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So I thought I'd give this a shot. At the very least it was fun to make. So, here we go.
BTW this is now my Final Submission

Level Up

TMs and HMs

Egg Moves (Flying and Monster Groups)

Legal Combos

Illegal Combos

TOTAL:
74 Moves
39 VGM

For the most part I tried to give the movepool a large number of options but while staying pretty much completely realistic.

Apr 5th, 2011, 7:24:08 PM	#11
jas61292 likes his numbers Moderator Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,243 Strong as a Corsola	So I thought I'd give this a shot. At the very least it was fun to make. So, here we go. BTW this is now my Final Submission Level Up 0 Hurricane 0 Vacuum Wave 0 Scratch 0 Gust 7 Growl 11 Wing Attack 14 Hone Claws 20 Bite 24 Razor Wind 29 Slash 33 Crunch 37 Tailwind 41 Air Slash 46 Counter 50 Haze 52 Superpower 59 Whirlwind 68 Roost 76 Memento 85 Sky Attack 20 Total 20 Unique 11 VGM Prevo Only: Close Combat Mega Punch Take Down 3 Unique 1 VGM OK, so the level up movepool is pretty straight forward. He starts out with mostly weaker Physical moves based on its body features, such as Scratch and Bite. As it grows it develops some basic special abilities, such as Razor Wind and Tailwind, but its focus is still mostly on increased power physical moves. It is only once he gets to a higher level that he finally starts learning his more useful special and status moves. With this I assumed that it would be evolving at 37, where it first starts getting more flying based moves. As such, Hurricane (and possibly Vacuum Wave) are only learn-able via Heart Scale after it evolves. I also gave it a few moves only through its prevo. These are mostly for flavor because I wanted it to be able to get Close Combat, but I thought it would make more sense on its first form. Also, for all you LC people, as you see, I didn't add Hyper Voice or any other specific moves for the prevo here or anywhere. As Rising_Dusk mentioned, the prevo movepool will be decided separately, so anything not currently here you can feel free to add when you make that. TMs and HMs TMs 01 Hone Claws * 05 Roar 06 Toxic 08 Bulk Up 10 Hidden Power 11 Sunny Day 12 Taunt 15 Hyper Beam 17 Protect 18 Rain Dance 21 Frustration 27 Return 31 Brick Break 32 Double Team 39 Rock Tomb 40 Aerial Ace 42 Façade 44 Rest 45 Attract 46 Thief 48 Round 49 Echoed Voice 52 Focus Blast 54 False Swipe 60 Quash 67 Retaliate 68 Giga Impact 80 Rock Slide 83 Work Up 86 Grass Knot 87 Swagger 88 Pluck 89 U-Turn 90 Substitute 94 Rock Smash 95 Snarl HMs 02 Fly 04 Strength 38 Total 37 Unique 20 VGM -2 Equivalent move (*) -1 Repeated move () = 18 VGM The TM movepool doesn't contain anything too crazy, but has plenty of good options to use. It contains all your basics (Toxic, HP, Return, etc), along with many other nice moves. On the Defensive and supportive side, it has access to the standards of Toxic, Rest, Sub, etc. But in addition, it gets access to U-Turn, one of the best moves for keeping up any momentum you have gained. Also included is Taunt which can be used to prevent common switch ins from setting up on Tomohawk, as well as helping it disrupt walls like Blissey. On the offensive side, you have Focus Blast, which is one of its two most powerful STAB moves, Grass Knot, to help with those heavier waters while still allowing light bulky waters (is that an oxymoron?) to stop it, and the aforementioned Hidden Power, along with myriads of physical options. One other interesting move would be Snarl. While not all that powerful, Dark provides good coverage with Fighting, and Lowering the opponents Special Attack can really help it against common special sweepers, while not being overpowering enough to make it easily beat any of its counters. Unfortunately, as Tomohawk is incompatible with Zoroark, we will probably have to wait for the TM to be released for this move to be legal. Egg Moves (Flying and Monster Groups) Aura Sphere – Togekiss Baton Pass – Togekiss Block – Bastiodon, Lickilicky^, Slowbro, Slowking, Snorlax, Torterra^ Earth Power – Aggron^, Archeops, Bastiodon^, Garchomp^, Marowak^, Nidoking, Rampardos^, Rhyperior^, Swampert^, Torterra, Tyranitar^ Encore – Chatot, Togekiss Heal Pulse – Meganium, Slowbro, Slowking Heat Wave – Entire Generation IV flying egg group except the Dodrio, Skarmory, and Pelipper lines Lick – Licklilicky, Snorlax Perish Song – Altaria, Honchkrow, Marowak Quick Guard – Archeops Rapid Spin – Blastoise Sing – Altaria, Kangaskahn+, Lapras, Marowak+ Wish – Farfetch’d~, Kangaskahn~, Lickilicky~, Togekiss, Unfezent, Xatu Yawn – Blastoise, Kangaskahn~, Snorlax, Slowbro, Slowking, Swampert, Togekiss ^ = via 4th gen move tutor ~ = via Wish event + = via purification in XD 14 Total 14 Unique 10 VGM So I gave Tomo a decent number of egg moves, many of which have some good competitive use. First and foremost is Aura Sphere. I would assume most sets will be running this move, and as such I made sure it was compatible with a decent number of others, though I'll go more into that below. Baton Pass, especially with Prankster, is an awesome scouting move, and while he may not have too much use for Bulk/Work Up himself, passing those, or a nice and bulky sub, to a teammate can be great for your team. Encore is another great move. It might not be as good as in genIV, but running it prevents guys from trying to set up on you. Wish is there as alternative way of healing if you don't want roost, and works well with Baton Pass/U-Turn (or just switching) to heal up your team. Rapid Spin is always nice, but its bad distribution makes it illegal with most other moves and thus he probably will have better things to do than dedicate himself to spinning. Earth Power, Heat Wave, Perish Song, Yawn, and Sing are some other decent usable options. And we all know how amazing Lick is. Legal Combos Aura Sphere + Baton Pass + Encore + Heat Wave + Wish + Yawn ---Togekiss Block + Earth Power --- Bastiodon or Torterra Block + Heal Pulse + Yawn --- Slowbro/king Block + Lick + Yawn --- Snorlax Earth Power + Sing --- Marowak Earth Power + Perish Song --- Marowak Earth Power + Yawn --- Swampert Heat Wave + Perish Song + Sing --- Altaria Rapid Spin + Yawn --- Blastoise Note: Marowak cannot pass both Sing and Perish Song at the same time due to one being from XD and the other being an egg move. As I said above, Aura Sphere is probably the most important egg move it gets. Luckily, Togekiss's makes it legal with five of the most useful egg moves. Probably the only important illegality is that of Rapid Spin with anything not named Yawn. I'm sure that combo could be decent by yawning a Ghost that tries to spin block you, but in general Tomo has much more important things to be doing than spinning. Illegal Combos Aura Sphere/Baton Pass/Encore + Block, Earth Power, Heal Pulse, Lick, Perish Song, Rapid Spin, Sing Block + Heat Wave, Perish Song, Rapid Spin, Sing, Wish Earth Power + Heal Pulse, Heat Wave, Lick, Rapid Spin, Wish Heal Pulse + Heat Wave, Lick, Sing, Perish Song, Rapid Spin, Wish Heat Wave + Lick, Rapid Spin Lick + Perish Song, Rapid Spin, Sing, Wish Perish Song + Rapid Spin, Yawn, Wish Rapid Spin + Sing, Wish Sing + Yawn Quick Guard + Anything And as noted in the legal combos section, despite all the moves being compatible with each other, Earth Power + Perish Song + Sing is illegal as a Marowak cannot know both Perish Song and Sing at the same time. TOTAL: 74 Moves 39 VGM For the most part I tried to give the movepool a large number of options but while staying pretty much completely realistic. __________________ <jas61292> I record everything <nyttyn> prove it. <nyttyn> WHAT WAS THE VERY FIRST THING I EVER SAID IN THIS CHANNEL. <jas61292> [06/02/12 \| 12:43] <NyttyN> Huh what deo you know shelll smash did get banned <nyttyn> what. <nyttyn> well congratulations jas your stalker nexus has reached an all time high. Last edited by jas61292; Apr 8th, 2011 at 12:47:35 PM.