Meowth

Meowth (Japanese: ニャース Nyaasu) is a -type Pokémon introduced in Generation I, and a -type introduced in Generation VII.

Physiology
Meowth is a small bipedal feline Pokémon. It has two white whiskers on each side of its oval-shaped face and two hairs sticking up on either side of the coin-like gem on its forehead, and highly resembles a cat. Meowth's tail and feet are cream-colored like the rest of it, but they are brown at the end. It has small paw pads on the undersides of its heels and toes. It is much like a Maneki Neko, a toy of Japanese descent known for bobbing its arm and hand up and down.

Natural abilities
Meowth has the ability Pickup or the ability Technician. Pickup allows Meowth to pick up items while the player is walking. Technician powers up non-effective moves. Meowth and Persian are the only Pokémon that can learn Pay Day (equation is Lv/2 multiplied by 10). If Meowth has Pickup, it will have Limber when it's a Persian.

In the anime, Team Rocket's Meowth is capable of human speech (a skill he learned while living on the street of Hollywood to impress a female Meowth named Meowzie).

Behavior
Meowth is largely nocturnal and often prowls the streets looking for loose change, as it is attracted to bright shiny objects for some unexplained reason.

Alolan Meowth is extremely cunning and proud and will become very aggressive when someone dirties its coin or hurt its self-esteem.

Evolution
Meowth evolves into Persian at level 28, while it evolves via max happiness into Alola Persian.

Leveling
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Anime
Meowth is also a member of Team Rocket in the anime and in the Pokémon Yellow version. What is special about Team Rocket's Meowth is that he can talk (making him one of the few non-legendary to do so) with his special ability. He is also extremely intelligent, capable of building and operating robots, rockets, etc. His 'original trainer' was Team Rocket's Boss Giovanni, who replaced him with a Persian.


 * Team Rocket's Meowth
 * Meowzie
 * Tyson's Meowth

Trivia

 * It's never explained why Meowth doesn't have a nose.
 * Junichi Masuda said that Meowth was based on Satoshi Tajiri's pet cat.

Origins
It's name is based on "Meow," the onomatopoeia for a cat's noise.