Pokemon Theory: Why Can You Find Wild Pangoro?

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- Hey Pokemon Masters, Bird Keeper Toby here,
and today's Pokemon theory is not a massive one
in the grand scheme of things.
It's not about the vast expanse
of the Pokemon Universe,
or the origins of some legendary or character.
I have done plenty of those kind of videos.
Nope, today is just about one single Pokemon, Pangoro.
Pangoro is the daunting Pokemon.
It's the evolved form of the very beloved Pancham,
and it's Pokemon Sun Pokedex entry claims
that this Pokemon boasts incredible physical strength
and those that wish to become it's trainer
have to converse with their fists.
That sounds terrifying.
So the question of today is
"Why have I taken an interest in this Pokemon?"
It's because of the way it evolves.
Pangora can only evolve from a Pancham
if you level it up past level 32
with a dark type Pokemon in your party.
And there are lots of wacky evolution methods out there.
There's trading, there's only holding an item,
or levelling up with high friendship,
and with those Pokemon, there tends to be a common theme
which is you can't find them in the wild,
apart from in Black and White 2.
You can find Crobat and Gliscor.
It's a whole weird thing.
But it makes sense after all.
You need to have a dark Pokemon
on your team to evolve Pancham,
why would you be able to find a Pangoro in the wild?
Except in Sun and Moon, you can.
This is a result of SOS chaining,
the point in a battle where Pancham
gets so scared you're going to defeat it,
that it calls for help.
Normally, it will only call for other Pancham,
but in rare conditions, it will call for Pangoro.
That means there's a population of wild Pangoro
on routes 10, 11, and 17 of the Alola region.
So how did they, this Pokemon,
that only can possibly exist in a trainer's party,
appear in the wild?
Well, the key to working this out might be
SOS chaining itself.
See, it doesn't say it has to be in a trainer's party,
it says that the dark type Pokemon has
to be in Pancham's team,
and SOS chaining is kind of like the Pokemon are teaming up.
Let's say you're battling a Pancham and it calls for help,
and it calls a wild Pangoro.
Pangoro is fighting in dark type,
and then as a result of calling for Pangoro,
it manages to beat you, the trainer.
You scurry of in the Pokemon sense,
but what you don't see is that the Pancham,
which on route 17 are around their level of evolution,
they gain experience, much as you would
if you had beaten the Pancham and Pangoro.
And because there's a Pangoro on the team with Pancham,
a dark type Pokemon, that Pancham then evolves
and then continues the cycle for other wild Pancham.
Pancham, it's not even sounding like a word at this point.
But there is a problem with that theory,
which is where did the initial Pangoro come from?
It's possible that a trainer released
their Pangoro back into the wild to look out for Pancham,
which is kind of like how Ash did his Pidgeot,
releasing it to a flock of Pidgey
to look after them in Pallet Town.
I imagine if you could SOS chain
in Viridian Forest with Pidgeys and stuff,
maybe there would be like a one in a million chance
that you would encounter Ash's Pidgeot.
Man, I'm sure Ash promised to go back
for that Pidgeot at some point.
But there's actually a different theory here
that works so much better with the nature
of the Alola region and the Pokemon you find there.
See, on routes 10, 11, and 17,
the routes where you can find Pancham and Pangoro,
you can also find another dark type Pokemon,
Raticate, the Alolan Raticate of course.
And Raticate has undergone it's own very interesting
kind of evolution in Alola,
because originally it just looked like
your normal top percentage Rattata and Raticate,
but then they introduced Yungoos
to deal with the Rattata and Raticate population.
Rattata and Raticate had to adapt
to survive becoming dark types
and only appearing at night.
This is how we have Alolan Raticate today.
However, that process will have taken many, many years.
How would Rattata or Raticate have survived at all
if they Alolan people were bringing in a Pokemon
specifically designed to deal with them?
Well, perhaps they have another, sort of, coping mechanism
which was SOS chaining.
The local Rattata and Raticate calling for help,
and on those routes, it could call for Pancham,
the fighting type that would
help it deal with Yungoos or Gumshoos.
And this isn't unusual.
Some Pokemon can call for help Pokemon
of different species.
Normally, it's Pokemon that are tied into its evolution.
So, you look at like, Mareanie for example.
Mareanie can call upon Corsola.
If you read the Pokedex entries for Mareanie,
you realise that it actually eats Corsola,
and this is an evolutionary trick.
It's tricking it's food into coming and helping it.
This, so at the end of the battle,
it can get a nice little snack out of it.
Well, perhaps Alolan Raticates
had this exact same evolutionary trick,
where they were calling upon Pancham,
a totally different species of Pokemon, to help it.
Pancham, being fighting type, would be able
to deal with Yungoos, but not only that,
as the Rattata and Raticate changed over time
and turned into the Alolan variants,
they gained the dark typing.
And this meant that every time a Raticate and a Pancham
were able to deal with a Yungoos or Gumshoos,
the Pancham would gain experience,
level up, and evolve into Pangoro.
So this is a source of symbiotic evolution
where you have Raticate benefiting,
because it gets to survive
and eventually transition into being a dark type
and night dweller to avoid the Yungoos,
but also you have wild Pancham benefiting from that battle
being able to evolve in the wild into Pangoro,
something that cannot be done anywhere else
in the Pokemon world.
But that of course is just
my little Pokemon theory on this topic.
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Pokemon Theory: Why Can You Find Wild Pangoro?

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