The gods of this world may not (save perhaps for Yveltal and Giratina) know mortality, but they do know hunger. Offerings alone are sufficient to satiate the more popular gods, and most of the less popular carnivores travel so far and hunt so rarely that their kills, when they occur, are mistaken for those of more typical native pokemon. But Rayquaza lives high in the ozone layer, where mortal bugs and birds fear to fly, and has historically been among the less popular gods. And Minior is no less unique for having a single living predator.
Minior may have been given life to nourish Rayquaza, but if so, it is a role they are no more willing to accept than any other prey pokemon. Their rocky shells are constructed from meteors they capture in the atmosphere, which they use to try to keep the sky high dragon at bay. Although slower than their predator, Minior have, over the generations, mapped the locations of every stratospheric wind, and often ride them to safety. If close and desperate enough, they will jettison their shells and fall through a wind tunnel that leads to Alola's Mount Hokulani, perhaps the only place on the Earth's surface whose geologic composition allows these mysterious pokemon to rebuild their shells once they land.
In this peaceful and environmentalist era, Rayquaza shrines have begun to fill up, and it has become common to leave Minior-shaped rock candies as offerings there. The people leaving them, by feeding Rayquaza's mighty appetite, have done far more than they realize both to shrink the hole in the ozone layer and to increase the population of one of our world's strangest and most remote pokemon.
