Dustox
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Names
- English: Dustox
- Japanese: ドクケイル (Dokucale)
- German: Pudox
- French: Papinox
Number(s)
- National: 269
- Hoenn: 18
Gender
♂ 50% - ♀ 50%
Egg Group(s)
Bug
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One | Stage Two |
|---|---|---|
Size
- Height: 1.2 m / 3’11”
- Weight: 31.6 kg / 69.7 lbs.
Damage Taken
- ×¼: Fighting, Grass
- ×½: Poison, Bug
- ×2: Flying, Rock, Fire, Psychic
Ability effects are not included.
Base Stats
| Stat | Rank | E.P. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sum | 385 | ||
| HP | 51 | 0 | |
| Attack | 59 | 0 | |
| Defense | 40 | 0 | |
| Sp.Atk | 52 | 0 | |
| Sp.Def | 24 | 3 | |
| Speed | 38 | 0 | |
Ability
- Shield Dust
- Game's description
- Blocks the added effects of attacks taken.
- Battle effect
- Damaging moves used by the opponent will not have an additional effect.
Wild Item
- Diamond/Pearl
- Shed Shell (5%)
Pal Park
- Area: Forest
- Points: 70
- Encounter rate: 20
Miscellaneous
- Species: Poison Moth Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 3,840
- Color: Green
- Catch Rate: 45
- Base Tameness: 70
- Growth Group: Medium Fast
1,000,000 exp. points to Lv100
Location
- Diamond
- Evolve from Cascoon [Evolve]
- Pearl
- Routes 224 & 230, Eterna Forest [Common]
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Ruby
- DUSTOX is instinctively drawn to light. Swarms of this POKéMON are attracted by the bright lights of cities, where they wreak havoc by stripping the leaves off roadside trees for food.
- Sapphire
- When DUSTOX flaps its wings, a fine dust is scattered all over. This dust is actually a powerful poison that will even make a pro wrestler sick. This POKéMON searches for food using its antennae like radar.
- Emerald
- It is a nocturnal POKéMON that flies from fields and mountains to the attraction of streetlights at night. It looses highly toxic powder from its wings.
- Fire Red
- It scatters horribly toxic dust when it senses danger. They tend to gather in the glow of streetlamps at night.
- Leaf Green
- It scatters horribly toxic dust when it senses danger. They tend to gather in the glow of streetlamps at night.
- Diamond
- A nocturnal Pokémon. Drawn by streetlights, they messily eat the leaves of trees lining boulevards.
- Pearl
- It violently flutters its wings to scatter toxic dust when attacked. It becomes active after sunset.
