Treecko is a small, green, bipedal reptilian Pokémon. Treecko's hands and feet each have three digits. Treecko has a large, dark green tail with two separate lobes, similar to the tail of a Wartortle. Its stomach and throat are red. Treecko has yellow eyes with long, skinny pupils. It also has a line across on its stomach resembling a pouch.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Treecko are able to scale walls with the aid of tiny spikes located in their hands and feet.
In addition to Treecko's arsenal of Template:Type2 moves, it is also capable of a few attacks that involve physical combat such as Quick Attack, Double Kick, and Aerial Ace. Treecko is also capable of knowing DragonBreath under certain circumstances.
Behavior
Wild Treecko are very territorial, and will attack anyone that comes near their homes. Treecko never panic under any circumstances, even when faced with a bigger foe. It senses humidity with its tail to predict the next day's weather.
Treecko lives inside overgrown forests, and are are known to be the protectors of the forest's trees. However, Treecko is a bit of a rarity in the wild, and is more common in captivity. One is most likely to find them in Hoenn.
Treecko first appeared in Get the Show on the Road. Professor Birch was showing May the three Pokémon she had the choice of starting with. She did not choose Treecko because it "creeped her out".
In Having a Wailord of a Time, a Nurse Joy was taking care of a Treecko, Torchic and Mudkip that a little girl named Stephanie was going to choose between as her first Pokémon. Stephanie chose Mudkip, and Stephanie's dad decided to become a Pokémon Trainer with the Treecko as his first Pokémon.
Treecko, the Wood Gecko Pokémon. Treecko are able to climb smooth verticle walls and use their thick tail to attack opponents. Since Treecko build their nests in large trees it is said that those trees will live a very long life.
In the manga
Treecko was the only starter Pokémon of Hoenn that was not recruited into a protagonist's team at the beginning of the Ruby & Sapphire arc, instead being passed in favor of Mudkip because it looked ugly to the beauty-obsessed Ruby. When it was finally destined to meet its partner, the huge rainstorms caused by Kyogre sent it and the final Hoenn Pokédex drifting away, and after it had finally been recovered by Wally and evolved, it was sent flying away and was lost again, even after the Pokédex was returned. Evolving again into a Sceptile, it was this time caught in the wild by Guile Hideout and stolen by its proper owner, Emerald.
Treecko is cool, calm, and collected - it never panics under any situation. If a bigger foe were to glare at this Pokémon, it would glare right back without conceding an inch of ground.
It makes its nest in a giant tree in the forest. It ferociously guards against anything nearing its territory. It is said to be the protector of the forest's trees.
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It is the only Grass-type starter that cannot learn the move Razor Leaf.
Treecko's is one of two Grass-type lines that are not in the Plant Egg Group. The other is the Lileep line.
Treecko is the only Grass-type starter that does not have some aspect of a plant on its body. Bulbasaur has a plant bulb on its back, Chikorita has a leaf on its head, Turtwig has a twig on its head and Tsutarja has leaves on its tail.
However, by its final evolutionary stage, Sceptile, its tail has developed into a tree.
Origin
Treecko resembles a gecko or lizard. Its design shares some similarities with the leaf-tailed gecko, a species of lizard that blends in with plant-like appendages, and can also climb up flat surfaces.
Name origin
Treecko's name is made up of the words tree and gecko.
Kimori is a combination of 木 ki, tree, and either 森 mori, forest, or ヤモリ yamori, gecko.
In other languages
German: Geckarbor - A combination of gecko and arbor.
French: Arcko - A combination of arbre (tree) and gecko.
Korean: 나무지기 Namujigi - A combination of 나무 namu (tree) and 지기 jigi (holder/keeper/protector).
Chinese (Taiwan): 木守宮 Mù Shǒu Gōng - From its Japanese name. "Wood gecko".
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 Treecko images on Bulbagarden Archives.
