Actually, that’s what most female hawlucha—and, indeed, quite a lot of male hawlucha—sound like. The deeper-voiced hawlucha have deliberately trained themselves to vocalize at lower pitches to sound more intimidating.
So your hawlucha should be just fine!
Many pokémon can be addicted to berries, actually. The taste is especially appealing to them, and many berries have certain properties that are beneficial to their health. It’s just that you’ll need to make sure you keep an eye on your hawlucha’s diet. As a carnivorous fighting-type, he needs protein berries alone can’t provide. Don’t let him overeat on berries, and make sure he gets meat every day.
Surprisingly, they are evenly matched. I say “surprisingly” because for all intents and purposes, hawlucha has more of an edge. It’s smaller, faster, and more nimble, not to mention it possesses a type advantage against incineroar. Yet for reasons that are as of yet not well understood by researchers, incineroar often matches hawlucha move-for-move on the battlefield through the use of sheer size and brute force alone.
It’s even led some researchers to believe that the two merely stage matches, rather than go into them with the intent of actually fighting, but there is understandably quite a bit of debate about that point.
Do you think that Hawlucha and Incineroar are natural rivals? Both are wrestling based Pokemon. Hawlucha has a téchnico look to it. In Mexican wrestling the téchnico is like the equivalent to the “face” in American Wrestling (opposite of the Heel). Téchnicos are typically smaller technical wrestlers while the Rudos (Mexican equivalent to “heel” such as Incineroar) are typically brawlers of a bigger stature. So it seems like they would natural want to square off against each other. Though based on the fact one is native to Alola and the other is from Kalos makes me wonder.
BILL: Well, as you’ve noted, @funky-ufo, the two aren’t found in the same habitat. As such, they actually don’t compete for resources, nor have they had any reason to become rivals to one another (unlike pokémon that do host inherent hatred for their counterparts, such as red and blue basculin, seviper and zangoose, or gyarados and anything that moves). So in a way, it would be much like throwing an American and Mexican wrestler in the same arena. While, yes, they’re both wrestlers, they come from different circuits and technically different sports, just as Incineroar and Hawlucha come from different habitats and behave in their own unique ways.
Of course, they have a sort of artificial rivalry, as the idea that these two would be at each other’s throats is actually a very human concept. As such, it’s not at all unusual for humans to stage battles between the two for their own entertainment purposes, and hawlucha fans and incineroar enthusiasts often engage in matches (both on the battlefield and via internet communities) to determine which is the better pokémon. In actuality, when introduced to one another outside of the context of a battle, an incineroar is just as likely to befriend a hawlucha as it is to develop an abject hatred for one, and the same could be said for a hawlucha towards an incineroar. If anything, when not forced to form a rivalry with each other, incineroar and hawlucha tend to enjoy one another’s company because they make for ideal sparring partners between the two, and oftentimes, an incineroar’s “heel” nature is just what a hawlucha needs to fuel its fiery passion for battling. Pun just a little intended.
You may benefit from giving them a space to battle. If you live in the suburbs of country, establish that they’re not allowed to battle indoors and reinforce this with positive reinforcement (by giving them treats whenever they keep themselves from fighting inside). Then, give them their own battlefield in your yard and be sure to oversee their battles. If you can, obtain a psychic pokémon that can separate them if they get too rowdy.
If you live in the city, however, that psychic pokémon I’ve just suggested may be essential to you, especially if it can learn Disable and possesses some level of precognitive skill. You see, a pokémon that possesses these exact characteristics can either see a fight and stop it before it starts or, if the fight breaks out anyway, use its telekinetic abilities to keep them separate until they cool off. Hence, a psychic-type can serve as an ideal mediator for fighting-types.
After that, of course, you will want to establish a safe place for the two to fight—a park or the courts at your nearest pokémon center, for example. Establish a routine in which you’ll allow them to battle so they’ll know they can regularly spar and fight as aggressively as they’d like without destroying your property.
In other words, the best way to establish boundaries is by offering alternatives and being consistent with your alternatives. Once you teach your hawlucha and pignite that there is quite literally a time and place for everything—including battles—they’ll be less likely to demolish your home and more likely to look forward to this special something every day.
But yes, consider getting a psychic-type too.
Unfortunately, the way hawlucha sleep in the wild is actually the ideal position for a trained hawlucha to sleep, so changing that isn’t particularly something I would recommend.
However, there are other things you can do to keep your hawlucha from experiencing back pains. Giving him a massage after every battle (or daily) as well as a warm compress will help his muscles to relax and, therefore, heal themselves. Additionally, some fighting-type pokémon—even in the wild—engage in their own forms of meditation or relaxation techniques to avoid the exact problem you’re describing (or muscle issues in general). Consider engaging in guided meditation with your hawlucha to ease his tension further.
Of course, if you haven’t already done so, adding exercises to increase flexibility and core strength may also help by stretching the muscles and reinforcing the abdominal muscle. The latter is handy by taking pressure and weight off the back muscles whenever your hawlucha performs day-to-day activities. Not to mention it strengthens his front so that moves such as Flying Press are much less of a shock to his system.
And finally, most importantly, ensure he’s standing straight when not in battle. If he slouches to eat, while walking—anything, this could further strain his back.
In short, while correcting one’s sleeping position is the easiest way to alleviate back issues in humans, in bird pokémon, it’s far more complicated. Instead, it’s far better simply to treat or prevent back pain in a bird pokémon’s waking state, when it’s active and can adopt changes to its routine.
Hawlucha
The Wrestling Pokémon
Type: Fighting/Flying
Official Registration #: 701
Entry: Despite its small size (of about 2.5 feet), hawlucha is a master of physical combat and can hold its own even against larger, bulkier opponents such as hariyama. However, most of the reason why it can hold its own has nothing to do with brute strength or raw power and everything to do with its tendency to attack from above and behind, which in this writer’s opinion is just as effective and honorable a strategy as any when going up against opponents far stronger and tougher than you. Like the patrons of the Goldenrod City Game Corner … as an off-hand example that the writer has never experienced personally.
The Pokédex According to Bill 