Registeel

Registeel
File:Registeel.jpg National Pokédex Regice - Registeel (#379) - Latias Hoenn Pokédex Regice - Registeel (#195) - Latias
Japanese name	レジスチル (Rejisteel)
Evolves from	None
Evolves into	None
Generation	Third
Species	Iron Pokémon
Type	Steel
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.90 m)
Weight	452.0 pounds (205.0 kg)
Ability	Clear Body

Registeel (レジスチル, Rejisuchiru) is a fictional character of the Pokémon franchise. It is a Legendary Pokémon, one of "The Three Regis", a triad to which Regirock and Regice also belong.

Regi is Latin for "king" so Registeel would mean "Steel King", or "King of Steel".

Description

Registeel looks like a robot, even more so than Regirock and Regice since it seems to be metallic, with a silver exterior and a darker inner body. Instead of a face, Registeel has a pattern of six pink dots forming a horizontally elongated hexagon, with a seventh dot at its centre. Its design also has more than a passing resemblance to the Kapool mobile suit from ZZ and Turn-A Gundam.

Biology

Although it is classified as a Steel-type Pokémon and behaves as one for all intents and purposes in the games, Registeel is actually made of an unidentifiable substance with peculiar properties. Its body is harder than any known metal, while simultaneously being flexible and hollow within. Since no known material displays such extraordinary behaviour, scholars in the Pokémon world theorize that it is of extraterrestrial origins. Another mystery about Registeel concerns its diet; no-one has any idea what kind of food Registeel eats or indeed if it has any need of sustenance at all.

According to in-game information, the ancients confined Registeel along with Regirock and Regice into caverns they themselves had used to occupy because they were in fear of the three Pokémon, despite the fact that they felt they were in their debt. It seems that in the time Registeel spent underground, the pressures exercised to its body made it even harder (compare with Steelix).

All three Regis are "Golems" of one type or another. They are said to represent a different period in time, with Registeel representing the Iron Age or the Space Age, (maybe the Modern Age because technology is advancing towards robots, which Registeel sort-of represents) considering that it is possibly extra-terrestrial in origin.

In the video games

Registeel can be found in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Pokémon Emerald. Similar to all other Legendary Pokémon, there is just one Registeel in each game. It is found inside the Ancient Tomb, which is at Route 120. To enter it, the player must first unseal its entrance and then reveal the door to the inner chamber by following a complex process described in braille code (follow this link for detailed instructions).

While Regirock focuses on physical attack and defense and Regice on special attack and defense, Registeel strikes a balance between the two by having offensive and defensive attributes equal to each other and to the average of the respective stats of the other two Regis. As is the case with the other two, Registeel also has a low speed stat. It can learn both Iron Defense and Amnesia, which can serve to heighten its defenses even further, as well as Curse, which will raise its physical attack and defense while diminishing its otherwise low speed.

Since Registeel's offensive stats are only average and its defensive stats are higher and balanced so that they grant it protection against both physical and special attacks, Registeel is often preferred in a stalling strategy, where it raises its defences as high as possible, inflicts the opponent with annoying moves such as Toxic, and either waits it out using Rest to replenish its health whenever needed, causing the opponent to tire, switch, or succumb to poison, or uses the occasional attack, weakening the opponent even further and eventually outlasting it.

It is interesting to note that Registeel's Pokédex cry sounds identical to the noise made by the Transformers in the original series.

In the anime

Registeel made its first and only appearance so far on the eighth movie, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew. It is one of the defensive measures of the fabled Tree of the World's Beginning together with Regirock and Regice. Under this capacity, it hunted Ash and his friends. When it is made apparent that they mean no harm, Registeel and its brethren cease fire and leave them be.

Registeel (as well as Regice) has not yet appeared on the TV anime (though they did appear in the 8th season intro). With claims of Regice to have supposed to appear in an episode about the Shoal Cave, Registeel remains the only Regi with no explanation as to why it has yet to appear in the anime.

In the trading card game

Registeel has made four appearances in the card game, all as Basic Steel-type cards:

• EX Hidden Legends (as Registeel EX)
• EX Emerald (as Registeel EX)
• EX Legendmakers (as Registeel "star")
• EX Holon Phantoms

References

• The following games and their instruction manuals: Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue; Pokémon Yellow; Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2; Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal; Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald; Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen; Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Publications

• Barbo, Maria. The Official Pokémon Handbook. Scholastic Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0439154049.
• Loe, Casey, ed. Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition Official Perfect Guide. Sunnydale, CA: Empire 21 Publishing, 1999. ISBN 130206151.
• Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon FireRed & Pokémon LeafGreen Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., August 2004. ISBN 193020650X
• Mylonas, Eric. Pokémon Pokédex Collector’s Edition: Prima’s Official Pokémon Guide. Prima Games, September 21 2004. ISBN 0761547614
• Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Emerald Version Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., April 2005. ISBN 1930206585

External links

• Official Pokémon website
• Bulbapedia (a Pokémon-centric Wiki)’s article about Registeel as a species
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• Pokémon Dungeon Pokédex entry, full of statistics analysis
• PsyPoke - Registeel Pokédex entry and Usage Overview
• Smogon.com - Registeel Tactical Data