Type: Null (Pokmon) - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokmon encyclopedia

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Type: Null (Japanese: タイプ:ヌル Type: Null) is a Normal-type Legendary Pokémon introduced in Generation VII.

It evolves into Silvally when leveled up with high friendship.

Biology

Type: Null is a quadrupedal, chimeric Pokémon with traits from a variety of creatures. Its head is enclosed in a brown helmet with green markings, designed to suppress its power to stable levels. The helmet is extremely heavy and hinders it's agility. The helmet has a large jaw piece that wraps around the front with large, round hinges on the side. Each hinge is covered by a green X-shaped marking. The name of the Pokémon, as it wears the helmet, is called Null meaning nothing.[1] Small gray eyes can be seen from within rectangular black holes on the front, and there are two pointed ears on the top. Around the base is a collar with four protruding vanes that are tipped with a three-way spike. This collar has a thin green line between the vanes, and each vane has a green hexagon near the end. An axe-like blade with a band around the middle extends backward from the top of the helmet. The front tip of the blade has a small, silver spike that hooks downward.

A mane of gray fur hangs from below Type: Null's helmet and covers its shoulders and chest. Most of its torso and legs is covered in short black fur. The lower half of each front leg is insectoid and green with spikes along the back, while the rear legs have thick purple scales on the flanks, shins, and on the top of the foot. All four of its feet have three toes, but in the front two toes face forward and one backward. Additionally, the hind paws have a short, gray claw on the back of the ankle. Its fishlike tail consists of two dark blue spines with a light blue fin stretched between them. The top spine has a line of short, gray spikes.

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Type: Null was created by the Aether Foundation as part of the beast killer project. It was designed to be an "Anti-UB Fighting life-form", a weapon created to fight against the Ultra Beasts. Also known as "beast killer", Type: Null was developed with cells taken from all known Pokémon types. This was done with the intention of giving it the ability to shift between types by holding a corresponding memory, an ability originally inspired by the myths researched at Canalave Library. This ability led the Aether Foundation to name it "Type: Full". Three known models of Type: Full were created, but all three rejected the RKS System and went berserk. Faba had created limiter helmets for these Pokémon, and after being subdued, the three Type: Full were given the helmets to lessen the effects of the RKS System's rejection and were put into permanent cryogenic stasis. Thus, the beast killer project was deemed a failure, and the creature's name changed to Type: Null. At some point before the events of Generation VII, Gladion was able to free one of the Type: Null, which he adopted as his own in the hopes of finding a way to undo the effects of the limiter helmet and allow it to use the RKS System. Gladion would eventually rediscover its evolution, Type: Full, renaming it as Silvally. When Type: Null evolves into Silvally, it breaks the helmet it wears in the process.

In Generation VIII, a new Type: Null surfaces in the Galar region, apparently created by Macro Cosmos by utilizing research notes stolen from Alola.

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Evolution

Type: Null evolves into Silvally.

(For specifics on this Pokémon's evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)

Game data

Pokédex entries

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VII.
Generation VIIAlola
 S  M : #203
Alola
 US  UM : #259
Kanto
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This Pokémon has no Pokédex entries in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!.
SunThe heavy control mask it wears suppresses its intrinsic capabilities. This Pokémon has some hidden special power.
MoonDue to the danger that this synthetic Pokémon may go on a rampage, it wears a control mask to restrain its power.
Ultra SunA Pokémon weapon developed for a specific mission, it went berserk during an experiment, so it was cryogenically frozen.
Ultra MoonThere's danger of its going on a rampage, so its true power is sealed away beneath its control mask.

Game locations

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VII.
Generation VII
Generation VIII
Generation IX

In side games

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VII.
Generation VII
This Pokémon is unavailable in Generation VII side games.
Generation VIII
This Pokémon is unavailable in Generation VIII side games.
Cross-Generation

Held items

Stats

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions in Generation IX, this Pokémon is:
Damaged
normally by:
Immune to:
Resistant to:

Learnset

Type: Null is available in Sword and Shield.

By leveling up

Generation VIII
Other generations:
VII - IX
  • Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Type: Null
  • Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Type: Null

By TM/TR

Generation VIII
Other generations:
VII - IX
  • Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Type: Null
  • Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Type: Null

By breeding

Generation VIII
Other generations:
VII - IX
  • Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Type: Null in Generation VIII
  • Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation.
  • Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Type: Null in that game.
  • Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Type: Null
  • Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Type: Null

By tutoring

Generation VIII
Other generations:
VII - IX
  • Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Type: Null
  • Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Type: Null
  • Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Move Tutor moves from other generations

By transfer from another generation

Generation VIII
Other generations:
None
  • Transferred Pokémon only retain these moves in Pokémon Sword and Shield
  • A striped background indicates a generation in which the move can only be obtained via event or as a special move
  • Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Type: Null
  • Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Type: Null
  • × indicates a move that cannot be used in Sword and Shield

Side game data

Evolution data

Sprites

This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation VII.
Generation VII
Generation VIII
This Pokémon is unavailable in Generation IX.
Cross-Generation

In the anime

Major appearances

Gladion's Type: Null

Gladion's Type: Null, nicknamed Silvally, debuted in Rising from the Ruins!. In Mission: Total Recall!, it broke its confinement mask and evolved into a Silvally to save Lillie from Faba's Alakazam.

Minor appearances

Type: Null appeared in a number of pictures in Faba's laboratory in Deceiving Appearances!.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Main article: Gladion's Type: Null

Type: Null debuted in The Decision and the Tournament of Six under the ownership of Gladion. In The Truth and Island Kahuna Hapu, it evolved to protect Lillie from a Guzzlord.

Pokémon Horizon

In Pokémon Horizon, Tokio owns a Type: Null, which eventually evolved into a Silvally.

In the TCG

Main article: Type: Null (TCG)

Trivia

  • Type: Null is the only Pokémon with a colon in its English name.
  • Type: Null is the first Pokémon whose Italian and Spanish names differ from its English name. Its name also differs in other languages, such as Dutch.
    • It is also the only Pokémon to have different names in Spanish and Italian that is not a Paradox Pokémon.
  • Type: Null's Speed stat is the only one of its stats to not be 95. Instead, it is the reverse, at 59.
    • Upon evolving, its Speed is reversed to match the other stats — this is the only change in its stat distribution.
  • Type: Null shares several similarities with Mewtwo. Both were created by humans using science, were based on Mythical Pokémon, were intended to be stronger than other Pokémon, and went berserk, causing a large amount of damage.
  • Type: Null is the first Legendary Pokémon to be given as a gift by an NPC.
  • Type: Null, Cosmog, and Cosmoem were the first instances of Legendary Pokémon able to evolve, with all three debuting in Pokémon Sun and Moon.

Origin

Type: Null appears to be based on a chimera. Its history and patchwork design may also be a reference to Frankenstein's monster, and its collar may reference the ring encircling Arceus.

Name origin

Type: Null is literally type and null (nothing).

Type: Full is literally type and full (everything).

In other languages

Type: Full

Related articles

References

External links

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