Pokémon: Luvdisc-Unova
New Typing: /
New Abilities: Water Absorb /
Hydration (hidden ability)
{Water Absorb replaces regular Luvdisc's Swift Swim}
New Stats: 050 HP / 030 Atk / 060 Def / 040 SpA / 070 SpD / 080 Spe = 330 BST
{+07 HP, +05 Def, +05 SpD, -17 Spe compared to Luvdisc-Hoenn}
New Moves: Acid, Acid Spray, Dark Pulse, Flip Turn, Poison Gas, Recover, Sludge Bomb, Sludge Wave, Venoshock, and Venom Drench
Removed Moves: [none]
New Height: 2'00" | 0.6 m {same as regular Luvdisc}
New Weight: 19.2 lbs | 8.7 kg {same as regular Luvdisc}
New Phone, Who's This?: (Do People Actually Do This?)
Flavor/Design: Visually I guess it's basically similar to Luvdisc except duller in color--closer to purple--and not nearly as peppy and upbeat. In fact, you could say it's downright tired looking because....
Pokémon Black: "Luvdisc native to the Unova region tend to be tired due to absorbing the pollution in the water to keep it away from the coral reefs and are thus skittish to people."
Pokémon White: "When immensely stressed out, Unovan Luvdisc starts to sweat a mild poison with a sickly sweet smell that is nauseating to most Pokémon as well as most people."
Pokémon Black 2: "Despite the stress that Unovan Luvdiscs are usually under, most people still see them as signs of good luck and fortune in love, especially due to the difficulty in sighting them."
Pokémon White 2: "There is research being done on the mild poison that Unovan Luvdisc emits to see if it may have some healing properties for coral or at least can be distilled into a bearable perfume to help the lovelorn."
So, yeah, I wanted to explore the some of the "dark side" of love as well as continue Gen 8's surprising climate change commentary with Corsola. In fact, I was initially going to make this Water/Dark and put it in Galar, but I figured Water/Poison made more sense for both worse aspects of love and (futile) water filtration in addition to being better competitively due to immunity to Poison status and fewer weaknesses. Similarly, apparently the Galarian Corsola got Ghosted in "ancient times", so any Luvdisc around there would either be long gone or radically different from even this.
Otherwise, this is mostly just a stepping point to get to....
{evolves upon knowing Dark Pulse when leveling up}
Pokémon: Touffluv
New Typing: /
New Abilities: Water Absorb /
Neutralizing Gas (hidden ability)
New Stats: 100 HP / 060 Atk / 080 Def / 090 SpA / 080 SpD / 100 Spe = 510 BST
{+50 HP, +30 Atk, +20 Def, +50 SpA, +10 SpD, +20 Spe = +180 BST from evolution}
New Moves: Corrosive Gas, Gastro Acid, Knock Off, Power Gem, Torment, and Toxic Spikes
Removed Moves: [none]
New Height: 4.00" | 1.2 m
New Weight: 70.0 lbs. | 31.7 kg
Flavor/Design: Touffluv, The Alomomola That Hates™...other Alomomola, though since Touffluv is actually still capable of loving itself (unlike 90% of fictional characters in a poorly written romance), it doesn't stoop to Alomomola's level of being thoroughly obnoxious and reliant on Regenerator with obnoxiously huge Wishes to have a niche. Touffluv looks superficially similar to Alomomola from a distance in that it's a somewhat big(ger), somewhat pink, vaguely heart-shaped fish, but that's where the similarities end. Touffluv is still closer to purple, is covered in small red-barnacles that can "leak" (read: pour out) a blue poisonous mist that is the aforementioned neutralizing gas in its case, and most importantly is constantly shooting out a pissed off look with its eyes and body language for various reasons that include....
Pokémon Black: "The stress of maintaining the coral reefs that are its home appear to be what most commonly triggers its evolution, and so it is violently protective of them."
Pokémon White: "It has weaponize its previously mild poison with its nauseating stench to attack its foes in various ways. Being on land and away from shore won't necessarily save you given it can make its poisons gaseous."
Pokémon Black 2: "It seems to hate everything that isn't another Luvdisc or part of a coral reef. Of its various other hates, it's difficult to tell whether it hates pollution, other poisonous Pokémon, or, oddly, Alomomola the most."
Pokémon White 2: "It is said that it curses those who damage coral in its sight, dooming all of their relationships to fail for the rest of their life. How one lifts this curse is currently unknown."
[Insert ancient "forever alone" meme here.] Outside of filling the void of "Luvdisc should have evolved into Alomomola (if Alomomola was going to have the audacity to exist in the first place)", Touffluv also fills the role of "actually all-around bulky Neutralizing Gas user" that I've seen a decent number of people seem fond of trying to shift Skuntank into in Pet Mods. Given how much that does make sense, I figured I would try a version of it that trades a bit of HP, immunity to Psychic, weakness to Electric (and Psychic), resistances to Grass and Dark, and only one weakness for slightly more bulk overall, keeping resistances to Fighting, Bug, and Fairy, and, most importantly, Recover and pivoting (and better Speed). That seems like a fair trade, and I would like to think a trade that doesn't push it over the edge of annoyance like that
other Water/Poison mon, Toxapex. I could see maybe Toxic Spikes of all things pushing over the edge of obnoxiousness (if neither Flip Turn nor Knock Off already do) since those Toxic Spikes are super swingy in their (in)effectiveness, so feel free to get rid of that move I guess.
(And as far as "lifting the curse" goes, that would require being content in the solitude and in one's self, which is something most people, especially in poorly written romances, cannot do. [/I ♥ ironic curses])
Orrean Komala/Kingonng
Kantonian Salandit/Axolizurd (don’t worry, we’ll work on movepool changes later if this gets in)
Unovan Scyther/Blastor
Kantonian Drizzile/Indrizible
Hoennian Minior/Mightior
Galarian Gligar/Gligoyle
Kantonian Combusken/Combuskuno, Kantonian Prinplup/Plupdos, and Kantonian Dartrix/Dartres
Kalosian Skitty/Kalosian Delcatty/Meowsma
Alolan Ledyba/Alolan Ledian/Lediader
Ultra Carnivine/Carniferous
Distorted Porygon2/Porygon-ERROR
Kalosian Gulpin/Kalosian Swalot/Gourmaw
Kalosian Glameow/Kalosian Purugly/Purradox
Hoennian Sliggoo/Escargoo
Orrean Onix/Crystallix
Hisuian Dunsparce/Golsparce
Ultra Porygon/Ultra Porygon2/Porygon-X
Galarian Golett/Golurnace
Sinnohan Drowzee/Sinnohan Hypno/Tapnea
Unovan Wooper/Unovan Quagsire/Kaijoxic
Galarian Seedot/Galarian Nuzleaf/Wyldeward
Unovan Luvdisc/Touffluv
