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* UselessUsefulSpell: Rampardos can learn Body Press, a move which [[ShieldBash uses the user's Defense in place of Attack]] to deal damage. While most Rock-type Pokémon (including its rival Bastiodon) can make great use of the move, Rampardos's pitifully low Defense makes it completely ineffective at using the move, especially compared to its other Fighting-type options in Hammer Arm and Brick Break.



* CombatPragmatist: Surprisingly, Bastiodon gets two Dark-type moves through [=TMs=] and tutors: Foul Play and Taunt. The former lets it use the opponent's Attack stat to deal damage in place of its own, while the latter lets it force the opponent to attack it, potentially opening them up to a CounterAttack.



* LateCharacterSyndrome: In the Gen IV remakes, fossil Pokémon are restored at ''level 1'' compared to the level 20 they were in the original ''Diamond and Pearl''. Even if you restore Shieldon as early as possible, it'll take some serious grinding for it to keep up with your party.

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* LateCharacterSyndrome: In the Gen IV remakes, fossil Pokémon are restored at ''level 1'' compared to the level 20 they were in the original ''Diamond and Pearl''. Even if you restore Shieldon as early as possible, it'll take some serious grinding for it to keep up with your party.party, especially considering that it grows very slowly at low levels.

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* EarthyTortoise: Turtwig and Grotle skirt the trope by having Grass as the primary Type and being particularly themed around trees. Torterra gains the Ground secondary Type, and carries around a full-grown tree and set of rocky spikes on its back that make it resemble a living hillock.



* GreenThumb: The first Grass-types in the Sinnoh Dex.

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* GreenThumb: The They're the first Grass-types in the Sinnoh Dex.
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* GlassCannon: With Simple, Bibarel can use Swords Dance to triple its Attack stat in a single turn, letting it inflict huge damage. Its other stats, however, remain at the level you'd expect from a ComMon -- that is to say, not very good.
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* DiscardAndDraw: Grotle gains the Ground-Type when it evolves into Torterra, picking up useful Electric immunity and Rock resistance and giving it a useful way of beating Fire-Types like Infernape. At the same time, it loses a valuable resistance to Water, and becomes horribly weak to [[KillItWithIce Ice]] attacks.

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* DiscardAndDraw: Grotle gains the Ground-Type when it evolves into Torterra, picking up useful Electric immunity and Rock resistance and giving it a useful way of beating Fire-Types Fire-types like Infernape. At the same time, it loses a valuable resistance to Water, and becomes horribly weak to [[KillItWithIce Ice]] attacks.



* EnergyBall: They can learn the grass type move of the same name via TM, but their [[MagicallyIneptFighter poor special attack]] prevents them from using it effectively.

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* EnergyBall: They can learn the grass type Grass-type move of the same name via TM, but their [[MagicallyIneptFighter poor special attack]] Special Attack]] prevents them from using it effectively.



* KillItWithFire: Being Grass-Types, the line is weak to Fire-Type moves.

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* KillItWithFire: Being Grass-Types, Grass-types, the line is weak to Fire-Type Fire-type moves.



* RecurringElement: The Sinnoh Grass Starter with a build similar to the Bulbasaur line.

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* RecurringElement: The Sinnoh Grass Starter starter with a build similar to the Bulbasaur line.



* SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: They're typical {{Mighty Glacier}}s -- they have very good defense and health coupled with respectable attack, but their speed remains very low. In point of fact, Torterra is one of the slowest Pokémon among all the fully evolved starters.
* ThatsNoMoon: Torterra are often confused for walking forests and/or mountains. In ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', [[spoiler:this is made terrifying with ''gigantic'' mutant Torterra.]]

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* SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: They're typical {{Mighty Glacier}}s -- they have very good defense Defense and health HP coupled with respectable attack, Attack, but their speed Speed remains very low. In point of fact, Torterra is one of the slowest Pokémon among all the fully evolved starters.
* ThatsNoMoon: Torterra are often confused for walking forests and/or mountains. In ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', [[spoiler:this is made terrifying with ''gigantic'' mutant Torterra.]]Torterra]].



* CharacterSelectForcing: Back in ''Diamond and Pearl'', it is one of only two Fire-Type Pokémon lines available in Sinnoh before acquiring the National Pokédex, the other being the Ponyta line.

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* CharacterSelectForcing: Back in ''Diamond and Pearl'', it is one of only two Fire-Type Fire-type Pokémon lines available in Sinnoh before acquiring the National Pokédex, the other being the Ponyta line.



* FartsOnFire: Chimchar's "tail" is actually lit monkey gases.

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* FartsOnFire: Chimchar's "tail" is actually lit monkey gases.



* HealThyself: Chimchar and Monferno can learn Slack Off[[note]]which heals the user for 50% of their [=HP=][[/note]], though you need to keep them from evolving for several levels to do so since Infernape can't learn it[[note]]until Scarlet and Violet allowed it to learn the move via move reminder[[/note]], and its utility is somewhat questionable given their [[FragileSpeedster frailty]] on ''both'' defensive fronts.

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* HealThyself: Chimchar and Monferno can learn Slack Off[[note]]which heals the user for 50% of their [=HP=][[/note]], though you need to keep them from evolving for several levels to do so since Infernape can't learn it[[note]]until Scarlet ''Scarlet and Violet Violet'' allowed it to learn the move via move reminder[[/note]], and its utility is somewhat questionable given their [[FragileSpeedster frailty]] on ''both'' defensive fronts.



* RecurringElement: The Sinnoh Fire Starter.

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* RecurringElement: The Sinnoh Fire Starter.starter.



* InformedAbility: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. While Empoleon's Pokédex entries claim it's a swift swimmer, it has a below-average Base Speed of 60. This can be circumvented with [[StatusBuff Agility]] or [[ActionInitiative Aqua Jet]]. This makes sense though, since in RealLife, penguins can't fly and are slow walkers on land, but are extremely swift in the water.

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* InformedAbility: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. While Empoleon's Pokédex entries claim it's a swift swimmer, it has a below-average Base base Speed of 60. This can be circumvented with [[StatusBuff Agility]] or [[ActionInitiative Aqua Jet]]. This makes sense though, since in RealLife, penguins can't fly and are slow walkers on land, but are extremely swift in the water.



* AttackAttackAttack: Pretty much Staraptor's motif. 120 attack, 100 Speed, three moves that have 120 base power and two get STAB, low defenses. It's designed to hit hard and fast and go out fighting.

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* AttackAttackAttack: Pretty much Staraptor's motif. 120 attack, Attack, 100 Speed, three moves that have 120 base power and two get STAB, low defenses. It's designed to hit hard and fast and go out fighting.



* GlassCannon: Mega Evolutions and similar transformations aside, it has the fourth-highest Attack in the series after Black Kyurem, Attack Forme Deoxys, and Kartana, but everything else save its HitPoints is rather lacking, and its good HP stat is really only good for absorbing recoil from its own attacks; its pathetic defenses don't let it take hits from ''opponents'' very well, even ''with'' a lot of Hit Points.

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* GlassCannon: Mega Evolutions and similar transformations aside, it has the fourth-highest Attack in the series after Black Kyurem, Attack Forme Deoxys, and Kartana, but everything else save its HitPoints HP is rather lacking, and its good HP stat is really only good for absorbing recoil from its own attacks; its pathetic defenses don't let it take hits from ''opponents'' very well, even ''with'' a lot of Hit Points.



* ArmoredButFrail: Bastiodon has a fantastic 168 defense and 138 special defense, but only base 60 HP. Shieldon has this sort of stat distribution as well.

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* ArmoredButFrail: Bastiodon has a fantastic 168 defense Defense and 138 special defense, Special Defense, but only base 60 HP. Shieldon has this sort of stat distribution as well.



* MagicKnight: Mothim's attack and special attack stats are the same, letting it use both physical and special attacks with equal effectiveness.

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* MagicKnight: Mothim's attack Attack and special attack Special Attack stats are the same, letting it use both physical and special attacks with equal effectiveness.



* PowerupLetdown: The Hidden Ability Overcoat used to be this for Sandy Cloak and Trash Cloak Wormadam until Gen VI[[note]]it does protect them from Hail, which they're not immune to by virtue of their typing, but hail is ''significantly'' less common than sandstorms[[/note]], where Overcoat also protects Sandy and Trash Cloak variants from Powder moves like Spore and Sleep Powder. The Plant Cloak variant has no use for this, since they're already protected from powders by their typing, but they still have the most to gain from Overcoat's original effect.

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* PowerupLetdown: The Hidden Ability Overcoat used to be this for Sandy Cloak and Trash Cloak Wormadam until Gen VI[[note]]it does protect them from Hail, which they're not immune to by virtue of their typing, but hail is ''significantly'' less common than sandstorms[[/note]], where Overcoat also protects Sandy and Trash Cloak variants from Powder powder and spore moves like Spore and Sleep Powder. The Plant Cloak variant has no use for this, since they're already protected from powders by their typing, but they still have the most to gain from Overcoat's original effect.



* StoneWall: Vespiquen have high defenses, but their offensive stats, while not bad by any means, are just average. Their speed is very low, at base 40. They also have the Pressure ability, which causes moves to use 2 PP instead of one, and have the choice of Heal Order and Roost to recover health, making them good stallers. However, [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere they're hamstrung by the many defensive shortcomings of their type combination]].

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* StoneWall: Vespiquen have high defenses, but their offensive stats, while not bad by any means, are just average. Their speed Speed is very low, at base 40. They also have the Pressure ability, which causes moves to use 2 PP instead of one, and have the choice of Heal Order and Roost to recover health, making them good stallers. However, [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere they're hamstrung by the many defensive shortcomings of their type combination]].



* TheArtifact: Their dual forms were specifically tied to the Sinnoh region's division by Mt. Coronet. In later games, far from the Sinnoh region, they tend to appear in one form or the other, with the East sea version being more common, though the West sea version is often available via trade. In ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'', their forms are version locked, with the West Sea version exclusive to ''Omega Ruby'' and East Sea to ''Alpha Sapphire''.

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* TheArtifact: Their dual forms were specifically tied to the Sinnoh region's division by Mt. Coronet. In later games, far from the Sinnoh region, they tend to appear in one form or the other, with the East sea Sea version being more common, though the West sea Sea version is often available via trade. In ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'', their forms are version locked, with the West Sea version exclusive to ''Omega Ruby'' and East Sea to ''Alpha Sapphire''.



* ShownTheirWork: They're a rare example of ''real'' evolution in the ''Pokémon'' series. In this case, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopatric_speciation allopatric speciation.]]

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* ShownTheirWork: They're a rare example of ''real'' evolution in the ''Pokémon'' series. In this case, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopatric_speciation allopatric speciation.]]speciation]].
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* TheInfested: Downplayed. Vespiquen's abdomen flares out in a ring of six hexagonal cells. These serve as nurseries for infant Combees, which shelter in these spaces in their mother's body until large enough to fly out on their own. They also presumably come out to help her when she uses her signature moves: Attack Order, Defend Order, and Heal Order.
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* HealThyself: Chimchar and Monferno can learn Slack Off[[note]]which heals the user for 50% of their [=HP=][[/note]], though you need to keep them from evolving for several levels to do so since Infernape can't learn it, and its utility is somewhat questionable given their [[FragileSpeedster frailty]] on ''both'' defensive fronts.

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* HealThyself: Chimchar and Monferno can learn Slack Off[[note]]which heals the user for 50% of their [=HP=][[/note]], though you need to keep them from evolving for several levels to do so since Infernape can't learn it, it[[note]]until Scarlet and Violet allowed it to learn the move via move reminder[[/note]], and its utility is somewhat questionable given their [[FragileSpeedster frailty]] on ''both'' defensive fronts.
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* {{Gonk}}: Purugly has "ugly" in its name and resembles a fat, stuck-up rich lady who slathers make-up on her face in a vain attempt to be beautiful. [[InvokedTrope It's not supposed to be pretty]]. [[ZigZaggedTrope However,]] [[InformedDeformity in practice, it’s more ‘plain’ than ‘hideous.’]]

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* {{Gonk}}: Purugly has "ugly" in its name and resembles a fat, stuck-up rich lady who slathers make-up on her face in a vain attempt to be beautiful. [[InvokedTrope It's not supposed to be pretty]]. [[ZigZaggedTrope However,]] [[InformedDeformity in practice, it’s more ‘plain’ than ‘hideous.’]]

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Honestly, I don’t think that Purugly is really all that, well, ugly!


* {{Gonk}}: Purugly has "ugly" in its name and resembles a fat, stuck-up rich lady who slathers make-up on her face in a vain attempt to be beautiful. [[InvokedTrope It's not supposed to be pretty]].

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* {{Gonk}}: Purugly has "ugly" in its name and resembles a fat, stuck-up rich lady who slathers make-up on her face in a vain attempt to be beautiful. [[InvokedTrope It's not supposed to be pretty]]. [[ZigZaggedTrope However,]] [[InformedDeformity in practice, it’s more ‘plain’ than ‘hideous.’]]


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* InformedDeformity: [[DownplayedTrope While Purugly isn’t exactly]] ''[[DownplayedTrope gorgeous]]'', it is far from the ugliest Pokémon out there.
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Glameow is a thin cat Pokémon with an extremely long tail that it keeps in a corkscrew position while its evolved form is far heftier and it keeps its forked tail clasped around its midsection to make it appear bigger. Appropriately enough, both Pokémon have a reputation for being extremely... catty. They're exclusive to ''Pearl''.

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Glameow is a thin cat Pokémon with an extremely long tail that it keeps in a corkscrew position while its evolved form is far heftier and it keeps its forked tail clasped around its midsection to make it appear bigger. Appropriately enough, both Pokémon have a reputation for being extremely... catty.[[{{Pun}} catty]]. They're exclusive to ''Pearl''.



* {{Gonk}}: Purugly has "ugly" in its name and resembles a fat, stuck-up rich lady who slathers make-up on her face in a vain attempt to be beautiful. It's not supposed to be pretty.

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* {{Gonk}}: Purugly has "ugly" in its name and resembles a fat, stuck-up rich lady who slathers make-up on her face in a vain attempt to be beautiful. [[InvokedTrope It's not supposed to be pretty.pretty]].
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** In Generation VII, Lopunny can learn Return naturally and ''immediately'' after it evolves. A freshly evolved Lopunny will have the option to show its friendship with you in strength of this move in the next battle, it becomes HeartwarmingInHindsight if you replace Frustration with it.

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** In Generation VII, Lopunny can learn Return naturally and ''immediately'' after it evolves. A freshly evolved Lopunny will have the option to show its friendship with you in strength of this move in the next battle, it becomes HeartwarmingInHindsight nice if you replace Frustration with it.
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* FunnyXRay: One of Bronzor's dex entries mentions X-Rays couldn't reveal anything about its internal structure.
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* CatsAreLazy: According to its ''Shield'' Pokédex entry, Luxray sleeps for long periods of time to store up energy, because its ability to see through walls uses up a lot of electricity.
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* ChainLethalityEnabler: Learns Fell Stinger starting in Gen VI, which increases Vespiquen's attack by two stages (later increased to a whopping three in the next Gen) if used to knock out an opponent, enabling more knockouts.

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* ChainLethalityEnabler: Learns Fell Stinger starting in Gen VI, which increases Vespiquen's attack Attack by two stages (later increased to a whopping three in the next Gen) if used to knock out an opponent, enabling more knockouts.
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* ChainLethalityEnabler: Learns Fell Stinger starting in Gen VI, which increases Vespiquen's attack by two stages (later increased to a whopping three in the next Gen) if used to knock out an opponent, enabling more knockouts.
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* StoneWall: Expected for a Pokémon whose head is a shield, and whose evolution has a ''literal'' stone wall for a head. Bastiodon has extremely high defenses, but offensively, it's only slightly better than ''[[FakeUltimateMook Onix]]''.

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* StoneWall: Expected for a Pokémon whose head is a shield, and whose evolution has a ''literal'' stone wall for a head. Bastiodon has extremely high defenses, but offensively, it's only slightly better than ''[[FakeUltimateMook Onix]]''. {{Downplayed}} in ''Scarlet and Violet'' where Bastiodon learns Foul Play and Body Press through TM, moves which calculate their power based off the opponent's Attack and Bastiodon's Defense, respectively, letting it act more like a MightyGlacier despite its nonexistent attack stats.



* StoneWall: Vespiquen have high defenses, but their offensive stats, while not bad by any means, are just average. Their speed is very low, at base 40. They also have the Pressure ability, which causes moves to use 2 PP instead of one, and have the choice of Heal Order and Roost to recover health, making them good stallers. However, they're hamstrung by the awful type combination.

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* StoneWall: Vespiquen have high defenses, but their offensive stats, while not bad by any means, are just average. Their speed is very low, at base 40. They also have the Pressure ability, which causes moves to use 2 PP instead of one, and have the choice of Heal Order and Roost to recover health, making them good stallers. However, [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere they're hamstrung by the awful many defensive shortcomings of their type combination.combination]].
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* PickyEater: Piplup's ''Diamond'' [=PokéDex=] entry says it hates accepting food from people. In ''Legends: Arceus'', the sidequest "Poor, Peckish Piplup" involves making a Bean Cake for a famished Piplup that refuses to eat anything else. TruthInTelevision- penguins prefer to catch food on their own and won’t eat food that’s just handed to them, and zookeepers often have great difficulty feeding them.

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* PickyEater: Piplup's ''Diamond'' [=PokéDex=] entry says it hates accepting food from people. In ''Legends: Arceus'', the sidequest "Poor, Peckish Piplup" involves making a Bean Cake for a famished Piplup that refuses to eat anything else. TruthInTelevision- penguins prefer to catch food on their own and won’t won't eat food that’s just handed to them, and zookeepers often have great difficulty feeding them.

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* CrownShapedHead: Empoleon’s horns not only resemble [[ProngsOfPoseidon a trident]], but also a golden crown. Fitting for an ''emperor'' penguin.



* PickyEater: Piplup's ''Diamond'' [=PokéDex=] entry says it hates accepting food from people. In ''Legends: Arceus'', the sidequest "Poor, Peckish Piplup" involves making a Bean Cake for a famished Piplup that refuses to eat anything else.

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* PickyEater: Piplup's ''Diamond'' [=PokéDex=] entry says it hates accepting food from people. In ''Legends: Arceus'', the sidequest "Poor, Peckish Piplup" involves making a Bean Cake for a famished Piplup that refuses to eat anything else. TruthInTelevision- penguins prefer to catch food on their own and won’t eat food that’s just handed to them, and zookeepers often have great difficulty feeding them.
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!!!Tiny Leaf Pokémon, Grove Pokémon, Continent Pokémon



!!!Chimp Pokémon, Playful Pokémon, Flame Pokémon



!!!Penguin Pokémon, Emperor Pokémon



!!!Starling Pokémon, Predator Pokémon



!!!Plump Mouse Pokémon, Beaver Pokémon



!!!Cricket Pokémon



!!!Flash Pokémon, Spark Pokémon, Gleam Eyes Pokémon



!!!Head Butt Pokémon



!!!Shield Pokémon



!!!Bagworm Pokémon, Moth Pokémon



!!!Tiny Bee Pokémon, Beehive Pokémon



!!![=EleSquirrel=] Pokémon



!!!Sea Weasel Pokémon



!!!Cherry Pokémon, Blossom Pokémon



!!!Sea Slug Pokémon



!!!Balloon Pokémon, Blimp Pokémon



!!!Rabbit Pokémon



!!!Catty Pokémon, Tiger Cat Pokémon



!!!Skunk Pokémon



!!!Bronze Pokémon, Bronze Bell Pokémon
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* ThatsNoMoon: Torterra are often confused for walking forests and/or mountains. In ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', [[spoiler:this is made terrifying with ''gigantic'' mutant Torterras.]]

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* ThatsNoMoon: Torterra are often confused for walking forests and/or mountains. In ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', [[spoiler:this is made terrifying with ''gigantic'' mutant Torterras.Torterra.]]
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!!!Bronze Pokémon, Bronze Bell Pokémon

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