#0473 · Sinnoh · Generation 4

Mamoswine

Twin Tusk Pokémon · Ice/Ground-type

Mamoswine is a Ice/Ground-type Pokémon, the Twin Tusk Pokémon, number 473 (#0473) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 4 and comes from the Sinnoh region. It is 2.5 m tall and weighs 291 kg.

Mamoswine is the Twin Tusk Pokémon, an ice-age survivor: the Pokédex says a frozen one was dug out of ground dating back 10,000 years and woke up, to everyone's amazement. Its tusks grow longer and thicker as the weather gets colder.

How to pronounce Mamoswine

Mamoswine is pronounced MAM-oh-swine. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Mamoswine said out loud:

In Japanese it is マンムー (Mammoo).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Mamoswine is a large, woolly-mammoth-like boar with thick brown fur, a blue mask with a white rim around its eyes that looks like ski goggles, and two tusks of solid ice. Bulbapedia says the tusks are smaller on females. It is 2.5 m tall and weighs 291 kg.

Behaviour

Mamoswine can endure cold and hunger for a very long time, as the revived 10,000-year-old specimen shows. Bulbapedia says Weavile is its natural predator.

Habitat

The Pokédex gives no habitat; Bulbapedia says it lives in cold places such as mountains and frozen tundra. In The Teal Mask you evolve Piloswine or meet it in 5-star and 6-star Tera Raid Battles, and it is not available in Legends: Z-A.

Powers

Its Abilities are Oblivious, Snow Cloak and the hidden Thick Fat. It learns Double Hit on evolving, then Ice Fang, Earthquake, Blizzard and Thrash. Its base Attack of 130 and HP of 110 make it a hard-hitting bruiser.

Name origin

Mamoswine joins 'mammoth' and 'swine'. The Japanese name is Mammoo (マンムー), which blends 'mammoth' with būbū, the sound of oinking.

Design inspiration

Mamoswine appears to combine a woolly mammoth with a wild boar, which Bulbapedia says echoes the mangalica, a woolly-coated pig breed. Its eye mask resembles ski goggles. Bulbapedia also notes that 'mammoth' may trace back to Mansi words for 'earth' and 'horn', which could explain its Ground type. These are fan readings.

Evolution notes

Piloswine becomes Mamoswine by levelling up while it knows Ancient Power, and the Swinub line ends there.

In the games

In X and Y, the player can ride a rented Mamoswine through the deep snow of Route 17, known as Mamoswine Road, to reach Dendemille Town or Anistar City. Pryce, the Mahogany Gym Leader, uses one in HeartGold and SoulSilver rematches and always leads with it in Black 2 and White 2's World Tournament. Mamoswine debuted in Diamond and Pearl.

In the anime

Dawn's Piloswine evolved into Mamoswine in 'A Breed Stampede!', and for a while it would not listen to her until it understood how deeply she cared in 'Trials and Adulations!'. A herd of Mamoswine also helps Regigigas stop a sliding glacier in the film Giratina and the Sky Warrior.

Fun facts

• Because Piloswine could already learn Ancient Power in Generations II and III, Mamoswine could have existed then; Bulbapedia says Lickilicky shares this trait.
• Bulbapedia notes that several of its Pokédex entries, including Diamond, Pearl and Black 2, refer to how real woolly mammoths became extinct as the ice age ended.
• In Pokémon UNITE it starts as Swinub and evolves at level 5 and then level 9, Bulbapedia says.

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

Base stats

• HP: 110
• Attack: 130
• Defense: 80
• Sp. Atk: 70
• Sp. Def: 60
• Speed: 80

Mamoswine’s base stat total is 530. Its highest stat is Attack.

Type matchups

What is Mamoswine weak to?

Mamoswine takes extra damage from Fire (2×), Water (2×), Grass (2×), Fighting (2×), Steel (2×) moves.

It resists Poison (½×).

It is immune to Electric moves.

Evolution

What does Mamoswine evolve from?

Mamoswine evolves from Piloswine (Level up, knowing Ancient Power).

Mamoswine is the final stage of its evolution family.

The whole family: Swinub, Piloswine, Mamoswine.

• Swinub evolves into Piloswine at level 33.

Abilities

• Oblivious: Prevents infatuation and protects against Captivate.
• Snow Cloak: Increases evasion to 1.25× during snow or hail. Protects against hail damage.
• Thick Fat (hidden ability): Halves damage from Fire and Ice moves.

Moves

Moves Mamoswine learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

“Evo” means Mamoswine learns the move the moment it evolves: Double Hit.

TM moves (52)

Mamoswine can learn 52 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Charm, Mud-Slap, Scary Face, Protect, Ice Fang, Trailblaze, Facade, Bulldoze, Icy Wind, Mud Shot, Rock Tomb, Avalanche, Endure, Rain Dance, Sandstorm, Snowscape, Dig, Body Slam, Sleep Talk, Reflect, Rock Blast, Stomping Tantrum, Rest, Rock Slide, Body Press, Iron Head, Substitute, Stealth Rock, Heavy Slam, Amnesia, Earth Power, Reversal, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Tera Blast, Roar, Haze, Sand Tomb, Smack Down, Knock Off, High Horsepower, Icicle Spear, Double-Edge, Endeavor, Throat Chop, Curse, Hard Press.

Egg moves (7):Ancient Power, Bite, Curse, Double-Edge, Fissure, Freeze-Dry, Icicle Crash.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Field.
• Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
• Catch rate: 50 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 3 Attack effort values.
• Base experience yield: 239.

Pokédex entries

This species reached its zenith during the period known as the ice age. I suspect that Hisui's frigid climate is in harmony with Mamoswine's constitution, thus awakening hidden potential. (Legends: Arceus)

It looks strong, and that's exactly what it is. As the weather grows colder, its ice tusks grow longer, thicker, and more impressive. (Shield)

This Pokémon can be spotted in wall paintings from as far back as 10,000 years ago. For a while, it was thought to have gone extinct. (Sword)

Its impressive tusks are made of ice. The population thinned when it turned warm after the ice age. (Diamond, Pearl, Y, Alpha Sapphire)

A frozen Mamoswine was dug from ice dating back 10,000 years. This Pokémon has been around a long, long, long time. (HeartGold, X, Omega Ruby)

When the temperature rose at the end of the ice age, most Mamoswine disappeared. (Black 2, White 2)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Heaviest Ice type in Gen 4: 291 kg.
• Tallest Ice type in Gen 4: 2.5 m.
• Highest HP among Ice types in Gen 4: 110.
• Highest Attack among Ice types in Gen 4: 130.
• Highest base stat total among Ice types in Gen 4: 530.
• Tallest Ground type in Gen 4: 2.5 m.
• Taller than 93% of all Pokémon (2.5 m).
• Heavier than 95% of all Pokémon (291 kg).
• Base stat total 530, ranked #163 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is Attack, ranked #42 of 1,025.
• One of 3 Pokémon that are both Ice and Ground.
• One of 147 brown Pokémon.
• Number 87 of 107 Pokémon introduced in Generation 4 (Sinnoh).
• Part of an evolution family of 3 Pokémon.
• Can learn 64 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 50: about 6.5% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 8 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: Mamoswine (Pokémon), Serebii: Mamoswine (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (MAM-oh-swine): 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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