Swalot (Pokémon)

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Swalot (Japanese: マルノーム Marunoom) is a introduced in Generation III.
It evolves from starting at level 26.
==Biology==
Swalot is a tall, purple, amorphous . It has red, beady eyes and yellow whiskers. A female Swalot has shorter whiskers than a male. It has puckered lips and can fit an automobile tire in its mouth. Its hands have three fingers. It has a single row of black rhombi running across its midsection, and it can expand and contract its body at will. 
Swalot is capable of swallowing anything whole and can digest anything except its own stomach lining. It covers prey and opponents with a powerful poison. It likes eating poisoned and poisonous things. It lives in . As mentioned in the Sleep Style Dex, Swalot sometimes sleeps with its mouth wide open.Sleep Style Dex entry: "It sometimes falls asleep with its cavernous mouth wide open. Perhaps it's dreaming that it found a huge meal and is trying to swallow it whole." It is believed that Swalot is dreaming of a huge meal it is attempting to swallow whole.
===Evolution===
Swalot evolves from .
(For specifics on this Pokémon's Evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
==Game data==
===Pokédex entries===
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Swalot in the
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===Stats===
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===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
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===Side game data===
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Major appearances===
Swalot debuted in Deceit and Assist, under the ownership of . He had been it since it was a . It was used to compete in the Hoenn Grand Festival, during which it battled and lost.
In From Brags to Riches, Dominick used a Swalot and in a Double Battle against , where they battled and at the Ever Grande Conference. However, Corphish ultimately managed to defeat Swalot.
In Lost Leader Strategy!, Reggie used a Swalot in his battle against Ash. It battled and was able to defeat him.
===Minor appearances===
In All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go!, a Swalot competed in the Pokémon Dress-Up Contest, being painted to look like a .
A 's Swalot appeared in Summer of Discovery!.
In Crowning the Chow Crusher!, a 's Swalot competed in the Pokémon Grand Eating Contest.
===Pokédex entries===
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
In Swanky Showdown with Swalot, a Swalot fought Lucy and Spenser in an . Although it seemingly won using a after putting the former's to , the awoke using her Ability and counterattacked with a maneuver, defeating it.
The rented a Swalot, which was stolen by Guile Hideout in The Final Battle VII.
In a flashback in Innocent Scientist, a Swalot was trained by the International Police.
s own multiple Swalot, which first appeared in Rhyhorn Charges.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Swalot is the only Pokémon with a base stat total of 467.
* The illustrator of Pokémon Adventures, Satoshi Yamamoto, uses Swalot to represent himself in the volume's comment boxes.
===Origin===
Swalot may be based on myriad organs or glands, such as a , a , or a single, giant poison gland. It may also be based upon a generic organism that uses . Its general shape resembles a .
Swalot may also draw inspiration from the , a yokai in Japenese folklore depicted as a blob with vestigal appendages. Other possibilities include , sometimes referred to as the predatory slime mold, a reference to the sci-film , single-celled , or the .
====Name origin====
Swalot may be a combination of swallow and a lot.
Marunoom may be derived from 丸呑み marunomi (swallowing whole).
==In other languages==
==References==
==External links==
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de:Schlukwech
es:Swalot
fr:Avaltout
it:Swalot
ja:マルノーム
zh:吞食兽