Croagunk resembles a dark blue bipedal frog, with a white band around its waist area and red and black markings on its hands and feet. Its coloring and poisonous nature suggest that it is based on poison dart frogs. The markings on its body make it look like a Muay Thai fighter, and its jutting teeth make it appear to be wearing a mouthguard. The black around its eyes and the white bands make it look like an injured fighter with black eyes and broken ribs. Its cheeks are filled with a poison that runs to its fingers, allowing it to poison opponents by stabbing them.
Gender differences
The two white stripes that run across Croagunk's abdomen will be higher up if it is a female.
Special abilities
Whenever its middle finger glows purple, it appears to be channeling its poison via its skin and onto its hand to use its Poison moves. Croagunk can have the ability Anticipation which makes the Croagunk shudder if the foe has a super effective, instant KOing move, or a move like Selfdestruct.
Behavior
Habitat
Croagunk live in moist areas close to bodies of water.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 2: Croagunk is one of the members of Wigglytuff's Gulid. He doesn't have much of a purpose other than to run the Swap Cauldron. His catchphrase is 'Meh-heh-heh'.
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IV.
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Croagunk's English name, along with numerous others, was released on 13th February 2007. Due to the poor quality of the image, it was believed its name was "Croalurk". It was later officially revealed to be Croagunk.
Croagunk is able to learn X-Scissor even though it doesn't have claws or scythes. Its evolution has claws though.
Croagunk and its evolution Toxicroak are the only Pokémon to have the Poison/Fighting type combination, and as such, they are the only Pokémon to have a double weakness to Psychic attacks.
Despite being based on a frog, it is unable to breed with other frog Pokémon like Politoed, since it belongs to the Humanshape egg group exclusively.
Croagunk is one of few Pokémon to have its hand-held game sprite differ from its 3-D image. While in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and Pokémon Platinum it is shown to have pink cheeks, its 3-D sprites show it with yellow-orange cheeks, this is also true for it in the anime.
Croagunk may have been based on the poison dart frog. It's toothy grin may be a nod to the comic series Sgt. Frog.
Name origin
Croagunk is probably a combination of croak and gunk. The Japanese name comes ケロケロ kerokero, the Japanese onomatopoeia for a frog's croaking, and げろげろ gerogero, the Japanese word that's used to describe something disgusting. It may also be derived from 汚れ yogore, filth.
Its German name, Glibunkel, comes from Glibber and Unke. Its French name, Cradopaud, comes from crapaud and crado, a familiar term for dirty.
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 Croagunk images on Bulbagarden Archives.
