#0875 · Galar · Generation 8

Eiscue

Penguin Pokémon · Ice-type

Eiscue is a Ice-type Pokémon, the Penguin Pokémon, number 875 (#0875) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 8 and comes from the Galar region. It is 1.4 m tall and weighs 89 kg.

Eiscue is the Penguin Pokémon, a penguin that keeps a block of ice on its head to stay cool and drifted in on ocean currents from a faraway cold place. Knock the ice off with a physical hit and a worried little face looks out.

How to pronounce Eiscue

Eiscue is pronounced ISE-kyoo. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Eiscue said out loud:

In Japanese it is コオリッポ (Korippo).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Eiscue is 1.4 m tall and weighs 89 kg. It has a black and white penguin body with light blue accents, flippers, and a long antenna-like hair sticking out of the ice cube on its head. Under the ice is a light blue face with white eyes and a worried expression. The Pokédex says its head is sensitive to heat, and that the ice tastes faintly salty.

Behaviour

Eiscue is easygoing and, Bulbapedia says, stays calm when it washes up somewhere new. The Pokédex says it is actually a poor swimmer, and that on hot days a group will press their ice cube heads together to cool each other down.

Habitat

In Scarlet and Violet it lives in Violet's North Paldean Sea and North Province Area Three, while Scarlet players must trade for it.

Diet

It fishes by dangling an ice ball on the tip of its single hair into the sea, though the Pokédex does not say what it catches.

Powers

Its only Ability is Ice Face, which Bulbapedia says no other Pokémon can have. It starts in Ice Face, where the ice absorbs the first physical hit, then breaks into Noice Face, dropping to Defense 70 and Special Defense 50 but rising to Speed 130; snow restores the ice. It attacks with Freeze-Dry, Weather Ball and Blizzard.

Name origin

Eiscue may combine German Eis ('ice') with 'ice cube'. The Japanese name is Korippo (コオリッポ), which may blend kōri ('ice') with rippō ('cube').

Design inspiration

Eiscue looks like a penguin whose head is an ice cube. It may also recall the great auk, an extinct flightless North Atlantic bird that floated with its head above water and was hunted for fish bait. These are fan readings.

In the games

Circhester's Ice-type Gym Leader Melony uses an Eiscue in Shield, the only one of the Sword and Shield pair where it is wild. It is not available in Legends: Z-A.

In the anime

A group of Ice Face Eiscue debuted in 'Grabbing the Brass Ring!', where one got lost and flicked into its Noice Face a couple of times before getting home.

Fun facts

• In Sword and Shield, a glitch meant that if Rollout hit Eiscue, the damage multiplier could also carry over to its other moves, as it could with Mimikyu; version 1.3.1 fixed it.
• It shares the Penguin Pokémon category with Piplup and Prinplup.
• In Pokémon Adventures, a crowd of Eiscue turns up to watch Melony's Mr. Rime perform.

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

Base stats

• HP: 75
• Attack: 80
• Defense: 110
• Sp. Atk: 65
• Sp. Def: 90
• Speed: 50

Eiscue’s base stat total is 470. Its highest stat is Defense.

Type matchups

What is Eiscue weak to?

Eiscue takes extra damage from Fire (2×), Fighting (2×), Rock (2×), Steel (2×) moves.

It resists Ice (½×).

Evolution

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

Forms

• Noice Eiscue (Battle form): Ice-type, base stat total 470 (HP 75, Attack 80, Defense 70, Sp. Atk 65, Sp. Def 50, Speed 130). Ability: Ice Face.

Abilities

• Ice Face: The Pokémon’s ice head can take a physical attack as a substitute, but the attack also changes the Pokémon’s appearance. The ice will be restored when it snows.

Moves

Moves Eiscue learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (38)

Eiscue can learn 38 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Agility, Protect, Water Pulse, Chilling Water, Facade, Icy Wind, Avalanche, Endure, Rain Dance, Snowscape, Zen Headbutt, Body Slam, Ice Punch, Sleep Talk, Reflect, Waterfall, Rest, Iron Head, Substitute, Iron Defense, Liquidation, Surf, Ice Spinner, Amnesia, Reversal, Ice Beam, Hydro Pump, Blizzard, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Tera Blast, Icicle Spear, Weather Ball, Flip Turn, Double-Edge, Whirlpool, Feather Dance.

Egg moves (6):Aqua Ring, Belly Drum, Double-Edge, Head Smash, Icicle Crash, Soak.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Water 1, Field.
• Egg cycles: 25 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 3,200).
• 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 Defense effort values.
• Base experience yield: 165.

Pokédex entries

This Pokémon keeps its heat-sensitive head cool with ice. It fishes for its food, dangling its single hair into the sea to lure in prey. (Shield)

It drifted in on the flow of ocean waters from a frigid place. It keeps its head iced constantly to make sure it stays nice and cold. (Sword)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Taller than 68% of all Pokémon (1.4 m).
• Heavier than 80% of all Pokémon (89 kg).
• Base stat total 470, ranked #450 of 1,025.
• One of 48 Ice-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 170 blue Pokémon.
• Number 66 of 96 Pokémon introduced in Generation 8 (Galar).
• Can learn 49 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 60: about 7.8% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Has 1 alternate form.
• 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: Eiscue (Pokémon), Serebii: Eiscue (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (ISE-kyoo): 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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