Sawsbuck

**Sawsbuck** is a dual Grass/Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation V.

It evolves from Deerling starting at level 24.

Sawsbuck has six forms that change depending on the season. However, this change in form does not occur after capture, unless it is present in the player's party at the time of a season change. This applies to Eggs as well.

* When the month is January, March, May, July, September, or November, it is the Dry Season, and it becomes its **Dry Season Form**.
* When the month is February, April, June, August, October, or December, it is the Wet Season, and it becomes its **Wet Season Form**.

The other four seasonal forms of Deerling are, as of Demo 0.1.0, unobtainable. There are plans to include them in future versions somehow, despite Ibaro's seasons not including Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.

## Biology

### **Physiology**

Sawsbuck is a brown and cream, deer-like Pokémon with rhomboid ears and darker ear insides. Its eyes have light-orange markings that curve down to the sides of its face. It has a dark-brown nose, and it sports cream fur on its chin and sides of its face. Light-orange stripes rim its underbelly, and its back is decorated with spots corresponding to the season: pink in spring, green in summer, orange in fall, and white in winter. Its limbs are slender and tipped with hooves. Unless it's summer, its brown tail points down.

Its appearance changes depending on the season. During the dry season, it has white flowers and light-green leaves growing off of its antlers. During the wet season, its antlers are drooping and growing large, bluish-green bushes. During the spring, a tuft of cream fur appears on its chest, and its antlers are adorned with pink flowers. During the summer, its tail points up, it grows tufts of fur on the back of its head, and its antlers sport green leaves. During the fall, it sports a cream tuft of fur on its chest, and the leaves on its antlers are red and brown. During the winter, the cream fur turns white, tufts of white fur appear on its chest and lower limbs, and its antlers are coated in white.

Sawsbuck lives in herds led by the Sawsbuck with the most splendid antlers. It can live almost anywhere as they adapt to the season but prefer to live away from humans. It is herbivorous. Sawsbuck have been referred to as the harbingers of spring. There are many enthusiasts out there who love the different forms of Sawsbuck. However, the Winter Form is the least popular of them all.

The flowers on Spring Form's antlers grow slower due to it absorbing nutrients. The paler the Spring Form flower is, the more beautiful Sawsbuck apparently becomes. The thicker and larger the broach leaves are, the more majestic Summer Form Sawsbuck becomes. Summer Form's leaves can be used to make black tea, which has a different taste depending on the region. In Paldea, the tea has a more aromatic taste. The darker the Autumn Form's red foliage is, the more stylish it is considered. Autumn Form Sawsbuck have short tempers, and the males notably fight each other incessantly. Winter Form Sawsbuck are calmer and easier to tame during the winter. Hence, it is considered the perfect time to obtain Winter Form Sawsbuck as a partner.

Unlike the Unova and Paldea regions, the two core series regions Sawsbuck is found natively in, the Sawsbuck of Ibaro can not be found in their Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter forms. Instead, they are found in their new dry season and wet season forms, which correspond to the Ibaro region's unique seasonal cycle.

### **Habitat**

Sawsbuck is not found anywhere in Ibaro as of Demo 0.1.0. Its pre-evolution, Deerling, however, is found in the New Boni Town and Senatopia City areas.

## Game Data

### **Stats**

 * Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and a hindering nature, if applicable.

* Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and a helpful nature, if applicable.

## Trivia

* Sawsbuck's evolution level was lowered to 24 in Pokémon Honor and Glory, from 34 in the core series.
* In Pokémon Honor and Glory, Sawsbuck now learns High Jump Kick as a Move Reminder move, at level 1.
* Sawsbuck's stats have been adjusted from the core series:

### **Origin**

**Sawsbuck** may be based on a Père David's deer, which is a species of deer that decorates its antlers with foliage during the breeding season. Its antlers may also be based on a deciduous tree. It may also be based on one of the stories of Baron Munchausen, in which he tries to shoot a stag using cherry pits in his musket. The stag survives and escapes, and the next year he discovers a stag with a cherry tree growing out of its head.

### **Name Origin**

**Sawsbuck** may be a play on *sawbuck* (framework for holding wood to be sawn), which contains the word *buck* (male deer). SAWS may also be an acronym for the names of the seasons (summer, autumn, winter, and spring).