Paras
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Names
- English: Paras
- Japanese: パラス (Paras)
- German: Paras
- French: Paras
Number(s)
- National: 46
- Hoenn: 235
- Johto: 70
Gender
♂ 50% - ♀ 50%
Egg Group(s)
Bug / Plant
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One |
|---|---|
 ParasBase form |  ParasectLevel 24 |
Size
- Height: 0.3 m / 1’00”
- Weight: 5.4 kg / 11.9 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 | 285 | ||
| HP | 70 | 0 | |
| Attack | 41 | 1 | |
| Defense | 54 | 0 | |
| Sp.Atk | 57 | 0 | |
| Sp.Def | 50 | 0 | |
| Speed | 65 | 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: 30
- Encounter rate: 50
Miscellaneous
- Safari Zone escape value: 120
- Species: Mushroom Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 5,120
- Color: Red
- Catch Rate: 190
- Base Tameness: 70
- Growth Group: Medium Fast
1,000,000 exp. points to Lv100
Location
- Diamond
- Safari Game [Rare]
- Pearl
- Safari Game [Rare]
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Red/Blue
- Burrows to suck tree roots. The mushrooms on its back grow by drawing nutrients from the bug host.
- Yellow
- Burrows under the ground to gnaw on tree roots. The mushrooms on its back absorb most of the nutrition.
- Gold
- It is doused with mushroom spores when it is born. As its body grows, mushrooms sprout from its back.
- Silver
- As its body grows large, oriental mushrooms named tochukaso start sprouting out of its back.
- Crystal
- The tochukaso growing on this POKéMON's back orders it to extract juice from tree trunks.
- Ruby
- PARAS has parasitic mushrooms growing on its back called tochukaso. They grow large by drawing nutrients from the BUG POKéMON host. They are highly valued as a medicine for extending life.
- Sapphire
- PARAS has parasitic mushrooms growing on its back called tochukaso. They grow large by drawing nutrients from this BUG POKéMON host. They are highly valued as a medicine for extending life.
- Emerald
- A PARAS has parasitic tochukaso mushrooms growing on its back. They grow by drawing nutrients from the host. They are valued as a medicine for long life.
- Fire Red
- Growing out of the bug's back are mushrooms called tochukaso. The mushrooms grow with the bug host.
- Leaf Green
- Burrows to suck tree roots. The mushrooms on its back grow by drawing nutrients from the bug host.
- Diamond
- Mushrooms named tochukaso grow on its back. They grow along with the host PARAS.
- Pearl
- Mushrooms named tochukaso grow on its back. They grow along with the host PARAS.