Lycanroc (Pokémon)

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Lycanroc (Japanese: ルガルガン Lugarugan) is a introduced in Generation VII.
It evolves from starting at level 25. The form Rockruff evolves into depends on the , as well as its Ability, which corresponds to one of Rockruff's two visually indistinct forms.
* Rockruff with the Abilities , , or evolve into:
** Midday Form Lycanroc when leveled up during the day.
** Midnight Form Lycanroc when leveled up at night.
* Rockruff with the Ability evolve into Dusk Form Lycanroc when leveled up during the evening.
(Specifics may differ in past games. Refer to Game data→Evolution data for these details.)
==Biology==
Lycanroc is a canine resembling a wolf. It has three possible forms: Midday Form, Midnight Form, and Dusk Form. The first two forms are influenced by and when bathed in solar or lunar energy. The third form is said to have been influenced by the setting sun of the evening. Lycanroc are used by humans as guards, to protect their fields from prey .
;Midday Form
In its Midday Form, Lycanroc resembles a quadrupedal, light brown wolf. It has a white underbelly that extends up around its muzzle and eyes in a mask-like marking. It has pointed ears with dark brown tips and pink insides, big blue eyes, and a triangular, dark brown nose. There are four sharp fangs in its mouth: two in the upper jaw and two in the lower. Large tufts of brown fur extend from the sides of its head; three tufts on each side. A bushy, white mane covers its neck. Four dark brown rocks poke out of its mane, creating a shape similar to a stylized sun. The rocks are said to be razor-sharp. The lower portions of this form's legs are white, and each foot has three dark brown claws. It also has a long, fluffy white tail.
The Midday Form has a calm, collected, and cautious personality. In order to avoid needless fighting, the Midday Form prefers to live alone and does not form a pack with others of its kind. However, it is a fiercely loyal partner to Trainers that accept it during its unruly stage. In battle, it darts past opponents while attacking them with the rocks in its mane. These swift movements leave many foes bewildered and backed into a corner.Pokémon Sun and Moon site | Midday Lycanroc (Archived) It always aims for the foes' weak spot using its fangs. Broken fragments of its stone mane are considered good luck.
;Midnight Form
In its Midnight Form, Lycanroc instead resembles a slouched, bipedal wolf or werewolf. It has short red fur with white on its lower legs and a white streak that covers its face, underbelly, and tail. It has pointed, with black tips, three large tufts of fur on each side of its face, a triangular black nose, and a mouth full of sharp teeth. While the sclerae, irises, and pupils of its eye are visible, they all glow a pinkish red and no distinctive colors are visible. A mane of fur covers its back and shoulders, sweeping forward over its head to form a crescent moon shape. On either side of its body, just below the shoulders, two small rocks resembling claws poke out of the mane. A single, bigger stone projects out of the front of the mane over its head. Each of this form's paws has three black claws, and it has a stubby tail covered in long fur.
In contrast to its Midday Form, Lycanroc's Midnight Form is thrilled by battling and becomes more excited the stronger its opponent. This excitement is what causes its eyes to glow.Pokémon Sun and Moon site | Midnight Lycanroc (Archived) The Midnight Form is known to be reckless along with extremely vicious temper. Its strategy consists of closing in on its opponent and encouraging attack, then countering with a powerful blow that knocks out its opponent. The full force of its headbutts can destroy giant boulders. Trainers that can draw out its power earn its trust, but it despises those that it disagrees with or who try to force it to fight.
;Dusk Form
In its Dusk Form, Lycanroc resembles a combination of its Midday and Midnight Forms. Its body is similar to Midday Form with the same white color except with orange-gold fur. It retains the three brown claws for all four feet. The white fluffy mane resembles a sun with part of the crescent moon. It also has four rocks around its neck like a sun as well along with a single, bigger stone coming from the mane over its head. Its face resembles Midday Form Lycanroc's but is orange-gold with bright green eyes, which can change to bright glowing red when angry or attacking.
The Dusk Form Lycanroc shares traits from the previous two forms. Its stance, calm demeanor, and loyal nature are shared with the Midday Form. However, it also shares the Midnight Form's fighting spirit, including the red, glowing eyes at the moment of attack. Dusk Form Lycanroc never barks, unlike its two other forms. Upon entering battle, Lycanroc will relentlessly drive its opponents into a corner. Due to only evolving at sunset, the Dusk Form is considered the rarest of the three forms.Dusk Lycanroc Revealed (Archived) The Dusk Form of Lycanroc is rather difficult to train due to its temperamental nature. Because of this, Dusk Form Lycanroc is considered the most troublesome of its three forms.
;Signature moves
Lycanroc is the only known Pokémon capable of using the Z-Move . 
Lycanroc's Midday and Dusk Forms are the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move .
Lycanroc SM concept art.jpg|Lycanroc's Midday Form remains quadruped
Lycanroc Midnight SM concept art.jpg|Lycanroc's Midnight Form has glowing red eyes due to excitement
Lycanroc Dusk SM concept art.jpg|Lycanroc's Dusk Form has traits of the other two, note its mane and eye color
USUM Lycanroc Dusk Splintered Stormshards Z-Move.png|Lycanroc's exclusive Z-Move, 
===Forms===
Lycanroc has three separate forms: Midday Form, Midnight Form, and Dusk Form.
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===Evolution===
Lycanroc evolves from . Rockruff can evolve into Midday Form, Midnight Form, or Dusk Form Lycanroc.
(For specifics on this Pokémon's Evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
==Game data==
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===Held items===
===Stats===
====Base stats====
=====Midday Form=====
=====Midnight Form=====
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===Type effectiveness===
===Learnset===
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=====Midnight Lycanroc=====
=====Dusk Lycanroc=====
====By TM====
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====By ====
====By a prior Evolution====
=====Midday Lycanroc=====
=====Midnight Lycanroc=====
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===Side game data===
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===Form data===
 has three non-interchangeable forms: Midday Form, Midnight Form, and Dusk Form. 
Internally, the games consider with to be a separate form to Rockruff with , , or , and Rockruff with Own Tempo and Dusk Form Lycanroc can to produce more Rockruff with Own Tempo. After initially being -exclusive, Own Tempo Rockruff and Dusk Form Lycanroc were later made accessible within normal gameplay starting in Generation VIII.
Lycanroc's forms have different base stats, , moves they can learn, and cries.
		
===Evolution data===
Lycanroc evolves from starting at level 25. The form Rockruff evolves into depends on the , as well as its Ability, which corresponds to one of Rockruff's two visually indistinct forms.
Rockruff with the Abilities , , or evolve into Midday Form Lycanroc when leveled up during the day, and Midnight Form Lycanroc when leveled up at night. In Generation VII, Rockruff only evolves into Midday Form Lycanroc in and , and Midnight Form Lycanroc in and .
Rockruff with the Ability is a separate form that can only evolve into Dusk Form Lycanroc. It evolves into this form when leveled up during the evening: from 5:00 to 5:59 PM in in-game time in (equating to 5:00 to 5:59 PM in real-time in Ultra Sun and 5:00 to 5:59 AM in real-time in Ultra Moon), from 7:00 to 7:59 PM in real-time in , and for a period lasting 3 minutes out of the 72-minute day/night cycle in .
===Sprites===
==In animation==
===Main series===
====Major appearances====
=====Ash's Lycanroc=====
Ash owns a Lycanroc, which debuted in Rising from the Ruins! upon evolving from his Rockruff.
=====Gladion's Lycanroc=====
's Lycanroc debuted in A Glaring Rivalry!. It struck up a rivalry with 's own Lycanroc.
=====Olivia's Lycanroc=====
A Lycanroc debuted in The Island Whisperer!, under the ownership of Olivia. It reappeared in Trials and Determinations!, where it partook in Olivia's grand trial against Ash, and was eventually defeated by Ash's Rockruff. It reappeared again in Rising from the Ruins!, where it and Gladion's Lycanroc helped Ash's Rockruff and got attacked by Tapu Lele.
=====Other=====
A Midday and a Midnight Form Lycanroc both debuted in Rocking Clawmark Hill!. They were among the Pokémon training up on Clawmark Hill.
A Midnight Form Lycanroc appeared in I Choose You!, under the ownership of Cross. It first appeared when Cross encountered , Verity, and Cross's former . Later on, Lycanroc was among the Pokémon subjected to the control of , but it managed to break free when Cross reminded it of how they first met.
A Midnight Form Lycanroc appeared in A Wild Mom Appears!, under the ownership of Dot's mother, Franka. She used it in a battle against her daughter's and ultimately lost. It reappeared in HZ082.
====Minor appearances====
A Midday Form Lycanroc appeared in The Pendant That Starts It All (Part One).
Olivia Lycanroc.png|Midday Form Lycanroc in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon
Gladion Lycanroc.png|Midnight Form Lycanroc in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon
Ash Lycanroc.png|Dusk Form Lycanroc in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon
====Pokédex entries====
===Pokémon Masters Animated Trailer===
====Professor Kukui's Lycanroc====
A Lycanroc briefly appeared in the Pokémon Masters Animated Trailer, under the ownership of . It was part of a team with its , as well as and .
===GOTCHA!===
A Midnight Form Lycanroc briefly appeared in GOTCHA!, under the ownership of Olivia.
===Pokémon: Twilight Wings===
In The Gathering of Stars, a Midday Form Lycanroc was seen battling a .
===POKÉTOON===
A Midday Form Lycanroc appeared in Wait for Me, Magikarp!.
===Biri-Biri===
A Midday Form Lycanroc appeared in the music video for Biri-Biri, under the ownership of Nemona.
==In the manga==
===Movie adaptations===
Cross's Midnight Form Lycanroc appeared in .
===Pokémon Adventures===
Midnight Form Lycanroc first appeared in Pokémon Move Specialist Professor Kukui, under the ownership of Olivia. It was first used to battle Nanu's .
Professor Kukui's was revealed to have evolved into a Midday Form Lycanroc prior to The Truth and Island Kahuna Hapu.
Gladion's Midday Form Lycanroc first appeared in Destroy!! Results of the Training!, when it was sent out to battle Ryuki's .
===Pokémon Journeys===
Ash's Lycanroc appeared in a fantasy in Legend? Check! Friends? Check!.
===Pokémon Horizon===
's Rockruff has the unique ability to evolve into Lycanroc and then devolve into Rockruff again, thanks to the strange red stone on its neck. It also has the ability to change in between its Midday and Midnight Forms while being evolved.
==In the TCG==
==Trivia==
* The QR Code displayed in the Pokédex entry for Dusk Form Lycanroc is actually that of Midday Form Lycanroc.
* Lycanroc and are the only two Pokémon known to have six possible between their forms, the most of any Pokémon.
* In Generation IX, prior to the Version 2.0.1 update of , Dusk Form Lycanroc was unable to learn and via TM, while its pre-Evolution could.
===Origin===
Overall, Lycanroc shares traits with the extinct and in particular. Its typing seems to be a reference to the link between (also called as 山犬 yamainu, lit. mountain dog) and mountains in Japan.
Lycanroc's Midday and Dusk Forms appear to be based on a wolf, while its Midnight Form appears to be based on a . The duality between Midday and Midnight Forms may be a reference to the , a mountain wolf creature that could take either a protective approach, similar to Midday Form's behavior; or an aggressive one much like Midnight Form's.
The coloration of Dusk Form Lycanroc appears to be based on sunrises and sunsets. Its orange fur resembles the sky during these times, and its green eyes are possibly inspired by the rare optical phenomenon known as the , a brief flash of green light that can sometimes be seen above the sun. This is supported by Dusk Form Lycanroc's method of Evolution, and Ash's evolving during a sunset in which a green flash is visible in .
====Name origin====
Lycanroc may be a combination of and rock.
Lugarugan may be a combination of , loup-garou (French for werewolf), ガルル garuru (a dog's growling), and 岩 gan (rock).
==In other languages==
Midday Form
Midnight Form
Dusk Form
==Related articles==
* Ash's Lycanroc
* Professor Kukui's Lycanroc
* Olivia's Lycanroc
* Gladion's Lycanroc
* List of Pokémon with form differences
==References==
==External links==
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