Ekans (アーボ Abo^?), is known as the Rattlesnake Pokémon. The name Ekans is the word snake backwards. Ekans' Japanese name, Arbo, is a reversal by morae of the word boa. This reptilian Pokémon has a rattle at the tip of its tail, and is mostly purple while its underbelly, eyes, rattle, and the "bands" on it are yellow.

They swallow whole the eggs of small bird Pokémon, such as Pidgey or Spearow. Ekans are able to detach their jaws to swallow large prey whole, although this makes their bodies heavy. Its highly poisonous fangs make it a hazard in the wild as they slither through the grass and unexpectedly strike. Ekans also shares other characteristics as snakes, such as using its tongue to test the air for the presence of prey, and shedding its skin.

In the anime, the most notable Ekans was owned by Jessie, who had received it for her birthday. For most of the original series, it was her only Pokémon. It was extremely loyal to her and eventually evolved into an Arbok just to make her happy. In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out Of The Gate!, Ekans serves as a male character and one of the members of the Team Meanies, in which it was commanded by Gengar to eat all the berries Team Go-Getters collected.

Score: 10 -- Flawless Victory (10s are as close to perfect as you will get in a genre or on a platform. Pure, untarnished videogame ecstasy.)

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Holyetheline

nice read!

MountainGorilla

You forgot to tag for Spoiler Alert. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

TheGameFreak

A Winner Is Ekans.

janoDX

Ekans is better than Heavy rain

Ball Buster

If Ekans is snake backwards, what does that make Muk?

TheToiletDuck

Holy crap it IS snake backwards!!

madfigs

This review is full of BIAS, Ekans should clearly receive 11/10

Monodi

CHAAAAAAAABOKAAAAAAAAAAAA

theredpepperofdoom

Ekans Elans Ekans

Ramalho

I came.

RenegadePanda

Wait a minute...

NO...WAY...

I have to tell someone about this.

Jim Sterling

STATUS UPDATE: My EKANS has grown to Lv.9 and learned BITE.

Danzflor

Jim, Would You Marry me?

Pudge Controls the Weather

THIS IS BIAS 10/10? BULLSHIT THIS IS LIKE RACISM OR SOMETHING

njsykora

Ekans is horribly linear for the first 25 levels though, you're pretty much just pressing buttons to advance it until then.

P3ter

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wh1terav3n

Um.


What. The. Heeeeeeeeeeell.

EdgyDude

Epans killed Dumbledore!

P3ter

njsykora

Also someone submit this shit to Criticosm.

XanderSan

The best thing about the review is that it is a directly copied from the Wikipedia page.

RonBurgandy2010

What in the hell?

Maxxthepenguin

EKANS IS BLATANTLY BETTER THAN PIKACHU

Reeper

This review is biased, obviously Jim prefers poison types over normal types. A Meowth could beat this thing. Plus the graphics aren't even that good.

el_chack

Y remember Ekans' scary face in the first game, which made the screen inverts its colors for a fraction of second and a lousy screech came out of the console speaker It was scary as hell

Arugala9

Awesome

sewerraccoon

haha, me and one of my coworkers were talking about ekans and arbok last night

Berial

Seriously, I loved it ! I want more :D

Zcdrike

This sir, is pure win.

dip

Slow news day, eh?

fetusmilk

hey jim i got a pocket monster you can play with

Jim Sterling

It took eighty comments before someone decided to be original and post "Slow news day?"

Ekans is pleased!

Amnesiac

Meowth! Thaaaat's right!

Dynamic Sheep

Ekans?

Scattergories

Awesome!

DF

A fad is born?

Also Ditto and Magikarp. :O

Dynamic Sheep

A challenger appears!

njsykora

Eighty comments? NEW RECORD!!

ms-fable

Arbok backwards is kobra. What's Muk backwards?

Volcanon

Eevee is the best.

ran24

I hate you, Jim Sterling.

Corey Buchillon

I agree. 110%

kylamity

what inspired this insanity?

OWENR22

what the fuck is going on?

Dynamic Sheep

I personally prefer Ultios

FatherChesz

But, but you haven't played the whole way through to level 100 to get the secret ending!

njsykora

Pfft, Ultios wants to be Mewtwo so bad it's embarassing.

ZombiePlatypus

U R TEH BIAS!!!

Cortes121

Fact /\ Porygon.

BS3 Owner

electrolemon aka gynecologist cobra BORKEDED DTOID?