Skuntank are medium sized mammalian Pokémon that are a dark purple with a white stripe running down their backs. Their cheeks are now not as large. However, their tails are much longer and are often laid out on their backs and over their face.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Skuntank are known for their noxious fluid which not only smells terrible, but is possibly flammable and explosive. It can spray this fluid over 160 feet. Unlike its pre-evolution and real-life Skunks, Skuntank spray this from their tail tip instead of the base.
Behavior
It is likely that like Stunky, it uses its foul smelling spray to defend itself.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 2: Skuntank is the leader of Team Skull, a band of theives. With Koffing, he can perform his noxious gas combo attack, and uses that to knock out the player's team. Toward the end of the game when he steals the Relic Fragment, his team's lives are saved by the player and he gives the fragment back.
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IV.
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So far, Skuntank is the only non-Fire type Pokémon to learn Flamethrower naturally.
Before it was made known that Skuntank sprayed from its tail tip, many fans thought the spray came from its rear end like Stunky and real-life skunks and thus comically believed so did its Flamethrower.
Skuntank's name appears to be a combination of tank, skunk, and stank, the past tense of stink. Skutank is the same, just with one less letter.
Its French name, Moufflair, comes from moufette and flair.
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