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This article is about the species. For a specific instance of this species, seeDunsparce (disambiguation).

Dunsparce Land Snake Pokémon ノコッチ Nokocchi #0206 Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Normal Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Abilities Serene Grace orRun Away Cacophony Cacophony Rattled Hidden Ability Cacophony Hidden Ability Cacophony Cacophony
Gender ratio Unknown 50% male,50% female	Catch rate 190(35.2%)
Breeding Egg Group Field Hatch time 20 cycles
Height 4'11" 1.5 m Dunsparce 0'0" 0 m {{{form2}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form3}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form4}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form5}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form6}}} 0'0" 0 m {{{form7}}}	Weight 30.9 lbs. 14.0 kg Dunsparce 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form2}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form3}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form4}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form5}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form6}}} 0 lbs. 0 kg {{{form7}}}
Mega Stone [[|]] [[|]]
Base experience yield 75 Gen. II-III 125 IV 145 V+	Leveling rate Medium Fast
EV yield Total: 1 Dunsparce 1 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape	Footprint {{{form2}}}
Pokédex color   Yellow	Base friendship 70
External Links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Dunsparce (Japanese:ノコッチNokocchi) is aNormal-typePokémon introduced inGeneration II.

Itevolves intoDudunsparce whenleveled up while knowingHyper Drill.

Dunsparce will evolve into one of twoforms of Dudunsparce,Two-Segment Form orThree-Segment Form, with a 1/100 chance of evolving into Three-Segment Form Dudunsparce.

(Refer toGame data→Evolution data for more details.)

Biology

Dunsparce is aserpentine, and somewhatinsectoid,Pokémon with a primarily yellow body, blue underside, and blue-and-cream-striped back. Its head is round with a wide mouth extending under its jowls and curving up toward the middle of its face. Its chin is blue with two rounded prongs. Its eyes—round and rimmed with blue—are kept closed, revealing its cream-colored eyelids. On Dunsparce's upper back are two tiny white wings. Its body ends in a drill-like tail.

Dunsparce can float slightly with its wings, which some scientists believe were used to fly in the sky during ancient times. However, it avoids detection and flees when spotted by burrowing into the ground with its tail. It lives immobile incaves and beneath the earth, where it makes maze-like nests. They get along withDiglett and share tunnels with each other. Dunsparce can navigate through its nests without getting lost by the smell of the dirt.

Dunsparce and its evolved form,Dudunsparce, are theonly known Pokémon capable of learning the moveHyper Drill.

Evolution

Dunsparce evolves intoDudunsparce.

(For specifics on this Pokémon's Evolution in the games, refer toGame data→Evolution data.)

Unevolved Dunsparce  Normal	→	First Evolution Dudunsparce Two-Segment  Normal
	→	First Evolution Dudunsparce Three-Segment  Normal

Game data

NPC appearances

• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity:Dunsparce is a supporting character throughout the game.

Pokédex entries

Dunsparce in theAlola PokédexUSUM	Dunsparce in thePaldea Pokédex	Dunsparce in theKitakami Pokédex

Game locations

In side games

In events

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

Dunsparce is available inScarlet and Violet.

Byleveling up

ByTM

Generation IX Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - VIII

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM001 TM001 Take Down Normal Physical 09090 085}}85% 20 TM004 TM004 Agility Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TM005 TM005 Mud-Slap Ground Special 02020 100}}100% 10 TM006 TM006 Scary Face Normal Status 0000— 100}}100% 10 TM007 TM007 Protect Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM018 TM018 Thief Dark Physical 06060 100}}100% 25 TM021 TM021 Pounce Bug Physical 05050 100}}100% 20 TM022 TM022 Chilling Water Water Special 05050 100}}100% 20 TM025 TM025 Facade Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 20 TM026 TM026 Poison Tail Poison Physical 05050 100}}100% 25 TM028 TM028 Bulldoze Ground Physical 06060 100}}100% 20 TM029 TM029 Hex Ghost Special 06565 100}}100% 10 TM035 TM035 Mud Shot Ground Special 05555 095}}95% 15 TM036 TM036 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 06060 095}}95% 15 TM041 TM041 Stored Power Psychic Special 02020 100}}100% 10 TM047 TM047 Endure Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM049 TM049 Sunny Day Fire Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM050 TM050 Rain Dance Water Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM051 TM051 Sandstorm Rock Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM053 TM053 Smart Strike Steel Physical 07070 00—}}—% 10 TM055 TM055 Dig Ground Physical 08080 100}}100% 10 TM059 TM059 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 08080 090}}90% 15 TM065 TM065 Air Slash Flying Special 07575 095}}95% 15 TM066 TM066 Body Slam Normal Physical 08585 100}}100% 15 TM070 TM070 Sleep Talk Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM083 TM083 Poison Jab Poison Physical 08080 100}}100% 20 TM084 TM084 Stomping Tantrum Ground Physical 07575 100}}100% 10 TM085 TM085 Rest Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM086 TM086 Rock Slide Rock Physical 07575 090}}90% 10 TM103 TM103 Substitute Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM106 TM106 Drill Run Ground Physical 08080 095}}95% 10 TM114 TM114 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 08080 100}}100% 15 TM116 TM116 Stealth Rock Rock Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM117 TM117 Hyper Voice Normal Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM124 TM124 Ice Spinner Ice Physical 08080 100}}100% 15 TM125 TM125 Flamethrower Fire Special 09090 100}}100% 15 TM126 TM126 Thunderbolt Electric Special 09090 100}}100% 15 TM128 TM128 Amnesia Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM129 TM129 Calm Mind Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM130 TM130 Helping Hand Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM132 TM132 Baton Pass Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 40 TM133 TM133 Earth Power Ground Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM135 TM135 Ice Beam Ice Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM141 TM141 Fire Blast Fire Special 110110 085}}85% 5 TM143 TM143 Blizzard Ice Special 110110 070}}70% 5 TM147 TM147 Wild Charge Electric Physical 09090 100}}100% 15 TM149 TM149 Earthquake Ground Physical 100100 100}}100% 10 TM150 TM150 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100100 080}}80% 5 TM152 TM152 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150150 090}}90% 5 TM163 TM163 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150150 090}}90% 5 TM166 TM166 Thunder Electric Special 110110 070}}70% 10 TM168 TM168 Solar Beam Grass Special 120120 100}}100% 10 TM171 TM171 Tera Blast Normal Special 08080 100}}100% 10 TM175 TM175 Toxic Poison Status 0000— 090}}90% 10 TM177 TM177 Spite Ghost Status 0000— 100}}100% 10 TM180 TM180 Gyro Ball Steel Physical 0000— 100}}100% 5 TM185 TM185 Lunge Bug Physical 08080 100}}100% 15 TM191 TM191 Uproar Normal Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM200 TM200 Scale Shot Dragon Physical 02525 090}}90% 20 TM202 TM202 Pain Split Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM203 TM203 Psych Up Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM204 TM204 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120120 100}}100% 15 TM205 TM205 Endeavor Normal Physical 0000— 100}}100% 5 TM219 TM219 Skitter Smack Bug Physical 07070 090}}90% 10 TM222 TM222 Breaking Swipe Dragon Physical 06060 100}}100% 15 TM224 TM224 Curse Ghost Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10

Bold indicates a move that getsSTAB when used by Dunsparce Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution or an alternate form of Dunsparce Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations

Bybreeding

Generation IX Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - VIII

Parent   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90% 10 Astonish Ghost Physical 30 100% 15 Bite Dark Physical 60 100% 25 Curse Ghost Status — —% 10 Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100% 15 Last Resort Normal Physical 140 100% 5

Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must bechain bred onto Dunsparce Bold indicates a move that getsSTAB when used by Dunsparce Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Dunsparce Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations

Special moves

Side game data

Pokémon Trozei! Rarity: Common
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team Body size: 1 Recruit rate: 7.6% Friend Area:Echo Cave Phrases 51%-100% HP Please, don't look at me like that. It makes me very self-conscious. 26%-50% HP Oh, please don't say so. Half my HP is already gone? 1%-25% HP I give up... I don't have the energy to even flee... Level up Leveled up! Oh, but please don't look... It isn't very nice.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, andExplorers of Sky Body size: 1 Recruit rate: 6.4% IQ group: A
Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon Body size: Standard (1 tile) How to Recruit: Go to find withEmolga Connected to:Emolga Connection Orb Set: 3 Phrases Normal I'd like to be a first-rate adventurer someday! I have a long way to go, but I'll do my best! Low HP (< 50%) Argh… This is so hard… But I won't give up!
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Group: Normal Poké Assist: (present) Normal Field move: (present) (Crush ×1) Poké Assist: (past) Normal Field move: (past) (Crush ×1) Browser entryR-052/N-129 It lets loose shock waves to attack.
Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ●● Defense ●●● Speed ●●●
Pokémon Rumble Rush Walking Speed: 1.27 seconds Base HP: 59 Base Attack: 74 Base Defense: 52 Base Speed: 60
Pokémon Battle Trozei Normal Attack Power: ★★★★★			Pokémon Shuffle Normal Attack Power: 40 - 90 5 #335 Mega Boost+ Fills the Mega Gauge of the same type of Pokémon more.
Pokémon GO Base HP: 225 Base Attack: 131 Base Defense: 128 Egg Distance: N/A Buddy Distance: 3 km Evolution Requirement: 50 Fast Attacks:Bite,Astonish,Rollout* Charged Attacks:Dig,Rock Slide,Drill Run

Evolution data

The form ofDudunsparce that Dunsparceevolves into is determined based on itsencryption constant, with a 99% chance of it evolving into the Two-Segment Form and a 1% chance of it evolving into the Three-Segment Form. This is not the case forwild Dudunsparce (including those encountered inTera Raid Battles), as these will always be in Two-Segment Form regardless of their encryption constant value.^[1]

SinceNatures were determined viapersonality value prior toGeneration V (which itself is indistinct from encryption constants prior toGeneration VI), a Hardy Nature Dunsparce with theAbilitySerene Grace that istransferred from GenerationIII orIV toGeneration IX will have a 50% chance of evolving into Three-Segment Form Dudunsparce, whereas Dunsparce from the samegenerations with other Natures or the AbilityRun Away will always evolve into the Two-Segment Form (unless a Dunsparce with Run Away came fromColosseum)

Unevolved Dunsparce  Normal	+ + Level up knowingHyper Drill (with a certain encryption constant) →	First Evolution Dudunsparce Two-Segment  Normal
	+ + Level up knowingHyper Drill (with a certain encryption constant) →	First Evolution Dudunsparce Three-Segment  Normal

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II.
Generation II Gold Silver Crystal Front Back Front Back Front Back
Generation III Ruby Sapphire Emerald FireRed LeafGreen Front Back Front Back Front Back
Generation IV Diamond Pearl Platinum HeartGold SoulSilver Front Back Front Back Front Back
Generation V Black White Black 2 White 2 Front Back Front Back
Generation VI X Y Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire Front Back Front Back
Generation VII Sun Moon Ultra Sun Ultra Moon Front Back Front Back
Generation VIII Sword Shield
Cross-Generation HOME

For other sprites and images, please seeDunsparce images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

In animation

Major appearances

Dunsparce debuted inThe Dunsparce Deception, where an entire town was full of children owning Dunsparce.Bucky was the only child without a Dunsparce and askedAsh andhis friends for assistance. In the end, he was able tocatch one.

InThe Path That Leads to Goodbye!, Ash tried to catch a Dunsparce, butIris's Axew bumped intoAsh's Pikachu, which led to Dunsparce escaping.

InUnder the Pledging Tree!, Ash wanted to catch another Dunsparce, but was unable to, as he didn't have anyPoké Balls on hand at that moment, thus letting Dunsparce get away again.

Minor appearances

A Dunsparce appeared inThe Legend of Thunder!.

InFollowing a Maiden's Voyage!, a Dunsparce was trapped in anAriados's web.

InTeam Shocker!, aCoordinator's Dunsparce competed in thePerformance Stage of theSolaceonContest.

A Dunsparce appeared in a flashback inTime After Time!.

A Trainer's Dunsparce appeared during a flashback inFlying Pikachu, Rising Higher and Higher!.

Two Dunsparce appeared inThe Flower Tower.

A Dunsparce appeared inWattrel's High Wind Warning!.

A Dunsparce appeared inThe Wonders of the World!, during a flashback.

Pokédex entries

In the manga

Pocket Monsters XY: The Legend of the Pokémon Dragon King

A Dunsparce appeared inLDK1.

Pokémon Adventures

Crystal encountered awild Dunsparce inA Flaaffy Kerfuffle. It and aFlaaffy became stranded on a boat owned byBill. They were rescued by Crystal and captured soProfessor Oak could research them.

A Dunsparce owned byLostelle first appeared inA Vicious Cycle of Possibilities.

A Dunsparce appeared inThe Final Battle V, during a flashback ofEmerald's past.

A Dunsparce owned byRoseanne first appeared inWell Met, Weepinbell.

Pokédex entries

In the TCG

Main article:Dunsparce (TCG)

Trivia

• In theanimated series, Dunsparce is usually shown to be much shorter than 4'11" (1.5 m), which is its listed height (or in this case, length) in thegames.
  • It is also shown as much smaller than its listed height inPokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity andPokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, being even smaller thanPikachu.
• Dunsparce was designed byHironobu Yoshida.^[2]

Origin

Bulbanews has an article related to this subject:

On the Origin of Species: Dunsparce

Dunsparce appears to be based on the snake-likeTsuchinoko cryptid of Japan. Visually, its design may be a pun on one of the cryptid's other names, バチヘビbachi hebi (bee snake), as Dunsparce appears to combine bee- and snake-like features. It may draw specific inspiration fromdigger bees. Its perpetually closed eyes anddrill-like tail, which also resembles arattlesnake's rattle, may have been inspired by thevestigial eyes and barbed tail ofblind snakes. Its tendency to burrow backward is similar tosnake eels, as well as thethread-gilled wormCirriformia moorei. Dunsparce may also have connections toAmphipteres, such asQuetzalcoatl, orflying snakes. Its gourd-shaped body may reference gourd-shaped sake bottles, given that the Tsuchinoko is said to have a taste for alcohol.

Given its larviform appearance, horn-like tail, and ring-circled eyes that resemble theeyespots of some species, Dunsparce may draw inspiration fromsphinx moth caterpillars, which have a history of being mistaken for the Tsuchinoko. This may double as a nod to the Nozuchi, a large caterpillar-like creature thought to be synonymous with the Tsuchinoko.

Name origin

Dunsparce may be a combination ofdun (a dull, sandy brown - the colour of Dunsparce's eyes and back; or a subadult mayfly) andsparse, for its rarity.

Nokocchi may be derived from ananagram of ツチノコ, the katakana spelling of 槌の子tsuchinoko (a fabled snake-like creature).

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese ノコッチNokocchi From ツチノコ / 槌の子tsuchinoko French Insolourdo Frominsolite andlourdaud Spanish Dunsparce Same as English name German Dummisel Fromdumm andMeißel Italian Dunsparce Same as English name Korean 노고치Nogochi Transcription of Japanese name Mandarin Chinese 土龍弟弟 / 土龙弟弟Tǔlóngdìdì From土龍 / 土龙tǔlóng and弟弟dìdì Cantonese Chinese 土龍弟弟Tóulùhngdàihdái From土龍tóulùhng and弟弟dàihdái

More languages Hindi विरीरेंगVirireng Fromरेंगनाrengna Russian ДанспарсDanspars Transcription of English name Thai โนก็อจจิNokotchi Transcription of Japanese name

Related articles

• Dunsparce (Gates to Infinity)

References

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