Merkid

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Merkid Merkind Pokémon #217 Male Female
Type Water Unknown
Abilities Swift Swim or Rain Dish		Hidden Ability Friend Guard
Mega Ability
Gender ratio 75% male, 25% female		Catch rate 140 (18.3%)
Breeding Egg groups Water 2 and Human-Like Hatch time 6630 steps
Height 0.9 m 0 m		Weight 34.4 kg 0 kg
Regional numbers Pokédex #217 Rikoto
Base experience yield 61		Leveling rate Medium Slow
EV yield Total: 1 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 1 Speed 0 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed
Body style		Footprint
Pokédex color   Blue		Base friendship 70

Merkid is a Water Pokémon.

Merkid's evolution is gender dependent: Female Merkid evolve into Mermarine and male Merkid evolve into Mersidon, both when exposed to a Shiny Stone.

Biology

Physiology

Gender Differences

A female Merkid has coloured Pink, while a male Merkid is coloured Blue.

Special abilities

Behavior

Habitat

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

Held items

Stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/HM

By TM/HM

TM   Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP  TM06 Toxic Poison Status 0000— 090}}90% 10 TM07 Hail Ice Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM10 Hidden Power Normal Special 06060 100}}100% 15 TM13 Ice Beam Ice Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM14 Blizzard Ice Special 110110 070}}70% 5 TM16 Light Screen Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 30 TM17 Protect Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM18 Rain Dance Water Status 0000— 00—}}—% 5 TM21 Frustration Normal Physical 0000— 100}}100% 20 TM27 Return Normal Physical 0000— 100}}100% 20 TM32 Double Team Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 15 TM33 Reflect Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM42 Facade Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 20 TM44 Rest Psychic Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM45 Attract Normal Status 0000— 100}}100% 15 TM48 Round Normal Special 06060 100}}100% 15 TM53 Energy Ball Grass Special 09090 100}}100% 10 TM55 Scald Water Special 08080 100}}100% 15 TM70 Flash Normal Status 0000— 100}}100% 20 TM77 Psych Up Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM87 Swagger Normal Status 0000— 090}}90% 15 TM88 Sleep Talk Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM90 Substitute Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 10 TM96 Nature Power Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM99 Dazzling Gleam Fairy Special 08080 100}}100% 10 TM100 Confide Normal Status 0000— 00—}}—% 20 TM101 Secret Power Normal Physical 07070 100}}100% 20 TM110 Ripple Wave Water Special 05050 090}}90% 10 HM03 Surf Water Special 09090 100}}100% 15 HM05 Waterfall Water Physical 08080 100}}100% 15 HM06 Dive Water Physical 08080 100}}100% 10

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

By breeding

By tutoring

By Move Tutor

Move   Type   Cat.   Pwr.   Acc.   PP   Cost  Snore Normal Special 50 100% 20 1 Water Pulse Water Special 60 100% 20 1 Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100% 15 3 Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100% 15 3 Bounce Flying Physical 85 85% 5 5 Uproar Normal Special 90 100% 10 1 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90% 15 2 Hyper Voice Normal Special 90 100% 10 4 Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90% 10 4 Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75% 15 4 Acupressure Normal Status — —% 10 2 Snatch Dark Status — —% 10 2 Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100% 20 4 Defog Flying Status — —% 15 1 Last Resort Normal Physical 140 100% 5 2 Endeavor Normal Physical — 100% 5 3 Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95% 15 3 Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100% 15 None

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

Evolution

Unevolved Merkid  Water	Shiny Stone (Female) →	First evolution Mermarine  Water  Fairy
	Shiny Stone (Male) →	First evolution Mersidon  Water  Electric

Sprites

Merkid male

Front	Back
Front shiny	Back shiny

Merkid female

Front	Back
Front shiny	Back shiny

Trivia

• Their older designs had them more fish-like and they also had a different face and appear to have a collar or frill on them.
• Merkid is one of the only Pokemon in Solar Light to be in a branched evolution line, with Baawool and Guppish being the other 2. Unlike Guppish and Baawool, Merkid can be captured in the wild and is a Gender based evolution, similar to the canonical Pokemon, Burmy.
• It's name is similar to the name of a Fakemon from Pokemon Uranium.

Origin

It is based off a Mermaid. The ears might hint that they they also based on elves. The Shell on their heads forming a crown shaped hair clip is a reference to princesses and princes.

Name origin

The name comes from Mermaid or Merman and Kid.

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