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Giratina

Renegade Pokémon · Ghost/Dragon-type

Giratina is a Ghost/Dragon-type Pokémon, the Renegade Pokémon, number 487 (#0487) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 4 and comes from the Sinnoh region. It is 4.5 m tall and weighs 750 kg.

Giratina is the Renegade Pokémon, a Ghost and Dragon type that was banished for its violence to a flip-side world beyond our own. The Pokédex says it gazed silently at the old world from there.

How to pronounce Giratina

Giratina is pronounced geer-uh-TEE-nuh. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Giratina said out loud:

In Japanese it is ギラティナ.

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Giratina has a grey draconic body with a black stripe marked by five red bands, a gold crown-like head with two horns, and gold half-rings along its neck and tail. In its Altered Forme it is 4.5 m tall and weighs 750 kg. Bulbapedia notes titles such as 'the banished Pokémon' and 'Arceus's shadow', and says it has been reported in ancient cemeteries.

Behaviour

Bulbapedia describes Giratina as highly aggressive and territorial, which likely helped get it banished. The Pokédex says its home is a place where common sense is twisted and strange, and Bulbapedia notes it is regarded as a match for Dialga and Palkia in strength. It can tear holes in reality, and its space-time rifts can drive Dialga and Palkia into a frenzy.

Habitat

Giratina is said to dwell on the flip side of our world, in what the games call the Distortion World and the anime calls the Reverse World. In the games it is found in Turnback Cave in Diamond and Pearl and in the Distortion World in Platinum.

Powers

No other Pokémon is known to learn Shadow Force by levelling up, a move in which it vanishes and strikes from the shadows. It also learns Shadow Claw, Dragon Claw and Earth Power. Altered Forme has the Ability Pressure, with Telepathy hidden. Origin Forme, said to be its true form, is serpentine and 6.9 m tall, with Levitate as its Ability and Attack and Special Attack of 120 instead of 100. It keeps this form in the Distortion World or while holding the Griseous Orb or Griseous Core. Its base HP of 150 makes it very bulky.

Name origin

Giratina may come from the Spanish platina ('platinum'), fitting the game it starred in, mixed with a corruption of 'Gila monster'. It may also involve 'guilty' or the Japanese girari ('glaring'). The Japanese name is Giratina (ギラティナ).

Design inspiration

Junichi Masuda and Takeshi Kawachimaru have said Giratina and the Distortion World personify antimatter. Altered Forme resembles a European dragon or sauropod, and Origin Forme may draw on a Chinese dragon or the Oomukade, a giant centipede in Japanese folklore. The animal comparisons are fan readings, not official statements.

In the games

Giratina is the box mascot of Platinum, shown in Origin Forme, and the last Pokémon in that game's Sinnoh Pokédex. It is a boss in Legends: Arceus, and in Black 2 and White 2 the Gym Leader Fantina uses an Origin Forme Giratina in a downloadable Pokémon World Tournament event. In Scarlet and Violet it arrives only by transfer from Pokémon HOME, and Bulbapedia lists it as unobtainable in Legends: Z-A.

In the anime

Giratina debuted in the film 'Giratina and the Sky Warrior', where it seeks revenge on Dialga for damaging its home, the Reverse World, and switches between Altered and Origin Formes as it travels. In 'Arceus and the Jewel of Life' it appears alongside Dialga and Palkia for the first time.

Fun facts

• Giratina's type pairing is the only one weak to both of its own types, since Ghost and Dragon are each weak to themselves; the Dreepy line shares it.
• Diamond and Pearl have no Giratina orb at all, as the Griseous Orb first appeared in Platinum.
• In Diamond and Pearl, Giratina is level 70 while Dialga and Palkia are level 47; Platinum reverses this.
• The symbols of the Platinum and Lost Origin Pokémon TCG expansions look like Giratina's Origin Forme viewed head-on.

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

Base stats

• HP: 150
• Attack: 100
• Defense: 120
• Sp. Atk: 100
• Sp. Def: 120
• Speed: 90

Giratina’s base stat total is 680. Its highest stat is HP.

Type matchups

What is Giratina weak to?

Giratina takes extra damage from Ice (2×), Ghost (2×), Dragon (2×), Dark (2×), Fairy (2×) moves.

It resists Fire (½×), Water (½×), Electric (½×), Grass (½×), Poison (½×), Bug (½×).

It is immune to Normal, Fighting moves.

Evolution

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

Forms

• Origin Giratina (Forme): Ghost/Dragon-type, base stat total 680 (HP 150, Attack 120, Defense 100, Sp. Atk 120, Sp. Def 100, Speed 90). Ability: Levitate.

Abilities

• Pressure: Increases the PP cost of moves targetting the Pokémon by one.
• Telepathy (hidden ability): Protects against friendly Pokémon's damaging moves.

Moves

Moves Giratina learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (51)

Giratina can learn 51 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Scary Face, Protect, Confuse Ray, Facade, Bulldoze, Hex, Swift, Icy Wind, Dragon Tail, Endure, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Shadow Claw, Body Slam, Sleep Talk, Dragon Claw, Thunder Wave, Rest, Dark Pulse, Fly, Iron Head, Substitute, Will-O-Wisp, Aura Sphere, Shadow Ball, Dragon Pulse, Hyper Voice, Energy Ball, Psychic, Thunderbolt, Calm Mind, Earth Power, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Phantom Force, Giga Impact, Outrage, Hyper Beam, Thunder, Draco Meteor, Tera Blast, Roar, Spite, Gravity, Dual Wingbeat, Poltergeist, Pain Split, Skitter Smack, Breaking Swipe, Curse.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Undiscovered.
• Egg cycles: 120 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 15,360).
• Catch rate: 3 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 0.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 3 HP effort values.
• Base experience yield: 306.

Pokédex entries

There is one Hisuian verse that tells of a powerful light creating a deep shadow. I imagine that this deep shadow is Giratina. (Legends: Arceus)

It was banished for its violence. It silently gazed upon the old world from the Distortion World. (Platinum, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, Y, Alpha Sapphire)

This Pokémon is said to live in a world on the reverse side of ours, where common knowledge is distorted and strange. (HeartGold, SoulSilver, X, Omega Ruby)

A Pokémon that is said to live in a world on the reverse side of ours. It appears in an ancient cemetery. (Diamond, Pearl)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Heaviest Ghost type: 750 kg.
• Tallest Ghost type: 4.5 m.
• Highest HP among Ghost types: 150, shared with 1 other.
• Highest base stat total among Ghost types: 680, shared with 1 other.
• Heaviest Pokémon in Gen 4: 750 kg.
• Highest HP among Gen 4 Pokémon: 150, shared with 1 other.
• Heaviest Ghost type in Gen 4: 750 kg.
• Tallest Ghost type in Gen 4: 4.5 m.
• Highest HP among Ghost types in Gen 4: 150, shared with 1 other.
• Highest Attack among Ghost types in Gen 4: 100, shared with 1 other.
• Highest base stat total among Ghost types in Gen 4: 680.
• Heaviest Dragon type in Gen 4: 750 kg.
• Highest HP among Dragon types in Gen 4: 150.
• Highest Defense among Dragon types in Gen 4: 120, shared with 1 other.
• Highest Sp. Def among Dragon types in Gen 4: 120, shared with 1 other.
• Highest base stat total among Dragon types in Gen 4: 680, shared with 2 others.
• Taller than 98% of all Pokémon (4.5 m).
• Heavier than 99% of all Pokémon (750 kg).
• Base stat total 680, ranked #3 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is HP, ranked #12 of 1,025.
• One of 4 Pokémon that are both Ghost and Dragon.
• One of 51 black Pokémon.
• Number 101 of 107 Pokémon introduced in Generation 4 (Sinnoh).
• Can learn 58 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 3: about 0.4% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Has 1 alternate form.
• Appears in 4 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: Giratina (Pokémon), Serebii: Giratina (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (geer-uh-TEE-nuh): 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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