It is quite demonstrative of the longstanding animosity between Lokix and Man that no Lokix trainer, despite their best efforts, has managed to bring out their pokemon's famed Showdown Mode in a regulation battle. Yet this represents significant progress, for as recently as the last century, there were no Lokix trainers at all; even bandits regarded them with fear.

Humans and pokemon have often quarreled over the shape of the environment, but Lokix, much like Pidove and Pikachu, actually benefited from humanity's transformation of the natural world; humans, however, derived no such benefits from the Lokix. Lokix are a feared agrarian pest, with appetites comparable to Greedent or Snorlax, but who eat staple crops instead of wild berries, and whose fierce kicks easily overpowered the average farmer; a swarm of them meant famine. It was easy enough, in this context, to associate Lokix with demons; the avatars of ruin, the bugs of hell.

All of this is still true, except for the famine part; the same advances in food production which allowed for flourishing cities and trainers constantly traveling on the roads also made Lokix cease to be a community-wide threat. Portraying them as heroic in films and tokusatsu shows was once a bold break from conventional morality, but it opened minds, and Lokix, however withdrawn, are regarded by their trainers as surprisingly loyal companions.

This loyalty, however, has not extended to using the pokemon's famed Showdown Mode in battle, and some scholars have therefore suggested the whole thing is a myth. Others, citing the consistency of these accounts over time, have treated it as a reminder that not everything a pokemon does can or should be used in the confines of the pokemon league; at least now, the reports are of Lokix Showdown Mode saving lives, not ending them.