Politoed is very different physically from the rest of its evolutionary family as it now resembles a frog much more than previous forms. It is now green with yellow hands, belly, throat, and toes. Its legs have become well developed for jumping and it now sports pink cheek spots similar to those of Pikachu. Its head is now distinct from the rest of its torso and its mouth is now visible. It also has a long curled hair on top of its head, which is used as a status symbol among its kind. For all these differences, there's one feature that Politoed still possesses: the swirl that the rest of its family has, though now in green and yellow.
Gender differences
The pink spots on a female's cheeks are smaller.
Special abilities
Politoed has the standard Template:Type2 abilities, but it has also gained impressive vocal abilities which it can use in battle in the forms of Perish Song and Hyper Voice. It has also gained hopping abilities.
Behavior
Politoed lure other members of its evolution family near to it by croaking. It forms a group of Poliwag and Poliwhirl with itself as the leader. When more than three Politoed assemble, they begin to sing in a chorus. Although rarely displayed, Poltioed are capable of stretching out their tongue to some length in a similar manner to actual frogs.
Misty's Poliwhirl evolved into a Politoed in Outrageous Fortunes. This Politoed is very cheerful up to the point where it would occasionally lose focus in a battle and start clapping.
Other
Tammy, a young girl who used Pokémon for cheerleading, mistook Misty's Politoed for her own in I Politoed Ya So. She asked Misty to lend it to her for a while since she and her Politoed were angry at each other; later, they make amends and Tammy gives Misty's Politoed back to her.
In the 9th volume, Silver "borrowed" Gold's Poliwhirl in exchange for his own Seadra. Due to the effects of the King's Rock Poliwhirl was holding, plus the effects of both Gold and Silver's communication devices, Poliwhirl evolved into Politoed, and Seadra evolved into a Kingdra. After its Whirlpool defeated the Rocket Grunts that surrounded them, the two Pokémon were then returned to their rightful owners.
The curled hair on Politoed's head is proof of its status as a king. It is said that the longer and more curled the hair, the more respect this Pokémon earns from its peers.
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The only Water-type moves Politoed can learn naturally by level up are Water Gun and BubbleBeam, which are its start moves in Generation II, Generation III, and Generation IV, respectively with Water Gun as its start move in Generations II and III.
The long curled hair on Politoed's head is blue in the anime and stock art, but black in the games.
Politoed has the smallest level-up learnset of all Pokémon who evolve by trading.
Politoed is a combination of the word polliwog and a misspelling of the word toad. Its Japanese name may be a combination of ニョロニョロ nyoronyoro, the sound of slithering, and トノサマガエル tonosamagaeru, dark-spotted frog.
In other languages
German: Quaxo - Derived from quaken (to croak). Also the "Qua-" prefix of its previous forms' German names is kept.
French: Tarpaud – From tétard (tadpole) and crapaud (toad).
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 Politoed images on Bulbagarden Archives.
