Terapagos (Pokémon)

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Terapagos Tera Pokémon テラパゴス Terapagos #1024 Normal Form Terastal Form Stellar Form Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Normal Unknown Unknown Unknown Terastal Form Unknown Unknown Stellar Form Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Abilities Tera Shift Normal Form Tera Shell Terastal Form Teraform Zero Stellar Form Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Terastal Form Cacophony Stellar Form
Gender ratio Unknown 50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 255 (43.9%)
Breeding Egg Group No Eggs Discovered Hatch time 5 cycles Egg not obtainable
Height 0'08" 0.2 m Normal Form 1'00" 0.3 m Terastal Form 5'07" 1.7 m Stellar Form 0'0" 0 m {{{form4}}}	Weight 14.3 lbs. 6.5 kg Normal Form 35.3 lbs. 16.0 kg Terastal Form 169.8 lbs. 77.0 kg Stellar Form 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form4}}}
Mega Stone [[|]] [[|]]
Base experience yield Unknown Gen. IV Unknown IV 90	Leveling rate Slow
EV yield Total: 1-4 Normal Form 0 HP 0 Atk 1 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed Terastal Form 0 HP 0 Atk 2 Def 0 Sp.Atk 2 Sp.Def 0 Speed Stellar Form 3 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape Other forms may have other shapes.	Footprint Terastal Form
Pokédex color   Blue	Base friendship 50
External Links On Smogon Pokédex Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Terapagos (Japanese: テラパゴス Terapagos) is a Normal-type Legendary Pokémon introduced during Generation IX, in The Indigo Disk expansion.

While it is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon, Terapagos has three forms: Normal Form, Terastal Form, and Stellar Form. When it enters a battle, it changes from its Normal Form into its Terastal Form through its Tera Shift Ability, and transforms into its Stellar Form when Terastallizing.

Terastal Form Terapagos is the game mascot of The Indigo Disk, appearing in The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero.

Terapagos plays an important role in Pokémon Horizons: The Series.

Biology

Terapagos in its dormant state

In its Normal Form, Terapagos is a small reptilian Pokémon that resembles an indigo tortoise. Its head, legs, and tail stem from a cyan, hexagonal shell with the Terastal symbol on its back: a white hexagon with triangular extensions on each corner that connects it to the edges of its back. Its neck and legs each have a cyan star and ring rub, its feet each have three toes, and its tail is indigo with a cyan four-pointed star at the tip. It has two light blue eyes with rouge rimming and star-shaped pupils. It has a diamond-like pattern on its forehead and two diamonds hanging like earrings on both sides of its head. Finally, it has a "ponytail" made up of three segments of diamond-like shapes. The segments reduce in size as they get farther from the head and gain a purplish tint to them.

Normal Form Terapagos's protective shield

Normal Form Terapagos is said to have a splendid aura. It is a small and particularly weak Pokémon, but it has the ability to crystallize the energy in its body to form a protective shield around itself when necessary. It is also capable of assuming a dormant state when it needs to slumber or when its life is in danger, pulling its head, limbs, and tail into its shell and shrinking in size, which makes itself look like an ordinary jewel.^[1] This species is seemingly able to live for millions of years while slumbering within its crystal shell. Terapagos inhabited the Paldea region in a bygone era. It was thought that this species went extinct, having been caught up in seismic shifts that occurred about 2,000,000 years ago. However, one specific Terapagos managed to survive by crystallizing its own body and going into hibernation in the Area Zero Underdepths, where it laid low until the present day.​^[2] Terapagos assumes Normal Form when not battling and moving around.

Normal Form Terapagos's timeline-altering mist

Heath is the one who discovered Terapagos and coined its name.^[3] Professor Sada^S/Professor Turo^V did research on this Pokémon while in Area Zero. Terapagos appears to naturally cause Tera Crystals to grow around it as it slumbers, which gave Area Zero the distinctive appearance it possesses. It is also heavily implied that Terapagos's crystals caused some Pokémon to be born in Area Zero Underdepths, these being Carbink, Glimmet, and Glimmora.^{[citation needed]} For a long time, many thought Terapagos was fake and that Heath had made it up, but Briar proved its existence by writing her own book, detailing the expedition she, Carmine, Kieran, and the player had in the Area Zero Underdepths.

The Area Zero journals and the Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V imply that Terapagos is responsible for the Terastal phenomenon, which is ultimately confirmed to be the case in the Pokédex. Terapagos also has the ability to alter timelines in some capacity, as seen both in the games and the anime, and is able to bring humans and objects from either other points in the Pokémon world's timeline or other timelines altogether to the point in time and space it currently is. When using its timeline-altering powers, a mist appears around the affected area; once it disappears, whatever was brought is sent back. However, the true limits of this power are currently unknown, but seems to affect humans and objects differently, as the player was able to keep the copy of the Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V owned by the professor after the encounter at Kitakami's Crystal Pool. Due to the Terastal energy it produces, Terapagos appears to have some sort of connection to the Paradox Pokémon and is implied to be responsible for allowing advanced technologies, such as the professor's sophisticated AI or the "time machine", to exist in spite of human limitations.

Terapagos can give a Tera Orb the ability to Terastallize Pokémon with no charging drawbacks.^[4] Terapagos is also the source and creator of the Stellar Tera Type, a unique type that contains the powers of each type.^[5] Unlike other Pokémon, it will always receive the full benefits of the Stellar Tera Type, even outside of Tera Raid Battles.

Terapagos is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move Tera Starstorm. Its Normal Form is also the only known Pokémon that can have Tera Shift as an Ability. Its Tera Type is fixed as Stellar and cannot be changed at the Treasure Eatery.

Forms

Terapagos has three forms: Normal Form, Terastal Form, and Stellar Form. Terapagos is capable of floating in its Terastal and Stellar forms.

Normal Form	Terastal Form	Stellar Form

Terastal Form Terapagos

The type icons morphing on Terastal Form Terapagos's shell

Terastal Form Terapagos transforming while using Water Pulse

In its Terastal Form, Terapagos is a reptilian Pokémon that resembles an indigo sea turtle. It now has two patches of voluminous, shiny fur: one near its head and the other where its star-tipped tail used to be, vaguely forming three separate tails. The color of its fur varies between a greenish yellow and sky blue. Its hind legs have been fully covered by the fur, while only the toes of its front legs are visible, barely poking out of the mane. The eyes remain unchanged from the Normal Form's ones, but they are seen gleaming with the same hue as the fur. The diamond-shaped earrings and ponytail seem to have merged with Terapagos's head.

Terapagos's shell is composed of crystallized Terastal energy, with 18 irregular pentagons on its surface, each decorated with symbols of varying shapes and colors in a way to resemble the 18 types. The symbols morph back and forth to abstract shapes. On the center of its shell is a cyan, hexagonal protrusion adorned with the Terastal symbol, much like the small body of Normal Form Terapagos. The sides of its shell also have three obtuse pentagons each on the rim of the shell that are a solid light blue color. Kieran assumes Terapagos's Terastal Form is its true form; this, however, is currently unproven. In this form, it is known as "The Indigo Disk" due to its color and shape.

Terapagos enters its Terastal Form when it is either in danger or about to battle. It can absorb the Terastal energy created within its body in order to produce crystallized Terastal energy and clad itself in a larger, sturdier shell, thus transforming into its Terastal Form. Its shell holds the power of every type, allowing it to temporarily distort type matchups and render all damage-dealing moves as ineffective.^[6] The shell then absorbs the move's energy and transfers it back to Terapagos. When using specific beam-like moves, Terapagos withdraws its hands into its shell, shapes its mane in a way it resembles its three tails, flies up, and shoots the beam from the gem in the center of its shell.

Terastal Form Terapagos is the only known Pokémon that can have Tera Shell as an Ability.

Stellar Form Terapagos

Stellar Form Terapagos transforming while using Meteor Beam

In its Stellar Form, Terapagos glows with power and is fully coated by Terastal energy. Its true body is virtually identical to Terastal Form Terapagos and is seen floating above a dome-shaped energy field. The gem on the center of Terastal Form's shell has expanded outward into the shape of a crown bejeweled with rhombuses of varying colors. Atop of the crown-like structure lays a miniature version of Normal Form Terapagos and, above it, the Terastal symbol. Hexagonal gems orbit around Stellar Form Terapagos, each representing one of the 18 types and bearing their respective icons and colors. This form is said to resemble the world as ancient humans saw it. In his journal, Heath described it as looking like a planet floating in space. In this form, it is also known as "The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" due to its status as the secret treasure that was sought by the Paldean empire.

This form is achieved when its Terastal Form is exposed to a Tera Orb.^[7] Terapagos has taken this form at least three times through history: in ancient times, during the Area Zero Expeditions (around 200 years ago), and in the present time. Terapagos is said to be at full power in this form. Its Terastal energy becomes so abnormally amplified that it actually appears to lose control and lash out due to its energy output. Due to having so much power in this form, it also risks causing havoc to Paldea's ecosystem. While in this form, Terapagos was shown to resist going back into even the most powerful of Poké Balls, the Master Ball, destroying it in the process.

Stellar Form Terapagos is capable absorbing Terastal energy from other Terastallized Pokémon, causing their Terastallized state to be undone earlier than intended. With it, it can create multiple Tera Shields and even change its type amidst battle, but seems to be limited to only three times per battle. The hidden power within Stellar Form Terapagos is capable of reducing to zero all effects of weather and terrain. It has shown to be able of shooting huge beams of pure Terastal energy at its foes. When using specific beam-like moves, Stellar Form Terapagos will use all of its hexagonal gems in a certain formation to shoot the beam from it.

Stellar Form Terapagos is the only known Pokémon that can have Teraform Zero as an Ability.

In the anime

Normal Form Terapagos in the anime

Terastal Form Terapagos in the anime

Major appearances

Terapagos (anime)

Normal Form Terapagos debuted in The Pendant That Starts It All: Part Two, where it was revealed that Liko's pendant is actually its dormant form. It briefly awakened again in The Future I Choose!. In HZ023, it awakened permanently and is currently traveling with the Rising Volt Tacklers. It first transformed into its Terastal Form in HZ033.

Minor appearances

In the manga

Normal Form Terapagos in Pocket Monsters ~The Detouring Volt Tacklers!!~

Pocket Monsters ~ Liko's Treasure ~

Main article: Terapagos (anime)

Normal Form Terapagos appeared in PMLT02, playing the same role as it does in the anime.

Pocket Monsters ~Pucchigumi SP~

Main article: Terapagos (anime)

Terapagos appeared in both chapters of Pocket Monsters ~Pucchigumi SP~, playing the same role as it does in the anime.

Pocket Monsters ~The Detouring Volt Tacklers!!~

Main article: Terapagos (anime)

Terapagos appeared in DVT05, alongside Liko.

In the TCG

Main article: Terapagos (TCG)

Game data

Terapagos in The Indigo Disk

NPC appearances

Main article: Terapagos (game)

• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk: Terapagos is a major character and boss in the games.

Pokédex entries

Terapagos in the Blueberry Pokédex

Game locations

In side games

Held items

Stats

Base stats

Normal Form

Terastal Form

Stellar Form

Type effectiveness

Learnset

Terapagos is available in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Version 3.0.0+.

By leveling up

By TM

Generation IX Other generations: None

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM001 TM001 Take Down Normal Physical 09090 085}}85% 20 TM007 TM007 Protect Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM011 TM011 Water Pulse Water Special 06060 100}}100% 20 TM025 TM025 Facade Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 20 TM041 TM041 Stored Power Psychic Special 02020 100}}100% 10 TM047 TM047 Endure Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM049 TM049 Sunny Day Fire Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM050 TM050 Rain Dance Water Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM059 TM059 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 08080 090}}90% 15 TM066 TM066 Body Slam Normal Physical 08585 100}}100% 15 TM070 TM070 Sleep Talk Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM079 TM079 Dazzling Gleam Fairy Special 08080 100}}100% 10 TM085 TM085 Rest Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM086 TM086 Rock Slide Rock Physical 07575 090}}90% 10 TM089 TM089 Body Press Fighting Physical 08080 100}}100% 10 TM093 TM093 Flash Cannon Steel Special 08080 100}}100% 10 TM094 TM094 Dark Pulse Dark Special 08080 100}}100% 15 TM099 TM099 Iron Head Steel Physical 08080 100}}100% 15 TM101 TM101 Power Gem Rock Special 08080 100}}100% 20 TM103 TM103 Substitute Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM108 TM108 Crunch Dark Physical 08080 100}}100% 15 TM112 TM112 Aura Sphere Fighting Special 08080 00—}}—% 20 TM115 TM115 Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 08585 100}}100% 10 TM116 TM116 Stealth Rock Rock Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM119 TM119 Energy Ball Grass Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM121 TM121 Heavy Slam Steel Physical 0000— 100}}100% 10 TM123 TM123 Surf Water Special 09090 100}}100% 15 TM124 TM124 Ice Spinner Ice Physical 08080 100}}100% 15 TM125 TM125 Flamethrower Fire Special 09090 100}}100% 15 TM126 TM126 Thunderbolt Electric Special 09090 100}}100% 15 TM129 TM129 Calm Mind Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM133 TM133 Earth Power Ground Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM135 TM135 Ice Beam Ice Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM147 TM147 Wild Charge Electric Physical 09090 100}}100% 15 TM149 TM149 Earthquake Ground Physical 100100 100}}100% 10 TM150 TM150 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100100 080}}80% 5 TM152 TM152 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150150 090}}90% 5 TM162 TM162 Bug Buzz Bug Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM163 TM163 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150150 090}}90% 5 TM165 TM165 Flare Blitz Fire Physical 120120 100}}100% 15 TM166 TM166 Thunder Electric Special 110110 070}}70% 10 TM168 TM168 Solar Beam Grass Special 120120 100}}100% 10 TM172 TM172 Roar Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM175 TM175 Toxic Poison Status 0000— 090}}90% 10 TM178 TM178 Gravity Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM180 TM180 Gyro Ball Steel Physical 0000— 100}}100% 5 TM189 TM189 Heat Crash Fire Physical 0000— 100}}100% 10 TM193 TM193 Weather Ball Normal Special 05050 100}}100% 10 TM204 TM204 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120120 100}}100% 15 TM210 TM210 Supercell Slam Electric Physical 100100 095}}95% 15 TM215 TM215 Scorching Sands Ground Special 07070 100}}100% 10 TM220 TM220 Meteor Beam Rock Special 120120 090}}90% 10

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Terapagos Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution or an alternate form of Terapagos

By breeding

Side game data

Normal Form

Terastal Form

Stellar Form

Form data

Outside of battle, Terapagos is always in its Normal Form. When it enters a battle for the first time, it changes from its Normal Form into its Terastal Form through its signature Ability Tera Shift and will never change back to Normal Form until the battle ends, even if it faints. Terastal Form Terapagos also has Tera Shift replaced by its other signature Ability, Tera Shell. If Terapagos Terastallizes during a battle, it transforms into its Stellar Form, where Tera Shell is replaced by its third signature Ability, Teraform Zero. Its signature move Tera Starstorm also changes from Normal- to Stellar-type and targets both opponents in a Double Battle.

Terapagos cannot have its Tera Type changed from Stellar at the Treasure Eatery.

Default form Normal Form Terapagos  Normal

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Activates Tera Shift Terastal Form Terapagos  Normal

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Terastallization Stellar Form Terapagos  Normal

Evolution data

Unevolved Terapagos  Normal

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IX.
Cross-Generation HOME

For other sprites and images, please see Terapagos images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Music

This is a list of music associated with Terapagos in the Pokémon games.

Trivia

Stellar Form Terapagos Sketch in the Scarlet/Violet Books

• Before the official reveal of Terapagos, a sketch of its Stellar Form appeared in the Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V, drawn by Heath in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
• Terapagos has several similarities to Eternatus. Both are Legendary Pokémon that are responsible for the special type of transformation (Dynamax/Gigantamax and Terastallization) found within their respective origin regions (Galar and Paldea) after entering a state of dormancy sometime in the distant past. They also both have transformations exclusive to them related to these phenomena increasing their stats (Eternatus's Eternamax form and Terapagos's Stellar Form, though the former is unobtainable) and can absorb the energy needed to use these transformations from other Pokémon, thereby rendering them unavailable. Both of them were also introduced in a game which would receive DLC and whose game mascots comprise a Legendary duo.
• In the closed captions of the initial TV Tokyo broadcast of HZ023, Terapagos was mistakenly referred to as コダイカメ Kodaikame (from 古代亀 kodaikame, literally "ancient turtle").^[8][9]
  • In the files for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Terapagos is internally referred to as "kodaikame", which, coupled with the anime's mistake, implies that this may have been its prototype name.
• Terapagos is the only Pokémon with an EV yield total of more than three, with its Terastal Form having a total of four.
  • Terapagos is also the only Pokémon with a different EV yield total between each of its forms, with Normal having one, Terastal having four, and Stellar having three.
• While Terapagos as a species has a 50-50 gender ratio, the only Terapagos encounter is set to always be male. Because of this, a female Terapagos cannot currently be legitimately obtained.
• Terapagos cannot have its Tera Type be changed under normal circumstances in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. If the game is modified to force Terapagos to have a different Tera Type, the game will lag significantly while Terastallizing; however, unlike with Ogerpon, the game will not softlock. Illusion will also not work if either Terapagos or the Pokémon with said ability Terastallize.
• Terapagos is the only Pokémon in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that is able to learn moves through TMs, but cannot learn Tera Blast (despite the move using Terastal energy, which Terapagos is responsible for creating).
• Terapagos's cry is almost identical to the sound that is made when a Pokémon Terastallizes.
  • The cry also incorporates the leitmotif commonly associated in-game with Area Zero, Terapagos's habitat. It is more easily distinguished when the cry is played at slower speed.
• Normal Form Terapagos is tied with Azurill and Shroodle for the shortest Normal-type Pokémon.
• Terapagos is the only Pokémon to have three signature Abilities.

Origin

Terapagos may be based on a sea turtle, specifically the Galápagos green turtle, a population of green sea turtles found around the Galápagos Islands. It, especially in its Normal Form, may also be based on the Galápagos tortoise; in particular, it may be inspired by Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island Tortoise (a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise), as Terapagos is said to be extinct aside from a lone male survivor. The Terastal Form's hairy appearance may be a reference to Japanese legends of the minogame, a turtle which lived for 10,000 years and grew a tail made of seaweed.

Terapagos, especially in its Stellar Form, may also reference the World Turtle, a mythical turtle found in various mythologies that was said to carry the world upon its back. This connection is furthered by the Stellar Form's Pokédex entries, which state that it resembles "the world as the ancients saw it" and "a planet floating in space". By extension, Terapagos's Stellar Form may be a reference to the expression "turtles all the way down", as it has a crystal in the shape of its Normal Form above its shell, and it floats on top of a larger dome shaped like a turtle shell. The expression "turtles all the way down" refers to the idea that the World Turtle rests on the back of a larger turtle, and that turtle rests on the back of an even larger turtle, and so on.

The tessellation on Terapagos's shell contains type icons and could be based on the unique pattern on the back of the diamondback terrapin.

Terapagos's crystalline composition may also take inspiration from chitons, marine mollusks with flat disk-shaped bodies and eye-like peripherals composed of rock.

Name origin

Terapagos may be a combination of Terastal, terrapin, and galápagos (a Spanish word for turtles, most recognizable because of the Galápagos Islands).

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese テラパゴス Terapagos From Terastal, terrapin, and galápagos or Galápagos Islands French Terapagos Same as English/Japanese name Spanish Terapagos Same as English/Japanese name German Terapagos Same as English/Japanese name Italian Terapagos Same as English/Japanese name Korean 테라파고스 Terapagoseu Transcription of Japanese name Mandarin Chinese 太樂巴戈斯 / 太乐巴戈斯 Tàilèbāgēsī Transcription of the Japanese name and 太晶化 Tàijīnghuà Cantonese Chinese 太樂巴戈斯 Taailohkbāgwōsī Transcription of the Japanese name and 太晶化 Taaijīngfa

More languages

Normal Form

Language Title Japanese ノーマルフォルム Normal Forme Chinese Cantonese 普通形態 Póutūng Yìhngtaai Mandarin 普通形態 / 普通形态 Pǔtōng Xíngtài French Forme Normale German Normalform Italian Forma Normale Korean 노말폼 Normal Forme Spanish Forma Normal

Terastal Form

Language Title Japanese テラスタルフォルム Terastal Forme Chinese Cantonese 太晶形態 Taaijīng Yìhngtaai Mandarin 太晶形態 / 太晶形态 Tàijīng Xíngtài French Forme Téracristal German Terakristall-Form Italian Forma Teracristal Korean 테라스탈폼 Terastal Forme Spanish Forma Teracristal

Stellar Form

Language Title Japanese ステラフォルム Stella Forme Chinese Cantonese 星晶形態 Sīngjīng Yìhngtaai Mandarin 星晶形態 / 星晶形态 Xīngjīng Xíngtài French Forme Stellaire German Stellarform Italian Forma Astrale Korean 스텔라폼 Stella Forme Spanish Forma Astral

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