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Caterpie
Main Pokédex page | Flavor text and images
General
Caterpie
Abilities
- Shield Dust
- This Pokémon is immune to stat/status changes from damaging moves.
Damage Taken
- ×1
×1
×1
×1
×½
×2
×2
×1
×½
×½
×1
×1
×1
×1
×2
×1
×1
Dex Numbers
- Generation
RBY- Kanto
- 10
Johto- 24
Hoenn- n/a
Sinnoh- n/a
Names
- Japanese
- キャタピー
- Romaji
- Kyatapii
Flavor
- Height
- 11.8" or 0.3 m
- Weight
- 6.4 lb or 2.9 kg
- Species
- Worm
- Color
- green
- Cry
- mp3 here
Habitat
- Pawprint
Misc
- R/B/Y code
- 123 or 0x7b
Breeding
- Gender
½ male; ½ female (code: 127 or 0x7f)- Breeding groups
- 3: Bug
- Steps to hatch
- 3,840
- Compatible with
- 25 families; 50 total Pokémon
In the Wild
- Base EXP
- 53 or 0x35
- Capture rate
- 255 or 0xff
- Base happiness
- 70 or 0x46
- Growth rate
- medium
- Effort points
- 1 HP
- Wild held items
- n/a
Evolution Chain
Comparison of this evolution chain
| Basic | Stage 1 | Stage 2 |
|---|---|---|
 
Caterpie
Base form
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Metapod
Raise to level 7
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Butterfree
Raise to level 10
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Stats
| Stat | Base | Max Stat | %ile | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L50 | L100 | |||
| HP | 152 | 294 | 16.6 | |
| Attack | 82 | 159 | 4.7 | |
| Defense | 87 | 169 | 6.5 | |
| Special Attack | 72 | 139 | 1 | |
| Special Defense | 72 | 139 | 0 | |
| Speed | 97 | 189 | 23.5 | |
| Average | - | - | 0.6 | |
Flavor
All versions' flavor text and sprites
It releases a stench from its red antenna to repel enemies. It grows by molting repeatedly.
Locations
Sorry, Pearl players! Only Diamond for the moment.
| Area | Section | Level | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Route 204 | Jubilife City side | 6 |  8%
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Move List
Caterpie's Attack is higher, so it will inflict more damage with physical (
) moves.
Caterpie gets the STAB from moves.
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Move | Type | Dmg | PP | Power | Acc.* | Pri. | Description | |
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| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | String Shot | |
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40 | -- | 95% | Lowers the target's Speed. | ||
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Tackle | |
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35 | 35 | 95% | Inflicts regular damage. | ||
| 15 | Bug Bite | |
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20 | 60 | 100% | Inflicts double damage if the user is holding a berry. | ||||||
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Snore | |
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15 | 40 | 100% | Has a 30% chance to make the target Flinch. Only works if the user is Sleeping. | ||||||