Growlithe
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Names
- English: Growlithe
- Japanese: ガーディ (Gardie)
- German: Fukano
- French: Caninos
Number(s)
- National: 58
- Hoenn: 245
- Johto: 127
Gender
♂ 75% - ♀ 25%
Egg Group(s)
Ground
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One |
|---|---|
Size
- Height: 0.7 m / 2’04”
- Weight: 19.0 kg / 41.9 lbs.
Damage Taken
- ×½: Bug, Steel, Fire, Grass, Ice
- ×2: Ground, Rock, Water
Ability effects are not included.
Base Stats
| Stat | Rank | E.P. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sum | 350 | ||
| HP | 55 | 0 | |
| Attack | 41 | 1 | |
| Defense | 62 | 0 | |
| Sp.Atk | 36 | 0 | |
| Sp.Def | 55 | 0 | |
| Speed | 41 | 0 | |
Ability
- Intimidate
- Game's description
- Lowers the foe’s Attack stat.
- Battle effect
- Upon entering battle, the opponent’s Attack lowers one stage. In a Double Battle, both opponents’ Attack are lowered. Pokémon with the Clear Body, Hyper Cutter, or White Smoke ability are unaffected. In a link battle, if both sides switch on the same turn, and first player sends out a Pokémon with Intimidate, the opponent’s Attack will be lowered before the opponent’s Pokémon switches.
- Map effect
- If the Pokémon is in the lead spot, chance of encountering a low level wild Pokémon decreases by 50%. This applies to Pokémon five levels lower than or below the level of the lead Pokémon.
- Flash Fire
- Game's description
- Powers up Fire-type moves if hit by a fire move.
- Battle effect
- Activates when user is hit by a damaging Fire-type move (including Fire-type Hidden Power). Once activated, user’s Fire-type moves deal 1.5 times damage. While this ability is in effect, this Pokémon is immune to damage from Fire-type attacks and Fire-type Hidden Power (accuracy and effect from these moves are ignored). For Fire-type Pokémon with this ability, Will-O-Wisp activates this ability without having an effect. If a non-Fire-type Pokémon has this ability, Will-O-Wisp will activate the ability and will have an effect.
Wild Item
- Diamond/Pearl
- Rawst Berry (100%)
Pal Park
- Area: Field
- Points: 70
- Encounter rate: 20
Miscellaneous
- Species: Puppy Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 5,120
- Color: Brown
- Catch Rate: 190
- Base Tameness: 70
- Growth Group: Slow
1,250,000 exp. points to Lv100
Location
- Diamond
- Routes 201 & 202 (FR Inserted into DS) [Uncommon]
- Pearl
- Routes 201 & 202 (FR Inserted into DS) [Uncommon]
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Red/Blue
- Very protective of its territory. It will bark and bite to repel intruders from its space.
- Yellow
- A POKéMON with a friendly nature. However, it will bark fiercely at anything invading its territory.
- Gold
- It has a brave and trustworthy nature. It fearlessly stands up to bigger and stronger foes.
- Silver
- Extremely loyal, it will fearlessly bark at any opponent to protect its own trainer from harm.
- Crystal
- It controls a big territory. If it detects an unknown smell, it roars loudly to force out the intruder.
- Ruby
- GROWLITHE has a superb sense of smell. Once it smells anything, this POKéMON won't forget the scent, no matter what. It uses its advanced olfactory sense to determine the emotions of other living things.
- Sapphire
- GROWLITHE has a superb sense of smell. Once it smells anything, this POKéMON won't forget the scent, no matter what. It uses its advanced olfactory sense to determine the emotions of other living things.
- Emerald
- Its superb sense of smell ensures that this POKéMON won't forget any scent, no matter what. It uses its sense of smell to detect the emotions of others.
- Fire Red
- Very friendly and faithful to people. It will try to repel enemies by barking and biting.
- Leaf Green
- It is very protective of its territory. It will bark and bite to repel intruders from its space.
- Diamond
- A Pokémon with a loyal nature. It will remain motionless until it is given an order by its Trainer.
- Pearl
- A Pokémon with a loyal nature. It will remain motionless until it is given an order by its Trainer.
