Popkin

 (#018) is a dual-type Shadow/Plant Meta Monster introduced in the first generation.

It transforms into Springourd starting at level 32.

Popkin are shadowy black spirits with glowing, yellow, jagged mouths and glowing yellow eyes with several red rings in them surrounding their red pupils. Their arms are flexible wisps that taper into fingerless points, and they have long ear-like appendages flowing out from atop their heads. Popkin are usually seen inhabiting small orange pumpkins with carved faces that glow from within. Popkin also tend to wear the "lid" of their pumpkin dwellings as a hat, with their "ears" poking through holes in it.

Popkin are mischeivous ghouls that love nothing more than scaring unsuspecting passersby. Usually living on their own rather than in groups, Popkin will sit besides lonely forest paths or on the front porches of human houses at night, lying in wait. When a potential victim passes by, they will leap out of their pumpkin hiding places with a loud noise. It is unknown if Popkin gain any sort of nourishment from this, as they have never been seen eating; it appears that they may just do it for their own morbid amusement.




 * Popkin is the first Shadow-type Meta Monster in the Encyclopedia.

is based on both a jack-o'-lantern and a jack-in-the-box.

The name "" is a combination of the words "pop" and "pumpkin".