Articuno

Articuno (フリーザー Freezer) is a /-type Legendary Pokémon introduced in Generation I.

Appearance
Articuno is a large bird with blue plumage. Its coloring is darkest on its head crest and long, streaming tail. Its body is colored sky-blue, while growing lighter on its front, and it's chest is a lighter blue then anything. Its most distinctive trait is its large wings, which are said to be made of ice. It's eyes are medium colored red. In the Second Pokemon Movie Articuno also played a major role because only the chosen one (Ash) could place the orb on the altar to end the war of the three legendary birds.

In the Anime
Articuno appears in the Anime when a boy Todd, who loves to take pictures, take pictures of Articuno in the episode "Freeze Frame".

Articuno appear again and is a friend of the Frontier Brains, Factory Head Noland or Noland in the episode "Numero Uno Articuno". Noland became Articuno's friend when he save the injured Articuno on his plane. Ash attempted to get the Knowledge Symbol by defeating Articuno, which obey Noland's command, and he did it.

Pokémon XD
There is only one in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. After catching or defeating Shadow Lugia, his lineup will include shadow versions of all three birds. After you purify it, you can make it learn its normal moves.

Learnset
{| style="float: right; width: 300px; margin-left:0.5em" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" !colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffbfff"|By Level-Up (DP)
 * colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size: 80%"|
 * colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size: 80%"|
 * Start||Gust
 * Start||Powder Snow
 * Lv. 8||Mist
 * Lv. 15||Ice Shard
 * Lv. 22||Mind Reader
 * Lv. 29||AncientPower
 * Lv. 36||Agility
 * Lv. 43||Ice Beam
 * Lv. 50||Reflect
 * Lv. 57||Roost
 * Lv. 64||Tailwind
 * Lv. 71||Blizzard
 * Lv. 78||Sheer Cold
 * Lv. 85||Hail
 * Lv. 43||Ice Beam
 * Lv. 50||Reflect
 * Lv. 57||Roost
 * Lv. 64||Tailwind
 * Lv. 71||Blizzard
 * Lv. 78||Sheer Cold
 * Lv. 85||Hail
 * Lv. 64||Tailwind
 * Lv. 71||Blizzard
 * Lv. 78||Sheer Cold
 * Lv. 85||Hail
 * Lv. 78||Sheer Cold
 * Lv. 85||Hail
 * Lv. 85||Hail

{| style="float: right; width: 300px; margin-left:0.5em" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" !colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffbfff"|TMs (DP)
 * colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size: 80%"|
 * colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size: 80%"|
 * 03||Water Pulse
 * 05||Roar
 * 06||Toxic
 * 07||Hail
 * 10||Hidden Power
 * 11||Sunny Day
 * 13||Ice Beam
 * 14||Blizzard
 * 15||Hyper Beam
 * 17||Protect
 * 18||Rain Dance
 * 21||Frustration
 * 27||Return
 * 32||Double Team
 * 33||Reflect
 * 37||Sandstorm
 * 40||Aerial Ace
 * 42||Facade
 * 43||Secret Power
 * 44||Rest
 * 47||Steel Wing
 * 51||Roost
 * 58||Endure
 * 68||Giga Impact
 * 72||Avalanche
 * 82||Sleep Talk
 * 83||Natural Gift
 * 87||Swagger
 * 88||Pluck
 * 89||U-turn
 * 90||Substitute
 * 37||Sandstorm
 * 40||Aerial Ace
 * 42||Facade
 * 43||Secret Power
 * 44||Rest
 * 47||Steel Wing
 * 51||Roost
 * 58||Endure
 * 68||Giga Impact
 * 72||Avalanche
 * 82||Sleep Talk
 * 83||Natural Gift
 * 87||Swagger
 * 88||Pluck
 * 89||U-turn
 * 90||Substitute
 * 68||Giga Impact
 * 72||Avalanche
 * 82||Sleep Talk
 * 83||Natural Gift
 * 87||Swagger
 * 88||Pluck
 * 89||U-turn
 * 90||Substitute
 * 87||Swagger
 * 88||Pluck
 * 89||U-turn
 * 90||Substitute
 * 89||U-turn
 * 90||Substitute
 * 90||Substitute

Name Origin
Articuno's name is a cross of the words arctic and uno, the Spanish word for one. The second part of its name indicates that it is the first in the series of Kanto's Legendary Birds.

Its Japanese name is simply Freezer, "one that freezes".

Name Pun
It is uninformed that this is purposely made but the last syllable of each of the Legendary Birds is a number in Spanish(ex. Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres).