Seaking resembles a koi or goldfish, as it is a big orange colored fish with white and black markings. It also has a small to medium sized horn on its head, two big dark eyes, and pink lips with two small, sharp fangs.
Gender differences
A female has a smaller horn.
Special abilities
Seaking is a very powerful swimmer, as it is able to swim against a river's current, and even waterfalls. It also uses its powerful horn to bore holes in solid rock, so as to keep its eggs safe.
Behavior
In autumn, its body becomes more fatty in preparing to propose to a mate. In the spawning season, they gather from all over to travel upriver. During this time, the Seaking males can be seen performing their courtship dances to woo Seaking females. The male also uses its powerful horn to bore holes in riverbed boulders, so as to keep the eggs safe, although in other seasons it will make and live in their own nests. Seaking is very protective of its eggs, and will defend its eggs with its life, fighting with its horn. The male and female will take turns patrolling around their nest and eggs, and the guarding of eggs by the Seaking goes on for over a month until the eggs hatch.
Ash, Misty, and Professor Oak have owned Seaking in the past, though Ash and Misty released theirs only a short time after capturing it, due to the rules of the competition.
Juan also owns a Seaking, which was used in a Gym battle against Ash in The Great Eight Fate!. Juan's Seaking was able to block Electric attacks with Horn Drill and send them back at its opponent.
In the autumn, Seaking males can be seen performing courtship dances in riverbeds to woo females. During this season, this Pokémon's body coloration is at its most beautiful.
Seaking is very protective of its eggs. The male and female will take turns patrolling around their nest and eggs. The guarding of eggs by these Pokémon goes on for over a month.
Seaking and Goldeen are the only Pokémon that can learn Waterfall through leveling up.
Due to this, it is possible to complete any game without finding HM07.
Seaking's number in the Sinnoh Pokédex and the Johto Pokédex is the same: 079. 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.
Despite the name Seaking, there is a 50% chance that it will be female.
Origin
It seems to be based on a species of goldfish known as Azuma Nishiki (東錦), bearing a similar coloration to Shubunkin goldfish. The horn part may be based on Matsya, an avatar that the hindu god Vishnu assumed, which is sometimes depicted as a fish with a horn.
Name origin
Seaking's name is simply a combination of sea and king with an added pun in that it sounds similar to "sinking". Its Japanese name may be based on 小豆鱒 azukimasu, rock cod and 魔王 ma-ō, devil king. Its Japanese name may also be taken to literally mean 東王 azuma-ō, East king. Furthermore, an アズマニシキ azumanishiki is a kind of goldfish. Likely the name is meant to compliment Goldeen's "queenliness" with a combination of the Azuma Nishiki (東錦) goldfish and the Japanese word for king, ou (王).
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