Slaking

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Slaking
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National
Vigoroth - Slaking (#289) - Nincada
Hoenn
Vigoroth - Slaking (#038) - Abra
Japanese name ケッキング (Kekking)
Stage Stage 2
Evolves from Vigoroth
Evolves to None
Generation Third
Species Lazy Pokémon
Type Normal
Height 6 ft 7 in (2.00 m)
Weight 287.7 lb (130.5 kg)
Ability Truant

Slaking (ケッキング Kekking?) are one of the 493 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar[1] Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Slaking in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.[2]

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[edit] Biological Characteristics

Slaking, though it evolves out of Sloth Pokémon, he is much larger and more muscular than a real sloth, and he is anthropomorphicized. Something to notice in both the anime and in the video games is that Slaking's eyes have pupils in the video game sprites. In other pictures, Slaking's pupils are smaller than in the video games. Its design may be based on a gorilla and/or the giant ground sloth. Slaking is noted for having the third highest attack stat out of all Pokemon, this may explain is laziness-it's so strong it does not put in half of the effort to fight.

[edit] In the Pokémon video games

Slaking can only be obtained by evolving Vigoroth at level 36, which in turn evolves out of Slakoth, an uncommon Pokémon in the wild. These make Slaking relatively hard to obtain.

Slaking is known as one of the most powerful Pokémon of all, with incredibly high attack and HP stats, as well as high defense, special attack and speed stats, and average special defense, its attack and HP being high enough to rival those of Legendary Pokémon (such as Rayquaza or Groudon, both of whom have a base attack stat almost equal to Slaking's) It would be considered an über Pokémon if it didn't have the Truant ability–it can only attack once every 2 turns.

In 1-on-1 battles, Slaking is hindered only by its ability. Its defenses are good, and trainers who think the Slaking can survive the next turn are encouraged to use "Hyper Beam," a move that would require an extra turn of recharging anyway. The downside of this is the inability to switch out; this is very much a luck move.

In 2-on-2 battles, there is one powerful strategy that can be used with Slaking. By using the attack Skill Swap, a team-mate can switch abilities with Slaking, removing the constrictions of the Truant ability. What's even better is that Truant can then be passed onto an opponent by using Skill Swap once more. One Pokémon who can effectively be used to Skill Swap is any pokemon that knows Levitate (like Claydol for instance): it can pass the Levitate ability, thus making it immune to any threat of the ever-popular Earthquake attack, and then said pokemon may be switched out. Another possible tactic is to use any pokemon which has Early Bird skill onto Slaking, allowing him to only use two turns when Resting; Early Bird is extremely effective, since Slaking's high HP makes recovering status and HP very useful.

Once free from Truant, it becomes a very powerful Physical Sweeper, an über Pokémon, like said before, with such attacks as Reversal, Earthquake, Shadow Ball, Focus Punch and Return.Or if your opponent has a Counter attack and uses it when Truant is in effect, the counter attack will be wasted if you are the gambling type. However, Slaking's worst enemy is a strong Pokemon that can survive a few hits and return with equally devastating hits (ex: Medicham and Azumarill with Huge Power).

Slaking was previously noted for having the second highest attack stat out of all Pokemon (only Deoxys in Attack form beat it), however with the coming of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, this position has been obtained by Ramuparudo.

[edit] In the Pokémon anime

Gym Leader Norman uses a Slaking to battle Ash for his battle of his fifth Hoenn badge. Slaking is his most powerful Pokémon, but Ash was able to defeat it.

In "Slaking Kong," Team Rocket were manipulating a giant Slaking (revealed to be a giant robot disguised as one) to get the local Slaking, Vigoroth, Aipom (including the one who steals Ash's hat), and Mankey to steal berries and May's Ribbon Case. When Team Rocket's plan was exposed, the local Slaking, Vigoroth, Aipon, and Mankey attacked the Slaking robot and brought it down. That episode and it's title were a parody of "King Kong."

[edit] In other media

Slaking, for all its power in the video games, has only appeared twice as stage-2 Colorless Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game:

  • EX Ruby & Sapphire
  • EX Deoxys

One strange thing about Slaking is that cards for its pre-evolutions Vigoroth and Slakoth are found in EX Sandstorm, but there is no Slaking to be found there.

[edit] References

Notes
  1. ^ Pokemon Franchise Approaches 150 Million Games Sold. PR Newswire. Retrieved on 2006-02-28.
  2. ^ Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire Review (page 1) Ign.com. URL Accessed June 1, 2006.
Publications
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., 1998. ASIN B000CQP8FE
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Player’s Guide Special Edition for Yellow, Red and Blue. Nintendo of America Inc., 1999. ASIN B000CQT878-->
  • Barbo, Maria. The Official Pokémon Handbook. Scholastic Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-439-15404-9.
  • Loe, Casey, ed. Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition Official Perfect Guide. Sunnydale, CA: Empire 21 Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1-930206-15-1.
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon FireRed & Pokémon LeafGreen Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., August 2004. ISBN 1-930206-50-X
  • Mylonas, Eric. Pokémon Pokédex Collector’s Edition: Prima’s Official Pokémon Guide. Prima Games, September 21 2004. ISBN 0-7615-4761-4
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Emerald Version Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., April 2005. ISBN 1-930206-58-5
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