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Mimey Touch: approved
[Mister Noir] Mime Jr. [♂]
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Signature Attribute: Mimey Touch
Noir is a Mime by descent and career, but even other Mime Jr. and Mr. Mime think he's a bit too into it. He's so fixated on it, in fact, that his Psychic abilities make him, his attacks, and everything that he does look permanently greyscale to everyone and everything around him, so long as he's conscious. When he battles or performs, he is surrounded by a haze of shifting hues of grey that pools about him, casting a shadow of colorlessness around him. He's also completely silent all the time; he never speaks except for telepathy, and he uses even that sparingly. Noir is also completely colorblind. He also feels that everyone should be allowed to be like him. Having closed off his ability to see color to further his obsession with grey, and also psychically changing other mental features to be mimey, he's become quite adept at doing the same for others.
Effects: Whenever Mister Noir succeeds in using a contact move with no secondary effect on another pokémon, there is an 30% chance that they will be gifted/afflicted with his psychic colorblindness and other associated conditions. At the moment of contact, grey spreads from the touched area and quickly spreads all over the afflicted pokémon. They become unable to discern colors, or use any sound-based moves. The accuracy of Attract and Captivate are halved as well, due to the lack of a vocal component.
On the flip side, Mister Noir is permanently under the above effects, excepting the Attract and Captivate clause since he's good at miming his 'affections'. The easiest way to make the effects end for Noir to fall asleep; while unconscious, he is unable to keep his self-imposed mental blocks up, which means that everyone on the field who is affected are 'cured', including him. Upon waking, Noir gains it back, but other pokémon stay cured. Otherwise, moves or abilities such as Refresh that purge all major status effects also remove Noir's effect. Dark types are immune to being put under the effects of his mimeyness, as are primary Psychic-types.
[Husk] Shedinja [X]
Wonder Guard
Signature Attribute: Adopted Ninjask Team
Husk is kind of an orphan. His trainer ill-advisably traded away his ninjask to a battler who has since disappeared, so has no one to hover over constantly and to protect. Or, he didn't have anyone for that until a while ago. Husk has become basically the Team Mom, adopting every one of Blastoise's team members into his fold. He alternates between them all, hovering around them and bringing them bits of food. He eventually connected them to the special place in a shedinja's hollow heart that is usually occupied by a ninjask. This doesn't generally happen, and it's had some odd effects on his ability, due to the fact that a shedinja takes its primary typing from the pokémon, ninjask, it spawns from.
Effects: In the first post of a battle, if Husk is a member of Blastoise's active squad, the referee rolls a random number, each one representing the members of Blastoise's active squad. The chosen pokémon's primary type becomes Husk's primary type for the duration of the battle. If Husk himself is chosen, or if a primary Dark type is chosen, he has regular shedinja typing.
Uh, I think you mean 1.3x, not .3x. .3x is a 70% energy reduction. ...buuut, since grimer gets only dynamicpunch for fighting-type attacks and imprison and rest for psychic attacks, this is still not a sufficient drawback, even written correctly.[Bruno](M)
Ability: Stench
Signature Attribute: Dark Goop
Bruno grew up, and was in fact built, from particularly dark, nasty and pungent sludge. It's often assumed the sludge he was formed from was created by some nuclear plant, probably, or an illegal organization doing some sort of back-alley testing. Either way, this has affected him a bit too much - he enjoys the bit of black humour, and a bit more. He's a bit... loopy. A bit crazy. A bit dark, shall we say. This is quite clear: Everything he touches seems to fade, covered up in shadow and his nasty stench. And he definitely enjoys it, the sickly effect he has on things, people and pokemon alike. Oh, boy does he enjoy it...
Effects: Every where he goes, instead of leaving just goo, a shadow is left as well. The shadow fades before the goo does (a few actions, usually 3, before a shadow fades), but it's more deadly; anyone who touches it has a 5% chance of flinching that action. As well, his Stench ability is boosted: any attacks that involve looking at him receive a 5% flinch chance. He is also turned into a poison/dark type, receiving all immunities, resistances and weaknesses that come with that. However, he still uses as much energy as any other grimer would using a dark-type move, because he is not proficient enough with the type yet. Psychic and fighting type moves also require .3x more energy to be used.
*persistent*
The justification for this attribute is pretty flaky. "Artemis has a special connection to the moon, but no one really knows what it is." I think you can do better than that.
[Artemis] Pidgey (Female)
Ability: Keen Eye
Signature Attribute: Moontouched
Artemis has always been... different. Nobody is sure if it was truly a gift from the heavens or if it was just a quirk of Pokémon genetics, but the end result is the same - Artemis has a special connection to the moon, which manifests itself in two ways.
Firstly, she is typed Dark/Flying rather than Normal/Flying, and to match this her plumage darkened; where a normal Pidgey would be brown, cream and pink, she is black, dark blue and grey.
Secondly, when the moon is visible Artemis deals 2% more damage with her direct damage attacks after all other calculations. However, she deals 2% less direct damage after all other calculations when the moon is not visible. The moon is considered visible even if there are clouds obscuring it. Artemis also loses access to Sunny Day.
Effects: Artemis is a Dark/Flying type rather than Normal/Flying, and is a different colour than other Pidgey. When the moon is visible, she deals 2% more direct damage; when it is not, she deals 2% less direct damage instead. She cannot use Sunny Day.
I'm not too sure about the percentages on this; I want it to be something that gets stronger as she evolves but I'm not too sure how to go about it...
The increased chance of affliction by sopor slime after the use of bite, crunch, etc. is not explained. This should only trigger on foe contact so that Gamzee can't activate it himself (except with poison-inflicting attacks). Reduce the time it takes for effects to wear off to three rounds.Actually I was thinking of changing Sp. attack to plus one, but whatever you think is better, I guess.
[GaMzEe] (m) Ability: Anticipation
Signature Attribute: Sopor Slime Touch
GaMzEe enjoys eating this super-cool substance, called Sopor Slime. When he isn't battling, GaMzEe spends his time by making more of these pies, as well as eating them. He eats them so often in fact, that the slime he naturally secrets has been altered slightly, giving it sedative properties, much like the slime itself. When contact is made with GaMzEe, there is a 20% chance the pokemon making contact will absorb some of the slime, and experience its unnatural side effects. If absorbed, the inflicted pokemon will suffer from a -1 penalty in both attack stats as well as in speed. Because of this, GaMzEe naturally suffers from these penalties, for he is constantly stoned. These effects can be stacked on an already inflicted pokemon, up to four times.
Effects: GaMzEe has a -1 penalty to Attack, Special Attack, and Speed when he is sent out. A pokemon that make contact with GaMzEe has a 20% chance of also getting these penalties, and the percentage increases to 50% when the pokemon is using a move such as Bite, Crunch, or one of the elemental fangs. These effects can be stacked up to -4 in each stat, but the chance of effectiveness does not increase. The effects will negate themselves after five rounds, but they can be gained again if this happens. Poison-type moves that GaMzEe use that have a chance to poison (Poison Jab, Sludge Bomb, etc.) have instead the same chance to cause these penalties, which do not stack with the 20% for contact, but instead replace it.
Signature Move: Subjugglate
GaMzEe is constantly stoned, but the effects do wear off if he is otherwise occupied. When they do, GaMzEe can realize his true callings, and goes on a rampage. He gains +3 in Attack and Special Attack as well as +3 in speed. Some of his moves become easier to use, but others harder. When GaMzEe finally calms down, he gets really tired and all of his moves become harder to use. While he does not get the penalties back unless he has a chance to eat another of his pies, his stats do return to normal.
Type: Fighting | Target: Self | Accuracy: 100% | Energy: 25% | Duration: Six Actions (two rounds)
Effects: GaMzEe can only use this move if he is not stoned. He realizes his true calling in life, and gains a +4 bonus to Attack and Special Attack, and +3 bonus to Speed. STAB moves use 1/3 less energy, subtracted after calculations, and non STAB moves use 1/3 more energy, added after calculations. After three rounds, GaMzEe's attack and speed bonuses nullify, and all his attacks now require 1/3 more energy to use. If GaMzEe is recalled he is reset, and has the penalties he normally starts with again.
Usage Gap: Once per match; can be used after five rounds.
there was something I wanted to add to the attribute, so I posted both.
Approved.
Since you gain an ability, you need to lose more movepool.STOP... PROCRASTINATING...
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Peach the Masquerain
<Intimidate>
Signature Attribute: Drowned in Remembrance
As much as Peach enjoyed her new form, flying around with Beautifly and Butterfree and doing general butterfly things, she kinda missed her old life. She simply loved playing around in the water and spitting bubbles at random fire-types passing by - which she had a harder time doing after her evolution. Somehow, she couldn't help but feel quite nostalgic thinking about the good ol' days, and inside her grew the desire to be a water-type again.
She asked her trainer, and the guy thought about that newly discovered move: Soak. Since the move could transform anything into a water-type for a short period of time, maybe a concentrated assault could do? So he tried.
Peach, willing to do anything to regain her water typing, underwent a very special training, that could even be considered as an operation: She was soaked intensely for several hours, and bathed in water that was thought to be purified by Suicune itself. Finally, she succeeded. She could play in water again with no fear of her wings getting unusable, and she could even do thins she couldn't as a Surskit. However, she lost her affinity with air, and alongside that the use of a bunch of moves.
Effects: Peach is considered as a Bug/Water type. She gains the ability Swift Swim in addition of all others, and has the following movepool modification:
+ Aqua Ring, Brine, Soak
- Air Cutter, Tailwind, Whirlwind
Portal: You should make "until he creates another" "until he creates another of the same color" in the duration section. I think that's what you meant, anyway. Usage gap three actions.
Attribute: "Illuminating the correct technique" is a really weird justification for an increase in the chance of attack side-effects to occur. Needs much stronger drawbacks, or reduce the power and wait for evolution.
Approved
Approved, but on the signature move, lose the line about "physical contact" and whatever.Finally got around to redoing this.
[Officer] Stunfisk (M)
Ability: Limber
Sig. Attribute: Unreal Citations
Officer has always been strict about the law. In fact, when he was a wee youngster, he would always point out minute flaws in his family. Nowadays, he gives citations to those who dare to commit illegal acts in his vision. Three of these illegal acts that particularly enrage him are: speeding, assault & battery, and refusal of arrest.
Effect: Officer is capable of giving opponents citations in order to activate his signature move. The three kinds of attacks that will result in a citation include: priority moves (speeding), punch-moves (assault & battery), and Protect/Detect (refusal of arrest). Once three are given out to a single opponent, the signature moves is permitted in battle.
[Officer] Stunfisk (M)
Ability: Limber
Sig. Move: Strike Three
Officer has always been strict about the law. He absolutely hates when individuals commit illegal acts and believes they should be punished for their careless actions. Admittedly, he would extend his authority to laws of physics as well, but Officer believes that that would be a bit too much. Once one being receives their third citation (which he counts as strikes), they are immediately locked up by Officer for a reasonable amount of time.
Dark / Status / 0% / 100% / Selected Target / 8% / One Round
Effect: After receiving three citations from Officer, the opponent is immediately placed in jail for three actions. The jail consists of titanium bars that spring up from the ground and emit a special forcefield from Officer's energy. The opponent is vulnerable to special attacks while in jail, but due to the forcefield, the power of the attacks are reduced by 50%. The opponent may only Chill or do nothing while in prison. However, they gain 2% Health back each action they stay in jail.
It is not physical contact, a sound-type, a punch-move, snatchable, grounded by Gravity, defrosts when used, reflected by Magic Coat/Magic Bounce, blocked by Protect/Detect, or copyable by Mirror Move.
Usable once per battle per opponent.
W.I.N.G. System approved. I suggest you come up with something other than sword-wielding for your poochyena.
ApprovedI just realized that I never updated Han Tang's sig move when it evolved. Hope this is passable.
Han Tang (Genderless) <Levitate>
Sig. Move: Move Swap
All Bronzong, of course, have the ability to manipulate Psychic energies. They also have the ability to reach into other beings' minds, and from there to transfer or remove memories, experiences or abilities; this is what grants them the abiltiy to perform the Skill Swap and Imprison techniques. However, since these abilities are innate to them, few Bronzor choose to train these abilities further. My Bronzor, Han Tang, is one of the few that have, and it has therefore gained powers beyond what most Bronzor possess - when he evolved, his powers grew even greater.
First, it hovers perfectly still, concentrating hard (thus, this cannot be used in circumstances where concentration is impossible). Its eyes glow deep blue, and a web of energy of the same colour begins to expand outwards. The web then expands over the field, then focussing in on its target, causing the target's eyes (if applicable) to glow the same color. The target is very briefly subject to horrible pain deep within its skull, and then instantly loses all recognition of several moves it previously knew (though they cannot be moves that Bronzong can naturally learn). Han Tang gains three-quarters of these moves, though the strain the attack causes it causes it to forget several of its own moves. The web of energy dissipates, leaving the only traces of an attack's use being a slight headache and the missing moves on both parties. The attack causes incredible strain on Han Tang, and can thus can only be used once per battle. Due to Han Tang's unfamiliarity with the stolen moves, they take 1.2x as much energy than normal to use.
Type: Psychic / Stat: Other / Damage: 4% / Accuracy: 100% / Target: Single Foe / Energy: 8% / Duration: Three actions
Effect: On the first action, Han Tang stays incredibly still and concentrates. Its eyes glow deep blue, and tendrils of energy of the same color begin to emerge and spread to its surroundings.
On the second action, the tendrils of energy merge into a web, floating in mid-air, which expands over the entire field.
On the third action, the energy web collapses onto the target, causing it brief but intense pain (this is when damage is dealt) and its eyes to glow the same deep blue. Moves are neutralised as explained below, and then the energies dissipate, returning both Pokémon's eyes to the normal color. The target recieves a slight headache, but there are no other obvious signs (other than the missing moves, of course) that a move has been used.
Calculation of move-transference:
Generate a number between one and five. For each number generated, remove one move from the Pokémon's moveset that Bronzor cannot learn. Three-quarters of the moves, rounded up, are transferred to Han Tang, and it loses that many random moves. Han Tang must use 1.2 times as much energy than normal to use the stolen moves.
This move cannot be used in situations where concentrating is impossible, including but not limited to the effects of Uproar, Sandstorm, or Hail. Times when concentration is impossible will be based on the ref's discretion.
Usage gap: once per battle.
As Lord of the Fireflies pointed out, the backstory is extremely sketchy. The moves lost are not on par with the moves gained.
Aradia Megido. Signature Attribute: Psychic Heritage.
As we all know, Golett like Aradia are believed to be made from an ancient civilization dated thousands of years ago. As with Aradia, it has been supposed to be created by ancient psychics that shared some of their abilities into Aradia's creation. When Aradia was fully operable, the psychic abilities took effect into it and suddenly banished all the evil in it, replacing psychic and telekinetic energy that could be fully put to use. Unfortunately, this also had a drawback; the spirits in it that caused it to function were replaced with psychic energy, removing it of some of its ghostly powers and implanting psychic ones to aid it in battle.
Effect: Aradia gains access to the moves Psybeam, Magic Coat, Zen Headbutt, Telekinesis and Extrasensory. However, it also loses the moves Shadow Ball, Night Shade, Curse, and Antonish. Aradia also loses its ghost-typing to become a Ground-Psychic type.
The backstory is still weak and the move selection is still unbalanced.persistance
Aradia Megido. Signature Attribute: Psychic Heritage.
As we all know, Golett like Aradia are believed to be made from an ancient civilization dated thousands of years ago. As with Aradia, it has been supposed to be created by ancient psychics that shared some of their abilities into Aradia's creation. However, Aradia wasn't a very strong Golett at all. The ancients took notice into this, and banished it from their line of bodyguards, like many other Golett had the fate of. After that event, she/it/he went searching to hone it's skills. After a long journey, it found itself in Celestial Tower, and honed it's psychic strength with Elgyem, thus bringing out its inner psychic abilities. Unfortunately, this also has a drawback; unleashing its inner psychic strength made all the darkness in it dissapear, disabling it of using some of its ghostly moves.
Effect: Aradia gains access to the moves Magic Coat, Zen Headbutt, Telekinesis and Extrasensory. However, it also loses the moves Shadow Ball, Night Shade, Curse, Shadow Punch, and Antonish. Aradia also loses its ghost-typing to become a Ground-Psychic type.
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So once Gamzee's sopor wears off, the opponent's can't contract it any more by making contact, correct?Alrighty! (oh, and yeah, it's kind of hidden in there, and I should make it clearer. It says somewhere that the effects disappear after five rounds, and GaMzEe is subject to this countdown as well.)
[GaMzEe] (m) Ability: Anticipation
Signature Attribute: Sopor Slime Touch
GaMzEe enjoys eating this super-cool substance, called Sopor Slime. When he isn't battling, GaMzEe spends his time by making more of these pies, as well as eating them. He eats them so often in fact, that the slime he naturally secrets has been altered slightly, giving it sedative properties, much like the slime itself. When contact is made with GaMzEe, there is a 20% chance the pokemon making contact will absorb some of the slime, and experience its unnatural side effects. If absorbed, the inflicted pokemon will suffer from a -1 penalty in both attack stats as well as in speed. Because of this, GaMzEe naturally suffers from these penalties, for he is constantly stoned. These effects can be stacked on an already inflicted pokemon, up to four times.
Effects: GaMzEe has a -1 penalty to Attack, Special Attack, and Speed when he is sent out. A pokemon that makes contact with GaMzEe has a 20% chance of also getting these penalties, and the percentage increases to 50% when the opposing pokemon is using a move such as Bite, Crunch, or one of the elemental fangs, as they are directly ingesting the substance while attacking. These effects can be stacked up to -4 in each stat, but the chance of effectiveness does not increase. The effects will negate themselves after three rounds, but they can be gained again if this happens (five rounds if the pokemon is GaMzEe). Poison-type moves that GaMzEe use that have a chance to poison (Poison Jab, Sludge Bomb, etc.) have instead the same chance to cause these penalties, which do not stack with the 20% for contact, but instead replace it.
Signature Move: Subjugglate
GaMzEe is constantly stoned, but the effects do wear off if he is otherwise occupied. When they do, GaMzEe can realize his true callings, and goes on a rampage. He gains +3 in Attack and Special Attack as well as +3 in speed. Some of his moves become easier to use, but others harder. When GaMzEe finally calms down, he gets really tired and all of his moves become harder to use. While he does not get the penalties back unless he has a chance to eat another of his pies, his stats do return to normal.
Type: Fighting | Target: Self | Accuracy: 100% | Energy: 25% | Duration: Six Actions (two rounds)
Effects: GaMzEe can only use this move if he is not stoned. He realizes his true calling in life, and gains a +4 bonus to Attack and Special Attack, and +3 bonus to Speed. STAB moves use 1/3 less energy, subtracted after calculations, and non STAB moves use 1/3 more energy, added after calculations. After three rounds, GaMzEe's attack and speed bonuses nullify, and all his attacks now require 1/3 more energy to use. If GaMzEe is recalled he is reset, and has the penalties he normally starts with again.
Usage Gap: Once per match; can be used after five rounds.
I agree; three rounds seems more realistic for the effects to last, so what I did was made it so it wears off after three rounds for every pokemon who isn't GaMzEe, in which case it is five, because I didn't want to unbalance the move. So that's what I added.
Approved
[Husk] Shedinja [X]
Wonder Guard
Signature Attribute: Adopted Ninjask Team
Husk is kind of an orphan. His trainer ill-advisably traded away his ninjask to a battler who has since disappeared, so has no one to hover over constantly and to protect. Or, he didn't have anyone for that until a while ago. Husk has become basically the Team Mom, adopting every one of Blastoise's team members into his fold. He alternates between them all, hovering around them and bringing them bits of food. He eventually connected them to the special place in a shedinja's hollow heart that is usually occupied by a ninjask. This doesn't generally happen, and it's had some odd effects on his ability, due to the fact that a shedinja takes its primary typing from the pokémon, ninjask, it spawns from.
Effects: When Husk is sent out into battle, a random member of his trainer's active squad is chosen. The chosen pokémon's primary type replaces Husk's bug type for the duration of the battle. If Husk himself is chosen, or if a primary Dark type is chosen, he has regular shedinja typing.
The attribute is still a little powerful for a pichu. See blazheirio889's comments on the move.
ApprovedAlright, more movepool mutilation.
Peach the Masquerain
<Intimidate>
Signature Attribute: Drowned in Remembrance
As much as Peach enjoyed her new form, flying around with Beautifly and Butterfree and doing general butterfly things, she kinda missed her old life. She simply loved playing around in the water and spitting bubbles at random fire-types passing by - which she had a harder time doing after her evolution. Somehow, she couldn't help but feel quite nostalgic thinking about the good ol' days, and inside her grew the desire to be a water-type again.
She asked her trainer, and the guy thought about that newly discovered move: Soak. Since the move could transform anything into a water-type for a short period of time, maybe a concentrated assault could do? So, yeah... he tried.
Peach, willing to do anything to regain her water typing, underwent a very special training, that could even be considered as an operation: She was soaked intensely for several hours, and bathed in water that was thought to be purified by Suicune itself. Finally, she succeeded. She could play in water again with no fear of her wings getting unusable, and she could even do things she couldn't as a Surskit. However, she lost her affinity with air, and alongside that the use of a bunch of moves.
Effects: Peach is considered as a Bug/Water type. She gains the ability Swift Swim in addition of all others, and has the following movepool modification:
+ Aqua Ring, Brine, Soak
- Air Cutter, Gust, Sunny Day, Tailwind, Twister, Whirlwind
[Artemis] Pidgey (Female)
Ability: Keen Eye
Signature Attribute: Moontouched
Pokémon genetics, such as they are, tend to have strange effects on children - particularly when breeds are mixed, such as they are in Artemis' line. Her mother is the result of a long line of Honchkrow and Pidgeot, and her father is a mixture of Togekiss and Honchkrow. Combine that with the fact that she hatched on a full moon, and, well... Artemis is the result. Thanks to the eclectic mixture of Pokémon in her lineage, she has a special connection to the moon. This power manifests itself in two ways:
Firstly, she is typed Dark/Flying rather than Normal/Flying, and to match this her plumage darkened; where a normal Pidgey would be brown, cream and pink, she is black, dark blue and grey. She gains the moves Moonlight and Shadow Ball, but can no longer use Sunny Day.
Secondly, Artemis does 2% more damage with her direct damage attacks after all other calculations if the battle takes place at night. Conversely, she deals 2% less damage if the fight takes place during the day. If a battle takes place indoors, no bonus or drawback is applied. Weather conditions do not stop Moontouched from taking effect.
Effects: Artemis is considered to be a Dark/Flying type instead of Normal/Flying, and she is coloured differently to other Pidgey. She deals 2% more direct damage during the night, and 2% less direct damage during the day. No damage modifier is applied when indoors.
Movepool changes:
+Moonlight, Shadow Ball
-Sunny Day
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