Popplio

Popplio (アシマリ) is a -type Pokémon. It is one of the three Starter Pokémon of the Alola region, the other two being Litten and Rowlet.

Biology
Popplio is a seal pokemon with an acrobatic background, using bubbles on land and swimming gracefully in water.

Physiology
Popplio is a blue sea lion Pokémon. It has large eyes,a long white snout with a pink round nose and black whiskers. It has two ears on each side of its head. Around its neck is a light blue ruff collar which extends stretches out past its shoulders. It has four flippers which are the large ones with white markings isolating its toes and the small rear ones.

Behavior
Popplio will frequently work on blowing bubbles and try to get them larger than their bodies. Instead of walking, Popplio will generate and use their bubbles as a springboard, popping as they leap on top of them in order to get a bounce out of them as they pop, in turn allowing them to perform acrobatic stunts in their leaps to please those they enjoy playing with.

Natural abilities
It can blow out many balloons with its nose.

It can swim at 25 mph (40 km/h).

Evolution
Popplio evolves into Brionne at level 17 and then Primarina at level 34.

Anime

 * Lana's Popplio

Trivia

 * Popplio when standing on its fins bears some resemblance to the alchemical symbol of mercury (representing Water).
 * Popplio gained notoriety when an alleged leak of its final evolution depicted a creepy-looking circus clown seal which earned Popplio much negative opinion on the internet. Fortunately, the reveal of its beautiful mermaid-like evolution Primarina brought it back to fanbase popularity.
 * popplio has a gender ratio of about 5 males to one female

Origin
Popplio is a combination of the classical depictions of a performing sea lion and a circus clown, with the collar around its neck, white face, and nose resembling a clown nose. It could also be a reference to the Hawaiian monk seal.

Etymology
Popplio is a combination of pop (as in popping bubbles) and lio, the first three letters of lion in sea lion. It might also use "ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua" which is a species of Hawaiian monk seal.

Gallery
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