Palkia

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Palkia (パルキア Palkia) is a Water/Dragon-type Pokémon and is a Legendary Pokémon. It is the Version Mascot for Generation IV's Pokémon Pearl.

Appearance
Palkia is a very large, bipedal, dinosaur-like Pokémon. The majority of its body has a light gray, white colouring with linear sections on its body being purple. Its arms and shoulders are covered by large armor plates, and each hand holds five claws. The round plates on its shoulders each have a large pearl-like structure in the center, representing its affiliation to Pokémon Pearl. On Palkia's back are wings, which are seemingly not used for flight as Palkia appears to levitate.

Special Abilities
Palkia have the ability Pressure, which causes opponents PP usage to be doubled for every successful hit. In addition to this, Palkia have been described as having the ability to warp space creating ways for it to live and travel in a different dimension. When Palkia appears in Pokemon Pearl, it bends space and changes the looks of things around it. This effect is similar to Giratina's effect in Pokemon Platinum.

In Anime
Palkia's first appearance in the Pokémon Anime was technically during the Diamond and Pearl opening video sequence, where it is seen along with a Lucario. Pokemon

It's first main appearance was during the tenth Pokémon movie, The Rise of Darkrai, where it battled with Dialga. During the movie Giratina and the Sky Warrior, Palkia can be seen again from a flashback of footage of it battling Dialga. Palkia's third movie appearance will be during the twelfth film To the Conquering of Space-Time, along with Dialga and Giratina.

In Game
Palkia is described as a deity/god in Sinnoh-region creation mythology, and is said to live in a gap in a parallel spatial dimension. Referred to as the Spatial Pokémon, Palkia has the ability to distort space. Palkia also has the power to create new dimensions. In Rise of Darkrai, he was shown to be able to trap dimensions into another one. It has a pearl on its shoulder.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Palkia along with the chance of two other Pokémon, Dialga and Cresselia, will appear in the Spear Pillar stage. When Palkia appears on the stage, it will distort the level in a variety of ways. In addition, it will also fire a number of beams causing damage to hit players.

Origins
The name "Palkia" is partly derived from the word "Paru", meaning pearl in Japanese. Since the Japanese language possesses only one liquid consonant, which is the equivalent of the English language /l/ and /r/, the "r" in paru can be used as an "l", creating Palkia when romanized.