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Spinda (Japanese: パッチール Patcheel) is a Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation III.

It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.

Biology

Spinda is a bipedal, red panda Pokémon with rabbit-like features. Its eyes are made of two black spirals, which point in the opposite direction to each other. There is a similar swirling pattern on its ears. It has a small body with short stumpy arms and legs, and its coat is primarily cream-colored. Its arms are red and it has a red stripe bordering along the bottom of its belly, as well as two small spots on the soles of its feet. It has four spots, which can appear anywhere on its face and ears, with a fifth on the back of its head. These spot patterns are different for each and every Spinda.

It has dizzying, confusing, and scattering dance-like movements, which can be used for its former signature move, Teeter Dance, though it thinks it is walking in a straight line. These movements confuse their opponents and make it difficult for them to aim at it. It lives in the mountains.

In the anime

Major appearances

Multiple Spinda debuted in Going for a Spinda. Ash and his friends had to help Claire find a Spinda with a heart-shaped spot on its forehead. Brock, meanwhile, kept picking one up with a spot shaped like a broken heart, much to his displeasure.

Minor appearances

A Coordinator's Spinda appeared in Disguise Da Limit!.

A Spinda appeared in A Fan with a Plan.

A Coordinator's Spinda appeared in What I Did For Love!.

In Racing to a Big Event!, a Trainer's Spinda competed in the Pokémon Pancake Race.

In Rocking Clawmark Hill!, a Spinda was training up on Clawmark Hill.

A Trainer's Spinda appeared in Exhibition Unmasked!.

Pokédex entries

Episode Pokémon Source Entry AG057 Spinda Ash's Pokédex Spinda, the Spot Panda Pokémon. Spinda uses its seemingly clumsy movements to confuse its opponents. It is said that no two Spinda have the same pattern of spots.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Norman owns a Spinda, which first appeared in Rayquaza Redemption I. He uses it in conjunction with his Slaking to switch their Abilities with Skill Swap.

A Spinda appeared as a Battle Factory Pokémon in Pinsir Me, I Must Be Dreaming.

The Battle Factory rented a Spinda, which was stolen by Guile Hideout in Skirting Around Surskit I.

The Battle Tower rented a Spinda, which was stolen by Guile Hideout in The Final Battle VII.

A Spinda appeared in a flashback in Bombastic Bibarel & Heroic Hippopotas.

In The Transfer Student, Yancy owns a Spinda. It was first seen with its Trainer when she was breaking up with Blake. Afterwards, it left with Yancy while she said her tearful goodbyes.

The Lumiose Press editor-in-chief owns a Spinda, which first appeared in Omega Alpha Adventure 8.

In the TCG

In the TFG

One Spinda figure has been released.

Game data

NPC appearances

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

In events

Held items

Stats

Base stats

Pokéathlon stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

Generation VIII Other generations: III - IV - V - VI - VII This Pokémon is unavailable within Generation VIII.

Click on the generation numbers above to see Spinda's learnsets from other generations.





Side game data





Patterns in Pokémon GO Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3 Pattern 4 Pattern 5 Pattern 6 Pattern 7 Pattern 8 Pattern 9

Evolution

Sprites

Pattern examples

Trivia

In Pokémon Battle Revolution, Toxic is depicted as two purple orbs spinning around each other towards the target. However, when Spinda uses Toxic, the orbs travel erratically. The same animation is used for Carnivine.

Some of Spinda's Pokédex entries mention the odds of two Spinda having the same spot pattern as less than one in four billion. Since Spinda's spots are based on its personality value (a 32-bit number), a simplistic model would put the odds at 1 in 4,294,967,295, which is indeed smaller than one in four billion; however, it is actually possible for two personality values to produce spot patterns that are visually identical, so the real odds are somewhat higher. Using this app, it can be found that two dots have 256 distinct locations, one dot has 254, and one dot has 237, counting all locations where the dot is entirely off-sprite as the same. This results in a total of 3,945,136,128 patterns. However, even this total is slightly too high, because if the upper left dot is far enough down and to the right, it can entirely eclipse the lower-left dot, resulting in a few more patterns being indistinguishable. Compare, for example, 0x0E07F5FB and 0x0EF0F5FB.

Unlike other Pokémon with no gender differences, the Rotom Pokédex does not display a single model for both male and female Spinda, but rather a separate one for each. The models used are whatever the first patterns caught of each gender were. The Pokédex preview models for each gender, however, will always be a set model that will likely differ from the model the player will see.

Like Whirlipede, its base stat total might be based on the fact that it and Whirlipede usually spin in circles, which are 360 degrees.

Origin

Spinda appears to be based on a red panda with traits of rabbits. The pattern of its body may be based on a subspecies of the giant panda, the Qinling panda.

Name origin

Spinda may be a combination of spin (referring to its twirly eyes and ears and dizzy-seeming movement) and panda.

Patcheel may be a combination of patch (referring to its appearance) and reel (to stagger, as from dizziness).

In other languages

Language Title Meaning Japanese パッチール Patcheel From patch and reel French Spinda Same as English name Spanish Spinda Same as English name German Pandir From Panda and wirr Italian Spinda Same as English name Korean 얼루기 Ollugi From 얼룩 Eol-lug Cantonese Chinese Mandarin Chinese 晃晃斑 Huànghuàngbān From 晃 huàng and 斑 bān More languages Hindi स्पिंडा Spinda Transliteration of English name Russian Спинда Spinda Transliteration of English name Thai พัทชีล Patcheel Transcription of trademarked Japanese name







