#0137 · Kanto · Generation 1

Porygon

Virtual Pokémon · Normal-type

Porygon is a Normal-type Pokémon, the Virtual Pokémon, number 137 (#0137) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 1 and comes from the Kanto region. It is 0.8 m tall and weighs 36.5 kg.

Porygon is the Virtual Pokémon, the first artificial Pokémon, made entirely of programming code. It does not breathe, can turn itself into data to travel through cyberspace, and the Pokédex says its code is copy-protected, so nobody can duplicate it.

How to pronounce Porygon

Porygon is pronounced POR-ih-gon. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Porygon said out loud:

In Japanese it is ポリゴン.

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Porygon is built from pink and blue polygons: a pink head with a blue beak, a pink body with a blue front, blue feet and a blue rectangular tail. It is 0.8 m tall and weighs 36.5 kg. The Pokédex says it was made with the latest technology of its day, much of it now obsolete, and its programming has only basic actions.

Behaviour

Porygon can revert entirely to program data and enter cyberspace, where the Pokédex says it now checks for suspicious data. One entry calls it the only Pokémon people expect might fly into space, though none has managed it yet.

Habitat

Urban, according to the Pokédex habitat list; Bulbapedia says it is usually found in computers and labs. In Scarlet and Violet it arrives by transfer or trade, or wild in The Indigo Disk; in Legends: Z-A it comes by trade or in the Mega Dimension DLC's Hyperspace Lumiose.

Diet

It does not need to eat or breathe.

Powers

Trace copies an opponent's Ability and Download raises the stat that suits the foe's weaker defence, with Analytic hidden. Conversion and Conversion 2 change its type, and Bulbapedia says no other Pokémon could learn them before Generation IX. It also learns Tri Attack and Zap Cannon.

Name origin

Porygon comes from porigon, the Japanese word for 'polygon', the flat shapes used to build 3D graphics. The Japanese name is the same word, Porygon (ポリゴン).

Design inspiration

In a 1997 magazine interview, Satoshi Tajiri said Porygon was made out of irony. People told him he was too late making a Game Boy game and should move to 3D polygon graphics, so he put a Pokémon made of polygons into sprite-based Red and Green (Red and Blue outside Japan).

Evolution notes

Porygon evolves into Porygon2 by trading while holding an Upgrade. Its line is the only one that evolves by trading twice.

In the games

Players first find Porygon at the Game Corner in Celadon City in Red and Blue. In Legends: Arceus it arrives through space-time distortions in the Crimson Mirelands, and in Legends: Z-A a Mega Dimension side mission, 'Porygon's Polygon Count', involves trading one.

In the anime

Its only major episode, commonly translated 'Electric Soldier Porygon', was first shown in Japan on 16 December 1997. A flashing effect made many viewers ill, so the episode was never aired again anywhere.

Fun facts

• In the Red and Green beta its English name was Poregon.
• It is the only Pokémon whose Japanese category was changed: from 'CG Pokémon' in Red and Green to 'Virtual Pokémon' from Japanese Blue onwards.
• Bulbapedia says its line was fully evolved in its debut generation, making it the only three-stage family whose members can all learn both Hyper Beam and Giga Impact.

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

Base stats

• HP: 65
• Attack: 60
• Defense: 70
• Sp. Atk: 85
• Sp. Def: 75
• Speed: 40

Porygon’s base stat total is 395. Its highest stat is Sp. Atk.

Type matchups

What is Porygon weak to?

Porygon takes extra damage from Fighting (2×) moves.

It is immune to Ghost moves.

Evolution

How does Porygon evolve?

Porygon evolves into Porygon2 (Trade holding Upgrade).

The whole family: Porygon, Porygon2, Porygon-Z.

• Porygon2 evolves into Porygon-Z (Trade holding Dubious Disc).

Abilities

• Trace: Copies an opponent's ability upon entering battle.
• Download: Raises the attack stat corresponding to the opponents' weaker defense one stage upon entering battle.
• Analytic (hidden ability): Strengthens moves to 1.3× their power when moving last.

Moves

Moves Porygon learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (36)

Porygon can learn 36 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Agility, Protect, Psybeam, Thief, Charge Beam, Facade, Swift, Icy Wind, Endure, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Psyshock, Zen Headbutt, Foul Play, Sleep Talk, Thunder Wave, Rest, Eerie Impulse, Substitute, Trick, Shadow Ball, Psychic, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Giga Impact, Trick Room, Hyper Beam, Thunder, Solar Beam, Tera Blast, Charge, Gravity, Double-Edge, Electroweb.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Mineral.
• Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
• Catch rate: 45 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 Sp. Atk effort value.
• Base experience yield: 79.

Pokédex entries

It has no discernible heartbeat and does not seem to draw breath, and yet it appears to function without issue. I cannot even begin to explain this utterly bizarre anomaly. (Legends: Arceus)

In recent years, this species has been very helpful in cyberspace. These Pokémon will go around checking to make sure no suspicious data exists. (Shield)

State-of-the-art technology was used to create Porygon. It was the first artificial Pokémon to be created via computer programming. (Sword)

The only Pokémon that people anticipate can fly into space. None has managed the feat yet, however. (Let’s Go, Pikachu!, Let’s Go, Eevee!)

It was built 20 years ago by scientists who dreamed of exploring space. Their dreams have yet to come true. (Ultra Moon)

This Pokémon was created using the cutting-edge science of 20 years ago, so many parts of it have since become obsolete. (Ultra Sun)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Highest Sp. Atk among Normal types in Gen 1: 85, shared with 1 other.
• Taller than 39% of all Pokémon (0.8 m).
• Heavier than 59% of all Pokémon (36.5 kg).
• Base stat total 395, ranked #640 of 1,025.
• One of 131 Normal-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 60 pink Pokémon.
• Number 137 of 151 Pokémon introduced in Generation 1 (Kanto).
• Part of an evolution family of 3 Pokémon.
• Can learn 47 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 45: about 5.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 19 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: Porygon (Pokémon), Serebii: Porygon (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (POR-ih-gon): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 19 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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