Hi! After some discussion on the Discord, I thought it would be a good idea to share the current thoughts for future slates! We aren't starting an official poll yet (sorry,
kakaks!), because there are still some slates that are up in the air, but I thought it would be best to share what was on the table right now and invite everyone to offer feedback and new ideas!
The potential slates so far:
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either change Electivire/Magmortar/Dusknoir to Electivire/Magmortar/Rhyperior
or do not include this option in the next poll (we still have a lot of slate ideas to run), as it did not receive support in the first poll
- Wigglytuff/Chatot/Dusknoir (the theme here is Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers, one of the most popular side games with some of the most iconic characters)
- Alolan Exeggutor/Alolan Marowak/Alolan Raichu (the three Alola forms that do not have Alolan pre-evolutions; also a counterpart to our existing Mega Raichu)
- Chesnaught/Delphox/Greninja was also proposed by
kakaks,
but if we do this, we'll also need to decide how to handle the Ability Battle Bond for Greninja! There have been concerns that having Mega Greninja and Ash-Greninja in the same meta would be redundant, that it would cause problems when fighting Greninja because it has so many incredibly strong sets, and that being able to Mega Evolve an Ash-Greninja doesn't make any sense. In addition, Mega Greninja would likely be the first addition to the M4A Ubers meta, but we're still only just starting to develop the OU one. Tagging
ImperialGamer517 to weigh in on this if you have anything to say here!
- Possibly also one of these slates, which are themed after villainous teams, but probably just one of them at a time, since they're a pretty similar theme. (If anyone has a favorite of these or would like to offer alternatives, feel free to speak up!)
- Arbok/Weezing/Wobbuffet (anime Team Rocket)
- Purugly/Skuntank/Toxicroak (Team Galactic)
- Swoobat/Cryogonal/Bisharp (B2W2 Team Plasma)
- maybe a Skull or Aether slate with Golisopod/Salazzle/Silvally or Bewear/Bruxish/Silvally?
The other slate options from the latest poll can also all still be included! That's three more of them:
- Raikou/Entei/Suicune
- Weavile/Togekiss/Yanmega (the runner-up from the previous poll)
- Eldegoss/Drednaw/Centiskorch
- One additional proposed slate was
inkbug's
Mamoswine/Tangrowth/Yanmega, Pokémon that evolve when they learn the move Ancient Power, which strikes me as a really good option and one that I would be happy to see! I'm not sure if it's a problem that it shares Yanmega with the other slate, but since there's going to be a vote and only one of them will be chosen anyway, I don't think that should be a problem to have both as options!
EDIT - and one more slate idea put forward by
RottenInfernape on the Discord: Blissey/Weavile/Gliscor, three Pokémon whose
(first) evolution requires leveling up with a certain item at a certain time of day!
EDIT - and another one from
kakaks,
inkbug and me together: we could do Chandelure, Bisharp, Gothitelle and Conkeldurr, the signature Pokémon of Unova's Elite Four!
ImperialGamer517: it's up to you if you want to veto this, but we talked it over, and the consensus seemed to be that a four-Pokémon slate would be okay as long as we left a good amount of time for the submission phase. Everyone present in the Discord seemed to be okay with this! I also think doing that opens up a lot more options for themes (like Elite Four, which we can't really do with just three).
We'll probably be running the official poll whenever voting for this slate starts, but until then, I would welcome any new slate suggestions and feedback on these ones!
- Should they all be polled?
- Should we limit the number of options?
- Do any of these seem unsuitable/not worth considering?
I'll make the strawpoll once submissions close with any feedback taken into account, and like the previous official poll, you'll be able to select as many options as you want! The slate poll will last as long as the voting period for slate 9, and then you can start working on submissions for the winning slate as usual. C:
In the mean time, I hope everyone is enjoying the mod!! Remember, you can play it
here on DragonHeaven right now, and it's up to date with everything prior to the Eeveelutions, which should be added themselves as soon as the pull request goes through!
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Frossglass-Mega
Ability: Snow Cloak / Cursed Body ---> Icy Beauty (Serene Grace clone)
Typing: Ice / Ghost
New moves: Air slash
Stats:
HP 70 ---> 70
Atk 80 ---> 80
Def 70 ---> 100 (+5)
SpA 80 ---> 130 (+40)
SpD 70 ---> 100 (+5)
Spe 110 ---> 160 (+50)
BST 480 ---> 630
Butterfree-Mega
Ability: Compound Eyes / Tinted Lens ---> Magic Guard
Typing: Bug / Dragon
New moves: Draco meteor, dragon pulse, aura sphere
Stats:
HP 60 ---> 60
Atk 45 ---> 10 (-35)
Def 50 ---> 120 (+15)
SpA 90 ---> 130 (+40)
SpD 80 ---> 120 (+15)
Spe 100 ---> 135 (+35)
BST 395 ---> 495
I can't think of anything for slowking.
Youuu actually didn't change a single one of their stats from your previous version - they're all exactly the same as the version I quoted earlier, just... somehow misreported even worse.
It seems like you're just trolling anyway, but I thought I would let you know that they'll just be excluded from the voting slate if they're not legal, so I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish here, haha.
Anyway!!! Update over for now!