[[Category:Normal-type Pokémon]][[Category:Generation I Pokémon]] [[Category:Pink Pokémon]] Porygon (Japanese: ポリゴン Porigon) is a Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I. It has the National Pokédex number of 137. In Pokémon Platinum, you can get one in Veilstone City by talking to a man in one of the houses.
Appearance
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. Template:Family
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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In the anime
Porygon appeared in one of the most well known banned Pokémon episodes, Electric Soldier Porygon, which has hospitalized over 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, Porygon 2 and Porygon Z, in an effort to block the traumatizing event from the minds of viewers even though it was Pikachu who caused the seizures when it's eyes where blinking red.
- Porygon made a cameo in the episode A Way Off Day Off in the "Orange Islands" series as a "Who's That Pokémon?" clip.
- Porygon is a pun on the mathematical term, "polygon"
- Porygon can possibly have the ability to go into computers.
- According to the Pokédex, Porygon can travel freely in cyberspace thus able to go into the internet.
- Despite being a manmade Pokémon made of computer data, Porygon can be hatched from an egg.
- Surprisingly, Porygon is not a polygon in the games, but a sprite rather.
- In the episode Electric Soldier Porygon, it appears to be at least 10 feet tall, when its Pokedex entry lists it as being only 2 feet tall. This may be possible because it was in a PC , thus allowing it to change it's shape and appearance.
- 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.
- Porygon has the same cry as Victreebel, except Porygon's cry is higher pitched.
