Larvitar

The Rock Skin Pokémon
#246 - Larvitar
Evolve	Pupitar
Debut	Pokémon: Gold Version Pokémon: Silver Version
Species Info
Type	+ +
Height	0.6 m (2'00")
Weight	72.0 kg (158.7 lbs.)
Color	Green
Gender Ratio	1♂ : 1♀
Ability	Guts
Hidden Ability	Sand Veil
Egg Group	Monster
Icon		Sprite
		File:246sprite.png
Footprint
30px
Base Statistics
Hit Points	50	Speed	41
Attack	64	Sp. Attack	45
Defense	50	Sp. Defense	50
Training Info
Catch Rate	045	Hatch Steps	10,240
Base Exp.	067	Effort Points	Att
Happiness	35
To Lv.100	Slow

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Larvitar is a young subterranean Pokémon that was introduced in the second generation games. It is the first in a three-stage evolutionary line, with its evolved forms being Pupitar and Tyranitar.

Information

Larvitar is born deep underground and must eat its way and cannot emerge to see its parents face until it has eaten its way through the soil above it. As this implies, Larvitar feeds primarily on soil. It will apparently fall asleep after eating a whole mountain in order to grow. Eating enough dirt to comprise a mountain will cause Larvitar to grow into a pupa. It evolves into Pupitar at Level 30.

Appearances

Mainstream Games

In Pokémon: Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold and SoulSilver, Larvitar was rarely found at Mt. Silver Cave. In Crystal, Larvitar did not appear at night, and it could also be won as a prize at the Celadon City Game Corner for 8888 coins. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, Larvitar could also be caught at the Safari Zone's Mountain area during the morning and daytime.

In FireRed and LeafGreen, Larvitar was rarely found at Sevault Canyon. In Diamond, Larvitar could appear at Route 207 when using the Pokéradar, while in Platinum they instead appeared at Route 206 in swarms.

Other Games

In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, the player could trade a Wooper to Duking at Pyrite Town for a Larvitar, and it could later be traded to any of the third generation color versions. In Pokémon Trozei!, it appeared at Secret Storage 3, Secret Storage 15, Endless Level 10 and Mr. Who's Den. In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Teams, it could be recruited at the sixteenth through twenty-sixth floors of Southern Cavern, while in Explorers of Time and Darkness it was found at the first eight floors of Northern Desert. In Pokémon Ranger, it was found at Sekra Mountain Range. In Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, it appeared at Peril Cliffs. It also appeared in Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs at Faldera Island.

Other Appearances

Other Media

• In the Pokémon anime, Larvitar was first shown as a friend of Pikachu during one of the Pikachu shorts, but its most prominent appearance was during the Johto series when it hatched from an egg that he was supposed to deliver to Professor Elm. The Larvitar became very close to Ash and Pikachu, but it hardened if anyone else approached it. It turned out to have been traumatized as an egg by being separated from its mother by poachers, and Ash's group eventually reunited the Larvitar with its Tyranitar mother at Mt. Silver, where the Larvitar remained after the poachers were stopped. Larvitar have since made mostly minor appearances, such as one Battle Frontier episode where a shy Larvitar was one of the Pokémon that a Poké-Sitter was looking after.
• In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Larvitar was shown in a flashback during the Gold/Silver/Crystal arc where it had managed to taunt Crystal's Arcanine into going on a rampage. During the present day, Crystal was able to defeat and capture the same Larvitar in order to regain her confidence in the aftermath of failing to catch Suicune.

Trivia

• Its name is based on "larva", due to it being the youngest form of its evolutionary line.