Rockruff

Rockruff (イワンコ) is a -type Pokémon introduced in Generation VII.

Physiology
Rockruff is a brown dog-like Pokémon. It has a fluffy tail, brown paws (with a small triangle on their end of the legs), a white neck decorated with brown fragments, a brown mouth with a pink nose, two blue eyes and a pair of brown lowered ears.

Characteristics
Rockruff has an excellent nose that makes it won't forget the smell it sniffed before.

Behavior
Rockruff like to show their affection by hitting the rocks onto their trainers. Unfortunately, this may make their trainers feel painful. However, they usually become fierce during the time they grow older, and howl at evenings when they are going to evolve into Lycanroc. When they know that they will evolve, they might leave their trainers for a while until their evolutions are completed.

Evolution
Rockruff evolves at level 25 into Lycanroc Midday Form at day in Sun and into Lycanroc Midnight at night in Moon.

Anime

 * Professor Kukui's Rockruff

Trivia

 * Rockruff shares the same pokemon species with Growlithe and Lillipup known as the Puppy Pokémon.

Etymology
Rockruff is a combination of Rock, and Ruff, a common idea of the sound that a dog make.

Names in other languages

 * English: Rockruff is a combination of Rock and Ruff, which is a sound a dog makes.
 * Japanese: Iwanko is a pun on (岩 "iwa") which means "rock" and (ワンコ "wanko" ), which means "puppy".
 * Chinese: 岩狗狗 means "Rock doggie".