Base > < Donor
Pokémon Name: Glaceon-Tricky
Egg Group: Field
Stats: 65/60/110/130/95/90 (550 BST | Averaged Speed)
Typing: Ice / Normal
New Moves: Thunderbolt, Nasty Plot, Agility, U-Turn, Fake Out
Abilities: Technician | Ice Body
Dex Entry: While very cheeky, Tricky Glaceon have a big heart and is willing to guide Pokémon that are lost in cold areas. Their ice breath is powerful enough to knock out a Steelix.
Competitive Potentials: Standard Glaceon’s stats just don’t work for an Ice-type. Tricky Glaceon’s base 90 Speed is much more reasonable, especially after an Agility, and have other utilities such as U-Turn to for scouting, Fake Out to waste a turn of unwanted weather/terrain (obviously fails in Psychic Terrain), and Nasty Plot to make it a scary set-up wallbreaker. Technician is where things get real interesting; by itself, only Roserade really benefit from a much needed boosted Hidden Power for instant coverage, but Glaceon itself can learn Frost Breath. Generally, Frost Breath isn’t worth using despite guaranteed Crits because it is weak by itself and have 90% Accuracy… but with Technician, (60 BP x Technician Boost) x Crit makes 135, which is higher than Blizzard’s non-Crit BP while having better accuracy. I just invented BoltBreath, everybody. This works best as a late-game sweeper or as a wallbreaker.
Is It Overpowered?: 4x weak to Fighting is what prevent it from being too strong, making pretty much all viable Fighting-type OU mons a big threat, especially Unburden-boosted Hawlucha as Tricky Glaceon cannot outrun it at all, even if Agility-boosted, though none want to switch into the criminally strengthened Frost Breath attack (or in Keldeo’s case, Thunderbolt). Granted, you can simply have Tapu Koko/Tapu Lele as long as you keep either alive, but I talk about a 1v1 situation. Stealth Rock will also cripple it if not handled carefully as well. Special Walls that aren’t weak to the BoltBreath and Ground Hidden Power can wall it well, especially Chansey. Having Normal-type means that Shadow Sneak will not work, but in turn, makes Mach Punch particularly deadlier.
Base > < Donor
Pokémon Name: Emboar-Lightning
Egg Group: Field
Stats: 110/123/65/100/65/98 (561 BST | Averaged Speed)
Typing: Fire / Electric
New Moves: Thunderbolt, Thunder Wave, Volt Switch, Yawn, Agility
Abilities: Volt Absorb | Reckless
Dex Entry: Lighting Emboar are faster than their standard relative, and their acceleration allows them to catch their enemy off guard. They tend to become more reckless as a result of their newfound speed.
Competitive Potentials: Having higher Speed than standard Emboar allows Lightning Emboar to become faster and perform its role as a wallbreaker significantly better, as now it cannot be spedcrept so easily by slower threats like Clefable. This thus allows it to utilize Choice Band to a more efficient level, or it can use Choice Scarf better than standard Emboar. Reckless Wild Charge makes it a bit more potent as a Electric-type STAB, and access to Agility can turns into a surprise sweeper. Yawn or Thunder Wave to punish Switch-ins, and Volt Switch for offensive pivoting. Weak defenses can be crippling, but important resistances, especially to Steel-type, which means that it should not worry too much about potent Fairy-type STAB and BoltBeam.
Is It Overpowered?: 4x weak to Ground is dangerous, especially as much as Gliscor and Landorus-T are concerned, and Ground can block Volt Switch. Naturally faster Pokemon such as Greninja and Mega Alakazam can outspeed and Revenge Kill, but an Agility boosted Lightning Emboar can make this task more difficult, encouraging Greninja to use Water Shuriken if that did happened. Physical Walls capable of taking both STABs and Head Smash or Superpower will have easier time to stop it, but only if they don’t switch into a Yawn. Residual damage, especially Stealth Rock and recoil hits, can quickly wear it down and may require cleric support or hazard control if it want to stay for longer.
Base > < Donor
Pokémon Name: Roserade-Stoked
Egg Group: Fairy
Stats: 60/70/65/125/105/100 (525 BST | Averaged Speed)
Typing: Poison / Psychic
New Moves: Nasty Plot, Calm Mind, Volt Switch, Thunderbolt, Psychic
Abilities: Natural Cure / Surge Surfer | Technician
Dex Entry: Although Stoked Roserade’s surfing ability is more capable than Alolan Raichu, it prefers to keep its flowers clean. They have a tendency to go faster in electrical terrains.
Competitive Potentials: A set-up sweeper with usable abilities. Technician give some more oomph for Fake Out, Hidden Power and on lightweight, Grass Knot, Natural Cure gets rid of Paralysis, Sleep, Burn or Freeze as soon as it switches out, and Surge Surfer can be used to pair with Tapu Koko. It can also use Volt Switch to pivot from non-Ground-type threats. It’s Poison STAB in the form of Sludge Bomb allows it to take on most Fairy-type, with Hidden Power Ground being used against the likes of Magearna and Mawile. Stoked Roserade have other utilities, such as Toxic Spikes and Aromatherapy, but its weak physical bulk means that it have to use either of it carefully.
Is It Overpowered?: Weak physical bulk means that many faster physical threats can take it down before it could even act. It is also weak to Pursuit, which will put it into danger against Dark-type or other Pursuit Pokémon. None of its STAB are particularly powerful, which means that a special wall that can resist both can safely switch in. Most priority moves will also greatly harm it, especially Sucker Punch. It also face competition with other special Psychic-type like Mega Alakazam and Tapu Lele does to much more immediate power and the latter being able to put the useful Psychic Terrain.
