Shellos (Pokémon)


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Shellos (Japanese: カラナクシ Karanakushi) is a  introduced in Generation IV.

It evolves into starting at level 30.

Shellos have two different appearances: West Sea (pink and white) and East Sea (blue and green), found on the respective sides of Sinnoh's mountain range.

Biology
Shellos is a slug-like Pokémon whose appearance changes drastically depending on where it is found. However, both forms have a shell-like back and an amorphous lower body. Both forms also have yellow lining around their eyes, mouth, and back.

In the West Sea form, the underside is white and its shell is pink. The shell has several small spike-like protrusions on it. On its head is a ring of pink fleshy knobs resembling flower petals that spike up.

In the East Sea form, the underside is green and its shell is blue. The shell has two flap-like protrusions. These flaps are lined in yellow. On its head are two white-tipped knobs resembling horns that extend away from its face.

The Nurse Joy featured in Gateway to Ruin! revealed Mt. Coronet's formation led to the event, with the original population of Shellos being separated into two. As a result, Shellos' color and other physical differences began to vary due to environmental differences and population isolation over time. The two forms are still able to interbreed; the child takes the mother's form or the father's if bred with a. If it is pushed or squeezed, a mysterious purple fluid will ooze out of its body. In the anime, West Sea Shellos can extend their necks to incredible lengths. It is unknown if the East Sea form can do this as well. Shellos live along the sea shore.

Zoey's Shellos
West Sea Shellos debuted in A Stand-Up Sit-Down!, under the ownership of Zoey, where it partnered with her Glameow to show and her Pokémon a Double Performance. Since then, it became one of Zoey's most reliable Pokémon in her to win the title of Top Coordinator. In Last Call — First Round!, it was shown to have evolved into a Gastrodon.

Other
Several of both kinds of Shellos appeared in Gateway to Ruin!, which also served as the main series debut for East Sea Shellos.

Minor appearances
East Sea Shellos debuted in a cameo in The Rise of Darkrai.

Two East Sea Shellos appeared in a fantasy in Yo, Ho, Ho! Go, Popplio!.

Three Shellos, two of them West Sea and the third East Sea, appeared in Deceiving Appearances!, where they were among the Pokémon seen at Aether Paradise.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
East Sea Shellos debuted in Bombastic Bibarel & Heroic Hippopotas, under the ownership of a male seen at the Seven Stars Restaurant.

Shellos's most notable appearance is that of a companion of Mr. Fuego's. He typically keeps his East Sea Shellos on his shoulder, continuing to do so even after he accidentally imprisoned himself to avoid Team Galactic. It first appeared in Maddening Magby.

West Sea Shellos debuted in Movie Panic, where it was at the Pokéstar Studios, presumably under the ownership of one of the visiting Trainers from the.

Pokédex entries

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East Sea

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West Sea

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Game locations

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In side games

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East Sea

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Trivia

 * According to an interview in Nintendo Power with Ken Sugimori, Shellos and were originally intended for, but were not implemented due to time constraints.
 * Both Shellos and Gastrodon have early back sprites that can be found in the game data for ; however, there are no front sprites for these forms.
 * In, no in-game Trainer uses East Sea Shellos in battle, even on the east side of Mt. Coronet.
 * Shellos's English Pokédex entry for has the fewest words of any Pokédex entry in the core series games, with nine.
 * Prior to Generation VI, Shellos's body style was [[File:Body14.png]].
 * Shellos is the only Pokémon with that benefits from its Sandstorm immunity, since the other Pokémon are naturally immune to its damage due to their typing.

Origin
Shellos is based on a, more specifically the.

Name origin
Shellos may be a combination of shell and loss or lost (referring to its lack of a shell), or the German suffix -los (-less).

Karanakushi is a combination of 殻 kara (shell) and 無くした nakushita (to have lost) or 無し nashi (without).

Related articles

 * Zoey's Shellos