Sealeo

87,6 kg for a creature that spends a good part of its time spinning objects on its nose. Its appearance is based on a seal, with walrus and sea lion features—a combination that fits the English name Sealeo, formed from “sea” or “seal” and “leo”. The Japanese Todoggler combines “todo”, used for Steller sea lions, and “juggler”, referring to its ability to juggle.

Pokédex entries present it as a curious animal guided largely by its sense of smell. When it finds something new, it touches it with its nose, smells it and rolls it around to recognise its texture. This habit also extends to other Pokémon: it may amuse itself by balancing a Spheal on its nose. It lives on ice floes and searches for prey while swimming.

It occupies the middle stage of its evolutionary line. It starts from Spheal when it reaches level 32 and still keeps a rounded silhouette, but it already reaches 1.1 m in height. At level 44 it evolves into Walrein, which swaps the balancing act for a much more imposing presence.

It is not a usual competitive choice in general formats. Its stats give it a bulky HP profile, with 90, but it is less convincing elsewhere: 60 Attack, 70 Defense, 75 Special Attack, 70 Special Defense and 45 Speed. It can take a hit and deal special damage in return, although it will rarely move before its opponent.

Thick Fat is the ability that gives it the most purpose. It weakens Fire- and Ice-type attacks, offsetting two defensive problems of its Ice/Water typing. Offensively, those types let it pressure Grass-, Ground-, Flying- and Dragon-type Pokémon with Ice Beam, while Aqua Tail covers targets that do not want to take a Water-type attack. Rest lets it recover HP, but forces it to accept passive turns.

The problem is that Ice/Water stacks weaknesses to Electric, Grass, Fighting and Rock, four types with common tools. Its 45 Speed also means that many opponents will hit it first. In older generations it did find a niche in lower-tier metagames, where its bulk, Thick Fat and support moves such as Rest could justify using it. In a normal playthrough, it works best as a transitional Pokémon: switch it in against Fire or Ice, punish the opponent with Ice Beam and get out before it is exposed to super-effective physical attacks.

The species belongs to the Water 1 and Field Egg Groups, so it shares breeding compatibility with Pokémon from either group. The gender ratio is 50 % for each sex. Hatching requires 20 cycles, equivalent to approximately 5355 steps using the usual cycle-to-step conversion.

Its catch rate is 120. That makes it moderately difficult to catch: it is not trivial, but it does not require a specific strategy like species with very low catch rates. Its habitat is Sea, which fits the entries that place it swimming beneath ice floes and tracking prey by smell.

Its evolution is linear and does not depend on friendship, items or moves. Spheal evolves into Sealeo at level 32; afterwards, Sealeo evolves into Walrein at level 44. That second stage leaves behind the round, playful shape and gives way to a much larger Pokémon.