Spinda (Pokémon)

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Spinda (Japanese: パッチール Patcheel) is a introduced in Generation III.
It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
==Biology==
Spinda is a bipedal, red panda with rabbit-like features. Its eyes are made of two black spirals, which point in the opposite direction to each other. There is a similar swirling pattern on its ears. It has a small body with short stumpy arms and legs, and its coat is primarily cream-colored. Its arms are red and it has a red stripe bordering along the bottom of its belly, as well as two small spots on the soles of its feet. It has four spots, which can appear anywhere on its face and ears, with a fifth on the back of its head. These spot patterns are different for each and every Spinda.
It has dizzying, confusing, and scattering dance-like movements, though it thinks it is walking in a straight line. These movements confuse their opponents and make it difficult for them to aim at it. It lives in the .
Prior to Generation V, was its signature move, but other Pokémon could still inherit it via .
==Game data==
===NPC appearances===
* Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team: One day, a Spinda appears in Pokémon Square and collapses. When it regains consciousness, Spinda explains that it is giving up a long journey to find the and hands its one clue, the Clear Wing, to the player. The player must then solve the Mystery of the Mirage Pokémon, which will reward them with the Rainbow Wing. Upon showing the Rainbow Wing to Spinda, or talking to Spinda as Ho-Oh, it becomes happy and leaves Pokémon Square.
* Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky: Spinda runs Spinda's café and takes over the juice bar. A and a also work at the café running the recycle shop. Later in the game, Project P is introduced. After it is introduced, occasionally when speaking to Wynaut the player may gain access to a dungeon normally accessed by selecting a job with ??? as the location or get a choice of more items in the recycle shop.
===Pokédex entries===
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A male Spinda in the	A female Spinda in the
===Game locations===
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===Held items===
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
====Pokéathlon stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
Spinda is available in , but cannot be transferred to/from .
====By leveling up====
====By TM====
====By ====
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===Side game data===
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In , Spinda has nine distinct patterns, each treated as a different form. In addition, the Shiny variant for each pattern is also slightly different, making a total of eighteen patterns.
Spinda is exclusively obtained from specific Field Research tasks, with only one pattern available at a time.
 Patterns in 
  	  	 
Pattern 1	Pattern 2	Pattern 3
  	  	 
Pattern 4	Pattern 5	Pattern 6
  	  	 
Pattern 7	Pattern 8	Pattern 9
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
====Pattern examples====
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	: 00000000	: 88888888	: E3FDF3FD	: EEE32A53	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
: 00094289	: 001C008A	: 0029A280	: 10232080	: 102C3290	: 102992A0	: E2880098	: 88FE9800
==In animation==
===Major appearances===
Multiple Spinda debuted in Going for a Spinda. and had to help Claire find a Spinda with a heart-shaped spot on its forehead. , meanwhile, kept picking one up with a spot shaped like a broken heart, much to his displeasure.
===Minor appearances===
A 's Spinda appeared in Disguise Da Limit!.
A Spinda appeared in A Fan with a Plan.
A Coordinator's Spinda appeared in What I Did For Love!.
In Racing to a Big Event!, a 's Spinda competed in the Pokémon Pancake Race.
In Rocking Clawmark Hill!, a Spinda was training up on Clawmark Hill.
A Trainer's Spinda appeared in Exhibition Unmasked!.
In a flashback in Trials of a Budding Master!, a Trainer's Spinda battled Ash in a World Coronation Series match.
A Trainer's Spinda appeared in The Future is Now, Thanks to Strategy!.
A Trainer's Spinda appeared in Curtain Up! Fight the Fights!. It reappeared in Battling as Hard as Stone!.
A Trainer's Spinda appeared in A Squad's Worth of Passion!.
===Pokédex entries===
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Norman owns a Spinda, which first appeared in Rayquaza Redemption I. He uses it in conjunction with his to switch their with .
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A Spinda appeared as a Pokémon in Pinsir Me, I Must Be Dreaming.
The Battle Factory rented a Spinda, which was stolen by Guile Hideout in Skirting Around Surskit I.
The rented a Spinda, which was stolen by Guile Hideout in The Final Battle VII.
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A Spinda appeared in a flashback in Bombastic Bibarel & Heroic Hippopotas.
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In The Transfer Student, Yancy owns a Spinda. It was first seen with its when she was breaking up with . Afterwards, it left with Yancy while she said her tearful goodbyes.
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The Lumiose Press editor-in-chief owns a Spinda, which first appeared in Goodra Spits.
==In the TCG==
==In the TFG==
One Spinda figure has been released.
* : 
==Trivia==
* In Pokémon Battle Revolution, is depicted as two purple orbs spinning around each other towards the target. However, when Spinda uses Toxic, the orbs travel erratically. The same animation is used for .
* Like , its base stat total might be based on the fact that it usually spins in circles, which are 360 degrees.
* Spinda's Pokédex entry states that Spinda believe they walk in straight lines, oblivious to their teetering gait. However, in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, an NPC Spinda tells the player; "When I walk, I always totter.", clearly being aware of this trait.
===Spot patterns===
* Some of Spinda's Pokédex entries mention the odds of two Spinda having the same spot pattern as less than one in four billion. Since Spinda's spots are based on its personality value (or encryption constant in later games), which is a 32-bit number, a simplistic model would put the odds at 1 in 4,294,967,296, which is indeed smaller than one in four billion; however, it is actually possible for two personality values to produce spot patterns that are visually identical, so the real odds are somewhat higher.
** Using this app, it can be found that two dots have 256 distinct locations, one dot has 254, and one dot has 237, counting all locations where the dot is entirely off-sprite as the same. This results in a total of 3,945,136,128 patterns. However, even this total is slightly too high, because if the upper left dot is far enough down and to the right, it can entirely eclipse the lower-left dot, resulting in a few more patterns being indistinguishable. Compare, for example, 0x0E07F5FB and 0x0EF0F5FB.
** The fewest spots a Spinda can visibly have is 1 - the sprite's leftmost spots can land entirely off the sprite, while the rightmost spots cannot, but instead can entirely overlap.
** In , due to a glitch this value is interpreted as big-endian, causing the spot pattern to be rendered incorrectly. As an example, a value of 12345678 (hexadecimal) would be interpreted as 78563412 instead.https://twitter.com/Atrius97/status/1500557458623778819
** In Pokémon HOME v2.1.1 and prior versions, when opening the summary of a Spinda in the mobile app, Spinda would display the correct spot pattern, identical to its appearance in Generation VI and below. In HOME v3.0.0 all Spinda were displayed as having the same pattern as the static rendered image used in all HOME menus.https://twitter.com/Atrius97/status/1665787431009001472 The encryption constant of Spinda in HOME remained unchanged (which meant that if transferred out of HOME into a compatible game, they would have likely retained their original spot pattern), however HOME's mobile app no longer displayed the spot pattern associated with the encryption constant of a given individual Spinda, all appearing identical to the "stock" rendered image of Spinda. This was resolved in v3.0.1.https://twitter.com/Atrius97/status/1676088622943207424
*** The value internally used in Pokémon HOME as the "default" pattern for Spinda is 7A397866,https://twitter.com/Atrius97/status/1676088622943207424 which is a close match to the pattern shown in nearly all official artwork, sprites, and 3D renders of Spinda.
** In Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl's Super Contests, the encryption constant is generated randomly instead of using the value from Pokémon the player selects, which for Spinda results in completely random spot patterns appearing for the duration of the contest, regardless of their true spot pattern.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1828258413442142257
* Unlike other Pokémon with no gender differences, the Rotom Pokédex does not display a single model for both male and female Spinda, but rather a separate one for each. The models used are whatever the first spot patterns caught of each gender were.
** The Pokédex preview models for each gender, however, will always be a set model that will likely differ from the model the player will see.
* cannot transfer Spinda into or out of or due to inconsistencies in how its spot patterns works.
** In Pokémon GO, Spinda has nine predetermined forms rather than random patterns.
*** As a result, Spinda is one of only two Pokémon obtainable in GO that cannot have the as its origin mark, the other being .
** In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, this is due to a bug in the game, which causes the encryption constant to be read as a value (i.e. bytes are read in reverse order), and would allow the possibility to indirectly change Spinda's spot pattern. Spinda is the only Pokémon that cannot be transferred out of these games.
===Origin===
Spinda appears to be based on a with traits of s. It also resembles a or other . The swirls in its eyes are based on a cartoonish representation of someone being dazed or dizzy.
====Name origin====
Spinda may be a combination of spin and panda.
Patcheel may be a combination of patch and reel (to lose one's balance).
==References==
==In other languages==
==External links==
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