Games - Sableye

	Games - Sableye

Sableye (ヤミラミ Yamirami in Japanese, Zobiris in German and Tenefix in French) is a fictional character of the Pokémon franchise.

Its name is a combination of the words sable, meaning dark, in reference to its type, and eye.

Appearance

Sableye is a somewhat humanoid bipedal figure with purple coloration. It may be inspired by the mythological design of a gremlin. Its eyes look like gems or crystals. It also has a red gem-like structure on its torso, and three more (a red, a blue and a green one) embedded on its back.

Biology

A Sableye's natural habitat is in deep underground caves, where it leads a quiet and blameless life. It is a lithovore, meaning that its diet consists of rocks and minerals, which it uncovers from the ground using its sharp claws. When its body becomes saturated with substances derived from the rocks it eats, those substances crystallize and rise to the surface of its body, giving it a gem-studded appearance.

Despite its hermetic lifestyle, Sableye is a cause of fear for many thanks to its eyes, which glitter eerily in the darkness of the caves it inhabits. In the Pokémon world, it is thought that a Sableye can steal a person's spirit when its eyes shine that way.

In the video games

Sableye is available in Pokémon Sapphire and Emerald in Granite Cave, Victory Road, Cave of Origin, and Sky Pillar. In Pokémon XD a Navigator at the entrance of Citadark Isle has one to snag.

Sableye is especially notable for its elemental type combination of Dark and Ghost. Since the Dark type is resistant to the elements the Ghost type is vulnerable to (Dark and Ghost) and vice versa (Fighting and Bug), Sableye is the only Pokémon so far with no weaknesses at all. However, if foresight is used on Sableye, a fighting attack can score a critical hit. This useful trait is counterbalanced by statistics which are mediocre at best, which hinder it from exploiting a rather wide range of attacks.

In the animé

Sableye has appeared in episode #305 (Ready, Willing and Sableye). The featured Sableye lives in an abandoned mine and enjoys playing tricks at any visitors, something which Meowth of Team Rocket exploits to trap Ash and his friends. Cassidy of Team Rocket also has one in some of the episodes of Pokémon Chronicles.

In the trading card game

Sableye has only appeared twice in the Pokémon Trading Card Game, both as basic Dark-type Pokémon, and they are in these sets:

EX Sandstorm
EX Deoxys

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