Appearance
It lives inside a teal shell shaped like a pine cone. Only its red eyes and one spike on top, thought to be its stem, show.
#204
Pineco
Bagworm Pokémon
Bug
- Height
- 0.6 m
- Weight
- 7.2 kg
- Generation
- 2
- Region
- Johto
Pineco is a Bug-type Pokémon, No. 204 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 2 (Johto region).
« It sticks tree bark to itself with its saliva, making itself thicker and larger. Elderly Pineco are ridiculously huge. »
Its story
Lifestyle
In tropical or temperate forests, hanging from a branch, it waits for flying insects and glues on bark. The extra weight does not bother it. It hops and evolves into Forretress.
In the anime
Brock catches one with a Fast Ball; that Pineco evolves later.
Name origin
Pineco comes from pine cone. It suggests a bagworm, whose case can look like a pine cone, and a grenade.
Did you know?
- Usually still, it drops and explodes if the tree is shaken while it eats.
- In Alola, Cutiefly is its favorite prey.
- It also suggests the Mexican jumping bean, a pod stirred by a larva inside.
Found in the Pokédex of:
JohtoAlolaPaldea
In other languages
Pomdepik
Tannza
クヌギダマ피콘榛果球