Gouging Fire (Pokémon)

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Gouging Fire (Japanese: ウガツホムラ Ugatsuhomura) is a dual-type Paradox Pokémon introduced during Generation IX, in The Indigo Disk.
It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
It is said to be either an ancient relative of or a counterpart of it from a parallel timeline.
==Biology==
Gouging Fire is a massive lion ceratopsian hybrid with some qualities. It is covered in brown fur with three green spike lines on both back legs. There is cream belly fur on its chest. It has five grey spikes on its back and a long, light gray cloud of smoke running along its entire back, resembling a tail. Gouging Fire has four gray paws. The two front paws house three small, red claws. The paws are covered with brown pads and two black cuff-like bands on its front legs and the back legs have only one. Its main faceplate is red and shaped like fins or a four-sided star with a golden ceratopsian-shaped skull headpiece. Behind the faceplate is two long brown fur with gold ends on each side of the hair. The headpiece has five gold and yellow horns on each side. At the center is two green circles with two smaller red circles inside. A gray plate, resembling a horseshoe mustache, covers its muzzle. It has shorter green fur around its blue eyes.
Gouging Fire is noteworthy for the large, spiky crest on its head. There are scant few reports of this creature being sighted, though one short video shows it rampaging and spouting pillars of flame. It resembles an eerie Pokémon once shown once in Occulture, and it was said to be an regenerated from a fossil, though it's rumored that Gouging Fire can make magma on the ground erupt by roaring once.Perrin: "There are rumors that say this fellow can make magma erupt from the ground by just roaring!" (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet) Another rumor claims Gouging Fire has a powerful connection to fire.Scarlet and Violet Site|Gouging Fire Gouging Fire can superheat its fur .
According to AI Sada, Gouging Fire is an ancient Pokémon related to Entei. However, according to a Sada brought to the Crystal Pool by , Gouging Fire is a counterpart of Entei from another timeline. Its true origin is unknown. Gouging Fire was brought to the depths of Area Zero by a time machine built by Professor Sada ten years ago.
Gouging Fire is the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move .
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====Major appearances====
=====Lucius's Gouging Fire=====
Gouging Fire debuted in HZ081, after Liko, Roy, Dot, and Friede tracked it down in Area Zero. Due to the mysteries surrounding Paradox Pokémon, it was previously thought to be an . It battled the four of them before allowing itself to be returned to its .
====Minor appearances====
==In the manga==
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* Before the official reveal of Gouging Fire, a sketch of an imaginary Pokémon similar to it appeared in the Scarlet Book in as an amalgam of the Legendary beasts (, , and ).
* Gouging Fire is the only Paradox Pokémon whose signature move is a status move.
* Gouging Fire is the heaviest Paradox Pokémon overall.
* Gouging Fire can be considered the counterpart of as both were not revealed until The Indigo Disk was released.
===Origin===
Gouging Fire is based on . It also resembles n dinosaurs, most notably the and due to both having a similar arrangement of horns around the head. Conceptually speaking, it could be inspired by the , a volcanic formation in India whose activity is theorized to have had a great influence on the extinction of dinosaurs. The Deccan Traps started being formed in the Cretaceous period, the era in which ceratopsians lived. Gouging Fire's resemblance to Entei would therefore come from Entei being associated with volcanoes.
====Name origin====
Gouging Fire is literally gouging fire.
Ugatsuhomura can be taken literally as 穿つ炎 ugatsu homura (piercing flame).
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Paradox Pokémon
* Scarlet Book
* Legendary beasts
* Lucius's Gouging Fire
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Category:Pokémon introduced in The Indigo Disk
Category:Paradox Pokémon
Category:Ancient Pokémon
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