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It feeds on soil. After it has eaten a large mountain, it will fall asleep so it can grow. Pokédex, Shield
Height
0.6 m
Weight
72 kg
Habitat
Mountain
Abilities
Guts, Sand Veil (hidden)
24Anime episodes
15Games found in
11Japanese cards
2002Anime debut
物語The Story
What the Pokédex says
Shield
It feeds on soil. After it has eaten a large mountain, it will fall asleep so it can grow.
Sword
Born deep underground, it comes aboveground and becomes a pupa once it has finished eating the surrounding soil.
Ultra Moon
Raised on nutrients it finds in the dirt, it eats roughly a mountain’s worth of dirt before it becomes a pupa.
Ultra Sun
Born underground, it eats its way through dirt to the surface, where its parents are. It doesn’t deal well with the bright light it finds there.
7 more entries from older games
Alpha Sapphire
Larvitar is born deep under the ground. To come up to the surface, this Pokémon must eat its way through the soil above. Until it does so, Larvitar cannot see its parents.
X
It feeds on soil. After it has eaten a large mountain, it falls asleep so it can grow.
White
A Pokémon that eats soil. Once it has eaten a large mountain, it goes to sleep so it can grow.
SoulSilver
It is born deep underground. It can’t emerge until it has entirely consumed the soil around it.
Emerald
A LARVITAR is born deep under the ground. It must eat its way through the soil above and reach the surface for it to see its parents’ faces.
Sapphire
LARVITAR is born deep under the ground. To come up to the surface, this Pokémon must eat its way through the soil above. Until it does so, LARVITAR cannot see its parent’s face.
Crystal
Born deep under ground, this Pokémon becomes a pupa after eating enough dirt to make a mountain.