Togepi is a small, light yellow Pokémon with a round body that's covered in a white egg shell that has red and blue rings on it. Togepi has stubby hands and round feet with two toes each. Togepi has black eyes and five spikes on its "head".
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Being only babies, Togepi are seemingly limited in their abilities, however, they are capable of the move Metronome, which can have some very unpredictable effects.
Behavior
Togepi generally act childish and may be oblivious to danger, therefore extra care should be taken to keep them safe.
Habitat
Togepi are very rarely ever found in the wild. But they may be found in secluded areas.
At the end of A Togepi Mirage!, Princess Sara found the Togepi of Legend, and Misty left her Togepi, which had just evolved to Togetic, in the Mirage Kingdom.
In the manga
Gold receives an egg from Jasmine's Togetics, which eventually hatched into a Togepi. However, unlike regular Togepi, this one is quite violent, defeating a wild Gligar, who wanted to eat its egg, just after it was born.
These adorable Spike Ball Pokémon hatch from eggs given out by Professor Elm's assistant. Common superstition holds that their shells are chock-full of happiness and that they become good-luck charms when handled with kindness. It's impossible to predict which ability a Togepi will call upon when it uses its Metronome move, so you'd better be ready!
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II.
As its energy, Togepi uses the positive emotions of compassion and pleasure exuded by people and Pokémon. This Pokémon stores up feelings of happiness inside its shell, then shares them with others.
As its energy, Togepi uses the positive emotions of compassion and pleasure exuded by people and Pokémon. This Pokémon stores up feelings of happiness inside its shell, then shares them with others.
As its energy, it uses the feelings of compassion and pleasure exuded by people and Pokémon. It stores up happy feelings in its shell, then shares them out.
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Togepi's normal colors in Generation II show Togepi with red and black rings, while the shiny form has blue rings in place of red rings. This is due to color limitations of the GBC palette, which only allowed Black, 2 colors and a transparency (white). The colors of Togepi's rings later changed to red and blue for both forms to reflect its official artwork (a shiny Togepi from Generation III onward would also have orange-tinted flesh).
Togepi is the second Generation II Pokémon (after Ho-Oh) to appear in the Kanto series.
Riolu is similar to Togepi, as both are received as eggs from a non-player character and evolve by happiness. They are also both introduced in even-numbered generations and cannot breed. Another similarity is that their fully evolved forms are the only non-legendary Pokémon capable of learning Aura Sphere.
Since Generation II, there is a non-player character giving away a Togepi egg in at least one game in every generation.
In the Southern Islands Deck, it has a card with the description saying it can secrete poison from its spikes. Despite this, it can't learn any Poison-type moves by level-up, and the only one it can learn is Toxic, which must be taught through TM.
Origin
Togepi appears to be based on the concept of a baby hatchling of any of a number of species of animals. It could also possibly be based on an egg, with its evolutions based loosely on birds. There is also a possibility that it and its evolved forms may be based on tamagotchis.
Name origin
The toge in Togepi's name is 刺, spike. The "Pi" possibly comes from "piyopiyo", Japanese onomatopoeia for a bird chirping.
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 Togepi images on Bulbagarden Archives.
