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Sharpedo Brutal Pokémon サメハダー Samehader #319 Sharpedo Mega Sharpedo Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Water Dark
Abilities Rough Skin Sharpedo Speed Boost Hidden Ability Strong Jaw Mega Sharpedo
Gender ratio     50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 60 (14.8%)
Breeding Egg Group Water 2 Hatch time 5140 - 5396 steps
Height 5'11" 1.8 m Sharpedo 8'02" 2.5 m Mega Sharpedo	Weight 195.8 lbs. 88.8 kg Sharpedo 287.3 lbs. 130.3 kg Mega Sharpedo
Mega Stone Sharpedonite‎
Base experience yield 175 Gen. III-IV 161 V+	Leveling rate Slow
EV yield Total: 2 0 HP 2 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape	Footprint
Pokédex color   Blue	Base friendship 35
External Links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Sharpedo (Japanese: サメハダー Samehader) is a dual-type Water/Dark Pokémon introduced in Generation III.

It evolves from Carvanha starting at level 30.

Sharpedo can Mega Evolve into Mega Sharpedo using the Sharpedonite‎.

Biology

Sharpedo is a torpedo-shaped shark Pokémon covered with tiny, sharp denticles. It has a large mouth filled with triangular, sharp teeth. Its eyes are a deep red color and glow in the dark. It has two gill slits situated directly behind each eye. It is mostly dark blue with a white underbelly. There is a yellow star-shaped marking on its snout, and another star marking on its rear. It has a tall dorsal fin with two notches cut into it, with a pelvic fin directly opposite it. Its two pectoral fins are arranged so that they resemble the fins on the back of a torpedo.

As Mega Sharpedo, the fangs in its mouth have transformed, and the horns that have sprouted from its nose are fangs that are retractable, and can be regrown countless times. The yellow patterns on its body are old resurfaced scars that were carved in battle, causing it sharp pain and suffering. With explosive propulsion, it can exceed 125 mph in an instant. Its combat instinct were increased due to Mega Evolution. Mega Sharpedo's sharp spikes can cause deep wounds to its opponents after charging at them.

Sharpedo swallows and shoots out jets of seawater from its rear, which allows it to swim 75 to 80 miles per hour. However, it is unable to swim long distances. It is feared and known by many names as Bully of the Sea, Ruffian of the Seas, Bandit of the Sea, or Gangster of the Sea as a group, due to its sharp teeth. Sharpedo uses the teeth to finish off its opponent. It was once prized for its dorsal fin as a food item and has been a victim of overfishing. Its fangs can rip through iron and steel, being able to tear apart a supertanker into pieces. Sharpedo's fangs can instantly grow back the moment it comes off. Discarded Sharpedo's fangs are made into accessories due to the belief it can prevent ship mishaps. It also attacks any ships that enter the waters it lives in with no exceptions. When its fangs fall out, they grow back immediately. It is very sensitive to the scent of blood. It lives in the sea. Sharpedo is known to prey on Wailmer, particularly small ones. It also preys on other Water-type Pokémon such as Finneon, Lumineon, Lanturn, and Squirtle.

In the anime

Main series

 

Sharpedo in the anime

Major appearances

In Sharpedo Attack!, multiple Sharpedo attacked Ash and his friends, plus Mr. Briney, while they were at an uncharted, crescent-shaped island. They eventually gained the pod's trust when Brock healed their leader's injury, which had been inflicted when it came across Team Rocket.

In PK13, multiple Sharpedo were attacking Pikachu and the others across the deserted island, where an Aggron tied up an Azumarill.

In Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! (Part 1), J's henchmen used four Sharpedo to attack Ash and his friends, along with Kellyn.

In Going for the Gold!, multiple Sharpedo were accidentally attracted by Clemont's invention, which was meant to lure in a golden Magikarp.

In Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel, a Sharpedo that can Mega Evolve was under the control of Levi and Cherie's Mega Wave. Sharpedo was used to battled Ash's Pikachu, Greninja, Talonflame, Hawlucha, and Noivern. It was later freed from their control when Alva's Mega Wave Crystal was destroyed, and it escaped.

Minor appearances

Two Sharpedo debuted in Johto Photo Finish, during Harrison's explanation of the Hoenn region.

In Hoenn Alone!, multiple Sharpedo were swimming in the ocean.

A Sharpedo appeared in Destiny Deoxys.

A Sharpedo appeared in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.

A Sharpedo was a thief in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness.

In Staging a Heroes' Welcome!, a Coordinator's Sharpedo competed in the Performance Stage of the Wallace Cup.

In One Team, Two Team, Red Team, Blue Team!, Dawn used a Sharpedo provided by the Pokémon Summer Academy for the second leg of the Pokémon Triathlon.

In A Rivalry to Gible On!, a Sharpedo scared off Team Rocket.

A Sharpedo appeared in the opening sequence of Zoroark: Master of Illusions.

Three Sharpedo appeared in Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!.

Multiple Sharpedo appeared in Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction.

A Sharpedo that can Mega Evolve into Mega Sharpedo appeared in the ending segment of Mega Evolution Special II.

A Sharpedo appeared in The Guardian's Challenge!.

In Alola to New Adventure!, a Poké Ride Sharpedo gave Ash and Pikachu a ride.

In Yo, Ho, Ho! Go, Popplio!, a Sharpedo bit onto the tail of a Slowpoke that was fishing.

A Sharpedo appeared in Racing to a Big Event!.

Multiple Sharpedo appeared in The Island Whisperer!.

In Dewpider Ascending!, a Sharpedo chased a wild Dewpider.

In Securing the Future!, two Sharpedo joined the rest of Alola in showering Necrozma with light so it could return to its normal form.

A Sharpedo appeared in Pikachu's Exciting Adventure!.

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Animated Trailer

 

Mega Sharpedo in the animated trailer

In the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Animated Trailer, a Mega Sharpedo ambushed a Mega Slowbro.

In the manga

 

Sharpedo in Pokémon Adventures

 

Mega Sharpedo in Pokémon Adventures

Pocket Monsters BW

A Sharpedo appeared in PMBW47.

Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl

Multiple Sharpedo appeared in PDP22, where they battled Ash, Dawn, and their Pokémon.

Pocket Monsters DP

A Sharpedo appeared in PMDP01.

Pokémon Adventures

Sharpedo is Aqua Admin Matt's main battling Pokémon in Pokémon Adventures, first appearing in Lombre Larceny. Its Rough Skin Ability wears down its opponents while it fights with Crunches.

A Sharpedo was one of the aquarium Pokémon seen in Archie's collection in Stick This in Your Craw, Crawdaunt I.

In Omega Alpha Adventure 11, Archie is shown to have a second Sharpedo, which can Mega Evolve into Mega Sharpedo. After Archie disappeared he was taken by Amber.

A Poké Ride Sharpedo appeared in Shipwreck and "Oh, What Sharp Teeth You Have, Bruxish!", where it was used by Sun.

A Poké Ride Sharpedo appeared in Thieving and Boss Crabominable.

Pokémon Try Adventure

Sharpedo appeared in TA34.

Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire

A Sharpedo appeared in Steer Sharpedo To The Right Path!!.

In the TCG

Main article: Sharpedo (TCG)

Game data

NPC appearances

• Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire: Hitting the ball into Sharpedo's mouth will activate Catch 'Em Mode on the Ruby Field.

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

In events

Held items

Game		Held Item(s)
Diamond	Pearl	DeepSeaTooth (5%)
Platinum
Black	White	DeepSeaTooth (5%)
Black 2	White 2	DeepSeaTooth (5%)
X	Y	Deep Sea Tooth (5%)
Omega Ruby	Alpha Sapphire	Deep Sea Tooth (5%)
Sun	Moon	Deep Sea Tooth (5%)
Ultra Sun	Ultra Moon	Deep Sea Tooth (5%)
Events*		Sharpedonite (100%)

Stats

Base stats

Sharpedo

Mega Sharpedo

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/TR

Generation VIII Other generations: III - IV - V - VI - VII

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM08 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90% 5 TM09 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90% 5 TM16 Screech Normal Status — 85% 40 TM21 Rest Psychic Status — —% 10 TM23 Thief Dark Physical 60 100% 25 TM24 Snore Normal Special 50 100% 15 TM25 Protect Normal Status — —% 10 TM26 Scary Face Normal Status — 100% 10 TM27 Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95% 15 TM31 Attract Normal Status — 100% 15 TM33 Rain Dance Water Status — —% 5 TM35 Hail Ice Status — —% 10 TM36 Whirlpool Water Special 35 85% 15 TM39 Facade Normal Physical 70 100% 20 TM40 Swift Normal Special 60 —% 20 TM45 Dive Water Physical 80 100% 10 TM48 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 60 95% 15 TM52 Bounce Flying Physical 85 85% 5 TM55 Brine Water Special 65 100% 10 TM57 Payback Dark Physical 50 100% 10 TM58 Assurance Dark Physical 60 100% 10 TM64 Avalanche Ice Physical 60 100% 10 TM67 Ice Fang Ice Physical 65 95% 15 TM76 Round Normal Special 60 100% 15 TM79 Retaliate Normal Physical 70 100% 5 TM81 Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100% 20 TM85 Snarl Dark Special 55 95% 15 TR03 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80% 5 TR04 Surf Water Special 90 100% 15 TR05 Ice Beam Ice Special 90 100% 10 TR06 Blizzard Ice Special 110 70% 5 TR10 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100% 10 TR12 Agility Psychic Status — —% 30 TR13 Focus Energy Normal Status — —% 30 TR16 Waterfall Water Physical 80 100% 15 TR20 Substitute Normal Status — —% 10 TR26 Endure Normal Status — —% 10 TR27 Sleep Talk Normal Status — —% 10 TR32 Crunch Dark Physical 80 100% 15 TR35 Uproar Normal Special 90 100% 10 TR37 Taunt Dark Status — 100% 20 TR53 Close Combat Fighting Physical 120 100% 5 TR57 Poison Jab Poison Physical 80 100% 20 TR58 Dark Pulse Dark Special 80 100% 15 TR69 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90% 15 TR84 Scald Water Special 80 100% 15 TR97 Psychic Fangs Psychic Physical 85 100% 10 TR98 Liquidation Water Physical 85 100% 10

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Sharpedo Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Sharpedo Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations

By breeding

Generation VIII Other generations: III - IV - V - VI - VII

Parent   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  Ancient Power Rock Special 60 100% 5 Destiny Bond Ghost Status — —% 5 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100% 15 Thrash Normal Physical 120 100% 10 Water Pulse Water Special 60 100% 20

Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Sharpedo in Generation VIII Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation. Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Sharpedo in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Sharpedo Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Sharpedo Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations

By tutoring

By a prior evolution

By transfer from another generation

Side game data

Pokémon Pinball RS Acquisition: Evolve			Pokémon Trozei! Rarity: Rare
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team   Body size: 1 Recruit rate: Evolve Friend Area: Treasure Sea Phrases 51%-100% HP My fangs can rip apart iron! 26%-50% HP Darn... Only half my HP's left... 1%-25% HP It's hopeless. Even my prized fangs are broken... Level up My level went up! My fangs grew sharper, too!
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky Body size: 1 Recruit rate: -12% IQ group: G
Pokémon Ranger Group: Water Poké Assist: Dark Field move: None Loops: 11 Min. exp.: N/A Max. exp.: N/A Browser entry R-118 Sharpedo swims with only its dorsal fin showing. It charges when it spots prey.
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia Group: Water Poké Assist: Water Field move: (Crush ×4) Browser entry R-096 It swims around at wicked speed. It attacks by biting and ramming.
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Group: Water Poké Assist: (present) Water Field move: (present) (Crush ×3) Not available in the past. Browser entry R-072 It shoots orbs of water to attack.
Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ●●●● Defense ● Speed ●●●
Pokémon Rumble Rush Walking Speed: 1.5 seconds Base HP: 53   Base Attack: 78 Base Defense: 45 Base Speed: 60
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure PokéPark Pad entry: Sharpedo helps out with Gyarados's Aqua Dash in the Beach Zone. Carvanha tend to follow him around.
Pokémon Battle Trozei Dark Attack Power: ★★★★★
Pokémon Shuffle Dark Attack Power: 60 - 120  10 #228 Eject Removes one non-Support Pokémon icon without fail. Skill Swapper: Mega Boost Mega Effects  13 Adds one more Mega Sharpedo above the match.
Pokémon GO Base Stamina: 172 Base Attack: 243 Base Defense: 83 Egg Distance: N/A Buddy Distance: 3 km Evolution Requirement: N/A Fast Attacks: Bite, Waterfall Charged Attacks: Hydro Pump, Crunch, Poison Fang, Frustration‡, Return‡

Evolution

Unevolved Carvanha  Water  Dark

Level 30 →

First evolution Sharpedo  Water  Dark

Forms

Mega Evolution

Default Sharpedo Sharpedo  Water  Dark

Sharpedonite ↔

Held Sharpedonite Mega Sharpedo Sharpedo  Water  Dark

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation III.
Generation III   Ruby Sapphire   Emerald   FireRed LeafGreen         Front Back   Front Back   Front Back
Generation IV   Diamond Pearl   Platinum   HeartGold SoulSilver         Front Back   Front Back   Front Back
Generation V   Black White   Black 2 White 2     Front Back   Front Back
Generation VI   X Y   Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire           Front Back         Front Back
Generation VII   Sun Moon   Ultra Sun Ultra Moon         Front Back   Front Back
Generation VIII   Sword Shield 400px 400px 400px 400px   HOME

 For other sprites and images, please see Sharpedo images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, if a player surfs on a Sharpedo, it will have its own model, and it can surf twice as fast as other Pokémon. However, it is impossible to fish while surfing on a Sharpedo, with the game stating, "It's too risky to let go now!" An NPC on Route 124 refers to this as "speed surfing" if the player admits ignorance to their question.
• Due to the censor that prevents Pokémon with offensive nicknames from being traded on the GTS, an English-language Sharpedo cannot be traded on the GTS without a nickname in Pokémon Black and White.
• Sharpedo shares its category name with Hydreigon. They are both known as the Brutal Pokémon.
• In a demo version of Ruby and Sapphire shown at Pokémon Festa 2002 in Japan, players started with a level 12 Sharpedo with no Ability. This was most likely done for the purpose of the demo only.
• Sharpedo's evolutionary line may be considered a counterpart of Camerupt's evolutionary line. Both of them are dual-type Pokémon, both lines have identical base stat totals per evolutionary stage, both of their final evolutions are used by Team Aqua Leader Archie and Team Magma Leader Maxie, respectively, and both of their final evolutions can Mega Evolve.
• Sharpedo's Pokédex entry for Moon states "It has a sad history. In the past, its dorsal fin was a treasured foodstuff, so this Pokémon became a victim of overfishing." This is likely a reference to shark finning in the real world, where wild sharks are caught, have their fins cut off, and the still alive shark is thrown back in the water to die. Because of the practice, many species of sharks around the world are listed as threatened or endangered by the IUCN.
• Sharpedo and Carvanha are the only Dark-type Pokémon to have a piscine body.

Origin

Sharpedo is based on a shark with the body of a torpedo. It also looks like a shark that has been cut in half. Its general body shape is also similar to an ocean sunfish. Both fish are known for their sandpaper-like skin. Mega Sharpedo seems to also be based on a sawshark or sawfish.

Name origin

Sharpedo is a combination of shark and torpedo. It may also involve sharp, referring to its fins and Rough Skin Ability.

Samehader may be a combination of 鮫 same (shark) and 肌荒れ hada-are (rough skin). It may also be a corruption of 鮫肌 samehada (rough skin), referring to its Ability.

In other languages

Language Title Meaning  Japanese サメハダー Samehader From 鮫 same, 肌荒れ hada-are, and 鮫肌 samehada  French Sharpedo Same as English name  Spanish Sharpedo Same as English name  German Tohaido From Torpedo and Hai  Italian Sharpedo Same as English name  Korean 샤크니아 Sharknia From the English shark and piranha  Cantonese Chinese      Mandarin Chinese 巨牙鯊 / 巨牙鲨 Jùyáshā Literally "Giant-teethed shark"

[hide]More languages  Hindi शार्पेडो Sharpedo Transcription of English name  Russian Шарпедо Sharpedo Transcription of English name  Thai ซาเมฮาเดอร์ Samehadoe Transcription of Japanese name

Related articles

• Mega Evolution

External links

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