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Runerigus Grudge Pokémon デスバーン Deathbarn #867 Images on the Bulbagarden Archives
Type Ground Ghost	Ability Wandering Creature
Gender ratio     50% male, 50% female	Catch rate 90 (20.1%)
Breeding Egg Groups Mineral and Amorphous Hatch time 6425 - 6681 steps
Height 5'03" 1.6 m	Weight 146.8 lbs. 66.6 kg
Base experience yield 169	Leveling rate Medium Fast
EV yield Total: 2 0 HP 0 Atk 2 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Shape	Footprint
Pokédex color   Gray	Base friendship 50
External Links Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Runerigus (Japanese: デスバーン Deathbarn) is a dual-type Ground/Ghost Pokémon introduced in Generation VIII.

It evolves from Galarian Yamask when the player travels under the stone bridge in Dusty Bowl after Yamask takes at least 49 HP in damage (even if healed) without fainting. Taking damage from certain sources does not contribute to the 49 HP damage requirement such as self inflicted curse damage or weather effects.

Biology

Runerigus is a Pokémon composed of an oblong, irregularly-shaped clay slab, with an outline of a stylized serpent with sharp teeth painted onto it in red. Two sections of the slab at the upper left and upper right side, along with a piece bearing the serpent's head and a small piece bearing the tip of the image's tail, have broken off and are held in place by shadowy black tendrils that form its arms, neck, and tail respectively; the "tail" fragment also resembles the piece carried by Galarian Yamask. It has five black fingers on each hand, which extend from the ends of the fragments forming its arms. It has a single purple eye located in the same spot as the painting's eye.

Runerigus was formed from a painting imbued with an ancient mechnical power, which was activated by absorbing the electric provided by Yamask and brought the mechanical thing to the activation. Anyone that touches its shadowy body will have the memories behind its painting's forced onto them.

In the anime

Major appearances

Minor appearances

In the manga

In the TCG

Main article: Runerigus (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

Stats

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/TR

Generation VIII Other generations: None

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM08 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90% 5 TM09 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90% 5 TM19 Safeguard Normal Status — —% 25 TM21 Rest Psychic Status — —% 10 TM22 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90% 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 TM31 Attract Normal Status — 100% 15 TM32 Sandstorm Rock Status — —% 10 TM33 Rain Dance Water Status — —% 5 TM38 Will-O-Wisp Fire Status — 85% 15 TM39 Facade Normal Physical 70 100% 20 TM42 Revenge Fighting Physical 60 100% 10 TM44 Imprison Psychic Status — —% 10 TM47 Fake Tears Dark Status — 100% 20 TM48 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 60 95% 15 TM49 Sand Tomb Ground Physical 35 85% 15 TM54 Rock Blast Rock Physical 25 90% 10 TM57 Payback Dark Physical 50 100% 10 TM60 Power Swap Psychic Status — —% 10 TM61 Guard Swap Psychic Status — —% 10 TM65 Shadow Claw Ghost Physical 70 100% 15 TM70 Trick Room Psychic Status — —% 5 TM71 Wonder Room Psychic Status — —% 10 TM76 Round Normal Special 60 100% 15 TM77 Hex Ghost Special 65 100% 10 TM81 Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100% 20 TM86 Phantom Force Ghost Physical 90 100% 10 TM97 Brutal Swing Dark Physical 60 100% 20 TR10 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100% 10 TR11 Psychic Psychic Special 90 100% 10 TR17 Amnesia Psychic Status — —% 20 TR20 Substitute Normal Status — —% 10 TR26 Endure Normal Status — —% 10 TR27 Sleep Talk Normal Status — —% 10 TR33 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100% 15 TR37 Taunt Dark Status — 100% 20 TR38 Trick Psychic Status — 100% 10 TR40 Skill Swap Psychic Status — —% 10 TR46 Iron Defense Steel Status — —% 15 TR49 Calm Mind Psychic Status — —% 20 TR54 Toxic Spikes Poison Status — —% 20 TR58 Dark Pulse Dark Special 80 100% 15 TR62 Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100% 10 TR65 Energy Ball Grass Special 90 100% 10 TR67 Earth Power Ground Special 90 100% 10 TR68 Nasty Plot Dark Status — —% 20 TR69 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90% 15 TR75 Stone Edge Rock Physical 100 80% 5 TR76 Stealth Rock Rock Status — —% 20 TR77 Grass Knot Grass Special — 100% 20 TR83 Ally Switch Psychic Status — —% 15 TR99 Body Press Fighting Physical 80 100% 10

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Runerigus Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Runerigus

By breeding

Generation VIII Other generations: None

Parent   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  Memento Dark Status — 100% 10

Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Runerigus 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 Runerigus in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Runerigus Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Runerigus

By tutoring

By a prior evolution

Side game data

Pokémon GO Base Stamina: 151 Base Attack: 163 Base Defense: 237 Egg Distance: N/A Buddy Distance: 3 km Evolution Requirement: N/A Fast Attacks: Astonish Charged Attacks: Rock Tomb, Sand Tomb, Shadow Ball

Evolution

Unevolved Yamask  Ground  Ghost

Travel under the stone bridge in Dusty Bowl after taking at least 49 damage from attacks without fainting. →

First evolution Runerigus  Ground  Ghost

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VIII.
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 For other sprites and images, please see Runerigus images on the Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Runerigus's Attack and Special Attack stats are the reverse of Cofagrigus's, while their other stats are identical.
• Runerigus is the only Pokémon introduced in a later generation that evolves from a Generation V Pokémon, although it evolves from Galarian Yamask, rather than Unovan Yamask.
• Galarian Yamask's evolution into Runerigus is the only location-based evolution in Pokémon Sword and Shield, as all other Pokémon are either unobtainable or use an Evolution stone to evolve instead.

Origin

Runerigus may be based on the Ingvar runestones, large stones engraved by Vikings used to commemorate the lives of notable people and events such as the Swedish Viking expedition to the Caspian Sea. Many of the rune stones discovered had a snake motif. Rune stones were also believed to have mystical properties that conveyed powers of protection, wealth, and victory. It may also be based on Apophis, the primordial embodiment of chaos in Egyptian fake stories, who was often represented as a monstrous serpent.

Name origin

Runerigus may be a combination of rune and egregious or Cofagrigus.

Deathbarn may be a combination of death, 板 ban (slab), and Desukān.

In other languages

Language Title Meaning  Japanese デスバーン Deathbarn From death and 板 ban  French Tutétékri From Tutankhamun and a pun of tout est écrit  Spanish Runerigus Same as English name  German Oghnatoll From Ogham, Echnatoll, and a pun of Och, na toll!  Italian Runerigus Same as English name  Korean 데스판 Deseupan From death and 판 (板) pan  Cantonese Chinese 死神板 Séisàhnbáan From 死神 séisàhn and 板 báan  Mandarin Chinese 死神板 Sǐshénbǎn* 迭失板 Diéshībǎn* From 死神 sǐshén and 板 bǎn From the transcription of Japanese name, 失 shī and 板 bǎn

[hide]More languages  Thai เดธเบิร์น Detboen Transcription of trademarked Japanese name

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