I’ll answer both of these at once, as taking care of both lines is actually astoundingly similar.
In many ways, taking care of jangmo-o or axew is a lot like taking care of any other reptilian pokémon. For one, temperature is important, especially in the case of the tropical jangmo-o (although axew also shy away from cold as well). Thus, always be sure your jangmo-o has a flat rock for sunning during the day and hiding beneath at night. For axew, be sure you have a shelter with nesting materials (such as straw) for nights and a clear space for sunbathing during the day. In colder weather, move both pokémon indoors and provide them with enough space to roam about and a sunlamp. As both are mountainous and cave-dwelling pokémon, they don’t need much more than that to sleep on, so beds aren’t necessary.
Also, be sure they both have clean water dishes, and change this every day. Likewise, line their enclosures with poké litter or straw and change this often. Both axew and jangmo-o, being reptiles, are at a high risk for carrying nasty bugs such as E-coli and salmonella, so changing their enclosure linings frequently minimizes the risk of allowing diseases to spread to you or your other pokémon. Grooming consisting of giving them warm baths every so often further minimizes this risk and, in the case of jangmo-o, helps polish pokémon scales.
As with most dragons, jangmo-o and axew are also primarily carnivorous, but their diets can be supplemented with leafy greens and berries as well. Cleaning their enclosures also removes stray food and prevents rot (especially if you choose to supplement their diets), but when your jangmo-o or axew lives outdoors, you can easily sweep these to an inaccessible corner for easy composting.
When it comes to toys, while they do enjoy chew toys and bones, many axew and jangmo-o do just as well without them. You may even find that your dragons will prefer exploring their environments or sunning to occupying themselves with objects. In a way, this means they’re a little bit more of a challenge than most pokémon to satisfy in terms of enrichment, but that’s where the battling part of their lives come in.
You see, in both cases—but especially jangmo-o’s—it’s necessary to train and battle with them, even if you don’t claim to be a trainer. Even setting up a training dummy would be sufficient, but ideally, you should set up sparring matches between your dragons and other pokémon, as well as create specialized training exercises to develop specific attacks or skills. Either way, it’s important to keep in mind that unlike many other pokémon, battling is mandatory for them, else they won’t be able to develop the skills they need to survive later in life. For example, although haxorus are gentle pokémon, fraxure most certainly are not, and the fact that they aren’t is both the contributing factor to why their tusks are so long and sharp as well as their main method of keeping them pared down to a reasonable length. Hence, training axew from an early age and instilling a strict regimen of fighting and battling allows it to build up the strength, skills, and endurance needed for proper battling as a fraxure.
In a similar manner, jangmo-o comes from a line that eventually gains the fighting element in its more advanced stages. Additionally, just like fraxure, both hakamo-o and kommo-o are well known for their battling prowess and their predilection to battle each other on sight. Thus, a battle regimen is in a way especially important to jangmo-o, as battling is essentially a part of its nature.
Here’s where the two species diverge, however. While axew and haxorus may be able to get along with their own kind, fraxure actually cannot, as the fraxure stage represents a departure from one’s birth nest to lay down the groundwork for their territory and breeding nest. Fraxure see one another as competition for the same territory, so keeping multiple fraxure of the same gender may get complicated. By contrast, jangmo-o are a more tribalistic species in that they form groups that are highly dependent on one another. Raising multiple jangmo-o is thus sometimes preferred, as members of the jangmo-o line feel most comfortable battling one another. On the other hand, members of the jangmo-o also get particularly enthusiastic about battling one another, so a match between two or more jangmo-o may be just as destructive and violent as a match between two or more fraxure.
In other words, always hold your dragons’ battles outdoors.
I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that you know that song in the first place or the fact that you’re not above quoting it in lieu of a proper entry. —LH
Shelgon The Endurance Pokémon Type: Dragon Official Registration #: 372 Entry: The evolved form of bagon, by battle experience. Shelgon is essentially the ultimate middle evolution. It represents the crossroads between the ever idealistic bagon with its dreams of flying and the high-flying salamence. However, in the process, shelgon is also literally a chrysalis, a stage in which a member of the bagon family slowly turns into a flight-capable pokémon, cell by cell. As such, shelgon possesses a hard, armor-like shell that fully protects it from any physical assault during its transformation. Although such a shell is rock-hard, it’s also extremely cumbersome, and because of this, most shelgon are slow and sluggish. This, of course, is a good thing—not because its slow pace allows it to focus on bracing for impact and more because it allows the average researcher to test exactly how durable this shell and then run away before enduring a Bite themselves.
Salamence The Dragon Pokémon Type: Dragon/Flying Official Registration #: 373 Entry: The evolved form of shelgon, by battle experience. Also: a large, dragon-like pokémon that is roughly the size and shape of a winged wailmer. According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way this pokémon should be able to fly. Its wings are too awkwardly shaped to get its hefty body off the ground. The salamence, of course, flies anyway because it doesn’t care what humans think is impossible.
Okay, now you’re just being lazy. It’s not even a bee. —LH
To be fair, it’s a dragon-type, dragon-like pokémon the Symposium saw fit to call “the dragon pokémon.” I firmly believe I’m the least lazy person involved with distributing information about it. —Bill
Bruxish The Gnash Teeth Pokémon Type: Water/Psychic Official Registration #: 779 Entry: A large, filefish-like pokémon native to tropical reefs. This unique pokémon possesses not only formidable jaws but also potent psychic abilities. It is also, due to its habit of hiding half-buried in the ocean floor and its inherent viciousness, not an easy pokémon to find or overwhelm. It’s barely visible until one gets close, and by then, these victims are unfortunately within range of bruxish’s telekinesis. What follows afterwards is swift: the bruxish smashes its prey into the rocks via telekinesis, further stuns them by grinding its teeth, and proceeds to crush and eviscerate them via their strong jaws. However, if one can get past its swift hunting tactics—say, by distracting them with magikarp used as bait—then they’ll be delighted to know that bruxish are rather easy to catch, filet, and fry and, in fact, are Alolan delicacies for this exact reason.
Feebas The Fish Pokémon Type: Water Official Registration #: 349 Entry: Because of its rather plain appearance, many trainers and researchers overlook this pokémon in favor of the far more wondrous-looking creatures that cohabit its native freshwater streams. It’s a shame, really, as all feebas have the potential to be fascinating subjects. For example, it’s fascinating that feebas can eat quite literally anything in its path. It’s fascinating that they’re so resilient and tenacious that they can thrive in even the most polluted environments. It’s fascinating that feebas are not rare at all but rather congregate only in the warmest parts of a river, often packing themselves tightly into a square foot of water just to remain in that spot. It’s fascinating that despite the apparent elusiveness of this pokémon, they are also apparently extremely easy to catch, as they will latch onto baited hooks over and over again, sometimes even immediately after being thrown back into a river by the exact same trainer. Or, in short, it’s fascinating that feebas are absolutely, fantastically, and uncannily human-like.
Milotic The Tender Pokémon Type: Water Official Registration #: 350 Entry: The evolved form of feebas, via trading if the subject has been given a prism scale. Said to be the most beautiful pokémon in existence (and certainly the most soothing to look at), milotic has been, for countless generations, a sort of muse to humankind—an inspiration to countless works of art, music, literature, and so forth. Because of the fact that it evolves from such a plain-looking pokémon, it is also said to be a bit of a metaphor, specifically for the idea that inner beauty is far more important than outer. However, considering the fact that both feebas and milotic are judged based on their looks and the fact that some milotic are extraordinarily vain pokémon liable to turn a Hydro Pump on any trainer who fails to polish their iridescent scales in just the right way, the author is inclined to believe that whoever insists milotic is a metaphor has very likely missed a rather important point here.
{Go for it! 🙂 I don’t mind corrections or comments on any of the entries, so long as the readers are polite about it. (So “hey, just as a heads up, but I think ______ might work better” or “quick note, but you missed ______” or something along those lines, not “ugh, this thing you do really sucks, and it’s really bringing down the blog.” Which you’d think would go without saying, but you’d be surprised.)
Usually, I’ll have one of the characters respond to those kinds of asks, and it ends up being short because I never know what to say in response besides “hey, thanks for pointing that out.” Sorry in advance if earlier posts like that came off as curt, by the way! D: In the meantime, if you want to skip over “hey, I got your ask and the thing has been corrected” responses, feel free to block the from the editor tag. I might come up with a tag for it later if need be, and if that happens, I’ll let you all know.
In the meantime, thanks for the offer, as well ask the ask! :)}
Shroomish The Mushroom Pokémon Type: Grass Official Registration #: 285 Entry: Contrary to popular belief, this mushroom-like pokémon is not hallucinogenic. You cannot, as the urban legend claims, snort its powdery spores in order to experience transcendental visions. Rather, its spores are actually toxic and will simply cause paralysis and full-body pain when inhaled. Also contrary to popular belief, the author does not know this from experience; he simply went to college with several gullible gentlemen and a girl who had a shroomish and a strong dislike for college first-years who would hit on her then-fifteen-year-old sister.
Breloom The Mushroom Pokémon Type: Grass/Fighting Official Registration #: 286 Entry: The evolved form of shroomish, by battle experience. It’s never easy to figure out whether one should be more wary of the front end of the back end of a breloom. On the one hand (no pun intended), breloom are famous for their lightning-fast punches and kicks, facilitated by the elasticity of their claw-tipped limbs. On the other, they also possess hollow rattles on their tails—seeds containing highly toxic spores capable of inducing horrendous stomach aches when ingested. Should anyone wonder exactly how the dangers of ingesting breloom seeds are relevant to its battling style, please note that breloom can learn no fewer than four different seed-based attacks, two of which come naturally. And yes, this is something the author knows from first-hand experience.
Baltoy The Clay Doll Pokémon Type: Ground/Psychic Official Registration #: 343 Entry: In the decades following its discovery deep within the ancient desert ruins of Hoenn, multiple experiments have been conducted by the topmost researchers in the field of pokémology to study the limitations of baltoy’s balance. Baltoy have been subjected to everything from rain to earthquakes to being forced to balance on quicksand, yet no matter what terrain or conditions it’s put through, baltoy never falters or wavers as it spins about on a single foot. It does, however, get rather angry when one attempts to throw it off-balance—specifically, the sort of angry that leads to Self-Destruct.
Claydol The Clay Doll Pokémon Type: Ground/Psychic Official Registration #: 344 Entry: The evolved form of baltoy, by battle experience. According to anthropologists, paintings on the temple walls of a variety of ancient civilizations indicate that baltoy had been created for either religious or magical purposes. Some cultures used them to “absorb” illnesses, while others used them as effigies of fertility goddesses. Whatever the reason for baltoy’s creation may have been, one thing is consistent among all accounts: the more a baltoy was used, the stronger it became until it evolved at last into a larger, more potent form. From what anthropologists can gather, resulting claydol were often revered within ancient societies, as the increase in both size and power were seen by primitive humans as the gods’ attempts at literally embodying the idols that had been crafted for them. …Of course, the fact that all claydol are telekinetic and capable of shooting destructive beams from both hands likely helped this perception too.
Snorunt The Snow Hat Pokémon Type: Ice Official Registration #: 361 Entry: Despite the fact that this childlike pokémon is much more comfortable in regions with heavy snow, it was curiously first discovered in the Hoenn region, specifically in the lower chambers of Shoal Cave. Given the general warmth of the seawater in that region, the presence of snorunt—and, in fact, the frigid environment of the cavern it lives in—has baffled researchers since its initial discovery. However, the author would also like to remind the research community that this is the same region whose legendary pantheon includes a giant sentient block of never-melt ice, so honestly, the fact that there is a chamber that has been iced over and sealed off from the outside world for centuries should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.
Glalie The Face Pokémon Type: Ice Official Registration #: 362 Entry: The evolved form of snorunt, by battle experience. Through the process of evolution, a snorunt gains a shell of rock, which in turn collects a thick hide of ice thanks to the instantaneous freezing of the moisture in the air immediately surrounding it. The resulting pokémon is a creature that not only has the ability to instantly freeze anything surrounding it but also appears to be a giant, floating, disembodied head. Yet despite its intimidating powers and appearance, it’s actually quite gentle, largely because it retains the shyness of its pre-evolved form. Despite this, it is still not recommended to come into physical contact with a glalie, largely because—thanks to its ability to instantaneously freeze anything within immediate vicinity of it—skin-to-shell contact has the same effect as licking a metal pole in the dead of winter (not that the author has done either).
Froslass The Snow Land Pokémon Type: Ice/Ghost Official Registration #: 478 Entry: The evolved form of female snorunt, by exposure to dawn stone. Sinnohan legends warn about froslass. According to regional folklore, travelers lost on snowy mountains may encounter what appears to be a beautiful woman beckoning to them. If one goes to this woman, they will quickly find a wild froslass instead, who will immediately freeze them and drag them to her lair. Whether or not this is true is still a matter of debate, but it is known that tamed froslass do have a habit of staring at their trainers oddly and growing unsettlingly quiet whenever it snows. The author reassures his readers, however, that there have been no cases of a tamed froslass kidnapping their trainers and stealing them away to frozen wastelands … that he knows of, anyway.
Stop scaring the readers. You know that only happened six times in recorded history. —LH
This will be a bit of an unconventional post. You see, as my editor had alluded to earlier, we were planning on something rather special to thank you for helping us reach not only 500 followers but our one-year anniversary. While, yes, we are still in the midst of #AMA Month (which we will get back to shortly, I promise), we thought something more exciting and physical would be in order.
A giveaway. Bill is referring to a giveaway. —LH
…yes.
As I was about to say, as a thank you for quite literally everything, we’d like to host a giveaway. From now until January 1, followers can like or reblog this post to enter a drawing. The grand prize consists of a code for 100 poké balls as well as a collection of newly hatched/caught shiny eevee with an accompanying fire, thunder, and water stone set. (As of this writing, there are only three eevee to be claimed. This post will be updated if the mun is fortunate enough to catch or breed more.)
The rules are as follows:
1. This giveaway is a thank you for followers, so unfortunately, you must be following this blog to enter.
2. Only one reblog will count towards your entry, but you may like and reblog this post to double your chances.
3. The giveaway will close at 11:59 PM EST on January 1. We’ll announce and contact the winner on January 2, so please keep watch on your chats for an incoming message then.
If you have any questions about the giveaway, please don’t hesitate to send us a message. Otherwise, best of luck, and thank you again for our first year!
Don’t forget—this is the last day one can enter the giveaway by liking or reblogging this post!
As an incentive, here are the eevee up for trade. (All three are renamable if the winner so chooses, of course.)
The giveaway has just concluded, and the winner has been drawn! Congratulations to @thecycleking, and thanks to everyone for participating and for following us for the past year!
The Pokédex According to Bill 