Trapinch is an orange, insectoid Pokémon. It has a round body with a white underside and four stumpy legs. It also has a proportionally large head, small black eyes with twinkle-shaped pupils, and a zigzagging mouth.
Trapinch's large jaws are powerful enough to crush any boulders that get in its way as it digs through the sand of the arid deserts in which it lives. It can go a week without water or food. Instead of actively hunting prey, it digs into the sand to build its bowl- or cone-shaped nests, waiting for prey to tumble inside and become trapped. When night falls, Trapinch will dig itself a spot underneath the sand and go to sleep. As mentioned in the Sleep Style Dex, it's believed Trapinch does in preparation for biting down any prey that falls into its nest. There are four different sleep styles it sleeps in: "Sprawled Sleep", "Stretched Sleep", "Burrowing Sleep", and "Atop-Belly Sleep". Due to the size of its head in contrast to its small body, Trapinch will be unable to get up after flipping over onto its back, making it vulnerable to natural predators such as Sandile.
Evolution
Trapinch evolves into Vibrava, which evolves into Flygon.
Trapinch's nest is a sloped, bowl-like pit dug in sand. This Pokémon patiently waits for prey to tumble down the pit. Its giant jaws have enough strength to crush even boulders.
Trapinch is a patient hunter. It digs an inescapable pit in a desert and waits for its prey to come tumbling down. This Pokémon can go a whole week without access to any water.
Trapinch's nest is a sloped, bowl-like pit dug in sand. This Pokémon patiently waits for prey to tumble down the pit. Its giant jaws have enough strength to crush even boulders.
Trapinch is a patient hunter. It digs an inescapable pit in a desert and waits for its prey to come tumbling down. This Pokémon can go a whole week without access to any water.
Those bowl-shaped holes you see in the desert are Trapinch nests. They’re very effective—both at protecting Trapinch and at funneling any food to it that falls in.
This Pokémon patiently awaits prey inside its funnel-shaped nest. When it buries its body in sand and opens its mouth wide while asleep, maybe it's just preparing to bite down on prey that tumble into its nest.
Trapinch, the Ant Pit Pokémon. A Ground type. Trapinch's nest is at the bottom of a cone-shaped hole, where it patiently waits for something to fall in. It can break rocks apart with its huge jaws.
Trapinch is the only member of its evolutionary line to have a Hidden Ability.
Trapinch has the lowest base Speed stat of all Ground-type Pokémon.
Trapinch's base Attack stat is higher than that of its evolved form and is the same as that of its final evolved form. That may be a reference to the fact that antlion larvae are more aggressive and predatory than their adult stages.
It also has the highest base Attack stat of all Pokémon that can evolve twice.
Because of this, evolving a Trapinch in Pokémon GO will result in its CP going down, a trait otherwise only seen in cocoon Pokémon such as Kakuna.
Trapinch appears to be based on the larval stage of the antlion, which live in conical sandy pits before maturing into winged adults. Its head resembles a cartoonish depiction of foothold traps.
Name origin
Trapinch may be a combination of trap and pinch.
Nuckrar may be derived from nutcracker. It may also allude to knucker, a type of folkloric dragon which lives in a hole.
This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.
Soft Sand (5%)
For other sprites and images, please see Trapinch images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
