Tag: Octillery

Do you ever look at a pokemon and wonder why it evolves in “that” way? Also what’s the first pokemon that came to mind when you thought about the previous question?

Octillery.

What? It’s an octopus-like pokémon that evolves from a remora-like pokémon! Their ecological niches are entirely different, and they don’t even share remotely the same sets of adaptations. There is literally no reason why these two should be related in any way, yet they are. And the worst part of it is I can’t even explain it without perhaps squinting at them both and saying something about how remoraid’s specialty in gun-like shooting attacks somehow causes it to evolve into the tank-like octillery, but that doesn’t even make sense! It’s just baffling! It’s one of the biggest puzzles to pokémon science right now, and on Ho-oh’s wings, I will solve it one day.

I can’t tell whether you’re excited or angry right now. —LH

Both! —Bill

Remoraid and Octillery

Remoraid
The Jet Pokémon
Type: Water
Official Registration #: 223
Entry: Besides their symbiotic relationship with mantine, remoraid are most known for their ability to shoot strong jets of water that are capable of striking opponents more than 300 feet away. If you happen to be wondering how a 27-pound water-dwelling pokémon can shoot a jet of water that powerful without blasting themselves backwards as a result of basic physics, the answer is … they can’t.

Octillery
The Jet Pokémon
Type: Water
Official Registration #: 224
Entry: The evolved form of remoraid, by battle experience. Most pokédex entries will go into either its use of ink to blind prey or its ability to use its strong tentacles and suction cups to trap its victims shortly before incapacitating them with its rock-hard head. However, this writer finds it far, far more interesting that this is an octopus that evolves from a fish, and his peers have simply accepted this to be perfectly logical.