Wailord (Pokémon)

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Wailord ホエルオー Whaloh #321
Artwork from R/S/E
Type Water ' Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Float Whale Pokémon
Abilities Water Veil or Oblivious Oblivious Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,640,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto — Hoenn #100 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 47'07" Imperial 14.5 m Metric 47'07"/14.5 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 877.4 lbs. Imperial 398.0 kg Metric 877.4 lbs./398.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Blue	Catch rate 60 (7.8%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown 50% male, 50% female
Breeding Ground and Water 2 groups 41 cycles (10455 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 2 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 206 Battle Exp.: 2061*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Wailord (Japanese: ホエルオー Whaloh) is a Template:Type2 Pokémon.

It evolves from Wailmer starting at level 40.

Biology

Physiology

Wailord are mammalian Pokémon that are well known as the largest Pokémon discovered so far. They have small beady eyes, a huge mouth and a throat that is lined with grooves. It has two pairs of fins along its side and a horizontal tail at the back. It's vaguely shaped like a torpedo or a blimp.

Despite its enormous size, it is able to breed with many land-based Pokémon that are much smaller. This is due to it being in the Ground Egg Group, a reference to how whales are classified as mammals.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Wailord are able to take in large amounts of air and dive to incredible depths with just one massive breath. Since it is based on a whale and has a blowhole, it is one of the few Pokémon that are able to use Water Spout. With their large mouths, they are able to eat extreme quantities of food.

Behavior

Wailord are known to live in large packs for traveling as well as finding prey.

Habitat

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

In the anime

Wailord first appeared in Having a Wailord of a Time. The Float Whale Pokémon was stuck on a beach near a Pokémon Center. Team Rocket tried to haul it away, but a Combusken foiled their plans.

A Wailmer that befriended a man named Robin evolved into a Wailord in Island Time. This Wailord transported Ash and friends across the ocean until they came across a ship heading for Ever Grande City.

Along with their pre-evolved form, Wailord appeared in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.

In Leading a Stray!, a family of Wailord appeared. One Wailmer was separated from its family, and Ash helped it get back. By the end of the episode, this Wailmer evolved into a Wailord.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

In Pokémon Special, Sapphire has a Wailord named Walo, who is kept at sea for her and her father to use for sea travel. However, later she returns it to its Poké Ball and carries it on her.

In the TCG

Main article: Wailord (TCG)

Game data

NPC appearances

Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia: A Wailord is seen in the Sea of Wailord that was trapped by Team Dim Sun. The player must free it by deactivating the traps. Later on in the game, it is seen attacking Kincaid's submarine. After the player captures Darkrai for the fist time, and then goes to Haruba Desert's dock, Wailord will ferry the player to the Capture Arena.

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

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By TM/HM

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Special moves

Side game data

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Evolution

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Sprites

Gen	Game
I	Red	Blue	Yellow		Red (Ja)	Green	Back
	This Pokémon did not appear during Generation I.
II	Gold	Silver	Crystal				Back
	This Pokémon did not appear during Generation II.
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 Wailord images on Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Wailord is by far the tallest Pokémon in existence, but only the tenth heaviest.
  • Wailord is also the only "giant" Pokémon whose size was not outdone in the following generation.
    • Despite the fact that real-life fully grown blue whales weigh over 170 metric tonnes (over 27,000 stone), Wailord only weighs a meager sixty tonnes, which is less than one sixth of a real Blue Whale's tongue.
• A Wailord, along with a Relicanth, is necessary in the party in order to unleash the three legendary golems from their sleeping places within the Sealed Chamber in the Generation III games.
  • This should mean that Wailord have exisited for a long time, since the Regi have been sealed away a long time ago, and Relicanth lived a long time ago.
• Wailord is well known for the HSOWA joke.
• Wailord has the fourth highest base HP stat of all Pokémon, after Blissey, Chansey, and Wobbuffet, in that order.
• Wailord is ofter critizised for having below average defenses, thus not making it's HP as useful; still, Wailord can prove even bulkier than Gayardos with a defensive EV spread.
• In the games Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness and Pokémon Colloseum, Wailord was resized to fit in the battlefield. In Pokémon Battle Revolution, however, it seems to have to been resized to match its Pokédex entry.

Origin

This Pokémon is based on the blue whale, the largest known animal to exist.

Name origin

Wailord's name is a combination of whale and lord. The wail may also refer to the sound that whales and this Pokémon may make.

Its Japanese name is probably a combination of whale and 王 ō, king.

In other languages

• German: Wailord
• French: Wailord
• Korean: 고래왕 Goraewang

External links

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