One of the most hands-down adorable Pokémon introduced in recent years is Yamper, an Electric-type dog Pokémon introduced in Generation VIII. As one of the cutest in all of Galar with a pretty decent evolution, many are interested in having one of these little canines on their team.

If you’re one of these people, you’ll want to know where to catch a Yamper, how to evolve it, and probably a few other interesting things about it. Here’s where you can find all of that information. Here’s everything you need to know about Yamper.

10 Where To Find Yamper

Finding a Yamper isn’t too hard, actually. You’ll be able to easily find one early in the game on Routes 2 and 4, where they can be spotted hopping around. They’re also found in the Wild Area, specifically Giant’s Mirror, Motostoke Riverbank, and the Stony Wilderness.

In these areas, Yamper can be found as an overworld spawn during thunderstorms, with varying chances between each area. They might also pop up in Max Raid Battles in Giant’s Mirror, Lake of Outrage, or the Motostoke Riverbank.

9 Where To Find Boltund

If you want to skip catching Yamper and evolving it, you can cut right to just catching a Boltund in the wild. They’re found in a few areas of the Wild Area in different weather types.

Head to the Dusty Bowl, Lake of Outrage, or Motostoke Riverbank, where Boltund can be found as a random encounter during thunderstorms. However, they also show up as a wandering spawn in North Lake Miloch during all weather types.

8 How To Evolve

Should you decide to catch Yamper instead of going right to catching Boltund, they’re pretty easy to evolve. All you’ll need to do is level your Yamper up to level 25 and it’ll evolve right away.

If you catch a Yamper in the Wild Area after you’ve defeated the Champion, they’ll be level 60 like all Wild Area Pokémon. This means it’ll only need to go up one level before it evolves into Boltund. Easy!

7 Electricity Generation

Most Electric-type Pokémon are capable of generating, harnessing, or controlling electricity, or a combination thereof. Yamper is no exception to this as an Electric-type. When it runs, it apparently generates electricity from the base of its tail. Apparently Yamper crackles with electric current as it runs.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem too capable of storing this electricity, and that’s why it leaves its body via its tail. If only that electricity could be harnessed — perhaps it would solve the energy crisis.

6 Boltund’s Speed

Unlike its pre-evolution, Boltund seems to have an easier time controlling its electric powers. According to its Pokédex entry in Sword, Boltund stores the electricity that it generates by running in its legs. This helps strengthen them for, presumably, more running.

This allows for it to run at extremely high speeds and for long periods of time. It’s believed that Boltund can reach speeds of 50 miles per hour (80 kilometres per hour). It can also be known to run for three straight days without stopping.

5 Joltik

The electricity that Yamper produces might be wasted, one would think. But, it seems to provide a food source for other Pokémon, strangely. It’s said that Joltik ride on the backs of Yamper and feed off of the electricity that Yamper produces.

This is said to happen because Joltik cannot produce electrical charges of its own, so it hitches a ride on other Pokémon. Whatever floats your boat, Joltik.

4 Strange Rear Ends

Speaking of Yamper’s hindquarters — the developers of Gen VIII seem to have a strange fascination with it. There is of course, the aforementioned electrical current feeding a Joltik from Yamper’s butt, but there are other interesting things about it as well.

Yamper’s designers decided to make a heart-shaped pattern on Yamper’s butt, and it features prominently here and there. In the puzzle game Pokémon Café Mix, there is a pasta meal that includes what looks like a piece of bread, shaped like Yamper’s rear-end. Delicious.

3 Fox Hunting

In the past few generations, the game writers seem to be trying to tie the Pokémon world together a bit more by referencing Pokémon in each other’s Pokédex entries, like the Joltik reference above. For the new Generation VIII Dark-type, Thievul, its Pokédex entry in Shield states that Boltund is its natural enemy.

This might be a reference to older days when English foxhounds (which Boltund looks like) were used to hunt foxes (which Thievul is based on).

2 Queen Elizabeth

This practice of foxhunting was often practiced by wealthy English elite, many moons ago. But, Boltund isn’t the only member of this evolutionary family to have a connection to the English elite.

Yamper is fairly obviously a corgi, which is a very popular type of dog. But, they’re most known to many as the pets of Queen Elizabeth II. Since Galar is based on the U.K., it’s not unlikely that corgis were made into a Pokémon for this reference, specifically.

1 Treats

Queen Elizabeth II’s dogs probably receive the best treats that dogs can possibly hope to have, as they are members of a royal family. The pampering they receive is probably off the charts.

Well, Yamper is a bit spoiled too. This adorable little dog is said to be a very helpful companion, but apparently it only helps people so they give it treats. There’s no point in working for free, after all.

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