Signature Booking Office

• Name: Naturally, a signature move cannot have the same name as a canon Pokémon move or ability, nor can it have the same name as an already existing and approved signature move in this ASB league.
• Type: All signature moves must have a type, such as Fire or Fairy; this is exactly one type out of the eighteen currently existing ones. It cannot have more than one type, it cannot be typeless, and it cannot be assigned a non-canon type. This also doesn't need to be wildly original; many excellent signature moves are Normal-type and/or the same type as one of its user's types.
• Damage Class: If your signature move deals damage, that damage should be classed as Physical or Special. If it does not deal damage, your signature move should be classed as Non-Damaging.
• Base Power: This is the raw damage dealt by a damaging signature move, before modifiers such as STAB or effectiveness are accounted for. When filling this into the database, be sure to input an actual base power value, akin to the kind found in the games (e.g. 150 rather than 15%). If the signature move does not deal damage, or if its base power isn't fixed, this field should be left blank (and in the latter case, the means of determining the move's base power at a given situation should be specified in the Effects section).
• Base Energy: This is the amount of energy that must be expended in order to use the move. This need not be a factor of the base power as is usually the case, and in fact, assinging a hefty energy cost can help to balance a powerful move. If the signature move's base energy cost isn't fixed, this field should be left blank, and the means of determining the base energy cost should be specified in the Effects section.
• Accuracy: This is the likelihood of this move successfully connecting against its target when used, in percentage. Making a signature move less likely to hit can also be a convenient means of balancing it if it has powerful effects. If the signature move cannot miss, leave this field blank. Note that a move that affects its own user exlusively (e.g. Swords Dance, Protect) or has effects on the whole field (e.g. Sunny Day, Grassy Terrain) can never miss, and should be given the appropriate accuracy rate, although you are free to give such moves a separate chance of failure.
• Target: This is simply which Pokémon are elligible targets for the move and how many at a time are so. You'll only need to pick the appropriate designation from the drop-down menu.
• Usage Gap: Signature moves are usually more powerful and complex than standard attacks, and even the most well-balanced of them are not made for repetitive use -- all signature moves must have a specified usage gap, that is, a limit on how often it can be used. This can either be an amount of actions after using the move that the Pokémon must wait before being able to use it again (such as 6 actions, which is the traditional standard), or a limited number of times that a move can be used in the match (such as 1 use, which is common for very powerful and/or game-changing kinds of effect that must be balanced by being given only one pop per battle). The more powerful your move is, the more restrictive its usage gap should be. Note that most moves with effects that spread across a certain duration should have usage gaps that count starting after those effects reach the end of their duration.
• Effects: These are the primary in-battle effects that your move can be expected to cause whenever it's used. It's rather akin to the Summary sections usually found on canon moves. Most of the information here will be mechanical and specific (things like "20% chance of inflicting a burn" or "deals 3% more damage if the target's last used move dealt physical damage"), but even more vague effects should be covered here if they're the main intended bonus of using the move (things like "the user sprouts wings" or "a massive mushroom grows on the opponent's head"), along with as much specification as possible of these vague effects's mechanical consequences (in the mentioned cases, things like how much energy the Pokémon must expend to fly or whether the mushroom does something specific to the opponent like constantly sapping health -- effects described in this section should never be of the entirely played out sort).
• Description: This is an explanation of how this move is executed and what it looks like in battle. This should clarify how the move's effects are caused and contain any of the information that is absolutely required for a referee to narrate this move in your battles, and it's both the grounds that you have if you wish to use your move in a different way from the usual (similarly to how you'd be able to spread out a Flamethrower in order to attack in a wide radius or utilize Psychic's psychokinesis to pick up and hurl objects in the arena instead of attacking directly) and the grounds that your opponent has if they might find a clever way to turn your own move against you. For this reason, this section is subject to approval, although it will not be evaluated for quality of the writing; rather, the approver will usually be vetoing signature move descriptions if they give the move obvious means of being exploited for unfair advantages, if the described execution of the move is dissonant enough from its effects to either cause problems for the referee or make it unfairly difficult for external circumstances to affect them, or if their contents are inappropriate or otherwise liable of bothering people involved in a battle where the move is used.
• Flavor: This is an entirely optional field that can be left blank if you choose so, and is not subject to the approval process at all outside of very extenuating circumstances. In this field, you can flesh out the signature move to whatever extent you'd like, giving it more background and story than what would need to go into the Description field. Although information inputted in this field can never have a proper effect in battle and is liable of not even being read by referees in charge of your battles, a signature move with substance is much more fun than one without, so we do recommend giving the flavor its due as well. You should also feel free to ask approvers (or even any other people) for advice or subjective criticism on the contents of this section, if you'd like to.

• Name: Naturally, a signature move cannot have the same name as a canon Pokémon move or ability, nor can it have the same name as an already existing and approved signature attribute in this ASB league.
• Effects: These are the primary in-battle effects that your attribute causes while it's in effect, as well as any trigger conditions that it might have, or the different effects it may take on as the circumstances vary. Signature attributes usually have broad effects, but they should still be outlined in the clearest and most objective way possible.
• Description: This is an explanation of how the attribute affects the appearance and behavior of the Pokémon that wields it, as well as the elements that bring its effects about. This should contain any of the information that is absolutely required for a referee to narrate this attribute's presence and effects in your battles, and it may also be grounds for you or your opponent to creatively interact with the attribute's logical interaction with the circumstances of battle. For this reason, this section is subject to approval, although it will not be evaluated for quality of the writing; rather, the approver will usually be vetoing signature attribute descriptions if they give the attribute obvious means of being exploited for unfair advantages, if the description of the attribute is dissonant enough from its effects to either cause problems for the referee or make it unfairly difficult for external circumstances to affect them, or if their contents are inappropriate or otherwise liable of bothering people involved in a battle where the move is used.
• Flavor: This is an entirely optional field that can be left blank if you choose so, and is not subject to the approval process at all outside of very extenuating circumstances. In this field, you can flesh out the signature attribute to whatever extent you'd like, giving it more background and story than what would need to go into the Description field. Although information inputted in this field can never have a proper effect in battle and is liable of not even being read by referees in charge of your battles, a signature attribute with substance is much more fun than one without, so we do recommend giving the flavor its due as well. You should also feel free to ask approvers (or even any other people) for advice or subjective criticism on the contents of this section, if you'd like to.

• Be fair and willing to self-criticize. The approvers will mostly likely have better things to do than fix something that's obviously broken -- do try to present what you'd consider the most balanced possible version of your signature move/attribute.
• Be as specific as possible about the mechanical battle effects. Your signature move/attribute should not simply have "a chance to inflict a burn", for example; it should have a specific chance, such as 20% or 30%.
• In ASB, there are no "turns", so avoid referring to those when your signature move/attribute's effects span a certain duration. Time in ASB is measured in actions and rounds. Beware of mixing those two up, as well.

Wargle said:

I had a move approved a while ago for my Bronzor, so I made it a little stronger since it's evolved now.

[Stamford] Bronzong X

Signature Move: Gravitational Tear

It is fabled that shedinja contain the endless void itself in their backs; although at least somewhat disproven by science, there's definitely something in there. The clefairy family has a long-standing obsession with the moon. And bronzor have appeared in the art of dozens of unrelated cultures. How is this all connected? Aliens, obviously.

Or at least that was the logic of a group of star-addled human cultists who tried to breed the perfect poképortal, in order to view the "heart of the universe". Although the group doubtlessly failed, they left in their wake a series of unown, bronzor, shedinja, and clefable (among others) that were never really normal after the fact. Many of the young creatures, after being repurposed by the League, exhibited strange abilities such as antigravity or, in some cases, instinctive knowledge of astronomical forces. Stamford, for example, can create black holes with its mind.

After a number of catastrophic accidents that were thankfully contained by League Alakazam, Stamford rapidly learned how to control itself (being a psychic, after all) and was issued to a new owner, under intense reconnaissance. However, despite the League's worst fears, nothing went wrong, even though they tentatively allowed the ability's use in sanctioned battles. The attack Wargle developed is really nowhere near as dangerous as the early meltdowns were; Stamford simply focuses it's mind very hard, shrinking a rock or similar object into a minuscule point. In a split second, the point invisibly and silently expands into a relatively tiny black hole. Although the hole is contained by its powerful psychic abilities, Stamford allows the invisible hole in space to suck away the metaphysical elemental energies of his opponent. The process is intensely painful, the energy's rapid departure causing skin abrasions, but Stamford returns the point to normal before any lasting damage in done to the world.

Psychic / Special / 100 power / 100% Accuracy / 9% energy/ Single Opponent / Usage Gap: Four Rounds

Effects: Stamford focuses intensely on a single point in space, psychically compacting an object into a shielded, nearly-invisible black hole that absorbs the surrounding light. The attack rips the main elemental energy from the target, draining 10% energy from the opponent into the void. Furthermore, as the energy is rent from the body it causes physical damage as well.

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JackPK said:

[Judge Judy] Kangaskhan (F)
Signature move: Kangaroo Court
Type: Normal
Damage class: Physical
Base power: *
Base energy: *
Base accuracy: 85%
Target: Single
Usage gap: Once per battle

Effects: Judge Judy calculates the damage her target has done to her and her teammates and attacks it for one-quarter of that amount. (If Judge Judy has witnessed the majority of the damage directly — such as in a 2v2 or if it was done to her directly — this is automatically done as health damage. Otherwise, the opponent may choose whether to take the attack as damage to its health or its energy.) This attack costs energy equal to three-quarters of the damage that would be dealt before damage caps are accounted for.

Description: Judge Judy confers with the bailiff (the referee) to find out precisely how much pain she and her teammates have been caused by a particular foe. Acting as judge, jury and executioner, she then uses a thrashing, brutal beatdown to inflict a punitive punishment on the foe. If Judge Judy was a witness to its foe's onslaught, she is implacable in her desire to deal vengeful damage, but if she was not, the foe may expend an equivalent amount of energy to protect its health from Judge Judy's beatdown.

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JackPK said:

[Judge Judy] Kangaskhan (F)
Signature move: Kangaroo Court
Type: Normal
Damage class: Physical
Base power: *
Base energy: *
Base accuracy: 85%
Target: Single
Usage gap: Once per battle

Effects: Judge Judy calculates the damage her target has done to her and her teammates and attacks it for one-quarter of that amount. (If Judge Judy has witnessed the majority of the damage directly — such as in a 2v2 or if it was done to her directly — this is automatically done as health damage. Otherwise, the opponent may choose whether to take the attack as damage to its health or its energy.) This attack costs energy equal to three-quarters of the damage that would be dealt before damage caps are accounted for.

Description: Judge Judy confers with the bailiff (the referee) to find out precisely how much pain she and her teammates have been caused by a particular foe. Acting as judge, jury and executioner, she then uses a thrashing, brutal beatdown to inflict a punitive punishment on the foe. If Judge Judy was a witness to its foe's onslaught, she is implacable in her desire to deal vengeful damage, but if she was not, the foe may expend an equivalent amount of energy to protect its health from Judge Judy's beatdown.

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Wargle said:

[Stamford] Bronzong X

Signature Move: Gravitational Tear

It is fabled that shedinja contain the endless void itself in their backs; although at least somewhat disproven by science, there's definitely something in there. The clefairy family has a long-standing obsession with the moon. And bronzor have appeared in the art of dozens of unrelated cultures. How is this all connected? Aliens, obviously.

Or at least that was the logic of a group of star-addled human cultists who tried to breed the perfect poképortal, in order to view the "heart of the universe". Although the group doubtlessly failed, they left in their wake a series of unown, bronzor, shedinja, and clefable (among others) that were never really normal after the fact. Many of the young creatures, after being repurposed by the League, exhibited strange abilities such as antigravity or, in some cases, instinctive knowledge of astronomical forces. Stamford, for example, can create black holes with its mind.

After a number of catastrophic accidents that were thankfully contained by League Alakazam, Stamford rapidly learned how to control itself (being a psychic, after all) and was issued to a new owner, under intense reconnaissance. However, despite the League's worst fears, nothing went wrong, even though they tentatively allowed the ability's use in sanctioned battles. The attack Wargle developed is really nowhere near as dangerous as the early meltdowns were; Stamford simply focuses it's mind very hard, shrinking a rock or similar object into a minuscule point. In a split second, the point invisibly and silently expands into a relatively tiny black hole. Although the hole is contained by its powerful psychic abilities, Stamford allows the invisible hole in space to suck away the metaphysical elemental energies of his opponent. The process is intensely painful, the energy's rapid departure causing skin abrasions, but Stamford returns the point to normal before any lasting damage in done to the world.

Psychic / Special / 10% Damage / 100% / Single Opponent / 9% energy /

Effects: Stamford focuses intensely on a single point in space, psychically compacting an object into a shielded, nearly-invisible black hole that absorbs the surrounding light. The attack rips the main elemental energy from the target, draining 10% energy from the opponent into the void. Furthermore, as the energy is rent from the body it causes physical damage as well.

Usage Gap: Four Rounds

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Superbird said:

[Amaterasu] Poochyena (F)
Ability: Quick Feet
Signature Attribute: Sun Demigoddess
Amaterasu is the last in a long line of Mightyena. She was named for her second-most distant ancestor, Amaterasu the goddess of the sun. The original Amaterasu accomplished the amazing feat of defeating Orochi, the 8-headed demon, and Yami, the Emperor of Everlasting Darkness. In doing so, the original Amaterasu traveled around the distant land of Nippon, gathering powers from the thirteen Celestial Brush Gods to use with her divine power, the Celestial Brush. Since the original Amaterasu, every one of her descendants has possessed a celestial brush of their own and followed in their ancestors' footsteps, making their own pilgrimage around Nippon and collecting powers from the Celestial Brush Gods. Amaterasu is no exception. However, she was caught and sold to Superbird before she was able to gain all of the Brush Gods' powers, and thus does not yet have the ability to use all of them, much less at their full power. She has already learned several, however, and plans to return to Nippon to retrieve the rest of them when she evolves:
-Sunrise (Sunny Day)
-Power Slash (Slash)
-Greensprout (Vine Whip)
-Cherry Bomb (Egg Bomb)
-Waterspout (Water Gun)
-Galestorm (Gust)
-Inferno (Ember)
-Mist (Mist)
-Thunderstorm (Thundershock)
-Blizzard (Powder Snow)
All of these attacks are initiated by Amaterasu’s Celestial Brush, and as such, all of them can be used with equal effectiveness regardless of Amaterasu’s distance from her opponent. Slash and Vine Whip deal physical damage but, as they are Brush attacks, are calculated of of Amaterasu’s Special Attack stat. But there is a limit to these attacks; Amaterasu has a limited amount of ink so she can only use one of the above attacks per round. In addition, Greensprout, Waterspout, Inferno, Thunderstorm and Blizzard can only be used with help from Amaterasu's surroundings--flowers, vines, or trees for Greensprout, water for Waterspout, a significant source of heat for Inferno, something with electrical energy for Thunderstorm, and ice (or another icy object) for Blizzard.

Being a demigoddess of the sun, Amaterasu obviously fights better in sunlight. When fighting in strong sunlight, Amaterasu gains an extra +1 in Speed. However, if Amaterasu is fighting when the sky is not visible she loses -1 in that stat instead. In addition, being the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu is a normal-type instead of a dark-type, gaining all the advantages and disadvantages of Normal-type and shedding those of the Dark-type. She also gains a weakness to the Dark-type. Finally, because she is a goddess of sun, Amaterasu has never learned many evil techniques and is violently opposed to them, and thus cannot use them.
Effects:
Amaterasu is now a Normal-type instead of a Dark-type, and gains all the benefits and drawbacks of that type along with an additional weakness to Dark. If she is battling in strong sunlight, Amaterasu gains an extra +1 in Speed, but if the sky is not visible she will have -1 Speed. Note that this modification cannot bypass the +/-6 limit, and they fade if the condition for them is no longer true. Finally, she can use one of the following attacks a maximum of once per round: Sunny Day, Slash, Vine Whip, Water Gun, Egg Bomb, Gust, Ember, Mist, Thundershock and Powder Snow. Finally, Amaterasu loses access to the following attacks: Thief, Embargo, Sucker Punch, Torment, Snatch, Dark Pulse, Shadow Ball, Spite, Covet, and Assurance.



[Meta] Ditto
Ability: Limber
Signature Move: Memory Transformation
Meta is a bit less playful than most other Ditto. Well, that’s not true – it’s incredibly playful, but it gets bored easily. It’s always looking for new ways to prank the other pokémon hanging around Superbird’s house (or wherever he keeps the rest of them). And so Meta began training its memory. The Ditto began to spend a lot of time in the library, researching other basic pokémon, and practicing transforming by memory rather than by sight. And over time, Meta got a lot better at it – the first time Superbird saw a Magikarp flopping on his bed he was rather confused until Meta revealed itself.

Like any good trainer, Superbird figured that such a practiced skill should not go to waste, and so he began training Meta in this transformation. He brought in some of his other pokémon – as ambivalent as they were about helping the prankster get better at pranking – to help teach the Ditto some moves, and after a couple of questionably legal backdoor visits to the Aurion Home for the Belligerent Elderly, Meta was ready for battle.

Type: Normal / Class: Status / Power: -- / Energy: 5% / Accuracy: -- / Target: Self / Priority: -1 / Usage Gap: Once per battle.
Effects: Meta has trained itself to remember a wide variety of pokémon and moves, and as such it has gained the ability to transform by memory into a variety of common pokémon – without needing to look at them first. By using this move, Meta can transform into any Rarity 1 or Rarity 2 pokémon. However, Meta’s memory isn’t limitless – transforming by memory makes it much more difficult to copy anything but a pokémon’s natural abilities – and while transformed into a pokémon by memory, Meta can only use moves from that pokémon’s level-up movepool, or moves shared with at least one of the other pokémon on the field (for which it can immediately call back the technique by visualizing itself using it while transformed into that pokémon). Any moves Meta uses that another pokémon on the field cannot learn will also cost 1% more energy and move last in their priority bracket, as recalling them from memory takes a little bit of time.
Description: Identical in appearance to Transform.

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Eifie said:

Jo-Ni Time Travler of Dears Luvdisc (F)
Ability: Hydration
Signature Attribute: fucking depths of hell
Flavour: Formerly known as blob of fucking depths of hell, Jo-Ni is a fuckin' menace, yo. For some reason, growing up her trainer thought it was a great idea to let her hang out with all the rental fairies at the Laverre City Gym before the second late bracket of the Kalos Open, and now she won't stop playing all these freakin' pranks on everyone she meets. To top it off, her skin is this garish shade of fairy pink. Freakin' jeez. What do you mean, she always looked that way? Her trainer never let her out of her Poké Ball before, how would you know?

Effects: Jo-Ni is a Water/Fairy type. She gains the moves Moonblast and Dazzling Gleam. Her trainer will attempt to use her legitimately, but she's probably still a really shitty Pokémon.

Description: Jo-Ni is mostly an ordinary Luvdisc. She just has a secondary Fairy type.

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Keldeo said:

I actually think this one's good, but I don't think I have enough authority to override Superbird's decision. If a Senior Approver could step in here, that would be appreciated.

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Keldeo said:

10% (or around that much) health and energy damage is a lot for an effectively 8% energy cost. Even though Stamford is fully evolved, I'm not really seeing you getting this unless you lower the power a lot, or add a drawback besides the usage gap. edit @ Superbird: I think one of Superbird and me is misunderstanding this move, which means you should clarify - is the 10% energy drain in addition to the 10% special Psychic damage, or is the energy drain all the damage that this move does?

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Keldeo said:

The memory transformation sections of Meta's look fine to me, considering that Transform could turn it into those Pokemon anyway. However, I don't think the drawbacks for Meta's ability to use moves that another Pokemon on the field can't learn are large enough, because that essentially gives it the ability to use every move with very light penalties - I would consider harshly limiting which moves Meta has access to, or making the drawbacks much more severe. You should also clarify whether Meta can use moves that wouldn't be physically possible for its memory-transformed form, whether distraction would disrupt its transformation as it does Transform, and whether it can use moves that another Pokemon on the field can't learn when not transformed via memory.

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Eifie said:

Jo-Ni Time Travler of Dears Luvdisc (F)
Ability: Hydration
Signature Attribute: fucking depths of hell

Flavour: Formerly known as blob of fucking depths of hell, Jo-Ni is a fuckin' menace, yo. For some reason, growing up her trainer thought it was a great idea to let her hang out with all the rental fairies at the Laverre City Gym before the second late bracket of the Kalos Open, and now she won't stop playing all these freakin' pranks on everyone she meets. To top it off, her skin is this garish shade of fairy pink. Freakin' jeez. What do you mean, she always looked that way? Her trainer never let her out of her Poké Ball before, how would you know?

Effects: Jo-Ni is a Water/Fairy type. She gains the moves Moonblast and Dazzling Gleam. Her trainer will attempt to use her legitimately, but she's probably still a really shitty Pokémon.

Description: Jo-Ni is mostly an ordinary Luvdisc. She just has a secondary Fairy type.

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Superbird said:

[Amaterasu] Poochyena (F)
Ability: Quick Feet
Signature Attribute: Sun Demigoddess
Amaterasu is the last in a long line of Mightyena. She was named for her second-most distant ancestor, Amaterasu the goddess of the sun. The original Amaterasu accomplished the amazing feat of defeating Orochi, the 8-headed demon, and Yami, the Emperor of Everlasting Darkness. In doing so, the original Amaterasu traveled around the distant land of Nippon, gathering powers from the thirteen Celestial Brush Gods to use with her divine power, the Celestial Brush. Since the original Amaterasu, every one of her descendants has possessed a celestial brush of their own and followed in their ancestors' footsteps, making their own pilgrimage around Nippon and collecting powers from the Celestial Brush Gods. Amaterasu is no exception. However, she was caught and sold to Superbird before she was able to gain all of the Brush Gods' powers, and thus does not yet have the ability to use all of them, much less at their full power. She has already learned several, however, and plans to return to Nippon to retrieve the rest of them when she evolves:
-Sunrise (Sunny Day)
-Power Slash (Slash)
-Greensprout (Vine Whip)
-Cherry Bomb (Egg Bomb)
-Waterspout (Water Gun)
-Galestorm (Gust)
-Inferno (Ember)
-Mist (Mist)
-Thunderstorm (Thundershock)
-Blizzard (Powder Snow)
All of these attacks are initiated by Amaterasu’s Celestial Brush, and as such, all of them can be used with equal effectiveness regardless of Amaterasu’s distance from her opponent. Slash and Vine Whip deal physical damage but, as they are Brush attacks, are calculated of of Amaterasu’s Special Attack stat. But there is a limit to these attacks; Amaterasu has a limited amount of ink so she can only use one of the above attacks per round. In addition, Greensprout, Waterspout, Inferno, Thunderstorm and Blizzard can only be used with help from Amaterasu's surroundings--flowers, vines, or trees for Greensprout, water for Waterspout, a significant source of heat for Inferno, something with electrical energy for Thunderstorm, and ice (or another icy object) for Blizzard.

Being a demigoddess of the sun, Amaterasu obviously fights better in sunlight. When fighting in strong sunlight, Amaterasu gains an extra +1 in Speed. However, if Amaterasu is fighting when the sky is not visible she loses -1 in that stat instead. In addition, being the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu is a normal-type instead of a dark-type, gaining all the advantages and disadvantages of Normal-type and shedding those of the Dark-type. She also gains a weakness to the Dark-type. Finally, because she is a goddess of sun, Amaterasu has never learned many evil techniques and is violently opposed to them, and thus cannot use them.
Effects:
Amaterasu is now a Normal-type instead of a Dark-type, and gains all the benefits and drawbacks of that type along with an additional weakness to Dark. If she is battling in strong sunlight, Amaterasu gains an extra +1 in Speed, but if the sky is not visible she will have -1 Speed. Note that this modification cannot bypass the +/-6 limit, and they fade if the condition for them is no longer true. Finally, she can use one of the following attacks a maximum of once per round: Sunny Day, Slash, Vine Whip, Water Gun, Egg Bomb, Gust, Ember, Mist, Thundershock and Powder Snow. Finally, Amaterasu loses access to the following attacks: Thief, Embargo, Sucker Punch, Torment, Snatch, Dark Pulse, Shadow Ball, Spite, Covet, and Assurance.

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JackPK said:

Let's try this. I hope the one-quarter figure isn't too high; I went back through the battles I've reffed and found that out of the four of them (with 18 Pokemon involved altogether), the vast majority of the Pokemon dealt less than 100 total damage and all but one dealt less than 120 damage (1/4 of which is 30, which is well within a standard damage cap). The only exception was Melia the Eevee in Faorzia vs. VM, who dealt freaking 173 damage because of shenanigans with Super Fang and Trump Card, which I think is very much an outlier and probably doesn't need to be counted.

[Judge Judy] Kangaskhan (F)
Signature move: Kangaroo Court
Type: Normal
Damage class: Physical
Base power: *
Base energy: *
Base accuracy: 85%
Target: Single
Usage gap: Once per battle

Effects: Judge Judy calculates the damage her target has done to her and her teammates and attacks it for one-quarter of that amount. (If Judge Judy has witnessed the majority of the damage directly — such as in a 2v2 or if it was done to her directly — this is automatically done as health damage. Otherwise, the opponent may choose whether to take the attack as damage to its health or its energy.) This attack costs energy equal to three-quarters of the damage that would be dealt before damage caps are accounted for.

Description: Judge Judy confers with the bailiff (the referee) to find out precisely how much pain she and her teammates have been caused by a particular foe. Acting as judge, jury and executioner, she then uses a thrashing, brutal beatdown to inflict a punitive punishment on the foe. If Judge Judy was a witness to its foe's onslaught, she is implacable in her desire to deal vengeful damage, but if she was not, the foe may expend an equivalent amount of energy to protect its health from Judge Judy's beatdown.

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Eifie said:

Heehee! Yes, Jo-Ni! Let's destroy the competition! Kalos Open round four, here we come!

This is just in time for the next sig thing I had planned, too! Here's a move for my Litwick, who I'm always a little surprised to find has no draining moves besides Dream Eater. I kept the base power low since he's very little and I wasn't sure how much I wanted to try to get away with: when he evolves, I'll probably raise it a little and eventually up the recovery to 75%.

Bambi (Kadabra's Lucky Charm) Litwick (M)
Ability: Flash Fire
Signature Move: Refuel

Type: Ghost / Damage Class: Special / Base Power: 40 / Base Energy: 4% / Accuracy: 100% / Target: Single / Usage Gap: 6 actions

Flavour: Wild Litwick are well-known for their trickery, pretending to guide lost travelers through dark areas with their candlelight only to turn on them and devour their life energy away. The League has forbidden Litwick from using this power in battle: for some reason, they weren't okay with these Pokémon running around eating their opponents' souls.

Most Litwick learn to adapt to this new lifestyle, but Bambi just couldn't deal with the vegetarian diet. His flame grew weak and his body grew steadily more feeble, until his trainer decided that something needed to be done. Hundreds of soulless wild Diggersby later, Bambi finally began to figure out how to rein in his lifeforce-sucking powers so as not to do permanent damage to an opponent... probably.

Description: Bambi's flame abruptly flares up, emitting a pale, ghostly light. His opponent's life force is drawn from its soul to his flame in the form of a violet rope of energy connecting them. His flame grows larger and larger as he absorbs more energy from his opponent, until he is finally satiated; it then gradually diminishes in size again over the next six actions as he uses up the stolen life force, and until then he will not be willing to feed again. Bambi's just a little Litwick, with not that much control over his powers, so sometimes he can get a bit carried away: there's a small chance that he'll feast on his opponent's soul a bit too much, after which a League enforcer will step in and prevent him from using this move for the rest of the battle.

Effects: Drains half the damage dealt to heal Bambi. This attack can be commanded to target health or energy. Has a critical hit domain one stage higher than normal, but if this move scores a critical hit, Bambi cannot use it again for the rest of the battle.

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The Omskivar said:

I see your attempt to drag a less-than-stellar Pokemon into the limelight, Eifie, and it reminded me of my unrealized effort to do the same with my Cascoon.


[Bolla] Cascoon (M)
Ability: Shed Skin
Signature Attribute: Granite Homeostasis
Long before humans had ever invented the Pokeball, many of the more common Pokemon seen today were quite different. Doduo's predecessors were land-dwelling, scaly beasts with wicked claws and two cunning heads full of razor-sharp teeth; as we already know, Magikarp was once remarkably more formidable as well. The case was the same for the lowly Wurmple. In the prehistoric jungles of Hoennic and Sinnoan Pangea, the ancestor of Wurmple (Helminthus spinosus pseudoscolipus) was the most feared predator, a full Bug/Poison with wicked tail-stingers and spines all over its large, flexible, agile body. It raced through the underbrush, picking off multiple small mammals in a single day to satisfy its huge appetite. Frequently, ancient Helminthus could be seen barrelling through the canopies, chasing down large birds with relative ease. It was without rival in almost every way, and undoubtedly the top of the food chain. This was the reason that, while the metamorphosis process was shaping Helminthus into one of the two ultimate jungle predators--Chloroptera venenosus toxica, an enormous insect that hovered over various altitudes showering its prey with a paralyzing dust, rendering it immobile for weeks and keeping it in one place for later consumption, or Chromopteryx proborhinos papilios, a deceptively festive-colored aerial expert that used its lengthy coiled proboscis to stab and drain its prey, even in impossibly small spaces or underwater--anyway, this was why so many of the chrysalises of Helminthus were attacked while they slept; even long-standing blood feuds would be put aside to prevent the arrival of a Chromopteryx or Chloroptera in the area. It was for this reason that ancient Cascoon began to hide themselves inside of trees or underground (though this was mostly ineffective until they became more condensed and consequently smaller in size), a trait that lives on today. Bolla, however, is a Cascoon from a little bit before that time.

As a Cascoon (technically Porphyropelta pupa fossilis), Bolla wrapped himself in silk around the time that his fellow native jungle-dwellers had realized that this particular phase in his metamorphosis was easily the most vulnerable. Many of his brethren were laid to waste mere days after his transformation, and Bolla was fully aware that he was next. As luck would have it, he was able to slip out of the jungle as fast as his limb protrusions could carry him. He soon found a rocky cave, slipped inside just in time to avoid a Doduoraptor, and pressed himself to the back as the monster's twin heads took turns trying to reach him. Finally, night fell, and Bolla was safe. So he did what all Cascoons do when they are safe. He slept.

He slept and slept and slept and slept and slept for a very long time. Without stimuli, his body entered a state of homeostasis, and without room to fluctuate with the changing for inside of him, his inner Helminthus died and became the functionary equivalent of a ribcage for an entirely new being, created by the homeostatic properties of the silk that made up the chrysalis. See, present-day Cascoon generally use plantmatter to cover themselves--bark, leaves, grass, maybe the occasional decent-sized branch. The silk doesn't just stick to the items in question; rather, it bonds with them, and seems to draw them into the center of the Pokemon, when in actuality it is trying to make room for more silk to cover the plantmatter. At most, the long-term effect would give the Cascoon a soft green palor, and make the resulting Dustox's wings a little more vibrant, and sometimes more durable in the case of excess bark; however, a Cascoon is virtually never completely covered by anything; it still needs to see and to move around in case of emergency. Rewind a few millennia, and Bolla was unaware of these basic needs. His fight-or-flight had kicked in, and he was in no shape to fight, so fly he did. As he slept, the gravel and rocks all around him stuck to his silk, even as virtually every system in his body stopped working. Eventually, the stone in the cave became grafted into his wrappings, forming a protective casing with imperceptible creases to allow for movement of his limb-spikes (during hibernation, the limbs will twitch every so often to ensure that the silk doesn't stiffen and immobilize them). While this proved to be the best move from a survivalist standpoint, Bolla was thereby prevented from further evolution, and would have to remain this way for the duration of his life. Naturally, being encased in stone spikes (not to mention much bigger than the average Cascoon) gave Bolla a number of useful abilities, the most prominent of which is heightened Defense and a secondary Rock typing, coupled with a wider moveset and slower reaction time, due to the extra bulk and the weighty stone shell; when The Omskivar found him while prospecting for Pale Spheres (he really wanted that Happiny doll okay), Bolla was startled and woozy after countless centuries of complete equilibrium, but as he regained control over his body, he quickly became a titan in his own right.

Effects: Bolla is considered a Bug/Rock Pokemon. His body is encased almost entirely in stone, and he is about twice as big as a normal Cascoon (at the tip of his spikes he is 1.4 meters, about the height of a grounded Carnivine, and he weighs in at 260.0kg). He is able to move the same way a Cascoon normally would, except that his limbs are essentially thin cones of rock. His eyes and mouthparts are not covered by this stone shell. For purposes of damage scales and Pokemon restrictions, Bolla is considered a fully-evolved Pokemon, and under no circumstances may he evolve any further. Due to the density of his shell, he gains an inherent +2 to Defense, and will reset to +2 under the effects of Clear Smog, Haze and the like. However, due to his bulky figure and heavy armor, he also has an inherent -1 in Speed; this follows the same rules as the Defense boost, with the added curse that he will automatically lose all Speed ties. His skin does not shed; therefore, his ability is not Shed Skin, but Aftermath. He also has attained the following moveset (read: he can use any of these moves, but none that are not on this list):

RolloutAbsorb
Acid
Ancient Power
Attract
Bide
Body Slam
Bulldoze
Captivate
Chill
Clear Smog
Confide
Counter
Cross Poison
Double-Edge
Double Team
Defense Curl
Earthquake
Electroweb
Endure
Explosion
Facade
Fell Stinger
Frustration
Gastro Acid
Giga Drain
Glare
Gyro Ball
Harden
Headbutt
Head Smash
Hidden Power
Infestation
Iron Defense
Iron Head
Leer
Mega Drain
Megahorn
Mud Sport
Mud-Slap
Natural Gift
Nature Power
Payback
Pin Missile
Poison Sting
Protect
Rain Dance
Rest
Return
Rock Polish
Rock Slide
Rock Smash
Rock Tomb
Rollout
Secret Power
Shell Smash
Skull Bash
Sleep Talk
Smack Down
Snore
Solarbeam
Spider Web
Spike Cannon
Spikes
Stealth Rock
Steamroller
Sticky Web
Stone Edge
String Shot
Struggle Bug
Substitute
Sunny Day
Swagger
Sweet Scent
Tackle
Take Down
Taunt
Toxic
Twineedle
Zen Headbutt

The ability to use Bug Bite is lost due to the limited mobility of his mouthparts. Finally, he cannot stick to things as easily as he could without the rocky coating. His limbs continue to secrete silk, but his body is simply too heavy to be supported on any less than four strands (or sticking to things with at least four limb-spikes, such as a ceiling or tree trunk). Therefore, any climbing or hanging that he does using silk will take four times the energy that it normally would, using four silk lines instead of one, unless specified otherwise in the command chain.

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I liek Scythers said:

[Mr. Turtle] Wartortle
Ability: Torrent

Signature Move: AAAACHOO!

Flavor: Mr. Turtle suffers from a variety of allergies. His Trainer often drops several weeks’ allowance on medication just to keep his starter’s affliction under control. However, both of them noticed some interesting reactions whenever his Trainer forgot to give him his pills; his opponents’ (and the referee’s) faces would scrunch up in fear whenever the Water type sneezed. He expelled a weird, viscous, cyan mass that… moved? Oh God, is it moving?!?!

Thinking like a true Asberian (weaponize everything! structural stability is for the weak!), Mr. Turtle’s Trainer immediately set out on capitalizing on this bodily excretion.

AAAACHOO! can be triggered by the usual array of things (pollen, dust, etc.) just as it can be controlled. In fact, the moment Mr. Turtle gets a whiff of any of these agents, he’ll drop everything and sneeze at his target stronger than usual. However, Mr. Turtle’s Trainer dispenses an allergy pill the first time this happens, assuring the situation never occurs again.

Type: Water/ Class: Special / Power: 60 (90 in special case) / Energy: 4% (7% in special case) / Accuracy: 100 / Target: Single / Priority: – (+1 in special case) / Usage Gap: Once every three rounds (once every four if special case occurs).

Effects: Once the mucus comes in contact with the enemy, they are immediately slowed down (-1 Speed). The secretion is thick and gooey enough to stay on the enemy even if high-pressure water is sprayed on it. The mucus dries out at the end of the third round, removing the Speed debuff.

The move can be triggered by any of these moves once:

Spoiler: Triggers

-Sandstorm (and any Abilities that create a sandstorm)
-Sand Attack
-Sand Tomb
-Sweet Scent
-Sleep Powder
-Poison Powder
-Stun Spore
-Cotton Spore
-Spore
-Anything the ref deems eligible (within reason; it can both be moves such as Hurricane carrying insane amounts of dust or the arena itself that cause the sneeze)

When triggered by one of the aforementioned moves, Mr. Turtle randomly forfeits one of his actions in the following round in favor of a stronger AAAACHOO! (90BP/7%/+1 Priority instead of 60 BP/4%/0 Priority). As mentioned earlier, this stronger move can only happen once.

For example, after a Combee uses Sweet Scent, the command string Withdraw~Water Gun~Tackle can end up like this:

Spoiler: alt strings

AAAACHOO!~Water Gun~Tackle
Withdraw~AAAACHOO!~Tackle
Withdraw~Water Gun~AAAACHOO!

Description: When Mr. Turtle is commanded to use the move (instead of it being triggered), he’ll take a whiff of his surrounding and sneeze out a thick, viscous cyan blob that will stick to the opponent. It’s nasty, gooey, and cold to the touch.

If the special case occurs, Mr. Turtle will stumble around looking like he’s about to sneeze in the round before, and will sneeze with the power of a thousand hurricanes when he actually does. The same glob is sneezed, but at a much higher velocity. Then, I liek Squirtles/Scythers/S Pokemon of the Month takes out a Claritin and gives it to Mr. Turtle, preventing th.

In both cases, the mucus dries out into a kind of crust, and tiny flakes are easily peeled off (y’know, like how boogers usually do when they’re inside your nose).

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Superbird said:

I'm gonna go ahead and try to get the mods I had before the restart re-approved. One changed more than the other.

[Meta] Ditto
Ability: Limber
Signature Move: Memory Transformation
Meta is a bit less playful than most other Ditto. Well, that’s not true – it’s incredibly playful, but it gets bored easily. It’s always looking for new ways to prank the other pokémon hanging around Superbird’s house (or wherever he keeps the rest of them). And so Meta began training its memory. The Ditto began to spend a lot of time in the library, researching other basic pokémon, and practicing transforming by memory rather than by sight. And over time, Meta got a lot better at it – the first time Superbird saw a Magikarp flopping on his bed he was rather confused until Meta revealed itself.

Like any good trainer, Superbird figured that such a practiced skill should not go to waste, and so he began training Meta in this transformation. He brought in some of his other pokémon – as ambivalent as they were about helping the prankster get better at pranking – to help teach the Ditto some moves, and after a couple of questionably legal backdoor visits to the Aurion Home for the Belligerent Elderly, Meta was ready for battle.

Type: Normal / Class: Status / Power: -- / Energy: 5% / Accuracy: -- / Target: Self / Priority: -1 / Usage Gap: Once per battle.
Effects: Meta has trained itself to remember a wide variety of pokémon and moves, and as such it has gained the ability to transform by memory into a variety of common pokémon – without needing to look at them first. By using this move, Meta can transform into any Rarity 1 or Rarity 2 pokémon. However, Meta’s memory isn’t limitless – transforming by memory makes it much more difficult to copy anything but a pokémon’s natural abilities – and while transformed into a pokémon by memory, Meta can only use moves from that pokémon’s level-up movepool, or moves that both the pokémon Meta is transformed into and one of the other pokémon on the field can use somehow (for which it can immediately call back the technique by visualizing itself using it while transformed into that pokémon). Any moves Meta uses that another pokémon on the field cannot learn will also cost 1% more energy and move last in their priority bracket, as recalling them from memory takes a little bit of time.
Description: Identical in appearance to Transform.

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Superbird said:

Huh, I looked through the archive and never saw the prior approval you speak of, although I remember something like that happening at some point. At any rate, 9% energy is pretty absurd for a 100-BP attack with no specific secondary effect, and given Bronzong already has access to Psychic for a similar degree of damage output (setting a precedent, I guess) I'm inclined to give a tentative Junior approval with a note that you could probably get away with adding a secondary effect - 50% chance to lower defense or something - if you wanted to try resubmitting it.

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Wargle said:

You approved this before I switched this over to Kadabra, I plan on making it stronger when it evolves to Alakazam, and I figured a secondary effect on top of the dual damage to health and energy would have been ixnayed

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