Palkia looks dinosaur-like, similar to Dialga, though it seems to be based off of a theropod, the bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs. Palkia’s body is mainly a shade of light purple, although it has stripes and markings of a darker shade and a grayish-colored arm underside and waist. Despite possessing wings and the ability to fly on its own, it is not able to learn the moveFly through any legal means. It has round purple-striped plates on its shoulder area, where two pink pearls lie encrusted with a gray rim encircling them. Palkia’s arms have somewhat gauntlet-like extended formations and a purple band of coloration at the wrist. Palkia has a long neck, a pointed white crest on the top of its head that extends to its wings, two strong horn-like tusks on the sides of its jaw, and a powerful tail.
Gender differences
Palkia is a genderless species.
Special abilities
Palkia has the ability to warp space. An example of this was shown in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, in which Palkia was able to shuffle the landscape of Almia around at a whim, allowing doors to connect to places miles away and for large forests to fit inside tiny houses. In the Pearl version of the game, it is mentioned on the statue in Eterna City that it can create alternate realities.
Palkia's skills in battle are mostly the same as Dialga's, except that Palkia can learn a handful of Template:Type2 moves. Palkia is also slightly faster than Dialga and has weaker defensive stats. Palkia is one of the rare species that knows the move Aura Sphere.
Palkia's powers can be amplified with the Lustrous Orb.
Palkia is the only known Pokémon that learns Spacial Rend (apart from an event Darkrai released for the tenth movie in Japan, another released in US, an event Arceus released for the twelfth movie in Japan, and Smeargle who can Sketch it).
Behavior
Like Dialga, Palkia lives in a different dimension, making its behavior nearly impossible to study. However, Palkia has been seen in violent conflicts with Dialga.
Habitat
Legends say that it lives "in a gap in the spatial dimension parallel to ours." The twelfth movie shows Palkia living in a pink-colored dimension containing floating bubbles. It is close to Dialga's dimension.
In the Arceus and the Jewel of Life manga adaptation, Palkia, along with the members of its trio, was summoned by Sheena to help Ash and his friends. Palkia soon engaged in a battle with the other members of its trio along with Arceus.
Palkia occasionally appears on the Spear Pillar stage as one of three Pokémon that controls it. It only appears on the stage when the ground on the upper levels have a purple tinge to them. Unlike Dialga and Cresselia, it'll use its powers to distort the stage however possible. Some examples include tilting the stage, turning the stage completely upside down and reversing the screen itself (the last two will cause the movement controls to be reversed temporarily). It often shoot beams in the cave below, dealing a lot of damage to the players that get caught in the blast.
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia: Palkia appears as a bonus boss during one of the Ranger Net extra missions. Palkia was injured from a battle with Dialga and entered Hippowdon Temple. In its pain, it warped the space of the Almia region and caused all of the locations of Almia to be shuffled together.
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IV.
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Palkia, like Blastoise and Dialga, shares the first letter of its name with the game it is the mascot of: Pearl.
Palkia and Dialga's English names were revealed on January 20, 2007.
Despite possessing wings and the ability to fly on its own, it is not able to learn the moveFly through HM02 or any other means. Palkia does not even have the ability Levitate and thus remains susceptible to Ground-type moves.
Palkia and Kingdra are the only two Pokémon that are dual-type Water/Dragon.
Due to this, Palkia is the only member of the dragon trio that does not have a unique type combination.
Despite being primarily a Water-type Pokémon, it only learns three Water-type moves through level up.
Palkia, along with Dialga and Phione, has the second highest catch rate after Mew, Celebi and Shaymin out of all the legendary Pokémon, with a catch rate of 30.
Palkia and Dialga are the first legendary Pokémon to be met at a level that is not divisible by 5, appearing at Level 47.
Palkia's roar in the anime uses Godzilla and King Ghidorah's roar with the roar of a Varactyl overlapping it.
Origin
Palkia is likely based after a European dragon with a pearl. Like Dialga's origin possibly from the largest sauropod dinosaur, Amphicoelias, Palkia may be based on another sauropod, the bipedal Plateosaurus.
Name origin
The Pal (Paru) in its name is derived from the Japanese word for pearl, パール pāru.
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 Palkia images on Bulbagarden Archives.
