Tirtouga

Tirtouga
Cofagrigus
564
Carracosta
Ability	Solid Rock Sturdy Swift Swim (Hidden)
First game	Pokémon Black and White (2010)
Creator	Game Freak

Tirtouga<sup>(JPJapanese: プロトーガ

Romaji: Protoga)</sup> is a species of Pokémon in the series of the same name. It is a dual-type Water/Rock Pokémon that made its first appearance in the fifth Pokémon generation in the Black and White games. It is revived from the Cover Fossil.

Physiology and Behaviour

Tirtouga is a reptilian Pokémon resembling a baby leatherback sea turtle. Its body is blue with black spots on the edges of its flippers. Its black shell has six circular indentations in it. It has a black upper beak and a mask that covers most of its head. It has a light blue patch underneath its eyes.

Tirtouga's shell is very tough, and it can dive down to depths of as much as 1,000 meters. Tirtouga was known to actively hunt for prey to the extent that it would go on land to reach them. Tirtouga lived in the ancient oceans from about 100 million years ago. It now exists in the present thanks to being revived from fossils. Tirtouga is believed to be the ancestor of most turtle Pokémon.

Origin

Tirtouga appears to be based on a baby sea turtle, more specifically, a leatherback. It also may be based on Protostega, a large, prehistoric sea turtle. The Protostega is one of the largest known species of turtles, second only to the Archelon, which its evolution, Carracosta, may be based on.

In-game information

Pokédex entries

Title	Entry
Fifth Pokémon generation
Pokémon Black	Restored from a fossil, this Pokémon can dive to depths beyond half a mile.
Pokémon White	About 100 million years ago, these Pokémon swam in oceans. It is thought they also went on land to attack prey.
Pokémon Black 2	This Pokémon was restored from a fossil. It swam skillfully and dove to depths beyond half a mile.
Pokémon White 2	This Pokémon was restored from a fossil. It swam skillfully and dove to depths beyond half a mile.
Sixth Pokémon generation
Pokémon X	About 100 million years ago, these Pokémon swam in oceans. It is thought they also went on land to attack prey.
Pokémon Y	Restored from a fossil, this Pokémon can dive to depths beyond half a mile.
Pokémon Omega Ruby	About 100 million years ago, these Pokémon swam in oceans. It is thought they also went on land to attack prey.
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire	Restored from a fossil, this Pokémon can dive to depths beyond half a mile.
Seventh Pokémon generation
Pokémon Sun	Based on studies of its skeletal structure, it can apparently dive to ocean depths of over half a mile.
Pokémon Moon	Reputed to be the ancestor of most turtle Pokémon, it lived in warm seas approximately a hundred million years ago.
Pokémon Ultra Sun	It was restored from an ancient fossil. Tirtouga lived in the sea but came up onto the land to search for prey.
Pokémon Ultra Moon	Its hunting grounds encompassed a broad area, from the land to more than half a mile deep in the ocean.
Eighth Pokémon generation
Pokémon Sword	This Pokémon inhabited ancient seas. Although it can only crawl, it still comes up onto land in search of prey.
Pokémon Shield	Tirtouga is considered to be the ancestor of many turtle Pokémon. It was restored to life from a fossil.

Game locations

In the main games, Tirtouga is only obtainable by reviving one from a Cover Fossil. See List of Pokémon fossils for more details

Evolution

Tirtouga	Reach level 37.	Carracosta

Base Stats

Base Stats
HP	54
Attack	78
Defense	103
Sp. Attack	53
Sp. Defense	45
Speed	22
Total	355

Gallery

Sprites

Sprites
Black White File:PKMNBW564-S.png	Black 2 White 2 File:PKMNBW2564.png File:PKMNBW2564-S.png	X Y File:PKMNXY564.png File:PKMNXY564-S.png
Sword Shield File:PKMNSS564-S.png

Trivia

• Tirtouga's English category, "Prototurtle", may be a combination of proto- (prefix used to mean "original" or "primitive" derived from an Ancient Greek word meaning "first") and turtle.
• Tirtouga and its evolved form are the only Fossil Pokémon to have Rock as their secondary type.