Appearance
Spidops is a beige and pine-green spider with a vest-like chest and eight slender legs bunched in pairs. Its abdomen is wrapped in white silk like a spool of yarn.
#918
Spidops
Trap Pokémon
Bug
- Height
- 1 m
- Weight
- 16.5 kg
- Generation
- 9
- Region
- Paldea
Spidops is a Bug-type Pokémon, No. 918 in the National Pokédex, introduced in Generation 9 (Paldea region).
« Spidops covers its territory in tough, sticky threads to set up traps for intruders. »
Its story
Lifestyle
An ambush hunter, it drops a silk net on prey from the trees. It evolves from Tarountula and spars with Scyther to protect the young.
In the anime
In a flashback it attacks Sprigatito; Liko's frees her friends but hurts them by accident. Later her Sprigatito beats it with Magical Leaf, harming only Spidops.
Name origin
It blends the net-casting spider, marionettes, and the secret agent. Spidops may combine spider, spy, ops, and possibly Deinopis.
Did you know?
- It shares the Trap Pokémon category with Stunfisk.
- The Shiny form's red silk suggests infrared lasers.
- It echoes the Tsuchigumo, a spider yōkai that snares travelers in strings.
Found in the Pokédex of:
Paldea
In other languages
Filentrappe
Spinsidias
ワナイダー트래피더操陷蛛