#0072 · Jellyfish Pokémon
Tentacool
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Classic
Rank #337 · 7 votes · median C
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Rank #458 · 12 votes · median B
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Endless
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Rank #89 · 5 votes · median D
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Tier history
8 recorded changes · 7 votes
8 recorded changes · 12 votes
5 recorded changes · 5 votes
Game data
Abilities
- Clear Body
The Pokémon’s stats cannot be lowered by other Pokémon’s moves or Abilities.
- Liquid Ooze
The strong stench of the Pokémon’s oozed liquid damages attackers that use HP-draining moves instead of healing them.
- Rain DishHidden
The Pokémon has ¹⁄₁₆ of its max HP restored at the end of every turn in rain.
When the Pokémon hits a target with a move, the target has a 30% chance of being badly poisoned from the power of the Pokémon’s toxic chain.
Egg moves
- Baneful BunkerPoisonStatus— · —
The user protects itself from incoming moves for the turn. Any attackers that use contact moves against the user during this turn become poisoned. With each consecutive use, this move’s chance of success becomes ⅓ of what it was before.
- Malignant ChainPoisonSpecial100 pow · 100%
The user pours toxins into the target by wrapping them in a toxic, corrosive chain. This move has a 50% chance of badly poisoning the target.
- Bouncy BubbleWaterSpecial60 pow · 100%
The user attacks by shooting water bubbles at the target. It then absorbs water and restores its HP by 100% of the damage dealt by this move.
- Strength SapGrassStatus— · 100%Rare egg move
The user restores its own HP by the same amount as the target’s Attack stat. It then lowers the target’s Attack stat.
Base stats
Tentacool · BST 335
Tentacruel · BST 515
Unlock costs
Candy needed for a cost-3 starter:
- Passive ability
- 35 🍬
- Cost reductions
- 20 / 50 🍬
- Same-species egg
- 25 🍬
- The price only drops once you have hatched enough Tentacool eggs: 22 🍬 after 20 hatches, 18 🍬 after 40 hatches, 12 🍬 after 80 hatches.
- Friendship needed per candy
- 75
Expensive starters ask for fewer candies, but earn them far more slowly: Tentacool needs 75 friendship per candy, while a cost-1 starter earns one every 25.