Pokémon: Skwovet-Sinnoh
New Typing:
New Abilities: Symbiosis |
Friendly Heat
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Friendly Heat - Flower Veil Clone - Fire-type Pokémon on this Pokémon's side cannot have their stat stages lowered by other Pokemon or have a major status condition inflicted on them by other Pokemon. This includes the user itself if it is Fire-type.)
New Stats: 70 HP / 35 Atk (Swapped with SpA) / 55 Def / 55 SpA (Swapped with Atk) / 35 SpD / 25 Spe | BST: 275
New Moves: Burning Jealousy, Fire Fang, Burn Up, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Ember, Overheat, Slack Off (+8)
Removed Moves: Seed Bomb, Bullet Seed (-2)
Flavor/Design: Sinnoan Skwovet had to adapt the cold climate of Sinnoh, so they ended up developing fiery fur allowing them to not only cook their stored berries as needed, but also develop a sense of symbiosis with larger Pokémon like Magmortar or Togekiss by sharing berries with them. Their fur become red, and gains orange stripes on their tail that will heat up for cooking berries or if it feels to be in a danger.
Pokémon: Greedent-Sinnoh
New Typing:
New Abilities: Symbiosis |
Friendly Heat
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Friendly Heat - Flower Veil Clone - Fire-type Pokémon on this Pokémon's side cannot have their stat stages lowered by other Pokemon or have a major status condition inflicted on them by other Pokemon. This includes the user itself if it is Fire-type.)
New Stats: 110 HP (-10) / 55 Atk (Swapped with SpA) / 95 Def / 95 SpA (Swapped with Atk) / 75 SpD / 30 Spe (+10) | BST: 460
New Moves: Burning Jealousy, Slack Off, Burn Up, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Ember, Overheat, Solar Beam, Scald, Nasty Plot (+10, normal Greedent already learns Fire Fang)
Removed Moves: Seed Bomb, Bullet Seed (-2)
Flavor/Design: Sinnoan Greedent, although still looking chubby, have the fur at the tip of the head shaped like a chef bonnet, and the berries are hidden on it's body instead of it's tail. Indeed, Sinnoan Greedent only uses it's tail to heat up their berries or to provide support for ally Fire-type Pokémon. There are more orange stripes on the tail, with a pseudo-crater near the end of the tail acting like a boiler, releasing excessive heat against enemies.
Pokémon: Gourmandire (Gourmand/Gourmet + Fire/Dire)
New Typing:
New Abilities: Symbiosis |
Friendly Heat
New Stats: 140 HP / 55 Atk / 95 Def / 115 SpA / 75 SpD / 40 Spe | BST: 520
New Moves: Movepool from Sinnoan Skovet line + Flash Cannon, Dazzling Gleam, Will-o-Wisp, Heat Wave, Inferno
Flavor/Design: 1 m | 60 kg | As the environment of Sinnoh have a lacking of strong Fire-type aside of the starter Chimchar line, Rapidash or Magby line, an increasing amount of Ice-type Pokémon were infesting Sinnoh, including new variants of Pokémon previously not seen in Sinnoh. This caused Sinnoan Greedent to evolve further into Gourmandire, ready to keep the infesting Ice-type Pokémon in check and protect their fiery friends. They are also beloved partners of cooking chefs! Gourmandire are essentially much less obese but still bigger than Greedent, with their cheeks being less bulgy and their tail having bright white stripes alongside normal orange ones that will bright up in dark environment.
Competitive Uses: Works either as a physical wall or a slow, set-up special wallbreaker. While very slow, it have one very appealing Ability in the form of Friendly Heat, which means not only it ignores stat drops from opponents, but also completely invalidates Paralysis, Sleep, Freeze and especially Poison/Toxic. This makes poisoning it unviable, and instead encourage Special Attacking brute force to defeat it. It also wield Scald to handle Rock-type and Ground-type threats.
Competitive Flaws: 40 Speed will leave it vulnerable against a multitude of wallbreakers and is prone of being revenge killed. While Friendly Heat does invalidates major status conditions as long as it doesn't lost it's Fire-type, it does not protect it from Stealth Rocks and other kind of indirect damage. With a low Special Defense in comparison to it's higher Defense, Pokémon with high Special Attack will not have much a hard time to take it down. It may also compete with it's own pre-evolution, Greedent-Sinnoh, as the latter can use Eviolite to be super bulky, but it isn't as powerful, is a bit slower, and have no access of Will-o-Wisp.