Seviper

Seviper (Japanese: ハブネーク Habuneiku) is a -type Pokémon introduced in Generation III. Seviper has a sword-like shape at the end of his tail, that he uses for the move Poison Tail. When using Poison Tail, Seviper's sword tipped tail lights up purple. Seviper is sworn enemies with the Pokémon Zangoose, telling the fact that in real life Mongooses and Snakes are rivals. Ext's unobtainable in the wild but possible in a link trade with Daisy.

Appearance
Seviper is a purplish Pokémon with golden "plates" on its body. both of its fangs are red but on side of its face is light purple while the other side is a darker purplish color. It's eyes are also red and the also have gold "plates" on them.

Special abilities
Seviper has the ability Shed Skin and the hidden ability Infiltrator. Shed Skin may have a 30% chance of curing a stat aliment. Infiltrator prevents the effects of Light Screen, Reflect, or Safeguard.

Evolution
Seviper does not evolve.

In the anime
Seviper first appeared in A Tail with a Twist﻿. A Seviper is attacking other Pokémon to steal its food. Soon when the gang has lunch, May's Torchic is attacked by a wild Seviper and also gets its food taken. Ash's Treeko sees it attacking Torchic and tries to help. After Treeko attacked it a few times, the Seviper runs away. Later in the episode Jessie, James and Meowth are having lunch. Once they ran out of food, Jessie gets a secret rice roll she was hiding from James and Meowth and while they where fighting over it, the Seviper steals, and eats it. Jessie gets mad and, when the Seviper bites her hair, Jessie became very angry and attacked it. She almost killed it, but James and Meowth told her to catch it, so she did.

Origin
Seviper's name comes from the word "viper", and severe or serpent.

Trivia

 * Seviper is the only pure type Pokémon to not have an evolutionary relative.
 * Zangoose is in every one of Seviper's Pokédex Entries, except FireRed and LeafGreen.
 * Despite Seviper and Zangoose being enemies, they are in the same egg group.
 * There is a misconception of Seviper evolving from Ekans or Arbok.
 * In horde battles in X and Y if a Seviper is in a group of Zangoose, it will be attacked by them.