Tamato Berry

Tamato Berry マトマのみ Matoma Fruit No. 26

Effect Makes a Pokémon more friendly, but lowers Speed effort value (Emerald on). Natural Gift Type Psychic Power 90 Flavor Generation III   SPICY DRY SWEET BITTER SOUR   +1 +1 0 0 -2 Generation IV             20 SPICY       10 DRY       0 SWEET       0 BITTER       0 SOUR       Growth Generation III Planted 0 hours Sprouted 6 hours Taller 12 hours Flowering 18 hours Berries 24 hours Generation IV Planted 0 hours Sprouted 8 hours Taller 16 hours Flowering 24 hours Berries 32 hours Size (in) Size (cm) Firmness 7.9" 20.0 cm Soft Bag description Generation III POKéblock ingredient. Plant in loamy soil to grow Tamato.RS Can be ground up into powder as an ingredient for medicine.FRLG Makes a Pokémon friendly but lowers base Speed.E An item brought over from a faraway place.ColoXD Generation IV A Poffin ingredient. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base Speed stat.DPPt Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base Speed stat.HGSS Generation V Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly, but it also lowers its base Speed stat. Generation VI A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. Using it on a Pokémon makes it more friendly but lowers its base Speed. Generation VII Unknown Generation VIII Unknown Tag description Generation III The Berry is lip-bendingly spicy. It takes time to grow. Generation IV This Berry is large and spicy. When eaten during the cold season, it warms the body from inside. Ice Cream Scoop Flavor 1 Flavor 2 Flavor 3 Scoop Stickiness Origin Name Tomato Design Horned melon, Tomato

A Tamato Berry (Japanese: マトマのみ Matoma Fruit) is a type of Berry introduced in Generation III.

Locations

Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald Sometimes given by the Berry Master. Sometimes given by Kiri in Sootopolis City.

FireRed and LeafGreen

Wild hold item (Generation III)

Mini Games (Generation III)

Orre

Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum Growing on Route 212 (requires HM03 (Surf)) and on Route 225 (requires HM01 (Cut)) when the player first arrives there. Sometimes given by the Berry Master. Sometimes awarded after earning above 3500 points at Pal Park

HeartGold and SoulSilver Chance of winning from Scratch-Off Cards in the Battle Frontier.

Wild hold item (Generation IV)

Pokéwalker Rarely found in Big Forest after 1000+ steps. Always held by level 5 Elekid; rarely found in Amity Meadow after 5000+ steps.

Pokémon Battle Revolution

Mystery Dungeon series

Black and White

Black 2 and White 2 Join Avenue (Flower Shop) Black Tower/White Treehollow Area 10 reward

Wild hold item (Generation V)

Dream World Can be found in the Windswept Sky.

X and Y Mutation of Lum and Sitrus Berries PokéMileage Club (Balloon Popping, Lv. 3)

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Wild hold item (Generation VI)

PokéMileage Club

Sun and Moon

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

Wild hold item (Generation VII)

Sword and Shield

Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Legends: Arceus

Growth and Harvest

Generation III

A Tamato Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 24 hours, with 6 hours per stage. A Tamato tree will yield 2-4 Berries.

Generation IV

A Tamato Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 32 hours, with 8 hours per stage. A Tamato tree will yield 1-5 Berries.

Generation VI

A Tamato Berry will mature from a planted seed to a full-grown, fruit-bearing tree in 48 hours, with 8 hours per stage. A Tamato tree will yield 1-20 Berries. During its growth, watering the plant will add 0.5 Berries to the final harvest, weeding it will add 1.5, and removing a pest will add 3.

Uses

Berry Blending

	Verdanturf	Fallarbor	Slateport	Lilycove
Tamato Berry	Purple	Purple	Purple	Purple

Berry Crushing

At 100% performance, a Tamato Berry will contribute 300 units of powder.

Poffin cooking

At 100% performance, a Tamato Berry will produce a Level 13 (maybe higher) Spicy-Dry Poffin when cooking alone.

Used on a Pokemon

Using this berry on a pokemon outside of battle increases it's friendliness, however, it will lower it's Speed Effort values by ten points. If this side effect would lower the effort value of the affected stat below zero, it sets that stat's effort values to zero instead. Individual values are not changed.

Giving this berry to a pokemon during battle or to hold during battle has no useful effect.

Artwork

Dream World artwork

In the anime

Tamato Berries in the anime

Tamato Berries served a comical purpose in The Lotad Lowdown and Berry, Berry Interesting, where several characters, including Team Rocket and Ash, would come across a Berry and try to eat it, only to be overwhelmed by its extreme spiciness, winding up with swollen lips for a while.

In Pokéblock, Stock, and Berry, Tamato Berries were seen amongst the many other Berries sold at the Lilycove Berry Market.

In Shocks and Bonds, Brock mentioned that an Ace Trainer named Katie, who battled Ash in the Ever Grande Conference, likes Tamato Berries in her spaghetti.

In Cooking Up a Sweet Story!, some Tamato Berries were seen in Abigail's Berry basket.

Lulu was seen growing some Tamato Berries in her garden in Three Sides to Every Story!, among with several other kinds of Berries.

In Double-Time Battle Training!, Candice stated that a treat called the "Snowpoint Tamato Berry Ice Cream Bar" had cold Ice Cream outside and spicy Tamato Berry Jelly on the inside, which Ash accidentally ate whole and which Dawn based her Daybreak Town appeals on.

A Tamato Berry plant appeared in PK23. Piplup showed Meloetta, Pikachu, and Snivy the plant in their search for a Rinka Berry, certain that it was a Rinka plant. When they told Piplup it was the wrong plant, Piplup stubbornly ate a Tamato Berry, only to find it was too spicy. Meowth and Wobbuffet, who were following Meloetta, found the Berries and decided to eat them, only to be overwhelmed by its spiciness.

Several Tamato Berries were seen at Sherman's Furfrou grooming salon in Grooming Furfrou!.

In XY079, Jessie used Tamato Berries as a part of her Dendemille Town Showcase performance.

In Hoopa and the Clash of Ages, Hoopa replaced a donut it took with a Tamato Berry, which was then blindly picked up and tasted by Chespin, who was immediately overwhelmed by the Berry's extremely spicy taste.

In the manga

A Tamato Berry in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

In Problematic Probopass and Mad Magnezone II, a Tamato Berry was seen amongst the many Berries that Cyrus's Probopass's Mini-Noses dug out of Lax's fur while trying to retrieve Cyrus's camera which Lax had hidden inside its fur.

Trivia

• The Tamato Berry is the only one of the EV-reducing Berries that did not have the same growth time or Berry yield as the rest in Generation III, and the only Berry of its flavor group that does not have the same growth time as the rest in Generation IV.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	マトマのみ Matoma no Mi	From トマト tomato.
English	Tamato Berry	From tomato.
French	Baie Tamato	From tomate.
German	Tamotbeere	From Tomate.
Italian	Baccamodoro	From pomodoro, tomato.
Spanish	Baya Tamate	From tomate.
Korean	토망열매 Tomang Yeolmae	From 토마토 tomato.
Chinese	辣茄 Làqié	From 辣 là (spicy) and 番茄 fānqié (tomato).

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