Caterpie (Pokémon)

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Caterpie (Japanese: キャタピー Caterpie) is a introduced in Generation I.
It evolves into starting at level 7, which evolves into starting at level 10.
==Biology==
Caterpie is an that resembles a green with a yellow underside and teardrop-shaped tail. Yellow ring-shaped markings down the sides of its segmented body resemble its eyes and are meant to scare off predators. Its most notable characteristic is the bright red antenna () on its head, which releases a stench to repel predators. Despite these features and its camouflage in green foliage, Caterpie is often preyed upon by Pokémon. Its four tiny feet are tipped with suction cups, permitting this Pokémon to scale most surfaces with minimal effort.
Caterpie is easy to capture and grows quickly, making it ideal for new s. As Caterpie grow and develop over time, they will shed their skin many times before finally cocooning themselves in thick silk. It can also spit this silk to entangle foes as seen in the Pokémon the Series episode Ash Catches a Pokémon. It has a voracious appetite, driving it to eat a hundred leaves daily. It will even eat leaves bigger than itself. According to the 54th chapter of Pokémon Adventures, its favorite food is the flower. Caterpie lives in . As shown in Pokémon Sleep, Caterpie is known to sleep occasionally while using . On occasion, it drools out strings instead of salivaSleep Style Dex.
===Evolution===
Caterpie evolves into , which evolves into .
(For specifics on this Pokémon's Evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
==Game data==
===NPC appearances===
* Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: is rescued in the first mission of the game. It is too young to be of any help to the rescue team but remains a strong fan throughout the game, even in its darkest hour.
===Pokédex entries===
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Caterpie's Image in the
====Alternate games====
;Pokémon Pinball, Pokémon Trading Card Game (, , )
:Its short feet are tipped with suction pads that enable it to tirelessly climb slopes and walls.
;Pokémon Trading Card Game ()
:For protection, it releases a horrible stench from the antennae on its head to drive away enemies.
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===Held items===
Pokémon caught in Generation I must be traded to a Generation II game in order for a held item to appear.
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
====Pokéathlon stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
Caterpie is available in and .
====By leveling up====
====By TM/TR====
====By ====
====By tutoring====
====By transfer from another generation====
====-only moves====
Move	Card
 	Caterpie (Expedition 96)
===Side game data===
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Main series===
====Major appearances====
=====Ash's Caterpie=====
Caterpie debuted in Pokémon Emergency!, where encountered him in Viridian Forest. He him in Ash Catches a Pokémon, making Caterpie the first Pokémon he caught in the . He evolved into Metapod in the same episode after a with , and then into Butterfree during the following episode.
Caterpie also appeared in I Choose You!, which is set in a different continuity from . It evolved into Metapod during a battle against a and later into Butterfree after a battle against a group of .
=====Goh's Caterpie=====
In Working My Way Back to Mew!, Goh caught a Caterpie. It has since made further appearances in .
=====Other=====
A Caterpie appeared in The Dunsparce Deception, under the ownership of Bucky. He used it to compete in a race with , but it ultimately lost due to its slow speed.
A Caterpie appeared in Caterpie's Big Dilemma, under the ownership of Zander. It ate some of Dr. Gordon's enhanced Rare Candies and turned as a result. It eventually evolved into a -sized .
A Caterpie appeared in Butterfree and Me! as a resident of Wayfarer Island. Ash befriended it after realizing it had yet to evolve, which reminded Ash of his own Caterpie. As a result, he helped Caterpie evolve into Metapod and then into Butterfree.
====Minor appearances====
In Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village, Melanie cared for a Caterpie. It reappeared in a flashback in Bulbasaur... the Ambassador!.
A 's Caterpie appeared in Electric Shock Showdown.
In Battle Aboard the St. Anne, a Caterpie was aboard the St. Anne.
In Pokémon Fashion Flash, a Caterpie was on Scissor Street.
A Caterpie appeared in a fantasy in Dig Those Diglett!.
In The Ultimate Test, an image of Caterpie was used in the exams.
A Caterpie appeared in The Breeding Center Secret.
A Caterpie appeared in Clefairy Tales.
A Trainer's Caterpie appeared in Mewtwo Strikes Back.
In In the Pink, Caterpie was a resident of Pinkan Island.
In Tracey Gets Bugged, multiple Caterpie were residents of Murcott Island.
Two Caterpie appeared in a flashback in Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon?, one each under the ownership of and .
A wild Caterpie appeared in Pikachu's Rescue Adventure.
In Illusion Confusion!, a Caterpie was one of the illusions created by a group of and .
In For Crying Out Loud, multiple Caterpie were accidentally splashed by Wilhomena's .
In Gettin' The Bugs Out, multiple Caterpie resided in the Azalea Gym. One Caterpie scared by coming down the trees. Later on, they assisted in apprehending with silk.
In The Bug Stops Here, a Caterpie was chased away by Misty after she found it talking with .
In Carrying On!, a Caterpie was in Way Away Island's Pokémon Center.
A Caterpie appeared in Jessie's fantasy in Wings 'N' Things.
Multiple Caterpie appeared in Celebi: The Voice of the Forest.
In Got Miltank?, a Caterpie was a resident in a Pokémon-exclusive oasis.
In For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll!, multiple Caterpie were protecting the Tin Tower after stole the Crystal Bells on the top floor.
In Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution, a Caterpie fell sick due to Team Rocket's experiments.
A Caterpie appeared in Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias.
A Caterpie appeared in Camp Pikachu.
In Gonna Rule The School!, the Pokémon Trainers' School lent a Caterpie to the school's underage students for use in lessons.
A Caterpie appeared in Destiny Deoxys.
A Caterpie appeared in Hi Ho Silver Wind!, under the ownership of a .
A Caterpie appeared in The Green Guardian.
A ‘s Caterpie appeared in What I Did for Love!.
In Some Enchanted Sweetening!, two Caterpie were lured in by the Honey that Cheryl had slathered onto a tree. Additional Caterpie also appeared in a boss fantasy in the same episode, but said boss fantasy was cut from the dub due to it containing suggestive material.
A Caterpie appeared in The Grass-Type Is Always Greener!.
Two Caterpie appeared in An Angry Combeenation!.
A Caterpie appeared in Jessie's fantasy in One Big Happiny Family!.
A Caterpie appeared in One Team, Two Team, Red Team, Blue Team!.
Multiple Caterpie appeared in Coming Full-Festival Circle!.
A Caterpie appeared in Genesect and the Legend Awakened as a resident of Pokémon Hills.
A Caterpie appeared in Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!.
In Lumiose City Pursuit!, Mega-Mega Meowth Madness!, Day Three Blockbusters!, and Battling With a Clean Slate!, a Caterpie was a resident of 's lab.
A Caterpie appeared in a flashback in Seeing the Forest for the Trees!.
In Lillie's Egg-xhilarating Challenge!, two Caterpie were playing in 's garden. One of them reappeared in The Ol' Raise and Switch!.
A Caterpie appeared in a fantasy in Lulled to La-La Land!.
Multiple wild Caterpie appeared in Alola, Kanto!.
A Trainer's Caterpie appeared in Now You See Them, Now You Don't!.
A Caterpie appeared in Tasting the Bitter with the Sweet!.
A Trainer's Caterpie appeared in The Power of Us.
Four Caterpie appeared in Securing the Future!, with three under the ownership of different Trainers and the fourth being wild. They joined the rest of Alola in showering with light so it could return to its .
In The Battlefield of Truth and Love!, a Caterpie watched and put on a performance in their hot springs.
A Trainer's Caterpie appeared in Exhibition Unmasked!.
In From Z to Shining Z!, a Trainer's Caterpie watched the battle between Ash's Pikachu and .
Two Caterpie appeared in a flashback in Enter Pikachu!, with one of them being caught by a female Trainer.
Three Caterpie appeared in a video hologram in Legend? Go! Friends? Go!.
In A Snow Day for Searching!, Goh's Butterfree encountered a Caterpie while it was out looking for 's bone.
A Trainer's Caterpie appeared in Caring for a Mystery!.
A Trainer's Caterpie appeared in A Festival Reunion!.
A Caterpie appeared in Trade, Borrow, and Steal!.
A Trainer's Caterpie appeared in That New Old Gang of Mine!.
A Caterpie appeared in Secrets of the Jungle.
In Not Too Close for Comfort!, a Caterpie was seen in a video, evolving all the way into Butterfree.
A Trainer's Caterpie appeared in Take My Thief! Please!.
Two Caterpie appeared in Infinite Possibilities!.
In Heroes Unite!, a Caterpie appeared during a flashback.
A Caterpie appeared in Distant Blue Sky!.
In Must Be Our Heroes and the Witch!, a Caterpie appeared in a fantasy.
A Caterpie appeared in The Same Moon, Now and Forever!.
A Caterpie appeared in The Rainbow and the Pokémon Master!.
Two Caterpie appeared in The Treasure After the Storm!. They reappeared in Found You, Fuecoco!, where they helped repair the damage to the Brave Olivine. One of them reappeared during a flashback in A New Song for Fuecoco.
====Pokédex entries====
===Pokémon Origins===
In File 1: Red, a Caterpie was seen in Professor Oak's introduction, while caught another, which was registered in his Pokédex. It evolved into Metapod before his Gym battle with Brock.
In File 3: Giovanni, two Caterpie were seen caged in the Rocket Hideout and Silph Co., respectively.
===Pokémon Generations===
In The Adventure, encountered and battled a Caterpie in Viridian Forest.
===Pokémon Evolutions===
In The Show, a Caterpie briefly appeared under the ownership of a in Ecruteak City.
In The Discovery, a Caterpie appeared in a fantasy of a forest of the Kanto region.
===POKÉTOON===
A Caterpie appeared in PT12.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
====Major appearances====
=====Kitty=====
A Caterpie appeared in As Gastly as Before. With the help of her fishing rod and 's Pika, saved a Caterpie from its tree, which was targeted by a attack. Caterpie then followed Yellow to , where she and were . It took Yellow a whole day to properly this Caterpie with a , but once she prevailed, Yellow welcomed Caterpie to her team and called it "Kitty". It then became one of Yellow's most useful Pokémon, whose string was commonly used to make floaters. However, in the against Lance, Yellow did not have a Pokédex, which she needed to stop her Pokémon from evolving. As a result, Kitty evolved into and then into right afterwards.
====Minor appearances====
Caterpie debuted in a cameo in Bulbasaur, Come Home! as one of the Pokémon that escapes from Professor Oak's Laboratory. It also makes a cameo in The Secret of Kangaskhan.
A Caterpie appeared as a silhouette when talks about in The Jynx Jinx.
A Caterpie was mentioned as one of the Pokémon had for in Three Cheers for Chikorita.
A Caterpie was one of the Pokémon Crystal fails to catch in Absolutely Azumarill.
A Caterpie appeared in The Last Battle XIII as one of the Pokémon sent to participate in the fight in Ilex Forest.
According to the Pokédex at the end of Volume 1, Red appears to have caught a Caterpie, which evolved into a Metapod and then a Butterfree.
===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
A Caterpie appeared in Catch That Pokémon Thief!!.
A Caterpie appeared in The Legendary Pokémon Appears!!.
A Caterpie appeared in Regain the Deserted Power Plant!.
A Caterpie appeared in Fierce Competition at the Pokémon Baseball Tournament!, where it was one of the Pokémon that took part in a baseball match. It was seen with during the game.
A Caterpie appeared in Pikachu's Birthday Party.
A Caterpie appeared in Demanding Tests at the Pokémon School!.
A Caterpie appeared in The Hardest Bug Pokémon Wins?!.
===The Electric Tale of Pikachu===
's Caterpie is the second wild Pokémon that Ash , being caught in Pikachu, I See You!. It evolves twice in Play Misty For Me—first into while Ash is showing it off to , and then into during his Gym against Misty.
Ash is not shown releasing his Butterfree in the manga, although it is not seen after Haunting My Dreams.
===Magical Pokémon Journey===
A Caterpie appeared in Tangela's Secret.
===Pokémon: Yeah! I Got Pokémon!===
Shu a Caterpie in Shu and Pikachu's Debut!. He uses it in various creative ways, mostly involving strange uses of its .
A Caterpie appeared in GDZ23.
A Caterpie appeared in GDZ48.
===Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team===
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team, Ginji saved a Caterpie from an attacking .
===Pokémon Journeys===
Goh caught a Caterpie in Battle Frontier Challenge: The Flute Cup!, just like he does in the animated series.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Caterpie was both the first to be and the first Pokémon to evolve in Pokémon the Series.
* Caterpie shares its with and . They are known as the Worm Pokémon.
* In early episodes of Pokémon the Series, Caterpie's mouth was incorrectly colored yellow. It wasn't until Wings 'N' Things that Caterpie's mouth started to be colored green.
* Until the release of , when it became able to learn , Caterpie was unable to do anything to a type except and . It shares this trait with its evolution, . This is also true for , and its evolution, , against types before was released.
** Due to this, it was impossible to complete a Generation I game using only Caterpie or Metapod, since Struggle couldn't hit Ghost types at the time.
* In Pokémon the Series and the Pokémon Adventures manga, Caterpie holds the record as the Pokémon who takes the least amount of time to evolve twice, taking only one episode in the animated series and one chapter in Pokémon Adventures.
** Poliwag and Togepi also share this record, but in Pokémon Adventures only.
* Prior to Generation VI, Caterpie's shape was .
* In Ash Catches a Pokémon, when Caterpie evolves into Metapod, the process was similar to a real caterpillar going into pupation. Later episodesCaterpie's Big Dilemma and Butterfree and Me! show Caterpie evolving like the rest of the Pokémon do.
* Caterpie is tied with , , , , , and for having the lowest base stat of all Pokémon.
===Origin===
Caterpie is based on a ,Nintendo Dream Volume 84, February/March 2003 (English translation written by Jacob Newcomb and commissioned by Dr. Lava) perhaps specifically the , , or due to its green body, yellow , and red . The tip of its tail resembles the horn that many species of larvae have on their rear ends.
====Name origin====
Caterpie may be a corruption, or shortening, of caterpillar.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Ash's Caterpie
* Goh's Caterpie
* Kitty
* Caterpie (Red and Blue Rescue Team)
==References==
==External links==
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