Throh and Sawk

Throh
The Judo Pokémon
Type: Fighting
Official Registration #: 538
Entry: This oni-like pokémon is extremely proud of its power, yet constantly travel in packs of five. When a group of throh encounter opponents bigger than themselves, they pool their collective strength together in an attempt to throw such an obstacle. This is, indeed, about as hilarious as it sounds, especially when the foe in question is a metagross.

Sawk
The Karate Pokémon
Type: Fighting
Official Registration #: 539
Entry: Unlike members of its bulkier cousin species, sawk is a solitary pokémon, opting to train alone by punching and chopping boulders. This pokémon is famous for its intense training habits, as it is known not only for never sleeping once it begins, but also for striking the boulders it practices on so hard that its every move may be heard throughout the mountains in which it trains. Why would it train this hard? Very likely because it shares its territory with packs of throh and is, unfortunately, lighter and easier to throw than five throh combined.

Scraggy and Scrafty

Scraggy
The Shedding Pokémon
Type: Dark/Fighting
Official Registration #: 559
Entry: These native Unovans will immediately headbutt anyone who makes direct eye contact with them. Now that the author has summarized his last encounters with the people of Castelia City, this lizard-like pokémon is proud of its sturdy skull and the cushion provided by its elastic skin, which it uses in combination for its primary fighting technique, the headbutt.

Scrafty
The Hoodlum Pokémon
Type: Dark/Fighting
Official Registration #: 560
Entry: The evolved form of scraggy, by battle experience. These pokémon protect themselves with their stretchy skin when kicking, largely because this technique shields their faces from debris, a necessity due to the fact that their kicks can smash concrete blocks. It is said groups of these native Unovans will beat up anything that enters their territories … which, incidentally, also describes one of the last evenings the author had spent in Castelia City.

Frillish and Jellicent

Frillish
The Floating Pokémon
Type: Water/Ghost
Official Registration #: 592
Entry: This mysterious, jellyfish-like pokémon floats close to the surface of warm seas. When in close proximity to its prey—which consists of anything with a large enough reservoir of life force, humans included and especially—they reach up with their veil-like tentacles, paralyze their target with poison, and drag their stunned victims into the depths of the ocean. For this reason, in Unova, this pokémon is feared as a highly dangerous predator. However, in Johto, where local stories involve seabirds that generate hurricanes with a slight flap of their wings, this pokémon is prized as something that’s highly delicious when brined, dried, and served with vegetables and a little bit of vinegar.

Jellicent
The Floating Pokémon
Type: Water/Ghost
Official Registration #: 593
Entry: The evolved form of frillish, by battle experience. It is said that ships that wander into jellicent territory are doomed to be sunk, with all hands on deck lost. This is true in Unova, but ships from more eastern regions have been far luckier. Research has gone into why this might be, but the author already has a pretty solid theory: misplaced retribution over the fact that some of us brine, dry, and serve their preevolved forms with vegetables and a little bit of vinegar.

The Roggenrola Line

Roggenrola
The Mantle Pokémon
Type: Rock
Official Registration #: 524
Entry: A small, boulder-like pokémon native to Unovan caves. Roggenrola are easily recognizable by two features: the hard-as-steel skin covering its entire body and the hexagon-shaped ear hole drilled into its front. The author will pause here to give the reader time to get over their inevitable astonishment that the hole in the front of a roggenrola is, in fact, an ear and not an eye or a mouth.

Boldore
The Ore Pokémon
Type: Rock
Official Registration #: 525
Entry: The evolved form of roggenrola, by battle experience. After having trained deep within the harsh conditions of its underground home, boldore has attained power too great for its body, and thus, upon evolution, orange crystals have burst through its steel-like skin to contain its excess energy. And yes, those are two ear holes.

Gigalith
The Compressed Pokémon
Type: Rock
Official Registration #: 526
Entry: The evolved form of boldore, via trading. Upon evolution, gigalith’s crystals not only retain the ability to store their host’s excess energy, but they are also capable of collecting solar energy on the rare occasions that this pokémon is on the surface. Once enough energy has been collected, gigalith can compress this energy into its core and fire it off as a destructive ball of light. And yes, those are still ear holes. This pokémon has no eyes, and its mouth is on its underside. These are just facts the reader must become accustomed to, should they wish to train any member of this evolution line.

The Pidove Line

Pidove
The Tiny Pigeon Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 519
Entry: A small, pigeon-like pokémon endemic to the urban areas of Unova and Kalos. Notorious for its forgetfulness, pidove have a tendency to wait for their next orders, even if a trainer had already issued one. They also have the tendency to forget that they can fly, that the window they had flown into three seconds earlier exists, that purrloin eat them, and practically anything at all if shown a small chunk of bread.

Tranquill
The Wild Pigeon Pokémon
Type: Normal/Psychic
Official Registration #: 520
Entry: The evolved form of pidove, by battle experience. Tranquill are known for being excellent messengers, largely because they possess the ability to return to their trainers, regardless of how far they have to fly in order to do so. Given the forgetfulness of tranquill’s previous evolution, this has naturally baffled behaviorists for centuries. Less baffling: the fact that tranquill don’t seem to take “it’s amazing that you can remember you have your trainer, given, you know, what you were like as a pidove” as a compliment.

Unfezant
The Proud Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 521
Entry: The evolved form of tranquill, by battle experience. The sexual dimorphism of this pokémon has been a point of interest to pokémonologists for years. Males possess elaborate, brightly colored plumage, which they show off during mating season by swinging their heads in a display designed to simultaneously attract females and threaten males away from mating candidates. The females, meanwhile, possess duller plumage but stronger wings, the latter of which grant them flying abilities that are practically unrivaled among bird pokémon, their male counterparts included. To be fair, though, it’s perfectly understandable. Whenever certain subsets of the human species display similar behaviors to male unfezant, their potential mating candidates, too, display impressive flight abilities for the sake of evacuating immediately, and the author, to be frank, can hardly blame them.

Cubchoo and Beartic

Cubchoo
The Chill Pokémon
Type: Ice
Official Registration #: 613
Entry: The nose of this small, polar bear-like pokémon is constantly running. When in battle, it sniffs its giant drop of snot back into its nose because the mucus provides it with the raw material needed for its ice powers … and also because making an opponent feel immensely disgusted is a fantastically effective distraction.

Beartic
The Freezing Pokémon
Type: Ice
Official Registration #: 614
Entry: The evolved form of cubchoo, by battle experience. An apex predator of the frosty north, this polar bear pokémon is capable of exhaling freezing breaths. It uses this breath to form icy claws and fangs to fight and take down prey … because the six-inch claws and three-inch fangs it already has is certainly not enough.

Munna and Musharna

Munna
The Dream Eater Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 517
Entry: This small, rare tapir-like pokémon has the ability to manipulate dreams. Using its hypnotic powers, it lulls a target to sleep and then proceeds to consume their dreams. Insomniacs and those plagued by nightmares find munna especially useful. That having been said, it is also worth it to note that, contrary to current popular belief, munna is not a “drowzee’s sober first cousin.”

Musharna
The Drowsing Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 518
Entry: The evolved form of munna, by exposure to moon stone. Like its preevolved form, musharna use its hypnotic abilities to lull a target to sleep so that it may consume their dreams. Once consumed, these dreams are converted into dream smoke, which is expelled by the jewel on musharna’s forehead. This dream smoke has a tendency to change colors, depending on the dreams the host musharna had consumed, with the more vivid ones taking on bright, vibrant hues. Said dreams moke also has the tendency to produce psychotropic effects if deliberately inhaled by a human being … which, contrary to current popular belief, the author does not know from experience.

Druddigon

Druddigon
The Cave Pokémon
Type: Dragon
Official Registration #: 621
Entry: This fierce, dragon-like pokémon warms its body by absorbing sunlight through its jagged wings. It must do this daily, as if its body temperature falls, it will lose its ability to move. …Which is exactly why this pokémon lives in cold, damp, sunless caves.

Yamask and Cofagrigus

Yamask
The Spirit Pokémon
Type: Ghost
Official Registration #: 562
Entry: A ghost-type pokémon prevalent in the graveyards and ruins of Unova. It is said that yamask are the restless spirits of those close to pokémon, transformed for eternity into pokémon forms. The mask they carry, then, are the faces they once possessed, which are their final token of their lives as humans, as well as a constant reminder of their eternal curse. Then again, yamask can also communicate with other pokémon and wield pokémon powers, so … the author, for one, could probably deal with eternal damnation to the moral plane and the existential horror involved with the loss of identity.

Cofagrigus
The Coffin Pokémon
Type: Ghost
Official Registration #: 563
Entry: The evolved form of yamask, by battle experience. Upon evolution, yamask take up residence within a golden, coffin-like shell. From this shell, they reach out with their four ghostly arms to snatch up hapless wanderers and graverobbers and pull them into their bodies. This is just one thing cofagrigus is famous for. The other thing popularly known about this pokémon is the fact that whoever named it clearly did so with the conscious intent of creating a massive headache for those of us who deal with adult content filter systems … such as, say, for example, administrators of digital transportation systems.

The Vanillite Line

Vanillite
The Fresh Snow Pokémon
Type: Ice
Official Registration #: 582
Entry: Even at a young age, this sprite pokémon is gifted with extraordinary mastery over the ice element. It breathes gusts of wind that reach temperatures of up to -58 degrees Fahrenheit, and it can make snow fall in the areas around it, even in ordinarily hot and humid conditions. Additionally, this pokémon and its evolutions are noted for strongly resembling ice cream cones, but the reader should be aware that vanillite does not taste like vanilla.

Vanillish
The Icy Snow Pokémon
Type: Ice
Official Registration #: 583
Entry: The evolved form of vanillite, by battle experience. Its mastery over the ice element continues to grow after evolution, to the point where it gains the ability to not only create snowfall but sustain it in the air in order to generate a fog of ice and snow to conceal it from enemies. It also does not taste like vanilla.

Vanilluxe
The Snowstorm Pokémon
Type: Ice
Official Registration #: 584
Entry: The evolved form of vanillish, by battle experience. A highly dangerous ice-type, vanilluxe is capable of drawing in large amounts of water and moisture from the air and exhaling raging blizzards in an instant. These blizzards have the ability to freeze an opponent or induce frostbite in humans within seconds. On the other hand, this pokémon does taste like vanilla, so there’s at least some positive in attempting to approach one.