I’ve come up with another Pokémon idea inspired by TV Tropes. This one is meant to be a legendary Pokémon inspired by Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies. This is a three-stage pseudo-legend line that’s absolutely ferocious on the defense. First up is Baalzegrub, the Maggot Pokémon!

Name: Baalzegrub
Type: Bug
Ability: Poison Heal/Immunity
Dream World Ability: Shed Skin
Generation of Origin: Gen V
Egg Group: Bug

Base Stats:

HP: 25
Attack: 25
Defense: 25
Special Attack: 25
Special Defense: 25
Speed: 25

Base Stat Total: 150

…Uh, yeah. Baalzegrub is just a joke. It’s a lot like Caterpie, Weedle, or Wurmple – only the completely paranoid would take it seriously. The only Pokémon it could beat one-on-one would be Sunkern… its evolution, Beelzekonch, the Chrysalid Pokémon, isn’t much better.

Name: Beelzekonch
Type: Bug/Rock
Ability: Regenerator/Shed Skin
Dream World Ability: Sturdy
Generation of Origin: Gen V
Egg Group: Bug

Base Stats:

HP: 80
Attack: 10
Defense: 100
Special Attack: 10
Special Defense: 90
Speed: 10

Base Stat Total: 300

Beelzekonch has great abilities, but its poor stats let it down. It’s little more than a wannabe Shuckle. Yeah, sure, the HP doesn’t suck, but Shuckle more than makes up for that with its vastly superior defenses. Like many cocoon-based Pokémon, the only thing notable about it is its defenses, which aren’t even strictly better than those of its evolved form, since the line is ultimately a defensive one. The only notable thing about it is its name, which refers to a conch, which was an important symbol in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”. So while this line’s dang near-useless at early levels, it becomes a nasty foe when fully grown. The final stage is Beelzebeest, the Decay Avatar Pokémon!

Name: Beelzebeest
Type: Bug/Dark
Ability: Poison Touch/Tinted Lens
Dream World Ability: Hyper Reflexes (Evasion is boosted by 1 stage at the end of every turn.)
Generation of Origin: Gen V
Egg Group: Bug

Base Stats:

HP: 145
Attack: 90
Defense: 95
Special Attack: 90
Special Defense: 90
Speed: 90

Base Stat Total: 600

I was tempted to just call this guy “Beelzeboss” and call it a day, but I didn’t want to rip off of Tenacious D. So I made another reference to Lord of the Flies, this one to the “beast” that turns out to just be the corpse of an ill-fated parachutist, but nonetheless ends up taking on mythical, demonic proportions to the boys stuck on the island. Ultimately, it ends up symbolizing their fall into the darker side of human nature, with only Ralph, Piggy, and Simon resisting the descent into savagery. Beelzebeest is essentially an enormous demonic fly, similar to certain depictions of Beelzebub. Other than HP, its stats are rather average. Its standard abilities are pretty good, but not really suited for a defensive role. The Dream World ability, on the other hand… dear God. Just like a real-world fly, Beelzebeest is incredibly adept at dodging attacks (despite its huge size), and not being good at taking hits is rather irrelevant if you never get hit in the first place, right? Granted, it’ll probably be banned in competitive matches, what with the evasion clause and all (though I could see it being used to take out Insego, assuming it can manage to avoid being wiped out in its first few turns on the field.) When the Evasion Clause isn’t in effect, though, you’d better bring Aerial Ace! (As a side note, I deliberately designed this family to change its ability with every evolution in order to mirror the Larvitar line, which does the same thing with Guts/Sand Veil, Shed Skin, and Sand Stream/Unnerve for Larvitar, Pupitar, and Tyranitar respectively – Dream World abilities in bold type.) Beelzebeest’s movepool also puts a big emphasis on survivability and stalling, all the better to rack up Hyper Evasion boosts and poison damage with (yeah, even though this line isn’t Poison-type, I still wanted to give it lots of Poison-type moves to correspond with real-world flies’ penchant for spreading filth and disease). So, here it is now…



Base Stat Rating time! Baalzegrub’s up first.

Normalized HP: 191
Normalized Attack: 86
Normalized Defense: 86
Normalized Special Attack: 86
Normalized Special Defense: 86
Speed Rating: 0.047976

PT: 16.3257
ST: 20.4552
PS: 33.6847
SS: 41.1148
ODB: 2.8601
PSB: -1.6933

Rating: 11.1274

…Yeah, I expected it to suck. With half the stats of Candito, Baalzegrub’s movepool is the only thing keeping it from being a bigger joke than the likes of Caterpie and Weedle. I mean, honestly, I think Magikarp could probably beat it one-on-one (even if Baalzegrub has Recover, it’s not going to like the possibility of Magikarp packing Bounce). Beelzekonch is up next… and, no, I don’t expect it to surpass Shuckle in anything except maybe sweepiness by a slim margin (not like it’ll matter.) So, let’s move on to more laughing at an NFE Pokémon…

Normalized HP: 301
Normalized Attack: 56
Normalized Defense: 236
Normalized Special Attack: 56
Normalized Special Defense: 216
Speed Rating: 0.002998501

PT: 152.3662
ST: 137.5346
PS: 21.4380
SS: 29.1731
ODB: -20.4725
PSB: 1.0395

Rating: 161.0440

Nope, not getting anywhere. The Sweepiness ratings are ridiculously low (though, yes, a little higher than Shuckle’s thanks to being marginally faster), and it’s thoroughly outclassed by the majority of defensive Pokémon, including Shuckle (yes, even if it has Regenerator; 80/100/90 defenses just don’t cut it). Of course, in three-stage Bug lines, the first two forms are never competent. The final form, on the other hand… okay, so Butterfree, Beedrill, Beautifly, and Dustox should never show their faces in a competitive environment unless they want to be brutally pwned, but they’re still decent enough for in-game use. Beelzebeest, on the other hand, is a pseudo-legendary and has the stats to match. No way it’s gonna be subpar, right?

Normalized HP: 431
Normalized Attack: 216
Normalized Defense: 226
Normalized Special Attack: 216
Normalized Special Defense: 216
Speed Rating: 0.754122939

PT: 218.0572
ST: 205.1945
PS: 136.3121
SS: 141.1871
ODB: -12.9590
PSB: 1.1701

Rating: 396.9478

O_o; Dear God… the Base Stat Rating is just about 3 points shy of the 400 mark! That’s pretty scary. And when Hyper Reflexes, Roost, Toxic, and Beelzebeest’s other options for messing with the opposition come into the equation… why do I get the feeling that this monster fly would be assigned to the Uber tier in a heartbeat? Also, is it just me, or was my earlier hypothesis about Smogon favoring specialization horribly, horribly wrong? Either the metagame has changed much more drastically than anyone could anticipate since Generation IV, or there’s plenty of advantages to foregoing extreme strength in one area at the expense of being a pushover in another. After all, a Pokémon can get by with only one good offensive stat, but if one defensive stat is much better than the other, everyone’s going to go after the inferior defensive stat. *points to Blissey being pummeled with physical attacks*

Hey guys! I just came up with another new Pokémon idea! I was reviewing my old creations, when I noticed that I had come up with an evolution for Ursaring, but not for its version counterpart Donphan. So, I dug down into my memories and pulled out a really old idea for a Donphan evolution – an electric elephant. (Yes, even when I was 10, I loved horrible puns.) At the time, Ground/Electric was a unique typing (no Stunfisk yet), plus Electric wasn’t combined with many other types (there was the Electric/Flying Zapdos, the Water/Electric Chinchou and Lanturn, and the Electric/Steel Magnemite and Magneton… and pretty much every other Electric-type Pokémon in existence at the time were mono-types. You may also notice that some of my other chronologically early fakemon, like Anthanine, Groinxin, Drillon, and Thundog, were also dual-types with Electric as one of their types.) Anyways, I’m throwing this out there because making an evolution for Ursaring without doing the same for Donphan just doesn’t sit well with me. So this is Elekphamp, the Pachyderm Pokémon! (I don’t really need to explain the pun, do I?)

Name: Elekphamp
Type: Ground/Electric
Ability: Sturdy
Dream World Ability: Sheer Force
Generation of Origin: Gen II
Egg Group: Field (a.k.a. Ground)

Base Stats:

HP: 100
Attack: 128
Defense: 128
Special Attack: 71
Special Defense: 64
Speed: 69

Base Stat Total: 560

Elekphamp closely resembles Donphan, both physically and statistically. None of its stats have improved drastically, with Special Defense getting the smallest boost in order to make room for the larger jumps in Special Attack and Speed. Elekphamp looks somewhat like a larger Donphan, but it’s a little bit larger (still not anywhere near the size of a real elephant, though) and its coloration is now a somewhat dull yellow. The plates on its back now resemble silver silicon chips (not unlike the chips you have to collect in Chip’s Challenge), while the armored bands around its legs now resemble live wires. Elekphamp really isn’t all that different from Donphan otherwise, save for the new Electric typing. So it can’t take Ground-type attacks as well as Donphan, but it’s much better at withstanding Flying-type and Steel-type attacks. Also, it gets Sheer Force instead of Sand Veil, which could make it a little more difficult to use defensively but easier to use as a beatstick.

Now, I was about to say that Skarmory would probably beat Elekphamp one-on-one despite Elekphamp’s resistances to its STABs (not that an Electric-type needs to have the Ground-type as well to resist Skarmory’s STAB attacks), because Skarmory has the advantage of reliable recovery (namely Roost), but two things occurred to me. First, Elekphamp has STAB for Ground, which can nail Skarmory for super-effective damage if it uses Roost; second, Elekphamp also has STAB for Electric, which can nail Skarmory for super-effective damage if it doesn’t use Roost (and still hits Skarmory for neutral damage if it does use Roost). So, a faceoff between Elekphamp and Skarmory would essentially become a mindgame, with lots of prediction involved (assuming that one of the two doesn’t just switch out – and Skarmory could force Elekphamp to do just that with Whirlwind.) Granted, Elekphamp’s only useful physical Electric STAB options are Spark, Thunder Fang, and Wild Charge; Spark and Thunder Fang are a bit on the wimpy side even with a boost from Sheer Force, with Spark being just weak enough to receive a Technician boost, though Elekphamp doesn’t actually have that as an option. (Also, if Spark and Thunder Fang are boosted by Sheer Force, that means that they don’t get their side-effects, which given their mediocre power, would probably be the primary reason to use them aside from coverage.) Wild Charge, on the other hand, is strong enough to be used as a reliable attack, but it doesn’t get a boost from Sheer Force; furthermore, Elekphamp would probably hate the fact that its recoil would put extra strain on its bulk (and if it runs Sturdy, then using Wild Charge at full HP would remove its OHKO insurance). Another notable aspect of Elekphamp’s movepool is its access to Crunch, completing the awesome Electric/Ground/Dark offensive trinity (as I’ve mentioned countless times, only Virizion, Breloom, and Hydregion resist all three of those types.) With its solid Attack stat, Elekphamp could certainly make good use of this type coverage, while still having a moveslot free for Stealth Rock or Rapid Spin (or Stone Edge, if it wants to be an all-out attacker and add in the Rock/Ground combo for extra type coverage; it could also use Swords Dance or Rock Polish for a sheer-power sweep). On the other hand, I’m pretty sure that Stealth Rock would be incompatible with Sheer Force, and if Elekphamp wants to run both Stealth Rock and Rapid Spin, then it has to leave one of the attacking moves out of its moveset. Without Crunch, it gets thoroughly walled by Gliscor or Landorus (unless it forgoes its Ground or Electric-type STAB for something like Stone Edge, and yes, I’m aware that Elekphamp could technically hit Gliscor and Landorus with Rapid Spin if it has that, but Rapid Spin’s a really weak move, so Gliscor could easily use Roost or Poison Heal to laugh it off anyways. As for Landorus, it would probably wipe Elekphamp out long before Elekphamp could hit it with enough Rapid Spins to take it down.) And if it really cares about facing Gliscor and Landorus, then it has to deal with the fact that sacrificing one of its STABs could hamper its offensive prowess (plus Ground and Dark or Electric and Dark on their own are resisted by significantly more Pokémon than Ground, Electric, and Dark together. Though, if it has to lose one of its STABs, I’d recommend Electric; as I mentioned, all of its physical Electric-type moves have some problems. If it does that, it should probably use Stone Edge or Rock Slide instead of Crunch, since Ground and Rock go better together than Ground and Dark.) Or it could just accept that certain Pokémon would wall it and focus more on its supportive options, like Taunt, Thunder Wave, Odor Sleuth, Toxic, Torment, etc. Also, even though Elekphamp has much better Special Attack than Donphan, I really wouldn’t recommend trying to use Elekphamp as a Special or mixed attacker; its Special Attack is still mediocre at best, and the only option it has for improving its Special Attack is Work Up. Anyways, it’s on to Elekphamp’s movepool…



Finally, I will cover Elekphamp’s Base Stat Ratings.

Normalized HP: 341
Normalized Attack: 292
Normalized Defense: 292
Normalized Special Attack: 178
Normalized Special Defense: 164
Speed Rating: 0.551724

PT: 223.4530
ST: 115.6271
PS: 158.2538
SS: 98.8967
ODB: -11.0661
PSB: 24.4896

Rating: 328.5023

As I said earlier, Elekphamp is essentially a more effective Donphan. Not only does it have very similar stats, it also has a similar movepool – including the lack of reliable recovery. Thus, Elekphamp would essentially perform the same roles as Donphan in OU, save for being easier to switch into predicted Flying-type and Steel-type attacks (so, basically, it would easily wall Skarmory for a while.) STAB Electric-type moves are always helpful for making Water and Flying-types think twice before trying to face Elekphamp. So, basically, the usual counters for Donphan don’t work quite as well against Elekphamp. On the other hand, Elekphamp is weak to Ground-type moves itself, so opposing Ground-types (and other Pokémon that enjoy abusing Earthquake or Earth Power) will probably be able to threaten it with ease. Still, Elekphamp’s typing is much better than Polursa’s, both offensively and defensively. And that’s pretty much all I have to say – I’ve rambled on enough already!

I'd like to see a normal/ghost pokemon. It could be a bulky physical tank with justified.

I want to see a mummy pokemon, with one eye sticking out of it's wrapping, ghostly Yamask hands, it has a ghost like shape, and a chain that rips out of the bottom of the wrapping. OH.MY.GOD I just made it...ughhhhhh.

I'd like to see a Pokemon with a shitty movepool consisting of basically Ember, Thundershock, Poison Fang, and Recover. Give the Pokemon an ability that makes secondary effects happen all the time and distribute the base stats like this:

HP: 200
Atk: 5
Def: 60
SAtk: 5
SDef: 60
Spe: 70

So now the movepool becomes Recover, Will-O-Wisp (untauntable and can't miss), Toxic (untauntable and can't miss), and Thunder Wave (untauntable).

There's a lot I'd love to see for the lulz. Summing up a few of them:

• A Fire/Water type that generates steam, creating a fog upon entering battle. I'd imagine it being some sort of llama or camel or something with a hot spring on its back. It could bring about a brand new weather style and thus find special meaning for moves like Aerial Ace and Shockwave outside of Technician.
• An Electric/Ice type, some sort of living aurora borealis legendary maybe, that redefines glass cannon. Base 255 Attack and Special Attack, base 100 Speed, base 10 HP, and base 5 Defense and Special Defense. Something that lets us know how far you can make a sweeper go without banning it from Uber.
• A unique type combination (like maybe Rock/Ghost) that truly takes advantage of rare abilities like Contrary, Rattled, and Shield Dust, all of which have been distributed to underwhelming Pokemon. Really, I'd love to see how deadly a defense boosting Close Combat or a free boost from U-turn can be.

What about a trolly base 179 Speed and base 150 in both attacking stats with base 10 HP and base 5 defenses?

Type: grass/dragon
Stat spread: 80/112/85/123/100/99
Evolutionary stages: 3 stages
Abilities: intimidate/Solar Power


Designed to be a relatively fast and bulky attacker.

Come see, the burning flower pokemon!



It has overheat and leaf storm!

supposed to be a setup sweeper with nasty plot and dragon dance.

Ability: Levitate

Is it crap or not?

A few days before Christmas – specifically, on December 21, 2011 – I ended up seeing a new Pokémon idea in a dream. Its Pokédex entry appeared before me, showing a Water/Grass Pokémon with a curious resemblance to Petilil. Upon awakening, I immediately decided that I had to record this idea before I lost it. This one's gonna be a three-stage line. The first stage is Dainseed, the Seed Pokémon!

Name: Dainseed
Type: Water/Grass
Ability: Swift Swim
Generation of Origin: Gen V
Egg Group: Grass/Fairy

Base Stats:

HP: 35
Attack: 62
Defense: 53
Special Attack: 35
Special Defense: 45
Speed: 45

Base Stat Total: 275

Dainseed is a little blue-green almost torpedo-shaped seed with legs. It's actually pretty weak. If Dainseed's stat spread looks familiar, well... it should. The next stage is the one I actually saw in the dream. So, this is Seeflauwir, the Water Garden Pokémon! (The name is meant to be pronounced as "Sea flower".)

Name: Seeflauwir
Type: Water/Grass
Ability: Plankton Bounty (In rainy weather, the Defense and Special Attack of the user and adjacent allies is multiplied by 1.5 times. Seeflauwir will change from its default Overcast Forme to its Bloom Forme in rainy weather, but this is merely an aesthetic change, with no alterations made to Seeflauwir's typing, stats, or ability. It is also an intrinsic property of Seeflauwir itself, and is not caused by Plankton Bounty.)
Generation of Origin: Gen V
Egg Group: Grass/Fairy

Base Stats:

HP: 85
Attack: 87
Defense: 78
Special Attack: 60
Special Defense: 70
Speed: 70

Base Stat Total: 450

Seeflauwir is essentially Cherrim's rain counterpart. Not only are its stats switched around, its Ability, Plankton Bounty, is a direct inversion of Cherrim's Flower Gift; besides operating in the opposite weather condition, the stat boosts it grants are inverted. This means that while Seeflauwir isn't really a noteworthy Pokémon on its own, it makes an excellent Doubles or Triples partner for Specially offensive Pokémon who work best in rain, especially the ones whose physical Defense could use some improvement. Seeflauwir by the side of something like Kyogre, Starmie/Starus, Palkia, Thundurus, Rotom-W, etc. is probably a good indicator that you should start praying. It doesn't help that Seeflauwir's Water/Grass typing is decent defensively, with its only weaknesses being Bug, Poison, and Flying. So it may be harder to knock out than its stats would indicate. In its Overcast Forme, Seeflauwir resembles some sort of fusion between Petilil and Cherrim; in its Bloom Forme, Seeflauwir resembles a small bromeliad. The final form of the line takes the bromeliad motif to its logical conclusion. So, I now introduce Bromelazon, the Bromeliad Pokémon!

Name: Bromelazon
Type: Water/Grass
Ability: Rain Dish
Dream World Ability: Jungle Gift (In rainy weather, the Defense and Special Attack of the user and adjacent allies is multiplied by 1.5 times. Bromelazon will change from its default Overcast Forme to its Bloom Forme in rainy weather, but this is merely an aesthetic change, with no alterations made to Bromelazon's typing, stats, or ability. It is also an intrinsic property of Bromelazon itself, and is not caused by either of its abilities.)
Generation of Origin: Gen V
Egg Group: Grass/Fairy

Base Stats:

HP: 100
Attack: 115
Defense: 91
Special Attack: 96
Special Defense: 83
Speed: 75

Base Stat Total: 560

Bromelazon is essentially a massive bromeliad network, with multiple flowers, even in its Overcast Forme; in its Bloom Forme, it expands even farther as its flowers open up. The name refers to the Amazon Rainforest in South America, which has the world's best-known bromeliads; Dainseed's name refers to the Daintree Rainforest, which is located in Australia. So, basically, it starts off in Australia, and somehow finds itself floating across the ocean until it winds up in the Amazon Rainforest. Bromelazon is the only member of the line to get a different ability from the Dream World, but its bonus ability is really just Plankton Bounty under a different name. I mean, seriously, I’m quite sure that there’s no plankton in a rainforest!!! Then again, Rain Dish isn't such a bad ability to have, either. Anyways, Bromelazon doesn't move very much (though, if it must, it can uproot itself and move around on its roots by walking on them in a spider-like fashion), so its fighting style revolves mostly around making its roots erupt from the ground to smack enemies and launching stuff out of its flowers/buds. It can also generate earthquakes and rockslides by vibrating its roots underground, but this isn't something that it learns how to do naturally; you'd have to use a TM or two for that. Anyways, I can't really think of more stuff to say, so here's the movepool!



As with other evolutionary families I've designed, I'll work out the Base Stat ratings of the Dainseed line one member at a time. Dainseed is up first.

Normalized HP: 211
Normalized Attack: 160
Normalized Defense: 142
Normalized Special Attack: 106
Normalized Special Defense: 126
Speed Rating: 0.230884558

PT: 50.0456
ST: 44.9361
PS: 66.3840
SS: 52.0839
ODB: 2.1592
PSB: 2.8432

Rating: 77.8368

…A ridiculously low rating; considering that Dainseed is the first member of a three-stage evolutionary line, this is completely unsurprising. Next, I’ll go over the rating for Seeflauwir.

Normalized HP: 311
Normalized Attack: 210
Normalized Defense: 192
Normalized Special Attack: 156
Normalized Special Defense: 176
Speed Rating: 0.553223388

PT: 124.1567
ST: 112.7646
PS: 111.2356
SS: 86.8951
ODB: -2.5866
PSB: 5.2342

Rating: 222.9539

As I suspected, Seeflauwir’s rating falls somewhere outside the “usable in OU” range. Eyeceps’s rating may have been far lower, but at least Eyeceps has Wonder Guard to make it worth using. Seeflauwir… not so much. Using it in a Singles Battle would be a pretty bad idea, though maybe it would be a decent user of Eviolite (it is bulkier than Cherrim, after all, seeing as its HP and Speed values were swapped…) Seeflauwir would probably have more of a niche in a Doubles or Triples rain team, using Plankton Bounty to bolster not only its own Special Attack and Defense, but also that of its (hopefully far more statistically competent) partner(s). However, even in Doubles or Triples, it’d probably end up in UU, if only because its evolution outclasses it. Anyways, it’s on to the final form, Bromelazon…

Normalized HP: 341
Normalized Attack: 266
Normalized Defense: 218
Normalized Special Attack: 222
Normalized Special Defense: 206
Speed Rating: 0.619190405

PT: 160.5919
ST: 146.8499
PS: 153.2371
SS: 133.9890
ODB: -1.6838
PSB: 4.8325

Rating: 327.4790

Bromelazon is a solid Pokémon, especially in terms of its defense. With Rain Dish, it gets to regenerate its HP every turn in rain, while Jungle Gift boosts its Defense as well as its Special Attack. While it doesn’t have instant recovery like the Cherubi line does, it does have access to lots of passive recovery options, namely Ingrain, Aqua Ring, and Leech Seed. It hits pretty hard, too, which is always a plus (unless you’re on the receiving end.) However, while Bromelazon’s stat spread was deliberately designed to make it better-suited to special attacks than physical attacks with the Jungle Gift bonus, without Jungle Gift activated, its physical Attack is superior. Thankfully, while Bromelazon’s movepool is somewhat limited, it has enough tools to get the job done, including the EdgeQuake combination and a decent mix of physical and special options for both of its STABs. So, in short, Bromelazon is a solid contender that should always be considered, especially for a rain team.