Barraskewda
Barraskewda is a Water-type Pokémon, the Skewer Pokémon, number 847 (#0847) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 8 and comes from the Galar region. It is 1.3 m tall and weighs 30 kg.
Barraskewda is the Skewer Pokémon, a Water type that spins its tail fins like a propeller and shoots through the sea at over 100 knots (185 km/h), spearing its prey on a jaw as sharp as a spear. The Pokédex adds that its flesh is surprisingly tasty.
How to pronounce Barraskewda
Barraskewda is pronounced bair-uh-SKYOO-duh. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.
Listen to Barraskewda said out loud:
In Japanese it is カマスジョー (Kamasujaw).
Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.
Lore
Biology
Barraskewda is a long, tapered fish, 1.3 m long and 30 kg, with a brown head, small beady eyes and a pronounced underbite. Its tan body carries white bone-like markings and ends in four red tail fins that rotate like a propeller on a white hub. The Pokédex likens its jaw to a spear for sharpness and to steel for strength.
Behaviour
Barraskewda spins its tail fins to rocket forward, rams its prey and spears it. The Scarlet Pokédex says it leaps out of the water to bite Wingull flying close to the surface, and the Violet entry has it battling pods of Finizen for food.
Habitat
The Pokédex gives no habitat; Serebii lists ocean and river biomes in Paldea and cave water in Kitakami. In Scarlet and Violet it swims in the Paldean seas and around Glaseado Mountain, and in The Teal Mask at Fellhorn Gorge. It is not available in Legends: Z-A.
Diet
Wingull that fly low over the water, according to the Pokédex, and other prey it can ram and spear.
Powers
Barraskewda's Abilities are Swift Swim and the hidden Propeller Tail. It opens with Throat Chop, Aqua Jet and Bite and later learns Crunch and Liquidation. Base Attack 123 and a very high Speed make it a fast, hard-hitting attacker.
Name origin
Barraskewda may combine 'barracuda' and 'skewer'. The Japanese name Kamasujaw (カマスジョー) may combine kamasu ('barracuda') and 'jaw'.
Design inspiration
Like Arrokuda, Barraskewda seems to be based on the barracuda and on pike, with spears in the mix. Its propeller tail shares traits with torpedoes, and Bulbapedia wonders whether barracuda plus torpedo could refer to the Fairey Barracuda, a British bomber aircraft. These are fan readings.
Evolution notes
Evolves from Arrokuda at level 26, and does not evolve further.
In the games
Gym Leader Nessa sends out a level 52 Barraskewda in a later battle in Sword and Shield, where it debuted. Wild ones swim around Route 2, Motostoke Riverbank and the Lake of Outrage, and in Scarlet and Violet it appears in 4-star Tera Raid Battles.
In the anime
A Barraskewda lives in the lake where Nessa does a photo shoot in 'Early-Evening Waves', an episode of Pokémon: Twilight Wings.
Fun facts
- The Pokécology book says Barraskewda is the fastest of the Pokémon on its page, a claim that covers only that page's company.
- Barraskewda's base Speed of 136 is the highest of any Water type that is not a Mega Evolution in the game data, tied with Iron Bundle.
- In Pokémon Masters EX, Nessa's sync pairs are Drednaw, Eiscue and Barraskewda.
Base stats
- HP: 61
- Attack: 123
- Defense: 60
- Sp. Atk: 60
- Sp. Def: 50
- Speed: 136
Barraskewda’s base stat total is 490. Its highest stat is Speed.
Type matchups
What is Barraskewda weak to?
Barraskewda takes extra damage from Electric (2×), Grass (2×) moves.
It resists Fire (½×), Water (½×), Ice (½×), Steel (½×).
Evolution
What does Barraskewda evolve from?
Barraskewda evolves from Arrokuda at level 26.
Barraskewda is the final stage of its evolution family.
The whole family: Arrokuda, Barraskewda.
Abilities
- Swift Swim: Doubles Speed during rain.
- Propeller Tail (hidden ability): Ignores moves and abilities that draw in moves.
Moves
Moves Barraskewda learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet
| Level | Move | Type | Category | Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fury Attack | Normal | Physical | 15 |
| 1 | Bite | Dark | Physical | 60 |
| 1 | Peck | Flying | Physical | 35 |
| 1 | Aqua Jet | Water | Physical | 40 |
| 1 | Throat Chop | Dark | Physical | 80 |
| 18 | Agility | Psychic | Status | — |
| 24 | Dive | Water | Physical | 80 |
| 32 | Focus Energy | Normal | Status | — |
| 40 | Crunch | Dark | Physical | 80 |
| 48 | Liquidation | Water | Physical | 85 |
| 56 | Double-Edge | Normal | Physical | 120 |
TM moves (34)
Barraskewda can learn 34 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Agility, Scary Face, Protect, Ice Fang, Water Pulse, Chilling Water, Facade, Swift, Endure, Rain Dance, Brick Break, Psychic Fangs, Sleep Talk, Waterfall, Poison Jab, Rest, Substitute, Drill Run, Crunch, Liquidation, Surf, Ice Beam, Hydro Pump, Blizzard, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Close Combat, Tera Blast, Flip Turn, Scale Shot, Double-Edge, Whirlpool, Throat Chop.
Egg moves (4), which Arrokuda can hatch knowing:Acupressure, Night Slash, Slash, Thrash.
Breeding & training
- Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
- Egg groups: Water 2.
- Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
- Catch rate: 60 out of 255.
- Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
- Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
- Defeating it gives 2 Speed effort values.
- Base experience yield: 172.
Pokédex entries
It spins its tail fins to propel itself, surging forward at speeds of over 100 knots before ramming prey and spearing into them. (Shield)
This Pokémon has a jaw that's as sharp as a spear and as strong as steel. Apparently Barraskewda's flesh is surprisingly tasty, too. (Sword)
Names around the world
| Japanese | カマスジョー |
|---|---|
| Romaji | Kamasujaw |
| French | Hastacuda |
| German | Barrakiefa |
| Spanish | Barraskewda |
| Italian | Barraskewda |
| Korean | 꼬치조 |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 戽斗尖梭 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 戽斗尖梭 |
Trivia
- Fastest Water type: 136 Speed, shared with 1 other.
- Fastest Water type in Gen 8: 136 Speed.
- Highest Attack among Water types in Gen 8: 123.
- Taller than 64% of all Pokémon (1.3 m).
- Heavier than 52% of all Pokémon (30 kg).
- Base stat total 490, ranked #338 of 1,025.
- Its best stat is Speed, ranked #11 of 1,025.
- One of 154 Water-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
- One of 147 brown Pokémon.
- Number 38 of 96 Pokémon introduced in Generation 8 (Galar).
- Part of an evolution family of 2 Pokémon.
- Can learn 44 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
- Catch rate 60: about 7.8% per Poké Ball at full health.
- Appears in 2 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: Barraskewda (Pokémon), Serebii: Barraskewda (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex), Bulbapedia: Nessa.
- Pronunciation (bair-uh-SKYOO-duh): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.
Last checked: . Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.
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