While farmers celebrate the wet season, for it means a bountiful harvest, and plants bloom greener than ever from the rain, Bonsly have long been noted to cry endless tears. Some people say that this is because Bonsly have few leaves and no flowers, and they cry out of jealousy, for trainers and collectors alike ignore them in favor of more vibrant, actually grass-type pokemon. Bonsly may grow in natural flowerpots, but even berry trees, which can not even speak, are more popular in gardens.

Others say the Bonsly cry out of mourning. For when it rains too long, even humans can see their homes and harvests wiped away by floods. For there are pokemon with short lifespans who fail to survive the changing of the seasons, such as young bug pokemon who drown even in small puddles for they can not yet swim or fly. For while Sudowoodo must be the guardian spirits of the whole forest, Bonsly must keep watch over a much smaller area, and learn to know their neighbors, however tiny or doomed, far better, and mourn even those who the gods forget.

Today, it is understood that Bonsly, unlike Sudowoodo, have a biological need to cry; as rock pokemon, they are not nourished by water, but find it a source of erosion. Many have been quick to jettison the old tales about Bonsly in light of this discovery, but it would be wiser to look behind the tears. For if Bonsly are merely removing excess fluid through their eyes, then why are they so sad? Humans today may think otherwise, but even pokemon acknowledge the sorrow behind Bonsly's tears.