Games - Squirtle

	Games - Squirtle

Squirtle (ゼニガメ Zenigame in Japanese) is one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon
media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri.

Squirtle is one of the first Pokémon a player can obtain in the first of the series’s video games, Pokémon Red & Pokémon Blue. Squirtle also appears often in the Pokémon anime, as one of the Pokémon obtained by Ash Ketchum, the protagonist of the series.

Squirtle are small, bipedal, blue turtles with a brown shells and a distinctive clublike tails. Shortly after their birth, their backs swell and harden to make them more resilient towards attacks: most objects will bounce right off this shell when force is applied. The shell’s rounded shape and the grooves on its surface also allow Squirtle to swim at high speeds with minimal resistance. When feeling threatened, Squirtle withdraw their limbs and their long necks into their shell and spray water from their mouth with great force, either to attack their opponent or merely to intimidate it. They also uses this spray to stun its prey while hunting.

In the Pokémon video games

In Pokémon Red and Blue, Squirtle is one of the starter Pokémon, together with Bulbasaur and Charmander. The same is true in these games’ enhanced remakes, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. In Pokémon Yellow, Squirtle is not a starter, but one is given to the player as a gift by Officer Jenny later on. Squirtle are never found in the wild, and because of their rarity, are a popular choice for in-game breeding and trading with other players.

As a Water-type Pokémon, Squirtle has an advantage over the Pokémon of the first Gym Leader (Brock, who specializes in the Rock type), but has a stalemate type-wise with Misty’s Pokémon, and is vulnerable to the Electric and Grass assaults of Lt. Surge and Erika (Pokémon). Its final evolution, Blastoise, is a powerful Water Pokémon which would probably be more notable if not for the large number of Water-type species in the games.

Squirtle also appears in the Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap, in the Valley area. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, a fighting game starring well-known Nintendo characters, Bulbasaur appears as a trophy which the player can acquire through the in-game lottery by spending coins, known as “Smash Coins”, earned while playing.

In the Pokémon anime

For some time, Ash Ketchum had a Squirtle on his team. Previously abandoned by another trainer, it had joined up with four other Squirtle to form a criminal gang called the Squirtle Squad (Zenigame-gundan), breaking with the “cute” image pervading the poular perception of this Pokémon. However, the Squirtle Squad were mostly harmless, playing pranks rather than actually harming people. When the Squirtle Squad wound up saving a nearby town from a forest fire (after a vain attempt from Meowth to make them turn to evil by claiming that Team Rocket and Ash were his “pets”), the Squirtle Squad became the firefighting Pokémon of the town – without their leader, however, as it had decided to go with Ash. Squirtle accompanied Ash for much of his journey through Kanto, the Orange Islands, and parts of Johto before rejoining the Squirtle Squad, whose confidence and firefighting prowess had greatly diminished without a leader. As its trainer loyalties lie clearly with Ash, it returned to battle at Ash’s side briefly in the Johto League Silver Conference, accompanied by Officer Jenny.

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Games - Squirtle

In the Pokémon video games

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