|heartgolddex=Exposure to sunlight adds to its strength. Sunlight also makes the bud on its back grow larger.
|heartgolddex=Exposure to sunlight adds to its strength. Sunlight also makes the bud on its back grow larger.
|soulsilverdex=If the bud on its back starts to {{m|Sweet Scent|smell sweet}}, it is evidence that the large flower will soon bloom.
|soulsilverdex=If the bud on its back starts to {{m|Sweet Scent|smell sweet}}, it is evidence that the large flower will soon bloom.
|bwdex={{tt|せなかの つぼみが ふくらみだすと あまい においが ただよいはじめる。たいりんの はなが さく まえぶれ。|When the bud on its back starts swelling, a sweet aroma wafts to indicate the flower's coming bloom.}}
|bwdex=When the bud on its back starts swelling, a sweet aroma wafts to indicate the flower's coming bloom.
Ivysaur, like its pre-evolved form, Bulbasaur, resembles a toad or a dinosaur, though the patches in its skin cause it to more closely resemble a dinosaur. After evolving from Bulbasaur, Ivysaur grows small fangs and has visible ear insides and pupils. Ivysaur's skin is also a little bit more blue than Bulbasaur's. The most notable difference in Ivysaur's appearance, however, is that its bulb has changed into a pink flower bud with leaves extending. This flower bud is heavy, thus making its back legs grow strong and sturdy to support it, at the expense of no longer being able to rise on its hind legs. In Sugimori artworks and game sprites, Ivysaur's eyes are red. In the anime, Dream World, and Pokémon Trozei!, its eyes are purple. Again, it has three toes or claws growing out of its legs.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Much like its previous form, most of Ivysaur's abilities originate from the plant on its back. Naturally, these attacks are stronger than Bulbasaur's.
Its abilities focus on the manipulation of petals, powders, and scents more than vines and leaves, most likely because of the larger flower on its back.
In the anime, Ivysaur are shown to manipulate nature.
Behavior
Being much more commonly found in captivity then in the wild, Ivysaur's natural behavior is largely unknown, but it can be theorized that they are more aggressive than Bulbasaur, although it is still very loyal to its trainer. When its plant is ready to bloom, it gives off a distinct, strong sweet-smelling aroma and starts swelling. Ivysaur will also start spending more time in sunlight in preparation for its upcoming evolution. Like its plant, exposure to sunlight adds to Ivysaur's strength.
Ivysaur's natural habitat seems to consist of plains with access to large amounts of sunshine and fresh water but can be found in forests and jungles. However, they are rare, as many are in captivity. They are normally native to Kanto.
Ivysaur was among the numerous Pokémon who moved closer to the sea as it sensed the disturbance caused by Lawrence III in the second movie, The Power of One.
The Seed Pokémon, Ivysaur, Bulbasaur's evolved form. The bulb on its back absorbs nourishment and blooms into a large flower.
In the manga
In the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga
In I'm Your Venusaur, Ash's Bulbasaur and Pikachu befriend a wild Ivysaur who tells them the legend of a 300-year-old Venusaur, who is the local guardian. Together, they search for the Venusaur, and defeat Team Rocket, who attempted to steal it.
Ivysaur is a playable Pokémon used by the Pokémon Trainer. It can use the moves Bullet Seed as a rapid aerial striking move and Vine Whip as a recovery move where the vine is shot out to latch onto edges of a stage and pulled back up again. It also uses the projectile attack Razor Leaf. Ivysaur is a Middleweight and uses mostly physical Template:Type2 attacks. It uses SolarBeam in Red's Final Smash, Triple Finish.
There is a bud on this Pokémon's back. To support its weight, Ivysaur's legs and trunk grow thick and strong. If it starts spending more time lying in the sunlight, it's a sign that the bud will bloom into a large flower soon.
Like Bulbasaur and Venusaur, Ivysaur's skin color alternates from bright green in earlier generations (although, due to the limitation of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color) to a blueish green in later ones. In the Gen I and II remakes, the skin color is a slightly darker blue. In the anime and high grade console games it is depicted with light blue skin.
Ivysaur is the first evolved Pokémon in National Pokédex order.
Its Red and Blue Pokédex entry states that it loses the ability to walk on its hind legs as its bulb gets bigger. Despite this, Ivysaur is always depicted as walking on its hind legs in said games.
Additionally, Ivysaur is the only playable quadrupedal character in the Super Smash Bros. series (although both Pikachu and Pichu will be on four legs when running).
Ivysaur's number in the National Pokédex and the Fiore Browser are the same: 002. This makes it and its evolution family one of only five families of Pokémon (comprising thirteen Pokémon altogether) to have the same numbers in more than one Pokédex-like listing.
Ivysaur is the only second stage Grass/Poison Pokémon that does not require an evolution stone to reach its final form.
Ivysaur is the only second stage form of the Kanto starters to not be directly seen under the ownership of a main character in the anime. May owns a Venusaur that she evolved from a Bulbasaur but it was never seen onscreen as an Ivysaur.
Ivysaur is currently the only second stage Grass type starter that's dual-typed.
Ivysaur is the only Generation I Pokémon whose name begins with I.
Ivysaur is the only second stage form of Generation I starters that evolves at lvl 32. Charmeleon and Wartortle evolve at level 36.
Starting at Level 15, Ivysaur learns moves alternatively every 3 and 5 levels, until level 44.
Origin
Ivysaur appears to be based on some form of Dicynodont, mammal-like reptiles from the Permian period, though it also has features from toads and frogs as well as other reptiles. Its also has visible ears, which are not seen in reptiles but are in mammals. Its bulb has now become a bud that resembles the Rafflesia.
Name origin
Ivysaur is a combination of the words ivy and saur, which is Greek for lizard. Fushigisou can be taken to mean "it seems strange" or 不思議 草 "fushigi sou", which means strange grass.
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 Ivysaur images on Bulbagarden Archives.
