History Characters / PokemonGenerationIXSprigatitoToEspathra

* BlessedWithSuck: Their Mycelium Might ability lets them ignore the opponent's ability with their status moves, letting them perform feats like putting a Pokémon with Vital Spirit to sleep, or setting Spikes against a foe with Magic Bounce. The catch? Not only do Pokemon with Vital Spirit or Insomnia STAY asleep due to the abilities innate properties, it causes them to always go last when using these moves, [[ObviousRulePatch preventing Toedscruel from using its good base 100 speed to get the jump on foes with Spore]], but also hampering its role as a support Pokémon in general.

* BlessedWithSuck: Their Mycelium Might ability lets them ignore the opponent's ability with their status moves, letting them perform feats like putting a Pokémon with Vital Spirit to sleep, or setting Spikes against a foe with Magic Bounce. The catch? It causes them to always go last when using these moves, [[ObviousRulePatch preventing Toedscruel from using its good base 100 speed to get the jump on foes with Spore]], but also hampering its role as a support Pokémon in general.

* UselessUsefulSpell: An innate property of Abilities that prevent sleep is that if they are somehow put to sleep even with the Ability, they will immediately wake up. Thus, Mycelium Might allowing Spore to bypass these Abilities is rendered useless. The exceptions are the Nacli line's "Purifying Salt" Ability, Gholdengo's "Gold as Gold" Ability, and Pokemon with Magic Guard, as they don't prevent sleep specifically.

* SecondarySexualCharacteristics: A male Oinkologne's body is entirely black while the female has a brown head. The ears of the male are droopier than the female's. Their tails also possess different structures on their ends, the male having a scent dispensing organ and the female a hand-like organ.

* CatSmile: The way Quaxly's beak curves at the front allows it to have a cute cat-like grin.

* AnimalGenderBender: A rare justified example -- in real life, only male frigatebirds have inflatable throat pouches, but Kilowattrels of both genders have it. This is because for Kilowattrel, the throat pouch serves a different purpose, namely storing its electric power.

* UselessUsefulSpell: An innate property of Abilities that prevent sleep is that if they are somehow put to sleep even with the Ability, they will immediately wake up. Thus, Mycelium Might allowing Spore to bypass these Abilities is rendered useless. The exceptions are Gholdengo's "Gold as Gold" Ability and Pokemon with Magic Guard, as they don't prevent sleep specifically.

* MultipleHeadCase: Scovillain has two heads, a red head that spews spiciness induced flames and a green head with a vicious temperament due to the spicy chemicals stimulating its brain. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Despite this description]], its in-game model only uses the green head to spew flames and the red for shooting seeds.

* UselessUsefulSpell: An innate property of Abilities that prevent sleep is that if they are somehow put to sleep even with the Ability, they will immediately wake up. Thus, Mycelium Might allowing Spore to bypass these Abilities is rendered useless. The exceptions are Gholdengo's "Gold as Gold" Ability and Pokemon with Magic Guard, as they don't prevent sleep specifacally.

* UselessUsefulSpell: An innate property of Abilities that prevent sleep is that if they are somehow put to sleep even with the Ability, they will immediately wake up. Thus, Mycelium Might allowing Spore to bypass these Abilities is rendered useless. The only exception is Gholdengo because "Good as Gold" blocks all status moves, not sleep specifically.

* UselessUsefulSpell: An innate property of abilities that prevent sleep is that if they are somehow put to sleep even with the ability, they will immediantly wake up. Thus, Mycelium Might allowing Spore to bypass these abilites is useless as they will immediantly wake up. The only exception is Gholdengo because "Good as Gold" blocks all status moves, not sleep specifically.

* MagicalDefibrillator: Pawmot's electric sacs being placed in its palms plays into it being one of two pokémon that can learn Revival Blessing.

* PsychicPowers: The Flittle line is pure Psychic-type, with Flittle using its powers to levitate, and Espathra using them to immobolize foes and increase its speed.

** Rellor is "roller" backwards, though thus is {{zigzagg|ingTrope}}ed for Rabsca — Rabsca is "scarab", but with the syllables transposed.

** English: Fidough mixes "Fido", a [[StockAnimalName common name]] for a dog, and "dough", as it's based on a pastry. Dachsbun is a pun on the Dachshund canine breed and "bun" (a type of food).

** The ability Purifying Salt is a reference to Halotherapy, which is using salt to heal certain ailments. Indeed, the salty air in the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland has been known to make people with asthma breathe better. Its reduction of damage from Ghost-type moves is also a reference to salt's status in various religions and myths as SupernaturalRepellent.

* ScissorsCutsRock: They can have the Tinted Lens ability that doubles the power of their moves when used on an opponent with a type resistance.

!!!Grass Cat Pokémon, Magician Pokémon

!!!Fire Croc Pokémon, Singer Pokémon

!!!Duckling Pokémon, Practicing Pokémon, Dancer Pokémon

!!!Hog Pokémon

!!!String Ball Pokémon, Trap Pokémon

!!!Grasshopper Pokémon

!!!Mouse Pokémon, Hands-On Pokémon

!!!Couple Pokémon, Family Pokémon

!!!Puppy Pokémon, Dog Pokémon

!!!Olive Pokémon

!!!Parrot Pokémon

!!!Rock Salt Pokémon

!!!Fire Child Pokémon, Fire Warrior Pokémon, Fire Blades Pokémon

!!![=EleTadpole=] Pokémon, [=EleFrog=] Pokémon

!!!Storm Petrel Pokémon, Frigatebird Pokémon

!!!Rascal Pokémon, Boss Pokémon

!!!Toxic Mouse Pokémon, Toxic Monkey Pokémon

!!!Tumbleweed Pokémon

!!!Woodear Pokémon

!!!Ambush Pokémon

!!!Spicy Pepper Pokémon

!!!Rolling Pokémon

!!!Frill Pokémon, Ostrich Pokémon

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** Prior to the Teal Mask DLC, Maushold was the only Pokémon who learned Tidy Up, a Normal-type move that increases Attack and Speed while clearing away hazards and even Substitutes. In the two DLCs for ''Scarlet and Violet'', the Sentret and Minccino lines gain Tidy Up as an Egg Move.

** Maushold is the only Pokémon who learns Tidy Up, a Normal-type move that increases Attack and Speed while clearing away hazards and even Substitutes.

* GlassCannon: Lokix has great Attack and good Speed, bolstered with their Tinted Lens ability, but low defenses.

Toedscool and Toedscruel resemble their aquatic counterparts Tentacool and Tentacruel, but like the Wiglett line, they are an example of convergent evolution. In their case, they are unrelated Grass/Ground type mushroom Pokémon that can run around on mycelium legs.

* GiantEnemyCrab: One individual Klawf, known as the Stony Cliff Titan, is much bigger than any other Klawf, standing taller than a person. It is encountered in the "Path of Legends" subplot. Even regular Klawf are roughly the size of a ten-year old.

* HealingFactor: With the Regenerator ability.

* BadassAdorable: The entire line is practically this by default, Sprigatito goes from an insanely adorable CuteKitten, to the still cute flail-welding Floragato, before finally evolving into the magical stage magician kitty Meowscarada, whose just as adorable as it's earlier stages, but is no less powerful.

* CuteKitten: Sprigatito is a small, cute kitten with large eyes and CuteLittleFangs, it's evolutions drop these traits, but retain most cute elements.

* PlayingWithFire: A Fire-type starter evolutionary line based on crocodiles. Fuecoco's fire powers come from the square heat-absorbing scales on its stomach and back, and the hair-like strands atop its head are actually the result of leaking fire energy. Skeledirge has flames in excess of 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit, and it's Fire energy strands have become masses of billowing heat spewing out of the sides of its face. It even commands a little bird made of living fire that typically perches on its snout.

** Its extra legs folded up against it's back resemble the back mounted flags of Kamen Rider Gaim's Kachidoki Arms form. It even has the circled "joints" in the same place where Gaim's emblem is on it's flags.

** Ceruledge's English name is a combination of ''cerulean'' and ''edge'', while it's Japanese name combines "soul" with "blades/blaze"

** It's extra legs folded up against it's back resemble the back mounted flags of Kamen Rider Gaim's Kachidoki Arms form. It even has the circled "joints" in the same place where Gaim's emblem is on it's flags.

These slow but reliable crocodile Pokémon employ their well-developed vocal chords to help control their Fire-based powers.

* BishonenLine: Unlike the other two starters, this evolution line {{invert|edTrope}}s the "stronger form being more human-like" status, starting as a baby example of a LizardFolk, turning into a crocodilian FunnyAnimal that stands on its hind legs but runs on all fours, then settling on a quadrupedal and mostly biologically-accurate crocodile.

* TheDividual: After growing a fiery nest with a flame egg on top when evolving into Crocalor, evolving into Skeledirge hatches the egg into a bird made of living flames that is believed to have its own soul, the duo perhaps being inspired by the mythical supposed symbiosis between Nile crocodiles and Egyptian plovers A.K.A. crocodile birds. Being born from the flames of the Pokémon, it acts as part of Skeledirge. Notably, it still "nests" in Skeledirge when it sleeps, retreating into the flames that billow from the sides of Skeledirge's mouth and emerging when it wakes up.

* IdiotHair: "Fire energy" leaks out from Fuecoco's head in the form of two hair-like strands, and it's known to be laid-back in personality. When it becomes excited, [[ExpressiveHair Fuecoco's head spews out more fire]].

* MightyGlacier: Skeledirge has low Speed, but high HP, Defense, and Special Attack — the latter of which can be further boosted by using Torch Song. Furthermore, its Hidden Ability, Unaware, negates the effects of opposing Pokémon's boosts, preventing opponents from powering up to beat it while also giving itself the longevity needed to power up its own stats.

* PlayingWithFire: A Fire-type starter evolutionary line based on crocodiles. Fuecoco's fire powers come from the square heat-absorbing scales on its stomach and back, and the hair-like strands atop its head are actually the result of leaking fire energy. Skeledirge has flames in excess of 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit spewing out of the sides of its mouth, and commands a little bird made of living fire that typically perches on its snout.

* SoulPower: Skeledirge is part Ghost-Type, but rather than being an actual ghost it's a living creature that possesses powers over spiritual energy much like Hisuian Typhlosion, Alolan Marowak, Sensu Forme Oricorio, and Decidueye.