Swirshrew bodies are coated in a thick layer of sweet candy. They are popular companions at carnivals and circuses where they will run up to children unprompted. When their candy is depleted they will curl up and wait for it to regrow.
When it curls up in a ball, it can make any attack bounce off harmlessly. To entangle its opponents in battle, it extrudes white threads as sweet and sticky as cotton candy.