Mudkip comes with the abilityTorrent, which increases the power of Water-type attacks by 50% once the Pokémon has less than one-third of its maximum HP.
Mudkip can use the fin on their heads to detect subtle changes in air and water currents to sense information about its surroundings. When in water, Mudkip breathe using the gills on their cheeks. On land, they can powerfully lift large boulders by planting their four feet and heaving. They sleep by burying themselves in soil at the water's edge. Their large tail fin propels them through water with powerful acceleration. If they are faced with a tight situation in battle, Mudkip will become strong enough to crush rocks bigger than themselves.
Brock has a Marshtomp that he caught as a Mudkip in A Mudkip Mission. Since then, it has gotten significantly less screentime (and battle experience) than its Hoenn starter counterparts, Ash's Sceptile and May's Blaziken. It was the last of the three starters to evolve (in A Chip Off the Old Brock) and it never reached its final evolutionary stage like the others did.
Nicholai's starter Pokémon was a Mudkip. Sometime afterwards, his Mudkip evolved into a Marshtomp.
Mudkip eggs were seen in A Mudkip Mission, when Old Man Swampy offered to let Brock see one hatch, and Brock accepts his offer with much enthusiasm. Next, a baby Mudkip is shown hatching from a Mudkip egg.
The fin on Mudkip's head acts as highly sensitive radar. Using this fin to sense movements of water and air, this Pokémon can determine what is taking place around it without using its eyes.
In water, Mudkip breathes using the gills on its cheeks. If it is faced with a tight situation in battle, this Pokémon will unleash its amazing power - it can Template:M2 bigger than itself.
Mudkip is the only Template:Type2 starter to be quadrupedal, though its evolutions Marshtomp and Swampert are able to walk on either two or four feet.
Mudkip is a frequently-mentioned meme on *chan sites, stemming from an inappropriate thing at a school, where a dude asked a stupid kid "i herd u liek mudkipz", and then other things happened...lookit up on the internet eleswhere. In addition many people frequently say they "need MOAR mudkipz".
Mudkip has a higher Defense than Treecko and Torchic.
Mudkip has the highest Attack out of all the starters at base form.
In a poll conducted by Nintendo of Europe, Mudkip was voted as the fan favorite, with Typhlosion and Blastoise close behind. This may have been due to the aforementioned meme.
GameFAQs' sixth annual Character Battle has Mudkip as one of the characters in it, the inclusion most likely being because of the *chan meme.
Mudkip's name is a combination of mud and skip, and was probably chosen because it sounds like mudskipper. Its Japanese name is probably based on 水 mizu, "water," and ムツゴロウ mutsugorō, "mudskipper."
In other languages
German: Hydropi - Comes from a combination of hydro and mudpuppy.
French: Gobou - The verb gober means to swallow and boue means mud.
Korean: 물짱이 Muljjang-i - A combination of 'water' (물) and a word that is similar to a suffix referring to a 'specialist', 'professional' (장이).
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 Mudkip images on Bulbagarden Archives.
