Lickitung has soft, pink skin with semicircular yellow markings on its belly, fully circular markings on its knees, and a thick, powerful tail. It has small, beady eyes, and its hands have thumb-claws and circular yellow markings on the underside. The most famous feature Lickitung possesses is a long prehensile tongue, which it uses to manipulate objects and possibly to consume them, aside from being very receptive to all sorts of tastes, it is also very dexterous. The tongue is very likely connected to its huge tail, as when it is extended, the tail quivers.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Licks from its 6'6"-long tongue can paralyze foes. Its saliva is gooey and sticks to everything.
Behavior
These Pokémon appear to be, like Slowpoke, rather easygoing and almost dopey, hence having Own Tempo and Oblivious as abilities. They also like to lick things they come across, but get put-off by some sour substances. They do not mean harm when they lick people for food traces. Lickitung also uses its tongue to lick its body clean.
Lickitung are a rare sight, usually staying in dense forests near large bodies of water. They are rare in Kanto, but seem to be far more common in Johto and Sinnoh.
Whenever Lickitung comes across something new, it will unfailingly give it a lick. It does so because it memorizes things by texture and by taste. It is somewhat put off by sour things.
Whenever it sees something unfamiliar, it always licks the object because it memorizes things by texture and taste. It is somewhat put off by sour things.
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Its Red/Blue and LeafGreen Pokédex data compares Lickitung's extensible tongue to that of a chameleon, a real-world lizard. Charmeleon is also based on a chameleon, but does not have a notably long tongue.
Lickitung has lost the markings over its eyes in the transition from Generation II to Generation III.
Lickitung is one of the three Generation I Pokémon whose tongue is always sticking out in 2D and 3D games while idle. It shares this trait with Shellder and Seel.
Coincidentally, Lickitung is the only one of the three able to learn Lick in any generation.
Furthermore, it is the only Pokémon whose evolution also revolves around its tongue. Even more surprisingly, Lickitung is the only Pokémon of the three to have an evolution after Generation I.
Lickitung's tongue is half the size of it's body
Origin
It may have been based on any number of lizards with extending tongues, particularly the blue-tongued skink. It also shares traits with anteaters.
Lickitung could also be an Iguanodon with some similar characteristics, including a long tongue.
Name origin
Lickitung's name is a combination and corruption of lick and tongue. The bero in Beroringa may be derived from べろ bero, tongue, ベロベロ, berobero, an onomatopoeia for a licking sound, or べろべろ嘗める beroberonameru, to lick up with one's tongue. Ringer is most likely derived from English ring, referring to the patterns on its body. It is also possible that ringa is a corruption of the English word lingua, which refers to a tongue or an organ resembling a tongue [1].
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.
Lagging Tail (5%)
TM44 (Rest) (100%)
For other sprites and images, please see Lickitung images on Bulbagarden Archives.
