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malamar
📅 Updated:2025-09-10
🕒 Created:2014-11-27
🆔 ID:6358
Description
Malamar is an amphibious Pokémon that resembles an upside-down squid. Several purple tentacles with bright blue undersides sprout from the top of its bluish-purple head. It has yellow eyes with black sclerae, a dark pink beak-like mouth, and lighter purple eyelids. Its main body is dark purple and has six circular yellow lights on the front and back. There is also a yellow stripe of light nearly encircling its upper body. Covering its main body is a transparent mantle with two white fins on the bottom that function as legs. On each side of the mantle is a long tentacle with dark pink at the top and white, scythe-like fins at the ends. The edge of Malamar's fins are said to be extremely sharp and can be enhanced using psychic energy during battles.
Malamar possesses strong hypnotic powers, which are said to be the most powerful of any Pokémon. It induces hypnosis by flashing the lights on its body and performing certain hypnotic motions. It uses its hypnotic powers to lure in other Pokémon it deems prey, before ensnaring them in its tentacles and finishing them off with its digestive fluids. Malamar can also hypnotize people and control them to do its bidding; those under Malamar's control will lose their memories surrounding the event once the hypnosis wears off. Malamar's hypnotic powers are often used by people for nefarious deeds, and these powers are said to influence several history-changing events. As depicted in A Conspiracy to Conquer! and Facing the Grand Design! Malamar is shown to be very intelligent — reaching almost human levels — and it is capable of running devices designed and handled by humans.
Both the animated series and the Pokémon Trading Card Game depict Malamar living near water or even under water. As shown in the Pokémon the Series: XY episode Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin! Malamar uses its tentacles to propel itself, swimming "legs"-first.
