Linoone (Pokémon)


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Linoone (Japanese: マッスグマ Massuguma) is a  introduced in Generation III.

It evolves from starting at level 20.

Biology
Linoone is a slender-bodied, quadruped Pokémon. Most of its fur is white, but it has several brown stripes. One long stripe stretches the length of its body before ending in an arrowhead shape on its forehead. The are additional stripes on each side of its bushy tail and on its cheeks. It has sharp, elongated claws and small pointed teeth. It has small, tuft-like ears, long cheek fur, and blue eyes.

Linoone can run up to, but has to stop before it can make a turn. It often fails to catch prey due to only being able to run in a straight line. When it sees prey underwater in ponds, it leaps in and uses its sharp claws to catch the prey. As shown in the anime, Linoone has an attraction to anything round, and will grab any orb-shaped object it sees if given the chance. It often carries a snatched object in its expandable cheek pouches and deposits it in any of a number of secret stashes it keep on its territory. Linoone tends to live in.

Major appearances
Linoone made its main series debut in Showdown at Linoone, under the ownership of Kimmy Shoney. Nicknamed "Tokin", it had developed a bad habit of stealing anything in sight. It was seen outside of its Poké Ball.

Three Linoone appeared in The Green Guardian, where Solana used her Capture Styler to receive their assistance in slashing vines created by a.

Five Linoone appeared in Arceus and the Jewel of Life, under the ownership of Damos. In the original timeline set up by the movie, three of them were used by Damos, who was under, to attack with. When and  traveled to the past to prevent this, Marcus, the one responsible for hypnotizing Damos, managed to use the Linoone again to attack Arceus.

A Linoone appeared in The Clumsy Crier Quiets the Chaos!. It was playing with a 's and a  when they were all attacked by a rampaging. Linoone was then taken to a Pokémon Center by and, and healed with the help of Nurse Joy and her.

Minor appearances
Multiple Linoone debuted in a cameo in Jirachi: Wish Maker as some of the residents of Forina, 's home.

A Linoone appeared in Gettin' Twiggy With It!, where it was nursed back to health by Clara after it had been injured.

A Linoone appeared in Camping It Up!.

A Linoone appeared in Zoroark: Master of Illusions as a resident of Crown City. It worked with several other Pokémon in surrounding in the park in order to attack him as retribution for what  did to the city. Before a fight broke out, Linoone, along with the other Pokémon, were calmed down by.

A Linoone appeared in Lumiose City Pursuit!, Foggy Pokémon Orienteering!, and Battling With a Clean Slate!; and in flashbacks in Mega Evolution Special I and Garchomp's Mega Bond! at Professor Sycamore's lab.

Multiple Linoone appeared in Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction as residents of Allearth Forest.

In Pokémon Generations
A Linoone appeared briefly in the beginning of The Scoop.

In the Ash & Pikachu manga
Linoone appeared in A 'Thank You' That Transcends Time.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
In Pinsir Me, I Must Be Dreaming, used a Linoone holding a Choice Band to breeze through the. Because he was a rental Pokémon he had just received, his extra-powerful went a long way before he challenged.

The Battle Factory rented a Linoone, which was stolen by Guile Hideout in Skirting Around Surskit I.

In the TFG
One Linoone figure has been released.

NPC appearances
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire: When uses  on the Ruby Field, two Linoone will pop out. Hitting the left Linoone will make a appear, activating Travel Mode when there are three Gulpin on the table. Hitting the right Linoone will change the stance of allowing it to punch the ball towards the Upgrade.

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Trivia

 * Linoone is the only Pokémon that can use the in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky.
 * Linoone has the same Hoenn Pokédex and Central Kalos Pokédex numbers.

Origin
Linoone's appearance is possibly a cross between the or  and a member of the  and/or  family, or it may possibly be based on the  or. It also shares the same color scheme of s and s. Its stripes slightly resemble flames and lightning, which may be a reference to, who typically use these patterns on their vehicles for show. Linoone may also be based on the legendary, which is usually depicted as 3 lightning fast weasels who wield razor-sharp claws which tear into their victims. It may also be based on the : a long, weasel-like creature, who has a desire for gold, which may have been the basis of Linoone's obsession for round objects.

Name origin
Linoone may be a combination of line (referring to its fur pattern and unusual habits) and ' or '.

Massuguma may be a combination of まっすぐ massugu (straight, as in a line) and アライグマ araiguma or 穴熊 anaguma. Guma (熊 kuma) as a suffix is often used for mammals that resemble bears.