Parasect
Artwork
Names
- English: Parasect
- Japanese: パラセクト (Parasect)
- German: Parasek
- French: Parasect
Number(s)
- National: 47
- Hoenn: 236
- Johto: 71
Gender
♂ 50% - ♀ 50%
Egg Group(s)
Bug / Plant
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One |
|---|---|
 ParasBase form |  ParasectLevel 24 |
Size
- Height: 1 m / 3’03”
- Weight: 29.5 kg / 65.0 lbs.
Damage Taken
- ×¼: Ground, Grass
- ×½: Fighting, Water, Electric
- ×2: Poison, Rock, Bug, Ice
- ×4: Flying, Fire
Ability effects are not included.
Base Stats
| Stat | Rank | E.P. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sum | 405 | ||
| HP | 51 | 0 | |
| Attack | 20 | 2 | |
| Defense | 31 | 1 | |
| Sp.Atk | 44 | 0 | |
| Sp.Def | 31 | 0 | |
| Speed | 63 | 0 | |
Ability
- Effect Spore
- Game's description
- Contact may paralyze, poison, or cause sleep.
- Battle effect
- The opponent has a 10% chance of being induced by PARALYZE, POISON, or SLEEP when using an attack, that requires physical contact, against this Pokémon.
- Dry Skin
- Game's description
- Reduces HP if it is hot. Water restores HP.
- Battle effect
- HP is restored when hit by Water-type moves or when it is raining but also makes the Pokémon weak to Fire-type moves and reduces HP during strong sunlight.
Wild Item
- Diamond/Pearl
- Tinymushroom (50%)
- Big Mushroom (5%)
Pal Park
- Area: Forest
- Points: 50
- Encounter rate: 30
Miscellaneous
- Species: Mushroom Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 5,120
- Color: Red
- Catch Rate: 75
- Base Tameness: 70
- Growth Group: Medium Fast
1,000,000 exp. points to Lv100
Location
- Diamond
- Evolve from Paras [Evolve]
- Pearl
- Evolve from Paras [Evolve]
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Red/Blue
- A host-parasite pair in which the parasite mushroom has taken over the host bug. Prefers damp places.
- Yellow
- The bug host is drained of energy by the mushrooms on its back. They appear to do all the thinking.
- Gold
- It stays mostly in dark, damp places, the preference not of the bug, but of the big mushrooms on its back.
- Silver
- The larger the mushroom on its back grows, the stronger the mushroom spores it scatters.
- Crystal
- When nothing's left to extract from the bug, the mushrooms on its back leave spores on the bug's egg.
- Ruby
- PARASECT is known to infest large trees en masse and drain nutrients from the lower trunk and roots. When an infested tree dies, they move onto another tree all at once.
- Sapphire
- PARASECT is known to infest large trees en masse and drain nutrients from the lower trunk and roots. When an infested tree dies, they move onto another tree all at once.
- Emerald
- PARASECT are known to infest the roots of large trees en masse and drain nutrients. When an infested tree dies, they move onto another tree all at once.
- Fire Red
- It scatters toxic spores from the mushroom cap. In China, the spores are used as herbal medicine.
- Leaf Green
- A host-parasite pair in which the parasite mushroom has taken over the host bug. Prefers damp places.
- Diamond
- A mushroom grown larger than the host’s body controls PARASECT. It scatters poisonous spores.
- Pearl
- It is controlled by a mushroom grown larger than the bug body. It is said to prefer damp places.