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Name: Rhyhorn
Type: Ground / Rock
Stat Changes: None
Abilities: Lighting Rod / Rock Head / Speed Boost
New Moves: Head Smash
Removed Moves: Sword Dance, Ice Fang, Blizzard, Ice Beam, Icy Wind, Fire Fang.
So, this Pokemon's lore is that it can run, but not think well. Therefore, Speed Boost is a legit ability for Rhyhorn. With Ground + Rock STABs, this Mon threatens the whole Metagame. However, unlike Torchic, it needs 2 turns to outspeed the unboosted Metagame and a lot more for Scarfers or Weather sweepers. I also removed Sword Dance from it in order to avoid it being broken with Tera (even without it this Mon will be very good). Ice and Fire moves are removed too in order to force Rhyhorn to use the inaccurate Megahorn or Tera Blast to deal with the Grass types that check it.
Name:
Type: Normal/Flying
Stat Changes: none
Abilities: Run Away (unchanged), Early Bird (unchanged) and Twin Strikes.
Custom Ability: all multi-hit move used by the user gets a 20% boost.
New Moves: Double Kick
Custom Move: Double Peck - Flying-type, Physical, 40 BP, 100% accuracy, 20 PP. Hits twice. This move is a Flying-type version of Double Hit with 5 bp more, giving Doduo a second reliable STAB option that synergizes with its Twin Strikes ability.
Removed Moves: none
Justification: giving doduo finally its identity as a fast, dual-headed attacker.
Hybrid
Name: Meowth
Type: Normal
Stat Changes: +10 Special Defense, +10 Special Attack
Abilities: Pickup / Technician / Seven Lives
Custom Ability: Seven Lives: Sturdy + Regenerator
New Moves: Counter.
Removed Moves: Knock Off, Assurance, Thunder Wave, Body Slam, Throat Chop, Hypnosis.
So, remember how I said that with Galar Meowth gaining 20 BST, the other 2 should also have the same treatment? Well, I fulfilled that, though I gave Meowth boosts to the 2 most useless Stats.
Meowth is already a viable Technician Mon, however now it has a second niche: Sturdy + Regenerator coupled with Counter mean that Meowth can use its poor bulk to its advantage and check every non multi-hit, non-ghost physical Mon while running Boots instead of the typical Eviolite or Life Orb. This allows Meowth to be devastating vs physical based offensive teams, though its still weak to Status, Special moves and Ghost types. Meowth has some Dark and Ghost moves to hit the ghost, however I removed all the strongest ones, as well as means to paralyze or sleep foes in order to make Special Mons better vs it.
Both Meowth and its opponents have to take in account the 2 good possible abilities (Technician is still good) Meowth has, the usage and counterplay to both is very different.
Meowth with Heavy Duty Boots about to use Counter on Mienfoo looks like this:
Theme:
3: Gekokeso (kinda broken Scyther, but typing balances it out, Nashrock's one is definetely broken).
2: Fragmented ( The only Dratini that looks balanced, also has a cool new move).
1: Quinn ( I don,t consider any Rhyhorn to be better than my own, so this is the only other option. Mon doesn,t need buffs, but the ability and the new move definetely fit well flavor-wise)
Hybrid:
3: Anaconja (best submission by far this round, one new Mon that checks Corphish, which for me is the best Pokemon in the meta, and will be despite this Chespin).
2: Orangesodapop (Yep, I consider this to be better than my Meowth too. Finally some signature moves are going to be usable and has many resistances)
1: Eeveeto (Puss in Boots).
3: Gekokeso (kinda broken Scyther, but typing balances it out, Nashrock's one is definetely broken).
2: Fragmented ( The only Dratini that looks balanced, also has a cool new move).
1: Quinn ( I don,t consider any Rhyhorn to be better than my own, so this is the only other option. Mon doesn,t need buffs, but the ability and the new move definetely fit well flavor-wise)
Hybrid:
3: Anaconja (best submission by far this round, one new Mon that checks Corphish, which for me is the best Pokemon in the meta, and will be despite this Chespin).
2: Orangesodapop (Yep, I consider this to be better than my Meowth too. Finally some signature moves are going to be usable and has many resistances)
1: Eeveeto (Puss in Boots).
OSP (dramp-tini) Fragmented
Eeveeto
OSP
canjaconja
Cyaneedle
Theme:
Ana
Geko
Cyaneedle
Hybrid:
Fragmented
OSP (SV)
Eeveeto
Ana
Geko
Cyaneedle
Hybrid:
Fragmented
OSP (SV)
Eeveeto
Forgot to tell btw but we will have 2 winners
Winners for Slate 6!
i post new slate tommorow!
Name: Dratini
Type: Dragon
Stat Changes: 61/50/55/64/50/50
Abilities: Shed Skin/-/Marvel Scale
New Moves: Coil Mind
Coil Mind: Dragon | Status | - | 15 PP | - | Raises SpAtk, SpDef, and Acc by 1
Justification: Bulky set-up, a bit of a rarity in LC.
Name: Bramblin
Type: Grass/Ghost
Stat Changes: 50/65/40/45/45/60
Abilities: Wind Rider/-/Momentum Mori
Momentum Mori: Infiltrator + Speed Boost
New Moves: Rock Blast
Justification: Fast Spiker, going faster. Also not walled by Pidgey anymore.
discussed with geko and he was fine giving his sub to tied winner of hybrid.Name: Meowth
Type: Normal
Stat Changes: +10 Special Defense, +10 Special Attack
Abilities: Pickup / Technician / Seven Lives
Custom Ability: Seven Lives: Sturdy + Regenerator
New Moves: Counter.
Removed Moves: Knock Off, Assurance, Thunder Wave, Body Slam, Throat Chop, Hypnosis.
So, remember how I said that with Galar Meowth gaining 20 BST, the other 2 should also have the same treatment? Well, I fulfilled that, though I gave Meowth boosts to the 2 most useless Stats.
Meowth is already a viable Technician Mon, however now it has a second niche: Sturdy + Regenerator coupled with Counter mean that Meowth can use its poor bulk to its advantage and check every non multi-hit, non-ghost physical Mon while running Boots instead of the typical Eviolite or Life Orb. This allows Meowth to be devastating vs physical based offensive teams, though its still weak to Status, Special moves and Ghost types. Meowth has some Dark and Ghost moves to hit the ghost, however I removed all the strongest ones, as well as means to paralyze or sleep foes in order to make Special Mons better vs it.
Both Meowth and its opponents have to take in account the 2 good possible abilities (Technician is still good) Meowth has, the usage and counterplay to both is very different.
Meowth with Heavy Duty Boots about to use Counter on Mienfoo looks like this:
i post new slate tommorow!
Slate 7: Lost at Sea
As we continue our journey toward Cinnabar Island, we accidentally board the wrong boat and end up in Cianwood City in the Johto region instead.
Upon arriving at the beach, we take a moment to admire the ocean, spotting a few Pokémon Magikarp splashing on the surface with a stranded Tentacool next to her. As we step onto the shore, we come across a trainer training with his Tyrogue, determined to one day become the new Gym Leader of the Cinnabar Island Gym.As we continue our journey toward Cinnabar Island, we accidentally board the wrong boat and end up in Cianwood City in the Johto region instead.
For the Council's choice, we've chosen Flittle. In regular LC it was banned due to combination of Speed Boost, Calm Mind, and Stored Power which when paired with terablast made it extremely difficult to stop. We're looking to rework Flittle so it's not just another setup sweeper.
(TLDR)
Council Choice : Flittle
Themed Choice: Magikarp, Tentacool, Tyrogue
Hybrid Ability Choice : Any, this Pokémon can have 2 abilities at the same time active.
Deadline Thursday
Name: Tentacool
Type: Water/Poison
Stat Changes: 40/50/35/50/100/74
Abilities:
New Moves: Thunderbolt, Volt Switch, Recover, Thunder Wave, Calm Mind
Justification: I believe with the simple addition of recover and some potent coverage, tentacools high speed and high special bulk makes it an attractive special wall. With rapid spin and great coverage to use with calm mind allow many set options, speed was raised by 1 to take it out of the quite congested 17 tier. Attack was also increased to allow for physical sets to emerge with gunk shot and knock being quite useful with sd
Council choice:
Name: Flittle
Type: Psychic-Flying
Stats changes: None
Abilities: Keen Eye/Frisk/Speed Boost
New moves: Teleport, Psychic Noise, Air Cutter, Gust.
Removed moves: Protect, Hypnosis, Psychic, Psyshock, Stored Power.
I didn,t want to nerf Flittle too harshly, just enough to be be balanced in LC. It still will be a CM sweeper that has Speed Boost, but will have it harder to actually do it. Since this Mon and its evolution are birds, Flying type has been added. This gives Flittle neutrality to Bug, resistance to Grass and immunity to Ground, in exchange to 3 new weaknesses, Rocks one being one of them. This forces Flittle to use Tera much more often and earlier.
Since little Mons are weak and unwise, I removed Protect. In flavor with that Anticipation ability has been changed to Keen Eye, though competitively Flittle will obviously continue using Speed Boost. Protect removal makes it harder for Flittle to use Calm Mind without consuming Tera.
Strongest Psychic moves have been removed too. Psyshock being removed means that Flittle doesn,t always wins CM wars. In exchange, Flittle gets Psychic Noise, which makes it stronger against opponents that try to heal against it. Also 2 weak Flying STABs and Teleport (this one it will rarely use, maybe some Specs set, idk).
Overall, I think all these changes make Flittle balanced in the Tier without changing its role.
Themed choice:
Name: Magikarp
Type: Water
Stats changes: None.
Abilities: Swift Swim, Rattled, Endurance
Signature ability: Endurance: Raises both Defenses by 50% and makes the Pokemon immune to Water, Ground and Poison type moves. The Pokemon with this ability can,t be poisoned.
New moves: Hydro Pump, Reversal, Bounce, Karp's Jump.
Signature move: Karp's Jump. Type: Water. Category: Physical. Power: 120. Accuracy: 100. PPs: 32. Effect: User switches out and heals 25% of its HP.
Removed moves: None, lol.
So, this is considered the weakest Pokemon and it also has a poor movepool. I kept all that. However, if we look at the Pokedex, we can see this:
"Magikarp is virtually useless in battle as it can only splash around. As a result, it is considered to be weak. However, it is actually a very hardy Pokémon that can survive in any body of water no matter how polluted it is."
"Thanks to their strong hold on life, dirty water doesn't bother them at all. They live in waters all over the world!"
"A feeble, pitiful imbecile of a Pokémon that is nonetheless very hardy. Unperturbed by turbid water, it can be found living in all sorts of places."
So, its a tanky Pokemon that adapts to all kind of Waters. Therefore, it now is VERY bulky with its new ability Endurance, and immune to 3 types. That wouldn,t matter much if Magikarp couldn,t heal, but with Karp's Jump, not only it will be healing, but also escaping from its counters. The 120 base power actually doesn,t matter much, since Magikarp's Attack is still base 10. The 32 PP however allow Magikarp to slowly chip everything and pair well with Volturn cores while being essentially immortal. By itself, Magikarp won,t be killing anything, however it easily will be switching into every EQ user from the Tier except Drillbur and pivot out, while healing. Useless as it is, Magikarp will now be a great team player.
Hybrid Ability Choice
Name: Snom
Type: Ice-Bug
Stats changes: +10 HP, -10 Speed
Abilities: Shield Dust, Ice Scales, Snowy Spikes.
Signature Ability: Snow Spikes (Rough Skin + Snow Warning)
New moves: U-Turn, Recover, Aurora Veil and Spikes.
Removes moves: None.
In my evil plan of creating the eternal winter in LC, here is the new soldier. With Snow Spikes, Snom can put Snow, then Aurora Veil and if it still is alive, can use a very slow U-Turn to bring a sweeper in. With Recover, it can do it several times in a battle, since in Snow + Eviolite, Snom will have 31 Defense. Instead of Veil, Snom can also put Spikes, drop someoene's Speed with Icy Wind or eat some Berry with Bug Bite. If weather and screens is not something you like, Ice Scales is still as good of an ability as ever and with Recover, Snom will be tanking lots of hits on the Special side, while still slowly pivoting to bring something else safely.
What are the weaknesses of this premier supporter? Well, apart from the terrible offensive movepool (it doesn,t get Ice Beam or Bug Buzz lol), the typing is also atrocious. It means, that Snom will have to choose its item carefully: it wants to have Eviolite, Heavy Duty Boots, Light Clay and Icy Rock at the same time, but can only choose one of them. If the item isn,t Boots, hazards control will for sure be needed, and probably more than one Mon for that.
Name: Flittle
Type: Psychic-Flying
Stats changes: None
Abilities: Keen Eye/Frisk/Speed Boost
New moves: Teleport, Psychic Noise, Air Cutter, Gust.
Removed moves: Protect, Hypnosis, Psychic, Psyshock, Stored Power.
I didn,t want to nerf Flittle too harshly, just enough to be be balanced in LC. It still will be a CM sweeper that has Speed Boost, but will have it harder to actually do it. Since this Mon and its evolution are birds, Flying type has been added. This gives Flittle neutrality to Bug, resistance to Grass and immunity to Ground, in exchange to 3 new weaknesses, Rocks one being one of them. This forces Flittle to use Tera much more often and earlier.
Since little Mons are weak and unwise, I removed Protect. In flavor with that Anticipation ability has been changed to Keen Eye, though competitively Flittle will obviously continue using Speed Boost. Protect removal makes it harder for Flittle to use Calm Mind without consuming Tera.
Strongest Psychic moves have been removed too. Psyshock being removed means that Flittle doesn,t always wins CM wars. In exchange, Flittle gets Psychic Noise, which makes it stronger against opponents that try to heal against it. Also 2 weak Flying STABs and Teleport (this one it will rarely use, maybe some Specs set, idk).
Overall, I think all these changes make Flittle balanced in the Tier without changing its role.
Themed choice:
Name: Magikarp
Type: Water
Stats changes: None.
Abilities: Swift Swim, Rattled, Endurance
Signature ability: Endurance: Raises both Defenses by 50% and makes the Pokemon immune to Water, Ground and Poison type moves. The Pokemon with this ability can,t be poisoned.
New moves: Hydro Pump, Reversal, Bounce, Karp's Jump.
Signature move: Karp's Jump. Type: Water. Category: Physical. Power: 120. Accuracy: 100. PPs: 32. Effect: User switches out and heals 25% of its HP.
Removed moves: None, lol.
So, this is considered the weakest Pokemon and it also has a poor movepool. I kept all that. However, if we look at the Pokedex, we can see this:
"Magikarp is virtually useless in battle as it can only splash around. As a result, it is considered to be weak. However, it is actually a very hardy Pokémon that can survive in any body of water no matter how polluted it is."
"Thanks to their strong hold on life, dirty water doesn't bother them at all. They live in waters all over the world!"
"A feeble, pitiful imbecile of a Pokémon that is nonetheless very hardy. Unperturbed by turbid water, it can be found living in all sorts of places."
So, its a tanky Pokemon that adapts to all kind of Waters. Therefore, it now is VERY bulky with its new ability Endurance, and immune to 3 types. That wouldn,t matter much if Magikarp couldn,t heal, but with Karp's Jump, not only it will be healing, but also escaping from its counters. The 120 base power actually doesn,t matter much, since Magikarp's Attack is still base 10. The 32 PP however allow Magikarp to slowly chip everything and pair well with Volturn cores while being essentially immortal. By itself, Magikarp won,t be killing anything, however it easily will be switching into every EQ user from the Tier except Drillbur and pivot out, while healing. Useless as it is, Magikarp will now be a great team player.
Hybrid Ability Choice
Name: Snom
Type: Ice-Bug
Stats changes: +10 HP, -10 Speed
Abilities: Shield Dust, Ice Scales, Snowy Spikes.
Signature Ability: Snow Spikes (Rough Skin + Snow Warning)
New moves: U-Turn, Recover, Aurora Veil and Spikes.
Removes moves: None.
In my evil plan of creating the eternal winter in LC, here is the new soldier. With Snow Spikes, Snom can put Snow, then Aurora Veil and if it still is alive, can use a very slow U-Turn to bring a sweeper in. With Recover, it can do it several times in a battle, since in Snow + Eviolite, Snom will have 31 Defense. Instead of Veil, Snom can also put Spikes, drop someoene's Speed with Icy Wind or eat some Berry with Bug Bite. If weather and screens is not something you like, Ice Scales is still as good of an ability as ever and with Recover, Snom will be tanking lots of hits on the Special side, while still slowly pivoting to bring something else safely.
What are the weaknesses of this premier supporter? Well, apart from the terrible offensive movepool (it doesn,t get Ice Beam or Bug Buzz lol), the typing is also atrocious. It means, that Snom will have to choose its item carefully: it wants to have Eviolite, Heavy Duty Boots, Light Clay and Icy Rock at the same time, but can only choose one of them. If the item isn,t Boots, hazards control will for sure be needed, and probably more than one Mon for that.
Name: Flittle
Type: Psychic
Stat Changes: 30 / 35 / 30 / 75 / 30 / 55 | 255
Abilities: Anticipation / Frisk / Speed Boost
Removed Moves: Calm Mind
Justification: its like torchic but psychic. no cm means it cant go crazy setup anymore but still hits hard with psychic / fighting blast
Name: Tyrogue
Type: Fighting
Stat Changes: 85 / 85 / 45 / 35 / 45 / 45 | 340
Abilities: Guts / Iron Fist / Scrappy
New Moves: Close Combat, Iron Head, Poison Jab, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch
Triple Kick | Fighting | Physical | 20 BP | 90% Accuracy | 10 PP | Contact | Hits 3 times. Each hit can miss, but power rises.
Justification: distinguishes itself from mienfoo by having scrappy, spin, and the funny multihit move at the cost of much lower spe and no knock/uturn/regen
Name: Chespin
Type: Grass / Fighting
Stat Changes: 60 / 65 / 65 / 48 / 45 / 37 | 320
Abilities: Overgrow / Juggernaut (Bulletproof + Thick Fat)
New Moves: Body Press, Circle Throw, Bulk Up
Justification: fat repost
Name: Flittle
Type: Psychic / Fairy
Stat Changes: 50/35/30/55/30/85 (280)
Abilities: Anticipation / Frisk / Dazzling
New Moves: Lumina Crash, Dazzling Cleam
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Wanted to try a different approach to Flittle, it now leaves most of the tier in the dust with its new 19 speed hitting speed stat alongside Dazzling which means it can serve as a decent revenge killer. It also has Lumnia Crash which can snow ball on its own but no longer has speed boost to gather stored powers and delete the tier.
Name: Tyrogue
Type: Fighting / Steel
Stat Changes: 60/80/35/35/35/55 (300)
Abilities: Guts / Steadfast / Technician
New Moves: Iron Head, Metal Claw
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Not a single fighting type has won yet, which makes sense considering how Mienfoo reigns supreme. Tyrogue is meant ro act as a fighting type alternative to Mienfoo via its ability to spam devastating Mach Punchs and Bullet Punchs, alongside a decent offensive movepool that allows it to bypass its checks when combined with Technician. It has nowhere the survivablity of Mienfoo, so it can be hard keeping it on the field or using it as a spinner.
Voting time!
During this phase, you can vote for your three favorite subs by using the following template:
You can only include one of your own submissions in your votes, and it cannot be your top vote. After the deadline, the person with the most points in the respective category wins.
The options:
Due to the low number of submissions for Hybrid, I'll keep this in the pool for the next slate. Eeveeto and Anaconja can still submit a new Pokémon next slate, and both Pokémon will be available as options if they submit another Pokémon.
During this phase, you can vote for your three favorite subs by using the following template:
Themed Choice:
3 (name)
2 (name)
1 (name)
3 (name)
2 (name)
1 (name)
Council Choice :
3 (name)
2 (name)
1 (name)
3 (name)
2 (name)
1 (name)
The options:
Name: Flittle
Type: Psychic-Flying
Stats changes: None
Abilities: Keen Eye/Frisk/Speed Boost
New moves: Teleport, Psychic Noise, Air Cutter, Gust.
Removed moves: Protect, Hypnosis, Psychic, Psyshock, Stored Power.
I didn,t want to nerf Flittle too harshly, just enough to be be balanced in LC. It still will be a CM sweeper that has Speed Boost, but will have it harder to actually do it. Since this Mon and its evolution are birds, Flying type has been added. This gives Flittle neutrality to Bug, resistance to Grass and immunity to Ground, in exchange to 3 new weaknesses, Rocks one being one of them. This forces Flittle to use Tera much more often and earlier.
Since little Mons are weak and unwise, I removed Protect. In flavor with that Anticipation ability has been changed to Keen Eye, though competitively Flittle will obviously continue using Speed Boost. Protect removal makes it harder for Flittle to use Calm Mind without consuming Tera.
Strongest Psychic moves have been removed too. Psyshock being removed means that Flittle doesn,t always wins CM wars. In exchange, Flittle gets Psychic Noise, which makes it stronger against opponents that try to heal against it. Also 2 weak Flying STABs and Teleport (this one it will rarely use, maybe some Specs set, idk).
Overall, I think all these changes make Flittle balanced in the Tier without changing its role.
Name: Flittle
Type: Psychic
Stat Changes: 30 / 35 / 30 / 75 / 30 / 55 | 255
Abilities: Anticipation / Frisk / Speed Boost
Removed Moves: Calm Mind
Justification: its like torchic but psychic. no cm means it cant go crazy setup anymore but still hits hard with psychic / fighting blast
Name: Flittle
Type: Psychic / Fairy
Stat Changes: 50/35/30/55/30/85 (280)
Abilities: Anticipation / Frisk / Dazzling
New Moves: Lumina Crash, Dazzling Cleam
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Wanted to try a different approach to Flittle, it now leaves most of the tier in the dust with its new 19 speed hitting speed stat alongside Dazzling which means it can serve as a decent revenge killer. It also has Lumnia Crash which can snow ball on its own but no longer has speed boost to gather stored powers and delete the tier.
Name: Tentacool
Type: Water/Poison
Stat Changes: 40/50/35/50/100/74
Abilities:
New Moves: Thunderbolt, Volt Switch, Recover, Thunder Wave, Calm Mind
Justification: I believe with the simple addition of recover and some potent coverage, tentacools high speed and high special bulk makes it an attractive special wall. With rapid spin and great coverage to use with calm mind allow many set options, speed was raised by 1 to take it out of the quite congested 17 tier. Attack was also increased to allow for physical sets to emerge with gunk shot and knock being quite useful with sd
Themed choice:
Name: Magikarp
Type: Water
Stats changes: None.
Abilities: Swift Swim, Rattled, Endurance
Signature ability: Endurance: Raises both Defenses by 50% and makes the Pokemon immune to Water, Ground and Poison type moves. The Pokemon with this ability can,t be poisoned.
New moves: Hydro Pump, Reversal, Bounce, Karp's Jump.
Signature move: Karp's Jump. Type: Water. Category: Physical. Power: 120. Accuracy: 100. PPs: 32. Effect: User switches out and heals 25% of its HP.
Removed moves: None, lol.
So, this is considered the weakest Pokemon and it also has a poor movepool. I kept all that. However, if we look at the Pokedex, we can see this:
"Magikarp is virtually useless in battle as it can only splash around. As a result, it is considered to be weak. However, it is actually a very hardy Pokémon that can survive in any body of water no matter how polluted it is."
"Thanks to their strong hold on life, dirty water doesn't bother them at all. They live in waters all over the world!"
"A feeble, pitiful imbecile of a Pokémon that is nonetheless very hardy. Unperturbed by turbid water, it can be found living in all sorts of places."
So, its a tanky Pokemon that adapts to all kind of Waters. Therefore, it now is VERY bulky with its new ability Endurance, and immune to 3 types. That wouldn,t matter much if Magikarp couldn,t heal, but with Karp's Jump, not only it will be healing, but also escaping from its counters. The 120 base power actually doesn,t matter much, since Magikarp's Attack is still base 10. The 32 PP however allow Magikarp to slowly chip everything and pair well with Volturn cores while being essentially immortal. By itself, Magikarp won,t be killing anything, however it easily will be switching into every EQ user from the Tier except Drillbur and pivot out, while healing. Useless as it is, Magikarp will now be a great team player.
Name: Tyrogue
Type: Fighting
Stat Changes: 85 / 85 / 45 / 35 / 45 / 45 | 340
Abilities: Guts / Iron Fist / Scrappy
New Moves: Close Combat, Iron Head, Poison Jab, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch
Triple Kick | Fighting | Physical | 20 BP | 90% Accuracy | 10 PP | Contact | Hits 3 times. Each hit can miss, but power rises.
Justification: distinguishes itself from mienfoo by having scrappy, spin, and the funny multihit move at the cost of much lower spe and no knock/uturn/regen
Name: Tyrogue
Type: Fighting / Steel
Stat Changes: 60/80/35/35/35/55 (300)
Abilities: Guts / Steadfast / Technician
New Moves: Iron Head, Metal Claw
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Not a single fighting type has won yet, which makes sense considering how Mienfoo reigns supreme. Tyrogue is meant ro act as a fighting type alternative to Mienfoo via its ability to spam devastating Mach Punchs and Bullet Punchs, alongside a decent offensive movepool that allows it to bypass its checks when combined with Technician. It has nowhere the survivablity of Mienfoo, so it can be hard keeping it on the field or using it as a spinner.
Due to the low number of submissions for Hybrid, I'll keep this in the pool for the next slate. Eeveeto and Anaconja can still submit a new Pokémon next slate, and both Pokémon will be available as options if they submit another Pokémon.
Hybrid Ability Choice
Name: Snom
Type: Ice-Bug
Stats changes: +10 HP, -10 Speed
Abilities: Shield Dust, Ice Scales, Snowy Spikes.
Signature Ability: Snow Spikes (Rough Skin + Snow Warning)
New moves: U-Turn, Recover, Aurora Veil and Spikes.
Removes moves: None.
In my evil plan of creating the eternal winter in LC, here is the new soldier. With Snow Spikes, Snom can put Snow, then Aurora Veil and if it still is alive, can use a very slow U-Turn to bring a sweeper in. With Recover, it can do it several times in a battle, since in Snow + Eviolite, Snom will have 31 Defense. Instead of Veil, Snom can also put Spikes, drop someoene's Speed with Icy Wind or eat some Berry with Bug Bite. If weather and screens is not something you like, Ice Scales is still as good of an ability as ever and with Recover, Snom will be tanking lots of hits on the Special side, while still slowly pivoting to bring something else safely.
What are the weaknesses of this premier supporter? Well, apart from the terrible offensive movepool (it doesn,t get Ice Beam or Bug Buzz lol), the typing is also atrocious. It means, that Snom will have to choose its item carefully: it wants to have Eviolite, Heavy Duty Boots, Light Clay and Icy Rock at the same time, but can only choose one of them. If the item isn,t Boots, hazards control will for sure be needed, and probably more than one Mon for that.
Name: Chespin
Type: Grass / Fighting
Stat Changes: 60 / 65 / 65 / 48 / 45 / 37 | 320
Abilities: Overgrow / Juggernaut (Bulletproof + Thick Fat)
New Moves: Body Press, Circle Throw, Bulk Up
Justification: fat repost
Council:
3: Anaconja (Stays loyal to its niche, except for lacking CM)
2: Eeveeto (I am kinda forced to use my self-vote here, since there are only 3 options)
1: Gekokeso (Looks way too strong)
Themed:
3: Orangesodapop (Very bizarre movepool choices, but in a funny way)
2: Anaconja (Bad but reliable spinner)
1: Gekokeso (It looks viable, but I don,t like Tyrogue, like at all)
3: Anaconja (Stays loyal to its niche, except for lacking CM)
2: Eeveeto (I am kinda forced to use my self-vote here, since there are only 3 options)
1: Gekokeso (Looks way too strong)
Themed:
3: Orangesodapop (Very bizarre movepool choices, but in a funny way)
2: Anaconja (Bad but reliable spinner)
1: Gekokeso (It looks viable, but I don,t like Tyrogue, like at all)
Winners for Slate 7!
Name: Tyrogue
Type: Fighting
Stat Changes: 85 / 85 / 45 / 35 / 45 / 45 | 340
Abilities: Guts / Iron Fist / Scrappy
New Moves: Close Combat, Iron Head, Poison Jab, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch
Triple Kick | Fighting | Physical | 20 BP | 90% Accuracy | 10 PP | Contact | Hits 3 times. Each hit can miss, but power rises.
Justification: distinguishes itself from mienfoo by having scrappy, spin, and the funny multihit move at the cost of much lower spe and no knock/uturn/regen
i post new slate tommorow.Council choice:
Name: Flittle
Type: Psychic-Flying
Stats changes: None
Abilities: Keen Eye/Frisk/Speed Boost
New moves: Teleport, Psychic Noise, Air Cutter, Gust.
Removed moves: Protect, Hypnosis, Psychic, Psyshock, Stored Power.
I didn,t want to nerf Flittle too harshly, just enough to be be balanced in LC. It still will be a CM sweeper that has Speed Boost, but will have it harder to actually do it. Since this Mon and its evolution are birds, Flying type has been added. This gives Flittle neutrality to Bug, resistance to Grass and immunity to Ground, in exchange to 3 new weaknesses, Rocks one being one of them. This forces Flittle to use Tera much more often and earlier.
Since little Mons are weak and unwise, I removed Protect. In flavor with that Anticipation ability has been changed to Keen Eye, though competitively Flittle will obviously continue using Speed Boost. Protect removal makes it harder for Flittle to use Calm Mind without consuming Tera.
Strongest Psychic moves have been removed too. Psyshock being removed means that Flittle doesn,t always wins CM wars. In exchange, Flittle gets Psychic Noise, which makes it stronger against opponents that try to heal against it. Also 2 weak Flying STABs and Teleport (this one it will rarely use, maybe some Specs set, idk).
Overall, I think all these changes make Flittle balanced in the Tier without changing its role.
Slate 8: Secrets of the Pokémon Mansion
After our stop in Cianwood City, we finally take the right boat and arrive at Cinnabar Island. As we walk around, we see an old, broken building the Pokémon Mansion.A long time ago, this place was used for science. Now, it is dark and empty, with dust on the floor and broken walls. As we explore, we find old papers with strange writing. They talk about experiments and a lost Pokémon. What really happened here?
Many Pokémon now live in the mansion. Rattata run through the halls, hiding in the shadows. Grimer move slowly, covering the floor with slime. A Vulpix watches us from the corner, its eyes glowing in the dark. It feels like this place is still keeping a secret.
(TLDR)
Council Choice : Scyther
Themed Choice:
Hybrid Ability Choice : Any, this Pokémon can have 2 abilities at the same time active.
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Council choice:
Name: Scyther
Type: Bug-Flying
Stats changes: -5 Speed, -10 Attack, -10 Defense, -10 Special Defense
Abilities: Swarm/Hyper Cutter/Steadfast
New moves: None
Removed moves: Close Combat, Brick Break, Facade, Night Slash, Trailblaze, Reversal, Thief.
Scyther is notoriously the unevolved Mon with the highest Stats by far, so I wanted to keep it that way. Therefore, only 35 BST points were removed. The most important of those are the 5 Speed Points. From outspeeding everything, Scyther now has Voltorb and Elekid to Speedtie with, both Mons threaten Scyther with their STABs, though Scyther hits them hard too.
Technician on such a fast Mon is clearly one of the broken aspects, so intstead of it, Scyther gets Hyper Cutter. The ability does have its benefits, but Intimidate and Parting Shot are very rare in LC, though both exist.
Its in the movepool department where I touched Scyther the most. A Mon with blades as hands can,t lose Sword Dance, so instead of it, every coverage move has been removed. Facade was removed too, since I can see Tera Normal Flame Orb + SD breaking some teams. Now Scyther has just STABs + Tera Blast, though if it gets the SD off, its still a dangerous Mon. However, vs teams with Stealth Rock, Scyther either has to Tera early, use Boots or come with a lot of hazards removal. Mons like Wattrel, Tinkating, Glimmet and Magnemite resist both Scyther's STABs, while scarfers, priority users and weather sweepers (or Fletching) can outspeed Scyther and exploit its poor defensive typing. This should be enough to balance the mantis.
Themed choice:
Name: Vulpix Alola
Type: Ice-Fairy
Stats changes: -5 Attack, +5 Special Attack
Abilities: Snow Cloak, Snow Warning.
New moves: Alluring Voice.
Removed moves: Aurora Veil, Hypnosis.
Alolan Vulpix was banned for one reason alone: Aurora Veil. So, that move is removed. Just in case, Hypnosis is removed too. In exchange, Vulpix gets a powerful second STAB and 5 points in Special Attack. This makes Vulpix a dangerous Nasty Plot sweeper that can also support with Snow its friends Sandshrew and Cetoddle. Its in the crowded 17 Speed Tier, so it should be balanced by that.
Hybrid Ability Choice
Name: Gimmighoul-Roaming
Type: Ghost-Steel
Stats changes: None
Abilities: Cursed Coin (Cursed Body + Magic Bounce)
New moves: Flash Cannon, Steel Beam, Pay Day.
Removed moves: Rest, Protect.
The rare Gimmighoul form now has one of the rarest typings out there. With it, Gimmighoul walls a high amount of Mons, though its still very frail and weak to Knock Off. Gimmighoul is a very dangerous Nasty Plot sweeper with 18 Speed that also can,t be statused and has some RNG with the Cursed Body part. Gimmighoul makes hazards much more dangerous to use, though Drilbur with Mold Breaker can still put its Rocks. What balanced this ghost are its terrible defenses, common weaknesses and some Mons still outspeeding it. Both Pawniard and Corphish (most dangerous Mon of this Pet Mod in my opinion) also resist its STABs.
PD: Rattata is not in the Paldea Dex, its not present in Gen 9.
Name: Scyther
Type: Bug-Flying
Stats changes: -5 Speed, -10 Attack, -10 Defense, -10 Special Defense
Abilities: Swarm/Hyper Cutter/Steadfast
New moves: None
Removed moves: Close Combat, Brick Break, Facade, Night Slash, Trailblaze, Reversal, Thief.
Scyther is notoriously the unevolved Mon with the highest Stats by far, so I wanted to keep it that way. Therefore, only 35 BST points were removed. The most important of those are the 5 Speed Points. From outspeeding everything, Scyther now has Voltorb and Elekid to Speedtie with, both Mons threaten Scyther with their STABs, though Scyther hits them hard too.
Technician on such a fast Mon is clearly one of the broken aspects, so intstead of it, Scyther gets Hyper Cutter. The ability does have its benefits, but Intimidate and Parting Shot are very rare in LC, though both exist.
Its in the movepool department where I touched Scyther the most. A Mon with blades as hands can,t lose Sword Dance, so instead of it, every coverage move has been removed. Facade was removed too, since I can see Tera Normal Flame Orb + SD breaking some teams. Now Scyther has just STABs + Tera Blast, though if it gets the SD off, its still a dangerous Mon. However, vs teams with Stealth Rock, Scyther either has to Tera early, use Boots or come with a lot of hazards removal. Mons like Wattrel, Tinkating, Glimmet and Magnemite resist both Scyther's STABs, while scarfers, priority users and weather sweepers (or Fletching) can outspeed Scyther and exploit its poor defensive typing. This should be enough to balance the mantis.
Themed choice:
Name: Vulpix Alola
Type: Ice-Fairy
Stats changes: -5 Attack, +5 Special Attack
Abilities: Snow Cloak, Snow Warning.
New moves: Alluring Voice.
Removed moves: Aurora Veil, Hypnosis.
Alolan Vulpix was banned for one reason alone: Aurora Veil. So, that move is removed. Just in case, Hypnosis is removed too. In exchange, Vulpix gets a powerful second STAB and 5 points in Special Attack. This makes Vulpix a dangerous Nasty Plot sweeper that can also support with Snow its friends Sandshrew and Cetoddle. Its in the crowded 17 Speed Tier, so it should be balanced by that.
Hybrid Ability Choice
Name: Gimmighoul-Roaming
Type: Ghost-Steel
Stats changes: None
Abilities: Cursed Coin (Cursed Body + Magic Bounce)
New moves: Flash Cannon, Steel Beam, Pay Day.
Removed moves: Rest, Protect.
The rare Gimmighoul form now has one of the rarest typings out there. With it, Gimmighoul walls a high amount of Mons, though its still very frail and weak to Knock Off. Gimmighoul is a very dangerous Nasty Plot sweeper with 18 Speed that also can,t be statused and has some RNG with the Cursed Body part. Gimmighoul makes hazards much more dangerous to use, though Drilbur with Mold Breaker can still put its Rocks. What balanced this ghost are its terrible defenses, common weaknesses and some Mons still outspeeding it. Both Pawniard and Corphish (most dangerous Mon of this Pet Mod in my opinion) also resist its STABs.
PD: Rattata is not in the Paldea Dex, its not present in Gen 9.