[[Shu]] captures a Zubat in ''[[GDZ16|Battle in the Smokescreen]]''. Later, Shu uses Zubat in his battle against a Pokémon Trainer named {{GDZ|Ken}}. Shu relies on Zubat's echolocation abilities to win the battle.
[[Shu]] captures a Zubat in ''[[GDZ16|Battle in the Smokescreen]]''. Later, Shu uses Zubat in his battle against a Pokémon Trainer named {{GDZ|Ken}}. Shu relies on Zubat's echolocation abilities to win the battle.
===In the Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition ~ Ranse's Color Picture Scroll ~ manga===
Multiple Zubat appeared in ''[[PNA3|The Yellow Scroll: Hanbei vs Kanbei]]''.
Zubat is a blue, bat-like Pokémon. While it lacks eyes, it has pointed ears with purple insides and a mouth with two sharp teeth on each jaw. A male will have larger fangs than a female. It has purple wing membranes supported by two, elongated fingers, and two long, thin, tails.
Zubat lives in abundance in caves. It has evolved to have neither eyes nor nostrils, instead navigating through dark environments with echolocation. As demonstrated in the anime, it will leave its abode at night with a mass of other Zubat in order to seek prey. During the daytime, Zubat sleeps hanging upside down in caves, forests, or under the eaves of old buildings, avoiding sunlight at all costs. Daylight causes Zubat to become unhealthy, and prolonged exposure can even burn its skin. However, captured and trained Zubat have been recorded as being much more tenacious in the daytime, even when directly exposed to sunbeams. In colder conditions, Zubat gathers with others of its kind for warmth.
Multiple Zubat appeared in Leading a Stray!, where they were among the Pokémon assisting a Luxio in its efforts to help a Wailmer trapped in the sewers.
Shu captures a Zubat in Battle in the Smokescreen. Later, Shu uses Zubat in his battle against a Pokémon Trainer named Ken. Shu relies on Zubat's echolocation abilities to win the battle.
In the Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition ~ Ranse's Color Picture Scroll ~ manga
Zubat remains quietly unmoving in a dark spot during the bright daylight hours. It does so because prolonged exposure to the sun causes its body to become slightly burned.
Zubat avoids sunlight because exposure causes it to become unhealthy. During the daytime, it stays in caves or under the eaves of old houses, sleeping while hanging upside down.
Zubat remains quietly unmoving in a dark spot during the bright daylight hours. It does so because prolonged exposure to the sun causes its body to become slightly burned.
Zubat avoids sunlight because exposure causes it to become unhealthy. During the daytime, it stays in caves or under the eaves of old houses, sleeping while hanging upside down.
No other Pokémon has the same type combination as the Zubat evolutionary family.
Zubat's evolutionary line seems to have a connection with Woobat's family. All the members of both lines are Bat Pokémon species (excluding Swoobat), live in caves or other dark places, and have no visible eyes at their respective unevolved states; furthermore, members of both lines reach their respective fully-evolved forms by friendship, and both have similar Shiny forms (with green main bodies). Also, Zubat and Woobat have somewhat similar English names, both having rhyming prefixes and bat as a suffix.
Zubat and Golbat are the only Pokémon to appear in the lineup of every villainous team in the main series games.
Zubat can be seen as a parallel to Noibat, as they are both Flying-type Pokémon based on bats and can have Infiltrator as a possible Ability. They also share the same base stats, with their Attack and Special Attack switched around.
Origin
Zubat's design is inspired by bats, specifically vampire bats, which produce toxic saliva with anticoagulant properties that is secreted when biting prey to draw blood. Zubat's lack of eyes is a reference to troglomorphism, and may also be influenced by the misconception that bats are blind or primarily dependent on echolocation to navigate. The claim that Zubat suffers harm, and even burns, when exposed to sunlight alludes to mythological vampires.
Name origin
Zubat may be a pun based on both bat and ずばっと zubatto, an onomatopoeia for when an edged tool forcefully pierces something (possibly referring to its fangs or the sound a bat makes).
In other languages
Language
Title
Meaning
Japanese
ズバット Zubat
From bat and ずばっと zubatto, an onomatopoeia for when an edged tool forcefully pierces something
This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.
For other sprites and images, please see Zubat images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
