There is no such thing as a Camerupt corpse, but Camerupt can lie dormant for generations. Upon true death, an event rarely seen in any era, these pokemon explode. Yet the weak explosion which marks the end of their lives, or for that matter a powerful and vicious yet fully conscious Camerupt, might as well be a Pidgey's gust compared to the awesome power which erupts whenever they awake from hibernation.

Camerupt's eruption is a technique which grows in power the more time has passed since it was last used, and although trainers rarely wait longer than a week (both out of diminishing returns and the need to maintain a consistent battle schedule), whole cities have been destroyed by Camerupt who have slept for centuries. Generations of dirt, sand, or rock can bury these pokemon, but this does not serve to weaken their eruption, only to hide them - and by doing so, to vastly increase the number of casualties when they wake, and add a miniature storm of whatever material covered them to the enormous cascade of scorching-hot magma.

Ever since man has learned the dangers of these pokemon, every domestic Camerupt and every wild one successfully tracked is herded deep into the desert whenever the signs of impending hibernation begin to show. Yet all it takes is a great hiding spot and either a single trainer with a grudge or a wild pokemon venturing too close to civilization (or a civilization marching too far forward in the intervening centuries) to rain down destruction in the manner of Mount Vesuvius or Cinnabar Volcano. Camerupt may lack the size of ordinary volcanoes, but they are every bit as dangerous.