Porygon-Z

Species          Quote “An additional program was installed to create a more advanced Pokémon, but it was apparently flawed. Porygon-Z moves oddly as a result.” — Porygon-Z's Pokédex entry[src]     C Porygon-Z   [Edit]   [Talk]

Porygon-Z<sup>(JPJapanese: ポリゴンZ

Romaji: PorygonZ)</sup> is a species of Pokémon in the series of the same name. It is a Normal Pokémon that made its first appearance in the fourth generation games Diamond and Pearl. It evolves from Porygon2 when traded holding a Dubious Disc.

Physiology and Behavior[]

Although technically a virtual, manmade Pokémon, Porygon-Z does have a physical body. Its head is fuchsia and ovoid in shape with a short, blunt antenna protruding upwards and a blue bill similar to that of a duck. Its eyes are yellow and have black rings, similar to a bulls-eye. The head is completely detached from the body and floats slightly above it. Its smooth, ovoid body is fuchsia with a blue ring connecting its arms. Two arms are loosely connected to their upper body and, other than their blue color, have no features. The tail is also blue and featureless but slightly resembles a paddle. Porygon-Z's offensive power has increased greatly from its time as Porygon2.

Porygon-Z was given additional software in order to increase its abilities. The initial idea was to give it the ability to travel through alien dimensions, though it did not work as planned. Instead, the Pokémon began showing highly erratic, unstable behavior and twitchy movements, making it difficult to work with for research. As a result, it is believed the experiment to create Porygon-Z was a failure. This has been attributed to the incompetence of the engineer improperly updating its programming. Because the update caused instability, academics can't seem to agree on whether Porygon-Z should be considered a true evolution of Porygon2. In ancient Hisui, people were confused about Porygon-Z and its evolutionary relatives due to them arriving through space-time distortions and being the product of far more advanced technology than what was available at the time.

Appearances[]

Main Pokémon games[]

Other Pokémon games[]

Porygon-Z appeared in PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure. Porygon-Z is referred to as a "he", even though the Porygon line is gender unknown. In addition, despite never having appeared in the anime outside of a brief cameo, it did receive an anime voice in the aforementioned game, like every other Pokémon in it.

Super Smash Bros. series[]

Porygon-Z appears as a trophy in the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.

Trophy descriptions[]

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS

Porygon is an artificial Pokémon created by humans. Given an Up-Grade, it becomes Porygon2. Then another mod turns it into Porygon-Z. You'd think two upgrades would make Porygon-Z the perfect Pokémon, but actually, the Dubious Disc used to make Porygon2 evolve seems to have introduced some bugs. Maybe a patch is in the works?

In the anime[]

Porygon-Z's only appearance in the anime was a cameo in the "World of Pokémon" opening of Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice, in which every Pokémon from the first five generations (apart from Genesect) appeared.

It is currently believed that Porygon-Z will not properly appear and will not be mentioned in the anime as a result of the Electric Soldier Porygon incident, and it is the only Generation IV Pokémon not to appear. Along with its pre-evolved form, it is also the only Pokémon prior to Generation VIII that is neither Legendary nor Mythical Pokémon to not appear in the anime.

Origin and inspiration[]

Porygon-Z seems to be based on a bird or paper crane that has been rendered using computer software. The head-tipping motion it displays in some games is reminiscent of a drinking bird toy. Because it resembles a deformed version of Porygon2, evolves using a Dubious Disc, and displays unpredictable behavior, it may be based a computer virus or an unauthorized software patch that causes bugs in a program. Its Pokédex entries imply a connection to artificial intelligence and robotic spacecraft. It also bears resemblance to a balloon animal.

Porygon-Z is a combination of a corruption of polygon and the letter Z, the latter referring to either the Z axis in a 3D coordinate system, or the fact that it is the final stage in its evolutionary line, with Z being the final letter of the Latin alphabet. Z could also be a corruption of the number 2, referring to its status as a glitched evolution of Porygon2.

In-game information[]

Pokédex entries[]

Game locations[]

In the main games, Porygon-Z is only obtainable by evolving Porygon2.

Evolution[]

Porygon	Trade holding Up-Grade	Porygon2	Trade holding Dubious Disc	Porygon-Z

Base Stats[]

Moveset[]

Main article: Porygon-Z/moveset

Gallery[]

Sprites[]

Sprites
Diamond Pearl File:PKMNDP474-S.png Platinum File:PKMNP474-S.png Heart Soul File:PKMNHGSS474.png File:PKMNHGSS474-S.png
Black White File:PKMNBW474-S.png Black 2 White 2 File:PKMNBW2474.png File:PKMNBW2474-S.png X Y File:PKMNXY474-S.png
Sword Shield File:PKMNSS474-S.png Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl File:PKMNBDSP474.png File:PKMNBDSP474-S.png Legends Arceus File:PKMNPLA474-S.png
Scarlet Violet File:PKMNSV474-S.png

Trivia[]

• Porygon-Z is the only Pokémon whose Japanese name is spelled with a character from a foreign alphabet.
• The Dubious Disc's name implies that Porygon-Z, unlike its pre-evolution, was not authorized by Silph Co.
• Porygon-Z's pre-evolutions have their own signature Conversion move, but no new Conversion-style move was made for Porygon-Z.
• Since no leveling up is required to evolve either Porygon or Porygon2, Porygon-Z is the only Pokémon that can be at level 1 after evolving twice.
• Porygon-Z is the only Pokémon that evolves from a Pokémon that evolves via trading.
• Porygon-Z is tied with Drampa, Bloodmoon Ursaluna, and Mega Pidgeot for the highest base Special Attack stat of all Normal-type Pokémon.
• Porygon-Z is the only Generation IV Pokémon that has not appeared in the main anime.
• Porygon-Z and its pre-evolutions are the only Pokémon where all three members of the evolutionary line can learn both Hyper Beam and Giga Impact. This is due to the fact that all three were fully evolved Pokémon at the time of their debut.