Golbat
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is a fictional creature known as a Pokémon within the franchise of that name.Golbat's name may possibly have been taken from "Golden Bat", a minor villain from Henshin superhero series Jinzo Ningen Kikaida.
Appearance/Biology
Golbat appears to be a large, blue bat whose head constitutes its full body, has two tiny legs, two small eyes and has a huge, gaping black mouth with fangs.Golbat is a fierce nocturnal Pokémon, residing in the darkness of caves, and is most active in the pitch black of night, especially if the moon is in its new phase. It is widely known and despised for its feeding behavior: Sucking fresh blood from living things in large quantities. Once it has found a living target, it attacks in a stealthy manner, often striking without warning from the behind, to harshly bite down on its prey with its four sharp fangs strong enough to puncture the hide of any animal-like Pokémon, however strong the hide might be. It then proceeds to drink ten ounces of blood instantly. Golbat enjoys blood so much that it does not want to stop, even though a lot of blood will weigh it down enough so that, if it is able to even fly afterwards, it flies clumsily.
Surprisingly, after each attack and feeding sequence, Golbat’s own blood type changes into that of its victim.
In the video games
Golbat is the evolution of Zubat, #41. Golbat's elemental types are Poison and Flying. Despite being a Stage 1 Pokemon, Golbat can be found in the wild in many cave locations in every version of Pokemon. Agatha of the Elite Four uses one.Golbat in R/B/Y
Golbat was considered the final evolution of Zubat in the R/B/Y series of Pokémon games. When the G/S/C series was introduced, it was revealed that if you were to make your Golbat happy enough, it would evolve into a Crobat (see below). However, this also required levelling up- all Level 100 Golbats currently in R/B/Y could not be evolved into a Crobat. This was not much of a problem, however; Golbat was a lot less popular in the R/B/Y series than Crobat is in the G/S/C series, though Crobat is not an extremely popular Pokémon. (More about Crobat can be seen in the Crobat article)Golbat in R/S/E
Golbat is an uncommon pokemon in these series. In Emerald, Sapphire and Ruby, it can be found in the water of Meteor Falls. In competitve battling Golbat is still used for the lower tier battles.Evolution
Unlike the typical evolution process (evolving at a certain level), Golbat evolves into Crobat when its happiness rating is high. A Pokémon's happiness rating can be measured in different ways throughout the games. In the GSC series, there is a woman in Goldenrod City who will rate the happiness of the player's Pokémon, and in the RSE series, there is a woman in Verdanturf Town who will also rate the happiness of your Pokémon. However, having its happiness rated does not have any effect on a Golbat's evolution; it only gives a rough measure of when it will evolve. When a Golbat is sufficiently happy, it will evolve into Crobat the next time it levels up.Animé appearances
Golbat has made most of its appearances under Brock's control, debuting through evolution in the episode "Hassle in the Castle". Koga also owned one. The rest are cameos by Golbat's owned by other trainers.In the trading card game
Golbat has had many cards under its name throughout the lengthy history of the card game, all as stage-1 Grass-types:
- Fossil
- Team Rocket (as Dark Golbat)
- Gym Heroes (as Brock’s Golbat)
- Neo Revelation
- Skyridge
- EX Hidden Legends
- EX Team Rocket Returns (as Dark Golbat, as a Dark/Grass dual-type)
- EX Deoxys
References
- The following games and their instruction manuals: Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue; Pokémon Yellow; Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2; Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal; Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald; Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen; Pokémon Colosseum and
External links
- [Official Pokémon website]
- [Bulbapedia] (a Pokémon-centric Wiki)’s article about Golbat as a species
- *[Serebii.net]’s 3rd Gen Pokédex entry for Golbat
- [Pokémon Dungeon] Pokédex entry, full of statistics analysis
- [PsyPoke] - Golbat Pokédex entry and Usage Overview
- [Smogon.com] - Golbat Tactical Data
- *[WikiKnowledge.net’s] entry for Previously hosted by Wikibooks
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