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Slate 16: Regional Rodents 
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New Pokémon Name: Weezing
Stat Changes: 60/60/110/125/155/80 (590 BST)
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Heatproof / Steel Worker (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): +Flash Cannon, Earth Power, Strength Sap, -Flamethrower, Fire Blast,
Reasoning: Walls Eternatus, Special Deoxys-Gem, and deals with Dragon/Fire and Fairy/Fire coverage in general. Strength Sap and Will-o-Wisp together with its defenses should keep it alive for a long time, and make it a menace to the opponent.
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New Pokémon Name: Weezing-King
Stat Changes: 150 / 95 / 85 / 95 / 60 / 50 [535 BST]
Typing Changes: Dark/Fairy
Ability Changes: Neutralizing Gas
Movepool Changes (If Any): Knock Off, loses poison moves except Toxic
What Separates it from Other Forms: bulky Neutralizing Gas user balanced by a lack of recovery. I think its main niche is a hazard removal mon that can Defog on Giratina, and has the STAB combo to keep it out anyways.
New Pokémon Name: Exeggutor
Stat Changes: 95 / 95 / 75 / 125 / 115 / 65 [BST: 570]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Sticky Hold / Harvest | Ripen (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
Body Press, Stuff Cheeks, Egg Bomb*, Draining Kiss, Dazzling Gleam, Moonblast, Mystical Fire, Play RoughReasoning: Berry Mon. This Pokémon is completely structured around being the very best berry mon it can be, with as much hilarity as possible. Setting up with Stuff Cheeks + a special Berry can lead to some funky plays with each of it's berry themed abilities.-All Psychic type attacking moves, -Teleport
Egg Bomb | 100 BP || Special | 90 Accurcy | 10 PP | Recycles any berry that was previously consumed.
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New Pokémon Name: Exeuggutor-Lighthouse
Stat Changes: 95/125/85/125/85/70
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Solar Power, Frisk, Harvest (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): +Thunder, Thunderbolt, Volt Switch, Thunder Wave, Thunder Cage, Taunt
What Separates it from Other Forms: since we just had some dragon's here's a grass/electric type tree that pretends to be a light pole. it's also a trapper, gets a ton of residual damage done through cage + leech, and harvest allows it to make recovery even more annoying than it already is.
Slate 16: Regional Rodents
New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 95/100/90/100/90/119
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Sturdy, Guts, Regenerator (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
What Separates it from Other Forms: Raticate is a very fast pokemon that can pull off the Fear rattata set on its own. It has options with pain split and boots, or Shell Bell with Sturdy Endeavor. It can force progression with spikes if endeavor isn't doing the trick, and the ability to spin as well allows it to remove hazards on its side to continue its reign of terror.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-Alola
Stat Changes: 85/81/110/40/110/77
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Gluttony, Simple, Thick Fat (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
What Separates it from Other Forms: Alolan Raticate becomes a threatening cleaner, masquerading Bisharp in its ways of SD Sucker Punch sweeping. With Power trip, it can pull off utilizing stockpile to the extreme.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone
Stat Changes: 98/110/71/50/71/110
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Normalize, Klutz, Gluttony (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): +U-Turn, Knock Off, Taunt, Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: Linoone is a very powerful wallbreaker, bearing stab on very useful utility moves such as U-Turn and Knock provided from its normalize ability. It can deal insane amounts of damage with extreme speed and SD, and belly drum can be run as well.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Galar
Stat Changes: 90/120/110/75/75/99
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Pickup, Adaptability, Soundproof (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): +Obstruct, Jaw Lock, Perish Song, Frustration, Return
What Separates it from Other Forms: Galarian Linoone can easily work as a pursuit trapper with obstruct, or a perish trapper with Jaw Lock. whichever role the player choses, must keep in mind of its typing and lack of recovery. However, it is physically bulky and can get away with living a few hits.
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New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Rapid
Stat Changes: 100/125/85/90/85/115 Bst: 600
Typing Changes: Normal/Ghost
Ability Changes: Run away* , Tough claws, Hustle
Movepool Changes (If Any): shadow sneak, U-turn, rapid spin, Crush Claw, Feint
What Separates it from Other Forms: The adjustments made to the ability, run away; will make this form a potent pivot. While this pokemon lacks much coverage its makes up for it for its unresisted stab. It gains access to rapid spin and it can beat most of the tier’s spin blockers with ease.
Run away*- if the opposing pokemon resist this pokemon’s attack when it is used, this pokemon immediately switches out after. (this ability applies to immunities as well)
New Pokémon Name: linoone-Feral
Stat Changes: 81/115/72/50/72/110
Typing Changes: None
Ability Changes: Reckless, Defiant, Prankster
Movepool Changes (If Any): Head smash, head charge, sucker punch, Wild charge, Return
What Separates it from Other Forms: Just your standard dark wall breaker with a decent speed tier. Not much else to explain it appreciates the addition of sucker punch to pick off faster things. the other moves are for reckless but defiant is the preferred ability.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-Surge
Stat Changes: 90/120/80/50/80/80
Typing Changes: Normal, water
Ability Changes: Swift Swim, Strong jaw, Mold Breaker
Movepool Changes (If Any): Clamp*, aqua jet, liquidation, Every “fang” move
What Separates it from Other Forms: Gives the tier a powerful physical water type Wallbreaker. It has access to useful move like swords dance and taunt already so i just added STAB moves+the fang moves to synergize with strong jaw and the other abilities.
Clamp- Hits 3 times and now boosted by strong jaw. Base power changed to 25.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-greed
Stat Changes: 100/80/110/50/90/70
Typing Changes: Dark
Ability Changes: Intimidate, Cheek Pouch, Parental bond
Movepool Changes (If Any): Slack off, Recycle, Stuff Cheeks, Belch, Jaw lock, Foul play,
Removed: Swords dance, All normal moves except Super fang and roar
What Separates it from Other Forms: Beefy physical dark wall as opposed to its original offensive-based form. Parental bond mostly there for flavor; cheek pouch might see some use, intimidate is the main focus of this set coming from a pokemon with decent bulk on both sides.
Stat Changes: 100/125/85/90/85/115 Bst: 600
Typing Changes: Normal/Ghost
Ability Changes: Run away* , Tough claws, Hustle
Movepool Changes (If Any): shadow sneak, U-turn, rapid spin, Crush Claw, Feint
What Separates it from Other Forms: The adjustments made to the ability, run away; will make this form a potent pivot. While this pokemon lacks much coverage its makes up for it for its unresisted stab. It gains access to rapid spin and it can beat most of the tier’s spin blockers with ease.
Run away*- if the opposing pokemon resist this pokemon’s attack when it is used, this pokemon immediately switches out after. (this ability applies to immunities as well)
New Pokémon Name: linoone-Feral
Stat Changes: 81/115/72/50/72/110
Typing Changes: None
Ability Changes: Reckless, Defiant, Prankster
Movepool Changes (If Any): Head smash, head charge, sucker punch, Wild charge, Return
What Separates it from Other Forms: Just your standard dark wall breaker with a decent speed tier. Not much else to explain it appreciates the addition of sucker punch to pick off faster things. the other moves are for reckless but defiant is the preferred ability.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-Surge
Stat Changes: 90/120/80/50/80/80
Typing Changes: Normal, water
Ability Changes: Swift Swim, Strong jaw, Mold Breaker
Movepool Changes (If Any): Clamp*, aqua jet, liquidation, Every “fang” move
What Separates it from Other Forms: Gives the tier a powerful physical water type Wallbreaker. It has access to useful move like swords dance and taunt already so i just added STAB moves+the fang moves to synergize with strong jaw and the other abilities.
Clamp- Hits 3 times and now boosted by strong jaw. Base power changed to 25.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-greed
Stat Changes: 100/80/110/50/90/70
Typing Changes: Dark
Ability Changes: Intimidate, Cheek Pouch, Parental bond
Movepool Changes (If Any): Slack off, Recycle, Stuff Cheeks, Belch, Jaw lock, Foul play,
Removed: Swords dance, All normal moves except Super fang and roar
What Separates it from Other Forms: Beefy physical dark wall as opposed to its original offensive-based form. Parental bond mostly there for flavor; cheek pouch might see some use, intimidate is the main focus of this set coming from a pokemon with decent bulk on both sides.
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New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Punk
Stat Changes: 73 / 70 / 81 / 85 / 71 / 150
Typing Changes: Normal / Dark
Ability Changes: Punk Rock
Movepool Changes (If Any): Snarl* (80 BP, same effect)
What Separates it from Other Forms: Fastest mon in the meta and has high powered stabs, but is limited through its low SpA.
New Pokemon: Faticate
Stat Changes: 125 / 111 / 70 / 40 / 110 / 67
Typing Changes: Poison / Dark
Ability Changes: Gluttony / Cheek Pouch / Thick Fat
Movepool Changes: Stuff Cheeks, Teatime*, Poison Jab, Gunk Shot, Recycle, Slack Off, Darkest Lariat (Teatime: Boosts highest stat of each Pokemon that eats a berry in addition to its normal effects)
What Separates it from Other Forms: Berry mon, take 2. Take the fast boost with Teatime or slow things down with Stuff Cheeks. Keep the berries going with Recycle
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New Pokémon Name: Raticate-X
Stat Changes: 80 / 145 / 80 / 65 / 80 / 70 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Strong Jaw / Trace | Analytic (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Psychic Fangs, Thunder Fang, Recover
What Separates it from Other Forms: A very, very strong physical wallbreaker with STAB Strong Jaw boosted Hyper and Psychic Fangs. It can also run slow Analytic set to break Steel with Stomping Tantrum. And Trace is there because I don't know what Ability to give it for flavor other than Trace, but I guess it can also use that wisely as well.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-Y
Stat Changes: 80 / 80 / 65 / 125 / 100 / 70 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Thick Fat / Intimidate | Adaptability (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Dazzling Gleam, Focus Blast, Nasty Plot, Recover, - Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: I wouldn't say this gonna wall anything. I just want to put the flavor of fat thing to the fat thing. But for the serious, it's simply the special wallbreaker that of course, can either pivot or setup.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-X
Stat Changes: 80 / 125 / 80 / 75 / 80 / 80 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Victory Star / Skill Link | Contrary (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Bullet Seed, Fleur Cannon, Leaf Storm, Recover, - Belly Drum
What Separates it from Other Forms: A mixed wallbreaker with Contrary Fleur Cannon to bonk any physical wall, and anything else likes Extreme Speed or Play Rough to bonk special walls. It also has Victory Star to accurate Play Rough and Gunk Shot. And Skill Link for Tail Slap and Bullet Seed.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Y
Stat Changes: 80 / 65 / 60 / 120 / 95 / 100 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Berserk / Pure Power | Prankster (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Dark Pulse, Nasty Plot, Psystrike, Recover, U-turn, - Hone Claws, - Work Up
What Separates it from Other Forms: Basically, this is (or at least, tend to be) a mainly special wallbreaker, probably run Pure Power (which has Slaking power level, Kartana if adamant) to lure any special wall in, and don't worry, this has no physical Psychic moves, so I think it'll be fine after all. And Prankster, for the sake of flavor.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 78 / 101 / 120 / 55 / 80 / 111 [BST: 545]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Guts / Burn Heal* | Poison Point (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
Gunk Shot, Toxic Spikes, Rapid Spin, Poison Jab, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Taunt, Bulk Up
Knock Off, Swords Dance
Raticate is a fastish Guts breaker that relies on its High BP STABs to bust open foes, while it has to contend with weak coverage to hit what resists it. If Guts breaking is not your forte, you can opt for Burn Heal, giving you passive healing while it utilizes its impressive utility options.
Burn Heal - Heals Pokémon for 1/8 of their maximum HP at the end of each turn. Ignores Burn damage and the halving of physical moves BP.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 120 / 111 / 78 / 80 / 55 / 101 [BST: 545]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Thick Fat / Cheek Pouch | Mafia* (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
Flip Turn, Scald, Slack Off, Waterfall, Aqua Jet, Aqua Tail, Topsy Turvy,
What Separates it from Other Forms:
Raticate-Alola
Mafia - Base Power of all its moves are reduced by 1/6th. All of its moves are then treated like Beat Up.
Might scrap this tbh
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New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 75 / 115 / 70 / 90 / 80 / 120 (540)
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Strong Jaw, Sheer Force (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
What Separates it from Other Forms: A feasible mixed attacker and wallbreaker that can make use of Strong Jaw boosted Bite moves and fits very well with Hyper Fang. Combined with it's excellent speed tier, it can feasibly run Choice Band and use it's excellent coverage to threaten alot of high tier mons. Conversely, it has Sheer Force which taps into the more mixed/special side of Raticate, since it has Gen 1 movepool it has access to moves that you would think it shouldn't. BoltBeam as well as two viable STAB options in Scald and Tri Attack gives it near perfect coverage, and though 90 base SpA seems lower for it to make use of Sheer Force, similarly viable mons in their respective tiers have SpA comparable to 90, most notably Nidoking, and more rarely Tauros as Tauros has been actually known to run Fire Blast even with it's base 40 SpA to take care of the more pesky and bulky grass types. Popular mons in Alternatium like Landorus make use of 85 base SpA with Sheer Force, so with Raticate base 90 SpA is no major problem for it. Also, you can maybe run a Physical Sheer Force set if you want with Liquidation + Body Slam but it's probably worse than the Strong Jaw set which has more coverage and utility.
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New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 60 / 115 / 70 / 85 / 70 / 120 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Strong Jaw/Technician/Bubonic Bounty
Bubonic Bounty: A poison touch clone except it inflicts badly poison instead of regular poison.
Movepool Changes (If Any): +Poison Fang, Gunk Shot, Poison Jab, Knock Off
What Separates it from Other Forms: Coming to a Europe near you it's the plague rat. Take your plain normal civilians and make them suffer with the all new Bubonic Bounty. Ignore it for too long and it'll quickly kill everyone you know and love. Although it also gets technician since rats do tend to be fairly intelligent and this does help it out when it comes to deal with steel types a bit, since flame wheel gets the tech boost.
Review Brah
Everything else seems to check out, so dropping a 48 Hour Warning for everyone.
I think the Raticates are underpowered. The first form definitely wants some form of secondary typing, as for now its pretty eh offensively. Alolan Raticate is just a mediocre mon overall. Dark Normal is a bad defensive typing and neither its utility nor it's stats circumvent that issue for it. Note that Linoone-Galar doesn't get stuff like Return, if that was not intentional, if so carry on.g-luke why'd you introduce exeggutor as a berry mon if alolan raticate was right around the corner
New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 95/90/70/90/70/119
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Sturdy, Guts, Regenerator (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
+Rapid Spin, - Sucker Punch
+Pain Split, Spikes
What Separates it from Other Forms: Raticate is a very fast pokemon that can pull off the Fear rattata set on its own. It has options with pain split and boots, or Shell Bell with Sturdy Endeavor. It can force progression with spikes if endeavor isn't doing the trick, and the ability to spin as well allows it to remove hazards on its side to continue its reign of terror.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-Alola
Stat Changes: 85/71/95/40/95/77
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Gluttony, Simple, Thick Fat (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
+Power Trip
+Slack Off
What Separates it from Other Forms: Alolan Raticate becomes a threatening cleaner, masquerading Bisharp in its ways of SD Sucker Punch sweeping. With Power trip, it can pull off utilizing stockpile to the extreme, however it is cut back by its 4x weakness to fighting, lack of great coverage, measly 71 attack stat and its speed tier isn't that great.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone
Stat Changes: 98/100/71/50/71/110
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Normalize, Klutz, Gluttony (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): +U-Turn, Knock Off, Taunt, Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: Linoone is a very powerful wallbreaker, bearing stab on very useful utility moves such as U-Turn and Knock provided from its normalize ability. It can deal insane amounts of damage with extreme speed and SD, and belly drum can be run as well.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Galar
Stat Changes: 90/120/110/75/75/99
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Pickup, Adaptability, Soundproof (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): +Obstruct, Jaw Lock, Perish Song
What Separates it from Other Forms: Galarian Linoone can easily work as a pursuit trapper with obstruct, or a perish trapper with Jaw Lock. whichever role the player choses, must keep in mind of its typing and lack of recovery. However, it is physically bulky and can get away with living a few hits.
Firstly, I ask if you can format your submissions better. Its much more attractive to look at when done properly instead of everything being in plain text with no visual reference to what we are looking at. Linoone-Rapid is much too strong with 125 Atk Hustle, especially when it has options like Extreme Speed under it's belt. Parental Bond Super Fang is also extremely annoying to deal with on Raticate-Greed, so please remove one or the other.
Maybe lower Raticate's Attack by a bit.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-X
Stat Changes: 80 / 145 / 80 / 65 / 80 / 70 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Strong Jaw / Trace | Analytic (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Psychic Fangs, Thunder Fang, Recover
What Separates it from Other Forms: A very, very strong physical wallbreaker with STAB Strong Jaw boosted Hyper and Psychic Fangs. It can also run slow Analytic set to break Steel with Stomping Tantrum. And Trace is there because I don't know what Ability to give it for flavor other than Trace, but I guess it can also use that wisely as well.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-Y
Stat Changes: 80 / 80 / 65 / 125 / 100 / 70 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Thick Fat / Intimidate | Adaptability (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Dazzling Gleam, Focus Blast, Nasty Plot, Recover, - Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: I wouldn't say this gonna wall anything. I just want to put the flavor of fat thing to the fat thing. But for the serious, it's simply the special wallbreaker that of course, can either pivot or setup.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-X
Stat Changes: 80 / 125 / 80 / 75 / 80 / 80 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Victory Star / Skill Link | Contrary (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Bullet Seed, Fleur Cannon, Leaf Storm, Recover, - Belly Drum
What Separates it from Other Forms: A mixed wallbreaker with Contrary Fleur Cannon to bonk any physical wall, and anything else likes Extreme Speed or Play Rough to bonk special walls. It also has Victory Star to accurate Play Rough and Gunk Shot. And Skill Link for Tail Slap and Bullet Seed.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Y
Stat Changes: 80 / 65 / 60 / 120 / 95 / 100 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Berserk / Pure Power | Prankster (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Dark Pulse, Nasty Plot, Psystrike, Recover, U-turn, - Hone Claws, - Work Up
What Separates it from Other Forms: Basically, this is (or at least, tend to be) a mainly special wallbreaker, probably run Pure Power (which has Slaking power level, Kartana if adamant) to lure any special wall in, and don't worry, this has no physical Psychic moves, so I think it'll be fine after all. And Prankster, for the sake of flavor.
Everything else seems to check out, so dropping a 48 Hour Warning for everyone.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Rock
Stat Changes: 80 | 70 | 85 | 105 | 110 | 130 | (580 BST)
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Pickup | Punk Rock
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Eerie Spell, Return, Dark Pulse, Heal Bell, Bug Buzz, Slack Off, Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: linoone is an incredibly weak pokemon: this one has alot of options going for it though. it has pivoting in Parting Shot, incredibly hard hitting STAB Hyper Voice's. wich over all, makes it quite a unique pokemon. it also has some special bulk, wich lets it tank hits somewhat. eerie spell beeing boosted also gives it a nice coverage option. it also has some nice special coverage.
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Stakeout paired with 105 SpA is too much on this.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Rock
Stat Changes: 80 | 70 | 85 | 105 | 110 | 130 | (580 BST)
Typing Changes:|
Ability Changes: Stakeout | Punk Rock
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Eerie Spell, Return, Dark Pulse, Heal Bell, Bug Buzz, Slack Off, Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: linoone is an incredibly weak pokemon: this one has alot of options going for it though. it has pivoting in Parting Shot, incredibly hard hitting STAB Hyper Voice's. wich over all, makes it quite a unique pokemon. it also has some special bulk, wich lets it tank hits somewhat. eerie spell beeing boosted also gives it a nice coverage option. it also has some nice special coverage. it also has swords dance and stakeout for a physical set.
Name: Raticrust
New Types:
Base Stats: 80 / 120 / 80 / 50 / 80 / 100 [BST: 510] (+25 HP / +39 Atk / +20 Def / +0 SpA / +10 SpD / +3 Spe)
Abilities: Guts, Solid Rock, Hustle
New Moves: Rock Slide, Stone Edge, Stealth Rock, Spikes, Leaf Blade, Power Whip, Leech Seed, Synthesis, Ingrain
Removed Moves: Super Fang, Giga Impact, Charge Beam, Blizzard, Snore, Uproar, Icy Wind, Shock Wave, Bite
Intended Role: Physical Wallbreaker, Setup Sweeper, Hazard Setter (Stealth Rock, Spikes), Offensive Pivot
Role Justification: I found a way to give raticate the same weakness count as it’s base form while giving it more offensive capability. Combining grass and rock, while both traditionally not great types, work well with the right stats and abilities. The offensive boost to raticate paired with some bulk the base form didn’t have leads to a nice tank with solid rock, or some assurance when setting up. Not to mention this version of raticate has recovery. Along with that, it now has hazards so it can act as a nice lead, especially with U-turn, which it already gets.
New Types:
Base Stats: 80 / 120 / 80 / 50 / 80 / 100 [BST: 510] (+25 HP / +39 Atk / +20 Def / +0 SpA / +10 SpD / +3 Spe)
Abilities: Guts, Solid Rock, Hustle
New Moves: Rock Slide, Stone Edge, Stealth Rock, Spikes, Leaf Blade, Power Whip, Leech Seed, Synthesis, Ingrain
Removed Moves: Super Fang, Giga Impact, Charge Beam, Blizzard, Snore, Uproar, Icy Wind, Shock Wave, Bite
Intended Role: Physical Wallbreaker, Setup Sweeper, Hazard Setter (Stealth Rock, Spikes), Offensive Pivot
Role Justification: I found a way to give raticate the same weakness count as it’s base form while giving it more offensive capability. Combining grass and rock, while both traditionally not great types, work well with the right stats and abilities. The offensive boost to raticate paired with some bulk the base form didn’t have leads to a nice tank with solid rock, or some assurance when setting up. Not to mention this version of raticate has recovery. Along with that, it now has hazards so it can act as a nice lead, especially with U-turn, which it already gets.
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New Types:
Base Stats: 150 / 125 / 95 / 80 / 65 / 70 [BST: 580]
Abilities: Stamina | Sheer Force (HA)
New Moves: +Head Charge, Earthquake, Stealth Rock,
Role Justification: Physical tank and Stealth Rock setter. Basically designed for a team that wants reliable rocks without losing too much momentum. Solid offense, pivoting, and no recovery separates it from Slowbro and Groudon.
New Types:
Base Stats: 100 / 115 / 75 / 110 / 80 / 110 [BST: 580]
Abilities: Strong Jaw | Scrappy (HA)
New Moves: +Nasty Plot, -Final Gambit
Role Justification: Mixed offensive pivot and wall breaker. Crunch + Hyper Fang is a great STAB combo so I see it running Band most of the time, with Nasty Plot serving as a lure set.
New Types:
Base Stats: 75 / 115 / 75 / 140 / 95 / 100 [BST: 600]
Abilities: Beast Boost
New Moves: U-turn, Moonblast, Hyper Voice, Earth Power, Focus Blast, Vacuum Wave, -Belly Drum
Role Justification: Another mixed offensive pivot. I can see this one being a revenge killer, either with Banded Extreme Speeds, or a Special Scarf set. It could also run non-choiced Special sets thanks to its amazing coverage movepool, although its defenses and Speed tier aren't the best for that.
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New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 95/100/90/100/90/119
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Sturdy, Guts, Regenerator (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
+Rapid Spin, Spirit Shackle, Shadow Sneak
+Hex
+Pain Split, Spikes, Will-O-Wisp
What Separates it from Other Forms: Raticate is a very fast pokemon that can pull off the Fear rattata set on its own. It has options with pain split and boots, or Shell Bell with Sturdy Endeavor. It can force progression with spikes if endeavor isn't doing the trick, and the ability to spin as well allows it to remove hazards on its side to continue its reign of terror.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-X
Stat Changes: 80 / 145 / 80 / 65 / 80 / 70 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Strong Jaw / Trace | Analytic (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Psychic Fangs, Thunder Fang, Recover
What Separates it from Other Forms: A very, very strong physical wallbreaker with STAB Strong Jaw boosted Hyper and Psychic Fangs. It can also run slow Analytic set to break Steel with Stomping Tantrum. And Trace is there because I don't know what Ability to give it for flavor other than Trace, but I guess it can also use that wisely as well.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 78 / 101 / 120 / 55 / 80 / 111 [BST: 545]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Guts / Burn Heal* | Poison Point (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
Gunk Shot, Toxic Spikes, Rapid Spin, Poison Jab, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Taunt, Bulk UpWhat Separates it from Other Forms:Knock Off, Swords Dance
Raticate is a fastish Guts breaker that relies on its High BP STABs to bust open foes, while it has to contend with weak coverage to hit what resists it. If Guts breaking is not your forte, you can opt for Burn Heal, giving you passive healing while it utilizes its impressive utility options.Burn Heal - Heals Pokémon for 1/8 of their maximum HP at the end of each turn. Ignores Burn damage and the halving of physical moves BP.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 75 / 115 / 70 / 90 / 80 / 120 (540)
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Strong Jaw, Sheer Force (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
+Aqua Jet, +Fire Fang, +Flip Turn, +Ice Fang, +Liquidation, +Thunder Fang
+Scald, +Tri Attack
+Calm Mind
What Separates it from Other Forms: A feasible mixed attacker and wallbreaker that can make use of Strong Jaw boosted Bite moves and fits very well with Hyper Fang. Combined with it's excellent speed tier, it can feasibly run Choice Band and use it's excellent coverage to threaten alot of high tier mons. Conversely, it has Sheer Force which taps into the more mixed/special side of Raticate, since it has Gen 1 movepool it has access to moves that you would think it shouldn't. BoltBeam as well as two viable STAB options in Scald and Tri Attack gives it near perfect coverage, and though 90 base SpA seems lower for it to make use of Sheer Force, similarly viable mons in their respective tiers have SpA comparable to 90, most notably Nidoking, and more rarely Tauros as Tauros has been actually known to run Fire Blast even with it's base 40 SpA to take care of the more pesky and bulky grass types. Popular mons in Alternatium like Landorus make use of 85 base SpA with Sheer Force, so with Raticate base 90 SpA is no major problem for it. Also, you can maybe run a Physical Sheer Force set if you want with Liquidation + Body Slam but it's probably worse than the Strong Jaw set which has more coverage and utility.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate
Stat Changes: 60 / 115 / 70 / 85 / 70 / 120 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Strong Jaw/Technician/Bubonic Bounty
Bubonic Bounty: A poison touch clone except it inflicts badly poison instead of regular poison.
Movepool Changes (If Any): +Poison Fang, Gunk Shot, Poison Jab, Knock Off
What Separates it from Other Forms: Coming to a Europe near you it's the plague rat. Take your plain normal civilians and make them suffer with the all new Bubonic Bounty. Ignore it for too long and it'll quickly kill everyone you know and love. Although it also gets technician since rats do tend to be fairly intelligent and this does help it out when it comes to deal with steel types a bit, since flame wheel gets the tech boost.
Name: Raticrust
New Types:
Base Stats: 80 / 120 / 80 / 50 / 80 / 100 [BST: 510] (+25 HP / +39 Atk / +20 Def / +0 SpA / +10 SpD / +3 Spe)
Abilities: Guts, Solid Rock, Hustle
New Moves: Rock Slide, Stone Edge, Stealth Rock, Spikes, Leaf Blade, Power Whip, Leech Seed, Synthesis, Ingrain
Removed Moves: Super Fang, Giga Impact, Charge Beam, Blizzard, Snore, Uproar, Icy Wind, Shock Wave, Bite
Intended Role: Physical Wallbreaker, Setup Sweeper, Hazard Setter (Stealth Rock, Spikes), Offensive Pivot
Role Justification: I found a way to give raticate the same weakness count as it’s base form while giving it more offensive capability. Combining grass and rock, while both traditionally not great types, work well with the right stats and abilities. The offensive boost to raticate paired with some bulk the base form didn’t have leads to a nice tank with solid rock, or some assurance when setting up. Not to mention this version of raticate has recovery. Along with that, it now has hazards so it can act as a nice lead, especially with U-turn, which it already gets.
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New Types:
Base Stats: 150 / 125 / 95 / 80 / 65 / 70 [BST: 580]
Abilities: Stamina | Sheer Force (HA)
New Moves: +Head Charge, Earthquake, Stealth Rock,
Role Justification: Physical tank and Stealth Rock setter. Basically designed for a team that wants reliable rocks without losing too much momentum. Solid offense, pivoting, and no recovery separates it from Slowbro and Groudon.
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-Alola
Stat Changes: 85/81/110/40/110/77
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Gluttony, Simple, Thick Fat (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any):
+Power Trip, Poltergeist, Shadow Sneak, Phantom Force
+Slack Off
What Separates it from Other Forms: Alolan Raticate becomes a threatening cleaner, masquerading Bisharp in its ways of SD Sucker Punch sweeping. With Power trip, it can pull off utilizing stockpile to the extreme.
New Pokemon: Faticate
Stat Changes: 125 / 111 / 70 / 40 / 110 / 67
Typing Changes: Poison / Dark
Ability Changes: Gluttony / Cheek Pouch / Thick Fat
Movepool Changes: Stuff Cheeks, Teatime*, Poison Jab, Gunk Shot, Recycle, Slack Off, Darkest Lariat (Teatime: Boosts highest stat of each Pokemon that eats a berry in addition to its normal effects)
What Separates it from Other Forms: Berry mon, take 2. Take the fast boost with Teatime or slow things down with Stuff Cheeks. Keep the berries going with Recycle
New Pokémon Name: Raticate-Y
Stat Changes: 80 / 80 / 65 / 125 / 100 / 70 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Thick Fat / Intimidate | Adaptability (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Dazzling Gleam, Focus Blast, Nasty Plot, Recover, - Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: I wouldn't say this gonna wall anything. I just want to put the flavor of fat thing to the fat thing. But for the serious, it's simply the special wallbreaker that of course, can either pivot or setup.
New Types:
Base Stats: 100 / 115 / 75 / 110 / 80 / 110 [BST: 580]
Abilities: Strong Jaw | Scrappy (HA)
New Moves: +Nasty Plot, -Final Gambit
Role Justification: Mixed offensive pivot and wall breaker. Crunch + Hyper Fang is a great STAB combo so I see it running Band most of the time, with Nasty Plot serving as a lure set.
A mental note. Analysis Geek's Linoone was veteod due to the power of Hustle Extreme Speed, and a failure to address this. abismal's Linoone would have been indeed banworthy, but it's my fault I lacked the forsight to realise Extreme Speed + Boosting is probably a bad idea, and it would be unfair to veto a sub with no warning. So while it will not be vetoed, if abismal's Linoone wins it will lose Belly Drum and Swords Dance
New Pokémon Name: Linoone
Stat Changes: 98/110/71/50/71/110
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Normalize, Klutz, Gluttony (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): +U-Turn, Knock Off, Taunt, Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: Linoone is a very powerful wallbreaker, bearing stab on very useful utility moves such as U-Turn and Knock provided from its normalize ability. It can deal insane amounts of damage with extreme speed and SD, and belly drum can be run as well.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-X
Stat Changes: 80 / 125 / 80 / 75 / 80 / 80 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Victory Star / Skill Link | Contrary (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Bullet Seed, Fleur Cannon, Leaf Storm, Recover, - Belly Drum
What Separates it from Other Forms: A mixed wallbreaker with Contrary Fleur Cannon to bonk any physical wall, and anything else likes Extreme Speed or Play Rough to bonk special walls. It also has Victory Star to accurate Play Rough and Gunk Shot. And Skill Link for Tail Slap and Bullet Seed.
New Types:
Base Stats: 75 / 115 / 75 / 140 / 95 / 100 [BST: 600]
Abilities: Beast Boost
New Moves: U-turn, Moonblast, Hyper Voice, Earth Power, Focus Blast, Vacuum Wave, -Belly Drum
Role Justification: Another mixed offensive pivot. I can see this one being a revenge killer, either with Banded Extreme Speeds, or a Special Scarf set. It could also run non-choiced Special sets thanks to its amazing coverage movepool, although its defenses and Speed tier aren't the best for that.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Galar
Stat Changes: 90/120/110/75/75/99
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Pickup, Adaptability, Soundproof (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): +Obstruct, Jaw Lock, Perish Song, Frustration, Return
What Separates it from Other Forms: Galarian Linoone can easily work as a pursuit trapper with obstruct, or a perish trapper with Jaw Lock. whichever role the player choses, must keep in mind of its typing and lack of recovery. However, it is physically bulky and can get away with living a few hits.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Punk
Stat Changes: 73 / 70 / 81 / 85 / 71 / 150
Typing Changes: Normal / Dark
Ability Changes: Punk Rock
Movepool Changes (If Any): Snarl* (80 BP, same effect)
What Separates it from Other Forms: Fastest mon in the meta and has high powered stabs, but is limited through its low SpA.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Y
Stat Changes: 80 / 65 / 60 / 120 / 95 / 100 [BST: 520]
Typing Changes:
Ability Changes: Berserk / Pure Power | Prankster (HA)
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Dark Pulse, Nasty Plot, Psystrike, Recover, U-turn, - Hone Claws, - Work Up
What Separates it from Other Forms: Basically, this is (or at least, tend to be) a mainly special wallbreaker, probably run Pure Power (which has Slaking power level, Kartana if adamant) to lure any special wall in, and don't worry, this has no physical Psychic moves, so I think it'll be fine after all. And Prankster, for the sake of flavor.
New Pokémon Name: Linoone-Rock
Stat Changes: 80 | 70 | 85 | 105 | 110 | 130 | (580 BST)
Typing Changes:|
Ability Changes: Pickup | Punk Rock
Movepool Changes (If Any): + Eerie Spell, Return, Dark Pulse, Heal Bell, Bug Buzz, Slack Off, Swords Dance
What Separates it from Other Forms: linoone is an incredibly weak pokemon: this one has alot of options going for it though. it has pivoting in Parting Shot, incredibly hard hitting STAB Hyper Voice's. wich over all, makes it quite a unique pokemon. it also has some special bulk, wich lets it tank hits somewhat. eerie spell beeing boosted also gives it a nice coverage option. it also has some nice special coverage.
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