Manaphy (Pokémon)

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Manaphy (Japanese: マナフィ Manaphy) is a Mythical Pokémon introduced in Generation IV.
It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
Manaphy has the unusual ability to breed despite being a Mythical Pokémon, although it can only be bred with due to being a gender-unknown Pokémon. Manaphy's offspring are , which do not evolve into Manaphy.
Along with Phione, Manaphy is considered to be one of the Sea guardians.
Manaphy is the last Pokémon in the Sinnoh Pokédex in , Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl.
==Biology==
Manaphy is a small, blue, aquatic with stubby feet and club-like arms that are longer than its body. It has a red gem on its chest and a yellow dot below the gem. Its onion-shaped head has a pair of long blue antennae, which have small spheres on the ends. Its irises are dark blue with yellow sclerae, and there are two yellow dots of "eyelash" markings extending from the eyes. Unlike other Pokémon Eggs, Manaphy hatches from a distinctive one that resembles its appearance, featuring a blue color with multiple glowing yellow dots and a red gem-like center, known as Manaphy Egg.
Eighty percent of Manaphy's body is made of water. It is highly susceptible to its environment and swims long distances to return to its birthplace. Manaphy prefers to live deep underwater, on the cold seafloor. It has been known to visit the coastal waters of Hisui, occasionally with Phione following it. It is born with a special power that allows it to bond with any Pokémon. Manaphy can switch the perspective of people, and Pokémon, with each other using , one of its signature moves prior to Generation VII and in Generation VIII. One epithet for Manaphy is "Prince of the Sea". As as depicted in Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, Manaphy is capable of learning and speaking the human language. Manaphy is capable of breeding Phione; despite their resemblance and familial links, the connection between the two is unknown at this point.
Manaphy and are the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move .
==Game data==
===NPC appearances===
* : While exploring Surrounded Sea, the player's team finds a Wonder Egg that hatches into a Manaphy. They look after it for a while but it becomes sick from spending too long out of the sea. arranges for Manaphy to live with a . He returns soon after the defeat of to officially join the team now that he has grown up. Manaphy loves to explore and discovered the Marine Resort. Manaphy also loves Gummis, especially the Blue Gummi due to being a type.
* Pokémon: Magikarp Jump: A Manaphy may randomly appear in the pond. Tapping it triggers the "Food Fever" .
* : Manaphy returns, giving the player a request meet at the bottom of Seafloor Ruins. Connecting with Manaphy and also leads to the player connecting with Walrein.
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===Held items===
===Stats===
====Base stats====
====Pokéathlon stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
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===Side game data===
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
====Manaphy Egg sprites====
 	 	 	 	
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====Other sprites====
Diamond and Pearl back sprites
==In animation==
===Main series===
====Major appearances====
=====Manaphy (M09)=====
In Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, a Manaphy was initially an that an evil gang and its leader, The Phantom, wanted to steal. Manaphy hatched in 's hands and helped the People of the Water find the Sea Temple Samiya. It is known as the Prince of the Sea.
=====Other=====
In Pikachu, What's This Key?, , , and visited a Manaphy courtesy of 's keys. They witnessed it in a water world full of floating spheres of water, before being launched into the sky by a .
====Minor appearances====
Manaphy debuted in the opening sequence of Pikachu's Ocean Adventure.
In the opening sequence of The Rise of Darkrai, a Manaphy was tailing a in the ocean.
A Manaphy appeared in the opening sequence of Arceus and the Jewel of Life.
A Manaphy appeared in the ending credits in Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade.
A Manaphy appeared in a fantasy and several photos in Dreams of the Sun and Moon!.
Manaphy made its physical animated series debut in Getting More Than You Battled For!.
====Pokédex entries====
===GOTCHA!===
A Manaphy briefly appeared as a silhouette in GOTCHA!.
==In the manga==
===Movie adaptations===
Manaphy appears in the of Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.
===Pocket Monsters DP===
A Manaphy appeared in PMDP11, where and his Pokémon found it at sea. investigated it and told the group about the Egg hatching into a Legendary Pokémon. It later hatched into Manaphy but became lazy due to 's parenting skills.
A Manaphy appeared in PMDP29.
===Pokémon Adventures===
Manaphy first appeared as a silhouette in the . Guile Hideout questioned going after it should he succeed in his plans. It later appeared as a silhouette in a fantasy in Unplugging Rotom (Heat, Wash, Mow, Fan, Frost).
In The Final Dimensional Duel XI, delivered Manaphy's Egg, which he had received in Fiore, to and , who hatched it. Later, a Phione Egg appeared by Manaphy at the Pokémon Day Care in Solaceon Town. It was seen walking with the Day-Care Couple, meeting its offspring through the fence.
===Pokémon Ranger the Comic: Double Mission===
In Pokémon Ranger the Comic: Double Mission, from Summerland found Manaphy's Egg on Fiore's Sea. Then, it was stolen by the Go-Rock Squad, who wanted to use its enormous powers for bad purposes when it hatched. This plan failed when Solana and Lunick saved the Egg and it was given to a who lives in Sinnoh.
==In the TCG==
==In the TFG==
One Manaphy figure has been released.
* : 
==Other appearances==
===Super Smash Bros. Brawl===
When released from a , Manaphy uses , which temporarily switches the body of the user with another player. KO's count for the player in control, not the character's normal player, preventing easy KOs via suicide.
====Trophy information====
"A Seafaring Pokémon. Eighty percent of its body is made of water. It has the ability Hydration, which allows it to restore status effects at the end of the turn if it's raining. It is the only Pokémon who can use the stat-effect-swapping move called . Place a Manaphy and a in the Pokémon Day Care, and they will produce a Phione egg."
===Super Smash Bros. for Wii U===
Manaphy appears as an occasional stage hazard in the of the stage. Appearing rarely, it will use to create a maelstrom on the floor of the stage, sucking in any fighters standing in the water in an attempt to KO them.
====Trophy information====
This Water-type Pokémon is said to have the mysterious ability to bond with any other Pokémon. It's also said to appear occasionally in the Water-type Elite Four Trainer's room in the Kalos Pokémon League stage. When it appears on the stage, it'll use its Whirlpool move to drag fighters into the middle of the swirling waters.
===Super Smash Bros. Ultimate===
Manaphy once again appears on the Kalos Pokémon League stage. Its behavior is the same as it was in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Manaphy also appears as a .
==Trivia==
* Manaphy's English name was uncovered, alongside the English name of Sinnoh, within the internal data of on November 2, 2006.
* Manaphy and are the only that are able to breed and yet are unobtainable through breeding.
* Manaphy and (if one counts Phione as Mythical) are the only Mythical Pokémon capable of producing Eggs in a or legitimately.
* Although normally gender unknown, in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, Manaphy is constantly referred to as a male.
** In Pokémon Ranger, it is also known as the "Prince of the Sea" in the British English versions of the game; however, it is referred to as the "Princess of the Sea" in American English versions.
** It is referred to as "a Pokémon known as the prince" in , in a book in the Canalave Library.
* In the games, Manaphy is the only Pokémon whose Egg sprite is different than the standard sprite.
** Despite the fact that Eggs cannot be transferred via Poké Transfer, Manaphy's Egg is found in the coding of the Generation V games. Location data for Pokémon Ranger also exists in those games.
** Manaphy's Egg has a unique hatching animation in Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl.
* In , the can register Manaphy as seen in the Pokédex by inspecting a book in Mr. Backlot's room at the .
* Like the majority of Event Pokémon obtained through Mystery Gift, it was intended to be impossible to obtain a Manaphy. However, an oversight in Generation IV allows a Manaphy Egg to have a chance to hatch Shiny, but only if it was traded before hatching. This is because Shininess is dependent on the Trainer ID number and Secret ID number, and the game mistakenly attempts to prevent Shininess using the original game's ID numbers instead of the ID numbers of the game that it was traded to. This oversight was undone by the time Manaphy's Egg returned in Generation VIII. Shiny Manaphy that are hatched from a traded Egg can still pass Poké Transporter's legality check.
* Because breeding Manaphy with produces only Eggs, there has yet to be an explanation on how Manaphy Eggs are produced.
===Origin===
Manaphy may be based on s, tiny transparent ocean mollusks. The Manaphy 's design is similar to .
Manaphy's trait of only being able to produce Phione as offspring may be inspired by , a biological phenomenon which usually manifests in a colony of animals having a sole breeding female, or queen, tended to by her usually infertile offspring, or an example of a highly rare and unique such as or .
====Name origin====
Manaphy may be a combination of (spiritual life force in Polynesian culture) and fay (fairy).
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Sea guardians
* Manaphy (M09)
* Mythical Pokémon
* Population of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon
==Notes==
==External links==
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