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Mudkip are small, blue, amphibious Pokémon with large heads, wide mouths, and orange, star-shaped external gills on their cheeks. They also have a fin on the top of their heads and a light-blue fin for a tail. They move around on all four legs, and have a light-blue underside.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Mudkip can use the fin on their heads to detect subtle changes in air and water currents, and can detect nearby bodies of water in this way. They can also detect danger. Like most Water-type Pokémon, Mudkip can shoot water from their mouths. When in water, Mudkip breathe using the gills on their cheeks. On land, they can powerfully lift large boulders by planting their four feet and heaving. If they are faced with a tight situation in battle, Mudkip will become strong enough to crush rocks bigger than themselves.
Behavior
Mudkip are more mellow than their evolutions, but are protective of their kind and because of their powerful strength they group up in numbers and easily overpower their foes. They have been known to be playful, especially in mud, as well. They sleep by burying themselves in soil at the water's edge. Their large tail fin propels them through water with powerful acceleration.
Mudkip and members of its evolution family dwell in swamps or other wetlands, deep inside isolated islands, because of their dislike of fresh water lakes and ponds. Soon after birth on beautiful beaches, they swim to swamps deep within islands. Very few have been known to hatch in swamps.
Mudkip first appeared in Get the Show on the Road, when May was asked to use a Pokémon to attack some Poochyena. Then, when May was asked to pick her starter Pokémon, she didn't pick Mudkip after it refused to do what May asked.
Brock has a Marshtomp that he caught as a Mudkip in A Mudkip Mission. Mudkip eggs were seen in the episode when Old Man Swamp offered to let Brock see one hatch, and Brock accepts his offer with enthusiasm. Next, a baby Mudkip is shown hatching from a Mudkip egg.
Mudkip, the Mud Fish Pokémon. Mudkip uses the sensitive radar receptors on its headfin to determine what's going on around it. In a pinch, it can remish enough power to crush rocks.
In the manga
In Pokémon Adventures, When Ruby was attacked by Sapphire's Torchic, Professor Birch told him to look in his briefcase, to pick up the Poké Ball with a blue Pokémon and to throw it. The Poké Ball released a Mudkip and he nicknamed it Zuzu. At the beginning, Ruby was disappointed with it because it wasn't as attractive as his other Pokémon and it couldn't participate in any Pokémon Contest. He tried with different conditions and then he decided that Tough Contests would be perfect for it. Zuzu eventually evolved into a Marshtomp and then into a Swampert.
The fin on its head is like a sensitive radar. The fin is able to detect movements in the air and water. This Pokémon can determine the surroundings around it without using its eyes.*
The fin on Mudkip's head acts as highly sensitive radar. Using this fin to sense movements of water and air, this Pokémon can determine what is taking place around it without using its eyes.
In water, Mudkip breathes using the gills on its cheeks. If it is faced with a tight situation in battle, this Pokémon will unleash its amazing power - it can crush rocks bigger than itself.
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Mudkip is the only Template:Type2 starter that is quadrupedal, though its evolutions Marshtomp and Swampert are able to walk on either two or four feet.
Mudkip has the highest Attack out of all the starters at base form.
In a poll conducted by Nintendo of Europe, Mudkip was voted as the fan favorite, with Typhlosion and Blastoise close behind.
GameFAQs's sixth and seventh annual character battles featured Mudkip.
"So i herd u liek mudkipz?" is a frequently mentioned meme on the internet.
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 Mudkip images on Bulbagarden Archives.
