No.383Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Groudon in Japanese
グラードン
Gurādon
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
グgu
ラra
ーlong vowel
ドdo
ンn
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 5 characters above and you can read “グラードン” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Through Primal Reversion and with nature’s full power, it will take back its true form. It can cause magma to erupt and expand the landmass of the world.原始回帰で本来の姿を取り戻し、大地を広げる力を発揮します。
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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