Appearance
Slakoth is a brown quadruped with sloth-like ways, coarse fur, and two dark stripes. It has a pink pig-like snout, long lanky arms, and two claws on each paw.
#287
Slakoth
Slacker Pokémon
Normal
- Height
- 0.8 m
- Weight
- 24 kg
- Generation
- 3
- Region
- Hoenn
Slakoth is a Normal-type Pokémon, No. 287 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 3 (Hoenn region).
« Slakoth’s heart beats just once a minute. Whatever happens, it is content to loaf around motionless. It is rare to see this Pokémon in motion. »
Its story
Lifestyle
It sleeps more than twenty hours a day, and three leaves are enough. It keeps one tropical-forest nest for life, swims far, and evolves into Vigoroth.
In the anime
Norman's Slakoth stands up to Pikachu in a Gym battle against Ash, then loses to Torkoal.
Name origin
The model is the sloth, and also a human infant that sleeps more than it wakes. Slakoth may combine slack off and sloth.
Did you know?
- Its heart beats only once a minute.
- Its sleep can make those nearby drowsy.
- Ken Sugimori said the name was conceived before the design.
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