Choice: Council
Name: Cutiefly
Type: Bug-Fairy
Stat Changes:
-30 HP, -30 Defense
Abilities: Honey Gather, Shield Dust, Sweet Veil
Custom Ability: Honey Gather: If a Pokemon with this ability has Honey held, this item can,t be removed and the Pokemon will heal 25% of its max HP every turn.
New Moves: No
Custom Move: No
Removed Moves: Protect, Rest, Sticky Web, Moonblast, Dazzling Gleam, Psychic.
Justification:
Cutiefly is the only Pokemon in LC that has Quiver Dance, so I didn,t want to remove the move. Instead, Cutiefly is now one of the physically frailest Pokemon in LC, every physical move it takes, will do a lot. This change is because IRL mosquitos are really frail, if you clap trying to kill them and miss, sometimes they are killed anyway just for the air movement your clap produces.
Additionally, while Quiver Dance stays, a lot of moves don,t: Protect removal means that First Impression and Fake Out will always damage Cutiefly, Nymble specifically will always OHKO. Rest removal is just for flavor reason, one of Cutiefly abilities prevents Sleep, so Cutiefly now doesn,t sleep at all. This fits for a mosquito, who are always more active at night. Being more a Bug than a Fairy, the strongest Fairy moves are also removed. Psychic removal means Cutiefly now is walled by almost all Poisons. Despite Moonblast and Dazzling Gleam being removed, Cutiefly still has Draining Kiss as Fairy STAB. Sticky Web removal doesn,t matter for now, since its banned, but maybe its unbanned later, so it should be a move that worse Mons than Cutiefly use.
Honey Gather won,t actually help Cutiefly too much (Eviolite will almost always be better(, its more a side help to Combee and Teddiursa. However, in some teams, specifically Screens, Cutiefly can get away with recovering health instead of being bulkier. It has to give up the other 2 abilities to do so.
Despite the nerf, Cutiefly is still a very dangerous set-up sweeper that can use Tera to beat its usual checks. It just has a harder time setting up and 3 whole types (Steel, Poison and Fire) that requite going Tera to avoid being walled.
Choice: Theme
Name: Shieldon
Type: Rock-Steel
Stat Changes: No
Abilities: Sturdy, Battle Armor, Stall.
Custom Ability: Stall: The Pokemon always moves last but if it uses a status move, it will move twice in a single turn (deducting only 1 PP).
New Moves: Body Press, Slack Off.
Custom Move: No
Removed Moves: No.
Justification:
Stall is an ability originally found just on Sableye. Its a bad ability that Sableye never uses. I looked the Pokedex entires of Shieldon and they all said things like these:
"It is outstandingly armored. As a result, it can eat grass and berries without having to fight."
"This Pokémon lived in primeval jungles. Few enemies would have been willing to square off against its heavily armored face, so it's thought. "
"Much remains unknown about this Pokémon, as few have ever seen it. However, we know that it is calm and dislikes conflict, and it enjoys polishing its face against trees and rocks."
Basically, this a Defensive Pokemon that doesn,t need to fight and doesn,t like to do it. Defensive Mons in LC tend to be worse, especially if they have a terrible defensive typing like Shieldon has. With the reworked Stall ability, Shieldon can do the following:
-Be back to full health in a single turn. Slack Off having just 8 PPs balances this.
-Be at +2 Attack and Defense with Curse in a single turn.
-Be at +4 Defense to use Body Press.
-Use Scary Face to put the enemy at -4 Speed.
-Use Screech to put the enemy at -4 Defense.
-Use Metal Sound to put the enemy at -4 Special Defense. All 3 of these are supposed to be used right before Shieldon dies.
-Swagger cheese to the fullest.
-Taunt bypassing Mental Herb (non existant in LC though).
-Roar phazing the opponent twice per turn.
-Sleep Talk attacking twice in a single turn.
With its enormous bulk and the new access to Slack Off, Shieldon can stick around and mess with opponents by using bizarre defensive tactics and even try to sweep with Body Press. Of course, the typing still sucks and Shieldon will require Tera to actually wall some things.
Choice: Hybrid.
Name: Poliwag
Type: Water
Stat Changes: No
Abilities: Water Absorb, Damp, Swamp.
Custom Ability: Swamp: Primordial Rain + Water Absorb.
New Moves: Calm Mind, Bulk Up.
Custom Move: No
Removed Moves: Protect.
Justification:
LC has no Drizzle Mons and seeing Psyduck with Nasty Plot means that if we want a Drizzle user, it has to be so terribly bad that it would basically be playing with 5 vs 6. Poliwag is unfortunately strong and fast enough to be such Drizzle user, so instead of putting Rain for teammates, it just puts Rain for itself, using the great Speed to break.
Outside of Speed Poliwag Stats are very mediocre. So, it now will learn Bulk Up and Calm Mind, allowing Poliwag to be a very versatile threat. It still has Belly Drum as an option to destroy slower teams with a good prediction. However, its frailty means that boosting is quite hard. Protect being removed allows Nymble to easily Revenge Kill Poliwag.
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Theme:
Hybrid:
