Cranidos
The Head Butt Pokémon
Type: Rock
Official Registration #: 408
Entry: A three-foot-tall pokémon that strongly resembles the Pachycephalosaurus. Cranidos once lived in the ancient jungles that once spanned the Sinnoh region, where it would harden the iron-hard plates in its skull by headbutting palm trees. It is said that the climate shifts that the region had experienced millions of years ago were due in part to herds of cranidos cutting down swaths of trees purely by accident using this training method. This, as to be expected, very likely did not do wonders for the creature’s brain.

Rampardos
The Head Butt Pokémon
Type: Rock
Official Registration #: 409
Entry: The evolved form of cranidos, by battle experience. Rampardos’s skull continues to harden after evolution until it reaches a foot thick. On the positive side, this means that blows to the head hardly faze this pokémon, which it uses to its great advantage in its battling style. On the negative side, as to be expected, the thickening skull leaves very little room for its brain, which means that this pokémon was very likely the least intelligent creature to roam the Sinnohan jungles. Further evidence of this lies in the state of petrified trees in the vicinity of rampardos fossils: the fact that vast numbers of trees were ripped in half, rather than uprooted suggest that rampardos’s average hunting methods involved barreling directly into trees, rather than working their ways around them.