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Description Naam: Kyogre
Classification: Sea Basin
Type: Water
Number: 198
Evolution: none
Length: 4,5 meters
Weight: 350 kilograms
Animal type: Fish
Habitat: oceans
Description: There has been only one scientifically recorded encounter with a Kyogre. Most, if not all, reliable information about this pokémon come from that single event. Besides that, all we have are stories and myths of primitive cost dwelling cultures. The Kyogre was encountered by a remote controlled submarine, which was searching for and studying ocean life at about a kilometre below sea level. That it would encounter something like Kyogre was beyond the scientists’ wildest imagination. The entire film of the encounter is just over three minutes in length, before the Kyogre swam into the deep, outside the reach of the submarine. It’s length (and especially weight) are estimates and we have no clue if this was an average, large or small Kyogre. It’s skin showes a blue-white pattern, interlined with glowing red symbols. It might be that this, like in other deep sea creatures, is used to attract prey, though with the limited information we have of this creature, it could practically be used for anything from fighting to hunting to identification to attracting a mate. It has two triangular dorsal fins and a split tail which, like it’s other fins and gills, is frilled. There has been a lot of speculation on how Kyogre uses this seemingly weak tail to move around. This Kyogre appeared to notice the submarine, but showed no interest in it. It swam slowly and only one sound was recorded, when it was almost out of reach: a deep sound reminiscent of that of male Wailord. Since then, many attempts have been made to locate another Kyogre, but all have failed. It was concluded that Kyogre are either extremely rare, or that they live much deeper and this single specimen came unnaturally close to the surface. After the discovery, many myths and legends of native people of small islands and coastal settlements, about a powerful watergod, were thought to be connected to Kyogre, though this would mean that the pokémon occasionally reaches the surface of the ocean. There are striking similarities between the stories of cultures that have never met. In almost all versions, Kyogre (whose name, by the way, is that of the water god of de Hundugi people) can control water and in some cases would cause either floods or droughts if the people displeased him. Also in most tales, there is talk of a battle between Kyogre and a fire god, which will (some say) result in the destruction of the world if it rages on again.

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Comments: 18

Roaring-Flame-Cat [2008-02-23 06:46:19 +0000 UTC]

Very cute. I love the light colors and the little description you have here. ^_^ *favs*

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Pokemon-NGin-Sonic [2007-08-10 18:44:50 +0000 UTC]

fire god=groudon
hey dats me!

But Groudon ish MINE! >D That Kyogre looks kewl btw ^w^ It needs to be a BIT bigger, though. x3

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VolcanoQueen In reply to Pokemon-NGin-Sonic [2007-08-28 15:21:37 +0000 UTC]

rawr, i claimed groudon first 83 ....rawr

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Pokemon-NGin-Sonic In reply to VolcanoQueen [2007-08-31 23:26:20 +0000 UTC]

>=OOOOO OOOOHHH NO YA DIDN'T. GROUDON ISH MINE-MIIINNNNEEEEEE!!! *tackles you* >:K

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VolcanoQueen In reply to Pokemon-NGin-Sonic [2007-09-01 16:06:53 +0000 UTC]

iam a groudon...i do not belong to anyone!!! D8< *runs away*

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Pokemon-NGin-Sonic In reply to VolcanoQueen [2007-09-01 16:49:22 +0000 UTC]

*grabs joo* :K YOU IS NOT GROUDON. *pokes a real Groudon* Yush, he's teh real onee >=0 *tackleglomps real Groudon* :33 MIINE~

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ozerataoglu [2007-06-20 15:46:28 +0000 UTC]

he is a little bigger then that...

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DavisJes [2007-05-27 18:22:22 +0000 UTC]

Aweasome work.

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VolcanoQueen [2007-05-20 22:50:42 +0000 UTC]

fire god=groudon
hey dats me!

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PKMN-AJ [2007-03-08 19:13:11 +0000 UTC]

I real surprise that you went for a fish design instead of mammal, and it works great! Especially as, just like you wrote, these pokémon are so rare. I also love how you mentioned that the light would bioluminiscens! (red light appear black in the abyss, thus many deep sea organisms are red as a camouflage. However, red light make red things appear, and the viper fishes got red lights under its eyes that it uses as flashlight to discover red-coloured prey!)

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FakaPokeBio [2007-02-17 22:49:59 +0000 UTC]

also every thing below the red line and infront of the eye is mouth. I am angery at hypes.

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FakaPokeBio [2007-02-17 22:44:52 +0000 UTC]

thanks, its awsome.now im gonna fav it.

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Reapoke In reply to FakaPokeBio [2007-02-20 15:11:26 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like it.

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Wynaut [2007-02-13 07:54:40 +0000 UTC]

you went with the fish not the whale ^^ very good as always

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Reapoke In reply to Wynaut [2007-02-13 08:02:09 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I didn't want to make it a whale because that would mean it'd have to surface regularly for air and probably wouldn't be so 'rare'. I'm glad you like it!

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TFhybrid In reply to Reapoke [2008-02-01 03:12:41 +0000 UTC]

very good point, you chould make it leviathion though "fire god" hmmm sounds like we will be getting gourdon

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Kagamikage [2007-02-13 01:22:02 +0000 UTC]

Wow... It's a giant fish!! xD

It looks awesome~~ I love the way you designed it so differently from others I've seen. Really cool~! ^^

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Hypes [2007-02-12 20:33:28 +0000 UTC]

MEGAMOUTH! Sorry, this report just reminded me of the incident with the Megamouth shark off Hawaii in the 50s. I suppose the primitive cultures may have not actually seen a live Kyogre, but a dead one washed on to shore, very much like Giant Squid.
As to how it swims, looking at the picture, one would imagine it used its flippers as the main use of locomotion, similar to seals, frogs, and the extinct pleisiosaurs. From the shape of it, I wouldnt think it would do much swimming at all, as its not very hydrodynamic. Instead it probably drifts sowly through the darkness and uses light to attract small prey.
The barbels on its ventral side are probably lures to attract fish, worms, or other deep specimens. The barbels may have a poison, or work as tenticles that capture the prey when it gets close. It doesnt appear to have a mouth, so its possible the barbels secrete an enzyme which digests the prey externally, and then it gets sucked up.
The Kyogre is massive for a deep sea specimen, and its eyes are quite small for a abyss zone animal. The eyes may be vanishing from lack of use, a left over from an ancestoral species that lived in shallower waters. Or perhaps the Kyogre spends part of the year in shallower waters elsewhere.
Vertebrates dont do so well in abyssal zones due to the crushing pressure. The giants of the bottom are giant squid and massive crustaceans and worms. Kyogre maybe a free swimming mollusk (its tail fins are certainly reminescent of a nudibranches), like the Giant Squid.
Unless skeletons have washed ashore, I guess we'll never know...

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