Hippopotas
The Hippo Pokémon
Type: Ground
Official Registration #: 449
Entry: A small, hippopotamus-like pokémon native to deserts and mountains. Although it looks docile, it is actually a fiercely defensive pokémon in the wild. It often forms herds of ten or more, and each member of these herds is apt to defend their herd with a vicious Bite or Sand Tomb. Unlike its mammalian counterpart, hippopotas dwells exclusively in dry, arid areas, as it doesn’t like being wet. This—in combination with the actual, non-pokémon hippopotamus’s predilection for wet, swampy areas and their penchant for forming herds that they protect by charging and biting invading territories—means very little territory on the planet is safe from the dangers of a hippo.

Hippowdon
The Heavyweight Pokémon
Type: Ground
Official Registration #: 450
Entry: The evolved form of hippopotas, by battle experience. It’s extremely important to b cautious whenever dealing with this pokémon. Hippowdon may look bulky and slow, but make no mistake. It can charge a target at speeds of up to twenty miles an hour, it routinely conceals itself by half-burying its body in the earth, it weighs over 660 pounds, and wild members of this species do not take kindly to most interactions with humans. This makes traversing its native mountains and deserts rather awkward for travelers, as it is prone to emerging and charging at humans on sight for seemingly no reason at all (besides simply existing), even if those humans happen to be studying entirely different pokémon a football field’s length away.