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Skwovet (Japanese: ホシガリス Hoshigarisu) is a Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation VIII.
It evolves into Greedent starting at level 24.
Biology
Skwovet is a squirrel-like Pokémon. It is grayish-brown in color, with a large fluffy tail, which is dark-grayish-brown at the top. Skwovet has a light-grayish-brown underbelly, and the color extends to its mouth and parts of its cheeks. It has two orange freckles underneath each eye and an orange nose. Its ears are similar in color to its tail, and they have orange insides.
Using its special cheeks, which can stretch to many times its normal volume, Skwovet can stuff a tremendous amount of food such as Berries. If it is feeling full, it can temporarily keep the extra food in its tail fur. Skwovet's habit of eating Berries nonstop has made it more resilient than it appears. If its cheeks are ever completely empty of Berries, it becomes very uneasy; it may even stuff its cheeks with pebbles if it can't find any Berries nearby. Skwovet will appear on farms, looking for more Berries to eat. When they are not eating Berries, they spit out the seeds in the rich soil in order to cultivate Berry trees. It has a habit of hiding and adding to its food storage, as it is always anxious about getting hungry. Gumshoos is its natural predator.
Skwovet and its evolved form, Greedent, are the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move Stuff Cheeks by leveling up.
Evolution
Skwovet evolves into Greedent.
(For specifics on this Pokémon's evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
Game data
Pokédex entries
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In events
Wild Area News
Held items
Stats
Base stats
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Learnset
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Evolution data
Sprites
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In the anime
Main series
Major appearances
Goh's Skwovet
Skwovet debuted in The Climb to Be the Very Best!, where it was lured in by Ash's scones and then caught by Goh. In Crowning the Chow Crusher!, it evolved into a Greedent.
Minor appearances
Two Skwovet appeared in Getting More Than You Battled For!.
A Skwovet appeared in Secrets of the Jungle.
In A Pinch of This, a Pinch of That!, two Skwovet were seen in the Wild Area.
A Trainer's Skwovet appeared in Grabbing the Brass Ring!.
A Skwovet appeared in The Road Most Traveled!.
A Trainer's Skwovet appeared in The Door That Never Opens.
A Skwovet appeared in The Bittersweet Truth.
Multiple Skwovet appeared in As Long as I'm with My Friends.
Pokédex entries
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Pokémon: Twilight Wings
Two Skwovet appeared in Buddy, with one under the ownership of a Schoolgirl and the other under the ownership of a Trainer.
POKÉTOON
A Skwovet appeared in Snorunt's Summer Vacation.
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
Skwovet debuted in a flashback in Ooh Shiny!! Legendary Equipment, where it was in the Slumbering Weald.
Multiple Skwovet appeared in PASS34.
In the TCG
- Main article: Skwovet (TCG)
Trivia
Icon for No. 1 Pharmacy
Origin
Skwovet appears to be based on an Eastern gray squirrel, an invasive species in Great Britain. Its Shiny coloration may allude to the Eurasian red squirrel, which, in real life, is endangered in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Ireland.
Name origin
Skwovet may be a combination of squirrel and covet.
Hoshigarisu may be a combination of 欲しがる hoshigaru (to desire) and 栗鼠 risu (squirrel).
In other languages
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