Piloswine (Pokémon)

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Piloswine (Japanese: イノムー Inomoo) is a dual-type introduced in Generation II.
It evolves from starting at level 33 and evolves into when leveled up while knowing .
==Biology==
Piloswine is a big, brown, furry with an impressive hump on its back. It also has two tusks made of ice, which seem small but can be lethal. These tusks thicken when it snows, and they are smaller on a female Piloswine than on a male. It has floppy ears that are sensitive to sound. Piloswine has two beady eyes in its head; however, these are usually covered up by tufts of fur. As it is usually unable to see, it checks surroundings with its sensitive pig-like nose instead. As a result, Piloswine is constantly charging at foes when it moves. The hairs on its back stands up straight as a warning sign for this.
Piloswine's thick fur allows it to survive in harshly cold environments that it inhabits, such as , mountainous regions and frozen tundra. Its fur is so long that it usually covers its small, hooved legs. Despite the small size of its legs, its hooves ensure even footing on icy ground. Piloswine often digs for food buried beneath snow and ice using its tusks.
===Evolution===
Piloswine evolves from and evolves into .
(For specifics on this Pokémon's Evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
==Game data==
===Pokédex entries===
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Piloswine in the
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===Held items===
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
====Pokéathlon stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
====By leveling up====
====By TM====
====By ====
====By a prior Evolution====
====-only moves====
Move	Card
 	Piloswine (EX Team Rocket Returns 13)
===Side game data===
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Major appearances===
====Pryce's Piloswine====
Pryce's Piloswine first appeared in As Cold as Pryce, thus also marking the species' animated series debut. Pryce thought that it abandoned him when he was a young after the two of them got hit by a 's , and thus became cold and bitter. When Pryce found his Piloswine in a cave and frozen solid with a Burn-Healing Herb, Pryce let go of his coldness. Pryce used Piloswine in his Gym against in the following episode.
====Dawn's Piloswine====
's evolved into a Piloswine in Sleepless in Pre-Battle. It later evolved into a in A Breed Stampede!.
====Other====
In the banned episode EP250, the Nurse Joy living inside the has multiple Piloswine. They wore harnesses and were used for sledding through the cave.
In The Gates of Warp!, Alternate World Dawn's Mamoswine devolved into Piloswine in a flashback due to 's influence.
===Minor appearances===
Piloswine debuted in Celebi: The Voice of the Forest, where it was one of the Pokémon captured in a 's cage at the start of the .
In Entei at Your Own Risk, a Piloswine was resting in some hot springs.
In A Claim to Flame!, a 's Piloswine battled in a qualifying match for the Silver Conference.
A Piloswine appeared in a fantasy in Pinch Healing!.
A Piloswine appeared in the opening sequence of Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
A Piloswine appeared in Mission: Find Oinkologne's Partner!.
===Pokédex entries===
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
In Piloswine Whine, Carl used a Piloswine's sheer power to devastate Ecruteak City with an . However, defeated it easily with 's Politoed.
In The Last Battle XIII, a Piloswine was sent to participate in the fight in Ilex Forest.
A Piloswine appeared in To and Fro with Froslass.
===Pokémon Battrio: Aim to be Battrio Master!===
A Piloswine appeared in ABM03.
===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
Pryce's Piloswine appeared in Ice World.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* No other Pokémon has the same type combination as Piloswine and its evolutionary relatives.
** Piloswine's type combination is also the only possible combination weak to all three first partner Pokémon types (, and ), as (the only other type besides , Fire and Water that is weak to either Grass or Water) resists Fire while and (the only types besides Grass or weak to Fire) both resist Grass.
* According to , Piloswine was designed by Shigeki Morimoto, who wanted to complete the by making Pokémon from all 12 zodiac animals.
* Piloswine and its evolutionary relatives are the only Pokémon.
===Origin===
Piloswine seems to be based on a with traits of s. It also shares traits with en, s, and , whose mountainous habitats echoes that of the Ice Path in northern Johto.
====Name origin====
Piloswine may be a combination of pilose (covered with fine hair) and , as well as a play on pile of swine. It may also involve פיל píl (Hebrew for elephant).
Inomoo may be a combination of 猪 inoshishi (boar) and ブーブー būbū ( for oinking).
==In other languages==
==See also==
* Pryce's Piloswine
* Dawn's Piloswine
* Mamoswine (UNITE)
==External links==
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Category:Pokémon with cross-generational Evolutions
Category:Pokémon that evolve with certain moves
Category:Pokémon that evolve with Ancient Power
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