#0244 · Johto · Generation 2 · legendary

Entei

Volcano Pokémon · Fire-type

Entei is a Fire-type Pokémon, the Volcano Pokémon, number 244 (#0244) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 2 and comes from the Johto region. It is 2.1 m tall and weighs 198 kg.

Entei is the Volcano Pokémon, a lion-like Fire type that, the Pokédex says, is born each time a new volcano appears. The Pokédex also says that somewhere on Earth a volcano goes off whenever it roars.

How to pronounce Entei

Entei is pronounced EN-tay. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Entei said out loud:

In Japanese it is エンテイ.

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Lore

Biology

Entei is a massive, brown-furred quadruped, 2.1 m tall and 198 kg, with a long grey plume of smoke streaming along its back. A red faceplate shaped like a star or fins frames its face, a horseshoe-shaped grey plate covers its muzzle, and a yellow crest rises from its forehead. The Pokédex says its fire is hotter than a volcano's magma and consumes everything it touches.

Behaviour

Entei races headlong across the land because, the Pokédex says, it cannot restrain its own power. Bulbapedia notes the claim that it brings the warmth of summer. In Pokémon Sleep it leaks flames from its mouth as it dozes, and on waking it sweeps over the land in fiery waves much like an eruption.

Habitat

The Pokédex habitat list puts it in grasslands. In Scarlet and Violet it arrives by Pokémon HOME transfer or trade, or in The Indigo Disk by luring it to East Province Area Three with a snack from Snacksworth.

Powers

Entei has the Ability Pressure, which makes opponents use extra PP on moves aimed at it, and the hidden Ability Inner Focus, which stops flinching. Its fire moves include Ember, Flame Wheel, Lava Plume, Fire Blast and the volcano-sized Eruption, backed by Fire Fang and Crunch. Its 115 base Attack makes it a strong physical attacker, and Calm Mind can raise its special stats.

Name origin

Entei may combine 炎 en ('flame') and 帝 tei ('emperor'), echoing Yándì, the Flame Emperor of ancient Chinese legend. It may also involve 炎天 enten ('blazing heat'). The Japanese name is Entei (エンテイ).

Design inspiration

Muneo Saitō designed Entei, and has described starting from a hairy, rock-like body with volcanic smoke and a dignified, bearded 'king'. He kept the lion feel but chose a silhouette that could read as a dog, a cat or neither. The faceplate and crest may suggest lava, and East Asian guardian lions such as the komainu and shīsā, or Bali's Barong, may also have played a part; these are fan readings. In the Johto legend its Fire type stands for the blaze that burned the Brass Tower.

In the games

Entei is a roaming beast in Gold and Silver, where it debuted, with only one in the game. Salon Maiden Anabel uses one in Emerald's Battle Frontier, and in Colosseum a Shadow Entei waits in Mt. Battle. It is not available in Legends: Z-A.

In the anime

Entei debuted in the film Spell of the Unown: Entei, in which an illusory Entei becomes the guardian of Molly Hale after she wishes on the Unown. Its first main-series appearance is 'Entei at Your Own Risk', where it escapes Nelson's Misdreavus by using Roar.

Fun facts

• Niue, a Pacific country, issued a silver Pokémon coin worth $10 in 2002, with Entei on one face and its coat of arms on the other.
• Gold and Silver's data contains an unused event that would give the player a level 40 Entei, which was removed from Crystal.
• In Gold, Silver and Crystal, if you start Entei's cry in the Pokédex and swap to Raikou or Suicune before it finishes, their cries come out distorted.
• Entei shares its category, the Volcano Pokémon, with Quilava and Johtonian Typhlosion.

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

Base stats

• HP: 115
• Attack: 115
• Defense: 85
• Sp. Atk: 90
• Sp. Def: 75
• Speed: 100

Entei’s base stat total is 580. Its highest stat is HP and Attack.

Type matchups

What is Entei weak to?

Entei takes extra damage from Water (2×), Ground (2×), Rock (2×) moves.

It resists Fire (½×), Grass (½×), Ice (½×), Bug (½×), Steel (½×), Fairy (½×).

Evolution

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

Abilities

• Pressure: Increases the PP cost of moves targetting the Pokémon by one.
• Inner Focus (hidden ability): Prevents flinching.

Moves

Moves Entei learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (43)

Entei can learn 43 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Agility, Scary Face, Protect, Fire Fang, Trailblaze, Fire Spin, Facade, Bulldoze, Snarl, Swift, Flame Charge, Endure, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Sandstorm, Dig, Body Slam, Sleep Talk, Stomping Tantrum, Rest, Iron Head, Substitute, Will-O-Wisp, Crunch, Shadow Ball, Heat Wave, Flamethrower, Calm Mind, Helping Hand, Reversal, Fire Blast, Stone Edge, Giga Impact, Overheat, Hyper Beam, Flare Blitz, Solar Beam, Tera Blast, Roar, Weather Ball, Double-Edge, Scorching Sands.

Egg moves (2):Extreme Speed, Sacred Fire.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Undiscovered.
• Egg cycles: 80 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 10,240).
• Catch rate: 3 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 35.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 1 HP and 2 Attack effort values.
• Base experience yield: 261.

Pokédex entries

Entei embodies the passion of magma. This Pokémon is thought to have been born in the eruption of a volcano. It sends up massive bursts of fire that utterly consume all that they touch. (Ruby, Sapphire, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire)

It is said that when it roars, a volcano erupts somewhere around the globe. (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, Y)

A Pokémon that races across the land. It is said that one is born every time a new volcano appears. (Silver, FireRed, SoulSilver, X)

Volcanoes erupt when it barks. Unable to contain its sheer power, it races headlong around the land. (HeartGold)

Volcanoes erupt when it barks. Unable to restrain its extreme power, it races headlong around the land. (Gold, LeafGreen)

Entei embodies the passion of magma. It is thought to have been born in the eruption of a volcano. It blasts fire that consumes all that it touches. (Emerald)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Highest HP among Fire types: 115.
• Fastest Fire type in Gen 2: 100 Speed, shared with 1 other.
• Highest HP among Fire types in Gen 2: 115.
• Taller than 90% of all Pokémon (2.1 m).
• Heavier than 91% of all Pokémon (198 kg).
• Base stat total 580, ranked #69 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is HP, ranked #45 of 1,025.
• One of 81 Fire-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 147 brown Pokémon.
• Number 93 of 100 Pokémon introduced in Generation 2 (Johto).
• Can learn 55 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 3: about 0.4% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 7 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: Entei (Pokémon), Serebii: Entei (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (EN-tay): 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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