Weezing mostly look like two Koffing stuck together, with one bigger than the other. The smaller head only has a circle on it, instead of the skull-and-crossbones. It also has a third chamber and two appendages connecting the three segments. The larger head has prominent eyebrows, pointed teeth protruding from its lower jaw, and flatter teeth on its upper jaw. Triplet Weezing have been discovered, although they are extremely rare.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Each head contains a different toxin. When one head inflates, the other deflates, mixing the gases. By doing this multiple times, it becomes more toxic and noxious, although it does have the side effect of making Weezing smell worse. Ironically, exquisite perfumes can be extracted from Weezing's toxic secretions. A Weezing is capable of generating electricity, as well as breathingfire. It is also capable of exploding.
Behavior
A Weezing will find a dirty, unkept house and nest there. At night, when the people in the house are asleep, Weezing will go through the trash. It constantly inflates and deflates its heads to mix its poison gases.
It's been explicitly stated that Koffing, Weezing's pre-evolution, is able to hover in midair due to its gases being lighter than air. Although the same has never been explicitly stated for Weezing, it can be assumed that this is the case, as Weezing displays an ability to float in midair seemingly identical to Koffing's. It is, however, a known fact that a Weezing's gases are less dense than water, enabling it to float on the surface of water effortlessly, although this also means that Weezing is essentially unable to spend any amount of time underwater.
Weezing live in urban and suburban areas, and can often be found in dirty, unkempt houses. Active volcanoes are also a good place to find them. Their native range includes Kanto, Johto and Sinnoh's Battle Zone.
Weezing feed on the dust, microorganisms, and especially gases emitted by garbage and toxic waste. Weezing consider gases that emanate from garbage to be the ultimate feast.
Both Koga and his daughter, Janine, have Weezing as a part of their arsenals. Besides these, many Weezing have been shown in the wild, most notably in the Rocket-altered ecosystem of the Viridian Forest, or sometimes simply under Rocket command.
When released from a Poké Ball, Weezing will emit Poison Gas that juggles any opponent who comes near it.
Weezing is also a float in the Poké Float stage. It appears as Chikorita leaves. Once Slowpoke appears, it will slowly deflate and move to the top of the screen.
Trophy information
The evolved form of Koffing, Weezing is basically a pair of Koffing fused together. They tend to float in the air and emit gas or noxious smoke from the outgrowths that cover their bodies. As strange as it may seem, diluting Weezing emissions as much as possible creates one of the most exquisite perfumes known to man.
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
Weezing loves the gases given off by rotted kitchen garbage. This Pokémon will find a dirty, unkept house and make it its home. At night, when the people in the house are asleep, it will go through the trash.
Weezing alternately shrinks and inflates its twin bodies to mix together toxic gases inside. The more the gases are mixed, the more powerful the toxins become. The Pokémon also becomes more putrid.
By diluting its toxic gases with a special process, the highest grade of perfume can be extracted. To Weezing, gases emanating from garbage are the ultimate feast.
In the English version of the game, Weezing was originally going to have the name La, the abbreviation of Los Angeles, possibly representing its polluted air.
This would have made it, and it's pre-evolution, the Pokémon with the shortest English name. As of Generation IV, that honor is held by Muk and Mew, both of which were also introduced in Generation I.
Weezing has the highest Defense out of all Poison-type Pokémon.
In certain instances in the games, such as Pokémon Contests, a Pokémon's sprite will be flipped, unless its body is asymmetrical. For some reason, Weezing's sprite will get flipped in all instances despite its asymmetrical body. However, it may be explained by the twin bodies alternately inflating and deflating, as mentioned in the Pokédex, although this wouldn't explain why whichever head is larger has the skull and crossbones pattern when the smaller head lacks the crossbones.
In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum Pokédex entries for Weezing state that triplet forms have been discovered; however, this variant has not been shown in any Pokémon media.
However, a third section of Weezing (without a face) appears on every Weezing seen so far.
Origin
Considering its looks, its ability to float, and its tendency to explode, it may have been based upon a floating naval mine. It is also based on smog and other forms of air pollution.
Name origin
Weezing's name is a corruption of the word wheezing. Its Japanese name may come from 又 mata, again, and 獰 dō, meaning bad, or 毒 doku, meaning poisonous, and gas. Essentially, it is a doubling of Koffing's Japanese name, and thus a doubling of Koffing – which is exactly what Weezing is.
In other languages
German: Smogmog - Doubling of Koffing's German name.
French: Smogogo - Doubling of Koffing's French name.
Korean: 또도가스 Ttodogaseu - Mata is changed to tto in Japanese name. Tto means again.
Chinese (Taiwan): 雙彈瓦斯 Shuāng Dàn Wǎ Sī - "Double gas bomb", 瓦斯 Wǎ Sī means gas.
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Smoke Ball (5%)
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