Noctowl
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Names
- English: Noctowl
- Japanese: ヨルノズク (Yorunozuku)
- German: Noctuh
- French: Noarfang
Number(s)
- National: 164
- Hoenn: 319
- Johto: 16
Gender
♂ 50% - ♀ 50%
Egg Group(s)
Flying
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One |
|---|---|
Size
- Height: 1.6 m / 5’03”
- Weight: 40.8 kg / 89.9 lbs.
Damage Taken
- Immune: Ground, Ghost
- ×½: Bug, Grass
- ×2: Rock, Electric, Ice
Ability effects are not included.
Base Stats
| Stat | Rank | E.P. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sum | 442 | ||
| HP | 21 | 2 | |
| Attack | 59 | 0 | |
| Defense | 58 | 0 | |
| Sp.Atk | 30 | 0 | |
| Sp.Def | 22 | 0 | |
| Speed | 34 | 0 | |
Ability
- Insomnia
- Game's description
- Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep.
- Battle effect
- The Pokémon cannot be under the SLEEP condition while having this ability.
- Keen Eye
- Game's description
- Prevents the Pokémon from losing accuracy.
- Battle effect
- Opponent cannot lower this Pokémon’s accuracy.
- 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.
Wild Item
- NONE
Pal Park
- Area: Forest
- Points: 50
- Encounter rate: 30
Miscellaneous
- Safari Zone escape value: 60
- Species: Owl Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 3,840
- Color: Brown
- Catch Rate: 90
- Base Tameness: 70
- Growth Group: Medium Fast
1,000,000 exp. points to Lv100
Location
- Diamond
- Routes 210-North, 211-East, 216 & 217, Lake Acuity Surroundings, Mt. Coronet, Safari Game, Lake Valor, Turnback Cave (Night) [Common]
- Pearl
- Routes 210-North, 211-East, 216 & 217, Lake Acuity Surroundings, Mt. Coronet, Safari Game, Lake Valor, Spring Path (Night) [Common]
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Gold
- Its eyes are specially adapted. They concentrate even faint light and enable it to see in the dark.
- Silver
- When it needs to think, it rotates its head 180 degrees to sharpen its intellectual power.
- Crystal
- Its extremely soft feathers make no sound in flight. It silently sneaks up on prey without being detected.
- Ruby
- NOCTOWL never fails at catching prey in darkness. This POKéMON owes its success to its superior vision that allows it to see in minimal light, and to its soft, supple wings that make no sound in flight.
- Sapphire
- NOCTOWL never fails at catching prey in darkness. This POKéMON owes its success to its superior vision that allows it to see in minimal light, and to its soft, supple wings that make no sound in flight.
- Emerald
- It unfailingly catches prey in darkness. NOCTOWL owe their success to superior vision that allows them to see in minimal light, and to their supple and silent wings.
- Fire Red
- When it needs to think, it rotates its head 180 degrees to sharpen its intellectual power.
- Leaf Green
- Its eyes are specially adapted. They concentrate even faint light and enable it to see in the dark.
- Diamond
- Its eyes are special. They can pick out objects as long as there is the tiniest amount of light.
- Pearl
- If it flips its head upside down, it’s a sign that it is engaged in very complex thinking.
