I decided to find the difference between growlithe and arcanine's stats. For HP, the difference was 35, so I subtracted 35 from Syclants HP stat and got 35. I did this for the rest of the stats and got this:
35 / 76 / 35 / 84 / 34 / 91
Everything seemed like Syclant's spread (which is what I was going for) except for special attack, since here the difference between Syclant's stats and Arcanine's start to mess up the rest of the spread. So here, I went with common sense and sort of replicated Syclant's stats right here into a Syclar-spread. Syclant has a slightly weaker special attack stat (as compared to its's atk stat. I put in the stat for sp.atk at 74; this is quite high and reflects Syclar's offensive potential. The speed stat may seem confusing to some, seeing how in my previous post I said that thing about scuttling vs. flying, but really it's quite simple. Syclant is fast, therefore Syclar must be fast as well. With 91 speed it outspends most of the threats in the LC metagame, like gastly, misdreavus, chinchou etc. However, it is still slower than abra, elekid, diglett and volt orb and the other top-of-the-tier pokemon. The reason for this is that Syclant has a lower base speed stat than those pokemon's evolved forms with the exception of electivire (electabuzz comes pretty close though). This is the spread we had at the end of all this.
35 / 76 / 35 / 74 / 34 / 91
The next thing to was make the BST, which is currently 345. I didn't want it to be exactly equivalent to growlithe's 350. 350-345is 5, but I decided to add 5 more, so i needed to raise one stat by 10, or two stats by 5 each (anything else is unnecessarily complicated). I could boost Syclar's speed to make him pretty much the second fastest pokemon in LC, but that seemed unreasonable. I decided that the best thing to do was simply beef up Syclars attack and special attack stats. Giving Syclar more bulk completely defeats the purpose of a fast, frail sweeper (seeing how I'm modeling it after Syclant). We want to give it great attacking and speed stats, to make Syclar worth using, while giving it a certain risk factor. So I added 5 to each of Syclar's attacking stats.
35 / 81 / 35 / 79 / 34 / 91 (BST 355)
As said by Nyktos,
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One thing to note is that Syclant has several stats not divisible by 5; in cases where this happens, the prevo's stats in the same areas are usually also off by the same amount. So precedent would have Syclar, like Syclant, with HP and Defense multiples of 5, Attack and Speed 1 more than multiples of 5, and Special Attack and Special Defense 1 less than multiples of 5.
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So, the defense and HP stat are multiples of 5, and attack and speed one more than the nearest multiple of 5, and the special attack and special defense are one less than the nearest multiple of 5.
So, as you can see, this spread logistically and technically makes sense, and is reminiscent of Syclant, as it's prevo should be. I suck at conclusions, so um.. yeah.