Slakoth are brown, sloth-like mammalian Pokémon with shaggy coarse fur and brown stripes on its back. It has a scruff of fur on the top of its head and a large, pig-like pink nose. Its eyelids, usually visible in a sleepy expression, its underbelly and the paw pads of its back feet are also pink in coloration. Slakoth has long arms with two sharp claws which it uses in its aboreal lifestyle.