Meowth

Meowth (ニャース Nyarth) is a -type Pokémon.. It is also one of the most well known Pokémon along with Pikachu, the first generation starters, and Jigglypuff. Because Meowth has a cat-like appearance, its name is a pun on "Meow".

Appearance
Meowth has two white whiskers on each side of its face and two hairs sticking up near the coin-like gem on its forehead. Meowth's tail and feet are white and brown at the end. It is much like a Maneki Neko, a toy of Japanese descent known for bobbing its arm and hand up and down.

Special Abilities
Meowth can have 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).

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).

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 it can talk (making it one of the few non-legendary to do so) with its special ability. He is also extremely intelligent capable of building and operating robots, rockets, ect. His Original Trainer was Team Rocket's Boss Giovanni, who replaced him with a Persian.

The anime series made Meowth the second most popular Pokémon of all time, next to Pikachu.

Evolution
Meowth evolves into Persian at level 28

Name Origin
Its name is based on "Meow" the onomatopoeia for a cat's noise.