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Teddiursa is a bipedal, ursine Pokémon covered in short, orange-brown fur. Its muzzle is a light tan color with a small black nose and black eyes with white irises. There is a slightly paler tan crescent marking on its face, and it has round ears. It has three claws on its forepaws as well as two claws and yellow paw pads on its hind paws. Its tail is short, round, and puffy.
Teddiursa can use Beedrill's pollen and fruit to create its own honey. The marking on its face could glow when it finds a honey already made. Honey tend to be absorbed into Teddiursa's forepaws, and it is always seen licking them. Teddiursa can be cunning, stealing into the nests of Combee and taking the honey that they have amassed for itself. It will hide food throughout its territory before food becomes scarce in winter. Teddiursa lives in mountainous forests.
In the anime
Main series
Teddiursa in the animeA Teddiursa Egg in the anime
Teddiursa made its main series debut in UnBEARable. It was a manipulative thief who would pretend to be cute to humans in order to steal their food and blame it on their Pokémon. Ultimately, it evolved into Ursaring at the end of the episode, and was thus no longer able to use its charm on humans with ease anymore.
In Going For A Spinda, a Teddiursa was disguised as a Spinda by Team Rocket. It was tied up in order to lure a Spinda to them, but instead, its Ursaring parent came and blasted them away.
Teddiursa, the Little Bear Pokémon. This cute, cuddly Pokémon is easily frightened and frequently licks its paws, which are usually covered with sweet honey.
This Pokémon likes to lick its palms that are sweetened by being soaked in honey. Teddiursa concocts its own honey by blending fruits and pollen collected by Beedrill.
This Pokémon likes to lick its palms that are sweetened by being soaked in honey. Teddiursa concocts its own honey by blending fruits and pollen collected by Beedrill.
It licks its paws because of the sweet honey that has soaked into them. It is cunning, stealing into the nests of Combee and taking for itself the honey that the Combee have amassed.
Game locations
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II.
Teddiursa can be seen as a parallel to Phanpy: their evolution lines are exclusive to opposite versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver (and are the only Pokémon to swap version-exclusive status between localizations), they each have one evolved form, and they both have Pickup as an Ability and lose it upon evolution.
Despite not being in Pokémon Sword and Shield, an early prototype build of the game featured a Teddiursa charm on Gloria's bag. This was removed in later prototype builds.
Origin
Teddiursa appears to be based on a teddy bear and possibly a sun bear or sloth bearcub, both honey bears. The moon marking and the fact that it is a bear cub may mean it may have been based on the constellation Ursa Minor's mythology.
Name origin
Teddiursa may be a combination of teddy bear and ursa (Latin for bear).
Himeguma may be a combination of 姫 hime (princess, small) or hi (an alternate reading of 朏 mikazuki [crescent moon]) and 熊 kuma (bear).
Hime is the Japanese word for princess, but also used as small in Japanese nomenclature of species.
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