Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. Nintendo does...and so do a few other things, I guess. Also, this is my first time writing ANYTHING, so there's that too. Consider yourself warned.
Tyrogue, the Scuffle Pokemon. Named so for its tendency to get into "scuffles", this baby pokemon features a body quite similar to that of a human child, with three horns protruding out of its forehead to show the clear the difference.
Its purple coloration also works towards that, I suppose.
The predominantly male pokemon evolves into one of three: Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan and Hitmontop. However, this was not always believed to be the case. A long, long time ago, people had once been of the belief that a Tyrogue had only possessed two evolutions, those being Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan. The reason for this assumption was quite simple. You see, even though quite a few people had already encountered a wild Hitmontop at one point or another, the connection between them and Tyrogues were never made, due to the sheer difficulty of evolving a Tyrogue into a Hitmontop without consciously attempting to do so. When it was finally discovered that Tyrogue did indeed evolve into a Hitmontop under the right conditions, numerous professors clamoured together in an attempt to understand exactly what these "conditions" were. Thus, after many painful weeks of research and FAR too many evolved Tyrogues than they knew what to do with, they had finally came to a conclusion.
"A Tyrogue will only evolve into a Hitmontop when one of sufficient strength has fulfilled the conditions for evolving into a both a Hitmonchan and a Hitmonlee, i.e., possessing high offence and high defence, without either of the two overpowering the other."
To this day, it is one of the strangest evolutionary conditions ever recorded. And so, it has also sparked an abundance of questions to my curious self.
"What happens when you give a dawn stone to an evolving Kirlia?"
"What happens when you give multiple evolution stones of the same volume to an Eevee at the same time?"
"What happens when an Eevee falls in love with you at the exact point between night and day? Does it evolve into an Espeon or an Umbreon?"
"Can I have 100 Eevees?"
The purpose of my research is to answer these questions, and to determine whether there really are more evolutions to discover, just waiting for us to find them.
To anyone interested in supporting this project, please contact the undersigned using the official channels.
-Ross Melder, Junior Pokemon Researcher