Minccino are known to be found in fields or trails, but wherever they are found will be almost always be a tidy habitat due to their cleanliness and personal hygiene (as they are always dusting or sweeping with their tails). They are also very popular domestically, as there are numerous instances of trainers or people having one or more Minccino with them.
Minccino is a furry, gray-colored chinchilla Pokémon, sporting scruffs of fur on its head, ear insides, and neck. Minccino's large ears, located to the sides of its head, have red insides partly covered by the aforementioned tufts of fur there. Its eyes are large and brown, with a small, dot-like nose. Its limbs are somewhat rounded and small, and its tail is long and particularly furry.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Minccino's tail acts like a broom and uses it to clean its den.
Minccino brush each other with their tails as a greeting. They are obsessed with cleaning dirty items.
Habitat
Minccino are known to be found in fields or trails, but wherever they are found will be almost always be a tidy habitat due to their cleanliness and personal hygiene (as they are always dusting or sweeping with their tails). They are also very popular domestically, as there are numerous instances of trainers or people having one or more Minccino with them.
Bianca's Minccino appears in Minccino-Neat and Tidy!, where it was initially a wild Pokémon. It stole Ash's new badge case in order to clean it, and ultimately gets caught in one of Bianca's Poké Balls.
Another Minccino belonging to a little boy appears in A Connoisseur's Revenge! where it was being examined by an S-class Pokémon Connoisseur, multiple ones which also appeared in the same episode were seen at a Poké Mart.
Minccino is based on a chinchilla. Its tail may be based on feather dusters or brooms, as they use their tails to clean their dens.
Name origin
Minccino may be a portmanteau of mini, referring to its minature size, or mink, an animal known for its fur and its use in women's clothing, and chino cloth.
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