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Caterpie
Metapod
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General
Metapod
Abilities
- Shed Skin
- Each turn, this Pokémon has a 1/3 chance of its status becoming normal.
Damage Taken
- ×1
×1
×1
×1
×½
×2
×2
×1
×½
×½
×1
×1
×1
×1
×2
×1
×1
Dex Numbers
- Generation
RBY- Kanto
- 11
Johto- 25
Hoenn- n/a
Sinnoh- n/a
Names
- Japanese
- トランセル
- Romaji
- Toranseru
Flavor
- Height
- 2'3.6" or 0.7 m
- Weight
- 21.8 lb or 9.9 kg
- Species
- Cocoon
- Color
- green
- Cry
- mp3 here
Habitat
- Pawprint
Misc
- R/B/Y code
- 124 or 0x7c
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
- 72 or 0x48
- Capture rate
- 120 or 0x78
- Base happiness
- 70 or 0x46
- Growth rate
- medium
- Effort points
- 2 Defense
- 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 | 157 | 304 | 22.7 | |
| Attack | 72 | 139 | 1.2 | |
| Defense | 107 | 209 | 32.9 | |
| Special Attack | 77 | 149 | 3 | |
| Special Defense | 77 | 149 | 1.2 | |
| Speed | 82 | 159 | 6.3 | |
| Average | - | - | 2.8 | |
Flavor
All versions' flavor text and sprites
A steel-hard shell protects its tender body. It quietly endures hardships while awaiting evolution.
Locations
Sorry, Pearl players! Only Diamond for the moment.
| Area | Section | Level | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eterna Forest | 12 |  8%
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Move List
Metapod's Special Attack is higher, so it will inflict more damage with special (
) moves.
Metapod gets the STAB from moves.
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Move | Type | Dmg | PP | Power | Acc.* | Pri. | Description | |
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| -- | -- | Harden | |
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30 | -- | 100% | Raises the user's Defense. | |||||
| -- | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | Harden | |
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30 | -- | 100% | Raises the user's Defense. | ||
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Iron Defense | |
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15 | -- | 100% | Raises the user's Defense by two levels. | ||||||