Chinchou

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#170	Chinchou
Types Water Electric	Generation   II
Abilities Ability 1 Volt Absorb Ability 2 Illuminate Hidden Ability Water Absorb
Rarity Tier   Common	Catch rate   190/255 (24.84%)
Base stats HP 75 Atk 38 Def 38 Sp.Atk 56 Sp.Def 56 Spd 67 Base-stat total: 330
EV Yield HP 1 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 1
Base Experience   90	Gender Ratio     50%     50%
Height   0.5m	Weight   12kg

Chinchou is a Water and Electric type Pokémon.

It evolves into Lanturn upon reaching level 27.

Obtainability

Surfing

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
Breakers Trench Underwater	35-38	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Breezy Falls	18-23	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Corsica Island	15-19	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Diamond Empire Pathway Underwater	21-25	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Festival Town	25-30	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Galeras Island East	27-33	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Lightning Island	25-28	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Lightning Island Frozen	25-28	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Lightning Island Seaway	25-30	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Lost Seacoast	25-30	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Medusas Cloud	24-28	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Necropolis	25-30	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Olivine City	23-25	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 126 Underwater	30-34	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 20	38-38	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 220	20-32	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 26	38-38			Night			Common
Route 27	38-38	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 40	15-21	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 41	30-35	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Safari Johto Wet Zone	22-26	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Sanctuary of Energy	24-28	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Trainers Valley	30-32	Morning	Day	Night			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

Moves

Level Up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
1	Bubble	Water	Special	40	100	30
1	Supersonic	Normal	Status	—	55	20
6	Thunder Wave	Electric	Status	—	100	20
9	Electro Ball	Electric	Special	—	100	10
12	Water Gun	Water	Special	40	100	25
17	Confuse Ray	Ghost	Status	—	100	10
20	Bubble Beam	Water	Special	65	100	20
23	Spark	Electric	Physical	65	100	20
28	Signal Beam	Bug	Special	75	100	15
31	Flail	Normal	Physical	—	100	15
34	Discharge	Electric	Special	80	100	15
39	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
42	Aqua Ring	Water	Status	—	—	20
45	Hydro Pump	Water	Special	110	80	5
47	Ion Deluge	Electric	Status	—	—	25
50	Charge	Electric	Status	—	—	20
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.

Egg Moves

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Agility	Psychic	Status	—	100	30
Amnesia	Psychic	Status	—	—	20
Brine	Water	Special	65	100	10
Flail	Normal	Physical	—	100	15
Mist	Ice	Status	—	—	30
Psybeam	Psychic	Special	65	100	20
Screech	Normal	Status	—	85	40
Shock Wave	Electric	Special	60	—	20
Soak	Water	Status	—	100	20
Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100	20
Whirlpool	Water	Special	35	85	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. For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

TMs

TM		Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
	TM06	Toxic	Poison	Status	—	90	10
	TM13	Ice Beam	Ice	Special	90	100	10
	TM14	Blizzard	Ice	Special	110	70	5
	TM24	Thunderbolt	Electric	Special	90	100	15
	TM25	Thunder	Electric	Special	110	70	10
	TM32	Double Team	Normal	Status	—	—	15
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
	TM45	Thunder Wave	Electric	Status	—	100	20
	TM57	Hail	Ice	Status	—	—	10
	TM60	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	60	100	15
	TM67	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM68	Rain Dance	Water	Status	—	—	5
	TM92	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
	TM105	Scald	Water	Special	80	100	15
	TM122	Volt Switch	Electric	Special	70	100	20
	TM130	Return	Normal	Physical	—	100	20
	TM138	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—	10
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.

TM Tutor

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Charge Beam	Electric	Special	50	90	10
Dazzling Gleam	Fairy	Special	80	100	10
Frustration	Normal	Physical	—	100	20
Wild Charge	Electric	Physical	90	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. Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move Tutor

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Bounce	Flying	Physical	85	85	5
Heal Bell	Normal	Status	—	—	5
Icy Wind	Ice	Special	55	95	15
Shock Wave	Electric	Special	60	—	20
Signal Beam	Bug	Special	75	100	15
Snore	Normal	Special	50	100	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.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
2×  Weak to	1×  Neutral to	½×  Resistant to	0×  Immune to
Grass Ground	Bug Dark Dragon Electric Fairy Fighting Ghost Normal Poison Psychic Rock Water	Fire Flying Grass Ice Steel	None
All darkened weakness types have a 4x weakness due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon's type weaknesses. All darkened resistance types have a 1⁄4x resistance due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon's type resistances.

Notes

• Volt Absorb grants an immunity to Electric.
• Water Absorb grants an immunity to Water.

Special Counterparts

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  Shiny Chinchou
• 
  Valentine Chinchou
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  Halloween Chinchou