Pokemon Black and White spotlight: the starters and their evolutions
Grass, water, fire - what's your pick?
Water
Mijumaru
#007 Isshu / #501 National
Type: Water
Species classification: Sea Otter Pokemon
Abilities: Torrent – increases power of Water-type moves by 1.5 if Pokemon has less than 1/3 HP remaining
Dream World abilities: Shell Armor – not affected by critical hits
Gender ratio: Male 87.5% / Female 12.5%
Egg groups: Ground
Effort values: 1 Special Attack
Location found: Isshu starter
Evolution: To Futachimaru @ lvl 17, to Daikenki @ lvl 36
Futachimaru
#008 Isshu / #502 National
Type: Water
Species classification: Training Pokemon
Abilities: Torrent – increases power of Water-type moves by 1.5 if Pokemon has less than 1/3 HP remaining
Dream World abilities: Shell Armor – not affected by critical hits
Egg groups: Ground
Effort values: 2 Special Attack
Location found: Isshu starter
Evolution: From Mijumaru @ lvl 17, to Daikenki @ lvl 36
Look for our next spotlight this time next week, where we'll start making our way through the rest of the Isshu Pokedex.
Oct 2, 2010
Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more













An AI's mission to 'teach' itself Pokemon Red is going as well as you think - after escaping Cerulean City after tens of hours, it went right on back

Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" and add more detail to future RPGs