Wooper (Japanese: ウパー Upah) is a dual-type Water/Ground Pokémon introduced in Generation II.
It evolves into Quagsire starting at level 20.
Biology
Wooper is a mostly blue, amphibious Pokémon that resembles an upright, armless axolotl. Wooper's head is large compared to its body, and it has small, round, black eyes. It has purple, branching gills on either side of its head; the males have more branches in its gills than the females. Wooper stands on two small, round feet, and it has a large, thick tail. On its belly are dark blue curved markings.
It is implied in the anime that Wooper is a dull-witted Pokémon oblivious to its surroundings. Wooper lives in cold water most of the time. When sleeping, it partially buries itself in the mud at the bottom. It will occasionally leave the water when the air cools in the evening to search for food along the shore. While walking on land, it coats its body with a slimy, toxic film that keeps its skin from dehydrating and insulates against the cold. The film causes a shooting pain if touched barehanded.
In the anime
In the main series
A Wooper
Egg in the anime
Major appearances
Multiple Wooper appeared in flashbacks in A Slippery Encounter!, One for the Goomy!, An Oasis of Hope!, and Good Friends, Great Training!. One of these Wooper was close friends with Goodra when they lived together in the wetlands between Lumiose City and Laverre City. This Wooper, along with the others in its group, appeared in person in Defending the Homeland! and Beyond the Rainbow!, where it was captured by Florges's Bug-type and Poison-type Army, alongside Pikachu and Dedenne, to bring them to Team Rocket.
They reappeared in Master Class is in Session! and Performing a Pathway to the Future!, where they watched Serena's performance with the rest of the wetland Pokémon. They appeared once again in A Diamond in the Rough!, when Ash and his friends returned to the wetlands. Four of them appeared again in Till We Compete Again!, where one of them was fighting with a Lotad, before Goodra settled the argument.
Other
Wooper debuted in No Big Woop!. Ash, Misty, and Brock volunteered to watch over Olesia's school of Wooper for her.
A gang of Wooper appeared in Pikachu & Pichu.
A Wooper is one of the best friends of the two Pichu Brothers. It appeared in Pikachu and Pichu, Trouble in Big Town, Of Meowth and Pokémon, Big Meowth, Little Dreams, and Pichu Bros. in Party Panic. It also made a cameo appearance in Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
A Wooper was one of the Pokémon that Ash and his friends were taking care of while Nurse Joy was ill in Pinch Healing!. Wooper was being babysat by a Poké-Sitter named Matt. Brock took care of Wooper by having his Marshtomp use Water Gun to heal its wounds.
A Wooper appeared in Like It Or Lup It!.
A Wooper appeared in Hot Springing a Leak!, under the ownership of Leona's parents. They used Wooper to investigate a pipeline when they noticed their water was being drained, and it helped discover that Team Rocket were responsible.
Minor appearances
A Trainer used a Wooper in Hook, Line, and Stinker to aid him in the annual Seaking Catching Competition.
A Wooper appeared in Beauty and the Breeder, where it participated in a Pokémon Beauty Contest.
A Wooper was one of the Pokémon living at Temacu's father's lab in The Heartbreak of Brock.
Five Wooper were among the inhabitants of an oasis just for Pokémon in Got Miltank?.
A Wooper appeared in Octillery The Outcast, under the ownership of a Trainer who was waiting in line to register for the Whirl Cup.
A pair of baby Wooper were shown in the pond at Mr. Shellby's house in Extreme Pokémon!.
Two Wooper were seen at a Pokémon Center in The Legend of Thunder!.
In Why? Why Not!, Team Rocket thought a Wooper took Ash's Badges so they looked for one in order to steal the Badges.
Multiple Wooper appeared in Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias.
A Wooper was used by one of the students of the Pokémon Trainers' School in Gonna Rule The School!.
A Wooper appeared in Abandon Ship!.
Two Wooper were seen in the greenhouse in Sweet Baby James, where they were being looked after by Nanny and Pop-Pop.
A Wooper appeared in the opening sequence of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
Multiple Wooper were owned by Lizabeth and her family in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.
Several Wooper and a Quagsire made an appearance in The Rise of Darkrai.
A Wooper appeared in Camping It Up!.
A Wooper appeared in Up Close and Personable!.
A Wooper appeared in A Lean, Mean, Team Rocket Machine.
Three Wooper appeared in Doc Brock!.
A Wooper appeared in To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!.
A Wooper appeared in Bagged Then Tagged!.
A Wooper belonging to a Coordinator appeared in Yes in Dee Dee, It's Dawn!. It was used along with a Snorlax for the Double Performance required during the Daybreak Contest.
Multiple Wooper appeared in Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
A Wooper appeared in The Island of Illusions!.
A group of Wooper appeared in Genesect and the Legend Awakened at Pokémon Hills.
Multiple Wooper appeared in Going for the Gold!, where they were among the Pokémon seen in the Ambrette Town aquarium.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in Summer of Discovery!, Foggy Pokémon Orienteering!, and Battling Into the Hall of Fame!.
A Wooper appeared in Pikachu and the Pokémon Music Squad.
A Wooper appeared in Loading the Dex!, as an icon on the Rotom Pokédex.
Pokédex entries
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Wooper
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Ash's Pokédex
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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.
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In Pokémon Generations
Three wild Wooper appeared in a river in Ecruteak City in The Adventure. Red's Pikachu attempted to attack the Wooper with Thunder Shock from a tree above, but it was ineffective due to their immunity to electricity. The Wooper strike back with Mud Shot, sending Pikachu flying.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Wooper made a cameo in The Legend where one was seen by the lake when Green had finished her message to Silver in Johto.
Wooper formally debuts in Murkrow Row where it was seen as one of the Pokémon in Joey's bag after Gold helped him get it back.
In Who Gives a Hoothoot?, a conman uses a swarm of Wooper as a part of his game stall, however after Gold and Aibo had revealed his secret to the crowd, they were possibly boxed or released.
In the Goldenrod Game Corner a trainer is seen with a Wooper in Gligar Glide, strangely this Wooper has arms.
A Wooper is seen as one of the Pokémon at Earl's Pokémon Academy in Violet City in Slugging It Out With Slugma.
A Wooper was one of the Pokémon sent out to help in the fight in Ilex Forest in The Last Battle XIII.
In The Final Battle V, during the Trick Master's story of the homeland soil, a Wooper appeared in the flashback when it was one of the Pokémon calmed down by it.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in Crafty Carnivine.
A Trainer's Wooper appeared in a fantasy in Getting the Drop on Gallade I.
In the Pokémon Gotta Catch 'Em All manga
Shu has a Wooper in the Pokémon Gotta Catch 'Em All manga.
In the Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys manga
Chris owns a Wooper in The Golden Boys manga.
In the TCG
- Main article: Wooper (TCG)
Other appearances
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
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This Pokémon lives in cold water. It will leave the water to search for food when it gets cold outside.
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| Silver
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When it walks around on the ground, it coats its body with a slimy, poisonous film.
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| Crystal
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A mucous membrane covers its body. Touching it barehanded will cause a shooting pain.
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This Pokémon lives in cold water. It will leave the water to search for food when it gets cold outside.
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Wooper usually live in water. However, it occasionally comes out onto land in search of food. On land, it coats its body with a gooey, toxic film.
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| Emerald
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Wooper usually live in water but come out onto land seeking food occasionally. On land, they coat their bodies with a gooey, toxic film.
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| FireRed
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When it walks around on the ground, it coats its body with a slimy, poisonous film.
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| LeafGreen
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This Pokémon lives in cold water. It will leave the water to search for food when it gets cold outside.
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| Diamond
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It lives in cold water, half burying itself in mud at the bottom to sleep.
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| Pearl
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When the temperature cools in the evening, they emerge from water to seek food along the shore.
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| Platinum
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When walking on land, it covers its body with a poisonous film that keeps its skin from dehydrating.
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| HeartGold
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This Pokémon lives in cold water. It will leave the water to search for food when it gets cold outside.
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| SoulSilver
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When it walks around on the ground, it coats its body with a slimy, poisonous film.
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| Black
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When walking on land, it covers its body with a poisonous film that keeps its skin from dehydrating.
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| White
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When walking on land, it covers its body with a poisonous film that keeps its skin from dehydrating.
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| White 2
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This Pokémon lives in cold water. It will leave the water to search for food when it gets cold outside.
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When the temperature cools in the evening, they emerge from water to seek food along the shore.
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Wooper usually lives in water. However, it occasionally comes out onto land in search of food. On land, it coats its body with a gooey, toxic film.
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Game locations
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In side games
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| This Pokémon is unavailable in Generation II side games.
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Stats
Base stats
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At Lv. 100
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55
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115 - 162
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220 - 314
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45
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45 - 106
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85 - 207
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45
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45 - 106
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85 - 207
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25
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27 - 84
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49 - 163
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25
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27 - 84
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49 - 163
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15
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18 - 73
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31 - 141
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Total: 210
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- Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and (if applicable) a hindering nature.
- Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.
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Pokéathlon stats
Type effectiveness
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Learnset
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Wooper
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Wooper
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see level-up moves from other generations
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Wooper
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Wooper
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations
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- Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Wooper in Generation VII
- Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation.
- Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Wooper in that game.
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Wooper
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Wooper
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations
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- A black or white abbreviation in a colored box indicates that Wooper can be tutored the move in that game
- A colored abbreviation in a white box indicates that Wooper cannot be tutored the move in that game
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Wooper
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Wooper
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Move Tutor moves from other generations
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TCG-only moves
Side game data
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Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs
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Field move:
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(Soak ×1)
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Field move:
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(Soak ×1)
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| Browser entry [[List of Pokémon by Oblivia Browser number|]]
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| It attacks by spitting bubbles that make Pokémon Slowed.
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Evolution
Sprites
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Trivia
Origin
Bulbanews has an article related to this subject:
Wooper seems to be based on a larval salamander, which has a flat tail and feathery, external gills. Its Shiny sprite gives it a similar coloration to that of albino, leucistic, and flavistic color mutants, or an axolotl, a species of salamander that keeps its gills and remains in the water for all of its life because it never develops lungs.
Name origin
Wooper and Upah are derived from wooper looper, a marketing term created in Japan that started a pet salamander raising fad. Wooper loopers are the Japanese term for the axolotl, a species of salamander.
In other languages
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Title
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 Japanese
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ウパー Upah
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From wooper looper
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 French
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Axoloto
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From axolotl
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 Spanish
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Wooper
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Same as English name
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 German
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Felino
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From Fenn and bambino
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 Italian
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Wooper
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Same as English name
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 Korean
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우파 Woopa
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Transliteration of its Japanese name
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 Mandarin Chinese
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烏波 / 乌波 Wūbō
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Transliteration of its Japanese name. Contains 波 bō
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 Cantonese Chinese
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烏波 Wūbō
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Transliteration of its Japanese name. Contains 波 bō
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 Hindi
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वूपर Wooper
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Transcription of English name
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 Russian
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Вупер Vuper
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Transcription of English name
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Related articles
External links
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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.
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For other sprites and images, please see Wooper images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
