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Porygon

Generation

Generation I

Pokédex

Index

Kalos

N/A

Evolves

From

None

Into

Porygon2

Footprint

Cry

Porygon (Japanese: ポリゴン Porigon) is a Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I.

Biology

Physiology

Porygon is a Virtual Pokémon. It is based on early 3D animation models, and is thus created completely out of polygons. The various parts of Porygon's body are colored red, white, and blue. Its eyes are in the shape of hexagons.

Special abilities

Porygon can have the ability Trace or the ability Download. Trace copies the opponent's ability. Download increases Porygon's Attack or Special Attack depending on the opponent's defenses. It is the first artificial Pokémon, created by scientists at the Silph Co. company.

Evolution

Porygon is able to evolve into Porygon2, though only through Trade while holding the Up-Grade item, and then into Porygon-Z while holding the Dubious Disc while being traded.

Game info

Game locations

Locations
Version(s)	Area(s)	Rarity
Red and Blue	Rocket Game Corner	Unlimited
Yellow	Rocket Game Corner	Unlimited
Gold and Silver	Rocket Game Corner	Unlimited
Crystal	Rocket Game Corner	Unlimited
Ruby and Sapphire	Trade	None
FireRed and LeafGreen	Rocket Game Corner	Unlimited
Emerald	Trade	None
Diamond and Pearl	Trophy Garden (After National Pokédex is obtained)	Rare
Platinum	Veilstone City	One
HeartGold and SoulSilver	Rocket Game Corner	Unlimited
Black and White	White Forest (White only)	Rare
X and Y	Transfer	None

Pokédex entries

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Appearances

Anime

Porygon appeared in one of the most well known banned Pokémon episodes, Electric Soldier Porygon, which has hospitalized nearly 700 Japanese children due to flashing red and blue strobes causing them to have seizures. Due to the happened hiatus, the show skipped 4 months after the episode and it was never aired outside of Japan. However, it is available at YouTube (Watch at your own risk). It is based on an electronic system operator, and teleports with Ash, Misty, and Brock.

Trivia

Due to the episode, "Electric Soldier Porygon", which caused 685 Japanese children to have epileptic seizures, Porygon has never had another appearance in the anime or in any film adaptation of the series, except for one brief cameo appearance at the beginning of the 2005 movie, Pokémon Heroes, and neither have its evolutions, Porygon2 and Porygon-Z, in an effort to block the traumatizing event from the minds of viewers even though it was Pikachu that one that caused the seizures with its Thunderbolt.
- Porygon made a cameo in the episode A Way Off Day Off in the "Orange Islands" series as a "Who's That Pokémon?" clip.
Porygo
Porygon is the only Pokémon that can be evolved through trading twice.
Porygon's evolution line is the only evolution line to have the Basic Pokémon's name throughout the whole line.

Etymology

Porygon is a pun on the mathematical term, "polygon".

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