#0708 · Kalos · Generation 6

Phantump

Stump Pokémon · Ghost/Grass-type

Phantump is a Ghost/Grass-type Pokémon, the Stump Pokémon, number 708 (#0708) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 6 and comes from the Kalos region. It is 0.4 m tall and weighs 7 kg.

Phantump is the Stump Pokémon, a Ghost and Grass type born when a spirit moves into a rotten tree stump. The Pokédex says it only wants to make friends, and legend says its green leaves cure any illness, though they wither the moment they are plucked.

How to pronounce Phantump

Phantump is pronounced FAN-tump. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Phantump said out loud:

In Japanese it is ボクレー (Bokurei).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Phantump is 0.4 m tall and weighs 7 kg: a wispy black body with nubby arms beneath a small brown stump, with a wavy branch sticking out of each side and red eyes visible through two holes. Old tales in the Pokédex say the spirit inside is a child who was lost in the forest.

Behaviour

Its cries sound like a child's voice or eerie screams, and people who follow them can end up hopelessly lost deep in the forest. The Pokédex says it wanders the woods searching for friends.

Habitat

The Pokédex says it prefers abandoned forests. In Scarlet and Violet it is wild only in Kitakami, from The Teal Mask, including 3-star Tera Raid Battles; in Paldea it arrives by trade or from HOME. In Legends: Z-A it lives in Wild Zone 13 of Rouge District, and the Mega Dimension DLC adds Hyperspace Lumiose.

Powers

Natural Cure heals status problems when it switches out, Frisk reveals a foe's held item, and Harvest is hidden. It uses Will-O-Wisp, Hex, Leech Seed and Phantom Force, and its signature Forest's Curse adds the Grass type to a target. Attack 70 is its best stat, and Speed 38 makes it slow.

Name origin

Phantump may combine 'phantom' and 'stump'. The Japanese name is Bokurei (ボクレー), possibly from the readings of the kanji in kodama (木霊): boku ('tree') and rei ('spirit').

Design inspiration

James Turner designed Phantump and Trevenant. Phantump looks modelled on the stump of a kodama, a Japanese tree spirit, and resembles other tree spirits such as dryads. Its Shiny colouring may reflect an aspen or birch.

Evolution notes

Phantump evolves into Trevenant when traded, with no held item needed.

In the games

In Sun and Moon Phantump lives at Memorial Hill, and in Sword and Shield in the Glimwood Tangle. It first appeared in X and Y, on Route 16 and in the Friend Safari's Ghost-type Safari.

In the anime

Phantump debuted in the series in 'Making Friends and Influencing Villains!', where Ash and his friends helped a Shiny one reach its mountaintop home. Goh caught one in 'A Festival Reunion!'.

Fun facts

• Phantump and Trevenant are the only Pokémon that can learn Forest's Curse.
• Bulbapedia sees Phantump and Pumpkaboo as counterparts: both are Grass and Ghost first stages that evolve by trade, and each has a signature move that gives its target an extra type.
• In the poke.si data, Phantump and Trevenant are the only Pokémon with the Amorphous and Grass Egg Group pairing.

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

Base stats

• HP: 43
• Attack: 70
• Defense: 48
• Sp. Atk: 50
• Sp. Def: 60
• Speed: 38

Phantump’s base stat total is 309. Its highest stat is Attack.

Type matchups

What is Phantump weak to?

Phantump takes extra damage from Fire (2×), Ice (2×), Flying (2×), Ghost (2×), Dark (2×) moves.

It resists Water (½×), Electric (½×), Grass (½×), Ground (½×).

It is immune to Normal, Fighting moves.

Evolution

How does Phantump evolve?

Phantump evolves into Trevenant (Trade).

The whole family: Phantump, Trevenant.

Abilities

• Natural Cure: Cures any major status ailment upon switching out.
• Frisk: Reveals an opponent's held item upon entering battle.
• Harvest (hidden ability): Has a 50% chance of restoring a used Berry after each turn if the Pokémon has held no items in the meantime.

Moves

Moves Phantump learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (45)

Phantump can learn 45 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Protect, Confuse Ray, Thief, Trailblaze, Facade, Bulldoze, Hex, Magical Leaf, Night Shade, Endure, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Dig, Shadow Claw, Foul Play, Sleep Talk, Seed Bomb, Reflect, Grass Knot, Poison Jab, Rest, Rock Slide, Imprison, Dark Pulse, Skill Swap, Substitute, Will-O-Wisp, Trick, Giga Drain, Shadow Ball, Energy Ball, Psychic, Grassy Terrain, Phantom Force, Trick Room, Solar Beam, Tera Blast, Spite, Grassy Glide, Poltergeist, Lash Out, Pain Split, Psych Up, Skitter Smack, Curse.

Egg moves (3):Ally Switch, Disable, Sucker Punch.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Grass, Amorphous.
• Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
• Catch rate: 120 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Medium (1,000,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 1 Attack effort value.
• Base experience yield: 62.

Pokédex entries

With a voice like a human child's, it cries out to lure adults deep into the forest, getting them lost among the trees. (Shield)

After a lost child perished in the forest, their spirit possessed a tree stump, causing the spirit's rebirth as this Pokémon. (Sword)

An unknown spirit came to lodge in a tree stump, creating this Pokémon. A cure-all can be made from an infusion of its green leaves. (Ultra Moon)

By imitating the voice of a child, it causes people to get hopelessly lost deep in the forest. It's trying to make friends with them. (Ultra Sun)

According to legend, medicine to cure any illness can be made by plucking the green leaves on its head, brewing them, and boiling down the liquid. (Moon)

These Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died in the forest. Their cries sound like eerie screams. (Sun)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Shortest Grass type in Gen 6: 0.4 m, shared with 2 others.
• Slowest Grass type in Gen 6: 38 Speed, shared with 1 other.
• Lowest base stat total among Grass types in Gen 6: 309.
• Shortest Ghost type in Gen 6: 0.4 m, shared with 1 other.
• Lowest base stat total among Ghost types in Gen 6: 309.
• Taller than 11% of all Pokémon (0.4 m).
• Heavier than 21% of all Pokémon (7 kg).
• Base stat total 309, ranked #821 of 1,025.
• One of 10 Pokémon that are both Ghost and Grass.
• One of 147 brown Pokémon.
• Number 59 of 72 Pokémon introduced in Generation 6 (Kalos).
• Part of an evolution family of 2 Pokémon.
• Can learn 58 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 120: about 15.7% 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: Phantump (Pokémon), Serebii: Phantump (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (FAN-tump): 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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