Appearance
Charjabug is a small, cube-shaped insect of three square segments. Its eyes show only when they glow behind a blue screen, and its open jaws form a lightning bolt.
#737
Charjabug
Battery Pokémon
BugElectric
- Height
- 0.5 m
- Weight
- 10.5 kg
- Generation
- 7
- Region
- Alola
Charjabug is a Bug / Electric-type Pokémon, No. 737 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 7 (Alola region).
« Its digestive processes convert the leaves it eats into electricity. An electric sac in its belly stores the electricity for later use. »
Its story
Lifestyle
It evolves from Grubbin. Often half-buried, it eats humus, stores enough electricity for a household, and evolves into Vikavolt.
In the anime
Sophocles catches the one Ash caged as a farewell gift. A magnetic field in Vast Poni Canyon turns it into a Vikavolt.
Name origin
Hitoshi Ariga designed it. It suggests a cocooned insect and a battery. Charjabug may combine charge or charger and bug.
Did you know?
- While asleep it still releases electricity, because it keeps digesting.
- Vikavolt can use it as a battery, except in an aerial battle.
- Horacio's Shiny Charjabug loses, unable to climb an icy slope.
Found in the Pokédex of:
AlolaGalarPaldea
In other languages
Chrysapile
Akkup
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