Golduck
Original Title:ゴルダック
Languages:
- Chinese: 哥达鸭/哥達鴨
- Japanese: ゴルダック
- English: Golduck
- Spanish: Golduck
- French: Akwakwak
- Russian: Голдак
- Thai: โกลดัก
Parent Title:
宝可梦 宠物小精灵, ポケットモンスター, Pokemon
Golduck (Japanese: ゴルダック Golduck) is a Water-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I. It evolves from Psyduck starting at level 33. Golduck is a blue, bipedal Pokémon resembling a duck or platypus, with red eyes, a cream-colored beak, a red gem in the center of its forehead, and four spikes on the back of its head. Its hands and feet each have three clawed digits with cream-colored webbing in between. Its body is specially adapted to have a hydrodynamic shape, and it uses its long tail as a rudder to steer. Golduck is a fast swimmer, capable of out-swimming even the most athletic of humans. The gem on its forehead glows when it uses its psychic powers, and occasionally when it swims at full speed. In the past, it was overhunted due to the belief that the gem granted supernatural powers. In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Golduck can use telepathy to share knowledge with its Trainer and other Pokémon. Golduck is typically found swimming in lakes, where it hunts fish, disabling, capturing and then bringing its prey ashore. Old tales claim Golduck punishes those who defile their rivers by dragging them away.