All of these fit.Bug Bite/Silver Wind/Bug Buzz/X-Scissor/Attack Order
Ice Shard/Icy Wind/Ice Beam/Blizzard
Slash/Shadow Claw/Night Slash
Brick Break/Superpower/Focus Blast
Hidden Power
Just my opinions.Cyzir's levitating/flying art brings flying attacks and tactics into the movepool. =/
All of these fit.
Air Slash could definitely work as could the spikes/spin.
TBH I cant see rapid spin outta this.
Dark Pulse seems to fit along with Night Slash.
Night slash maybe, but again, dark pulse seems outta place.
A laundry list of viable tactical moves that need to be discussed. My own thoughts included (though we should move this to a new topic soon):
-Sleep move? Not a Bug/Ice's chance in hell.
yea
-Taunt? Still undecided. It's not bulky enough to abuse it but it is fast enough to use it.
It seems plausable.
-Sword's Dance? Yes, definitely. Makes it more competitive and usable.
Agree
-Nasty Plot? No thanks. Nasty Plot Blizzards in the snow is too much.
Yea, heh.
-Calm Mind? No, seems too volatile to sit down and become calm.
If you look at other designs of czir's from the art thread, it
does look somewhat calm, but im agreeing with no calm mind.
-Endure and Reversal? Yes, it makes some sense looking at Scyther.
Agree
-Mirror Coat and/or Counter? Yes to both. The first makes sense in looks, the second in it's fighting nature.
Counter Definately, but I'm not too sure about mirror coat
-Whirlwind? Yes though I doubt it would be used much.
With a Spikes set? It can be novelty I suppose.
-Screech? For Cyzir's art, yes. Screeching and hailing is nifty too.
Screech does seem to fit... but I wouldnt want it over powered with so many stat moves.
-Pursuit? Yes though I don't see it as that useful.
Pursuit is quite good actually. Choice sets would definately uae it.
-Endeavor? No. Switching in on SR twice then endeavoring something to 1HP and killing it with hail is, well, broken.
I would have said no even if it wasnt "broken"
-Roost? I think it would be too broken also. Could definitely work with the art though.
Agreeing here
-Knock Off? No, doesn't seem dastardly enough or dextrous enough with it's nubs.
Armaldo learns Knock Off, and look at him.
-Haze? Yes, fits with Ice and might see some use.
Yes.
-Fake Out? Yes and would be fun to use.
Yes.
-Me First? No, though it could use it.
I cant see it using me first tbh.
Hm.. but Blissey is entirely on the ground... Oh nevermind. Ho-oh and Lugia prove that you can cause an Earthquake while flying and Heracross and Pinsir prove that Bugs can cause Earthquakes. I guess its just a balance issue than.Apparently Blissey is heavy enough to cause an Earthquake. And while Blissey is fat, she's light as mayonaise.
Zap Cannon is an attack utilizing electromagnetic pulses. Forretress can get it because rotating Steel (iron) strengthens that field, and allows it to be used.
Now, please tell me how a Bug/Ice Pokémon would use that.
Anyway, I'm in favor of moves like:
Earthquake
Blizzard
X-Scissor
Night Slash
Superpower (from Pinsir, you know)
Metal Claw
U-Turn
Aerial Ace
Swords Dance
What I might go for:
Pursuit
Roost (the icicles on its back, in Cyzir's Drawing anyway, don't look like wings.)
Megahorn
Nasty Plot
Shadow Claw
Since this started as a "proof" that Cyzir's drawing could be sprited, I tried to stick to Cyzir's original colors, which are pretty bland. I think the coloring could be greatly improved. I'm not horrible at color design, but I suspect there are other artists hanging around here that have a real flair for color. I'd rather see them take a crack at it.The arms look a bit too much like cylinders (but thankfully no longer like Metang clones) and the coloring is meh. I really think it would benefit from some purple somewhere. It's too RBY-esque.
That is a VERY good custom... but it looks too much like G/S/C. Perhaps updated shading? very good nonethelessI decided to add to the original "feasibility test" sprite I made earlier for Cyzir's drawing. I'm still interested to see what Cyzir comes up with. But, as I noodled around with the sprite, I started enjoying it and ended up putting in a few hours of work on it. I'm posting this for others to get ideas of how to render Cyzir's drawing and to see some of the techniques I used to shade the body and create ice wings. I think there's lots of room for improvement by someone with better spriting skills than me. I couldn't figure out a nice way to handle the things that attach the wings to its back. I left them white, for lack of a better rendering.