Piloswine is a big, brown, furryporcinePokémon with an impressive hump on its back. It also has two tusks made of ice, which seem small but can be lethal. These tusks thicken when it snows, and they are smaller on a female Piloswine than on a male. It has floppy ears that are sensitive to sound. Piloswine has two beady eyes in its head; however, these are usually covered up by tufts of fur. As it is usually unable to see, it checks surroundings with its sensitive pig-like nose instead. As a result, Piloswine is constantly charging at foes when it moves. The hairs on its back stands up straight as a warning sign for this.
Piloswine's thick fur allows it to survive in harshly cold environments that it inhabits, such asicy caves, mountainous regions and frozen tundra. Its fur is so long that it usually covers its small, hooved legs. Despite the small size of its legs, its hooves ensure even footing on icy ground. Piloswine often digs for food buried beneath snow and ice using its tusks.
Because the long hair all over its body obscures its sight, it just keeps charging repeatedly.(Pokémon Red, Silver, or Crystal inserted) If it charges at an enemy, the hairs on its back stand up straight. It is very sensitive to sound.(Pokémon Blue, Gold, or Yellow inserted)
Piloswine is covered by a thick coat of long hair that enables it to endure the freezing cold. ThisPokémon uses its tusks to dig up food that has been buried under ice.
Piloswine is covered by a thick coat of long hair that enables it to endure the freezing cold. This Pokémon uses its tusks to dig up food that has been buried under ice.
The long fur of this Pokémon covers its eyes, ears, and even limbs, allowing Piloswine to resist harshly frigid conditions. The Pokémon's white tusks can be used to defeat its enemies.
Pryce's Piloswine first appeared inAs Cold as Pryce, thus also marking the species' animated series debut. Pryce thought that it abandoned him when he was a youngTrainer after the two of them got hit by aMagmar'sFire Blast, and thus became cold and bitter. When Pryce found his Piloswine in a cave and frozen solid with a Burn-Healing Herb, Pryce let go of his coldness. Pryce used Piloswine in hisGymbattle againstAsh in thefollowing episode.
In thebanned episodeEP250, theNurse Joy living inside theIce Cave has multiple Piloswine. They wore harnesses and were used for sledding through the cave.
Piloswine, the Swine Pokémon and the evolved form ofSwinub. Piloswine's entire body is covered with fur, which makes it hard to see, so it uses its nose to sense its environment instead.
No other Pokémon has the sametypecombination as Piloswine and its evolutionary relatives.
Piloswine's type combination is also the onlypossible combination weak to all threefirst partner Pokémon types (Grass,Fire andWater), asRock (the only other type besidesGround, Fire and Water that is weak to either Grass or Water) resists Fire whileBug andSteel (the only types besides Grass orIce weak to Fire) both resist Grass.
Piloswine may be a combination ofpilose (covered with fine hair) andswine, as well as a play onpile of swine. It may also involve פילpíl (Hebrew for elephant).
Inomoo may be a combination of 猪inoshishi (boar) and ブーブーbūbū (onomatopoeia for oinking).
This Pokémon article is part ofProject Pokédex, aBulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.
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For other sprites and images, please seePiloswine images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
