No.269Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Dustox in Japanese
ドクケイル
Dokukeiru
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ドdo
クku
ケke
イi
ルru
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Tends to be drawn to bonfires on dark nights. Difficult to chase away from settlements because of the way it scatters highly toxic scales.暗い夜のたき火に引き寄せられる傾向があります。猛毒の鱗をまき散らすため、居住地から追い払うのは困難です。
The Japanese text is a translation of the English entry, written with kanji, hiragana and katakana. Try to spot the katakana words!
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