Tentacruel

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#073  -  Tentacruel

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#073	Tentacruel
Types Water Poison	Generation   I
Abilities Ability 1 Clear Body Ability 2 Liquid Ooze Hidden Ability Rain Dish
Rarity Tier   Common	Catch rate   60/255 (7.84%)
Base stats HP 80 Atk 70 Def 65 Sp.Atk 80 Sp.Def 120 Spd 100 Base-stat total: 515
EV Yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 2 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 2
Base Experience   205	Gender Ratio     50%     50%
Height   1.6m	Weight   55kg

Tentacruel is a Water- and Poison-type Pokémon.

It is the only evolutionary outlet of Tentacool, having evolved from it as early as level 30.

Obtainability

Surfing

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
Abandoned Ship B1F Room 3	30-35	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Bond Bridge	29-37	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Buring Strait Underwater	22-27	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Burring Strait Under water	22-27	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Cherrygrove City	10-14			Night			Common
Cianwood City	30-35	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Eindoak Waterway	25-31	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Ever Grande City	29-34	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Evergreen Waterway	25-31	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Fire Island	25-30	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Five Island	33-37	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Five Isle Meadow	33-37		Day				Common
Four Island	5-35	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Fuego Ironworks	20-32	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Galeras Island South	25-31	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Green Path	35-50	Morning	Day	Night			Common
High Tide Entrance Room	30-38	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Iron Island	32-36	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Kindle Road	30-34	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Lilycove City	25-35	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Lost Cave	15-21	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Memorial Pillar	31-35	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Mossdeep City	28-36	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Murky Town	11-11	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Olivine City	23-25	Morning	Day	Night			Common
One Island	34-38		Day				Uncommon
Outcast Island	35-40	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 12	32-34			Night			Common
Route 13	33-35			Night			Common
Route 14	34-36	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 19	40-42			Night			Common
Route 20	40-44	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 204	3-13	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 21	40-44	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 212 South	24-28			Night			Common
Route 213	24-28	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 218	28-31	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 219	22-34	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 220	20-32	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 221	28-32	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 222	35-40	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 223	40-44	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 224	52-56	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 230	40-45	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 24	10-14			Night			Common
Route 27	44-48	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 32	7-9			Night			Common
Route 40	15-21	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 41	30-35	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Sea Mauville	30-35	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Seaway Vein	25-29	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Seaway Vein Frozen	25-29	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Snowfall Valley	25-30	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Tanoby Ruins	10-40	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Trainer Tower	12-42	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Treasure Beach	34-38	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Valley Windworks	20-35	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
Vermilion City	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Victory Road Hoenn B2F	42-48	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Water Labyrinth	29-39	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Water Path	40-44	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Whirl Islands 1F	22-24	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
—	Acid	Poison	Special	40	100	30
—	Constrict	Normal	Physical	10	100	35
—	Supersonic	Normal	Status	—	55	20
—	Poison Sting	Poison	Physical	15	100	35
—	Wring Out	Normal	Special	—	100	5
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	Bubble Beam	Water	Special	65	100	20
28	Barrier	Psychic	Status	—	—	20
32	Poison Jab	Poison	Physical	80	100	20
36	Brine	Water	Special	65	100	10
40	Screech	Normal	Status	—	85	40
44	Hex	Ghost	Special	65	100	10
48	Sludge Wave	Poison	Special	95	100	10
52	Hydro Pump	Water	Special	110	80	5
56	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
	TM11	Bubble Beam	Water	Special	65	100	20
	TM12	Water Gun	Water	Special	40	100	25
	TM13	Ice Beam	Ice	Special	90	100	10
	TM14	Blizzard	Ice	Special	110	70	5
	TM15	Hyper Beam	Normal	Special	150	90	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
	TM105	Scald	Water	Special	80	100	15
	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.

TM-tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Frustration	Normal	Physical	—	100	20
Giga Impact	Normal	Physical	150	90	5
Poison Jab	Poison	Physical	80	100	20
Sludge Wave	Poison	Special	95	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.

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
Swords Dance	Normal	Status	—	—	20
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	1×  Neutral to	½×  Resistant to	0×  Immune to
Electric Ground Psychic	Dark Dragon Flying Ghost Grass Normal Rock	Bug Fairy Fighting Fire Ice Poison Steel 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.

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

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  Shiny Tentacruel
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  Halloween Tentacruel
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  Christmas Tentacruel

External Links

• Tentacruel's Bulbapedia
• Tentacruel's Serebii