Appearance
Archeops is a large Pokémon that is both bird and reptile. Its featherless red head looks like a snake's, and both arms and legs act as clawed wings.
#567
Archeops
First Bird Pokémon
RockFlying
- Height
- 1.4 m
- Weight
- 32 kg
- Generation
- 5
- Region
- Unova
Archeops is a Rock / Flying-type Pokémon, No. 567 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 5 (Unova region).
« Though capable of flight, Archeops was apparently better at hunting on the ground. »
Its story
Lifestyle
It runs better than it flies and needs about 2.5 miles to take off. Extinct, it is revived from fossils, hunts in packs, and evolves from Archen.
In the anime
A female revived from an Archen evolves on screen, then returns in a flashback.
Name origin
Archeops may come from Archaeopteryx and Greek -ops, “face,” and may echo Cheops. The body also resembles a Microraptor and feathered serpents.
Did you know?
- To take off, it reaches nearly 25 mph.
- On the ground, it can outrun an automobile.
- Its Japanese name is the first in gojūon order.
Found in the Pokédex of:
UnovaAlolaGalar
In other languages
Aéroptéryx
Aeropteryx
アーケオス아케오스始祖大鳥