Araquanid
Water Bubble Pokémon
It acts as a caretaker for Dewpider, putting them inside its bubble and letting them eat any leftover food.
Details
Base stats
Competitive movesets
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Where to find Araquanid
Wild encounter locations across the games. Availability may also include trades, evolution, gifts, and events not listed here.
Evolution
Notable moves
The strongest damaging moves Araquanid can learn — same-type (STAB) moves get a 1.5× power bonus in battle.
Moves
| Lv. | Move & effect | Type | Class | Power | Acc. | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bite Has a chance to make the target flinch. | Dark | Physical | 60 | 100 | 25 |
| 1 | Bubble Has a chance to lower the target’s Speed by one stage. | Water | Special | 40 | 100 | 30 |
| 1 | Bug Bite If target has a berry, inflicts double damage and uses the berry. | Bug | Physical | 60 | 100 | 20 |
| 1 | Infestation Prevents the target from fleeing and inflicts damage for 2-5 turns. | Bug | Special | 20 | 100 | 20 |
| 1 | Spider Web Prevents the target from leaving battle. | Bug | Status | — | — | 10 |
| 1 | Water Gun Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. | Water | Special | 40 | 100 | 25 |
| 1 | Wide Guard Prevents any multi-target moves from hitting friendly Pokémon this turn. | Rock | Status | — | — | 10 |
| 12 | Bubble Beam Has a chance to lower the target’s Speed by one stage. | Water | Special | 65 | 100 | 20 |
| 16 | Aqua Ring Restores 1/16 of the user’s max HP each turn. | Water | Status | — | — | 20 |
| 20 | Headbutt Has a chance to make the target flinch. | Normal | Physical | 70 | 100 | 15 |
| 26 | Crunch Has a chance to lower the target’s Defense by one stage. | Dark | Physical | 80 | 100 | 15 |
| 32 | Soak Changes the target’s type to Water. | Water | Status | — | 100 | 20 |
| 38 | Entrainment Copies the user’s ability onto the target. | Normal | Status | — | 100 | 15 |
| 44 | Lunge Lowers the target’s Attack by one stage after inflicting damage. | Bug | Physical | 80 | 100 | 15 |
| 50 | Liquidation Has a chance to lower the target’s Defense by one stage. | Water | Physical | 85 | 100 | 10 |
| 56 | Leech Life Drains half the damage inflicted to heal the user. | Bug | Physical | 80 | 100 | 10 |
| 62 | Mirror Coat Inflicts twice the damage the user received from the last special hit it took. | Psychic | Special | — | 100 | 20 |
Breeding & egg moves
Araquanid can inherit these egg moves by breeding with a compatible parent that knows the move and shares an egg group.
Sprites & renders
11 sprites & renders for Araquanid.






Across the games





More Water-type Pokémon
Others that share this Pokémon's primary type.
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Cite this page
“Araquanid”. Pokémonism. Retrieved [date] from pokemonism.com/pokedex/araquanid.
Species data from PokéAPI.