Name: Air Stream
Existing Ability?: No
Effect: Summons the new weather Air Current for 5 turns. In this weather, Flying-Types take 0.75* damage from Electric, Rock, and Ice-Type moves (kinda like Solid Rock), and the move Hurricane has perfect accuracy. Weather Ball doubles in power and becomes Flying-Type.
Niche: Aaaaaaaaaaaab.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Drifblim line, Altaria line
Name: Rinse Off
Existing Move?: No
Category: Status
Type: Water
PP: 10
Effect: Restores the user's HP by 50%
Priority: 0
Misc.: Heals 66% HP in rain. But heals 25% HP in sun.
Z-Move: Resets lowered stats
Niche: Aaaab.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Squirtle line, Piplup line, Basically any bulky Water-type that wants recovery.
Name: Air Current
Existing Move?: No
Category: Status
Type: Flying
PP: 10
Effect: Summons the new weather Air Current for 5 turns. In this weather, Flying-Types take 0.75* damage from Electric, Rock, and Ice-Type moves (kinda like Solid Rock), and the move Hurricane has perfect accuracy. Weather Ball doubles in power and becomes Flying-Type.
Priority: 0
Misc.: Summons the weather for 8 turns if holding a Breeze Rock.
Z-Move: Speed raises one stage.
Niche: Aaaab.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Everything that learns Tailwind[/hide]
Name: Breeze Rock
Existing Item?: No
Effect: Allows the holder to summon an Air Current for eight turns rather than five.
Removable via Knock Off?: Yes
Ignored by Klutz?: Yes
Niche: Aaaab.
Grass / Ground 》》Grass / Rock
While Torterra may not have the best stats, Grass/Rock is an astounding typing, with only 4 weaknesses and types that cover each other extremely well. Torterra even has a cool movepool, with utility such as Leech Seed, Roar, Stealth Rock, Dual Screens, and Synthesis. Offensively, it isn't bad either, with coverage like Earthquake, Superpower, Iron Head, and strong STABs in Wood Hammer and Stone Edge all backed up by access to Swords Dance and Rock Polish.
Name: Guard Up
Existing Ability?: No
Effect: Upon switch-in, this Pokemon's Defense or Special Defense goes up by 1 stage depending on the opponent's higher attacking stat (Download clone).
Niche: Allows users of the ability to either wall the opposing Pokemon more easily or set up on them more easily thanks to taking less from their attacks. Kind of works like Intimidate, but it sticks around
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Escavalier, Shelmet, Honedge and Doublade, Chespin line, All "cocoon" Pokemon excluding Whirlipede and Charjabug, Hitmonchan, Burmy and Wormadam, Gardevoir and Gallade
Name: Acid Melt
Existing Move?: N
Category: Special
Damage: 70
Accuracy: 100
Type: Poison
Effect: Super Effective vs. Steel, 10% chance to burn target.
Niche: Steel types are a menace! Fairy/Steel types are hell on earth! Acid Melt solves both problems to a degree. I coulda gone full on Acid Rain weather from a certain other meta (or added Water SE as well), but that's a bit extreme.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Mostly poison types, even though a good number of them are Phys Attackers and aren't very acidic. Some dragons could spit acid I guess, especially Goodra could use a niche. It could find a nice home on the Nidos for sure as well as acid based mons like Victrebel, Swalot, and the like. Dragalge with this move has irresistible STAB coverage, so 'coverage' becomes a lot freer to choose.
Name: Swampland
Existing Move?: N
Category: Status
Type: Water
PP: 10
Effect: Envelops the opponent’s side of the field in a Swamp, as the Pledge effect of using Grass Pledge and Water Pledge together.
Priority: Standard
Misc.: Swamp fades after 4 turns, or 6 turns if the user was carrying a Terrain-Extender.
Z-Move: User’s Special Attack raises one stage.
Niche: Provides a new method of speed control and battlefield control, giving a Pledge effect a way to appear in singles and spreading it beyond the starters.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Grass and Water starters, Ludicolo, Pyukumuku, Quagsire, Gastrodon, Siesmotoad, Poliwrath, Politoed
Name: Fairy Charge
Existing Move?: N
Category: Physical
Type: Fairy
BP: 120
Acc.: 100
PP: 15
Effect: The user receives 1/3 damage inflicted in recoil. Has a 10% chance to decrease the target's Atk by 1 stage.
Priority: 0
Misc.: Makes contact
Z-Move: 190 BP
Niche: Gives Fairy-type physical attackers a powerful STAB move, especially for those that didn't have Play Rough.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Tapu Koko, Tapu Bulu, Granbull line, Azumarill line, Mawile, Slurpuff line
Name: Weather Warrior's Crystal
Existing Item?: N
Effect: Consumable. When a weather is active, this peculiar crystal increases the holder's Attack and Special Attack stats by 1 stage each, then dissipates.
Fling: 60 BP
Removable via Knock Off?: Yes
Ignored by Klutz?: Yes
Niche: Can effectively replace a turn of set up. Useful for any weather-oriented attacker or sweeper, especially frailer ones or those without good boosting moves.
Name: Absol and Absol-Mega
New Typing: Dark / Fairy
Niche: Fairy typing not only gives a unique type combo but also gives it STAB Play Rough in addition to its Dark-type STAB moves. While it doesn’t matter too much because of its horrid bulk, it also neutralizes the Fighting- and Bug- type weaknesses while giving it a new Dragon immunity which could allow for more opportunities to switch in.
Name: Blissey
New Typing: Normal / Fairy
Niche: You could argue that Chansey should get this typing too, but I’m going to give it to just Blissey so that it isn’t totally overshadowed by its pre-evolution. This neutralizes the Fighting-type weakness so it can tank their attacks better, plus a useful Dragon immunity. Blissey is also quite Fairy-like itself, it would look just right with the other pink Fairy-types.
Name: Jetstream
Existing Move?: N
Category: Special
Type: Flying
PP: 30 (max 48)
Effect: 40 BP.
Priority: +1
Misc.: Aaaaab.
Z-Move: 100 BP Supersonic Skystrike
Niche: Another special priority move that can hit things that Vacuum Wave and Flame Bullet don't.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Most things that learn Hurricane should fit
Cresselia: Psychic -> Psychic/Fairy
It's the lunar pokemon and moon-based moves are Fairy-type. Competitively, it gets a much, much better defensive typing to go with its incredible bulk.
Samurott: Water -> Water/Fighting
Because it just works.
Here's the winners gathered in one post. This was really tiring.Musharna
New typing: Psychic/Fairy
Musharna is related to dreams, and its appareance is Fairy enough, having the Fairy typing would be useful for its new role as Trick Room setter