AbNormal {Community Project} [Voting Phase]

I have another question, which might also have been covered but I'm not sure about. Are we going to assign some of the retyped moves to mons that are just keeping their types? For example, now that Work Up is Fairy, are we going to give it to Pokemon like Slurpuff, a Fairy type Pokemon?
Yes, that's what the format will be. At least, that is what it is planned to be.

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Regigigas
Fighting/Ground
+Hammer Arm +Drain Punch
Ground type because regigigas towed the continents together, fighting type because as the creator of the regi trio, it should have some form of advantage over them. Hammer Arm because it has big arms and is tall enough to squash many pokemon, drain punch because it gets it in gen 4.

Crush Grip
Fighting
Same type as regigigas because it is its signature move also because it implies crushing an opponent in its hand which sounds very fighting type imo.
I second this.
Sorry, despite seconding it, Regigigas type has been chosen long ago, and is now just pure Ground.
 
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Sorry for the double post, but Votes are in!
Smeargle
Psychic Obviously gets no new moves (By Ghoul King and the someone )
Diggersby
Ground/Fighting +Close Combat (By the someone )
Pidgeot Flying/Fairy +Dazzling Gleam (By Ghoul King )

Note: The reason Watchog is not here is explained at the bottom of this post.

Egg Bomb Fire (By the someone )
Barrage Grass (By Ghoul King and the someone )
Dizzy Punch Psychic (By The Reptile )

Sketch Psychic (By the someone and Ghoul King )
Glare Poison (By Ghoul King )
Psych Up Psychic (By Ghoul King and The Reptile )

Thanks to all that submitted!
And now...

Pokemon (Note: Submissions that have already been made (i.e. Using the same type, with same moves and with the exact same justficiation as someone who submitted before) will not be included)
Note: These are the second last Normal type Pokemon we will do. From then on we will do moves only till every normal type has been retyped. Because of the lack of normal types left, there are only 3 to retype this week. In exchange, there are 8 moves instead of 6.


Fearow
Ditto
Swablu Note: All moves given to Swablu are technically also given to Altaria and thus Mega Altaria.


Damaging moves

Endeavour
Flail
Techno Blast
Uproar


Status moves

Acupressure
Entrainment
Yawn
Wish


Here are a few discussion points also;
  • We have a tie in the votes for Watchog! Which submission do you prefer and why?
  • Dark +Sucker Punch, +Glare (By The Reptile and the someone )
  • Electric/Dark +Wild Charge, +Quick Attack, +Snatch (By Ghoul King )
  • What would you like to do along with retyping moves for the next weeks? The Pokemon will have run out, so, what would you like to do?
  • If I'm missing a few Normal Pokemon, please tell me, but I'm pretty sure there's really only 6 left including this week's, fully-evolved Pokemon and Normals-Who-Evolve-Into-Non-Normals.
Get submitting and thanks for reading!
 
Fearow: flying/ground +earthquake + brave bird
Nothing much to go by
Ditto: psychic no new moves
Have the power to transform

Techno blast: bug. Geneset is the only pokemon to learn this move
 
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Cookie Butter

formerly the someone
Fearow
Dark/Flying
Literally "Demon Drill" in Japanese, Fearow can either be part Dark or part Ground. I'm just submitting one of the most obvious possibilities.

Ditto
Psychic
Ditto's relation to Mew, (same size, the only Pokemon that learn Transform, same shiny colors, etc). This would solidify the theme of Psychic being related to Pokemon-move-omnipotence, with Smeargle's (and Sketch's), Metronome's and Arceus's (to a certain extent) retypes to Psychic.

Swablu
Fairy/Flying
Cute bird. Doesn't look like a dragon at all, and the mega is part Fairy.

Endeavor
Dark
"Daredevil" in Japanese.
Flail
Water
There's no specific flavor for this move. It's what fish do, and mostly Water types learned it when it was first released.
Techno Blast
Steel
Technology, and also a Bug/Steel's signature move.

Uproar
Dark
"Uproar - A situation in which many people are upset, angry, or disturbed by something."

Acupressure
Psychic
Pressuring stress points seems like a specialist would do. And the Medicham line learns it.
Entrainment
Fairy
"Befriend" in Japanese.
Yawn
Psychic
The final sleep move/Pokemon to be retyped Psychic, following the official and our own trends.
Wish
Psychic
Wish doesn't have much flavor. Jirachi, the Wish Pokemon is part Psychic. The battle animation resembles Cosmic Power's.

Edit: I'm fine with either Watchog submission, but I'd suggest to give Electric/Dark Watchog Sucker Punch (or Glare) instead of Snatch, due to being far more useful.
 
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canno

formerly The Reptile
I'll edit this post with submission, but I'm fond of Electric / Dark over Mono Dark on Watchog

EDIT

Fearow
Dark / Flying
+Sucker Punch, +Night Slash, +Knock Off

Just throwing support and moves to this submission. Outside of its japanese name, Fearow has a punk mofit going on with the mohawk and is meant to be intimidating (hence the name - Fearow)

Swablu
Flying
+Hurricane

Swablu is a flying cloud bird, so Flying fits it the best imho. Gave it Hurricane because of sky theme and Altaria doesn't have Hurricane so.

Endeavor
Fighting

The power of effort! Also it keeps Ghost immune to it, which is the main point.

Flail
Fairy

The user kind of just flails about, hoping for damage. There really isn't much flavor at all, but I guess Flailing around looks cute, and Water was already posted so Fairy it is.

Uproar
Flying

*insert sound justification here*
 
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Ditto
Poison
It's a blob. Not much else to go by here.

Fearow
Flying
+Brave Bird
Not much to go by once again, but Fearow doesn't get Brave Bird normally!?
Also Fearow's beak is the inspiration for the 'Sharp Beak' that boosts Flying type moves.


Uproar
Flying
Flying = Sound, blah blah...

Flail
Fighting
A variation of Reversal, which is Fighting type.
 
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Wish
Fairy
There's quite a bit of Fairy type Pokemon that learn Wish. Also, people wish on stars, which are associated with nighttime and the moon, and a bunch of Fairy type things are associated with the moon (Moonblast, Moonlight). Also, wishes are magical, as are fairies.
 
Dark/Electric Watchog is the one I prefer -I'd much rather see a new Dark typing than Yet Another Crappy Pure Dark Type.

I'm OK with replacing Snatch with Sucker Punch. I went with Snatch in the first place because we've given like literally every Dark type Sucker Punch and I wanted to move away from that, but we can add Sucker Punch if other people feel it's that important.

Fearow
Flying/Steel type
+Iron Head, Brave Bird

Why: I'm a friggin' drill! No, really. It was either that or try to stretch for Ghost typing, and however much I wanna, I can't make it work -Fearow's Pokedex entries actually focus on its beauty, of all things, and I... I dun wan' Fearow and Pidgeot to still be the same type!

also wait it doesn't get Brave Bird why

Ditto
Ghost type
+No

Why: The only type that has a strong propensity for metamorphic behavior other than Poison, and Ditto isn't toxic. (In fact, the manga has one character wear a Ditto as a metamorphic mask!)

Swablu
Fairy/Flying type
+Play Rough, Misty Terrain

Why: Cute fluffy thing obsessed with cleaning everything whose Mega Evolution is, in fact, Fairy/Dragon. What else would it be? And regular Altaria actually gets use out of Misty Terrain's Dragon reduction -it lets it weaken enemy grounded Dragons like Garchomp while being unaffected itself. (Yes this is ridiculously niche and nobody will actually care)

Endeavor
Fighting type

Why: Daredevil, in the Japanese. What type loves to task risks for the sake of doing so? The Fighting type!

Flail
Dark type

Why: Desperate flailing. Kind of hard to find a type for it, really, though I was tempted by Dragon.

Techno Blast
Steel type

Why: All the Special Steel type moves other than Doom Desire are firing off light in some form or another. Genesect is supposedly equipped with a "photon cannon". What are photons? LIGHT. So, Steel. Also because Genesect might actually use it at that point.

Uproar
Dragon type

Why: HEAR ME ROAR SO OBNOXIOUSLY LOUDLY YOU CAN'T SLEEP. Arguably it should be Fairy -it's heavily associated with baby Pokemon- but I really like the idea of Dragon type Uproar, it fits in its own way. And nobody will care, because nobody runs Uproar.

Accupressure
Bug type

Why: Pushing pressure points with pointed claws... found fairly commonly on Bugs... Bug type!

Entrainment
Fairy type

Why: "Befriend" or some such in Japanese. FRIENDSHIP TYPE GO!

Yawn
Fairy type

Why: Yawns are "cute", including that Yawn is found on a lot of baby Pokemon and not their later stages.

Wish
Fairy type

Why: I honestly don't understand why it wasn't re-typed to Fairy in the first place. They re-typed Charm, so it's not like Status moves were considered pointless to re-type!

What would you like to do along with retyping moves for the next weeks? The Pokemon will have run out, so, what would you like to do?
Well, this might be the time to implement the "hey do we really want X Pokemon with Y type?" idea discussed prior. Nothing else comes to mind.

If I'm missing a few Normal Pokemon, please tell me, but I'm pretty sure there's really only 6 left including this week's, fully-evolved Pokemon and Normals-Who-Evolve-Into-Non-Normals.
All I'm finding that hasn't been covered/isn't in this slate is Azurill/Fletchling/Fletchinder, barring the stages we haven't covered explicitly. Which does offer a few legitimate questions: Porygon could take a cue from Porygon2, but whether that cue would be to be the same typing exactly or just Electric type is an open question. That's another thing we could address: the remaining not-explicitly-addressed-previous-stages.
 

Cookie Butter

formerly the someone
Dark/Electric Watchog is the one I prefer -I'd much rather see a new Dark typing than Yet Another Crappy Pure Dark Type.

I'm OK with replacing Snatch with Sucker Punch. I went with Snatch in the first place because we've given like literally every Dark type Sucker Punch and I wanted to move away from that, but we can add Sucker Punch if other people feel it's that important.
Well, that makes sense. How about give it Glare? It is called Snake Glare in Japanese, but Druddigon and Helioptile aren't snakes. Watchog would also get a reliable way of paralyzing the opponent (kinda fits with the Electric type), and it is the Lookout Pokemon.
 
It's freakish eyes would paralyze me with, if not terror, then certainly wtf-ness, if I encountered this thing in the wild. So I'm also OK with that, especially since it gives it a weird niche as an Electric type that can Paralyze Ground types 100% reliably.
 

canno

formerly The Reptile
Yes Glare would be a move I would definitely like seeing on it. Sucker Punch would be good for it viably but Wild Charge and Quick Attack seem more important and Glare is 2gud and don't want to see it go so yea rip sucker punch.
 
Hey MegaGallade, you don't have explicitly named earlier stages documented in the opening post, like pure Psychic type Bidoof. You might want to fix that before things get confusing. Going through the thread for my own reasons, these include

-Pidgey and Pidgeotto are pure Flying

-Bidoof is pure Psychic

-Starly/Staravia are pure Flying.

-Lickitung is pure Ghost.

-Bunnelby is pure Ground.

Also, Pokemon that, if we refuse to deviate from some of Pokemon's implicit rules (specifically 1: A Pokemon cannot change typing twice [which my own Swablu entry breaks for Altaria/Mega Altaria admittedly] and 2: A Pokemon cannot completely replace both types, if it has two types, and 3: A Pokemon cannot lose types without a replacement [note that canon gives us Bellosom as an exception) then a number of existing entries are technically pre-determined, though I assume we'd want to vote on whether we wanted to constrict ourselves this way.

-If we count Mega Evolution, Lopunny's pure Fairy typing and Mega Lopunny's Fairy/Fighting typing implies that Buneary is pure Fairy.

Then there are Pokemon that are extremely unlikely to change.

-Pyroar's pure Fire typing is liable to give us pure Fire Litleo.

-Ambipom's pure Dark typing is liable to give us pure Dark Aipom.

-Porygon's most probable typings are Electric/Psychic and pure Electric.

-Slaking's pure Ground typing is liable to give us pure Ground Slakoth and Vigoroth.

-Blissey's pure Fairy typing is liable to give us pure Fairy Chansey and Happiny.

-Swellow's pure Flying typing is liable to give us pure Flying Taillow.

-Stoutland's pure Ground typing is liable to give us pure Ground Lillipup and Herdier.

-Persian's pure Dark typing is liable to give us pure Dark Meowth.

-Raticate's pure Dark typing is liable to give us pure Dark Rattata.


Lastly, Pokemon defined thus far that are fully ambiguous. (Even if the submitter's intent was that the entire line would be changed)

-Unfezant's prior evolutions could easily all be pure Flying, or type/Flying before changing to Dark/Flying.

-Sentret could be Electric, Fairy, or one of those paired with another type.

-Hoothoot could be pure Flying, or type/Flying.

-Minccino could be Fairy, Grass, or one of those paired with another type. (Pure Fairy seems the most plausible to me)

-Glameow could be Dark, Fairy, or one of those paired with another type.

-Igglybuff and Jigglypuff could be pure Fairy or Fairy/type prior to Wigglytuff. (I don't imagine anyone intends to go for anything other than Fairy/Flying, though)

-Teddiursa could be pure Fairy, pure Dark, or one of those paired with another type. (Pure Fairy seems probable to me -lookit the cute teddy bear)

-Deerling could be pure Grass, or Grass/type, though my guess is we'll stick with Ground/Grass.

-Helioptile could be pure Electric, or Electric/type, though I don't expect any such thing to happen.

-Whismur and Loudred could be pure Ground, pure Dark, or one of those paired with another type.


Do we want to do any voting on this stuff?
 
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Hey MegaGallade, you don't have explicitly named earlier stages documented in the opening post, like pure Psychic type Bidoof. You might want to fix that before things get confusing. Going through the thread for my own reasons, these include

-Pidgey and Pidgeotto are pure Flying

-Bidoof is pure Psychic

-Starly/Staravia are pure Flying.

-Lickitung is pure Ghost.

-Bunnelby is pure Ground.

Also, Pokemon that, if we refuse to deviate from some of Pokemon's implicit rules (specifically 1: A Pokemon cannot change typing twice [which my own Swablu entry breaks for Altaria/Mega Altaria admittedly] and 2: A Pokemon cannot completely replace both types, if it has two types, and 3: A Pokemon cannot lose types without a replacement [note that canon gives us Bellosom as an exception) then a number of existing entries are technically pre-determined, though I assume we'd want to vote on whether we wanted to constrict ourselves this way.

-If we count Mega Evolution, Lopunny's pure Fairy typing and Mega Lopunny's Fairy/Fighting typing implies that Buneary is pure Fairy.

Then there are Pokemon that are extremely unlikely to change.

-Pyroar's pure Fire typing is liable to give us pure Fire Litleo.

-Ambipom's pure Dark typing is liable to give us pure Dark Aipom.

-Porygon's most probable typings are Electric/Psychic and pure Electric.

-Slaking's pure Ground typing is liable to give us pure Ground Slakoth and Vigoroth.

-Blissey's pure Fairy typing is liable to give us pure Fairy Chansey and Happiny.

-Swellow's pure Flying typing is liable to give us pure Flying Taillow.

-Stoutland's pure Ground typing is liable to give us pure Ground Lillipup and Herdier.

-Persian's pure Dark typing is liable to give us pure Dark Meowth.

-Raticate's pure Dark typing is liable to give us pure Dark Rattata.


Lastly, Pokemon defined thus far that are fully ambiguous. (Even if the submitter's intent was that the entire line would be changed)

-Unfezant's prior evolutions could easily all be pure Flying or pure Dark, or even type/Flying before changing to Dark/Flying.

-Sentret could be Electric, Fairy, or one of those paired with another type.

-Hoothoot could be pure Flying, or type/Flying.

-Minccino could be Fairy, Grass, or one of those paired with another type. (Pure Fairy seems the most plausible to me)

-Glameow could be Dark, Fairy, or one of those paired with another type.

-Igglybuff and Jigglypuff could be pure Fairy or Fairy/type prior to Wigglytuff. (I don't imagine anyone intends to go for anything other than Fairy/Flying, though)

-Teddiursa could be pure Fairy, pure Dark, or one of those paired with another type. (Pure Fairy seems probable to me -lookit the cute teddy bear)

-Deerling could be pure Grass, or Grass/type, though my guess is we'll stick with Ground/Grass.

-Helioptile could be pure Electric, or Electric/type, though I don't expect any such thing to happen.

-Whismur and Loudred could be pure Ground, pure Dark, or one of those paired with another type.


Do we want to do any voting on this stuff?
Before revision on all Pokemon I have planned revision on all NFEs.
I may have not put all NFE retypes on the OP, but I have jotted them all down for use when we do NFE revision. Don't worry! I remember every retype, including these retypes to NFEs like Bidoof.

During the NFE revision I planned to list all the NFE 'mons and their new types, and highlight possible changes for some of them, but you've done half of that for me, so thank you.

Most of the rules stated do apply, however your swablu entry is not illegal since normal Swablu also has its type changed twice, and Pokemon with an extra type along with Normal can have that type removed as long as their is a noticeable change.
For example, Onix. I know it's not Normal, but when it evolves Steelix has a body with no 'rock' in it at all, so the rock type can be replaced.
From Hoothoot to Noctowl, there is no huge change that allows the flying type to be removed, so that is why the Psychic/Dark entry was illegal.

I am on a portable device atm, so expect some spelling mistakes here :P
But I hope I've explained the jist of it.
 
Hadn't thought about it, but you're right, canon Swablu's line does give us Normal/Flying->Dragon/Flying->Dragon/Fairy. Huh.

But basically what I'm getting is that I'm more-or-less on the nose, and yes we're going to be voting on this stuff to some extent. (I'm not clear if you mean some things -I'm thinking Buneary here- will not be voted for because they're already implicitly locked in, or if all NFEs will get votes/submissions, though)

Anyway, I actually went digging in the first place because I'm helping NotACoolName with the coding, and had noticed he'd missed previous cases of the NFE being locked in by the vote, and then saw, yeah, the OP doesn't list them.
 
Hadn't thought about it, but you're right, canon Swablu's line does give us Normal/Flying->Dragon/Flying->Dragon/Fairy. Huh.

But basically what I'm getting is that I'm more-or-less on the nose, and yes we're going to be voting on this stuff to some extent. (I'm not clear if you mean some things -I'm thinking Buneary here- will not be voted for because they're already implicitly locked in, or if all NFEs will get votes/submissions, though)

Anyway, I actually went digging in the first place because I'm helping NotACoolName with the coding, and had noticed he'd missed previous cases of the NFE being locked in by the vote, and then saw, yeah, the OP doesn't list them.
Pretty much yeah. Thanks for the help. :]
 
Sorry for the delay and double post, but It's Voting Time!
If you do not know how to vote, please read the OP.
If your submission is fused with another's yet you want your submission to be separate, notify me asap.


Flying/Ground <+Earthquake, +Brave Bird> (money12wolf)
Dark/Flying <+Sucker Punch, +Knock Off, +Night Slash> (the someone/The Reptile)
Flying <+Brave Bird> (MegaGallade)
Flying/Steel <+Iron Head, +Brave Bird> (Ghoul King)

Psychic <Obviously no new moves> (money12wolf/the someone)
Poison <Obviously no new moves> (MegaGallade)
Ghost <Obviously no new moves> (Ghoul King)

Fairy/Flying <+Play Rough, +Misty Terrain> (the someone/Ghoul King)
Flying <+Hurricane> (The Reptile)


Dark (the someone)
Fighting (The Reptile/Ghoul King)

Water (the someone)
Fairy (The Reptile)
Fighting (MegaGallade)
Dark (Ghoul King)

Bug (money12wolf)
Steel (the someone/Ghoul King)

Dark (the someone)
Flying (The Reptile)
Dragon (Ghoul King)


Psychic (the someone)
Bug (Ghoul King)

Due to lack of submissions this move's type has been already decided.
Fairy (the someone/Ghoul King)

Psychic (the someone)
Fairy (Ghoul King)

Psychic (the someone)
Fairy (GiveUsYourBones/Ghoul King)

Note: Watchog is now Electric/Dark, with Quick Attack, Wild Charge and Sucker Punch.


To keep the thread alive, here are a few discussion points from the previous week's changes and more:
  • Which entries for this week do you agree/disagree with? [Remember: Be to the point and decisive, no hate]
  • Do you think any of last week's retyped Pokemon will get more usage because of these retypes?
  • What new sets can be made using last week's retypes?
  • Which/Do Pokemon gain/lose an advantage from Fire type Egg Bomb, Grass type Barrage, and Psychic type Dizzy Punch?
  • Are there any unanswered questions you want to know specifically about this Pet Mod? If so, please tag me when asking the question and I will reply.
Once again, thanks for submitting, and get voting!
 
Do you think any of last week's retyped Pokemon will get more usage because of these retypes?
Smeargle has traded vulnerability to Mach Punch/Vacuum Wave for vulnerability to Shadow Sneak (And Sucker Punch, but when exactly is Smeargle attacking?), and in general is a lot more vulnerable. Meanwhile it's traded immunity to Ghost for resistance to Psychic and Fighting. In a word, it's been downgraded -but nobody cares, because it's Smeargle.

Diggersby has mixed feelings about its new typing. On the one hand, Fighting and Ground are two of the best attacking types in the game, and neither is all that bad defensively either. (Double Stealth Rock resistance!) On the other hand, they are heavily redundant with each other, sharing effectiveness against Steel and Rock and ineffectiveness against Flying and Bug, with only limited complimentary aspects. (Specifically that Ground is effective against Poison, which Fighting is ineffective against) Not only that, but it's lost STAB on Return/Frustration, so its ability to push damage at no risk or cost has dropped, Close Combat or no. I'm not sure how well it works out.

Bunnelby, on the other hand, has STAB on Earthquake, and is honestly probably just plain happier.

Pidgeot is basically the same as before, only now it has a STAB super effective option against Dragons and Dark types. (Ha ha, die Hydreigon, die!) It already has Heat Wave for dealing with Steel types not named Heatran, so it's not all that much more frustrated by its typing. Overall its typing is probably better, weakness to Bullet Punch or no. Arguably it's competing with Togekiss now, but they honestly fill very different roles, so probably not.

Watchog has a completely unique type combination, and is in general considerably more useful. Hard to say whether it will actually be viable, though -it still has bad stats and meh Abilities.

Which/Do Pokemon gain/lose an advantage from Fire type Egg Bomb, Grass type Barrage, and Psychic type Dizzy Punch?
Egg Bomb: Well, Exeggutor already likes to run in Sun with Chlorophyll, and has a non-trivial Attack score, and would appreciate the ability to push through the Steel types that wall both its STABs. So, actually, that's probably a noticeable improvement in a weird, niche way. Otherwise nothing cares.

Barrage is still useless, and is now "Bad Bullet Seed". This doesn't overly bother me since Exeggutor is it for getting it, and there's very little we could do to make it want Barrage.

Dizzy Punch is probably the superior choice over Secret Power, since Confusion is a more powerful effect than Accuracy loss, even with it having less of a chance of activating. Nothing gets Dizzy Punch without getting any of Secret Power, Zen Headbutt, or Psycho Cut, though, and Dizzy Punch is only 70 BP anyway, so it's not that big a deal. (I guess Spinda appreciates it as arguably a straight upgrade over Psycho Cut?)
 
Sorry for the delay, but Votes are in!
Fearow
Flying/Steel +Iron Head, +Brave Bird (By Ghoul King )
Ditto
Psychic Obviously no new moves (By money12wolf and the someone )
Swablu Fairy/Flying +Play Rough, +Misty Terrian (By Ghoul King and the someone )


Endeavor Fighting (By Ghoul King and The Reptile )
Flail
Dark (By Ghoul King )
Techno Blast Steel (By the someone and Ghoul King )
Uproar Dragon (By Ghoul King )

Acupressure Psychic (By the someone )
Entrainment
Fairy (By Ghoul King and the someone )
Yawn Fairy (By Ghoul King )
Wish Fairy (By GiveUsYourBones and Ghoul King )

Thanks to all that submitted!
And now...

Pokemon (Note: Submissions that have already been made (i.e. Using the same type, with same moves and with the exact same justficiation as someone who submitted before) will not be included)
Note: These are the last Pokemon retypes we will do in this format, for now.


Azurill
Fletchling
Missingno. (Yes, I'm serious)


Damaging moves

Double Hit
Echoed Voice
Headbutt
Vice Grip


Status moves

Tickle
Teeter Dance
Substitute
Simple Beam


Here are a few discussion points also;
  • Which Pokemon, do you think, that we have changed has been the best, and which one do you think was the worst, and why? [Remember: Be decisive and to the point, no hate]
Get submitting and thanks for reading!
 
Azurill: water/fairy - no new moves
It evolve form is already this typing

Fletchling: fire/flying - no new moves
It evolved form is already this typing.
 
Azurill
Water/Fairy
Marill and Azumarill are both water. It also learns a bunch of water moves.

Fletchling
Fire/Flying
Fletchinder and Talonflame are both fire. It also learns Flame Charge naturally.

Missingno
Bird/Electric
I feel like this makes sense considering the Pory's are Electric now. They're all essentially computer programs/glitches.

Double Hit
Dark
I usually kind of think of this as Ambipom's signature move, and Ambipom is Dark now. Besides, hitting things is kind of mean. Also, there are already multi-hit moves that are Fighting type, but the only one that is Dark is Beat-up which is not always consistent.

Echoed Voice
Flying
I tend to equate sound with Flying anyway because of wind and air vibrations, etc. Besides this, birds like parrots (or in our case, Chatots) echo things that they hear.

Headbutt
Fighting
I'm having trouble thinking of anything else that would make sense. It just seems like a Fighting move, in both the Pokemon sense and in an actual fighting sense.

Vice Grip
Steel
It crushes/squeezes the opponent, just like actual vices crush/squeeze things. Also, a few Steel type Pokemon learn it.

Tickle
Fairy
Tickling things is adorable, and Fairy type is basically the adorable type. Also, Fairies tend to be a type based on supporting other Pokemon on your team, and Tickle kind of does that with the way it lowers your opponents' stats.

Teeter Dance
Fairy
This is basically for the same reason as Tickle: It's cute and supportive.

Substitute
Dark
It's a pretty deceitful move, tricking opponents into attacking the sub instead of you.

Simple Beam
Psychic
The text literally says "The user's mysterious psychic wave changes the target's Ability to Simple."
 
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Missingno
Electric
I feel like this makes sense considering the Pory's are Electric now. They're all essentially computer programs/glitches.
If anything, Missingno, has to be Bird/Electric, because it is Bird/Normal.
Anyway,

Missingno
Bird/Fighting
+Nothing. It's a glitch.
Sounds weird I know. But it makes sense, glitch-wise. Normal has hex 00 in Pokemon RBG, but since the normal type has been removed, and since the Fighting type is hex 01, it makes slight sense for a glitch Pokemon to have Fighting instead of Normal. (Interestingly Dragon was the last type numerically. The more you know.)

Vice Grip
Water
Joint majority of Pokemon who learn this move are Water type, and Japanese name is 'Clamp', which is water type.

Teeter Dance
Psychic
Odd hypnotic dance that causes confusion. Psychic.

Substitute
Psychic
Mr.Mime's original signature move.

EDIT:
Fletchling
Flying
+Hurricane
Many other birds learn hurricane, and also this is for if anyone wants a Special Talonflame. Flavor-wise, it doesn't look fire type at all and doesn't even have Flame Body yet, so I'd rather keep it Flying type.
 
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I want to submit one thing, as I agree with the other Pokemon and don't know about the moves right now but:

Missingno
Bird/Bird
It's a glitch, the type is a glitch and now it has a dual-mono type too! It's possible in gen 1 iirc and adds a fun gimmick factor as it'll never be used anyways and expresses the fact that it's a glitch. Plus it's its original type. Well that's it I guess, as Missingno doesn't even exist anymore!
 
Azurill
Fairy type
+Nothing

Why: It's a cute little baby that is not yet seaworthy. (It relies entirely on its tail being a flotation device to not just sink to the depths and die)

Fletchling/Fletchinder
Flying type
+Nothing

Why: Not yet a flaming bird of doom, just an orange bird. I considering Fairy/Flying and giving it Play Rough, but eeeeh...

Missingno.
Bird/Ghost type
+Judgment

Why: A bizarre alien entity derived from the true fundamental physics of reality, or more precisely reality's failure to fit together perfectly.

Double Hit
Dark type

Why: Echoing the previous sentiment -very much Ambipom's move, and it's now Dark, and Beat Up is the only existing multi-hit Dark move.

Echoed Voice
???

... actually I got nothing.

Headbutt
Dragon type

Why: I will smash you with my mighty Dragon head! Yeah, I'm reaching. Really wish Druddigon got it though, for Sheer Force-able Dragon STAB.

Vice Grip
Bug type

Why: Crush you in my Scizor-y -I mean, scissor-y claws!

Tickle
Bug type

Why: What's ticklish? Bugs crawling on you!

Teeter Dance
Psychic type

Why: Echoing the prior one, because it's either that or Fairy, which was also submitted before me, and I think Psychic fits better.

Substitute
Poison type

Why: No, seriously. The Poison type is the type, other than Dark, most associated with trickery, deception, and even more so than the Dark type, ninja. Substitute itself is derived from ninja zaniness. So: Poison type Substitute.

Simple Beam
Psychic type

Why: Echoing the sentiment. Seriously, "uses its Psychic powers". Why isn't it already Psychic?

Which Pokemon, do you think, that we have changed has been the best, and which one do you think was the worst, and why? [Remember: Be decisive and to the point, no hate]
Competitively

Best: I'm torn between (Mega) Lopunny, Porygon-Z, and Kangaskhan -they're all three going to be really good.

Worst: I'm gonna go with Raticate, because it's probably strictly outclassed by Zangoose. Either that or pure Fire Pyroar.

Flavor Fit

Best: I'm really fond of Tauros and Miltank. I wish there were more examples in Pokemon of different gender counterpart species having distinct roles rather than competing with each other. (eg how Nidoqueen doesn't really make sense to use over Nidoking, and they're so similar Nidoqueen doesn't have some other role to herself, or how we have two pure Bug fireflies and if you're going to use one, it's going to be the Tail Glow one) And weirdly enough I think their new typings fit better than The Type That Shall Not Be Named.

Worst: Exploud. I just can't get behind the walking pipe organ being Dark/Ground, however angry-looking it might be.

Other

Best: I just love the image of Regigigas peacefully plowing a field.

Worst: I can't think of another "worst". I'm actually a lot happier with AbNormal's almost-final set than I thought I'd be.

EDIT: Community consensus was Watchog is getting Glare rather than Sucker Punch, MegaGallade, but you have it the other way around in the OP.
 
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Azurill: Water + Fairy
+ Nothing
I mean, it's just common sense. Its evolution is water, so why shouldn't it be?

Fletchling: Fire + Flying
+ Nothing
Again, this one was pretty obvious. Since it knows Flame Charge naturally, it's safe to assume that it's a natural Fire type.

Missingno: Bird + Fairy
+ Dazzling Gleam
Now this one took a little thinking outside the box. My reasoning is that in European folklore, fairies (the Leprechaun being a classic example) would often lure mortals in with the promise of riches, but only misfortune would come to those foolhardy enough to trust them.

Luring common people in by promising them free stuff, only to screw up their lives beyond repair... sound familiar?

Echoed Voice: Flying
Echolocation is famously used by bats (and other winged animals) to navigate dark areas, such as caves.

Vicegrip: Steel
"Vice grip" is a common term for pliers, which are usually made out of metal.

Double Hit: Dark
Yeah, I don't really see anything else this could be. In a universe where all combat is turn- based, taking two shots in a row seems pretty dishonorable.

Headbutt: Dark
I think Headbutt is more of a Dark- type move than a Fighting one, since headbutting is considered an illegal maneuver in most sports and martial arts. It's a lot like Bite in that respect.

Tickle: Fairy
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the Fairy type and the Dark type aren't really so different. Both use underhanded and manipulative tactics to get ahead, but the Fairy type is more subtle about it... or rather, more cute about it. Tickle fits them perfectly in that regard, since it's a pretty cheap way to get the upper hand if you think about it, but come on, it's tickling.

Teeter Dance: Fairy
For this move, I picture a beaming young pixie goading its victims to dance themselves into exhaustion, leaving them dizzy, out of breath and, well, confused.

Substitute: Dark
Leaving out a decoy for your opponent to attack is a pretty conniving battle tactic, in my opinion.

Simple Beam: Psychic
Yeah, like everyone else said, it's right there in the flavor text.
 

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