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As the Grass starters are always the first Pokémon in the new Pokédex lists, I'm guessing Naetle will be #387 in the National Pokédex, between its own Stage 1 and Deoxys. So, if anyone agrees, I'd like to add this Pokémon as #387 in the National Pokédex. Double Dash 21:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Please see Talk:Pochama, H ig hway ^{Return to Oz...} 21:32, 5 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Could the name be a phonetic translation of nettle? 85.210.7.19 22:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC) reply

It's definitely possible. I'd say because it's a Japanese name, it's more based on nae and turtle than it is nettle, but I still think it's loosely based on that. It's worth adding, but it depends on if others agree with your theory. I certainly do. Double Dash 22:21, 5 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I don't think that can be prooved it's all with phonetics the sproud idea is the most logic but maybe ehm original research? Bakora 23:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Well the most obvious was the "nae" and "turtle" possibility, which is why it's written as "could be". By the way, is "Naetle" the officla Japanese romanization? Shaojian 03:42, 6 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Yes, the romanization is Naetoru, or something, but Nintendo trademarked Naetle. H ig hway ^{Return to Oz...} 09:03, 6 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I agree with the nettle theory. -- ~PinkDeoxys~ 00:47, 7 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Pokemon Garden states Naetle is a hippopotamus so the turtle idea seems to be wrong Bakora 21:14, 11 August 2006 (UTC) reply

It is definitely a turtle! Nowhere else is it called a hippo... Pokemega32 02:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Yeah, it's been confirmed a turtle. And it doesn't look like a hippo. Don't always trust Pokémon Garden... Double Dash 18:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Well, ive heard people say its a beetle, but I probably can't trust them either. They think the 'tle' comes from beetle... SHUCKLE MAN

This article is named wrong. It's Naetoru, not Neatle. 70.58.211.220

"One of the consistent aspects of most Pokémon games — spanning from Pokémon Red and Blue on the Nintendo Game Boy to the un-released Nintendo DS games, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl—is the choice of three different Pokémon at the start of the player's adventures; these three are often labelled Starter Pokémon. Players can choose a Water-type, a Fire-type, or a Grass-type Pokémon indigenous to that particular region; an exception to this rule is Pokémon Yellow (a remake of the original games that follows the story of the Pokémon anime), where players are given a Pikachu, an Electric-type mouse, famous for being the mascot of the Pokémon media franchise.

Naetle is the Grass-type choice in Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl for the Nintendo DS.[6]"

all the above is totally un-nessacary, also there is only 1 per game and the article is written as a breed rather than individual.

The article is written as a "Species" because Naetle IS a species. There isn't just one Naetle in the whole of the Shinou region. It's a species of Pokémon so needs to be referred to in the plural. Oh, and that's not unnecessary. You think it's unnecessary, go remove it from about 400 other Pokémon articles. But to someone who's never played a Pokémon game before, that's vital. Double Dash 10:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Serebii says it's #387 in its DP pokemon page, common sense also says it's #387, first pokemon after Deoxys, at this point it's really not that much of an original research deal anymore. I mean really, we all know it'll be #387, let's just put it in for now. Toastypk 18:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Let's wait until we actually have the game to reference. It's not going to be useful for navigation, and it's nothing but supposition for now. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 18:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Please note that, at the time of writing, Aobasu is not a confirmed Pokémon. If it is real, that leaves us with the problem of deciding the stage of evolution - being at level 32 in the released images, it could be either the Stage 1 or Stage 2 evolution of Naetle (though in my personal opinion, it doesn't look like a Stage 2 Pokémon). I'll edit later on. Double Dash 15:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC) reply

EDIT: Since an image cropped up of Aobasusu, the supposed (and definitely fake) Stage 2 evolution, Aobasu now almost certainly fake. Double Dash 10:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Naetoru (Naetle) -> Moetoru (Moetle) -> Saetoru (Saetle)

Densus 12:26, 25 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Not confirmed by a reliable source, and the source I heard this from gave the evolved starters' types as "Grass/Flying, Fire/Fighting, Water/Psychic". In addition to repeating an already-used starter dual-type, this gives "Saetle" a STAB advantage over Hikozaru's type, which looks extremely suspect to me. I'm removing it until someone provides something better. -- HeroicJay 18:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC) reply

i heard that naetle is the horse-turtle pokemon due to its name. is that right?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.54.154.17 ( talk • contribs)

Are you just running around making up random questions?— ウルタプ 01:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC) reply

nope.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.54.154.12 ( talk) 16:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC) reply

Naetle comes from nae, the Japanese word for seedling.— M_C_Y_1008 ( ^talk/ _contribs) 21:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC) reply

The English name is offically Turtwig now. So... Could someone fix the article now? Nintendo_6444

Please provide a actual source such as Nintendo or Pokémon.com (not serebii.net), thankyou. AxG ^(talk) _{(guest book)} 19:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Our policy is to wait for things like statements from Nintendo or the Pokémon Company, no matter how sure Serebii, Psypokes, Bulbapedia and whoever else are; or other blaringly obvious things (i.e. Chatot showing up in an Advanced Generation episode and being called by name). We've mentioned that the name "Turtwig" has been reported. At the moment, we can't say whether it's truly official or not no matter how much Serebii's been right in the past.— ウルタプ 19:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply

I follow what you're saying, but I would like to point out Serebii.net and other sites had the name Chatot correctly about a week before that particular episode of the anime aired in the U.S., so what's to say that Turtwig and the others aren't correct? They say Jakks Pacific revealed the names at the 2007 Toy Fair in New York City, so that's probably a pretty reliable source, as Jakks Pacific must be in some conjunction with Nintendo or Pokemon USA to be selling their merchandise. Kochdude388 13:30, 13 February 2007 (UTC) reply

…in case you didn't look at the text at the top of the page, this already moved to "Turtwig." THe PCP has decided names of official merchandise are official enough.— ウルタプ 14:09, 13 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Turtwig's ability, as said by Pokémon.com, is Chlorophyll. But the code shows it's Overgrow. Which one should we put? It's not likely that they cahnged the ability for the English version, so Pokémon.com must have mistaken. Slyth1 16:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC) reply

shouldnt there be a section about tutwigs trading card? i went to a game store and saw 3 new pokemon card game tins with either a turtwig, piplup, or chimchar trading card.-- 65.54.98.105 20:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC) reply

i agree.-- Prog-stub 20:46, 29 March 2007 (UTC) reply

me too.-- chaosemeraldking 20:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC) reply

Well, I'm going to be going through the fourth generation Pokémon pages from now on doing all the Trading Card Game stuff. So I'll be doing all this stuff from now on. Cipher ^{( Talk to the hand)} 19:50, 14 April 2007 (UTC) reply

Has ANYONE noticed that the article says it evolves at level 18? It evolves once at level 15 and once at level 36. Fix this please. I have the game and have restarted thrice choosing each different starter and that is when it evolves.

I don't exactly play the TCG or pretend to know about it but it seems to be common sense that a grass type in game is not a fire type in TCG. 68.185.192.83 01:47, 6 April 2007 (UTC) reply

Clearly a typo. - Sukecchi 01:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC) reply

Yeah, sorry about that, I copied it from Chimchar and forgot to change that. Cipher ^{( Talk to the hand)} 11:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC) reply

And added it, if that's all right. -- Bentendo24 03:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC) reply