#0531 · Unova · Generation 5

Audino

Hearing Pokémon · Normal-type

Audino is a Normal-type Pokémon, the Hearing Pokémon, number 531 (#0531) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 5 and comes from the Unova region. It is 1.1 m tall and weighs 31 kg.

Audino has a stethoscope-like feeler on each ear, and it presses them to people and Pokémon to hear their heartbeats and work out how they feel. The Pokédex adds that it can tell when an Egg might hatch.

How to pronounce Audino

Audino is pronounced AW-dih-noh. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Audino said out loud:

In Japanese it is タブンネ (Tabunne).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Audino is 1.1 m tall and 31 kg, pink on the head, back and arms and cream on the lower face, front and floppy ears, with a chest pattern that looks like a jacket. Thin curled feelers hang from the undersides of its ears, and it has a puffy white tail. Its hearing is superb: the Pokédex says a pebble rolling more than 1.6 km (1 mile) away will not escape its ears.

Behaviour

The Pokédex says Audino has a kind heart. It touches others with its feelers to judge their feelings and physical condition, and its radar-like hearing lets it read its surroundings from slight sounds.

Habitat

The Pokédex names no habitat. In Unova, Black and White have it in rustling grass.

Powers

Its Abilities are Healer and Regenerator, with Klutz hidden. It supports with Heal Pulse, Life Dew, Helping Hand and Entrainment and hits with Hyper Voice and Zen Headbutt. With 103 HP and 86 in both Defense and Special Defense it is a sturdy healer. Mega Audino is Normal and Fairy and keeps Healer, raising Defense and Special Defense to 126; Bulbapedia says that is the highest base Defense of any Normal-type Pokémon, and its pulses can reduce hostility while its secondary feelers put anyone who touches them into a deep sleep.

Name origin

Audino may come from 'audio' with a pun on 'I dunno'. The Japanese name is Tabunne (タブンネ), perhaps a pun on tabun ne ('maybe') or on tabun, 'hearing many things'.

Design inspiration

Saya Tsuruta designed Audino, and Bulbapedia reports Ken Sugimori saying it was designed with Black and White in mind, as a stand-in for Nurse Joy's Chansey in Unova. It appears to be partly based on a rabbit with a nurse's or doctor's manner, and its feelers resemble stethoscopes, or possibly the cochlea of the inner ear.

In the games

In Super Mystery Dungeon, Audino is the school nurse and village doctor of Serene Village, and it first appeared in Black and White. It is unobtainable in Scarlet and Violet, but in Legends: Z-A it lives in Wild Zones 7 and 19 and in the Mega Dimension DLC's Hyperspace Lumiose.

In the anime

Audino debuted in 'Dreams by the Yard Full!', where Cilan explained that Unova's Nurse Joys use it instead of Chansey. A Kalosian Nurse Joy's Audino spends 'A Giga Battle with Mega Results!' hunting for an Audinite so it can Mega Evolve.

Fun facts

• Its base experience yield of 390 and its presence in rustling grass made wild Audino a fast levelling trick in Black and White and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Bulbapedia notes.
• Mega Audino leaked early when the official Korean Pokémon website showed it on 12 August 2014, two days before Junichi Masuda's official release of it.
• Before Legends: Z-A, Audino was the sole Generation V Pokémon able to Mega Evolve.
• May's Mega Audino appears in the Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire animated trailer, entering a Pokémon Contest Spectacular beside Mega Altaria.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Audino (Pokémon) · Serebii: Audino (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 103
• Attack: 60
• Defense: 86
• Sp. Atk: 60
• Sp. Def: 86
• Speed: 50

Audino’s base stat total is 445. Its highest stat is HP.

Type matchups

What is Audino weak to?

Audino takes extra damage from Fighting (2×) moves.

It is immune to Ghost moves.

Evolution

Audino does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

Forms

• Mega Audino (Mega): Normal/Fairy-type, base stat total 545 (HP 103, Attack 60, Defense 126, Sp. Atk 80, Sp. Def 126, Speed 50). Ability: Healer.

Abilities

• Healer: Has a 30% chance of curing each adjacent ally of any major status ailment after each turn.
• Regenerator: Heals for 1/3 max HP upon switching out.
• Klutz (hidden ability): Prevents the Pokémon from using its held item in battle.

Moves

Moves Audino learns by level up in Sword / Shield

TM moves (59)

Audino can learn 59 moves from TMs in Sword / Shield: Mega Punch, Mega Kick, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch, Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Solar Beam, Thunder Wave, Dig, Light Screen, Reflect, Safeguard, Rest, Snore, Protect, Icy Wind, Attract, Rain Dance, Sunny Day, Facade, Helping Hand, Fling, Drain Punch, Trick Room, Round, Retaliate, Draining Kiss, Misty Terrain, Stomping Tantrum, Body Slam, Flamethrower, Surf, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Low Kick, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Psychic, Fire Blast, Amnesia, Substitute, Psyshock, Endure, Sleep Talk, Encore, Iron Tail, Shadow Ball, Uproar, Skill Swap, Hyper Voice, Calm Mind, Zen Headbutt, Grass Knot, Ally Switch, Work Up, Wild Charge, Dazzling Gleam, Throat Chop.

Egg moves (4):Healing Wish, Sweet Kiss, Wish, Yawn.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Fairy.
• Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
• Catch rate: 255 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Fast (800,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 2 HP effort values.
• Base experience yield: 390.

Pokédex entries

This Pokémon has a kind heart. By touching with its feelers, Audino can gauge other creatures' feelings and physical conditions. (Shield)

Audino's sense of hearing is superb. Not even a pebble rolling along over a mile away will escape Audino's ears. (Sword)

It touches others with the feelers on its ears, using the sound of their heartbeats to tell how they are feeling. (Black, Y, Alpha Sapphire)

Using the feelers on its ears, it can tell how someone is feeling or when an egg might hatch. (Black 2, White 2, X, Omega Ruby)

Its auditory sense is astounding. It has a radarlike ability to understand its surroundings through slight sounds. (White)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Highest HP among Normal types in Gen 5: 103.
• Taller than 54% of all Pokémon (1.1 m).
• Heavier than 53% of all Pokémon (31 kg).
• Base stat total 445, ranked #525 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is HP, ranked #91 of 1,025.
• One of 131 Normal-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 60 pink Pokémon.
• Number 38 of 156 Pokémon introduced in Generation 5 (Unova).
• Can learn 76 different moves in Sword / Shield.
• Catch rate 255: about 33.3% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Has 1 alternate form.
• Appears in 5 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Audino (Pokémon), Serebii: Audino (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (AW-dih-noh): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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