Paras

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#046	Paras
Types Bug Grass	Generation   I
Abilities Ability 1 Effect Spore Ability 2 Dry Skin Hidden Ability Damp
Rarity Tier   Common	Catch rate   190/255 (24.84%)
Base stats HP 35 Atk 70 Def 55 Sp.Atk 45 Sp.Def 55 Spd 25 Base-stat total: 285
EV Yield HP 0 Atk 1 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 1
Base Experience   70	Gender Ratio     87.5%     12.5%
Height   0.3m	Weight   5.4kg

Paras is a Bug- and Grass-type Pokémon.

It evolves into Parasect as early as level 24.

Obtainability

Land

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rarity Tier
Bittersweet Cave 1F	25-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Bug Catching Area	15-19	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Bug Catching Multiplayer Area	15-19	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Diamond Empire East Wing	22-23	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Forest Maze	22-27	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Ilex Forest	10-14	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Moon 1F	14-16	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Moon B1F	14-16	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Moon B2F	14-16	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Nap Forest	42-45	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Pinkan Island Meadow	40-45	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Safari Area 3	20-21	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Safari Exclusive	26-28	Morning	Day			Common
Serenia Village Tunnel	24-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Uncanny Path	24-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Viridian Forest	5-7	Morning	Day			Common
Pink-colored areas denote that this spawn is membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Task Master

Paras is one out of many possibly rewarded Pokémon from Celadon Daily (task system); by virtue of that, this is one of the guaranteedly shiny Pokémon that may be potentially rewarded for every 50 tasks completed.

Moves

Level-up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
1	Scratch	Normal	Physical	40	100	35
6	Poison Powder	Poison	Status	—	75	35
6	Stun Spore	Grass	Status	—	75	30
11	Absorb	Grass	Special	20	100	25
17	Fury Cutter	Bug	Physical	40	95	20
22	Spore	Grass	Status	—	100	15
27	Slash	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
33	Growth	Normal	Status	—	—	20
38	Giga Drain	Grass	Special	75	100	10
43	Aromatherapy	Grass	Status	—	—	5
49	Rage Powder	Bug	Status	—	—	20
54	X-Scissor	Bug	Physical	80	100	10
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
	TM03	Energy Ball	Grass	Special	90	100	10
	TM06	Toxic	Poison	Status	—	90	10
	TM08	Body Slam	Normal	Physical	80	100	15
	TM09	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
	TM21	Mega Drain	Grass	Special	40	100	15
	TM22	Solar Beam	Grass	Special	120	100	10
	TM28	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100	10
	TM32	Double Team	Normal	Status	—	—	15
	TM33	Reflect	Psychic	Status	—	—	20
	TM34	Bide	Normal	Physical	—	—	10
	TM40	Skull Bash	Normal	Physical	100	100	15
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
	TM50	Substitute	Normal	Status	—	—	16
	TM60	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	60	100	15
	TM61	Sunny Day	Fire	Status	—	—	5
	TM66	Light Screen	Psychic	Status	—	—	30
	TM67	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM75	Swords Dance	Normal	Status	—	—	20
	TM77	Curse	Ghost	Status	—	—	10
	TM81	Brick Break	Fighting	Physical	75	100	15
	TM86	Sludge Bomb	Poison	Special	90	100	10
	TM92	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
	TM94	Aerial Ace	Flying	Physical	60	—	20
	TM96	Thief	Dark	Physical	60	100	25
	TM104	False Swipe	Normal	Physical	40	100	40
	TM108	Leech Life	Bug	Physical	80	100	10
	TM114	Rock Smash	Fighting	Physical	40	100	15
	TM130	Return	Normal	Physical	—	100	20
	TM138	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM144	X-Scissor	Bug	Physical	80	100	10
	TM151	Grass Knot	Grass	Special	—	100	20
	HM01	Cut	Normal	Physical	50	95	30
	HM05	Flash	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. Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move's obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Bullet Seed	Grass	Physical	25	100	30
Frustration	Normal	Physical	—	100	20
Hone Claws	Dark	Status	—	—	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 Tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Bug Bite	Bug	Physical	60	100	20
Double-Edge	Normal	Physical	120	100	15
Giga Drain	Grass	Special	75	100	10
Knock Off	Dark	Physical	65	100	25
Seed Bomb	Grass	Physical	80	100	15
Snore	Normal	Special	50	100	15
Synthesis	Grass	Status	—	—	5
Worry Seed	Grass	Status	—	100	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. Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Egg Moves

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Agility	Psychic	Status	—	100	30
Bug Bite	Bug	Physical	60	100	20
Counter	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Cross Poison	Poison	Physical	70	100	20
Endure	Normal	Status	—	—	10
Fell Stinger	Bug	Physical	30	100	25
Flail	Normal	Physical	—	100	15
Grassy Terrain	Grass	Status	—	—	10
Leech Seed	Grass	Status	—	90	10
Metal Claw	Steel	Physical	50	95	35
Natural Gift	Normal	Physical	—	100	15
Psybeam	Psychic	Special	65	100	20
Pursuit	Dark	Physical	40	100	20
Rototiller	Ground	Status	—	—	10
Screech	Normal	Status	—	85	40
Sweet Scent	Normal	Status	—	100	20
Wide Guard	Rock	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. For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
2×  Weak to	1×  Neutral to	½×  Resistant to	0×  Immune to
Bug Flying Fire Ice Poison Rock	Dark Dragon Fairy Ghost Normal Psychic Steel	Electric Fighting Grass Ground Water	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

The Dry Skin (ability) provides an immunity to Water (type)

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

• 
  Shiny Paras
• 
  Pink Paras
• 
  Halloween Paras

External Links

• Paras's Bulbapedia
• Paras's Serebii