Also, Doomkoi does that because it's based on an old legend that if a carp swims up the Yellow River and lives for a thousand years it turns into a dragon! Or something like that, I can't remember the exact mythology it's cribbing from. Gyarados and Charizard are excellent Pokémon and very obviously dragons, but they have Flying as a secondary typing (barring certain occasions for Charizard) because they wanted to keep the Dragon typing very rare and only brought out for special occasions. This occasion is the Dratini line, in which a cute blue snake evolves into a bigger, prettier blue snake, which then itself evolves into a very round orange dragon that looks like its sole burning desire is to give great hugs and be a good pal.

look at him. he is shaped like a friend.

Also, Zigzagoon was Gen 3's Regional Obligatory Small Squeaky Thing, based on a raccoon. He is here!

there he is! a good boy!

I hope this was helpful and brought you some small amount of joy. =]

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