Wailord are mammalian Pokémon that are well known as the largest Pokémon discovered so far. They have small beady eyes, a huge mouth and a throat that is lined with grooves. It has two pairs of fins along its side and a horizontal tail at the back. It's vaguely shaped like a torpedo or a blimp.
Despite its enormous size, it is able to breed with many land-based Pokémon that are much smaller. This is due to it being in the Ground Egg Group, a reference to how whales are classified as mammals.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Wailord are able to take in large amounts of air and dive to incredible depths with just one massive breath. Since it is based on a whale and has a blowhole, it is one of the few Pokémon that are able to use Water Spout. With their large mouths, they are able to eat extreme quantities of food.
Behavior
Wailord are known to live in large packs for traveling as well as finding prey.
A Wailmer that befriended a man named Robin evolved into a Wailord in Island Time. This Wailord transported Ash and friends across the ocean until they came across a ship heading for Ever Grande City.
In Leading a Stray!, a family of Wailord appeared. One Wailmer was separated from its family, and Ash helped it get back. By the end of the episode, this Wailmer evolved into a Wailord.
Wailord, the Float Whale Pokémon. Wailord is the largest Pokémon yet discovered. When diving out of the water in pursuit of its prey it makes quite an impressive sight.
Wailord, the Float Whale Pokémon. Wailord can dive nearly ten-thousand feet on one breath.
In the manga
In Pokémon Special, Sapphire has a Wailord named Walo, who is kept at sea for her and her father to use for sea travel. However, later she returns it to its Poké Ball and carries it on her.
Wailord is the largest of all identified Pokémon up to now. This giant Pokémon swims languorously in the vast open sea, eating massive amounts of food at once with its enormous mouth.
When chasing prey, Wailord herds them by leaping out of the water and making a humongous splash. It is breathtaking to see this Pokémon leaping out of the sea with others in its pod.
It breathes through nostrils that it raises above the sea. By inhaling to its maximum capacity, a Wailord can dive close to 10,000 feet beneath the waves.
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Wailord is by far the tallest Pokémon in existence, but only the tenth heaviest.
Wailord is also the only "giant" Pokémon whose size was not outdone in the following generation.
Despite the fact that real-life fully grown blue whales weigh over 170 metric tonnes (over 27,000 stone), Wailord only weighs a meager sixty tonnes, which is less than one sixth of a real Blue Whale's tongue.
A Wailord, along with a Relicanth, is necessary in the party in order to unleash the three legendary golems from their sleeping places within the Sealed Chamber in the Generation III games.
This should mean that Wailord have exisited for a long time, since the Regi have been sealed away a long time ago, and Relicanth lived a long time ago.
Wailord has the fourth highest base HP stat of all Pokémon, after Blissey, Chansey, and Wobbuffet, in that order.
Wailord is ofter critizised for having below average defenses, thus not making it's HP as useful; still, Wailord can prove even bulkier than Gayardos with a defensive EV spread.
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 Wailord images on Bulbagarden Archives.
