Appearance
Dusknoir is mostly black, like a cyclops. Its gray head has one yellow-and-red eye in a smiling eyelid, a yellow headband with an antenna, and a wispy tail instead of feet.
#477
Dusknoir
Gripper Pokémon
Ghost
- Height
- 2.2 m
- Weight
- 106.6 kg
- Generation
- 4
- Region
- Sinnoh
Dusknoir is a Ghost-type Pokémon, No. 477 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 4 (Sinnoh region).
« Comes to those whose lives have come to an end and escorts their souls to the afterlife. Known to mistakenly take the souls of those who yet have life left in them, albeit rarely. »
Its story
Lifestyle
It carries souls to the afterlife and can swallow a target in its belly mouth. Feared by many, it evolves from Dusclops.
In the anime
It debuts protecting people from a ghost girl who wants to send them to the spirit world, though it is often blamed.
Name origin
A one-eyed ghost, it recalls the Chōchin-obake and soul guides like the Grim Reaper. Dusknoir may blend dusk and noir, French for black.
Did you know?
- On rare occasions it takes a living person's soul by mistake.
- It eats only spectral essence and leaves a living being's empty body untouched.
- Nobody knows if it chooses this work or only obeys the spirit messages.
Found in the Pokédex of:
HoennSinnohGalarHisuiPaldea
In other languages
Noctunoir
Zwirrfinst
ヨノワール야느와르몽黑夜魔靈