Appearance
A bright-scaled fish with thick purple lips and sharp teeth. The bulb on its head opens like a flower and shows a light blue orb.
#779
Bruxish
Gnash Teeth Pokémon
WaterPsychic
- Height
- 0.9 m
- Weight
- 19 kg
- Generation
- 7
- Region
- Alola
Bruxish is a Water / Psychic-type Pokémon, No. 779 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 7 (Alola region).
« Its skin is thick enough to fend off Mareanie’s spikes. With its robust teeth, Bruxish crunches up the spikes and eats them. »
Its story
Lifestyle
It buries itself on the seafloor and spots prey with a weak psychic power. Grinding its teeth knocks its foes unconscious.
In the anime
One traps a Wailmer until Olivia and her Lycanroc drive it off. Goh catches another during a race.
Name origin
Bruxish comes from bruxism and fish. It recalls the reef triggerfish, the state fish of Hawaii.
Did you know?
- In Alola, lifeguards let it stay to keep dangerous Water Pokémon away.
- It grinds Shellder and Mareanie into mush, then eats them.
- Sunlight on its ripples makes the water shine brightly.
Found in the Pokédex of:
AlolaPaldea
In other languages
Denticrisse
Knirfish
ハギギシリ치갈기磨牙彩皮魚