#0441 · Sinnoh · Generation 4

Chatot

Music Note Pokémon · Normal/Flying-type

Chatot is a Normal/Flying-type Pokémon, the Music Note Pokémon, number 441 (#0441) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 4 and comes from the Sinnoh region. It is 0.5 m tall and weighs 1.9 kg.

Chatot is the Music Note Pokémon, a small parrot whose tail flicks like a metronome while it copies human speech and the calls of other Pokémon. According to the Legends: Arceus Pokédex, older and more experienced ones are said to understand the words they mimic.

How to pronounce Chatot

Chatot is pronounced CHAT-ot. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Chatot said out loud:

In Japanese it is ペラップ (Perap).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Chatot is 0.5 m tall and 1.9 kg, with blue wings, a yellow breast and feet, a green belly, a pink hooked beak and a white ruff. Its black crest is shaped like a musical note. The Pokédex says its tongue is much like ours, which is how it manages speech, and Bulbapedia adds that it arranges the sounds it learns into melodies of its own.

Behaviour

Chatot imitates other Pokémon's calls so that they take it for one of their own and do not attack. Where several gather, the Diamond Pokédex says they all learn the same saying.

Habitat

The Pokédex gives no habitat; Bulbapedia says it lives along bodies of water and is active in the daytime. Bulbapedia lists it as unobtainable in Scarlet and Violet and in Legends: Z-A.

Powers

Its Abilities are Keen Eye and Tangled Feet, with Big Pecks hidden. Its signature move is Chatter, and Bulbapedia says it is the only known Pokémon that can learn it. Hyper Voice, Echoed Voice, Mimic and Mirror Move suit its mimicry. With Special Attack 92 and Speed 91 it is a quick special attacker.

Name origin

Chatot may combine 'chat' and 'parrot'. The Japanese name is Perap (ペラップ), which may blend perapera ('fluently' or 'chatty'), 'parrot' and 'rap'.

Design inspiration

Bulbapedia reads Chatot as a parrot, with a body like a conure or yellow-collared lovebird and colours like a blue-and-yellow macaw. Its crest resembles an eighth note and its tail a metronome, perhaps a nod to parrots that imitate human speech.

In the games

Chatot is Wigglytuff's assistant at the guild in Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, and the guide of PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure. It first appeared in Diamond and Pearl and also appears in Legends: Arceus.

In the anime

A Chatot first appeared in the anime in 'Strategy Tomorrow - Comedy Tonight', where it kept slipping away to a hospital to cheer up the children. In 'All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go!', a Chatot won a dress-up contest with a Jigglypuff-and-Lapras singing routine.

Fun facts

• In the Generation IV Sinnoh games, a boy in Eterna City hands over a Chatot for a Buizel, and the bird's nickname, Charap, blends its English and Japanese names.
• Bulbapedia says Chatot is the only Pokémon outside the Legendary and Mythical groups that was banned from the Global Battle Union in Generation V, probably because Chatter could play back pre-recorded audio.
• Before Generation VI, Bulbapedia says, no other Pokémon matched Chatot in keeping an unchanged cry when it fainted or was sent out with a status condition.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Chatot (Pokémon) · Serebii: Chatot (Sword/Shield Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 76
• Attack: 65
• Defense: 45
• Sp. Atk: 92
• Sp. Def: 42
• Speed: 91

Chatot’s base stat total is 411. Its highest stat is Sp. Atk.

Type matchups

What is Chatot weak to?

Chatot takes extra damage from Electric (2×), Ice (2×), Rock (2×) moves.

It resists Grass (½×), Bug (½×).

It is immune to Ground, Ghost moves.

Evolution

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

Abilities

• Keen Eye: Prevents accuracy from being lowered.
• Tangled Feet: Doubles evasion when confused.
• Big Pecks (hidden ability): Protects against Defense drops.

Moves

Moves Chatot learns by level up in Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon

TM moves (26)

Chatot can learn 26 moves from TMs in Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon: Work Up, Toxic, Hidden Power, Sunny Day, Taunt, Protect, Rain Dance, Roost, Frustration, Return, Double Team, Aerial Ace, Torment, Facade, Rest, Attract, Thief, Round, Echoed Voice, Steel Wing, Fly, Swagger, Sleep Talk, U-turn, Substitute, Confide.

Egg moves (10):Agility, Air Cutter, Boomburst, Defog, Encore, Nasty Plot, Night Shade, Sleep Talk, Steel Wing, Supersonic.

Move tutor moves (8): Defog, Heat Wave, Hyper Voice, Role Play, Sky Attack, Snore, Tailwind, Uproar.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Flying.
• Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
• Catch rate: 30 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 35.
• Growth rate: Medium Slow (1,059,860 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 1 Attack effort value.
• Base experience yield: 144.

Pokédex entries

A versatile performer skilled in the imitation of human speech. It is said that older, more experienced Chatot can even understand the meaning of the words they mimic. (Legends: Arceus)

It can learn and speak human words. If they gather, they all learn the same saying. (Diamond, Y, Alpha Sapphire)

It mimics the cries of other Pokémon to trick them into thinking it's one of them. This way they won't attack it. (HeartGold, SoulSilver, X, Omega Ruby)

Its tongue is just like a human's. As a result, it can cleverly mimic human speech. (Platinum, Black, White, Black 2, White 2)

It keeps rhythm by flicking its tail feathers like a metronome. It imitates human speech. (Pearl)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Lightest Normal type in Gen 4: 1.9 kg.
• Taller than 19% of all Pokémon (0.5 m).
• Heavier than 7% of all Pokémon (1.9 kg).
• Base stat total 411, ranked #587 of 1,025.
• One of 27 Pokémon that are both Normal and Flying.
• One of 51 black Pokémon.
• Number 55 of 107 Pokémon introduced in Generation 4 (Sinnoh).
• Can learn 50 different moves in Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon.
• Catch rate 30: about 3.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• 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: Chatot (Pokémon), Serebii: Chatot (Sword/Shield Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (CHAT-ot): 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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