Gyarados

() is a /-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I. It has a Mega Evolution form which is a / type.
==Biology==
===Physiology===
It is a dragon-like Pokémon that is serpentine in shape and covered in blue and yellow scales. It has white fins on top of its body and it has a tan underbelly. It has fins on the side of its face and a large, blue crest on its forehead. Like Magikarp, it has "whiskers" which are either yellow or white.
A shiny Gyarados has all the blue scales replaced with red.
===Gender differences===
Female Gyarados have light whiskers which are white. In Pokémon GO and its Water Event, female Gyarados' whiskers are now white/silver or platinum after evolving from a female Magikarp.
===Behavior===
Contrary to their pre-evolution Magikarp, Gyarados are known to be extremely violent, often flying into an Outrage and destroying anything they see. This includes small towns that stand on their wake. This is likely due to them having undergone structural brain transformation that stimulated their brain cells, leading to them becoming ferocious.
Mega Gyarados are monstrously destructive creatures due to the stress imposed on their brains by Mega Evolution, leaving them of nearly nothing but the dangerous instinct to raze everything into cinders.
Despite their violent disposition, Gyarados can be obedient to trainers that they love and trust and can be very misunderstood; they never intentionally destroy things and instead they just have anger problems. When they aren't angry, they are actually quite timid and gentle for a short-tempered sea serpent. 
Gyarados in the Alola region will flee upon seeing a school of Wishiwashi.
===Natural abilities===
Gyarados have the ability to incinerate everything on their paths with one single powerful Hyper Beam.
Mega Gyarados are known to travel in Mach speed by jetting water with their side orifices. With such speed, they can split large ships into two.
==Evolution==
Gyarados is the evolved form of Magikarp as of level 20.
==Game info==
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===Sprites===
===Mega Evolution sprites===
Front 	Back
Front (Shiny)	Back (Shiny)
==Appearances==
===Anime===
Misty Gyarados anime.png|Misty's Gyarados.
Misty Mega Gyarados.png|Misty's Mega Gyarados.
Lance Gyarados Shiny.png|Lance's Shiny Gyarados.
Lance Dynamax Gyarados.png|Lance's Shiny Dynamax Gyarados.
Lysandre Mega Gyarados.png|Shiny Mega Gyarados in the anime.
James' Magikarp, which he bought from a dealer, evolves into a Gyarados, which called forth four wild Gyarados to use Dragon Rage and send Ash and co flying.
A Red Gyarados is found in the Lake of Rage, north of Mahogany Town, in Johto. It is owned by the Elite Four, Lance.
Lance once use the Red Gyarados to save Brock, May and Max from drowning while he is disguising as a Team Magma grunt. Lance's cousin, Clair the Gym Leader of Blackthorn City also owns a Gyarados and it was used to protect Dratini and its battle against Jessie's Arbok and later teaming up with Dratini who is now evolved into a Dragonair to knock James' Weezing twice using both Hydro Pump and its Hyper Beam and blasts Team Rocket away from Dragonair's Twister. She later uses this in their Gym rematch against Ash as her second Pokémon but lost to his Pikachu.
Misty owns a Gyarados as well which has the same ill-tempered behavior as James' Gyarados but this subsides when it defeats the three brothers' Tentacruel after it attacked Misty to protect Corsola and Gyarados itself while underwater. In Hoenn, She uses this against Colonel Hansen when Togepi who is now evolved into a Togetic uses its Safeguard to block Shedinja's Solar Beam and it quickly defeats his Pokémon with its powerful Flamethrower which proves to be super effective. It later fights alongside other Pokémon to battle all of the Mirage Pokémon created by Dr. Yung in the movie Master of Mirage Pokémon. In the Sun & Moon series, her Gyarados mega evolved into Mega Gyarados via Key Stone and it was after Lysandre's Red Gyarados from the XY series. Therefore, it was defeated by Ash's Pikachu from getting massive damage using its Z-Move, Gigavolt Havoc.
In the XY series and like Lance, Lysandre also owns a Red Gyarados but it can mega evolve into a Mega Gyarados via Key Stone- which it managed to wipe out all of Ash's Pokémon except Pikachu and Ash's Greninja in its Ash-Greninja form during the Team Flare's crisis. However, Lysandre's Gyarados was ultimately defeated by the combined efforts of Ash's Pikachu, Ash's Greninja in its Ash-Greninja form and Alain's Charizard in its mega evolved form as Mega Charizard X.
* Gyarados (anime)
* Lance's Gyarados
* Misty's Gyarados
* Clair's Gyarados
* Crasher Wake's Gyarados
* Lysandre's Gyarados
==Trivia==
*Despite its dragon-like appearance, it isn't type, yet it can learn -type moves such as Dragon Rage and Dragon Breath and it is used by many Dragon Trainers such as Lance and Clair.
**When it Mega Evolves, it does not gain the type, instead gaining the type.
*Despite it being seen flying/floating in the anime, it cannot learn the move, Fly. It can only learn Hurricane by leveling up and can be taught Bounce by tutoring.
*Gyarados was the first ever Shiny Pokémon seen in the anime.
*Because of this Mega Evolution, Gyarados was the only -type Generation I Pokémon until the introduction of the Alolan variants.
*Despite its Pokémon Sun entry stating a wild one left a city in flames, it can only learn -type moves through TM, which can only be taught to tamed Pokémon. These are both Flamethrower and Fire Blast. However, said Gyarados may have been released after it had been taught a Fire-type move or caused the flames indirectly by damaging or destroying flammable or explosive objects. It's also worth mentioning that some metals burst into flames when exposed to water.
*Gyarados and its pre-evolution Magikarp have a unique egg group combo (Water 2 & Dragon).
*In Pokémon GO, Gyarados is one of the few Pokémon that can have a CP of 3000 or more that is not a Mythical or Legendary.
**It is also one of the 7 that isn't a Pseudo-Legendary or Semi Pseudo-Legendary.
*Gyarados is one of the collectable spirits in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
*Gyarados has the greatest increase of its base stat total of any Pokémon compared to its pre-evolution.
*According to Ash's original Pokédex in "Pokémon Shipwreck", Gyarados' fangs can crush stone and its scales are harder than steel.
*Mega Gyarados and Mega Charizard X are the only Pokémon that can participate in Sky Battles that are not -type Pokémon nor have the ability Levitate, although this is only because their base forms are -type Pokémon.
===Origin===
Gyarados appears to based off a sea dragon or a sea serpent from China. Gyarados, being evolved from Magikarp, which is a relatively useless and weak Pokémon, is a reference to a common belief in Asian countries that a carp will transform into a dragon (despite Gyarados not being type) after it jumps over a tall waterfall. This Pokémon may also be based on Utuboros from the Mega Man X games.
===Etymology===
Gyarados may derive from gyre, 虐殺 gyakusatsu (massacre/slaughter) or 逆境 gyakkyō (hardship/adversity)—both words relate to the creature's violent nature and the hardship it experienced before evolving. In addition, 逆 gyaku means "reverse" or "contrary", possibly referring to how Gyarados evolves from a weak Pokémon to one capable of destroying entire cities, and, in legend, how the carp goes against the flow of the waterfall in order to reach the top. It may also involve 嵐 arashi (storm) or 争い arasoi (conflict, referencing on how it appeared during wars). The last part may be from 脅す odosu (to threaten) or どす dosu (dagger), again owing to Gyarados' violent nature. It may also come from dos, Spanish for "two," as it's the second member of its evolutionary line.
==Gallery==
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gyrados s.png|A Red Gyarados
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