If you’re biking around the Wild Area and seeing little purple tails poking up out of the grass, that’s probably a Skorupi. This scorpion-inspired Pokémon was introduced in Generation IV and has made its way to Galar to bring its Poison- and Bug-type attacks to the battle scene.

If you’re looking to add a powerful Dark/Poison-type attacker, consider Skorupi’s evolution, Drapion. Wanting to add one to your team? Get your Poké Balls ready and go catch a Skorupi of your own. Here is where you can catch one, and how to evolve it, plus a few other things you might not know about this fun Pokémon.

10 Where to Find

In both Sword and Shield, Skorupi can be found on Route 6 as a random encounter. Head to the Wild Area for its other spawn areas, though. In Giant’s Mirror, Skorupi is a random encounter in normal weather, when it’s overcast, raining, or sunny, as well as during a thunderstorm.

They also spawn as an overworld Pokémon in the Motostoke Riverbank in normal weather, rain, thunderstorms, intense sun, sandstorms, or as a random encounter during cloudy weather. The Soothing Wetlands on the Isle of Armor is another place Skorupi calls home, spawning on the overworld or in the grass in every weather type except snow.

9 How to Evolve

Once you’ve obtained a Skorupi, you’ll need to evolve it so it can reach its full potential. This can be done in a very simple way — just level it up to level 40. This might seem high, but it’s pretty easy to reach with many methods for leveling up your Pokémon in these games. Also, Skorupi spawns at level 60 after you’ve defeated Champion Leon, meaning it’ll only need to go up a single level to evolve.

The frightening Drapion can also be found in many places in the wild directly, including Route 8 as a random encounter. They appear as a wandering or overworld spawn in the Bridge Field, Lake of Outrage, and Challenge Beach when it’s overcast.

Find them in the Motostoke Riverbank during normal weather, rain, thunderstorms, or intense sun. The Soothing Wetlands will also see Drapion as a wanderer, during cloudy, rainy, normal weather, or sandstorms. Finally, find them in the Training Lowlands when it’s overcast or extremely sunny.

8 Common Descendant

There are occasional moments where it’s said that certain Pokémon are related to each other through evolution — real evolution, that is, not Pokémon-style evolution. Seismitoad and Toxicroak are said by the Pokédex to be related to one another, and Drowzee and Munna are said to have common ancestry in Sun & Moon.

This seems to be the case for Skorupi, too, which is said to share common descent with the Generation VIII Fire/Bug-type Sizzlipede.

7 Horrible Poison

While on the topic of Skorupi’s biology, it should be noted that its poisonous nature is not to be taken lightly. Skorupi may look like a small, harmless little Pokémon, but it can apparently be quite deadly and cruel.

Several Pokédex entries state that this Pokémon burrows in the ground to hide before it strikes. Unsuspecting prey is trapped and injected with deadly poison. Skorupi then hangs on and refuses to let go until the prey dies.

6 Car-Crushing Strength

If that’s not scary enough, it becomes even scarier when it evolves. Several different Pokédex entries state how Drapion can easily crush a full car into scrap with its sheer strength. It’s also just as poisonous, if not more so, thas Skorupi, meaning it’s quite the killer.

Just to make things as morbid as possible, some entries state that Drapion is fully capable of completely “tearing apart” its enemies with physical prowess, but it still chooses to kill them off with poison.

5 Bad Reputation

Something that might come as a surprise to absolutely nobody after reading all of that is that Drapion apparently has a very bad reputation among people in the Pokémon world. It’s said to randomly attack people who try to cross the desert, and we all know how it attacks when it chooses to.

According to its entry in Sword, it likes to go on “rampages with its car-crushing strength.” Oh — and it can turn its head around 180 degrees like some kind of demon.

4 No Need to Eat

Sure, Skorupi and Drapion love to take down their prey in horrific ways that could give anyone nightmares. But they don’t need to. Despite their unparalleled hunting abilities, Skorupi can apparently survive for a long time without eating

A few different Pokédex entries state that Skorupi is capable of surviving without food for up to a year, which is perfect for the fact that it lives in the arid desert. If one is hunting you, just know it probably doesn’t need to. How comforting.

3 Claws and Stingers

Real-life scorpions are known for a few things. Chief among them are their gigantic stinger tails and their huge, sharp claws. However, Skorupi, despite being directly based on scorpions, swaps these two body parts.

Skorupi has two stingers on the front of its arms and a large claw on its tail. It’s unclear if this makes it deadlier than a real scorpion, but it probably does, considering it now has two stingers instead of one, and they’re seemingly more dextrous.

2 Typing Quirks

There are a few different Pokémon with strange typing quirks, from unique type combos to types changing on evolution. Skorupi and Drapion have a few of these quirks, as well. First, Skorupi is the only Bug/Poison-combination Pokémon to have the Poison-type as its primary one. Every other Pokémon with this combination has Bug as its primary type.

Skorupi is also the only Pokémon to have its Bug-type change upon evolution, as Drapion is Poison/Dark-type. Every other Bug-type Pokémon retains it after evolving.

1 Sand Demon

After everything mentioned that contributes to Drapion’s terrifying nature, it’s not shocking that it’s commonly referred to as the Sand Demon by locals in the areas where it lives.

Interestingly, its one fear seems to be Hippowdon. The Pokédex states that Drapion “keeps a low profile” when confronted by a Hippowdon, and that it will “never pick a fight” with one.

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