CAP1 - Part 17b - (Pre-Evo Dex Entry Poll 1)

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And now we vote for those pretty lil' dex entries we all crave!

You'll notice in the below submissions that I've removed a lot of content. People must not have read the OP of the last thread, because despite that reachzero did "flavor" as one collective thing, that's not how the pre-evo worked! This is only for Poke Dex entries for Black and White and nothing else. For this reason, I've removed mentions of height, weight, the theoretical Pokemon Grey dex entries, and so forth. The weight and height will be decided by me when I post the Final Product after this voting is done. I've also taken the liberty to correct typos where applicable so users don't vote based on their presence in entries. The following submissions are slated for this poll:
Destiny Warrior
Deck Knight
Pippy
Tortferngatr
shadowbone66
m190049
Ice-cold Claws
Galladiator
This is an IRV poll, which means that you can vote for as many entries as you want to in order of preference. The top three from this poll will move onto the next stage. I've reiterated some rules for this vote below so that everyone knows exactly what's going on.

  • Do not bold any text other than your votes.
    The script we use to count the votes looks at bolded text, and ignores all other text. You can still write other non-bolded things in your post, but don't bold them or it will mess up your vote.
  • One vote per line.
    Do not list multiple votes on one line.
  • You may vote for as many names as you want.
  • Spell the name exactly as it is spelled above.
    It is not case sensitive, but please remember that your vote will not count unless it is the name is spelled correctly.
Here are the entries in order of submission:
Final Submission

Species: Egg Cat Pokemon
Black: It wears its eggshell for 6 months after hatching. Its dreams are always about flying.
White: Sometimes in the night, Scratchet can be found howling to appease their frustration.
Final Submission:

Species: Scrambled Cat Pokemon

Black: It battles erratically to catch its prey off guard. Delibird is its favorite prey.

White: It skulks along coastlines looking for other Scratchet to duel. Once it battles enough, it gets its wings in a mystical ritual, and lives on as Tomohawk.
Final Submission
Species: Egg Cub Pokemon

Black: It roams about in packs of five to ten. They often wrestle to see who will be their leader.
White: When it is born, it has no fur, and therefore the pattern of its shell can be seen. As it grows, it begins to develop fur and the pattern disappears.
FINAL SUBMISSION

Species:
Tribal Pokemon

Black: It can live in the desert, where it is able to thrive on the water of cacti for months at a time. They will defend their chieftain Tomohawk to the death.
White: They form tribes. Playful yet strong, they helped an ancient civilization build great cities.


Explanation:
I tried to make the B/W entries coincide with Tomohawk's B/W entries. So yeah, the Scratchet that thrives in the desert evolves to help others cope with the desert. The Scratchet who help ancient peoples build a city mourn its loss as Tomohawk.
Final Submission

Species: Apprentice Pokemon

Black: They are playful and mischievous, but very competent. They can survive on their own in the desert, though they prefer the company of others.

White: They are always in the company of an older Tomahawk. They seem to treat Scratchet as apprentices of sorts, teaching them various skills.

Perhaps not the best, but it never hurts to toss one's hat in, amirite?
Final Submission

Species:
Desert Cub Pokemon

Black: They store the nutrients that allow them to survive in the harsh desert climates in their fur. It is for this fur that they were once hunted close to extinction.

White: It is thought by experts that they were once a very common sight long ago. Sighting a pack of them playing is often considered to be a sign that an ancient ruin is nearby.
Final Submission

SCRATCHET

Species: Scratch Cat Pokemon

Black: Though playful and restless by nature, they treat Tomohawk with rare respect.

White: They are often seen chasing Sigilyph, and are deeply inspired by Sigilyph's ability to fly.

Explanations & Justifications:
Species: Meowth's species. Nothing in the world more fitting.
Black dex entry: "playful" reflecting Prankster, and "restless" reflecting Vital Spirit.
Final Submission

Species: Playful Pokemon

Black: Scratchet form tribes of six and compete to see which of them is strongest. The winner gets to lead the tribe.

White: It strikes with its claws and teeth if threatened. It will never run away from a fight.
Here's our pre-evo so far:
Main Design



Supporting Material

Side-on pose showing spots and egg shaped body.

This Tomohawk prevo concept is a little cub with a protective fluffy egg body. The ruffles around its face show the beginnings of the feather-like fur that Tomohawk uses for flight after it evolves. Its wide, flat, oversized arms hint at wings. Tomohawk's purple markings are foreshadowed in the purple spots on cub-hawk's egg body.

Name: Scratchet
Typing: Normal / Fighting
Base Stats: 55 HP / 85 Atk / 80 Def / 20 SpA / 70 SpD / 40 Spe
Abilities: Scrappy / Prankster / Vital Spirit (DW)
Movepool:
Final Submission

00 Fury Swipes
09 Harden
13 Focus Energy
18 Rock Smash
23 Roar
27 Work Up
32 Submission
36 Hyper Voice
40 Bulk Up
45 Superpower
49 Taunt
53 Rest
57 Retaliate

So, for the level up pool, I took Tomohawk's and removed all the moves that had to do with mythical powers (such as Aura Sphere and Earth Power) or the ability to fly (such as Hurricane and Air Slash), as these are things that Scratchet lacks. Unfortunately, without these moves the level up pool becomes fairly sparse, so I went through the TMs it can learn and chose ones that seemed appropriate and added them in, such as Bulk Up and Retaliate. I also added in Focus Energy from the Egg Moves, because it really needed some basic moves like that (and yes, there are some cases where Pokemon have a level up move as an egg move as well, so its not completely weird).

As far as evolution, like most Pokemon I imagine Scratchet would evolve by level up, and not have any specific requirements. I was thinking possibly requiring a specific move to evolve, but I noticed that the only instances of that happening are when the Pokemon and its evolution were introduced in different generations, and that is not the case for Scratchet, so I think the basic level up method is more appropriate. However, I think it would be cool if it evolved at level 23, because that way it would learn two nearly equivalent moves, Roar and Whirlwind, at the same level. Roar, representing a normal grounded mammal, comes before it evolves and Whirlwind, representing the new powers of flight it has gained, comes after.

TM05 Roar
TM06 Toxic
TM08 Bulk Up
TM10 Hidden Power
TM11 Sunny Day
TM12 Taunt
TM17 Protect
TM18 Rain Dance
TM20 Safeguard
TM21 Frustration
TM27 Return
TM31 Brick Break
TM32 Double Team
TM33 Reflect
TM39 Rock Tomb
TM40 Aerial Ace
TM42 Facade
TM44 Rest
TM45 Attract
TM46 Thief
TM48 Round
TM49 Echoed Voice
TM52 Focus Blast
TM54 False Swipe
TM56 Fling
TM60 Quash
TM67 Retaliate
TM70 Flash
TM78 Bulldoze
TM80 Rock Slide
TM83 Work Up
TM86 Grass Knot
TM87 Swagger
TM90 Substitute
TM94 Rock Smash
HM04 Strength

The TM set pretty much followed the same logic as the level up moves, remove the mythical power and flying related moves. Though despite removing it from the level up set, I did leave Aerial Ace in the TM pool. This is mainly because while all sorts of Pokemon can learn this move via TM, only Flying types get it via level up (With the single exception of Heracross, which is kinda weird). Additionally, I removed Hyper Beam and Giga Impact, as with the exception of a few who also get one of them via level up, no unevolved Pokemon can learn these TMs (well, unless they were formerly fully evolved).

Baton Pass
Confuse Ray
Focus Energy
Haze
Memento
Nature Power
Rapid Spin
Roost
Stealth Rock
Yawn

Obviously, the egg moves are all the same as Tomohawks, so not much to say here.
Good luck!
 

Focus

Ubers Tester Extraordinaire
m190049
Tortferngatr
Galladiator
Deck Knight
Pippy
Destiny Warrior
Ice-cold Claws
 

Stratos

Banned deucer.
Destiny Warrior
m190049


I don't like this method for selecting the Dex entries. Each entry should be its own thing, instead of a package, and the top two separate entries should be allocated to "Black" and "White." Each entry could be assigned a number instead of a person for the script, so that each person could still submit multiples. The reason I think this would work better is because some of these have one great entry and one bad one, and I don't like that I had to vote for someone else because they only had one good entry.
 
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