New Pokémon: Nabscar (evolves from Roador)
Type: Steel / Dark
Abilities: White Smoke / Screen Cleaner (Hidden)
Stats: 75 / 115 / 100 / 50 / 85 / 45 (470 BST)
Weight/Height: 1.5 m / 350.0 kg
Movepool Changes: + Wicked Torque (100 BP, 30% chance to lower Defense), Blazing Torque (100 BP), Noxious Torque, Magical Torque (10% chance to confuse), Combat Torque, Shift Gear, Spin Out, Iron Head, Gyro Ball, Heavy Slam, High Horsepower, Dark Pulse, Double-Edge, Wild Charge, Foul Play, U-turn
- Psychic moves except Rest, Recover, Revival Blessing, Power Gem, Earth Power, Energy Ball, Shadow Ball, Dazzling Gleam
Flavor: Car. Carries a big tire or something
Competitive: Steel / Dark is a pretty good typing in this meta, Shift Gear is great and makes up for 45 Speed, Electric immunity from Motor Drive is useful, and the Torque moves are fun coverage (and modified appropriately). Wicked Torque is an extremely reliable and spammable Dark STAB.
Type: Steel / Dark
Abilities: White Smoke / Screen Cleaner (Hidden)
Stats: 75 / 115 / 100 / 50 / 85 / 45 (470 BST)
Weight/Height: 1.5 m / 350.0 kg
Movepool Changes: + Wicked Torque (100 BP, 30% chance to lower Defense), Blazing Torque (100 BP), Noxious Torque, Magical Torque (10% chance to confuse), Combat Torque, Shift Gear, Spin Out, Iron Head, Gyro Ball, Heavy Slam, High Horsepower, Dark Pulse, Double-Edge, Wild Charge, Foul Play, U-turn
- Psychic moves except Rest, Recover, Revival Blessing, Power Gem, Earth Power, Energy Ball, Shadow Ball, Dazzling Gleam
Flavor: Car. Carries a big tire or something
Competitive: Steel / Dark is a pretty good typing in this meta, Shift Gear is great and makes up for 45 Speed, Electric immunity from Motor Drive is useful, and the Torque moves are fun coverage (and modified appropriately). Wicked Torque is an extremely reliable and spammable Dark STAB.
New Pokémon: Skelepede (evolves from Vengipede and Wailipede)
Type: Ghost / Bug
Abilities: Rattled / Cursed Body / Regenerator (Hidden)
Stats: 60 / 55 / 89 / 100 / 69 / 112 (485 BST)
Weight/Height: 2.5 m / 120.0 kg
Movepool Changes: + Shadow Ball, Shadow Bone, Shadow Sneak, Bug Buzz, Earth Power, Fillet Away, Destiny Bond, Will-O-Wisp, Bone Rush
- Poison Jab, Baton Pass, Venom Drench
Flavor: Skeleton centipede. An exoskeleton one might even say.
Competitive: Fillet Away Regenerator! On something with a meh offensive typing and longevity issues anyways thanks to the Rocks weakness. Still, fairly fast for the meta (one point under Soaperior), able to set Spikes and Toxic Spikes like regular Scolipede, and also I thiiink somehow all our Ghosts atm are physical? So here's a special one. Fillet Away's Japanese name is Cut to the Bone, so that's the flavour justification.
Type: Ghost / Bug
Abilities: Rattled / Cursed Body / Regenerator (Hidden)
Stats: 60 / 55 / 89 / 100 / 69 / 112 (485 BST)
Weight/Height: 2.5 m / 120.0 kg
Movepool Changes: + Shadow Ball, Shadow Bone, Shadow Sneak, Bug Buzz, Earth Power, Fillet Away, Destiny Bond, Will-O-Wisp, Bone Rush
- Poison Jab, Baton Pass, Venom Drench
Flavor: Skeleton centipede. An exoskeleton one might even say.
Competitive: Fillet Away Regenerator! On something with a meh offensive typing and longevity issues anyways thanks to the Rocks weakness. Still, fairly fast for the meta (one point under Soaperior), able to set Spikes and Toxic Spikes like regular Scolipede, and also I thiiink somehow all our Ghosts atm are physical? So here's a special one. Fillet Away's Japanese name is Cut to the Bone, so that's the flavour justification.
New Pokémon: Coffeegrigus (evolves from Javask)
Type: Normal
Abilities: Insomnia / Lingering Aroma (At the end of the Pokémon's first turn in battle and on contact, replaces the opponent's Ability with Lingering Aroma) (Hidden)
Stats: 78 / 50 / 145 / 75 / 105 / 30 (483 BST)
Weight/Height: 1.7 m / 76.5 kg
Movepool Changes: + Uproar, Hyper Voice, Milk Drink, Leech Seed, Seed Bomb, Worry Seed, Overheat, Scald, Heal Bell, Knock Off, Teatime
- Ghost moves except Hex, Toxic Spikes
Flavor: It's a big coffee machine or something? Think Polteageist but more caffeine.
Competitive: Ghost switch-in with a lot of utility between Leech Seed, Scald, Will-O-Wisp, Heal Bell, Knock Off, reliable recovery in Milk Drink, and Ability denial with the new Lingering Aroma, which has some particular benefits such as letting it burn the revamped Fweezing, forcing out Glimmaurora, and discouraging Judowoodo and Soaperior. Solid fat Normal.
Type: Normal
Abilities: Insomnia / Lingering Aroma (At the end of the Pokémon's first turn in battle and on contact, replaces the opponent's Ability with Lingering Aroma) (Hidden)
Stats: 78 / 50 / 145 / 75 / 105 / 30 (483 BST)
Weight/Height: 1.7 m / 76.5 kg
Movepool Changes: + Uproar, Hyper Voice, Milk Drink, Leech Seed, Seed Bomb, Worry Seed, Overheat, Scald, Heal Bell, Knock Off, Teatime
- Ghost moves except Hex, Toxic Spikes
Flavor: It's a big coffee machine or something? Think Polteageist but more caffeine.
Competitive: Ghost switch-in with a lot of utility between Leech Seed, Scald, Will-O-Wisp, Heal Bell, Knock Off, reliable recovery in Milk Drink, and Ability denial with the new Lingering Aroma, which has some particular benefits such as letting it burn the revamped Fweezing, forcing out Glimmaurora, and discouraging Judowoodo and Soaperior. Solid fat Normal.
New Pokémon: Wugtrio
Type: Water / Poison
Abilities: Gooey / Long Reach / Poison Touch (Hidden)
Stats: 35 / 120 / 50 / 25 / 70 / 125 (425 BST)
Weight/Height: Same
Movepool Changes: + Triple Dive (Water-type Triple Axel clone), Triple Axel, Coil, Power Whip, Gunk Shot, Poison Jab, Knock Off, Stealth Rock
Competitive: Remember Weavile? Here's Wugvile. Poison Touch Triple Dive / Axel goes hard, Poison Touch Knock also goes hard, Long Reach is another option if you want to avoid Helmets and Flame Body and whatever, no Swords Dance but you have Coil to make the Triples more reliable, and Power Whip / Gunk Shot nail certain switch-ins.
Type: Water / Poison
Abilities: Gooey / Long Reach / Poison Touch (Hidden)
Stats: 35 / 120 / 50 / 25 / 70 / 125 (425 BST)
Weight/Height: Same
Movepool Changes: + Triple Dive (Water-type Triple Axel clone), Triple Axel, Coil, Power Whip, Gunk Shot, Poison Jab, Knock Off, Stealth Rock
Competitive: Remember Weavile? Here's Wugvile. Poison Touch Triple Dive / Axel goes hard, Poison Touch Knock also goes hard, Long Reach is another option if you want to avoid Helmets and Flame Body and whatever, no Swords Dance but you have Coil to make the Triples more reliable, and Power Whip / Gunk Shot nail certain switch-ins.
New Pokémon: Toedscruel
Type: Ground / Grass
Abilities: Mycelium Might (User's powder moves move last in their priority bracket but bypass Abilities, Grass-typing, and protection moves)
Stats: 80 / 60 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 100 (515 BST)
Weight/Height: Same
Movepool Changes: + Strength Sap
Competitive: All Toedscruel really needs is for Mycelium Might to be less bad, now only affecting its raison d'etre in Spore, and some recovery with Sap.
Type: Ground / Grass
Abilities: Mycelium Might (User's powder moves move last in their priority bracket but bypass Abilities, Grass-typing, and protection moves)
Stats: 80 / 60 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 100 (515 BST)
Weight/Height: Same
Movepool Changes: + Strength Sap
Competitive: All Toedscruel really needs is for Mycelium Might to be less bad, now only affecting its raison d'etre in Spore, and some recovery with Sap.
(edit 2: replaced Motor Drive with Screen Cleaner on Nabscar to differentiate it a bit more from Bullibot; removed the new effect from Rattled on Skelepede and gave it Wisp; moved 10 points of Attack to SpAtk on Toedscruel to make it a bit less passive)
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This seems very annoying. Coil sets are still very strong due to its excellent bulk and with the signature ability turning every contact move into a physical Scald… Not a fan. Would remove that ability entirely for something else and lower the Special Defense around 15 points (put into speed since it doesn’t have that trapping move anymore) and it’s probably OK.
The sig is pretty interesting, seems really good at dealing with pivot spam, not entirely sure how I feel about it. It’s alright overall.
This is pretty cool, seems like a nice defensive Poison pivot that isn’t passive either. I like this.
This is alright. I would’ve preferred if you removed all Fire Coverage and kept its special attack as it was originally, but this should be balanced too I think.
I like it. Scarf and CM sets should be very good on this and balanced too.
This is alright, really just feels like Scolipede but with a better typing. Likely balanced but I’m not a huge fan.
This is quite bulky for Magic Bounce mon, would lower it’s bulk down to something like 55 / 108 / 108 or so. Other than that though, I think I like it. Should(?) be able to beat and set up on our Steel type rockers and Fetagross.
This is very cool, I like it quite a bit. Nasty Plot and Merciless sets both seem like very good options due to this thing’s bulk and it should fit quite well into the meta.
Not a fan of this at all. We already had an ESpeed bot Pokemon and that didn’t turn out very well, so I feel this would likely end up being pretty weak, considering it’s secondary stab is much worse than Furant’s previous secondary STAB. I’d try to rework it entirely around its Bug typing and change the secondary typing to not be Normal, making it stronger overall (Dark or Steel maybe? - give it coverage though)
That ability is way too strong, especially with grass coverage and reliable recovery from this as well, they both seem very overkill even without the ability and would make this extremely difficult to remove in the long run. I’d remove reliable recovery from this (Soft-Boiled, etc.) and Grass coverage; and likely change the ability as well.
Punk Rock is way too much on this, 124 spA is great offensively even if your main STAB is bad, and combined with boosted Torch Song and Overdrive, there is no way to answer this consistently, akin to regular Iron Bundle. I’d remove Punk Rock and Torch Song here at least.
This is alright, not a huge fan but I don’t think this is a bad sub either, just doesn’t really appeal to me personally. Sharpness Bitter Blade is a bit concerning though, but I’m not sure if it’s veto-worthy yet.
Very cool. Dark / Flying and some good utility and bulk should make this quite the defensive pivot, and it’s not passive at all either.
I have liked this sub and will continue to like this sub. It’s good, and should probably still be good here even with all the changes.
Great idea. This is probably slow enough to get away with having all the Torque moves too, although Shift Gear allows it to outspeed the entire metagame unboosted, which is a bit concerning, but probably OK? Seems very similar to Bullibolt currently outside of Shift Gear, however.
Interesting sub. Seems pretty passive outside of Scald and Knock Off, which is alright, but other than that seems like a pretty generic bulky normal-type. It’s alright.
I don’t like this, nor do I think it’d be very good. It’s quite passive and weak to rocks which makes it pretty difficult for it to to make progress considering it’s weaknesses are pretty common in the meta. I’d probably try to use a different mon for more BST so you don’t have to resort to that ability and give it some much needed attack and physical coverage to make it better.
This ability is much better suited on a more defensive mon and I’d likely up the damage the attacker takes to 1/10, so it isn’t as strong as Rough Skin, but not negligible either. Other than that, I think with some more speed and Taunt, this could be a pretty effective HO lead. Or you could rework this to be defensive so it can use it’s ability. Either works.
Not a fan of Drizzle Water Spout or Drizzle in general, and its not even walled by Grass-types either due to Hurricane. Superbloom is also really scary on this too considering Strength Sap. I’d try to rework this without Drizzle so it isn’t as much of an issue.
This essentially is a Steel/Fairy Toxapex (extremely similar bulk) with Teleport and Wish instead of Scald and Knock Off if you’re running Regenerator on it. Not a fan at all, might even end up being too strong (although I’m not certain; it’s quite passive).
Not entirely sure why you lowered the attack, I thought it was fine at 106 attack when you first subbed it. Aside from that, this is pretty cool, although I’d rather give this Gunk Shot than the sig it currently has.
We don’t have Tera here, you don’t need to remove Tera Blast. Either way, I’m not very keen on this sub. Not entirely sure if it’d be broken or too weak in my opinion, but I don’t think there’s really an in between with an ability like that + Strength Sap. I’d personally change the ability and go from there.
Not a huge fan of the sig, but other than that this is pretty nice, although we’ve got a lot of waters already. Stands out from the rest of our Flying-types defensively and should be pretty strong as a defensive Water too.
Not a fan, this might honestly be too strong as well. 135 atk + 150 BP STAB is pretty ridiculous even with a typing as bad as Bug / Poison, and it still keeps V-Create to hit steels too.
I’m a bit worried about this thing’s typing for a Magic Bounce mon, it’s really good. Luckily it’s stats are pretty mediocre, which should make this OK, this is alright in my opinion.
140 attack Sharpness Sacred Sword + DD is scary, and possibly veto-worthy, though I’m not entirely sure of this yet. Seems alright overall as it's held back by its other stats being so mediocre.
This is alright, although I would’ve preferred it were Dark / Poison (with some good coverage) over Dark / Water personally, we’ve got a good amount of Water-types already.
This is alright as well. Would personally make this faster (108 speed at least) to make it more effective as an offensive pivot.
This is a really annoying ability, burning your opponent for clicking a Fire move seems very unfun, I would remove it for something less strong personally. Either way, I don’t think it’d need the ability anyway, as 121 / 133 offenses are superb and its typing and coverage is solid too. Not sure if this will be too much but this is extremely strong and pretty borderline.
This is much too strong. 134 attack 113 speed Libero is far too strong, the attack will need to be lowered to at least 114 if it’s keeping Libero. Would also get rid of ALL electric coverage on this, being able to hit waters so consistently with its movepool feels too overboard.
No. I’m not sure if vetoing something based solely on its flavor is fair, but this really makes me consider that option. Even outside of that, I’m not a fan of this competitively either. Adaptability Pop Bomb and Pick Missile seem like this thing’s only niche and make this pretty one dimensional. I don’t like this.
This is alright. I think we’ve got enough Ground-types like this already, especially with Zarune around, but this mon’s better typing could be justify i’s inclusion in the meta
Not really a fan of having another Ice-type, especially a Snow Warning one.
This is nice. Still has Brave Bird for fighting types that could wall it, which makes it seem quite effective, while likely not too strong.
I don’t think we’d allow a form changing ability like this considering Sunflora doesn’t have any transformation or secondary form normally, so I don’t think this makes much sense. Outside of that, this seems pretty bad. Its poor bulk and low speed will likely mean that it will get OHKO’d before it transforms, and even then, it doesn’t regain any of its health after transforming (health stat doesn’t increase unlike Zygarde) meaning that the bulk it gains is pretty useless.
Not a fan of weather in a micro meta like this, which seems to be its only niche. Not too keen on this one.
143 / 80 / 83 bulk is REALLY good and this isn’t passive at all either. I’d recommend lowering the bulk a bit, possibly down to around 143 / 70 / 73 at least, as that’s still very good bulk but a bit more abusable (put the 20 stat points lost into Attack)
Electric Surge is pretty questionable coming off of 125 special Attack, although this still might be balanced since this can’t really touch Grass-types. It seems alright.
The name on this will need to be changed, it’s a bit too different. Would recommend Scizaw since the name seems to be based off of the seesaw. Competitively, this seems really strong, possibly too strong due to the ability, and it’d likely outclass Bullibolt as soon as it hit the meta. I think the fast pivot route (with a good secondary typing to boot) could help differentiate this from the steels we currently have, and I’d likely change the ability, as giving a guaranteed 120 BP Heavy Slam and Heat Crash seems a bit overboard.
I like this, it seems really effective as a wall with TWave and Recover, but with a typing that’s decently abusable, which should(?) make this balanced.
Very cool, really like this idea as a more bulky Fire-type attacker, seems very strong, but imo not overboard.
Rising Voltage is a bit too much here, as outside of mons immune to Electric moves, there really isn't any consistent switch-ins to it, especially if this is running Specs. Remove Rising Voltage and it's fine.
Fluffy gives a too bit much bulk on a mon with such a good typing, pivoting, and threatening coverage for its switchins. I'd personally remove Fluffy here and replace it with something a bit less strong (if you really want flavor and a good ability, you could go with Cotton Down, a custom, or something similar).
