Ekans
Artwork
Names
- English: Ekans
- Japanese: アーボ (Arbo)
- German: Rettan
- French: Abo
Number(s)
- National: 23
- Hoenn: 225
- Johto: 50
Gender
♂ 50% - ♀ 50%
Egg Group(s)
Ground / Dragon
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One |
|---|---|
 EkansBase form |  ArbokLevel 22 |
Size
- Height: 2 m / 6’07”
- Weight: 6.9 kg / 15.2 lbs.
Damage Taken
- ×½: Fighting, Poison, Bug, Grass
- ×2: Ground, Psychic
Ability effects are not included.
Base Stats
| Stat | Rank | E.P. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sum | 288 | ||
| HP | 54 | 0 | |
| Attack | 36 | 1 | |
| Defense | 45 | 0 | |
| Sp.Atk | 46 | 0 | |
| Sp.Def | 37 | 0 | |
| Speed | 35 | 0 | |
Ability
- Intimidate
- Game's description
- Lowers the foe's ATTACK.
- 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.
- Shed Skin
- Game's description
- Heals the body by shedding.
- Battle effect
- Every turn, it has a 1 in 3 chance of healing from a status condition (BURN, PARALYZE, SLEEP, POISON, FREEZE).
Wild Item
- NONE
Habitat
Grassland
Miscellaneous
- Species: Snake Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 5,120
- Color: Purple
- Catch Rate: 255
- Base Tameness: 70
- Growth Group: Medium Fast
1,000,000 exp. points to Lv100
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Red/Blue
- Moves silently and stealthily. Eats the eggs of birds, such as PIDGEY and SPEAROW, whole.
- Yellow
- The older it gets, the longer it grows. At night, it wraps its long body around tree branches to rest.
- Gold
- It can freely detach its jaw to swallow large prey whole. It can become too heavy to move, however.
- Silver
- It always hides in grass. When first born, it has no poison, so its bite is painful, but harmless.
- Crystal
- It flutters the tip of its tongue to seek out the scent of prey, then swallows the prey whole.
- Ruby
- EKANS curls itself up in a spiral while it rests. Assuming this position allows it to quickly respond to a threat from any direction with a glare from its upraised head.
- Sapphire
- EKANS curls itself up in a spiral while it rests. Assuming this position allows it to quickly respond to a threat from any direction with a glare from its upraised head.
- Emerald
- An EKANS curls itself up in a spiral while it rests. This position allows it to quickly respond to an enemy from any direction with a threat from its upraised head.
- Fire Red
- A very common sight in grassland, etc. It flicks its tongue in and out to sense danger in its surroundings.
- Leaf Green
- Moving silently and stealthily, it eats the eggs of birds, such as PIDGEY and SPEAROW, whole.