Salazzle is a dark grayPokémon resembling a salamander or lizard. Its thin body has a grayish purple underside with several wavy, dark pink markings: a U-shaped marking with two additional lines inside on its chest and one on each hip resembling wisps of smoke. The dark gray on its head and neck extends slightly onto its chest in a V-shape. It has a slender head with purple, almond-shaped eyes with slit pupils and two fang-like projections on each side of its lower jaw. There are two thin, wavy growths on its back at the base of its tail, which is whip-like with a dark pink underside. Its hands and feet each have five long, thin digits, with dark pink palms that can unleash flames. Salazzle is a female-only species with no known male counterpart, as the male Salandit cannot evolve due to malnutrition.
Salazzle can be found deep in caves with a reverseharem of maleSalandit. Salazzle emits a poisonous gas that contains sweet-smelling pheromones, which attract the males. The gas can also be diluted to make perfumes. Salazzle forces the male Salandit it has attracted to serve it and bring it food and those that are unable to are punished with flaming slaps. Salazzle fight with each other over male Salandit; the winner is the one with the most male Salandit in its harem. As shown by the core series games sinceGeneration VIII, Salazzle normally stands and walks on all fours, standing on its hind legs only in specific moments such as when battling or interacting with its trainer. Illustrations for the Trading Card Game also show its ability to stick to surfaces with its feet, allowing it to walk on all fours even on vertical and upside-down surfaces.
Did you notice the sweet scent nearthe geyser? That’s the smell of the pheromones inside Salazzle’spoison gas. It’s seeped into the sand and water around there.
Salazzle debuted inRescuing the Unwilling!, under the ownership ofLusamine. With both Salazzle and herTrainer under the influence of aNihilego,Kiawe volunteered to stay behind and battle Salazzle whileAsh andthe others continued their pursuit atopNebby. She was eventually defeated, but inthe next episode, Nihilego made her get back up and continue battling until theUltra Beast was defeated, freeing her from its control.
Salazzle, the Toxic Lizard Pokémon. APoison andFire type, and the evolved form ofSalandit. Its poisonous gas contains lots of pheromones that attract male Salandit.
Salazzle appears to be based on a salamander—both the poisonous real kind and the fire-associatedmythical kind—and lizards of theTeiidae family, also known as "whiptails". Certain whiptail species have a mostly female population, some species even being female exclusive, one of which is theNew Mexico whiptail. It may also be partially based onfire belly newts.
Additionally, it may be inspired by themo'o, a mythical dragon-like lizard of Hawaiian myth. Generally,mo'o are depicted as large female lizards, which have scales that are black as night, and which would shape-shift into seductive women to devour men. They would also appear when fire was lit near or around their dwellings.
Name origin
Salazzle may be a combination ofsalamander anddazzle orsizzle.
Ennewt may be a combination of 炎en (flame) or 艶en (bewitching) andnewt.
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