tentacool can be found throughout the ocean, usually congregating in places where warm currents and cold currents come together, and where minerals are plentiful.
Diet
Main article: Pokémon food
In the anime
Tentacool's debut appearance was in Tentacool and Tentacruel.
It also appeared in Friends to the End during Ritchie and Assunta's battle. However, it is unknown who it belonged to.
A school of Tentacool appeared in a flashback in A Cacturne for the Worse. May fears them due to being surrounded by them at one point, and her mother trying to catch her, thinking that she was a Tentacool.
A Tentacool appeared in Up Close and Personable!.
Pokédex entries
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In the manga
Pokémon Special
Tentacool's first appearance is a cameo in Bulbasaur, Come Home! as one of the Pokémon that escapes from Professor Oak's Laboratory.
One of the members of the Pokémon Fan Club in Vermilion City apparently bathes with her Tentacool on a regular basis. She is seen again with her Tentacool in Template:PSV during the Chairman's call out to all Trainers to send their Pokémon to help the fight in Ilex Forest.
In the TCG
- Main article: Tentacool (TCG)
Game data
Pokédex entries
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Game locations
In side games
Game | Location |
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Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire |
Ocean (Sapphire Field) |
Pokémon Trozei! | Secret Storage 1 Secret Storage 13 Endless Level 8 Mr. Who's Den |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue Rescue Team |
Stormy Sea (1F-8F) Silver Trench (1F-9F) Far-off Sea (1F-9F) Marvelous Sea (B1-B9) Fantasy Strait (B1-B9) |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness |
Brine Cave (B6-B9) Lower Brine Cave (B1-B5) |
Held items
Game | Items |
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Gold, Silver, and Crystal | Berry (trade from Generation I) |
Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum | Poison Barb (5%) |
Base stats
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At Lv. 50 | At Lv. 100 | ||
HP: 40
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100 - 147 | 190 - 284 | |
40
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40 - 101 | 76 - 196 | |
35
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36 - 95 | 67 - 185 | |
50
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49 - 112 | 94 - 218 | |
100
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94 - 167 | 184 - 328 | |
70
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67 - 134 | 130 - 262 | |
Total: 335
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Type effectiveness
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Learnset
By leveling up
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By tutoring
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Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only from an evolution of this Pokémon
A colored initial indicates that the move is not available to be tutored in this game,
while a colored background indicates that the move is available.
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TCG-only moves
Side game data
Evolution
Sprites
Gen | Game | ||||||
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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 | ||
Trivia
- Tentacool's prototype English name was "Jilly".
- Tentacool and Tentacruel are in all the regional Pokédexes.
- Tentacool's Red and Blue and Red and Green sprites have much shorter tentacles than other sprites.
- Tentacool and Tentacruel are the only non-genderless Pokémon that get Clear Body.
- Tentacool was the first DP hybrid glitch Pokémon discovered.
Origin
Tentacool is based on a jellyfish. It also shares the same traits of a Ctenophore.
Name origin
Tentacool's name is a combination of tentacle and the adjective cool. Its Japanese name may be a combination of 目の敵 menokataki, enemy, and 水母 kurage, jellyfish.
In other languages
- German: Tentacha
- French: Tentacool
- Korean: 왕눈해 Wangnunhae
- Chinese (Taiwan): 瑪瑙水母 - Literally "Agate jellyfish".
- Chinese (Hong Kong): 大眼水母 - Literally "big eyed jellyfish".
External links
Notes
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