Wooper is a mostly blue amphibious Pokémon that bears a resemblance to a real-life animal known as an Axolotl. Wooper stands upright on its small, round feet, and has a large, thick tail. Wooper also has purple-colored, branching gills coming out of the sides of its head, and what look like dark-blue, curved gill-like markings on its torso. Wooper’s head is large compared to its body, its mouth is wide and its eyes are small, round, and black in coloration.
Gender differences
Female Wooper have smaller gills on the sides of their heads.
Special abilities
Being a dual Water-and-Ground-type Pokémon, Wooper is able to use moves of both types, such as Water Gun and various mud-based attacks. The film covering Wooper’s body when it walks on land is also poisonous, and can cause a shooting pain if touched barehanded. Wooper also have the ability to restore health if struck by a Water-type attack.
Behavior
Wooper tend to be dull-witted Pokémon as implied in Trouble in Big Town. They tend to be oblivious to their surroundings. They also share this trait with their evolution Quagsire. Wooper lives in cold water most of the time, but it will on occasion leave the water to search for food when the temperature cools in the evening. While walking on land, it coats its body with a slimy, toxic film that keeps its skin from dehydrating and insulates itself against the cold. In the water, Wooper partially buries itself in the mud at the bottom to sleep.
Wooper, the Water Fish Pokémon. Though they prefer to live in cold water, these appealing Pokémon forage for food on land. They are kept warm by a layer of insulating body fluid. Wooper is the pre-evolved form of Quagsire.
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
In Volume 8, a conman uses a swarm of Wooper as a part of his game stall.
Out of all the Pokéfloats, Wooper spends the most time on-screen. It first appears when play is on Slowpoke's tail and it then floats past Sudowoodo, Snorlax, Venusaur, and Seel before finally floating away from play. While its head is small, players can also stand on the gills.
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II.
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Wooper is one of the first Pokémon to have its gender difference revealed in Generation IV, along with Scizor.
Origin
Wooper seems to be based on a larval axolotl, which have flat tails and feathery, external gills. Wooper's shiny form, which is pink, resembles them ever further, as axolotls can be pink.
Name origin
Wooper's English name appears to be based directly on its Japanese name, Upah/"Wooper". Upa is drived from "Wooper Looper", a marketing term created in Japan that started a pet salamander raising fad in Japan. Wooper Loopers (or "Upa") are the Japanese term for the larval stages of the axolotl, a species of salamander.
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 Wooper images on Bulbagarden Archives.
