Ting-Lu
Ting-Lu is a Dark/Ground-type Pokémon, the Ruinous Pokémon, number 1003 (#1003) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 9 and comes from the Paldea region. It is 2.7 m tall and weighs 699.7 kg.
Ting-Lu is a hulking deer of layered rock wearing a cracked ritual vessel on its head, and the Pokédex says that slowly lowering that head onto the ground splits the earth with fissures roughly 50 m (over 160 ft) deep.
How to pronounce Ting-Lu
Ting-Lu is pronounced ting-LOO. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.
Listen to Ting-Lu said out loud:
In Japanese it is ディンルー (Dinlu).
Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.
Lore
Biology
Ting-Lu stands 2.7 m tall and weighs 699.7 kg. It has a humped back of stacked rock in browns and tans, red markings on its head and small red eyes. The cracked vessel on its head has an ornate pattern like eyes on the front and antler-like spikes round the rim. The Scarlet Pokédex says fear soaked into an ancient ritual vessel, which then took on rocks and dirt as a body; Bulbapedia treats the vessel as the true Pokémon.
Behaviour
Ting-Lu is slow and enormously heavy. The one behaviour the Pokédex records is that it brings its exceedingly heavy head down onto the ground bit by bit, and that alone is enough to open huge cracks in the earth. Its entries mention no hostility or friendliness, only that it was born from fear.
Habitat
The Pokédex gives no natural habitat. In Paldea it is sealed in the Groundblight Shrine, on the Socarrat Trail.
Powers
Its Ability Vessel of Ruin lowers the Special Attack of every other Pokémon in battle. Its base HP of 155 is the highest of any Ground type, and with 125 Defense and moves such as Spikes, Stealth Rock, Whirlwind and Earthquake it works as a bulky hazard setter that can also hit back with 110 Attack.
Name origin
Ting-Lu may combine dǐng (an ancient Chinese cauldron) and lù (deer). The Japanese name is Dinlu (ディンルー), which may be built from the same two words.
Design inspiration
The head vessel looks like a dǐng, a cauldron that symbolised imperial authority, while the body seems based on deer such as the moose and Père David's deer, perhaps with the huge antlers of the extinct Irish elk in mind. Bulbapedia notes that cauldron and deer together could nod to two Chinese phrases about contesting for a throne, and that Ting-Lu may correspond to Tāotiè, a gluttonous bronze-vessel beast among the Four Perils. These are fan readings.
In the games
Ting-Lu is one of the four treasures of ruin that you can challenge in Scarlet and Violet once its shrine is unsealed, and you can catch only one per save file. In Pokémon Masters EX it forms a sync pair with Maxie. It is not available in Legends: Z-A.
In the anime
In the Pokémon Horizons episode HZ153, Coral and Sidian break the Groundblight Shrine's seal by accident, and Ting-Lu comes out to face them and Ult.
Fun facts
- Bulbapedia says the treasures of ruin were the first Pokémon to have their base stats changed by a patch; Ting-Lu lost 10 base HP and 5 base Defense but gained 5 base Special Attack.
- Bulbapedia suggests its stocky, stone-layered body may also recall the verracos, carved stone animals found in north-western Iberia, the real-world area its Groundblight Shrine corresponds to.
- Among Generation IX Dark types it is the heaviest, the tallest and the slowest.
Base stats
- HP: 155
- Attack: 110
- Defense: 125
- Sp. Atk: 55
- Sp. Def: 80
- Speed: 45
Ting-Lu’s base stat total is 570. Its highest stat is HP.
Type matchups
What is Ting-Lu weak to?
Ting-Lu takes extra damage from Water (2×), Grass (2×), Ice (2×), Fighting (2×), Bug (2×), Fairy (2×) moves.
It resists Poison (½×), Rock (½×), Ghost (½×), Dark (½×).
It is immune to Electric, Psychic moves.
Evolution
Ting-Lu does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.
Abilities
- Vessel of Ruin: Lowers Special Attack of all Pokémon except itself.
Moves
Moves Ting-Lu learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet
| Level | Move | Type | Category | Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mean Look | Normal | Status | — |
| 1 | Sand Tomb | Ground | Physical | 35 |
| 1 | Spite | Ghost | Status | — |
| 5 | Spikes | Ground | Status | — |
| 10 | Payback | Dark | Physical | 50 |
| 15 | Stomp | Normal | Physical | 65 |
| 20 | Bulldoze | Ground | Physical | 60 |
| 25 | Whirlwind | Normal | Status | — |
| 30 | Taunt | Dark | Status | — |
| 35 | Thrash | Normal | Physical | 120 |
| 40 | Dark Pulse | Dark | Special | 80 |
| 45 | Stomping Tantrum | Ground | Physical | 75 |
| 50 | Ruination | Dark | Special | 1 |
| 55 | Throat Chop | Dark | Physical | 80 |
| 60 | Rock Slide | Rock | Physical | 75 |
| 65 | Memento | Dark | Status | — |
| 70 | Earthquake | Ground | Physical | 100 |
| 75 | Fissure | Ground | Physical | — |
TM moves (38)
Ting-Lu can learn 38 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Mud-Slap, Scary Face, Protect, Facade, Bulldoze, Hex, Snarl, Mud Shot, Rock Tomb, Endure, Sunny Day, Sandstorm, Dig, Zen Headbutt, Body Slam, Sleep Talk, Stomping Tantrum, Rest, Rock Slide, Taunt, Body Press, Spikes, Dark Pulse, Substitute, Stealth Rock, Heavy Slam, Earth Power, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Tera Blast, Sand Tomb, Spite, Lash Out, Double-Edge, Throat Chop.
Breeding & training
- Gender: genderless.
- Egg groups: Undiscovered.
- Egg cycles: 50 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 6,400).
- Catch rate: 6 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 Defense effort values.
- Base experience yield: 285.
Pokédex entries
It slowly brings its exceedingly heavy head down upon the ground, splitting the earth open with huge fissures that run over 160 feet deep. (Violet)
The fear poured into an ancient ritual vessel has clad itself in rocks and dirt to become a Pokémon. (Scarlet)
Names around the world
| Japanese | ディンルー |
|---|---|
| Romaji | Dinlu |
| French | Dinglu |
| German | Dinglu |
| Spanish | Ting-Lu |
| Italian | Ting-Lu |
| Korean | 딩루 |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 古鼎鹿 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 古鼎鹿 |
Trivia
- Highest HP among Ground types: 155.
- Highest Defense among Dark types: 125.
- Heaviest Ground type in Gen 9: 699.7 kg.
- Tallest Ground type in Gen 9: 2.7 m.
- Highest HP among Ground types in Gen 9: 155.
- Heaviest Dark type in Gen 9: 699.7 kg.
- Tallest Dark type in Gen 9: 2.7 m.
- Slowest Dark type in Gen 9: 45 Speed.
- Highest HP among Dark types in Gen 9: 155.
- Highest Defense among Dark types in Gen 9: 125.
- Taller than 95% of all Pokémon (2.7 m).
- Heavier than 99% of all Pokémon (699.7 kg).
- Base stat total 570, ranked #93 of 1,025.
- Its best stat is HP, ranked #10 of 1,025.
- One of 4 Pokémon that are both Dark and Ground.
- One of 147 brown Pokémon.
- Number 98 of 120 Pokémon introduced in Generation 9 (Paldea).
- Can learn 46 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
- Catch rate 6: about 0.8% per Poké Ball at full health.
- Appears in 2 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: Ting-Lu (Pokémon), Serebii: Ting-Lu (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex), Bulbapedia: Treasures of ruin.
- Pronunciation (ting-LOO): no English source says it out loud, so it is our best guess from the parts of the name.
Last checked: . Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.
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