The healing salt of Mount Garganacl is renowned around the world – everywhere, at least, except in Paldea itself. Tourists from distant lands have combed over every Paldean mountain in search of its magic powers, most of them ignoring the half-buried dolmens that dot the land and leaving them to rest – blissfully unaware that they have sorely misunderstood an ancient metaphor.

Garganacl may be large and rocky pokemon, but they do not ever approach Torterra in size; they climb, spawn on, and are compared to mountains, but they can not become them. The fact that it was merely a nickname serves as little comfort to an opponent who has taken a Body Press from "Mount Garganacl", but across the seas, at the far end of trade routes, accounts of battles got mixed up with strange travelers' tales, and a common pokemon's evolution was conflated with those of legends. Yet pilgrims ventured thousands of miles to see these rocky creatures, and curiously, they were rarely if ever disappointed; if anything, their accounts (and the Nacli and salt packets they brought back with them) only inflated the myths.

Garganacl salt already makes up about 63% of the salt in an average modern diet, owing to the pokemon's large size and domesticability, and this percentage was historically even higher in Paldea and those regions closely linked to it by trade. Any medicinal benefits from consuming this pokemon's salt have therefore already spread throughout most of the modern world; accounts of ancient pilgrims being magically cured by these pokemon may be true, but only because they suffered from nutritional deficiencies that are unknown in modern populations.