Appearance
A black sea-urchin Pokémon with yellow eyes, triangular pupils, and two round yellow mouthparts. Sharp spines line its back and sides; their gray tips glow yellow with electricity.
#871
Pincurchin
Sea Urchin Pokémon
Electric
- Height
- 0.3 m
- Weight
- 1 kg
- Generation
- 8
- Region
- Galar
Pincurchin is a Electric-type Pokémon, No. 871 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 8 (Galar region).
« It stores electricity in each spine. Even if one gets broken off, it still continues to emit electricity for at least three hours. »
Its story
Lifestyle
It scrapes seaweed with five hard teeth and stores the electricity from digestion in its spines. Timid, it shocks anything that startles it, which helps against Mareanie.
In the anime
A Pincurchin appeared in the animated series under the ownership of Yakata.
Name origin
It is based on a burrowing sea urchin and a pincushion. Its name blends pincushion and sea urchin; its spines shock instead of injecting venom.
Did you know?
- A broken-off spine keeps emitting electricity for about three hours.
- The only Electric-type with a many-legged body, and the slowest of that type.
- In southern England, sea-urchin fossils were once seen as petrified thunderbolts.
Found in the Pokédex of:
GalarPaldea
In other languages
Wattapik
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