Kingdra is a larger, more elegant version of Seadra. It has beautiful fins that wave in the water as it swims. Its head has a crest-like fin along its cheeks. Its head can also turn 360 degrees. Sometimes, a Kingdra leads a herd of Horsea and Seadra and protects it from danger. Its belly scales are now more compact, unlike Seadra. The snout has also become thinner and more powerful in squirting water jets with devastating power.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
The yawn of a sleeping Kingdra is powerful enough to create undercurrents capable of destroying small ships.
Behavior
When a storm arrives, Kingdra is said to awaken and wander about in search of prey.
Habitat
Kingdra are rare in the wild, and usually hibernate in deep underwater caves.
Kingdra, the Dragon Pokémon. Normally at rest on the ocean floor, but in theories of high activity, even a yawn has enough power to create whirlpools.
In the manga
Silver's Seadra evolved into Kingdra when he traded it to Gold for Poliwhirl, which also evolved. The two then traded back, so that each would have their original, though evolved, Pokémon.
Kingdra lives at extreme ocean depths that are otherwise uninhabited. It has long been believed that the yawning of this Pokémon creates spiraling ocean currents.
Kingdra sleeps on the seafloor where it is otherwise devoid of life. When a storm arrives, the Pokémon is said to awaken and wander about in search of prey.
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Though many of Kingdra's Pokédex entries state that it can create whirlpools, it can only learn the move via HM.
However, many of its Pokédex entries state it creates whirlpools by yawning, and it can learn the move Yawn.
Kingdra can rotate their heads 360 degrees.
Kingdra is the only Dragon-type Pokémon introduced in Generation II, and is, along with Misdreavus, the only Pokémon introduced in a generation in which there are no other Pokémon of one of its types.
Kingdra is often mistranslated to "Kingora" in the Chuang-Yi translation of Pokémon Adventures.
Origin
Kingdra is based on a weedy sea dragon, although the fact that it dwells on the sea floor while creating whirlpools may be based on the mythical monster Charybdis from "The Odyssey", a greek epic poem by the poet Homer.
Name origin
Kingdra's name is a combination of king and dragon.
In other languages
German: Seedraking - From See (sea), Drache (dragon), and king.
French: Hyporoi - Comes from hippocampe (seahorse) and roi (king).
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 Kingdra images on Bulbagarden Archives.
