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.
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.
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 Pokémon
Using this Berry on a Pokémon 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 Pokémon 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.
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 Townappeals 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.
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.
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.
