Treecko is a small, green, reptilian Pokémon that is bipedal. Treecko's hands and feet each have three digits. Treecko has two large dark-green tails. Its stomach and throat are red. Treecko has yellow eyes with long, skinny pupils. Also it has a line across on its stomach.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Treecko are able to scale walls with the aid of tiny spikes located in their hands and feet.
Wild Treecko are very territorial, and will attack anyone that comes near their homes. Treecko never panic under any circumstances, even when faced with a bigger foe.
Treecko first appeared in Get the Show on the Road. Professor Birch was showing May the three Pokémon she had the choice of starting with. She did not choose Treecko because it "creeped her out".
In Having a Wailord of a Time, a Nurse Joy was taking care of a Treecko, Torchic and Mudkip that a little girl named Stephanie was going to choose between as her first Pokémon. Stephanie chose Mudkip, and Stephanie's dad decided to become a Pokémon Trainer with the Treecko as his first Pokémon.
A Treecko is also one of the hosts of the live-action series Pokémon Sunday.
Treecko is cool, calm, and collected - it never panics under any situation. If a bigger foe were to glare at this Pokémon, it would glare right back without conceding an inch of ground.
It makes its nest in a giant tree in the forest. It ferociously guards against anything nearing its territory. It is said to be the protector of the forest's trees.
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Treecko's tail is shaped like a leaf. Still, it is the only grass-type starter who does not have any part of an actual plant as appendage to its features.
It is also the only Grass-type starter that cannot learn the move Razor Leaf.
Treecko's is one of two Grass-type lines that are not in the Plant egg group. The other is the Lileep line.
Origin
Treecko resembles a gecko or lizard. Its design shares some similarities with the leaf-tailed gecko, a species of lizard that blends in with plant-like appendages.
Name origin
Treecko's name is made up of the words tree and gecko. Kimori is a combination of 木 ki, tree, and either 森 mori, forest, or ヤモリ yamori, gecko.
In other languages
German: Geckarbor - A combination of gecko and arbor.
French: Arcko - A combination of arbre (tree) and gecko.
Korean: 나무지기 Namujigi - A combination of 나무 namu (tree) and 지기 jigi (holder/keeper/protector).
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