No.111Gen 1 (Kanto)
Rhyhorn in Japanese
サイホーン
Saihōn
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
サsa
イi
ホho
ーlong vowel
ンn
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Ludicrously strong—when it butts heads with a mountain, it is the mountain that shatters. But its short legs struggle with turns, and it is incapable of stopping unless it collides with something.とてつもなく強い。山に頭突きをすれば、山の方が砕け散る。しかし、短い脚では方向転換が苦手で、何かにぶつからない限り止まることができない。
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