Deerling (Pokémon)

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Deerling (Japanese: シキジカ Shikijika) is a dual-type introduced in Generation V.
It evolves into starting at level 34.
Deerling has four forms: Spring Form, Summer Form, Autumn Form, and Winter Form. Deerling changes forms depending on the location the game was loaded in. In Paldea, Spring Form corresponds to , Summer Form to , Autumn Form to , and Winter Form to .
When it debuted, Deerling's form changed based on the . From Generation VI to , its form could not be changed at all, and only the Spring Form could be found in the wild, with the other forms being obtainable exclusively via transfer from a Generation V game or from .
(Refer to Game data→Form data for more details.)
==Biology==
Deerling is a that resembles a fawn. The upper side of its body is pink in the spring, green in the summer, orange in the autumn, and brown in the winter. Deerling has a yellow-patterned rim, and its underside is peach. It sports a yellow floral tuft on its head with small antlers hidden underneath, and similar yellow coloration on the insides of its tapering ears. The tips of its limbs are colored black and its pink tail is small.
If Deerling senses animosity, it will hide in tall grass. It moves in herds, as it is timid around humans. Despite this, Deerling does whatever it wants, even around humans. Deerling will take a liking towards anyone who feeds it. It will playfully headbutt anyone it likes, even if headbutts are a little painful. It dwells in sparsely populated areas, away from humans. It is herbivorous. Despite their innocent and adorable appearance, Deerling are considered pests by farmers, as they tend to eat all of their plant shoots. Because of this, and because is a natural enemy of Deerling, farmers often use Lycanroc to guard their fields from Deerling.
===Forms===
Deerling has four forms: Spring Form, Summer Form, Autumn Form, and Winter Form.
Aside from differing in coloration, Deerling also has different scents depending on the season. During spring, its scent is delicate, sweet, and calming. During summer, it has a distinct grassy scent. During autumn, it has a softly sweet scent. During winter, Deerling has no scent.
			
			
===Evolution===
Deerling evolves into .
Spring Form
Summer Form
Autumn Form
Winter Form
==Game data==
===NPC appearances===
* : Deerling is one of the students at . She often speaks what is on her mind and has a short temper but is good friends with and .
===Pokédex entries===
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===Game locations===
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===Held items===
===Stats===
====Base stats====
===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
====By leveling up====
====By TM====
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===Side game data===
====Spring Form====
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===Form data===
Deerling has four different forms based on the four seasons. These forms are interchangeable in Generation V and Generation IX but not in other games. They are purely cosmetic.
;Generation V
In , Deerling will change its form to match the current if it is in the party when the season changes. All , bred, and NPC Trainer-owned Deerling will match the current season, with the exception of those owned by NPC Trainers in the Battle Subway and the Pokémon World Tournament, which are all Spring Form.
* When the month is January, May, or September, the season is , and it becomes Spring Form.
* When the month is February, June, or October, the season is , and it becomes Summer Form.
* When the month is March, July, or November, the season is , and it becomes Autumn Form.
* When the month is April, August, or December, the season is , and it becomes Winter Form.
;Generations VI to VIII
From Generation VI to , with the abandonment of seasons as a mechanic, Deerling is unable to change forms. All wild and NPC Trainer-owned Deerling are Spring Form, while bred Deerling are in the same form as their mother, or the same form as the Deerling or Sawsbuck parent if bred with . The Summer, Autumn, and Winter forms are only obtainable via transfer from a Generation V game or from .
;Generation IX
In , Deerling is once again able to change forms, but the form it will become is now based on the location that the game was loaded in rather than the season. Wild Deerling vary in form based on location. In Paldea, Spring Form corresponds to , Summer Form to , Autumn Form to , and Winter Form to .
In general, Spring Form Deerling can be found in South Province (Areas One, Two, Three, Four, and Five) and in 1★ Tera Raid Battles, Summer Form in East Province (Areas One and Two), Autumn Form in West Province (Areas Two and Three), and Winter Form in North Province (Dalizapa Passage and Glaseado Mountain).
===Evolution data===
====Spring Form====
====Summer Form====
====Autumn Form====
====Winter Form====
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Major appearances===
Multiple Spring Form Deerling appeared in Enter Iris and Axew!. attempted to one, but as he had not weakened it, it was able to deflect the and fled with the rest of the herd.
In Here Comes the Trubbish Squad!, Daniela used a Spring Form Deerling to battle Ash and .
In Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest!, a accidentally latched onto a Spring Form Deerling with , startling it. This caused it to buck and thrash around wildly through the forest in an effort to get Sewaddle off, but this put Sewaddle in serious danger.
At the beginning of White—Victini and Zekrom and Black—Victini and Reshiram, Ash saved two Spring Form Deerling from falling off a cliff with 's help.
Multiple Summer Form Deerling made their animated series debut in The Four Seasons of Sawsbuck!. Ash and followed one in order to find .
In Scraggy and the Demanding Gothita!, Katharine first offered to trade a Summer Form Deerling to Ash in exchange for his . Deerling was later used to help calm down a wild with .
===Minor appearances===
Multiple Spring Form Deerling debuted in In The Shadow of Zekrom!.
In A Sandile Gusher of Change!, multiple Deerling, , and needed help from Ash and .
A Deerling appeared in Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest!.
In A Connoisseur's Revenge!, multiple s' Deerling were at a Poké Mart near Castelia City.
In a flashback in Iris and Excadrill Against the Dragon Buster!, a Deerling was one of 's Pokémon friends when she was little in the Village of Dragons.
Three Deerling appeared in Gotta Catch a Roggenrola!.
In Reunion Battles In Nimbasa!, Dino used a Spring Form Deerling against 's during the first round of the Club Battle tournament. It ultimately won, allowing Dino to advance to the second round.
Autumn Form Deerling debuted in the opening sequences of White—Victini and Zekrom and Black—Victini and Reshiram, while multiple Summer Form Deerling debuted in both movies proper.
A Deerling appeared in Club Battle Finale: A Hero's Outcome!.
A Deerling appeared in Crisis from the Underground Up!.
In Lost at the Stamp Rally!, a Spring Form Deerling was seen performing in a Pokémon Musical show. Multiple other Deerling also appeared in the same episode.
Multiple Deerling appeared in Ash Versus the Champion!.
Multiple Deerling appeared in a flashback in A Maractus Musical!.
Multiple Deerling appeared in Stopping the Rage of Legends! Part 1.
A Deerling briefly appeared in Search for the Clubultimate!.
In Clash of the Connoisseurs!, Burgundy, disguised as Fauxgundy, reviewed a Deerling as a possible Pokémon for Marigold.
A Deerling appeared in Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 1.
Multiple Deerling appeared in All for the Love of Meloetta!.
A Deerling appeared in a flashback in Piplup, Pansage, and a Meeting of the Times!.
Multiple Summer Form Deerling physically appeared in Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice. The legend also featured their Spring, Summer, and Autumn Forms.
A Trainer's Summer Form Deerling appeared in Jostling for the Junior Cup!.
A Summer Form Deerling appeared in Ash, Iris, and Trip: Then There Were Three!.
In A Village Homecoming!, the 's flashback featured a Spring Form Deerling.
In Drayden Versus Iris: Past, Present, and Future!, Iris's flashback featured a Spring Form Deerling.
A Trainer's Deerling appeared in Curtain Up, Unova League!.
Two Deerling appeared in Mission: Defeat Your Rival!, both under the ownership of a Trainer.
A Trainer's Deerling appeared in Strong Strategy Steals the Show!.
Five Deerling appeared in Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, with one under the ownership of a Trainer, two being wild, and the other two appearing in a flashback.
A Summer Form Deerling appeared in Saving Braviary!.
A Summer Form Deerling appeared in Team Plasma's Pokémon Manipulation!.
In Secrets From Out of the Fog!, multiple Summer Form Deerling were living at N's hideout.
In Cilan and the Case of the Purrloin Witness!, a Trainer's Deerling was on the cruise ship.
In The Island of Illusions!, multiple Summer Form Deerling were living at Grand Spectrala Islet.
A Summer Form Deerling appeared in a flashback in The Path That Leads to Goodbye!.
A Summer Form Deerling appeared in Mewtwo — Prologue to Awakening.
In Genesect and the Legend Awakened, multiple Summer Form Deerling were living at Pokémon Hills. Two of the Deerling later helped put a fire out there.
A Spring Form Deerling appeared in a fantasy or a flashback in The Journalist from Another Region!.
In Celebrating the Hero's Comet!, a Summer Form Deerling was living at an in the Decolore Islands.
In a flashback in Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel, a Summer Form Deerling was living at the Nebel Plateau.
Two Summer Form Deerling appeared in The Flower Tower.
Three Summer Form Deerling appeared in HZ075, during a flashback.
===Pokédex entries===
==In the manga==
===Movie adaptations===
A Deerling appeared in .
===Pokémon Adventures===
In Welcome to Striaton City!!, a Spring Form Deerling was seen under the ownership of a female shopkeeper in Striaton City.
A Spring Form Deerling appeared in Special Delivery as one of the Pokémon competing in 's Pokémon Musical.
Darlene, a female Deerling, was captured by during her preparation for the Battle Subway trial in Growing Pains. She was seen in her Summer, Autumn, and Winter Forms.
Two Deerling appeared in a fantasy in A Misunderstanding.
A Trainer's Deerling appeared in The Final Battle.
===Pokémon RéBURST===
Deerling appeared in RB01 and RB76.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Deerling's Winter Form is its only form that has not appeared in the yet.
===Origin===
Deerling may be based on a fawn with a yellow flower on top of its head.
The colors of its four different seasonal forms may be visual references to the colors of trees and bushes during the four seasons: with pink representing blossoms in the , green representing fully grown leaves in the , orange representing the changing leaves in the , and brown representing the bare, leafless tree and bush branches in the . Deerling's design was worked backwards from Sawsbuck's design.Nintendo Dream Vol. 204, April 2011 (Shellspider's blog (Japanese), Translation by Dr. Lava)
====Name origin====
Deerling may be a combination of deer and darling or yearling (young animal between the age of one to two years old), with -ling being a common suffix to denote something that is small or immature; it may also reference the 1938 novel , about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn.
Shikijika may be a combination of 四季 shiki (four seasons) and 鹿 shika (deer).
==In other languages==
Spring Form
Summer Form
Autumn Form
Winter Form
==Related articles==
* List of Pokémon with form differences
* Students (Super Mystery Dungeon)
==References==
==External links==
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