Mantyke.

0:00What if I told you there's one Pokémon in the franchise that literally cannot grow up alone?

0:03That's Mantyke.

0:07The baby manta ray you can find frolicking near the surface with schools of Remoraid.

0:10Out of more than a thousand Pokémon, Mantyke is the only one with this kind of evolution.

0:13In the mainline games, Mantyke can only evolve when it levels up with Remoraid in your party.

0:16Items, levels, and trainer friendship can't trigger it alone.

0:20Mantyke only evolves through proximity.

0:23Through togetherness.

0:26And the lore is specific about WHY!

0:29Mantyke and Remoraid have a relationship the games call mutualism.

0:33They swim together.

0:36They fight off attackers together.

0:39They protect each other in waters that would be dangerous for either of them alone.

0:42And eventually, after enough time spent in that school, Mantyke becomes Mantine.

0:46Without Remoraid in the picture, Mantyke just stays a baby.

0:49The mechanism for becoming the bigger version of itself isn't inside Mantyke alone.

0:52Some of it lives in the relationship.

0:55Most of your story isn't like this.

0:59Most of it, you figured out on your own.

1:02But there's a chapter of you that didn't grow until specific people came into the school with you.

1:05Some of who you became wasn't going to happen without somebody else swimming next to you.

1:08That isn't weakness.

1:12That's just how some of us are wired.

1:15You were never going to evolve in an empty ocean.

1:18If there's somebody who became part of how you grew up, comment below.

1:21Then send this to the Remoraid in YOUR life!

1:25The one who swam next to you while you became Mantine.