Carnivine

The Bug Catcher Pokémon
#455 - Carnivine
Debut	Pokémon: Diamond Version Pokémon: Pearl Version
Species Info
Type	+
Height	1.4 m (4'07")
Weight	27.0 kg (59.5 lbs.)
Color	Green
Gender Ratio	1♂ : 1♀
Ability	Levitate
Hidden Ability
Egg Group	Plant
Icon		Sprite
		File:455sprite.png
Footprint
30px
Base Statistics
Hit Points	74	Speed	46
Attack	100	Sp. Attack	90
Defense	72	Sp. Defense	72
Training Info
Catch Rate	200	Hatch Steps	6,400
Base Exp.	164	Effort Points	Att
Happiness	70		Att
To Lv.100	Slow

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Carnivine is a carnivorous plant-like Pokémon that was introduced in the fourth generation games. It lacks and evolutionary line.

Information

Carnivine usually use their tentacles to hang from branches and pose as normal plants while awaiting prey with their mouths wide open. A Carnivine attracts prey with its sweet-smelling saliva and then chomps down on it. It usually takes a whole day for it to eat prey. They walk around on their tentacles in search of good tree branches, and they usually bind themselves to tree located in marshes.

Appearances

Mainstream Games

In Pokémon: Diamond, Pearl and Platinum Versions, Carninvine could appear within the Great Marsh. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, they could appear uncommonly at Ilex Forest and Viridian Forest when Sinnoh Sound was playing over the radio. It could also be caught at the Marshland and Desert areas of the Safari Zone when enough Forest or Plains objects were present.

Moves

Generation IV

Name	Type	Cat	PP	Power	Accur	Gen	Cont	D/P	P

Weaknesses

x2

x1

x1

x0.5

x1

x2

x2

x1

x0.5

x0.5

x2

x1

x2

x1

x1

x1

x0.5

Other Games

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, Carnivine could be recruited at the seventh through fifteenth floors of the Northern Desert and the Final Maze. In Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, it appeared at Chroma Highlands. In Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs, it was found at Sophian Road, the Forest Temple and the Odd Temple. Carnivine also appeared in Pokémon Rumble at the Silent Forest.

Other Appearances

In Other Media

• In the Pokémon anime, Carnivine was featured in the Sinnoh series as the main Pokémon of James of Team Rocket. It was shown that he had caught the Carnivine at the Great Marsh as a child, and he found its Pokémon in an old vacationing home early in the Sinnoh series. It continued the running gag of grass Pokémon hurting James while showing affection to him, as Carnivine often wrapped him in tight hugs. Jessie also used the Carnivine for various Pokémon Contests while disguised as Jessilina, often progressing fairly far in the contests, and there was one episode in which she actually defeated Dawn and won a contest using Carnivine. Carnivine was among the Pokémon left behind at Team Rocket's headquarters when they moved on to Unova.
• In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Carnivine appeared during the Diamond/Pearl arc where it tried to eat Diamond and Pearl's Munchlax and Chatot when they found it at the Great Marsh, but Munchlax was able to save them by holding Carnivine's mouth open.

Trivia

• Its name is a combination of "carnivore" and "vine".