Thursday, June 12, 2025

Descending Species on the Upper Hand

The other direction from rising - as in the previous post for Pokémon species with National Dex numbers that exhibit this property - is falling, and it becomes obvious that numbers can also exhibit the property with their digits. Likewise, that can then be applied (back) to the Dex numbers to see what species come out of the specified pattern and then to find more specific patterns among them. Here, too, there might be a few liberties in more ways than one, but that may be the point of it all and the fun to be had.

Given the concern above, then, the species that tie into that are Koffing (#109), Granbull (#210), Wailord (#321), Purugly (#432), Venipede (#543), Braixen (#654), Oranguru (#765), Indeedee (#876), and Flutter Mane (#987). As with the previous post, one of the liberties concerns the usage of the number zero as the "cyclical" filler for a couple of the digits in the species numbers of concern and where things go from there. And where they go might be in places that one might not expect to go.

As a start, this group contains what might still be considered the largest out of all "common" Pokémon, Wailord - perhaps the biggest "upper hand" of the group. Then, there are Granbull, Purugly, Braixen, Oranguru, and Indeedee, all species that may be considered to deliver their own "upper hand" (or paw). The rest might just be considered the oddities, including Flutter Mane, which is part of an interesting group of species that I was really hoping to cover on their own... and that's how it's going to be - but not now.

In the light of their "descending" Dex numbers, the selected species above seem to have their ways of gaining the "upper hand", even if it's just a figurative interpretation at any rate. Yet that's a liberty (among others) to be taken when considering multiple species that only seem to be rather disjoint - except, certainly, with regard to their Dex numbers. Covering the two directions of rising and falling in this case makes for a neat fancy with regard to numbers and Pokémon, especially for the one doing so.

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