Appearance
Krookodile is a large maroon crocodile with a black back and a white belly. Five spikes rise from its back, and a black membrane sweeps up into two peaks above its skull.
#553
Krookodile
Intimidation Pokémon
GroundDark
- Height
- 1.5 m
- Weight
- 96.3 kg
- Generation
- 5
- Region
- Unova
Krookodile is a Ground / Dark-type Pokémon, No. 553 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 5 (Unova region).
« While terribly aggressive, Krookodile also has the patience to stay hidden under sand for days, lying in wait for prey. »
Its story
Lifestyle
Highly violent, it hides in sand and swims through the desert as if through water. It evolves from Krokorok and is Sandile's final form.
In the anime
Ash's Krookodile is born when his Krokorok evolves against Iris's Dragonite. Nanu's then defeats Ash's Lycanroc, and later loses to it.
Name origin
Krookodile twists crook and crocodile. It suggests a slender-snouted crocodile, a gharial, and the dinosaur Baryonyx.
Did you know?
- Its jaws can crush an automobile and shred thick iron plates.
- Called the Bully of the Sands, it hunts with Flygon in sandstorms.
- One Krookodile unlike any other has pink eyelashes.
Found in the Pokédex of:
UnovaKalosAlolaGalarPaldea
In other languages
Crocorible
Rabigator
ワルビアル악비아르流氓鱷