Tag: krokorokin

Hey, Bill, what’s it like live in a world in which, for all intents and purposes, humans should be at the bottom of the food chain? How did you all make it to the top? Was it humanity’s intelligence, or just good old fashion dumb luck?

This is quite literally the exact question every pokémon researcher seeks to answer. It’s the greatest mystery of our world. After all, pokémon wield such amazing powers—mastery over electricity, psychic abilities, dragon magic, and so forth—yet these are very rarely turned on human beings.

There are, of course, legends that offer answers. Sinnohans, for example, believe that humans and pokémon were once the same species that separated at the dissolution of a vaguely defined pact between them. On the other hand, Johtonians and Hoennians both revere pokémon as holy (although we differ in our opinions of what kinds of gods and how intelligent they actually were), and it’s said that our respect for pokémon is exactly what made them respect us in return.

However, all of these are simply legends. A more accurate and modern explanation is that humanity’s ingenuity has protected them from extinction, and to be quite honest, it’s the most likely theory we have. When you think about it, it’s not just pokémon that can and have tried to kill us. The animals we also share this world with are certainly better equipped to survive and come complete with certain defense mechanisms that could very well rip us apart.

Yet we’ve managed to survive for eons thanks to our inventiveness. We have, for example, mastered architecture, agriculture, and the art of domestication, so in short, you could say we’ve survived purely by virtue of being stubborn and audacious enough to want to control the world around us and force it not to kill us. Pokémon have a tendency to respect that drive to not die, which is possibly why the more badges a trainer has, the more a pokémon is willing to listen to them. It’s really all about proving to your magical companions that if a hurricane is thrown at you, you will somehow find a way to survive it like the tenacious giant cockroach you probably are.

So to answer your main question, what is it like to live in a world where anything can kill you? Quite nice, actually. It is, in all seriousness, quite inspiring to know that our entire species survives due to a combination of being too stubborn to die off and earning the respect of creatures who control the elements purely because of that stubbornness.

Hey, Bill. Have you ever come in contact with the Krookodile line?

Yes indeed! I take it this is meant to be a request? If so:

Sandile
The Desert Croc Pokémon
Type: Ground/Dark
Official Registration #: 551
Entry: Sandile are a crocodile-like pokémon with two notable adaptations for life in the desert: skin the color of sand and the unique habit of traveling across the dunes with most of their bodies buried. Because of both adaptations, sandile are extremely difficult to spot as they move across the Unova desert, but despite this, they are also timid, easily panicked pokémon that have a tendency to snap at whatever unwittingly walks too close for comfort with their sharp jaws, regardless of whether or not that threat can actually see them. Thus, the writer has only one piece of advice for anyone who intends on traveling through the Unova desert: wear boots.

Krokorok
The Desert Croc Pokémon
Type: Ground/Dark
Official Registration #: 552
Entry: The evolved form of sandile, by battle experience. Krokorok are very similar to their evolutionary predecessor, save for three key differences: size, the tendency to travel in packs of three or more, and the fact that they will snap at hapless travelers not out of self-defense but instead because they enjoy toying with anyone who has the audacity of traveling through their territory. Thus, should you wish to travel through the deeper parts of the Unova desert where krokorok tend to nest, the writer has additional words of advice for you: wear heavier boots and bring a water-type.

Krookodile
The Intimidation Pokémon
Type: Ground/Dark
Official Registration #: 553
Entry: The evolved form of krokorok, by battle experience. Despite the fact that its predecessors call the Unova desert home, Krookodile are not native to that region but instead Australia, where the harsh environs have forced the local krokorok to evolve into larger, more aggressive forms with jaws capable of smashing through cars. This does not seem to faze the Australians, who seem to have made it a sport to find and wrestle wild krookodile to the ground. In light of this, the writer has only one last word of advice for his readers: don’t go to Australia.