History Characters / PokemonGenerationIIIWailmerToDeoxys

* CuteLittleFangs: Spheal. Sealeo has some too, but the mustache kind of defeats the point.
* HealingFactor: Its Ice Body Ability gives it 1/16 (the equivalent of Leftovers) of its max health at the end of a turn if it's hailing. It can get Aqua Ring through breeding as well.
* IceMagicIsWater: Dual Ice/Water-types. [[DownplayedTrope This type combo became far more rare afterwards, with the next Water/Ice type being introduced 5 generations later.]]

* MakingASplash: Water-type.
* MightyGlacier: High HP, high Defense and Special Defense, and usable Special Attack, but low speed. Its Attack of 80, while on the lower end, is also serviceable. It can also learn Curse to increase its Attack and Defense but become even slower.

* PerpetualSmiler: Spheal is always seen with a sweet, cheerful smile on its face, reflecting its playful nature, and Sealeo likewise appears smiling happily in most cases. Walrein, however, loses this and appears as a more serious, intimidating Pokemon.

* MightyGlacier: The whole line is quite bulky on the physical side, and deal good damage of a certain category depending on the Pokémon in question[[note]]Physical attack for Huntail, Special Attack for Gorebyss and Clamperl[[/note]], but they have poor Special Defense and Speed.

* PrehistoricMonster: The first one in the series to be explicitly stated that was ancient and didn't go extinct. [[ShownTheirWork Naturally, this is a nod to the real-life coelacanth.]]

** It can appear as early as Route 3 in ''Sun and Moon'' via a Bagon calling for help. Even as low as Lv 9, its stats are high enough to utterly shitstomp a team of properly-leveled Mons (for that point in the game, anyway), but if you are able to catch it, [[DiscOneNuke any semblance of difficulty in the early game just disappears.]]

** Metagross is the first (and so far only) pseudo-legendary to not be based on any sort of dinosaur, reptile, or dragon, and is one of the only two (the other being Tyranitar) to not be a Dragon type period. It is even the only pseudo-legendary Pokémon that cannot learn any Dragon-type moves.

* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: ...[[BrickJoke The other half of the trope namer]]. Despite being one of the largest Pokémon in existence at 47 feet long/tall, Wailord is able to breed with anything in the Field egg group (as this includes Pokémon based on mammals, which whales are), including Skitty or the even smaller Diglett.

* SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: It's an archetypal StoneWall -- it has an abysmally low speed stat, but very good physical defense.

* DanceBattler: Grumpig dances while wielding its powers, which it can also do to take control of its foes according to flavor text. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation It cannot actually do this in-game]], though it does learn Teeter Dance upon evolution.

* PigMan: The legless Spoink evolves into Grumpig,a humanoid pig.
* PeoplePuppets: Grumpig can use its psychic powers to take control of its foes.

* RecurringElement: Of the Drowzee line. Both are two-stage Pokémon, pure Psychic types that have Special Defence as their highest stat, and serve as a more common alternative to the rarer-but-stronger Abra and Ralts lines in their debut games.

* DisabilityImmunity: According to Salandit's ''Ultra Moon'' dex entry, its toxins fail to affect Spinda since it's always dizzy.

* MakeSomeNoise: Capable of learning several powerful sound moves, most notably Boomburst and Bug Buzz, and several dex entries make reference to the sounds Flygon makes.
* MasterOfNone: Vibrava. While it is far faster than Trapinch, said speed is just decent among unevolved Pokémon, and its Attack drops significantly, while its defenses barely increase.

* ConfusionFu: Like most dragons, Altaria has a massive movepool. Besides dragon and flying moves, it can learn [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fairy]], [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[PsychicPowers Psychic]], [[DishingOutDirt Ground]], [[ExtraOreDinary Steel]], [[GreenThumb Grass]], and [[AnIcePerson Ice]]. Its stats, especially as Mega Altaria, are [[JackOfAllStats balanced]], and it can use a large variety of different sets.

* LightningBruiser: By default, Altaria's base stats would condition it more to being a StoneWall, with the powered-up Mega Altaria being more of a MightyGlacier... however, in almost every appearance, Altaria can learn ''[[StatusBuff Dragon Dance]]'' by level-up remarkably soon after evolution (and its impressive bulk and resistances often afford it opportunities to set up), buffing both its speed and physical offense and turning this normally peaceful and defensive dragon into a fluffy wrecking ball with bulk to spare.

* MagicKnight: Mega Altaria's physical and special attack stats are both equal, allowing it to use either a physical or special set.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Altaria is much more bird-like than most other Dragon Pokémon. There's practically nothing draconic about its visual features, aside from and a possible reference to ''Theatre/TheBlueBird''.

* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: When it Mega Evolves its feathers become even fluffier. Looks like Ampharos has a rival.

* GlassCannon: Both of them have high physical offenses (with Seviper able to hit just as hard specially, and Zangoose being faster), but neither of them are good at taking a hit.

* DamageSpongeBoss: Both have high HP stats (Wailord's is the highest out of all Water-types), but low defenses.

* GlassCannon: Despite having good attacking stats and excellent HP, Wailord also has awful defensive stats.

* SecretArt: Prior to Generation IV, Spoink and Grumpig were the only Pokémon who could learn Magic Coat, which reflects status moves back at the user.

* GlacierWaif: Both Gorebyss and Huntail have a very dainty, serpentine and eel-like apperance, suggestive of a fast but frail creature. However, they actually mostly just improve upon Clampearl's stat spread, a (baby) StoneWall with a larger boost on either Attack or Special attack, promoting them to MightyGlacier. As a result they sport impressive defense, but pretty terrible speed.

%%* ButtMonkey: Generally speaking, the only time a player regards Luvdisc is to sneer at it, beat it up, or rob it.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Shares this to Mewtwo, being that both are [[ArtificialHuman artificial Pokémon]] and are Psychic type. But while Mewtwo was created by humans including Mr. Fuji through cloning and gene-splicing, Deoxys is an alien DNA from space who was only granted a form after a laser was fired into it, which leads to it being mutated into the form that is seen in the present.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Shares this to Mewtwo, being that both are [[ArtificialHuman artificial Pokémon]] and are Psychic type. But while Mewtwo was created by humans through cloning, Deoxys is an alien DNA who was only granted a form after a laser was fired into it, which leads to it being mutated into the form that is in the present.

* MagicKnight: Tied with Metagross for the highest Attack stat of all pseudo-legendaries, and has a great Special Attack stat.

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* LighterAndSofter: Games following their introduction seemed to be trying very hard to make the players forget that Gorebyss' Pokédex entries in the original ''Ruby and Sapphire'' state that Gorebyss ''inserts its thin mouth into the prey's body and drains the prey of its body fluids'', and ''Its light pink body color turns vivid when it finishes feedin''. Some entries even state it feeds on seaweed. However, ''Alpha Sapphire'', being a remake, mentions again that Gorebyss is cruel and siphons its prey's bodily fluids, and this has been maintained for future games.

* LighterAndSofter: Games following their introduction seemed to be trying very hard to make the players forget that Gorebyss' Pokédex entries in the original ''Ruby and Sapphire" state that Gorebyss "inserts its thin mouth into the prey's body and drains the prey of its body fluids", and "Its light pink body color turns vivid when it finishes feeding". Some entries even state it feeds on seaweed. However, ''Alpha Sapphire'', being a remake, mentions again that Gorebyss is cruel and siphons its prey's bodily fluids, and this has been maintained for future games.

* FragileSpeedster: Not usually, they are slow slow and sport impressive defense, but can invoke this by using Shell Smash to massively increase their attacking stats but reducing their survivability. Add Swift Swim to the mix, and only priority and massive defenses may stop them.

* GlacierWaif: Both Gorebyss and Huntail have a very dainty, serpentine and eel-like apperance, suggestive of a fast but frail creature. However, they actually mostly just improve upon Clampearl's stat spread, a (baby) StoneWall with a larger boost on either attack or special attack, promoting them to MightyGlacier. As a result they sport impressive defense, but pretty terrible speed.

* LighterAndSofter: Games following their introduction seemed to be trying very hard to make the players forget that Gorebyss' Pokédex entries in the original RSE state that Gorebyss "inserts its thin mouth into the prey's body and drains the prey of its body fluids", and "Its light pink body color turns vivid when it finishes feeding". Some entries even state it feeds on seaweed. However, ''Alpha Sapphire'', being a remake, mentions again that Gorebyss is cruel and siphons its prey's bodily fluids, and this has been was maintained for future games (notably Alola's pokedex is similarly full of horrific entries all over).
* MagicKnight: Although Huntail is more focused on physical attacking, its Special Attack is only 10 points lower than its physical Attack, allowing it to decently use powerful special moves like Hydro Pump, which can by handy considering physical attacking water moves cap at only 90 or 80 or suffer from spotty accurancy. On the other hand, its a much better user of Coil compared to Gorebyss.

* MightyGlacier: Thhe whole line is quite bulky on the physical side, and deal damage of a certain category depending on the Pokémon in this line[[note]]Physical attack for Huntail, Special Attack for Gorebyss and Clamperl[[/note]], but they have ho-hum Special Defense and Speed.

* StoneWall: Clamperl has quite high stats for an unevolved mon, but its highest stat is a Defense of 85. The evolution improve further upon this but add a much larger boost to either attack or special attack.

* ArmoredButFrail: Huntail and Gorebyss both have a solid base 105 Defense, but a very low 55 base HP.

* FragileSpeedster: Can invoke this by using Shell Smash to massively increase their attacking stats but reducing their survivability. Add Swift Swim to the mix, and only priority and massive defenses may stop them.

* LighterAndSofter: Later games seem to be trying very hard to make the players forget that Gorebyss' early Pokédex entries state that Gorebyss "inserts its thin mouth into the prey's body and drains the prey of its body fluids", and "Its light pink body color turns vivid when it finishes feeding". Some entries even state it feeds on seaweed, though ''Alpha Sapphire'', being a remake, mentions again that Gorebyss is cruel and siphons its prey's bodily fluids.
* MagicKnight: Although Huntail is more focused on physical attacking, its Special Attack is only 10 points lower than its physical Attack, allowing it to decently use powerful special moves like Surf or Hydro Pump.

* MightyGlacier: Can take physical hits and deal damage of a certain category depending on the Pokémon in this line[[note]]Physical attack for Huntail, Special Attack for Gorebyss and Clamperl[[/note]], but they have ho-hum Special Defense and Speed.

* StoneWall: Clamperl has quite high stats for an unevolved mon, but its highest stat is a Defense of 85.

[[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIITreeckoToSharpedo Treecko to Sharpedo (252-319)]] | '''Wailmer to Deoxys (320-386)''' | [[[Characters/PokemonWeatherTrio Weather Trio (382-384)]]] -]]]

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* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: Deoxys '''D'''efense, '''N'''ormal, and '''A'''ttack Formes.