Tentacool (Pokémon)

|}
Tentacool (Japanese: メノクラゲ Menokurage) is a dual-type introduced in Generation I.
It evolves into starting at level 30.
It is ecologically similar to ; however, the two are separate species.
==Biology==
Tentacool is a small, . It has a light blue, clear body with two large, transparent, red, eye-like crystals on each side of its body and one small one in the middle. Near the base of its body is a pointed, beak-like projection and two eyes with small pupils. There are two grayish tentacles extending from beneath its round lower body, which has a cape-like formation on the back.
Tentacool's entire body is made of 99% water, and the remaining 1% contains the organ that produces its poison. It absorbs sunlight and refracts it using the water inside its body to convert it into beam energy. Its tentacles are laced with stinging cells and, as seen in the Pokémon the Series episode Tentacool & Tentacruel, it can control Pokémon it touches with its tentacles. The tentacles break off occasionally, but they can regenerate. The poison from its tentacles is so potent, that someone would need to be immediately rushed to the hospital. Tentacool is not a very strong swimmer, traveling throughout the world using currents. Tentacool searches for food while drifting on the surface of shallow seas. Tentacool can blend in the water, making it very difficult to spot. It will sometimes wash ashore and shrivel up due to dehydration, though it remains equally as dangerous. Tentacool may be revived if thrown back into the sea.
Tentacool is mistakenly believed to be a species relative of ; in actuality, the two Pokémon are biologically unrelated.
===Evolution===
Tentacool evolves into .
(For specifics on this Pokémon's Evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
==Game data==
===Pokédex entries===
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
 	
Tentacool in the	Tentacool in the
===Game locations===
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
====In side games====
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
|}
====In events====
|}
===Held items===
Pokémon caught in Generation I must be traded to a Generation II game in order for a held item to appear.
|}
===Stats===
====Base stats====
====Pokéathlon stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
Tentacool is available in Version 3.0.0+.
====By leveling up====
====By TM====
====By ====
====-only moves====
Move	Card
 	Tentacool (Aquapolis 113)
===Side game data===
|-
|-
|-
|-
|-
|-
|-
|-
|}
===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Main series===
====Major appearances====
In Tentacool and Tentacruel, multiple Tentacool had been attacking Nastina's construction site. She subsequently made a public announcement offering one million dollars to anyone who could exterminate them. took up her offer but were quickly surrounded by a huge group of angry Tentacool, one of which evolved into a Tentacruel. It subsequently went on a rampage before being stopped by .
====Minor appearances====
In Pikachu's Vacation, a Tentacool was at the Pokémon Theme Park.
In Friends to the End, a Tentacool was seen during Ritchie and Assunta's Indigo Plateau Conference battle, but it is unknown who it belonged to. In the same episode, another Trainer's Tentacool attended the closing ceremonies of the Indigo Plateau Conference.
Multiple Tentacool appeared in Bye Bye Psyduck.
In The Power of One, multiple Tentacool sensed the disturbance caused by Lawrence III.
A Tentacool appeared in Pikachu's Rescue Adventure.
A Tentacool appeared in a fantasy in The Totodile Duel.
In Hook, Line, and Stinker, a Trainer's Tentacool competed in the annual Catching Competition.
A Tentacool appeared in Snorlax Snowman.
A Tentacool appeared in the opening intro of Celebi: The Voice of the Forest, which was reused for Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias.
In The Joy of Water Pokémon, a Tentacool lived in Lake Lucid.
In Mantine Overboard!, two Tentacool lived in the sea near Ogi City.
In The Legend of Thunder!, a Tentacool lived at a Pokémon Center.
A Tentacool appeared in Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias, under the ownership of a competitor in the Tour de Alto Mare.
Multiple Tentacool appeared in Destiny Deoxys.
In a flashback in A Cacturne for the Worse, was scared by multiple Tentacool due to being surrounded by them at one point in her childhood. This had resulted in her mother attempting to her after mistaking her for a Tentacool.
A Tentacool appeared in the opening sequence of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
In Once More With Reeling!, a 's Tentacool competed in the .
In Up Close and Personable!, a Tentacool lived in the lake near the Pokémon Summer Academy.
Multiple Tentacool appeared in Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!.
In Going for the Gold!, two Tentacool were exhibits in the .
Multiple Tentacool appeared in Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction.
A Tentacool appeared in a flashback in Day Three Blockbusters!.
A Tentacool appeared in The Island Whisperer!.
Multiple Tentacool appeared in I Choose You!.
A Tentacool appeared in Alola, Kanto!.
In I Choose Paradise!, two Trainers' Tentacool were at the Pokémon Paradise Resort.
Five Tentacool appeared in Legend? Go! Friends? Go!.
In The Sinnoh Iceberg Race!, Goh attempted to catch a Tentacool out of a horde of them, only for it to dodge the , resulting in Goh catching a different instead. Goh's Tentacool has since made further appearances in .
A Tentacool appeared in Getting More Than You Battled For!.
A Tentacool appeared in Ride, Lapras, Ride!.
Two Tentacool appeared in The Ancient Poké Ball.
A Tentacool appeared in HZ078.
====Pokédex entries====
===Pokémon Origins===
In File 4: Charizard, a Tentacool after passing by it.
===Pokémon Generations===
In The Cavern, a Tentacool was in the waters that surrounded the Seafloor Cavern.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
Tentacool debuted in a cameo in Bulbasaur, Come Home! as one of the Pokémon that escaped from Professor Oak's Laboratory.
A woman named A has a Tentacool that bathes with her on a regular basis. It debuted in Danger: High Voltorb.
Multiple Tentacool appeared in What a Dragonite, where they were escaping from a .
Multiple Tentacool appeared in The Kindest Tentacruel. One of them, which was a baby, got its tentacle stuck under a boulder. It later helped rescue .
A herd of Tentacool appeared in Breath of the Dragonair Part 1 when Yellow was trying to find a Pokémon to surf across the ocean.
A Tentacool appeared in the Trick Master's flashback in The Final Battle V, where it was one of the Pokémon calmed down by the homeland soil.
A Tentacool appeared in Out-Odding Oddish, under the ownership of a Pokéathlon participant.
A Tentacool appeared in Beedrill Prepares.
A Tentacool appeared in a flashback in Madness!! Mother Lusamine!.
===Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys===
Multiple Tentacool appeared in Let's Survive This Sea Battle.
===Pokémon Journeys===
A Tentacool appeared in Legend? Check! Friends? Check!.
===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
A Tentacool appeared in Which One is the Real Clefairy!?.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* In the Pokémon Red and Blue beta, Tentacool was originally known as "Jilly".
* Tentacool, , and their respective evolutionary lines have exactly the same base stats in the same distribution.
* Tentacool's is strong against Toedscool's , but weak to its . Similarly, Tentacool's is strong against Toedscool's Grass-type, but weak to its Ground-type.
===Origin===
Tentacool seems to be based on a , possibly a species of such as or . The fact that it has only two tentacles may be based on the class of , most of which are known for having a pair of long tentacles that are used to catch prey. It might also be based on the .
Tentacool also resembles several varieties of the and other alien invaders from 1950s , which is reflected in its ability to fire lasers from the gems on its head.
====Name origin====
Tentacool may be a combination of and cool. It may also involve (class of comb jellies).
Menokurage may be a combination of 目の敵 me no kataki (enemy) or 目の毒 me no doku (temptation, literally "poison to the eye") and 水母 kurage ().
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* 
* Ecologically similar Pokémon
==References==
==External links==
|}
de:Tentacha
es:Tentacool
fr:Tentacool
it:Tentacool
ja:メノクラゲ
zh:玛瑙水母