Slakoth (Pokémon)


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Slakoth (Japanese: ナマケロ Namakero) is a  introduced in Generation III.

It evolves into starting at level 18, which evolves into  starting at level 36.

Biology
Slakoth is a brown, quadruped Pokémon with sloth-like qualities. It has coarse, shaggy fur with two dark brown stripes on its back. There is a scruff of fur on top of its head, and it has a large, pig-like pink nose, pink eyelids, and dark rings around its eyes. It has long, lanky arms, but shorter legs. Each paw has two sharp claws, and there are pink paw pads on the back feet. Its underbelly and read are also pink.

Slakoth lolls around and sleeps for more than twenty hours a day, which can make those around it drowsy. Since it does not move very much, it does not need much food and only eats three leaves each day. Its heart only beats once a minute. It is capable of regaining lost energy through use of its former signature move,. It makes its nest in and keeps the same one during its entire life. However, it can travel far by swimming in rivers.

Major appearances
Norman's Slakoth appeared in Love, Petalburg Style and Balance of Power. It was used in his Gym against, where it battled  and. It proved to be a strong battler against Pikachu with its powerful attack, but it lost to Torkoal's.

In The Garden of Eatin', there were many Slakoth who lived in the Banana Slakoth Garden which is run by Marcel. A was eating all the bananas in the garden and no one was able to stop it until one of the Slakoth in the garden evolved into  and defeated it.

Minor appearances
Slakoth debuted in Max's flashback in Having a Wailord of a Time.

A Slakoth appeared in The Ribbon Cup Caper at the S.S. St. Flower's Pokémon Center.

A Slakoth appeared in The Champ Twins!.

used a Slakoth during the first activity of the Pokémon Summer Academy in Camping It Up!.

A Slakoth appeared in Ghoul Daze!.

A 's Slakoth was used in the Battle Stage of the  along with a  in Playing the Performance Encore!.

A Slakoth appeared in Lumiose City Pursuit!.

In the Ash & Pikachu manga
Norman's Slakoth appeared in I'll Win With My Own Battle Style!!.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
A Slakoth, nicknamed Slokath (Japanese: ケンタロ Kentarō), under the ownership of Alecsey (Japanese: ヒロキ Hiroki), appeared while was participating in a Pokémon Contest in Tripped Up by Torkoal.

In It All Ends Now V, Norman was seen with two Slakoth that he used to try to stop from fleeing from its confines.

A Slakoth appeared in The Transfer Student.

In the Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire manga
In the Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire manga, Norman owns a Slakoth. In There's Someone More Important Than Clefairy?!, it swallows the and Red's Clefairy helps to retrieve it from its stomach.

NPC appearances

 * : Clyde uses a Slakoth to back up his.
 * Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness: Slakoth and are the members of Team Slacker, the zero-motivation exploration team.

Pokédex entries

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Game locations

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In side games

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Trivia

 * Slakoth is one of fourteen Pokémon that one could collect foreign Pokédex entries for in.

Origin
As its name implies, it appears to have been based on sloths, specifically two-toed sloths.

Name origin
Slakoth may be a combination of slack (to be lazy) and  as well as a play on the phrase "to slack off."

Namakero may be a combination of 樹懶 namakemono (sloth) and なまける namakeru (slack off).