Trapinch (Pokémon)

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Trapinch (Japanese: ナックラー Nuckrar) is a introduced in Generation III.
It evolves into starting at level 35, which evolves into starting at level 45.
==Biology==
Trapinch is an orange, insectoid . It has a round body with a white underside and four stumpy legs. It also has a proportionally large head, small black eyes with twinkle-shaped pupils, and a zigzagging mouth.
Trapinch's large jaws are powerful enough to crush any boulders that get in its way as it digs through the sand of the in which it lives. It can go a week without water or food. Instead of actively hunting prey, it digs into the sand to build its bowl- or cone-shaped nests, waiting for prey to tumble inside and become trapped. When night falls, Trapinch will dig itself a spot underneath the sand and go to sleep. Due to the size of its head in contrast to its small body, Trapinch will be unable to get up after flipping over onto its back, making it vulnerable to natural predators such as .
===Evolution===
Trapinch evolves into , which 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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===Game locations===
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===Held items===
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===Stats===
====Base stats====
====Pokéathlon stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
Trapinch is available in Version 3.0.0+.
====By leveling up====
====By TM====
====By ====
====-only moves====
Move	Card
 	Trapinch (EX Legend Maker 67)
===Side game data===
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===Evolution data===
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Major appearances===
====Goh's Trapinch====
In Making Battles in the Sand!, Goh caught a while he was investigating a sandstorm in Mauville City. It has since made further appearances in .
====Other====
Multiple Trapinch debuted in Beg, Burrow and Steal. They had dug a complex underground labyrinth containing a lake, which wanted to find after he previously came across it when he was young. When Hal, , , Elisa, and got lost in the labyrinth, they eventually found the underground lake.
In Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! (Part 2), Solana used her Capture Styler on a Trapinch and had it use to trap 's henchmen's Pokémon that were attacking , , and Officer Jenny's Pokémon.
In A Rivalry to Gible On!, a Trapinch living at Mt. Shady used its to capture Ash while he and Khoury were trying to catch a .
In Showdown at the Gates of Warp!, due to and 's influence, Goh's Flygon devolved into a Vibrava and then into a Trapinch. It was later reverted in the same episode. The same also occurred with Alternate World Goh's Flygon.
===Minor appearances===
A 's Trapinch appeared in Mean With Envy.
A Trapinch appeared in a visualization in Hi Ho Silver Wind!.
A Coordinator's Trapinch appeared in Deceit and Assist.
In Numero Uno Articuno, Noland's Trapinch was living at the .
A Coordinator's Trapinch appeared in The Saffron Con.
In All Dressed Up with Somewhere To Go!, a Trapinch was dressed up as a .
A 's Trapinch appeared in A Shocking Grocery Run!.
In Lillie's Egg-xhilarating Challenge!, a Trapinch was playing in 's garden. It reappeared in The Ol' Raise and Switch!.
In Some Kind of Laziness!, a Trapinch ate an Oran Berry that slid into its pit in the middle of the Haina Desert.
In I Choose Paradise!, a Trainer's Trapinch was at the Pokémon Paradise Resort.
In Securing the Future!, five Trainers' Trapinch joined the rest of Alola in showering with light so it could return to its .
In Don't Ignore the Small Stufful!, a Trapinch was staying at Aether Paradise.
In The Battlefield of Truth and Love!, a Trainer's Trapinch was at Manalo Stadium.
A Trainer's Trapinch appeared in Take My Thief! Please!.
A Trainer's Trapinch appeared in The Winding Path to Greatness!.
A Trapinch appeared in The Good, The Bad, and The Lucky!.
A Trainer's Trapinch appeared in Aim For The Eight!.
A Trapinch appeared in The Terapagos I Don't Know, under the ownership of a student.
===Pokédex entries===
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
A 's Trapinch appeared in Bubble Bubble Toil and Azumarill I.
The rented a Trapinch, which was stolen by Guile Hideout in Facing Gulpin Is Hard to Swallow.
A Trapinch appeared in The Transfer Student, under the ownership of Hugh. It later evolved into .
In The Final Battle, a Trapinch liberated by Team Plasma was stuck in N's Castle.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Trapinch is the only member of its evolutionary line to have a Hidden Ability.
* Trapinch has the lowest base stat of all Pokémon.
* Trapinch's base stat is higher than that of its evolved form and is the same as that of its final evolved form. That may be a reference to the fact that antlion larvae are more aggressive and predatory than their adult stages.
** It also has the highest base Attack stat of all Pokémon that can evolve twice.
** Because of this, evolving a Trapinch in Pokémon GO will result in its CP going down, a trait otherwise only seen in cocoon Pokémon such as .
* As of Generation VIII, Trapinch and its evolved forms are the only Pokémon that are in the and Egg Groups.
===Origin===
Trapinch appears to be based on the larval stage of the , which live in conical sandy pits before maturing into winged adults. Its head resembles a cartoonish depiction of .
====Name origin====
Trapinch may be a combination of trap and pinch.
Nuckrar may be derived from . It may also allude to , a type of folkloric dragon which lives in a hole.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Goh's Trapinch
==External links==
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