There are many primate pokemon known to occasionally hurl feces when angered, but typically this accomplishes little more than disgusting and annoying their victim. Darumaka droppings, however, are so hot that if placed in the pocket with gloves, a single dropping can make a person outdoors at night in the depth of winter feel comfortably warm. Should a single thrown dropping connect with exposed skin or fur, the victim should be rushed immediately to the nearest hospital or pokemon center, lest the burn damage become fatal. The reason these droppings are so destructively hot is that they come out of Darumaka, whose body temperature has been compared to a walking heat wave.
Darumaka have few natural predators, all of whom are remarkably tolerant to fire, are dependent on sneak attacks, and carefully wait for their victims to cool down before eating. To the rest of the world, however, these pokemon seem like a destructive force of nature even by the standards of fire pokemon, for what they lack in open flame they more than make up for in pure heat. A Darumaka coming to town does not burn buildings like a Cyndaquil, but in towns with insufficient air conditioning or an outdated electrical grid to power them, they account for far more fatalities simply by warming the air around them.
As dangerous as Darumaka are when awake, for their raw exuberance claims many victims, they should not be taken lightly when sleeping. These pokemon transition smoothly from irresistible force to immovable object, and a stationary heat source presents its own challenges. Should pokeballs fail to capture it, one must escape beyond a three-mile radius of this pokemon until it wakes up, for the superheated air which surrounds a sleeping Darumaka guarantees death by heat stroke.
