Wurmple (Pokémon)

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Wurmple (Japanese: ケムッソ Kemusso) is a introduced in Generation III.
Wurmple will evolve into either or starting at level 7 depending on its personality value. As personality values cannot be influenced or seen by the player, what a given Wurmple will evolve into is essentially random. From there, the Silcoon or Cascoon will evolve again starting at level 10 into or respectively.
==Biology==
Wurmple is a small, -like . Its body is mainly red with a cream underside and face. It has large yellow eyes with dark pupils. It has one sharp yellow stinger on its head and two of them on its rear. It has a tall, erect, red spine behind its forehead and a similar, smaller spine behind that. It has small spikes running down the top portions of its body and five pairs of stubby white limbs.
Wurmple has suction pads at the tips of its feet, which allow it to cling to glass or tree branches without slipping. It can spit white silk that turns gooey when exposed to the air. To defend itself, it can release poison from its tail spikes, which can weaken foes. Wurmple's diet consist of leaves and sap, the latter of which it gets by pulling bark off trees. Wurmple are abundant and live in . It is unknown why Wurmple evolves into either or , and not even Wurmple's appearance gives a hint to which species it will evolve into. , , and are natural predators of Wurmple.
===Evolution===
Wurmple evolves into either , which evolves into , or evolves into , which evolves into .
==Game data==
===NPC appearances===
* Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness: Wurmple is one of the members of Team Tasty, alongside . A running joke is that Wurmple is terrified that Swellow is going to eat him, and that's why he named their team that. Only at the end of the game does Swellow realize this.
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===Held items===
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
====Pokéathlon stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
Wurmple is available in and Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
====By leveling up====
====By TM====
====By ====
====By tutoring====
====-only moves====
Move	Card
 	Wurmple (Creator Contest 2)
===Side game data===
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===Evolution data===
Whether Wurmple evolves into either Silcoon or Cascoon depends on its personality value. As personality values cannot be influenced or seen by the player, what a given Wurmple will evolve into is essentially random.
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Main series===
====Major appearances====
=====May's Wurmple=====
 a Wurmple in All in a Day's Wurmple. It evolved into a Silcoon in A Corphish Out of Water and then into a Beautifly in Seeing is Believing!.
=====Jessie's Wurmple=====
Jessie also caught a Wurmple in All in a Day's Wurmple. It evolved into a Cascoon in the same episode that May's Wurmple evolved in, and into a Dustox in the same episode where May's Silcoon had evolved into a Beautifly.
=====Aaron's Wurmple=====
In A Trainer and Child Reunion!, Aaron was revealed to have a Wurmple when he was younger. It returned to him in the episode as a Beautifly.
====Minor appearances====
In Lights, Camerupt, Action!, a Wurmple was an actor in one of Elijah's movies.
In The Ribbon Cup Caper, a Wurmple was at the S.S. St. Flower's Pokémon Center.
A Wurmple appeared in a flashback in The Rise of Darkrai.
A Wurmple appeared in Riding the Winds of Change!.
In Genesect and the Legend Awakened, a Wurmple was living in Pokémon Hills.
In Serving Up the Flute Cup!, Goh caught three during his and 's visit to the . In Best Friend...Worst Nightmare!, they all evolved into Cascoon.
In Goodbye, Friend!, Goh was hoping to catch a Wurmple, only for his to be uncooperative in helping him out.
In Trade, Borrow, and Steal!, a Wurmple was part of Kricketina Kylie's Bug-type Pokémon collection, as shown in her Rotom Phone.
A Trainer's Wurmple appeared in The Future is Now, Thanks to Strategy!.
A Trainer's Wurmple appeared in A Squad's Worth of Passion!.
====Pokédex entries====
===Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Animated Trailer===
In the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Animated Trailer, two Wurmple surrounded and her , only for Torchic to scare them away with a attack.
===Pokémon Generations===
In The Cavern, a Wurmple was fleeing from a storm that a Primal was creating.
==In the manga==
===Ash & Pikachu===
A Wurmple appears in a flashback in A Pokémon Battle Against An Entire Family?!, under the ownership of the Winstrate family.
===Pokémon Adventures===
Wurmple first appeared in Making Mirth with Mightyena.
===Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!===
Several s are seen using Wurmple. Among these Grunts is B-2, whose Wurmple first appeared in Hareta's Very First Pokémon Battle!!.
A Wurmple appeared in Return to Hareta's Home Forest!.
===Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team===
Multiple Wurmple appeared in Pokémon to the Rescue!.
===Pokémon Ranger the Comic: Double Mission===
A Wurmple appeared in Pokémon Ranger the Comic: Double Mission Episode Two as one of the Pokémon that Solana captured with her Capture Styler. It reappeared in Pokémon Ranger the Comic: Double Mission Episode Three and was released in Pokémon Ranger the Comic: Double Mission Episode Five.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Wurmple shares its with and . They are all known as the Worm Pokémon.
* Wurmple is the only Pokémon whose evolution is directly influenced by its personality value.
** Pokémon whose evolution are influenced by their gender also evolve based on their personality value, although, unlike Wurmple, their determined evolution can be known in advance.
** By evolving Wurmple and then exiting the game without saving, it is possible to learn which form Wurmple will take without irreversibly evolving it. As the personality value is a static value, soft resetting to revert it to a Wurmple and evolving that same Wurmple again will never result in a different evolution from the prior attempt.
* Prior to Generation VI, Wurmple's shape was .
* Wurmple has on occasion been erroneously depicted with a yellow horn on the back of its head. This design notably appears in it sprites for : . It also appeared in prerelease materials for , but was removed in the release version.
* Wurmple’s evolutionary line (2 branches of a three-stage evolutionary lines) is unique.
** Prior to the introduction of and , Wurmple’s evolutions were the only branched evolutions capable of evolving again. 
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===Origin===
Wurmple is based on a Nintendo Dream Volume 84, February/March 2003 (English translation written by Jacob Newcomb and commissioned by Dr. Lava) or combination of caterpillars, such as that of the and/or .
According to Ken Sugimori in an interview, Wurmple was intentionally designed to be similar to Caterpie, and is meant to fill in for Caterpie's role in the Hoenn region, i.e. being a simple evolutionary line that can teach new players the concept of Pokémon evolution.
====Name origin====
Wurmple may be a combination of and rumple (creased or wrinkled in texture) or simple.
Kemusso may be derived from 毛虫 kemushi (caterpillar).
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* May's Wurmple
* Jessie's Wurmple
* Aaron's Wurmple
==References==
==External links==
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