Silcoon

A white, smooth silkworm cocoon hanging from a branch. That’s what’s here, with no metaphors: silk produced by the animal itself, stretched into a capsule that holds itself against the wood and stays there for as long as necessary.

The Pokédex entries focus on one unusual detail for a cocoon — it doesn’t eat, but it does drink. It collects rainwater and dew on the silk’s surface and uses that to quench its thirst. It isn’t blind inside, either: two small holes in the fabric let it watch what’s happening outside while it waits.

And waiting is its entire purpose. It appears at level 7, when Wurmple changes form, and disappears at 10 after becoming Beautifly. Three levels of lifespan, which in a normal playthrough means fifteen minutes of gameplay.

It is 60 centimeters tall and weighs 10 kilograms, more than a ball of silk that size would suggest. Its official category is the Cocoon Pokémon, which it shares with Cascoon, the other possible outcome of the same split. Its Pokédex color is white and its body shape is spherical.

205 base points spread across six stats, and none reaches 60. Its best stat is Defense at 55, followed by 50 HP and 35 Attack; the special side bottoms out at a pair of 25s. Its Speed, 15, is among the lowest in the entire Pokédex, so it always moves last here.

Shed Skin is its only Ability and it has no Hidden Ability, which already leaves it without the hidden card that almost every modern species has. It cures status problems by shedding its skin: it doesn’t force it to spend a turn, but it isn’t immediate either, so it can get rid of poison or paralysis over the course of a long battle, not save a specific turn.

Its exclusive movepool consists of three moves, with no compatible TM. Iron Defense from the start, Poison Sting with 15 power at level 1, and Tackle with 40 at level 6. With 35 Attack behind it, its offensive ceiling is a joke. As a pure Bug type, it handles Fighting, Ground, and Grass well, but folds to Fire, Rock, and Flying, three attacking types that are everywhere on any Hoenn route.

So where does it make sense? As a temporary stop and a training target. It yields 2 Defense EVs when defeated and gives 72 base experience, while that early Iron Defense lets it double its Defense a couple of times and hang on while the rest of the team switches. In a battle against another Trainer, there’s nothing to gain.

It belongs to the Bug Egg Group and no other, with an exactly even gender split: 50% female. Its 15 hatch cycles equal about 4080 steps, among the shortest stretches there are, and it learns no Egg Moves, so breeding it is not about passing down any legacy.

There’s one detail worth keeping clear: a Silcoon never hatches from the Egg. A Wurmple does, and with it the coin toss starts again. The evolution happens at level 7, and that is the only visible requirement, but which of the two cocoons appears depends on a hidden internal value that the player cannot see or change. From the outside, it is pure chance. You can check it ahead of time: evolve the Pokémon and quit the game without saving to see the result, and because the value is fixed, restarting and repeating the process will always give the same outcome.

After that, the transition to Beautifly happens at level 10, with no items or unusual conditions. It grows at a medium rate and starts with 70 base friendship.

Its habitat is the forest, and its catch rate, 120, puts it in the comfortable part of the table: a regular Poké Ball with some damage already dealt will usually be enough. It also never holds a wild item.