Golbat (Pokémon)
Golbat (Japanese: ゴルバット Golbat) is a dual-type Poison/Flying Pokémon introduced in Generation I.
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It evolves from Zubat starting at level 22 and evolves into Crobat when leveled up with high friendship.
Biology
Golbat is a large, blue, bat-like Pokémon with purple wing membranes. It has small eyes with slit-like pupils, along with tiny triangular ears with purple insides, and a massive mouth with two fangs in each jaw. The fangs are smaller on a female Golbat. While its mouth seems to be otherwise empty, Golbat occasionally displays a long, purple tongue. It has short legs with long, tiny feet. Despite this, Golbat can also walk skillfully on the ground.
Golbat's fangs have hollow tubes specialized for sucking blood. While they are strong enough to pierce thick hide, they are also unexpectedly fragile. There are some Golbat that have missing fangs as a result of their hunger-fueled attempt to try drinking blood from Steel-type Pokémon. It feeds on the blood of both Pokémon and humans and is capable of drinking over 10 ounces (300 milliliters) of blood in one sitting. Golbat drinks so much blood that its blood type will change to that of its victim following a feed. It is also gluttonous, occasionally gorging itself to the extent that it becomes too heavy to fly, leaving itself vulnerable in turn. Golbat is also willing to share gathered blood with other members of its kind that are hungry. Golbat is nocturnal and can be found quite easily in caves.
In the anime
Main series

Brock's Golbat
Brock's Golbat evolved from Zubat in Hassle in the Castle. It eventually evolved into a Crobat in Control Freak!.
Koga's Golbat
In The Ninja Poké-Showdown, Koga's Zubat went up against Charmander in his rematch against Ash, and it was eventually defeated. It later reappeared in a flashback during The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!.
Other
In Round One - Begin!, a Golbat was the third Pokémon that Mandi used against Ash during the first round of the Indigo Plateau Conference. It was defeated by Kingler. It reappeared in a flashback in Friends to the End.
A Golbat appeared in Fight for the Meteorite under the ownership of multiple Team Magma Grunts.
In The Ribbon Cup Caper, Brodie used a Golbat to escape with Haze after stealing a golden Poké Ball.
In The Scheme Team, Agatha used a Golbat to save Ash's Pikachu from the hands of Team Rocket. Afterwards, it worked together with Pikachu to send them blasting off.
Starting in Enter Galactic!, Team Galactic Grunts used multiple Golbat in several episodes of Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl.
A Golbat appeared in Mutiny in the Bounty and Ill-Will Hunting!, under the ownership of J's henchmen.
A Golbat appeared in Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, Meowth, Colress and Team Rivalry!, and Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals!, under the ownership of Team Plasma Grunts.
A Golbat appeared in Turning Heads and Training Hard!, under the ownership of a Team Skull Grunt.
A Golbat appeared in PK15.
Minor appearances
In The Whistle Stop, Brock's Zubat accidentally lured multiple Golbat with supersonic waves.
In The Power of One, multiple Golbat sensed the disturbance caused by Lawrence III.
A Golbat appeared in the Japanese credits of Pikachu's Rescue Adventure.
In The Fortune Hunters, a Golbat was stolen by Butch and Cassidy.
In Hokey Poké Balls!, a Golbat was stolen by Team Rocket.
In That's Just Swellow, a Golbat participated in the Crossgate PokéRinger competition.
In Who's Flying Now?, a Golbat was featured in the Fortree City Feather Festival.
Multiple Golbat appeared in Destiny Deoxys.
Multiple Golbat appeared in a cave in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate! and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness.
In A Stealthy Challenge!, multiple Golbat ended up separating Ash, his friends, and Sanpei.
In To Top a Totem!, multiple Golbat flying in the air just as a Psyduck fell from the sky.
Multiple Golbat appeared in A Seasoned Search!.
A Golbat appeared in a flashback in Lulled to La-La Land!.
In I Choose You!, a Golbat was under the control of Marshadow.
A Golbat appeared in The Power of Us.
Multiple Golbat appeared in Evolving Research!.
In The Battlefield of Truth and Love!, a Golbat was watching Bewear and Stufful put on a performance in their hot springs.
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Pokémon Generations

A Golbat appeared in The Lake of Rage, under the ownership of a Team Rocket Grunt. Along with Grimer, Magnemite, Raticate, and Houndoom, it was defeated by Lance's Dragonite during Lance and Ethan's infiltration of the Team Rocket HQ.
In The Vision, a Team Magma Grunt's Golbat was defeated by Brendan's Sceptile during the pair's intrusion of the Team Magma Hideout.
Multiple Golbat appeared in The New World.
In the manga

Ash & Pikachu
Two Golbat appeared in Two Groups Attacking! Magma VS. Aqua, one under the ownership of Tabitha and the other under the ownership of a Team Magma Grunt.
Magical Pokémon Journey
In Adventuring the Stone, Pikachu defeated a flock of Golbat so that he and the others could reach the legendary Stone of Adventure found deep within a cave.
Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure
A Golbat appeared in JBA4, under the ownership of a Team Rocket Grunt.
Pokémon Adventures
- Main article: Koga's Golbat
Koga has a Golbat as one of his team members, which first appeared in That Awful Arbok!. It is special in that it is able to use Supersonic in order to project a clear visual of the locations of others, using its gaping mouth as a screen. Agatha also possesses a Golbat, which fought Koga's Golbat in Muk Raking.
Multiple Golbat appeared in Chinchou in Charge, where they attacked Misty, Brock, and Erika in the Tohjo Falls alongside multiple Zubat and Crobat.
A Golbat appeared in The Last Battle XIII as one of the Pokémon sent to participate in the fight in Ilex Forest.
Multiple Golbat made cameo appearances in Guile from Mawile and Mashing Makuhita.
Much later, in My, My, My Mimic, a Golbat was caught by Carr to try to ambush Red and Blue. However, it was frozen and beaten by the newly arrived Lorelei.
Multiple Golbat appeared in Lucky Lucario I.
A Golbat appeared in Out-Odding Oddish, under the ownership of a Pokéathlon participant.
Team Rocket General Petrel owns a Golbat as a means of aerial transportation. It first appeared in Fortunately for Feraligatr.
A Team Plasma Grunt's Golbat was seen in The Final Battle: Crushed Ambition.
A Golbat appeared in A Photoshoot and the Abandoned Thrifty Megamart, where it was seen inside the abandoned Thrifty Megamart.
Plumeria's Golbat first appeared in Play the Melody That Echoes in the Altar, where it was seen chasing after Faba.
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!
Jupiter owns a Golbat that first appeared in Team Galactic's Conspiracy, Revealed!!.
Saturn also has a Golbat. It first appeared in Challenge! The Fortress Of Steel!!.
Golbat is commonly owned by Team Galactic Grunts. One first appeared in The Legendary Pokémon, Captured.
Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys
Black owns a Golbat in Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys.
Pokémon Gotta Catch 'Em All
A Golbat appeared in GDZ23.
Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition ~ Ranse's Color Picture Scroll ~
A Golbat appeared in The Blue Scroll: Mitsunari, Kiyomasa, and Masanori, under the ownership of Nene.
Pokémon Pocket Monsters
Green caught a Golbat in The Big Battle In The Viridian Forest!!.
Green caught a second Golbat in Receive the Moon Stone!! after it evolved from a Zubat.
A Golbat appeared in The Legendary Pokémon Appears!!.
A Golbat appeared in Fierce Competition at the Pokémon Baseball Tournament!, where it was one of the Pokémon that took part in a baseball match.
A Golbat appeared in Panic on the Luxury Liner?!, under the ownership of Agatha.
Giovanni sent out a Golbat in Good-Bye, Pikachu?! to force Red into surrendering Dratini over.
A Golbat appeared in Demanding Tests at the Pokémon School!.
Game data
NPC appearances
- Pokémon Stadium 2: Golbat stars in the mini-game "Gutsy Golbat." The object is to fly around and collect as many hearts as can be collected; the player with the most hearts at the end of the cave is the winner.
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team: Golbat is part of an unnamed rescue team that gathers at Pokémon Square just before the player and partner are able to access Magma Cavern.
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HP: 75 |
135 - 182 | 260 - 354 | |
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63 - 128 | 121 - 251 | |
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72 - 139 | 139 - 273 | |
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85 - 156 | 166 - 306 | |
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Golbat is available in Sword and Shield Version 1.3.0+, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
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- Golbat cannot evolve into Crobat in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen until the player obtains the National Pokédex, as its evolution will be interrupted.
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Trivia
- No other Pokémon has the same type combination as Golbat and its evolutionary relatives.
- Golbat and its evolutionary relatives share their category with Woobat. They are all known as the Bat Pokémon.
- Golbat and its other evolutionary forms are the only Pokémon (other than Mew) that are capable of learning Brave Bird whose designs aren't at least partially inspired by birds.
- The depiction of Golbat's large tongue has been sporadic, having not appeared in any game in over a decade:
- The only core series games to depict its tongue were Pokémon Red and Blue.
- The last game to ever depict its tongue was Pokémon Battle Revolution.
- Golbat and its evolutionary relatives are the only Poison-type Pokémon in the Flying Egg Group.
Origin
Golbat seems to be based on a bat, particularly vampire bats, which bite other animals to feed on their blood. Its Poison-type may be inspired by either the anticoagulant properties of vampire bat saliva or the fact that bats are infamous for spreading deadly diseases such as rabies. Its gaping maw could be a caricature of mythological vampires.
Name origin
Golbat may be derived from gollop, a variation of gulp (to eat or drink quickly or greedily; referring to its appetite for blood) and bat. It could also be a shortening of golden-capped fruit bat.
It may also be derived from the Golubatz fly, an alternative name for the Simulium colombaschense, a European black fly noted for blood sucking and spreading disease, which may have inspired its Poison-type and association with blood-sucking bats.
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