Pyukumuku (Pokémon)

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Pyukumuku (Japanese: ナマコブシ Namakobushi) is a introduced in Generation VII.
It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
==Biology==
Pyukumuku is a marine with an ovoid, black body. Its face has two beady, pink eyes and a white mouth shaped roughly like a star or . This Pokémon is capable of spitting its organs out through its mouth. The white organs can take different shapes, such as a fist. Two lines of three pink spikes run down each side of its back. The middle spike of each line is about twice as long as the others are. A fluffy white puff forms its tail.
Pyukumuku tends to find a spot it likes and stay there, even returning to the same spot if moved. Once all the food in its favorite spot has been consumed, it will continue to stay there to the point of starvation. Its body is coated with a viscous fluid that allows it to stay on land for a week without drying out. This fluid is also beneficial to people as a moisturizer. If stepped on, it will expel its fist-like organs and smack the perpetrator. It particularly hates having its mouth or spikes touched. Tourists dislike Pyukumuku due to its appearance and lifestyle and often accidentally step on Pyukumuku. This creates a need for part-time jobs on beaches chucking this Pokémon back into the sea. However, people in Alola have already taken to throwing the Pokémon back to the sea where it can find food when thin.Pokémon Sun and Moon site | Pyukumuku Pyukumuku is shown to have a symbiotic relationship with , which carries it after scooping it from the water.
Pyukumuku is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move . It is also the only known Pokémon that can have as an Ability.
==Game data==
===Pokédex entries===
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Pyukumuku in the
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
Pyukumuku is available in .
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====By tutoring====
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Major appearances===
====Goh's Pyukumuku====
In That New Old Gang of Mine!, Goh caught a Pyukumuku while visiting Alola.
====Other====
A Pyukumuku appeared in A Haunted House for Everyone!, where it was used to try and scare Harper and Sarah at the Pokémon School. Instead, they touched Pyukumuku, who promptly retaliated by punching .
===Minor appearances===
A Pyukumuku debuted in Alola to New Adventure!, where it startled underwater when it gave him the thumbs-up.
A 's Pyukumuku appeared in Balloons, Brionne, and Belligerence!.
Two Pyukumuku appeared in a flashback in Mission: Total Recall!.
A Pyukumuku appeared in Let Sleeping Pokémon Lie!. As was studying it underwater with , Ash touched it, only for Pyukumuku to punch him in the face.
A Trainer's Pyukumuku appeared in I Choose Paradise!, where it was among the Pokémon seen at the Pokémon Paradise Resort.
A Pyukumuku appeared in the Where Are You Going, Eevee? segment at the end of No Stone Unturned!. A wild Eevee came across it on the beach of Melemele Island and cuddled it, causing it to attack Eevee out of anger. It reappeared in a flashback in We Know Where You're Going, Eevee!.
A Pyukumuku appeared in We Know Where You're Going, Eevee!.
Two Pyukumuku appeared in Battling the Beast Within!, where they were thrown back in the ocean.
A Pyukumuku appeared in The One That Didn't Get Away!, where fished it out of the sea, before it attached itself onto 's head.
A Trainer's Pyukumuku appeared in Battle Royal 151!, where it competed in the Battle Royal preliminary round of the Manalo Conference. It faced off against another Trainer and his , only to be defeated by Pikala and her Bolt.
In The Cuteness Quotient!, a Trainer's Pyukumuku competed in the Friendship Festival.
A Trainer's Pyukumuku appeared in It's... Champion Time!.
===Pokédex entries===
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
Multiple Pyukumuku debuted in The Grand Entrance and Delivery Boy Sun. was hired by a pair of s to remove them from a beach that Team Skull considered their territory. Another Pyukumuku was secretly planted by the female Grunt in order to get out of paying Sun for the job.
A Pyukumuku appeared in a flashback in Pokémon Move Specialist Professor Kukui.
Multiple Pyukumuku appeared in Transcend!! Ultra Necrozma!.
===Pokémon Horizon===
A Pyukumuku appeared in a fantasy in Journey to a New Horizon.
==In the TCG==
==Other appearances==
===Super Smash Bros. Ultimate===
Pyukumuku appears as a Pokémon summoned from the . It uses whenever an opponent gets close enough to it. Pyukumuku then waves "goodbye" before it leaves. It can also be picked up and thrown like an item. If the summoner jumps on Pyukumuku, it will make a punch and the player bounces a little. Pyukumuku also appears as a .
==Trivia==
* Pyukumuku has the lowest base stat of all .
** Pyukumuku is also tied with and for the lowest base Speed stat of all Pokémon.
* Prior to their removals in , Pyukumuku is the only Pokémon that can learn TMs outside of moves it learns by leveling up that cannot learn , , or .
===Origin===
Pyukumuku may be based on a , some species of which expel their (part of the sea cucumber's respiratory system) to deter would-be predators from eating them. Given its tail and "ears", it may also be inspired by the , a type of sea slug that became popular in Japan in 2015 due to its cute appearance. It may also resemble , a kind of ancient soft-bodied sea creature. Its innards appear to be based on a human fist.
====Name origin====
Pyukumuku may be a combination of puke, cucumber, and mucus.
Namakobushi may be a combination of 海鼠 namako (sea cucumber) and 拳 kobushi (fist).
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Goh's Pyukumuku
==References==
==External links==
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