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rattata
📅 Updated:2026-06-22
🕒 Created:2011-08-05
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Rattata (Japanese: コラッタ Koratta) is a Normal-type pokémon introduced in Generation I.
It evolves into Raticate starting at level 20.
Rattata (Japanese: コラッタ Koratta) is a Normal-type pokémon introduced in Generation I.
It evolves into Raticate starting at level 20.
In Alola, Rattata has a dual-type Dark/Normal regional form, Alolan Rattata. It evolves into Alolan Raticate when leveled up at night starting at level 20.
Rattata is a small, quadrupedal rodent pokémon. It has purple fur with a cream-colored face, paws, and underbelly. It has narrow eyes containing white sclera and pupil with red irises, rounded ears with cream-colored insides, and a single whisker on each cheek. Its long tail is tightly curled at the end. Its most notable feature is its large teeth. Female Rattata have shorter whiskers.
Rattata is a fidgety pokémon who can live wherever it can find food, which it searches for most of the day. Its long and sharp fangs, which can chew on nearly anything, continuously grow throughout its lifetime and leave it unable to eat if they become too long, so it nibbles on hard objects to whittle them down and avoid starving to death. If its Trainer doesn't give it something to gnaw on, it will end up chewing on door frames and table legs among other objects. When it is threatened, Rattata can deliver a powerful bite. It is very cautious, so it constantly keeps its ears up, even while asleep, and will immediately scurry away from the slightest sound. Furret is the natural predator of Rattata. Although it mainly lives in plains and savannas, its hardiness lets it live in many environments, including dirty ones, where it forms its nest. When it finds a place where food is available, it settles down and produces offspring. Because it reproduces so quickly, a pair of Rattata can quickly colonize an area, making it a common sight. Seeing one indicates that over 40 of them are around. As shown in pokémon Sleep, Rattata is known to sleep sometimes with a log in its mouth. It will wake itself up with the sound of its teeth grinding if it does not take good care of them.
Prior to Generation IV, Rattata and Raticate were the only known pokémon capable of learning the moves Hyper Fang and Super Fang.
