I know the truth about mantines. They’re not innocent and cute, oh no. They are evil. Just look at them. Do those antenna look innocent to you? Yeah right. And that tail. You don’t even want to know what that tail can do. Do I even need to mention the soul-less eyes? Its haunting death song?

Let me enlighten you. Those antenna are how it takes over your mind. Once it’s got you it will use you to do its evil bidding. Humans are just pawns to this menacing creature. After it’s done toying with you, it uses it’s tail to slice open your skull and feast upon your brains. That’s how it sustains it’s evilness. All those mysterious disappearances around Cianwood City weren’t due to stray ghost pokemon...

It’s good to keep a strong electric pokemon with you if you dare venture around the mantine’s territory, because thankfully they have a double weakness to thunder attacks. But I would recommend avoiding them altogether.