#569

Garbodor

Trash Heap Pokémon

Poison

Height: 1.9 m
Weight: 107.3 kg
Generation: 5
Region: Unova

Garbodor is a Poison-type Pokémon, No. 569 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 5 (Unova region).

Description

« The toxic liquid it launches from its right arm is so virulent that it can kill a weakened creature instantly. »

Its story

Appearance

Garbodor looks like trash spilling from a large torn garbage bag. Its lumpy tan body has blue and pink lumps, and its garbage arms do not have the same number of fingers.

Lifestyle

It lives in dumps, eats garbage to grow, and turns it into poisons that depend on what it ate. It evolves from Trubbish.

In the anime

At the Virbank Gym, Roxie's Garbodor defeats Ash's Pignite and Palpitoad, then loses to Pikachu.

Name origin

Created with Trubbish to represent city pollution: a bag bursting with garbage. Garbodor may combine garbage and odor.

Did you know?

Liquid from the right arm can kill a weakened foe at once.
In Gigantamax form, its gases congeal into discarded toys and can seep deep into bone.
In Alola its numbers collapsed after Alolan Grimer and Muk arrived; survivors are said to be stronger.