Tentacool

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#072	Tentacool
Types Water Poison	Generation   I
Abilities Ability 1 Clear Body Ability 2 Liquid Ooze Hidden Ability Rain Dish
Rarity Tier   Common	Catch rate   190/255 (24.84%)
Base stats HP 40 Atk 40 Def 35 Sp.Atk 50 Sp.Def 100 Spd 70 Base-stat total: 335
EV Yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 1 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 1
Base Experience   105	Gender Ratio     1%     99%
Height   0.9m	Weight   45.5kg

Tentacool is a Water- and Poison-type Pokémon.

It evolves into its only evolutionary outlet in Tentacruel as early as level 30.

Obtainability

Wild

Surfing

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
[[|]]	-						Common
All rows with a fishing rod indicate that its corresponding Pokémon can also be fished with the rod tier shown Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Fishing

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
Pokémon on this list can only be encountered via fishing. Pink-colored areas denote that this spawn is membership-exclusive.

NPCs

Daily Challenges (shiny)

Tentacool is one out of many assignable Pokémon in Kanto's iteration of the Daily Challenges system; by virtue of that, this is one of the guaranteedly shiny Pokémon that may be potentially rewarded for every 50-divisible task.

Discontinued methods

Tentacool previously spawned in these areas.

Wild

Surfing

Old

Region	Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
Tentacool is no longer accessible in this area—be it due to the area's present inaccessibility or the Pokémon's removal. This data exists strictly for archival purposes.

Moves

Level-Up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
—	Poison Sting	Poison	Physical	15	100	35
4	Supersonic	Normal	Status	—	55	20
7	Constrict	Normal	Physical	10	100	35
10	Acid	Poison	Special	40	100	30
13	Toxic Spikes	Poison	Status	—	—	20
16	Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100	20
19	Wrap	Normal	Physical	15	90	20
22	Acid Spray	Poison	Special	40	100	20
25	[[]]			—
28	Barrier	Psychic	Status	—	—	20
31	Poison Jab	Poison	Physical	80	100	20
34	Brine	Water	Special	65	100	10
37	Screech	Normal	Status	—	85	40
40	Hex	Ghost	Special	65	100	10
43	Sludge Wave	Poison	Special	95	100	10
46	Hydro Pump	Water	Special	110	80	5
49	Wring Out	Normal	Special	—	100	5
Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs/HMs

TM		Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
	TM06	Toxic	Poison	Status	—	90	10
	TM09	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
File:TM-.png	TM00	[[]]			—
	TM12	Water Gun	Water	Special	40	100	25
	TM13	Ice Beam	Ice	Special	90	100	10
	TM14	Blizzard	Ice	Special	110	70	5
	TM21	Mega Drain	Grass	Special	40	100	15
	TM33	Reflect	Psychic	Status	—	—	20
	TM34	Bide	Normal	Physical	—	—	10
	TM40	Skull Bash	Normal	Physical	100	100	15
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
	TM57	Hail	Ice	Status	—	—	10
	TM60	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	60	100	15
	TM67	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM68	Rain Dance	Water	Status	—	—	5
	TM75	Swords Dance	Normal	Status	—	—	20
	TM86	Sludge Bomb	Poison	Special	90	100	10
	TM92	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
	TM96	Thief	Dark	Physical	60	100	25
	TM138	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	HM01	Cut	Normal	Physical	50	95	30
	HM03	Surf	Water	Special	90	100	15
	HM06	Dive	Water	Physical	80	100	10
	HM07	Waterfall	Water	Physical	80	100	15
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move's obtainability.

Move Tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Double-Edge	Normal	Physical	120	100	15
Giga Drain	Grass	Special	75	100	10
Icy Wind	Ice	Special	55	95	15
Knock Off	Dark	Physical	65	100	25
Swagger	Normal	Status	—	90	15
Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100	20
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Egg Moves

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Acupressure	Normal	Status	—	—	10
Aurora Beam	Ice	Special	65	100	20
Aqua Ring	Water	Status	—	—	20
Bubble	Water	Special	40	100	30
Confuse Ray	Ghost	Status	—	100	10
Haze	Ice	Status	—	—	30
Knock Off	Dark	Physical	65	100	25
Mirror Coat	Psychic	Special	—	100	20
Muddy Water	Water	Special	90	85	10
Rapid Spin	Normal	Physical	50	100	40
Tickle	Normal	Status	—	100	20
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
2× Weak to	Electric Ground Psychic
1× Neutral to	Dark Dragon Flying Ghost Grass Normal Rock
½× Resistant to	Bug Fairy Fighting Fire Ice Poison Steel Water

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Tentacool requires to advance per level, as well as a comparative overview of how much less experience is needed to level up at the same levels than its evolution would require; this is informative for ascertaining how much experience can be saved if you were to delay its evolution to a later level.

Level	XP	Level-Up Differential	Tentacool-Tentacruel Differential
1	84	9	89
2	92	8	96
3	132	40	167
4	236	104	328
5	434	198	611
6	758	324	1046
7	1240	482	1663
8	1911	671	2491
9	2803	892	3562
10	3947	1144	4903
11	5375	1428	6547
12	7118	1743	8523
13	9208	2090	10860
14	11676	2468	13589
15	14554	2878	16740
16	17874	3320	20343
17	21666	3792	24427
18	25963	4297	29024
19	30796	4833	34162
20	36196	5400	39873
21	42195	5999	46185
22	48825	6630	53130
23	56117	7292	60737
24	64102	7985	69035
25	72813	8711	78057
26	82280	9467	87829
27	92536	10256	98385
28	103611	11075	109753
29	115538	11927	121964
30	128348	12810	135046
31	142072	13724	149032
32	156743	14671	163950
33	172391	15648	179830
34	189049	16658	196705
35	206747	17698	214601
36	225519	18772	233552
37	245394	19875	253584
38	266405	21011	274731
39	288584	22179	297022
40	311962	23378	320486
41	336571	24609	345154
42	362443	25872	371057
43	389610	27167	398224
44	418102	28492	426685
45	447953	29851	456473
46	479194	31241	487616
47	511856	32662	520145
48	545972	34116	554091
49	581575	35603	589484
50	618695	37120	626354
51	657365	38670	664733
52	697618	40253	704652
53	739485	41867	746140
54	783000	43515	789230
55	828195	45195	833952
56	875102	46907	880338
57	923755	48653	928419
58	974186	50431	978228
59	1026430	52244	1029797
60	1080520	54090	1083156
61	1136489	55969	1138341
62	1194374	57885	1195384
63	1254208	59834	1254318
64	1316028	61820	1315180
65	1379869	63841	1378002
66	1445769	65900	1442824
67	1513767	67998	1509681
68	1583902	70135	1578613
69	1656215	72313	1649662
70	1730751	74536	1722870
71	1807554	76803	1798283
72	1886673	79119	1875950
73	1968161	81488	1955928
74	2052076	83915	2038274
75	2138481	86405	2123055
76	2227449	88968	2210348
77	2319059	91610	2300239
78	2413409	94350	2392835
79	2510610	97201	2488258
80	2610797	100187	2586661
81	2714138	103341	2688234
82	2820839	106701	2793215
83	2931167	110328	2901917
84	3045467	114300	3014745
85	3164196	118729	3132249
86	3287970	123774	3255174
87	3417640	129670	3384567
88	3554403	136763	3521909
89	3699975	145572	3669359
90	3856883	156908	3830130
91	4028934	172051	4009131
92	4222029	193095	4214075
93	4445601	223572	4457478
94	4715266	269665	4760396
95	5057939	342673	5159759
96	5522244	464305	5723585
97	6201067	678823	6584602
98	7284270	1083203	8020604
99	9193758	1909488	10665448
100	12972351	3778593	16133213

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

• 
  Original counterpart
• 
  Shiny Psyduck

External Links

• Tentacool's Bulbapedia
• Tentacool's Serebii