In winter, Daruma temples start a large fire. Sleeping Darumaka are taken to the temple and thrown into the flames, waking them up for the first time in months. A party is held around the resulting explosion of energy, which burns for three days.

Darmanitan who pack together are always getting into trouble, and tend to migrate after wrecking their nest. When they meet up with a pack of Primeape, the level of violence is unprecedented. Their bellies don’t burn with rage: Darmanitan just love life too much to be careful.

Superstition says if you fill in a Darmanitan Zen statue’s eyes, you will have good luck on any goal. You fill in one when you meet it, then the other when you’ve achieved your goal. If Darmanitan wakes before you fill the other eye, it punishes your procrastination with violence.

Darumaka appear around Galar’s inert volcanoes where the temperature used to be much higher. Trainers lost in blizzards sometimes see dancing troupes on the mountain peaks. Galarian Daruma temples offer refuge from the weather if you can find them.

The Darmanitan in Galar don’t have fire in their bellies to fuel so much violence. Much more peaceful and methodical, once they decide on a battle plan, they don’t deviate from it at all. A common prank is to surprise visiting Unovans with a Galarian Darmanitan while they’re eating.

In Galar, Darmanitan reaches Zen through violence. The face on a fainted Galarian Darmanitan is of ultimate satisfaction, even if it injured itself in its rampage.