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.
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Skiddo and Gogoat
Skiddo
The Mount Pokémon
Type: Grass
Official Registration #: 672
Entry: Historical records indicate that skiddo was one of the first pokémon ever domesticated—which, given its placid nature, the fact that it requires very little food if given sunlight and water, and its general hardiness, is very likely an accurate statement. It is also known to be the first pokémon ever domesticated for the purpose of serving as transport … which, given its maximum height of three feet and given the average prehistoric human height of about five feet, is both impressive and a reasonable explanation for why ancient human remains from the Kalos region frequently show signs of distress around the knee area.
Gogoat
The Mount Pokémon
Type: Grass
Official Registration #: 673
Entry: The evolved form of skiddo, by battle experience. At a height of five and a half feet, gogoat is a far better option than skiddo in terms of transportation. Its horns are also extremely sensitive and capable of picking up on the emotions of its riders, allowing it to make reasonable judgments in route and speed. However, it should also be noted that gogoat also have a tendency to ram fellow gogoat with its horns as a display of dominance, so it is highly, highly discouraged to ride gogoat in the vicinity of the rest of its own herd.
Helioptile and Heliolisk
Helioptile
The Generator Pokémon
Type: Electric/Normal
Official Registration #: 694
Entry: This foot-tall reptilian pokémon lives in the desert, where it gains energy by gathering sunlight via the electrical cells on the tips of its long, ear-like frills. Although it looks adorable with its rabbit-like frills and wide, round eyes, petting it is highly discouraged, as its dry skin is rough and, more importantly, prone to discharging of all its stored electricity directly into its hapless trainer upon physical contact.
Heliolisk
The Generator Pokémon
Type: Electric/Normal
Official Registration #: 695
Entry: The evolved form of helioptile, by exposure to sun stone. It is fairly easy to discern a heliolisk’s current emotions, based on its highly visible body language. For example, if the heliolisk’s neck frill is retracted and the heliolisk itself is resting on all fours, then it is relaxed and approachable. By contrast, if it is currently standing on its hind feet with its frill extended as it discharges several thousand volts of electricity into your body via Thunder, then there is a very good chance that it perceives you as a threat.
Pancham and Pangoro
{This and the following four entries are by request of @the-firebrand. Thanks! 😀 —The Mod}
Pancham
The Playful Pokémon
Type: Fighting
Official Registration #: 674
Entry: This two-foot-tall panda pokémon will do anything it can to make its enemies take it seriously. Thus, it frequently adopts a confident swagger on the battlefield while chewing on a leaf to make it look tougher than it actually is. In truth, this is a cuddly pokémon that can be easily distracted with petting, although this is rarely recommended, not because it can pack a powerful punch (although it certainly can) but instead because this embarrasses it immensely.
Pangoro
The Daunting Pokémon
Type: Dark/Fighting
Official Registration #: 675
Entry: The evolved form of pancham, by battle experience if raised alongside a dark-type pokémon. Unlike its previous form, pangoro are notorious for being seven-foot-tall, 300-pound mountains of muscle, claws, and rage. If confronted with anything that even slightly resembles bullying, it will charge the offender and smash them with their giant paws, which are strong enough to snap telephone poles in half. Incidentally, this reaction also applies to anyone who subjected them to humiliation as pancham, so to those of you who had a habit of cuddling your pancham because they were fuzzy and adorable … never evolve your pancham. Ever.
Hi Bill, I’d love to hear about your research on the Espurr line, especially any notes you have on the differences between male and female Meowstic. Thank you!
Certainly!
Espurr
The Restraint Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 677
Entry: Espurr release psychic waves from organs hidden beneath their ears. These psychic waves are incredibly potent and capable of destroying anything within a 300-foot radius of itself, yet curiously, the only thing stopping it from doing so is literally its ears. The fact that it is known as “the restraint pokémon” seems to be either a misunderstanding or a sardonic note on behalf of a particularly terrible researcher, although recent studies have shown that the expression on its face is not blank but rather a strained expression of raw panic. In short, handle with care.
Meowstic (male)
The Constraint Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 678
Entry: The evolved form of male espurr, by battle experience. Although technically the same species, meowstic display a fascinating form of gender dimorphism. Whereas female meowstic are developed to be more noticeable and aggressive, male meowstic are armed with dark fur and several abilities capable of disabling or hindering its opponents. In other words, stray male meowstic are not meant to be seen whenever they rob you blind and leave you disarmed and incapable of defending yourself in the rougher neighborhoods of Lumiose City.
Meowstic (female)
The Constraint Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 678
Entry: The evolved form of female espurr, by battle experience. Although technically the same species, meowstic display a fascinating form of gender dimorphism. The female meowstic in particular possess a bright, white coat and several showy, powerful offensive abilities, both of which make females highly visible and noticeable. In this writer’s opinion, this is a rather handy fact, as it’s nice to see the highly territorial female meowstic coming after you after their male counterparts rob you blind in a Lumiose back alley. This will not save you from taking a Charge Beam in the chest purely because you happen to be in what they consider to be their territory, but when you find yourself in a back alley, one less surprise is a certain comfort.
Bill, what do you have to say about the Mr. Mime family?
Ah, the mime family.
Mime Jr.
The Mime Pokémon
Type: Psychic/Fairy
Official Registration #: 439
Entry: As a defensive maneuver, mime jr. mimics the expressions and motions of its predators. The enemy pokémon is thus so taken aback by this display that it can’t help but to hesitate long enough for the mime jr. to get away. The effectiveness of this maneuver may be difficult for some people to understand, so for a better idea of how and why this works, one should spend any amount of time in the general vicinity of a person and their younger siblings.
Mr. Mime
The Barrier Pokémon
Type: Psychic/Fairy
Official Registration #: 122
Entry: The evolved form of mime jr., by battle experience if the specimen knows Mimic. Despite its name, the mr. mime species is actually capable of being both male and female. Although it is difficult for this writer to admit, the name came from a notoriously sexist period of pokémonology and is based entirely on the misconception that only male organisms were capable of being terrible enough to manipulate impressionable humans into believing an object exists when it doesn’t until it does. As it turns out, both sexes of mr. mime do this, and the pokémonology community spent the ensuing sixty years pretending that the name came from an unfortunate translation error.
Castform
Castform
The Weather Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 351
Entry: Castform are foot-tall pokémon that have the ability to use the power of nature to protect itself. More specifically, its appearance and type changes based on the weather, and as such, it can be used as an effective natural meteorologist. For example, on days when your castform appears to be a fire-type with a hood shaped like a bright, red sun, expect a particularly bright and sunny day. On days when your castform appears to be a water-type with a hood shaped like a water droplet, expect rain. When your castform is an ice-type with a head shaped like a swirling cloud, that indicates snow or hail. And when your castform is blown away from you before you can figure out what type of hood it’s wearing, you are outside during a typhoon, and this is most inadvisable.
Wailmer and Wailord
Wailmer
The Ball Whale Pokémon
Type: Water
Official Registration #: 320
Entry: Wailmer have the ability to travel on land by filling their elastic bodies up with water and bouncing like beach balls up the shore and to dry ground. They can also increase the height and speed of their bounce by taking in higher volumes of water, and they enjoy doing all of this on sunny, clear days near populated beaches. Given the fact that wailmer are 6.5 feet tall and 172 pounds in their natural states, this is understandably a cause for alarm for all towns on the coasts of their native Hoenn.
Wailord
The Float Whale Pokémon
Type: Water
Official Registration #: 321
Entry: The evolved form of wailmer, by battle experience. At an average height of 47 feet, 7 inches, wailord is by far the largest documented pokémon in existence. Because of the sheer size of this pokémon and the fact that regulation fields are, for whatever reason, not that much larger than the average specimen, it is extremely difficult for trainers to raise a wailord for battling purposes. However, there is a small group of trainers who raise wailord purely for the novelty of it, especially thanks to the fact that it can crossbreed with some of the smallest pokémon on record, including diglett and skitty. Regulations intended to dissuade trainers from doing this have been brought forth before various government bodies, but given the nature of bureaucracy, any such legislation has yet to be passed.
The Wurmple Line
Wurmple
The Worm Pokémon
Type: Bug
Official Registration #: 265
Entry: There is an easy way to tell if a wurmple will evolve into either a cascoon or a silcoon. What you’ll need to do is this: upon encountering a wurmple, grab it by the ridges on the back of its neck and [ERROR]
Silcoon
The Cocoon Pokémon
Type: Bug
Official Registration #: 266
Entry: The evolved form of wurmple, by a combination of battle experience and the individual’s personality. As a reflection of the wurmple’s own nature, silcoon are inherently graceful and beautiful and are known for both the softness and pure whiteness of their silk and the fact that they drink the dew off their own threads until evolution. In order to better understand silcoon and its close cousin the cascoon, imagine the most energetic morning person you have ever seen in your life. Have someone give them coffee and tell you that you are not, under any circumstances, permitted to punch them. This is the silcoon according to all cascoon.
Beautifly
The Butterfly Pokémon
Type: Bug/Flying
Official Registration #: 267
Entry: The evolved form of silcoon, by battle experience. True to the rule that the cuter a pokémon looks, the more likely it is that the pokémon in question possesses either a violent temper, the means to disembowel you, or both, beautifly are among the most beautiful and vicious bug-types in the pokémon kingdom. Its mouth is actually a coiled needle that can grow to be at least double its body size in length when straightened, and needless to say, it uses this needle to stab anyone who gets within reach of it as it feeds on flower nectar.
Cascoon
The Cocoon Pokémon
Type: Bug
Official Registration #: 268
Entry: The evolved form of wurmple, by a combination of battle experience and the individual’s personality. As a reflection of the wurmple’s own nature, cascoon are literal balls of hatred and rage, capable of remembering you, your face, and the fact that you hit it, looked at it strangely, or put it within two feet of a silcoon. It is highly advisable to apologize profusely to your cascoon on a constant basis to avoid being Psybeamed in the face immediately upon its evolution into dustox.
Dustox
The Poison Moth Pokémon
Type: Bug/Poison
Official Registration #: 269
Entry: The evolved form of cascoon, by battle experience. Despite its initial burst of rage, dustox settle into a more passive persona as they age. Rather than live solitary lifestyles and engage in aggressive, territorial behavior, dustox are more prone to congregating with their fellow dustox near sources of light, and they typically only attack when directly threatened. However, the main problem with dustox is that their scales are covered with an extremely toxic powder that happens to be released with every flap of their wings, which means they are also far, far more likely to inadvertently poison anyone who happens to be anywhere near them, much to the typical dustox’s dismay.
Skitty and Delcatty
Skitty
The Kitten Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 300
Entry: The subject of about 90% of all domestic pokémon videos on the internet. It is not well-understood why skitty seems to be a universal obsession for the human race. Some say it has something to do with Cute Charm, one of its possible natural abilities, but more than likely, it’s just because it’s so bloody adorable, regardless of its ability.
Delcatty
The Prim Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 301
Entry: The evolved form of skitty, by exposure to moon stone. An extremely popular pokémon among fashion-conscious female trainers, delcatty are known for their unfettered existences, in which they do whatever they please and sleep whenever they wish with no actual consequences to their behavior. Thus, it is said that delcatty is “living the dream” and that it is “the thing all young bloggers aspire to be.”
The Pokédex According to Bill 