Appearance
A green caterpillar with a yellow underside and a teardrop-shaped tail. Yellow rings along its sides mimic eyes, and a bright red antenna rises from its head.
#010
Caterpie
Worm Pokémon
Bug
- Height
- 0.3 m
- Weight
- 2.9 kg
- Generation
- 1
- Region
- Kanto
Caterpie is a Bug-type Pokémon, No. 010 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 1 (Kanto region).
« Its short feet are tipped with suction pads that enable it to tirelessly climb slopes and walls. »
Its story
Lifestyle
Its silk entangles foes. It eats a hundred leaves a day, lives in temperate forests and jungles, and evolves into Metapod, then Butterfree.
In the anime
Ash caught one in Viridian Forest: his first wild Pokémon. It evolved twice almost right away.
Name origin
Caterpie is a diminutive of caterpillar.
Did you know?
- Its red antenna releases a stench that drives predators away.
- In the manga, its favorite food is the Vermilion flower.
- Using only a Caterpie, you could not finish a first-generation game.
Found in the Pokédex of:
KantoJohtoKalosAlolaGalar
In other languages
Chenipan
Raupy
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