The Shinx Line

Shinx
The Flash Pokémon
Type: Electric
Official Registration #: 403
Entry: A small, lion cub-like pokémon of the electric type. Shinx is referred to as the “flash pokémon” because of its the ability to disperse electricity into its fur using the extension and contraction of its muscular system; the tenser its body, the more electricity is pumped into its fur, which means the more its fur sparks and glows. However, it is important for trainers to note that this behavior is not exclusive to fear. Rather, shinx as a whole will do this whenever excited, including when they wish to play with their trainers. Which is to say, if considering training a newly hatched shinx, please be aware that you will be blinded. A lot.

Luxio
The Spark Pokémon
Type: Electric
Official Registration #: 404
Entry: The evolved form of shinx, by battle experience. As a member of the shinx line grows, it gains finer control over its electrical abilities. In its luxio form, it learns to channel electricity into its claws, rather than throughout its fur, and it uses this to deliver powerful electrical shocks to its opponents. Even the lightest scratch from a luxio is potent enough to render even the bulkiest pokémon unconscious. On that note, trainers who are considering raising a member of the shinx line should beware of luxio as well. Luxio, after all, have a habit of kneading their trainers’ laps to show affection, which is a behavior that has occasionally had very unfortunate consequences for more than a few humans.

Luxray
The Gleam Eyes Pokémon
Type: Electric
Official Registration #: 405
Entry: The evolved form of luxio, by battle experience. Luxray are gifted with the ability to see through walls. When its eyes light up and it stares intently at a wall, rest assured that this is normal for luxray and that it has simply spotted potential prey. On the positive side, this is the only strange thing about luxray, as it no longer channels electricity into its fur or claws when excited. On the negative side, if a luxray stares intently at your wall, you most likely have an infestation of rattata or pikachu. That and also, your luxray is very likely to Thunderbolt your wall and anything that happens to be in front of said wall (including, for example, you) without notice.

Stunky and Skuntank

Stunky
The Skunk Pokémon
Type: Poison/Dark
Official Registration #: 434
Entry: A small, woodland pokémon known for its powerful defense mechanism. When threatened, rather than attacking using traditional pokémon moves, stunky will turn its hindquarters to face its attacker, lift its tail, and spray a potent musk to confound and drive away the offending creature. As an important side note, Sinnohan folk remedies prescribe bathing in tomato juice in order to remove the smell. The writer fully encourages stunky victims to do this, not because of its effectiveness (it is, in fact, not even remotely effective) but instead because bathing in tomato juice is strangely good for the skin.

Skuntank
The Skunk Pokémon
Type: Poison/Dark
Official Registration #: 435
Entry: The evolved form of stunky, by battle experience. Skuntank is basically a larger, more dangerous stunky. What makes it so dangerous are a combination of factors, namely its hotter temper and the fact that the range of its spray can reach up to 160 feet. Word of advice, should you ever encounter a wild skuntank: one quart hydrogen peroxide, quarter cup baking soda, and two teaspoons of dish soap. Mix and use the way you would everyday body soap and shampoo. You are very welcome.

Skorupi and Drapion

Skorupi
The Scorpion Pokémon
Type: Poison/Bug
Official Registration #: 451
Entry: A scorpion pokémon endemic to deserts and arid mountains. As a primarily desert-dwelling pokémon, skorupi are hardy, capable of surviving for up to a year without food. Science has tested and proven this fact, but the scientists involved were less successful in avoiding the scandal and prison time involved with obvious pokémon abuse.

Drapion
The Ogre Scorpion Pokémon
Type: Poison/Dark
Official Registration #: 452
Entry: The evolved form of skorupi, by battle experience. Drapion body language may be difficult to understand at first, but the key is keeping in mind the fact that drapion arms are extremely strong and tipped with stingers that can secrete a powerful venom. Therefore, when a drapion is holding its arms slack and loose, this means that it’s allowing you to approach and give it affection. However, if your drapion’s arms are held up and extended to the sides, this is actually an aggressive stance, not an invitation for a hug. The writer must emphasize that the difference is extremely vital to trainers.

Glameow and Purugly

Glameow
The Catty Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 431
Entry: A fancy cat-like pokémon known for its fickleness. It adores affection and will purr when given it, but at a moment’s notice—or when trainers fail to give it enough affection or food—it will hook its sharp claws into its owner’s skin. This fickleness has made it more appealing and cute to certain groups of people. These people refer to themselves as “cat owners,” whereas the rest of the world calls them “masochists.”

Purugly
The Tiger Cat Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 432
Entry: The evolved form of glameow, by battle experience. Despite the fact that it looks pudgy or even roly-poly, much of purugly’s weight actually consists of solid muscle and fur, which it puffs up as an intimidation tactic by binding its tail tightly across its midsection. But really, its best tactic is one it executes by its presence alone: it is audacious enough to barge into pokémon nests and claim them as its own, regardless of the original occupant. Consequently, most pokémon are fully convinced that purugly is fully capable of killing them if it can get away with stealing even the most vicious pokémon’s nests with absolutely zero [PLURAL EXPLETIVE REDACTED] given.

The Swinub Line

Swinub
The Pig Pokémon
Type: Ice/Ground
Official Registration #: 220
Entry: A small, pig-like pokémon known for its sensitive nose. This nose can detect practically anything from quite a distance away, including truffles, treasure, and buried hot springs. It runs headlong towards any scent it finds interesting and, upon locating its source, instantly digs in an attempt to unbury it. This is unfortunate, not only because of its tendency to run into anything standing between it and its goal but also because of the part where it, a ground-type, sometimes finds buried hot springs.

Piloswine
The Swine Pokémon
Type: Ice/Ground
Official Registration #: 221
Entry: The evolved form of swinub, by battle experience. Led by its incredibly sensitive nose, this pokémon runs headlong towards odors it finds interesting, just as its pre-evolved form does. However, given the fact that this is a four-foot-tall, 123-pound pig with fur that obscures its eyes and foot-long tusks, the act of running headlong into the things between it and its goal becomes more unfortunate for anything in its way, rather than for the piloswine itself.

Mamoswine
The Twin Tusk Pokémon
Type: Ice/Ground
Official Registration #: 473
Entry: The evolved form of piloswine, by battle experience if the piloswine knows Ancient Power. Fossil evidence has shown that mamoswine has existed on the planet for over ten thousand years. However, mamoswine do not occur in the wild; they only exist as the evolved form of specially trained piloswine. There are two theories as to why this is. First and more scientific, temperatures rose over ten thousand years ago, resulting in a climate far too warm for mamoswine to exist. Second and less scientific, one only has to look at swinub and piloswine’s shared habits to hazard a really good guess involving mamoswine’s bulk, its unlikelihood to be adept at stopping, and the numbers of sharp glacial cliffs during its time.

Shieldon and Bastiodon

Shieldon
The Shield Pokémon
Type: Rock/Steel
Official Registration #: 410
Entry: A two-foot-tall pokémon that strongly resembles the Protoceratops. Like cranidos, shieldon inhabited the jungles of Sinnoh over 100 million years ago. Also like cranidos, shieldon had a habit of assaulting the plant life of the Sinnohan jungles, only rather than headbutt trees, it preferred to rub its face against the rough bark in order to toughen the iron-like hide that covered its face. In short, between the cranidos and shieldon, the jungles of Sinnoh barely stood a chance.

Bastiodon
The Shield Pokémon
Type: Rock/Steel
Official Registration #: 411
Entry: The evolved form of shieldon, by battle experience. After evolution, bastiodon’s facial plates harden to the point where it can resist virtually any frontal attack. This allowed the normally docile bastiodon and its shieldon young to graze in peace. Should anyone wonder why those two statements should be related, one only needs to remember that bastiodon thrived during the exact same era as the “charge forward without any intent whatsoever of changing course for any reason” rampardos.

Cranidos and Rampardos

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.

Bidoof and Bibarel

Bidoof
The Plump Mouse Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 399
Entry: A two-foot-tall rodent-like pokémon common to the Sinnoh region. Although it looks cute, unassuming, and dim-witted, bidoof are actually among the most destructive and dangerous beginner-level rodent pokémon in existence, even more so than its cousin the rattata. The reason why is that while rattata are quick to flee from danger and while many rattata forage alone, bidoof are tenacious, brave, and prone to forming large foraging groups. Therefore, whereas a rattata can be scared away by the presence of a trained machamp, a bidoof will merely tilt its head, emit a rallying cry, and charge forward with hundreds of its fluffy, biting brethren in tow. Needless to say, trainers would be wise to take caution around the mighty bidoof.

Bibarel
The Beaver Pokémon
Type: Normal/Water
Official Registration #: 400
Entry: The evolved form of bidoof, by battle experience. While many other pokémon develop a longing for wandering or expanding their territories upon evolution, bibarel becomes more domesticated. That is to say, rather than attempting to expand its territory, bibarel spends most of its efforts focusing on very specific points of rivers, where it builds giant dams where it will raise its young. These dams have been known to have huge ecological impacts. For most humans, they become a blessing, as in building the dam, the bibarel may create a natural reservoir or divert a river to a village in dire need of water. However, it should be noted that bibarel are largely oblivious to any damage their actions may cause, and they still retain their tendency to congregate in large groups from their time as bidoof. As such, in very certain cases, large numbers of bibarel have been known to singlehandedly flood entire Sinnohean towns without even realizing it.

Chatot

Chatot
The Music Note Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 441
Entry: A highly intelligent parrot-like pokémon capable of mimicking human speech. Because of this unique ability, many people like to catch them, teach them adorable phrases and tricks, and keep them as pets. Or, in the case of trainers like the Sinnoh storage system administrator, catch six of them, teach them to sing Tom Jones’s “What’s New Pussycat” in rounds, and replace every alarm clock in your house with this team of six chatot when you have company in order to dissuade your closest colleagues from ever visiting your home again.

Spiritomb

Spiritomb
The Forbidden Pokémon
Type: Ghost/Dark
Official Registration #: 442
Entry: This pokémon consists of dark spirits bound to a strange stone. According to Sinnoh legend, spiritomb specifically consists of 108 spirits condemned to spend an eternity bound together in the aforementioned stone for misdeeds they collectively committed over 500 years ago. It is said that strange things happen in the presence of spiritomb and that even today, in its bound state, it does everything it can to curse nearby humans and wreak general havoc. To be fair, though, spiritomb’s behavior is perfectly understandable. If the reader was cursed to spend an eternity trapped in a body with 107 people you couldn’t stand, you, too, would very likely be just a little upset about it.