Pet Mod Paleomons - Slate 14 Submissions

[Cyaneedle]

paleomons

 

[Spammernoob]

Revival???

 

[Beaf Cultist]

after all these years... finally, the vetos are out.

"y'know, Espathra used to be honorable mons back in my day. what happened to fair balance?"
Name: Espathra-Terrestrial (Terrespathra.)
Original Pokémon: Espathra
Typing: Ground / Flying
Abilities: Opportunist / Quick Feet (Sand Force)
Stats: 85/105/61/50/70/110

New Moves: Stomp, Stomping Tantrum, Earthquake, Rock Slide, Stone Edge, Stealth Rock, Dual Wingbeat, Triple Kick, Jump Kick, High Jump Kick, Bulk Up, Blaze Kick, Trop Kick, Lunge.
Removed Moves: Expanding Force, Light Screen, Lumina Crash, Psychic, Stored Power, Trick, Dazzling Gleam, Shadow Ball, (don't ask why it keeps Psyshock.)

Role: Fast Pivot / Physical Breaker with a funny way of dealing with setup-mons
Flavor: so imagine Espathra, but with LEGS. like big legs. workout day. More Cassowary and Emu-like.

Ground/Flying STABs are pretty much impossible to wall in this meta, and LO Bulk Up sets are OHKOing all but the fattest of fatmons at +1 (and the ones that can live a hit, like Bastiodon and Carriguana, can't do enough back to stop you from trading positively). This paired with the fact that Ice type attacks are very rare in the meta (and usually on mons this outspeeds) makes it overtuned for the current meta. You'll need to lower Attack a good bit or remove Bulk Up if you want this to be balanced.

Name: Espathra-Ritual
Original Pokémon: Espathra
Typing: Psychic/Water
Ability: Drizzle/Opportunist/Frisk
Stats: 105/60/60/96/60/100
New Moves: Healing Wish, Laguna Crash (Water type Lumina Crash)
Removed Moves: Calm Mind
Role: Rain setter. This meta is like, super balance/bo focused especially since our only web mon isn't that great rn. By adding a rain setter, especially one with as much fast utility, this can open the door for rain offense, especially due to already present abusers like Servachne. Can also be offensive on it's own with dual crashes, but your only decent speed and paper thin bulk makes that more difficult.
Flavor: With espathra's ancient egyptian origin, them being a literal rain dancer only makes sense, as they have some of the first recorded instances of ritual rain dancing.

While I like the idea of a Rain setter, this is definitely overtuned. Laguna Crash is getting absolutely ridiculous damage numbers with Rain up, with Specs sets guaranteed 2HKOing max SpDef Carracosta and max HP Kabutops. The only fix really is to scrap the move entirely, and just replace it with a different Water attack (preferably not Hydro Pump).

Name: Drednaw-Abyss
Original Pokémon: Drednaw
Typing:

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Abilities: Shell Armor / Heatproof | Regenerator
Stats: 90/60/80/90/140/25

New Moves:

: Bug Buzz, Flash Cannon, Mud Slap, Power Gem, Scald, Sludge Bomb

: Aqua Ring, Refresh, Wish
Removed Moves:

: Crunch, Earthquake, Head Smash, High Horsepower, Jaw Lock, Rock Blast, Rock Slide, Stone Edge, Throat Chop

: Shell Smash

Role: Spdef steel with recovery as widely requested. It's able to effectively switch into mons like Kabutops and Bastiodon while getting destroyed by strong physical threats like Yizolt and Eleffigy especially with it getting outsped by the entire tier, meaning you have to position it well to get value from it.
Flavor: What started with a crackpot theory from the newest intern at Wedgehurst's Research Lab was found to actually be a surprising truth. Drednaw and Gastrodon both descend from the same species! This parent species is one of the earliest to be seen in the fossil record, and evidence suggests that it lived within volcanic vents deep in the ocean, surviving off of scraps of food that fell into their home as well as the mineral-rich brine that flowed through their habitat. From these minerals, they would build up a shell of iron, magnesium, and other trace elements to protect themselves from the few predators that could stand the pressure and temperature.
Appearance (If the mons ever get sprited): Like a drednaw but with the legs being more stubby like gastrodon's pseudopods, the shell being a dark metal color, the mouth being less pointy, and the horn being a third eye on a stalk

Way too much stats on this thing for it to also get Regen and recovery.

Name: Rhyperior-Ancient
Original Pokémon: Rhyperior
Typing: Steel/Fighting
Abilities: Rattled / Light Metal
Stats: 115/45/75/130/105/65 (535)
New Moves: Aura Sphere, Vacuum Wave, Calm Mind, Taunt
Removed Moves: Ice Beam, Blizzard, Icy Wind, Ice Punch, Fire Punch, Thunder Punch, Rock Polish, Hammer Arm, Focus Punch, Brick Break
Role: The tank. Abuses Rhyperior's ridiculous existing special movepool to become a powerful bruiser that can trade with the best of 'em, at the cost of having no reliable recovery. It has a way to boost its Speed through Rattled which notably makes it a powerful counter to Knock Off from Carracosta as well as being good U-turn deterrent.
Flavor: Based on the elasmotherium, a rhinoceros ancestor that is popularly depicted with a MASSIVE horn. In Rhyperior's case, this massive horn also served as its way of shooting attacks at enemies, rather than using its arms. This allowed it to return to being on all fours like Rhyhorn, focusing on a shoot-and-run style of fighting. It preferred to use this distance strategy, as while its skin was armored, the soft metal was not quite as durable into strong bites or slashes as modern-day Rhyperior's rocky shell. Elasmotherium's horse-like legs serves as the reasoning for this form being a little more speed-focused as well.

This mon trades way too well into the meta. Calm Mind sets are basically impossible for existing SpDef mons to slow down, Carracosta can't touch you at all, even mons like Combysa can't reliably revenge you at +1, and if you manage to get a Rattled boost you can easily sweep entire teams from there. This mon needs its stats dropped by quite a lot in order to be balanced, particularly its SpAtk and HP.

Name: Rhyperior-Ancient
Original Pokémon: Rhyperior
Typing: Rock/Steel
Abilities: Sand Stream / Solid Rock | Sheer Force
Stats: 110/110/65/90/120/40 (535)

New Moves: Shore Up, Flash Cannon
Removed Moves:

Role: SpDef Steel type with recovery, but subpar typing and PhysDef. Can potentially act as a mixed wallbreaker as well with Sheer Force.
Flavor: Ancient Rhyperior wandered the deserts. I'm not good at writing this stuff, ngl.

Shore Up is overkill on this mon. It already hardwalls nearly every special attacker in the tier without 67% recovery.


Due to the long gap between now and when submissions were supposed to close, you will have 48 hours to make necessary changes, and then voting will open. I hope to see you all then!