Axew is a bipedal, grayish-greenPokémon with pale, straight tusks protruding from the sides of its mouth. These tusks can regenerate if broken and will regrow if they fall out. This repeated regrowth strengthens and sharpens its tusks. Axew's tusks serve numerous purposes, such as making territorial gashes in trees and boulders, playing with each other, and crushingBerries for eating. In ancient times, people used Axew's discarded tusks as cooking knives.
The back of Axew's head is dark grayish-green with a tall, slightly curved horn. Large, dark grayish-green ovals surround its red eyes, and it has a short, rounded snout with large nostrils. A forest green collar marking encircles its neck. Axew's limbs and tail are short, with its forelimbs having three digits and its feet having two digits. As shown in thePokémon the Series: Black & White episodeThe Dragon Master's Path!, Axew is skilled at climbing walls and trees. Axew lives in nests made in the ground.
NA:Axew may look like it's brought its dinner with it, but those things in its mouth are actually tusks! It can mark its territory with them or crush berries for a tasty meal. All that wear and tear on them can sometimes break them off, but don't worry! If Axew loses a tusk, it'll grow back quickly and even stronger than before.
PAL:No, that's not some delicious snack poking out either side of its mouth - those are tusks. Axew uses them to break through the hard outer shells of its favourite fruits and to carve territorial markings on trees. Occasionally, its tusks can break, but they just grow back stronger than before.
Axew, as well as its final form Haxorus, is based indinosaurs. Its crest may be based on the crests characteristic ofhadrosaurids (Saurolophus, specifically), or perhaps aCorytophanid such as thebrown basilisk. Axew's tusks seem to be based onaxes.
Axew's design was reverse-engineered from its evolved form Haxorus, which was one of the first Unova Pokémon to be designed.[1]
Name origin
Axew may be a combination ofaxe andchew orhew (to chop a material with a tool).
Kibago may be a combination of 牙kiba (fang or tusk), 顎ago (jaw), anddragon.
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