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Porygon-Z (Japanese: ポリゴンZ Porygon-Z) is a Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation IV.

It evolves from Porygon2 when traded holding a Dubious Disc. It is the final form of Porygon.

Biology

Although technically a virtual, manmade Pokémon, Porygon-Z does have a physical body. Its head is fuchsia and ovoid in shape with a short, blunt antenna protruding upwards and a blue bill similar to that of a duck. Its eyes are yellow and have black rings, similar to a bulls-eye. The head is completely detached from the body and floats slightly above it. Its smooth, ovoid body is fuchsia with a blue ring connecting its arms. Two arms are loosely connected to its upper body and other than their blue color, have no features. The tail is also blue and featureless, but slightly resembles a paddle.

Porygon-Z was given additional software in order to increase its abilities. The initial idea was to give it the ability to travel through alien dimensions, though it did not work as planned. Instead, the Pokémon begin showing highly erratic, unstable behavior and twitchy movements, making it difficult to work with for research. As a result it is believe the experiment to creating Porygon-Z was failure. This has been attributed to the incompetence of the engineer who faultily updated its programming. Some academics debate whether Porygon-Z is really an evolution or not from Porygon2.

Porygon-Z and its pre-evolved forms are the only known Pokémon that can learn Conversion and Conversion 2.

In the anime

Porygon-Z's only appearance in the anime was a cameo in the "World of Pokémon" opening of Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice, in which every Pokémon from the first five generations (apart from Genesect) appeared.

It is currently believed that Porygon-Z will not properly appear and will not be mentioned in the anime as a result of the EP038 incident, and it is the only Generation IV Pokémon not to appear. Along with its pre-evolved form, it is also the only Pokémon prior to Generation VIII that is neither Legendary nor Mythical to not appear in the anime.



In the manga

In the Phantom Thief Pokémon 7 manga

Io has a Porygon-Z, which is her main battler and only known Pokémon. She first used it to attack the Galactic Number 2 in Into The Hands Of Evil?!.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

In Deprogramming Porygon-Z, a Trainer's Porygon-Z battled Platinum's Empoleon at the Battle Castle.



In the TCG

Other appearances

Porygon-Z appears as a trophy.

Trophy information

NA: Porygon is an artificial Pokémon created by humans. Given an Up-Grade, it becomes Porygon2. Then another mod turns it into Porygon-Z. You'd think two upgrades would make Porygon-Z the perfect Pokémon, but actually, the Dubious Disc used to make Porygon2 evolve seems to have introduced some bugs. Maybe a patch is in the works?

PAL: Porygon is an artificial Pokémon created by humans. Given an Up-Grade, it becomes Porygon2. Then another mod turns it into Porygon-Z. You'd think two upgrades would make Porygon-Z the perfect Pokémon, but actually, the Dubious Disc used to make Porygon2 evolve makes it a bit glitchy. Maybe there's a patch in the works...

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

Generation VIII Other generations: IV - V - VI - VII Parent Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP This Pokémon learns no moves by breeding. Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Porygon-Z in Generation VIII

onto Porygon-Z in Generation VIII Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation.

Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Porygon-Z in that game.

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Porygon-Z

indicates a move that gets when used by Porygon-Z Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Porygon-Z

indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Porygon-Z Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations

Generation VIII Other generations: IV - V - VI - VII Game Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP This Pokémon learns no moves by tutoring. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Porygon-Z

indicates a move that gets when used by Porygon-Z Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Porygon-Z

indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Porygon-Z Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Move Tutor moves from other generations

Side game data

Evolution

Sprites

Trivia

Origin

Like Porygon and Porygon2, it is based on a bird made with 3D computer graphics software. Its appearance with respect to Porygon2, as well as its un-programmed behaviors, suggest that it may be based on the concept of a computer virus having infected Porygon2, or maybe a reference to copyrighted software usually being patched by users to use all the features, but often causing bugs in the program.

Name origin

Porygon-Z is a combination of polygon and Z, with Porygon being a corruption on polygon. Z may refer to the Z axis in 3D coordination systems or that Porygon-Z is the last of its evolutionary line (since the letter Z is last in the Latin alphabet). Alternatively, Z may be a corruption of 2 (as in Porygon2).

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese ポリゴンＺ Porygon-Z From polygon and Z French Porygon-Z Same as English/Japanese name Spanish Porygon-Z Same as English/Japanese name German Porygon-Z Same as English/Japanese name Italian Porygon-Z Same as English/Japanese name Korean 폴리곤Ｚ PorygonZ Transliteration of Japanese name Cantonese Chinese 立方獸Z Laahpfōngsau Z Literally "Cube monster Z" Mandarin Chinese 3D龍Z / 3D龙Z 3D Lóng Z Literally "3D Dragon Z" More languages Hindi परीगोन-Z Porygon-Z Transliteration of English name Thai โพรีกอน-แซด Porygon-Z Transcription of trademarked Japanese name





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