Before we get into today’s Dragon Week post, I’d like to announce that today’s Interesting Specimen post is going to have to be postponed until next week, due to it being Thanksgiving and all. Rest assured though, I will have that post ready for next week. Anyway, as we now enter day five of Dragon Week, we come to an evolutionary line of dragons that, while not my favorite, are kinda cool. Presenting Axew, Fraxure, and Haxorus.
I’d really be lying if I said that the Haxorus evolution line was among my favorites. They seem more like dinosaurs than dragons. Then of course there’s Iris’s Axew in the anime, who is basically Pikachu’s latest sidekick. That particular Axew annoys me just a bit. Still, Haxorus are pretty cool looking. Plus Haxorus is the only fully evolved Dragon Pokemon that is a pure Dragon-type. The other fully evolved dragons I’ve talked about this week are all dual types.
In the Games: The only place to find Axew in the fifth generation games is in Mistralton Cave. As for Fraxure, they can be found in Unova’s Victory Road in the original Black and White, and in a place called the Nature Preserve in Black 2 and White 2. In the original Black and White, the only way to get Haxorus is to evolve Fraxure. In Black 2 and White 2 though, there is a special one that can be found within the Nature Preserve. But I’ll get to that one in a minute.
Evolution: Axew doesn’t evolve into Fraxure until level thirty-eight, which is fairly late compared to other dragons. One thing I’ve noticed with three-stage Pokemon is that a lot of time that second stage form is like the Pokemon’s awkward teenage years. That seems to be the case with Fraxure. It still looks an awful lot like Axew, but is also starting to grow the armor it has as Haxorus. Anyway, at level forty-eight, Fraxure finally evolves into Haxorus and gains golden-yellow armored scales and some cool axe-blade horns.
Shiny Haxorus: So I mentioned earlier that there is a special Haxorus that can be captured in the wild in Black 2 and White 2. In those games, after seeing all of the Pokemon in the Unova Pokedex, the player gains access to an area called the Nature Preserve. This area is of course filled with Pokemon not normally found in Unova, but at the center of this area is a Shiny black Haxorus at level sixty. Now I know that there’s nothing special about Shiny Pokemon other than their alternate coloration. But they are still kinda cool to have in your collection. Plus a lot of the Dragon and dragon-like Pokemon have the coolest Shiny coloration of them all.
That covers it for today. Tomorrow I’ll be covering what it perhaps the most difficult Dragon Pokemon of them all to train. So until then, stay tuned and have a happy Thanksgiving.
