poliwrath

Base Flavor

red: An adept swimmer at both the front crawl and breast stroke. Easily overtakes the best human swimmers.

blue: An adept swimmer at both the front crawl and breast stroke. Easily overtakes the best human swimmers.

yellow: Swims powerfully using all the muscles in its body. It can even overtake champion swimmers.

gold: This strong and skilled swimmer is even capable of crossing the Pacific Ocean just by kicking.

silver: Although an ener­ getic, skilled swimmer that uses all of its mus­ cles, it lives on dry land.

crystal: It can use its well-developed arms and legs to run on the surface of the water for a split second.

ruby: POLIWRATH’s highly developed, brawny muscles never grow fatigued, however much it exercises. It is so tirelessly strong, this POKéMON can swim back and forth across the Pacific Ocean without effort.

sapphire: POLIWRATH’s highly developed, brawny muscles never grow fatigued, however much it exercises. It is so tirelessly strong, this POKéMON can swim back and forth across the Pacific Ocean without effort.

emerald: Its highly developed muscles never grow fatigued, however much it exercises. This POKéMON can swim back and forth across the Pacific Ocean without effort.

firered: An adept swimmer, it knows the front crawl, butterfly, and more. It is faster than the best human swimmers.

leafgreen: A swimmer adept at both the front crawl and breaststroke. Easily overtakes the best human swimmers.

diamond: With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting.

pearl: With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting.

platinum: With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting.

heartgold: This strong and skilled swimmer is even capable of crossing the Pacific Ocean just by kicking.

soulsilver: Although an energetic, skilled swimmer that uses all of its muscles, it lives on dry land.

black: With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting.

white: With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting.

black-2: With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting.

white-2: With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting.

x: With its extremely tough muscles, it can keep swimming in the Pacific Ocean without resting.

y: A swimmer adept at both the front crawl and breaststroke. Easily overtakes the best human swimmers.

omega-ruby: Poliwrath’s highly developed, brawny muscles never grow fatigued, however much it exercises. It is so tirelessly strong, this Pokémon can swim back and forth across the ocean without effort.

alpha-sapphire: Poliwrath’s highly developed, brawny muscles never grow fatigued, however much it exercises. It is so tirelessly strong, this Pokémon can swim back and forth across the ocean without effort.

sun: Poliwrath in the Alola region are strong swimmers that use the breaststroke. Many children learn to swim by imitating Poliwrath.

moon: Its percentage of body fat is nearly zero. Its body is entirely muscle, which makes it heavy and forces its swimming prowess to develop.

ultra-sun: It’s quite a gifted swimmer, even among Water-type Pokémon, but it normally spends its time on land.

ultra-moon: The muscles it has developed through swimming are thick and powerful. When it lands a square punch, it can turn huge boulders to dust.

lets-go-pikachu: Swims powerfully using all the muscles in its body. It can even overtake world-class swimmers.

lets-go-eevee: Swims powerfully using all the muscles in its body. It can even overtake world-class swimmers.

sword: Its body is solid muscle. When swimming through cold seas, Poliwrath uses its impressive arms to smash through drift ice and plow forward.

shield: Poliwrath is skilled at both swimming and martial arts. It uses its well-trained arms to dish out powerful punches.

Base Stats

Habitat

waters-edge

Abilities

• water-absorb

  Whenever a water-type move hits this Pokémon, it heals for 1/4 of its maximum HP, negating any other effect on it. Water moves will ignore this Pokémon's substitute.

• damp

  While this Pokémon is in battle, self destruct and explosion will fail and aftermath will not take effect.

• swift-swim

  This Pokémon's Speed is doubled during rain. This bonus does not count as a stat modifier.

Moves