Name: Scizor of the Sun
Description: A Pokemon that benefits from the weakening of Water-type moves in the Sun in order to better function as a utility or support Pokemon.
Justification: Scizor of the Sun is an Archetype concept because it establishes a new role that the metagame currently lacks. Rain teams generally feature one or more utility Pokemon (often Scizor or Ferrothorn) that benefit from Rain’s weakening of Fire-type moves, providing support for their team while also being supported by the Rain setters. Sun teams, however, rarely feature more than a Drought user and some Fire-type or Chlorophyll abusers. This Pokemon will aim to patch that hole, creating a new role and broadening the Sun archetype as a whole.
Questions To Be Answered:
Description: A Pokemon that benefits from the weakening of Water-type moves in the Sun in order to better function as a utility or support Pokemon.
Justification: Scizor of the Sun is an Archetype concept because it establishes a new role that the metagame currently lacks. Rain teams generally feature one or more utility Pokemon (often Scizor or Ferrothorn) that benefit from Rain’s weakening of Fire-type moves, providing support for their team while also being supported by the Rain setters. Sun teams, however, rarely feature more than a Drought user and some Fire-type or Chlorophyll abusers. This Pokemon will aim to patch that hole, creating a new role and broadening the Sun archetype as a whole.
Questions To Be Answered:
- How can a Pokemon abuse weather without a specific boosting ability?
- Would an increase in popularity of Sun teams provoke “weather wars” and threaten the popularity of Rain, Sand, and even Hail archetypes?
- How might this Pokemon synergize with other Sun abusers through defensive typing and/or offensive coverage?
- How can this Pokemon's weakness to Water be one of its defining characteristics?
- If this Pokemon has other weaknesses besides Water, how will they play out in the Sun?
- Aside from their weakness to Fire, what allows Scizor and Ferrothorn to thrive on Rain teams?
- How can this Pokemon work to develop the Sun archetype as a whole?