Genesect

() is a /-type Mythical Pokémon introduced in Generation V.
==Biology==
===Physiology===
Genesect is a bipedal, cybernetic insectile Pokémon. It has a purple metallic body with a wide, flat head that is saucer-shaped. It has two red eyes and a wide mouth with exposed white teeth, giving it a grinning appearance. It carries a powerful laser-firing cannon on its back that was upgraded and added onto it by Team Plasma when they made the modifications to it. Genesect's thorax is powerfully-built, and it has a heavily armored metal exoskeleton. Its arms and legs are plated with segmented metal parts. There is a pale purple stripe across its diamond-shaped abdomen.
This Pokémon existed 300 million years ago. Team Plasma altered it and attached a cannon to its back.
===Special abilities===
Various drives can be attached to Genesect's cannon to allow it to fire different elemental beams. In ancient times, it was feared as the fiercest of hunters.
===Habitat===
Genesect is an ancient species that lived over 300 million years ago. It is unknown where Genesect originally resided, but its fossil was restored by Team Plasma scientists, who added cybernetic attachments to it.
==Evolution==
Genesect does not evolve.
==Game data==
===Locations===
===Pokédex entries===
===Stats===
===Learnset===
====Leveling====
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====TM/HM====
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====Breeding====
====Tutoring====
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===Sprites===
====Special Forms====
Genosekuto BW Blaze.png|Genesect holding Burn Drive.
Genosekuto BW Aqua.png|Genesect holding Douse Drive
Genosekuto BW Lightning.png|Genesect holding Shock Drive
Genosekuto BW Ice.png|Genesect holding Chill Drive
0649Genesect BW anime 3.png|Anime exclusive High-Speed Flight form
==Appearances==
===Anime===
Genesect appeared in Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened. It also has a shiny form.
* Red Genesect
* Genesect Army
==Profiles==
===Super Smash Bros. Ultimate spirit===
==Trivia==
*While it's unknown what Genesect looked like in prehistoric times, some theorize that Kabutops is Genesect's ancient form because they both:
**Lived 300 million years ago.
**Have wide and flat heads.
**Have blade hands.
**Have same leg structure.
**Have provident chests.
*If the player takes a Genesect to the P2 Laboratory and shows it to the scientist there, he will battle the player. If the player wins, the scientist gives him/her two out of the four drives, with the two being different depending on the version of the game.
*Genesect's move, Techno Blast, is somewhat similar to Arceus's Judgment, basing its typing on its held item.
*Genesect is classified as the Paleozoic Pokémon because it existed during the Paleozoic Era, a time period more than 300 million years ago.
*In the P2 Laboratory, there is a memo presumably written by Ghetsis stating that Lord N had modified what is to be the strongest Pokémon ever until he abandoned the project, likely because N is compassionate to the feelings of Pokémon.
*CoroCoro leaked it and revealed it on July 11, 2012.
*Genesect is shown on a teaser after the pre-release of the fifteenth Pokémon movie.
*It is the only prehistoric Pokémon that can not be restored from a fossil.
* Genesect is one of the only three -type Pokémon that can learn Fly, the others being Volcarona and Vikavolt.
** Interestingly, none of these Pokémon are the Flying-type.
*Genesect is the second Pokémon to be created in a Laboratory, the first being Mewtwo.
**However, while Mewtwo is a clone, Genesect is a genetically altered version of a Pokémon that existed thousands of years ago.
*Genesect share similarities with Jango Fett from Star Wars. The similarities are:
**Both have a rocket launcher on their back.
**Both are the subject of biological cloning and modification, and are used to make an army of clones.
*Genesect can also be similar to Sektor and other Lin Kuei/Tenkunin Ninjas from Mortal Kombat. The similarities are:
**Both are cybernetic life-form and utilizes firearms like missiles and rockets.
**The Shiny version of Genesect shares a similar color scheme as Sektor. Conditionally based on the movie anime adaption involing Genesect's appearance, both lead their respective cybernetic life-form groups.
**The original color scheme of Genesect is based on Smoke's classic cyborg form, with a red eye color scheme similar from Smoke's appearances in two Mortal Kombat games Deception and Armageddon.
*In Super Smash Bros., Genesect is one of the Pokémon that can be freed from Poké Balls. During this time, it uses the move Techno Blast.
*There is no normal Genesect with a normal drive that has been introduced in the anime series or movie so far.
===Origin===
Genesect is likely based on Paleozoic giant insects, taking inspiration from ants, cockroaches, beetles, and praying mantises in particular and various insectoid robots in sci-fi media. It somewhat resembles Vile from the Mega Man X series due to its purple color, robotic nature, usage by a villainous faction, and heavy weaponry mounted on its back and shoulders, as well as the Space Pirates from the Metroid series, both being bipedal, arthropod-like creatures used by villainous groups and the Space Pirates often using energy weapons and having metallic exoskeletons. Fans have noticed that it also resembles a Kabutops somewhat. Its ability to fold its body from a combat-suited form to a travel-suited form may be in reference to Transformers, a toy franchise centered around robots who can change into forms resembling those of vehicles or other machines, Genesect's eyes resembling car headlights. Genesect may be based on certain incarnations of the Decepticon Shockwave in particular due to the purple color scheme and cannon. Genesect may also possibly be based on the EVA units from the anime franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion, both being weaponized bipedal cyborgs created by villainous, but ostensibly well-meaning organizations from ancient creatures with weapons mounted on their shoulders. Genesect's normal colors resemble EVA-01's purple color scheme while its shiny colors resemble EVA-02's red color scheme.
===Etymology===
Genesect and its Japanese name, Genosekuto, are likely portmanteaus of "genetic" (as it was genetically modified), "generator" (as it is a cyborg), "general" and/or "genocide" (as it was made to be a weapon), "genesis" (as it was the first robotically enhanced Pokémon) and "insect".
==Gallery==
0649Genesect M16.png
0649Genesect M16 2.png
0649Genesect M16 3.png
0649Genesect BW anime.png
0649Genesect BW anime 2.png
0649Genesect BW anime 3.png
0649Genesect BW anime 4.png
0649Genesect BW anime 5.png
0649Genesect Dream.png
0649Genesect B Dream.png
0649Genesect C Dream.png
0649Genesect S Dream.png
0649Genesect D Dream.png
0649Genesect Pokemon 20th Anniversary.png
0649Genesect Masters.png
0649Genesect Pokémon HOME.png
0649Genesect Douse Drive Pokémon HOME.png
0649Genesect Burn Drive Pokémon HOME.png
0649Genesect Shock Drive Pokémon HOME.png
0649Genesect Chill Drive Pokémon HOME.png
Genesect trophy SSBWU.png
0649Genesect 3D Pro.png
Shining Genesect Shining Legends artwork.png
SSBUGenesect.png
0649Genesect GO.png
Genesect D-GO.png
Genesect B-GO.png
Genesect S-GO.png
Genesect C-GO.png
0649Genesect TCG Model.jpg
Genesect Pokemon Plasma Blast.jpg
Genesect promotional art.jpg
Genesect Sword and Shield Fusion Strike.png
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