Sunkern (Japanese: ヒマナッツ Himanuts) is a Template:Type Template:OBP introduced in Generation II.
It evolves into Template:P when exposed to a Sun Stone.
Biology[]
Sunkern is a mostly yellow, seed-like Pokémon with a small sprout growing out of its top. It has triangular, spike-like protrusions on top of its head, encircling the sprout. Its body has three broad, brown, vertical stripes. Two of the stripes start jaggedly above Sunkern's dark eyes and continue downward. The other stripe is directly below Sunkern's mouth. Since Sunkern's eyelids are brown, the brown streak patterning appears uninterrupted when Sunkern's eyes are closed.
Sunkern is known to be very weak. Aware of its weakness, it only feeds until it evolves. However, it feeds on only the dew from under the leaves of plants. It tries to move as little as possible, since it tries to conserve all the nutrients it has stored in its body for evolution. If attacked, it shakes its leaves at the attacker. Sunkern occasionally falls from the sky on early mornings for unknown reasons. A year after a cold summer, the population of Sunkern explodes. Sunkern can be found in Template:DL.
In the anime[]
Sunkern in the Template:Pkmn
Major appearances[]
Sunkern debuted in Moving Pictures. Template:Ash, Template:An, Template:An, and Todd Snap found it frozen in a field. Ash eventually evolved it using his Sun Stone from The Bug Stops Here, and it summoned more Template:P so that Sophia and Marcello could take a picture for their Template:Wp.
Minor appearances[]
A Sunkern appeared in Pikachu's PikaBoo.
Multiple Sunkern appeared in Grass Hysteria! as residents of the Forbidden Forest.
Multiple Sunkern appeared in Island Time.
A Sunkern appeared in Some Enchanted Sweetening!, where it was lured in by the Honey that Cheryl had slathered onto a tree. Additional Sunkern also appeared in a boss fantasy in the same episode, but said boss fantasy was cut from the dub due to it containing suggestive material.
Two Sunkern appeared in An Angry Combeenation!.
A Sunkern appeared in Dawn's Early Night!.
A Sunkern appeared in Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! (Part 1). Six additional Sunkern appeared in the follow-up episode.
A Sunkern briefly appeared in Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
A Sunkern appeared in the opening sequence of Arceus and the Jewel of Life, where it was seen in an Template:Tc's field of flowers.
Multiple Sunkern appeared in Zoroark: Master of Illusions as some of the many local Pokémon living in Crown City. Some took part in surrounding Template:OBP in the park along with the other Pokémon with the intention of attacking him in retribution for what Template:OBP did to the city. Before a fight could break out, the Sunkern, along with the other Pokémon, were calmed down by Template:OBP.
Pokédex entries[]
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In the manga[]
Sunkern in Pokémon Adventures
In the movie adaptations[]
Sunkern appeared in Template:Ma.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga[]
Sunkern debuted in The Legend when two were seen up on a tree when Template:Adv had finished her message to Template:Adv in Johto.
A Sunkern was one of the Pokémon in Joey's bag after Template:Adv helped Joey get it back in Murkrow Row.
In Sunkern Treasure, Template:Adv encounters a herd of Sunkern escaping from a Template:Pkmn2 Template:P. To help Falkner Template:Pkmn2 the Skarmory, Gold catches a Sunkern to use her jumping ability to get high enough and attack it. Afterwards, she was nicknamed Sunbo and later evolved into a Sunflora through a makeshift Sun Stone.
A Sunkern appeared in The Last Battle XIII as one of the Pokémon sent to participate in the fight in Ilex Forest.
Yuko owns a Sunkern, which first appeared in The Transfer Student.
A Sunkern appeared in PS544.
In the TCG[]
- Main article: Sunkern (TCG)
Game data[]
Pokédex entries[]
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Game locations[]
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In side games[]
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In events[]
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Held items[]
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Stats[]
Base stats[]
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Pokéathlon stats[]
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Type effectiveness[]
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Learnset[]
By leveling up[]
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By TM/HM[]
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By Template:Pkmn[]
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By tutoring[]
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Template:Trading Card Game-only moves[]
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Side game data[]
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Evolution[]
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Sprites[]
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Japanese sprites[]
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Poses[]
Trivia[]
- Sunkern is the only Pokémon with a base stat total of 180.
- Sunkern has the lowest base Template:Stat of all Template:Type Pokémon, is tied with Template:P for the lowest base Template:Stat stat of all Template:Type Pokémon, is tied with Template:P and Template:P for the lowest base Template:Stat stat of all Template:Type Pokémon, and has the lowest base stat total of all Grass-type Pokémon.
- Sunkern shares its Template:Pkmn name with Template:P and its evolutions. They are all known as the Seed Pokémon.
- Sunkern's official artwork more closely resembled its Shiny form in Template:2v2 than its regular form. This was somewhat rectified in Crystal, although the artwork was still more similar to its Shiny sprite; this discrepancy was fully rectified in Generation III.
- In The Official Pokémon Handbook 3, published by Template:Wp, Sunkern's data says its height is 0'01" when it is actually 1'00".
- Sunkern has the highest average Performance of any unevolved Pokémon.
- His appearances in the Stephen Squirrelsky and Friends' Movie Spoof Travels are A Pooh in Central Park, Bubblesrella 2: Dreams Come True, The Brave Little Piglet, Kung Fu Owen, Nikki's Adventures of Sing Along Songs Episode 8, The Thomas O'Malley Movie, Kermit Returns, Fievel the Red Nosed Mouse and The Island of Misfits, Nikki's Adventures of Sing Along Songs Episode 9, A Cartoon Character's Life Activity Center, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Justin Quintanilla's Style), Finding Alvin (J.B. Eagle's Style), Animated Tale (TheTure DisneyKing's Style), The Forest Book 2 (TrainBoy43's Style), Nikki's Adventures of Sing Along Songs Episode 10, Madagascar (FamousImagination50's Style), Sleeping Beauty (Justin Quintanilla's Style), Aurorastasia, Despicable Me (Justin Quintanilla's Style), We're Back!: A Jungle Animal's Story, Jimmynocchio, The Wizard of Oz (Uranimated18's Style), Isabellan, 101 Trains, Goku's Travels, Beauty and the Grizzly Bear 2: The Enchanted Christmas, and The Road to El Dorado (FamousImagination50's Style) and will even be in more movie spoof travels.
- He appears as Waldo's Pokemon in A Pooh in Central Park.
Origin[]
Sunkern is based on a Template:Wping Template:Wp.
Name origin[]
Sunkern is a combination of Template:Wp and kernel.
Himanuts may be a combination of 向日葵 himawari (sunflower) and nuts. It may also refer to 夏 natsu (summer).
In other languages[]
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External links[]
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