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Roggenrola is a roughly spherical Pokémon discovered a century ago in an earthquake fissure. Its body is blue and covered in large, smooth facets. It has a hexagonal, yellow artifice in the center of its body, leading to a hexagonal opening that functions as an ear. Roggenrola has a brown, rocky oblong atop its head, and similar brown rocks that serve as feet. Its body houses an energy core; due to compression underground, both this core and Roggenrola's body are as hard as steel.
Roggenrola is born deep underground, and compares its hard body with that of Geodude and Carbink. As stated by Cilan in Where Did You Go, Audino?, Roggenrola has sensitive hearing and can hear sounds that are inaudible to humans. It tends to follow the sounds it picks up with its lone ear, panicking if these sounds cease.
Roggenrola debuted in Gotta Catch A Roggenrola!, when it fell into Cilan's food and beat Ash's Tepig and Oshawott in battle before being abandoned. Ash and his friends later found it in a cave, where it was captured by Team Rocket. They freed it and helped it rescue the other Roggenrola. They were all then healed at the Pokémon Center, and afterwards, the Roggenrola that they met before had a rematch with Ash's Tepig and was captured by Ash. It later evolved into a Boldore in Battling the King of the Mines!.
A Hiker named Andy uses a Roggenrola during his Triple Battle with Black in Black's First Trainer Battle. However, he was defeated after Andy became dehydrated.
Roggenrola is similar to Geodude: Both are Rock-type, have Sturdy as one their Abilities, evolve at level 25 and reach their final forms when traded.
Roggenrola is tied with Rockruff for the lowest base stat total of all Rock-type Pokémon, and has the lowest base Special Defense stat of all Rock-type Pokémon.
In Unova, there is a televised version of bowling that uses Roggenrola as balls. There is a chance of explosion, depending on the Roggenrola.
Roggenrola is a corruption of rock and roll. It may, more specifically, be based on the pronunciation of "rock-'n'-roller" (a slang term for musicians who play rock and roll) in certain dialects of English.
Dangoro may be a combination of 団子 dango (a Japanese dumpling) and ゴロ goro (grounder). It may also derive from ゴロゴロ goro goro (onomatopoeia for the sound of a boulder rolling).
In other languages
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Japanese
ダンゴロ Dangoro
From 団子 dango and ゴロ goro. May also derive from ゴロゴロ goro goro.
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