# Torkoal — Daily Pokémon for 2026-10-20

> Day 1507 of the Daily Pokémon archive. Torkoal is a fire-type Pokémon from Hoenn (Generation 3). Burns coal inside its shell to generate the energy it needs to survive. When threatened, it releases thick clouds of black smoke, and the sound of its roaring flames echoes from deep within its body.

*Source: https://pokedaily.net/archive/2026-10-20*

## Pokédex facts

- **Name:** Torkoal
- **Pokédex number:** #0324
- **Types:** fire
- **Category:** Coal
- **Generation:** 3 (Hoenn)
- **Height:** 0.5 m
- **Weight:** 80.4 kg
- **Abilities:** White Smoke, Drought
- **Color:** brown

## Base stats

- **HP        :**  70 `█████████░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Attack    :**  85 `███████████░░░░░░░░░`
- **Defense   :** 140 `███████████████████░`
- **Sp. Attack:**  85 `███████████░░░░░░░░░`
- **Sp. Defense:**  70 `█████████░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Speed     :**  20 `███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Total:** 470

## Transcript

What if I told you there's a Pokémon that waited 544 episodes for Ash to come home?!

This is Torkoal, a tortoise that burns coal inside its shell. Its Pokédex says you can tell how it's feeling by the smoke pouring out of it. 

And Ash's Torkoal felt a lot.

Whenever it got happy, it cried and blasted smoke out of its nose and its back, and that smoke turned everybody around it black. 

Even Brock pointed out how emotional it was, which was putting it nicely.

Ash met it in a valley full of tough steel Pokémon. Torkoal had walked in there all by itself, looking for a fight with the biggest one, just to prove it was strong. With Ash calling the moves, it won.

Then Ash asked if it wanted to come along. Torkoal answered by crying and tackling him to the ground.

Later on, Ash headed off on his next adventure and left Torkoal at Professor Oak's lab. He called it back a couple of times for big battles. Then, after one last fight, it basically vanished from the show for 544 episodes. 

That's about twelve years.

When Ash finally walked back into that lab, Torkoal was right there. It helped him train for the biggest tournament of his life. And when he won it and came home as the best trainer in the world, Torkoal was part of the welcome home. 

That was the last time it ever showed up on screen. 

If you know Torkoal, you know exactly what its face was doing.

Maybe you've got somebody who cries every single time you come home, and you tease them for it. 

Maybe they've been waiting by the door the whole time you were gone.

It sat off screen for about twelve years, and it was still there to welcome him home.

## Pokédex entry

TORKOAL digs through mountains in search of coal. If it finds some, it fills hollow spaces on its shell with the coal and burns it. If it is attacked, this POKéMON spouts thick black smoke to beat a retreat.

## Video

- **Self-hosted MP4:** https://v.pokedaily.net/2026-10-20.mp4
- **YouTube:** https://youtube.com/shorts/InaZ4ySuLa0
- **TikTok:** https://www.tiktok.com/@mydailypokemon/video/7698753735455001869
- **Instagram:** https://www.instagram.com/mydailypokemon/reel/DeuFMJcJpKd/
- **Duration:** 90s

## See also

- **Full Pokédex entry:** https://pokedaily.net/pokedex/324-torkoal
- **Pokédex (markdown):** https://pokedaily.net/raw/torkoal.md
- **This date in Pokémon (Pokémanac):** https://pokedaily.net/pokemanac/10-20
- **This date markdown:** https://pokedaily.net/raw/pokemanac/10-20.md

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*Daily Pokémon archive entry for 2026-10-20. Original publish: 2026-10-20T10:00:00.000Z. Pokédex data from PokéAPI (BSD licensed). Names and likenesses are © The Pokémon Company / Nintendo / Creatures Inc. / GAME FREAK.*