5th Gen 5th Gen Pokemon of the Week #4: Audino

Audino is a normal type pokemon with no evolution. It's a bipedal, pink-and-cream Pokémon with oval, blue eyes. The top of its head, its back, and arms are pink, while the lower half of its face, body, ears are cream-colored, as well as its front and fingers. It has amazing hearing abilities -- it can hear a pokemon's heart beat, to feel how the pokemon is doing, physical wise. It can also use these ears to hear when an Egg is close to hatching!

Now, the thing about Audino is that you can mostly encounter one when you search in a patch of a grass phenomenon (when the grass 'shakes'). When you defeat one, you'd usually gain high amounts of EXP, which is perfect for grinding low level pokemon!


Moves (from gen V):

--- Pound
--- Growl
--- Helping Hand
5 Refresh
10 DoubleSlap
15 Attract
20 Secret Power
25 Entrainment
30 Take Down
35 Heal Pulse
40 After You
45 Simple Beam
50 Double-Edge
55 Last Resort

What do you think of Audino in general? Was it a pokemon that you liked using during your playthroughs? Did you like to constantly battle one for extra EXP? How does it stack up against pokemon like Chansey or Blissey? Feel free to share any thoughts!

I must slay them ruthlessly for my Pokémon to become stronger and stronger.

I love pink creatures, because Pokemon knows how to bring out the cute in them, and Audino was no exception here.

While I spent most of my Unova games slaying tons of these pink creatures to eat on their EXP points, it's actually not a terrible Pokemon to use yourself by casual play standards, having high HP and decent defensive stats, but its also got a solid wide movepool of TMs, as you'd expect from a Normal-type, so you can make it do so much in battle. Adding a Mega to it in ORAS made me love it even better, especially because the design reminds me so much of Kyubey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica (given she's white with red eyes just like Kyubey), and adding Fairy-type onto Mega Audino was also awesome, since it gave her some new moves as well.

But hey, I'm proud of Audino for being the first Unova Pokemon to get a Mega, and hopefully others will join her in future games. As for comparing it to Chansey's evolution line, Blissey may give out more EXP but Audino's isn't too far off either.

Audino learns stab hyper voice and calm mind
Also Audino can learn surf and thunder/bolt and ice beam

Is a pretty good pokemon

llysender said:

Audino learns stab hyper voice and calm mind
Also Audino can learn surf and thunder/bolt and ice beam

Is a pretty good pokemon

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Don't forget Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Shadow Ball, Dig, Blizzard, Hidden Power and a ton of support moves, like Reflect, Toxic and Trick Room. Its offenses are weak but at least the movepool makes up for it, and the Mega becomes more durable with the increased Def/Sp. Def and Fairy-type adding extra resistances.

Audino is a Pokémon I've only used seriously once, in Black 2, but it was pretty fun to go with. It had a lot of moves it was able to use, being given the chance to use something in almost any situation. And it's not that terrible, it just needs defense boosting moves or a good special Normal-type attack I think.

I swear, if I do another -Locke in Generation V (which I'm sure I will someday), I will have to make it a point to use Audino.

Never used one or ever plan to, but it was really something new. I trained a ton of them XD I like the Pokemon itself more as Nurse Joy's aid. Unlike Chancey it seems to actually be able to help with things more then a walking egg with stubby arms can XD

Hikamaru said:

Don't forget Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Shadow Ball, Dig, Blizzard, Hidden Power and a ton of support moves, like Reflect, Toxic and Trick Room. Its offenses are weak but at least the movepool makes up for it, and the Mega becomes more durable with the increased Def/Sp. Def and Fairy-type adding extra resistances.

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Hm, do you feel mega Audino needed a better ability though? I mean Healer is kinda.. meh overall. D:

Dragon said:

Hm, do you feel mega Audino needed a better ability though? I mean Healer is kinda.. meh overall. D:

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I found Healer to be a letdown as well. Had this Mega gotten Regenerator it would have definitely been considered more as far as competitive play is concerned. Pixilate would have been acceptable as well.

Audino is one of the finer examples of why I like the 5th gen's pokemon designs. I really like it. There's something about its appearance that just makes me want to feel attached to it, especially that really happy looking stare. Also, Audino has a pretty sizeable movepool with heavy hitting STAB moves that make it usable in an in-game team, and even in competitive as well.

If I make a PU team it probably has Audino on it. Her value as a cleric is too good. Slap a knock off on her so she isn't taunt bait and you're ready to go.

I spam them for xp constantly! I have never used one but I saw that someone did a solo with one.

Xin ZhaoYun said:

Audino is one of the finer examples of why I like the 5th gen's pokemon designs. I really like it. There's something about its appearance that just makes me want to feel attached to it, especially that really happy looking stare. Also, Audino has a pretty sizeable movepool with heavy hitting STAB moves that make it usable in an in-game team, and even in competitive as well.

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I do feel attached to Audino's design, it's a nice and fresh take compared to your typical rabbit-like Pokemon (its ears look even more rabbit-like when in its Mega) and its design is not too complicated. Mega Audino may have a white body and red eyes that would remind one of Kyubey (that weird creature from Puella Magi Madoka Magica) but at the same time, it doesn't take too much away from Audino's design, retaining its cute image and its most notable features, especially the feelers under its ears. I usually like Megas that add a few new features but don't stray too far from the original design.

Audino also has decently balanced stats, and the versatility you'd easily expect from a Normal-type. That's why I love it so much, not just for looks but also for its battle capability.

Infinite said:

Sometimes I wish she's the Unova Pokemon Center's chanseys hahaha-- Or they'd be the assistant of Chanseys. Just too cute. <3

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Well, I guess the anime has already covered that hehehehe

Let's be honest.. we all just use them for EXP, right? Nah I do like Audino, particularly the Mega Evolution it received in ORAS. Can't say I've ever used one before, but I do like how much EXP they give as bad as that may sound. D:

When just going through a playthrough normally and not going for EVs and such I would spam these things so hard
Not sure how many Audinos i've killed over my time in the 5th Gen, but i'm gonna say it was quite a few

Audino in general is quite weird, not a mon I would generally use, but It does have its uses. By that I of course mean I enjoyed beating the crap out of them for that little bit of sweet savory EXP. Its great when you get a lvl 1 mon to lvl 25 in one battle xD

I thought Audino was kinda neat looking, but not a Pokemon that I wanted to have on my team. Like Chansey and Blissey, I just never really had a place for it. Everytime I encountered one, I wanted to defeat it because of the EXP benefits. I didn't go out of my way to find them, but when I did, I cherished the EXP I got.