Oddish
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is a fictional character of the Pokémon franchise.Oddish is a mixture of the words odd, which means strange and peculiar, and radish.
The original Japanese name is a portmanteau. "Nazono" is an adjective meaning that can mean, "puzzling", "mysterious", "enigmatic". "Kusa" is the Japanese word for "grass" or "weed".
Appearance
Oddish looks like (and is) a small animated plant. Its body is blue, purple or black with two small feet and red eyes. On top of its head grows a large clump of 5 long green leaves.Biology
Oddish is a nocturnal Pokémon, using moonlight rather than the sun's rays for photosynthesis. During the day, Oddish avoids the sun's heat and brightness by burying itself into the earth, leaving only the leaves on top of its head visible above ground. In this way it disguises itself as a plant, misdirecting its carnivorous diurnal predators.While buried, Oddish nourishes itself by absorbing nutrients from the soil using its feet, which are said to temporarily change into a root-like structure for this purpose.
If anyone pulls at Oddish's leaves and tries to uproot it while it is buried underground, Oddish will react by shrieking in a horrible voice. This mirrors the behavior of the legendary mandrake in a similar situation, although it seems that Oddish's yells do not have the same dire consequences as a mandrake's.
Once nightfall comes, exposure to moonlight causes Oddish to become much more active. It extracts itself from the ground, and its extremities change back into the shape of legs. It then proceeds to bathe itself in the moonlight and grow, as well as wander around as far as 1,000 feet (approximately 300 metres) scattering its seeds to propagate the species. With the coming of dawn, the cycle repeats.
Oddish is the only Pokémon of which we know the "formal" Latin name, as it appears in a Pokédex entry: Oddium Wanderus.
In the video games
Oddish is abundant in many of the games. In Pokémon Yellow, it can be found in Routes 12, 13, 14, 15, 24 and 25, while in Pokémon Red it can additionally be found in Routes 5, 6 and 7. Pokémon FireRed adds to the above locations the Berry Forest, the Bond Bridge, the Cape Brink and the Water Path.In Pokémon Silver and Gold, Oddish can be found in Routes 5, 6, 24, 25 and in Ilex Forest
In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, Oddish can be found in Routes 110, 117, 119, 120, 121, 123 and in the Safari Zone.
For a Basic Pokémon with two more stages of evolution Oddish has pretty good stats, especially in terms of special attack. It learns many status-inducing moves, as well as the somewhat powerful Petal Dance. Even though it can probably hold its own in some battles, Oddish's evolved forms Gloom, Vileplume and Bellossom are usually used instead of it.
In the anime
Oddish has made a fair number of appearances, but all of them are more or less cameos. Oddish usually appears as a part of a group of Grass-type Pokémon.In one notable episode, an Oddish is staying with a number of Hoppip whose owner uses them to predict the weather. The unfortunate Oddish envies the Hoppip for their ability to 'fly' in strong breezes.
In other media
Oddish has appeared in the Pokémon Trading Card Game first in the Jungle series.
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 [[Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness]]
External links
- [Official Pokémon website]
- [Bulbapedia] (a Pokémon-centric Wiki)’s article about Oddish as a species
- *[Serebii.net]’s 3rd Gen Pokédex entry for Oddish
- [Pokémon Dungeon] Pokédex entry, full of statistics analysis
- [PsyPoke] - Oddish Pokédex entry and Usage Overview
- [Smogon.com] - Oddish Tactical Data
- *[WikiKnowledge.net’s] entry for Previously hosted by Wikibooks
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