Wurmple (Pokémon)


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Wurmple (Japanese: ケムッソ Kemusso) is a  introduced in Generation III.

Wurmple will evolve into either or  starting at level 7 depending on its personality value. As personality values cannot be influenced or seen by the player, what a given Wurmple will evolve into is essentially random. From there, the Silcoon or Cascoon will evolve again starting at level 10 into or  respectively.

Biology
Wurmple is a small, caterpillar-like Pokémon. Its body is mainly red with a cream underside and face. It has large yellow eyes with dark pupils. It has one sharp yellow stinger on its head and two of them on its rear. It has a tall, erect, red spine behind its forehead and a similar, smaller spine behind that. It has small spikes running down the top portions of its body and five pairs of stubby white limbs.

Wurmple has suction pads at the tips of its feet, which allow it to cling to glass or tree branches without slipping. It can spit a white silk that turns gooey when exposed to the air. It can release poison from its tail spikes, which can weaken and poison foes. Wurmple lives in. It eats leaves and pulls bark off trees to feed on the sap. ,, and are natural predators of Wurmple.

May's Wurmple
a Wurmple in All in a Day's Wurmple, which also marked the species' debut. May's Wurmple evolved into in A Corphish Out of Water, and then into  in Seeing is Believing!.

Jessie's Wurmple
Jessie also caught a Wurmple in All in a Day's Wurmple. Jessie's Wurmple evolved into a in the same episode that May's Wurmple evolved in, and later evolved into, which was also the same episode where May's Silcoon had evolved into a Beautifly.

Aaron's Wurmple
Wurmple was shown in A Trainer and Child Reunion! as a Pokémon that was released by when he was younger. It returned years later as a.

Minor appearances
A Wurmple appeared in Lights, Camerupt, Action! as an actor in one of Elijah's movies.

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

A Wurmple made a brief appearance in a flashback in The Rise of Darkrai.

A Wurmple appeared in Riding the Winds of Change!.

A Wurmple appeared in Genesect and the Legend Awakened at Pokémon Hills.

In the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Animated Trailer
Two Wurmple appeared in the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Animated Trailer, where they surrounded and her, only for Torchic to scare them away with a  attack.

In Pokémon Generations
A Wurmple appeared in The Cavern, where it was running away from a storm that a Primal  was creating.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Wurmple first appeared in Making Mirth with Mightyena.

In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga
Several s are seen using Wurmple. Among these grunts is B-2, whose Wurmple first appeared in Hareta's Very First Pokémon Battle!!.

A Wurmple appeared in Return to Hareta's Home Forest!.

In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team manga
A Wurmple appeared in Pokémon to the Rescue!.

In the W Mission Story: Pokémon Ranger - the Comic manga
Solana captured a Wurmple using her Capture Styler.

NPC appearances

 * Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness: Wurmple is one of the members of Team Tasty, alongside . A running joke is that Wurmple is terrified that Swellow is going to eat him, and that's why he named their team that. Only at the end of the game does Swellow realize this.

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In side games

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Trivia

 * Wurmple shares its with . They are both known as the Worm Pokémon.
 * Wurmple is the only Pokémon whose branched evolutions evolve further. All other Pokémon with a branch in their evolutionary line either evolve once before the branch or do not have any other evolutionary event besides the one which is branched.
 * Wurmple is the only Pokémon whose evolution is directly influenced by its personality value. Pokémon whose evolution is influenced by their gender are also technically evolving based on their personality value, although unlike Wurmple, their determined evolution can be known in advance.
 * Prior to Generation VI, Wurmple's body style was [[File:Body02.png]].

Origin
Wurmple is based on a.

Name origin
Wurmple is a combination of  and rumple (referring to the wrinkled texture of its skin). The ending of Wurmple may also come from simple.

Kemusso is derived from 毛虫 kemushi (caterpillar).

Related articles

 * May's Wurmple
 * Jessie's Wurmple
 * Aaron's Wurmple