Re: Pokémon Registration Office
First, overturning some approvals:
Also, I guess I didn't answer your question of a few posts ago earlier: no, Keilu can't get the moves at all at this stage.
For Kazan's attribute, what does it mean to "counter" curse or the other attacks listed? Needs more drawbacks.
Kaitei's attribute needs more drawbacks.
These are all leaning a little on the line of being too complicated, but Shinrin's is the worst.
First, overturning some approvals:
You still seem to have kept parts of the backstory that were problematic before, but made them more vague ("guess what happened," and "unusually powerful thunderbolt"); this does not solve the problem. They're not even really worth anything in the new version--why not just get rid of them? More pressingly, though, the recoil damage that you stealthed onto the end there has to go.
Nemo – male
<Magic Guard>
Signature Attribute: I Hold the Thunder
Nemo’s original owner was a man of great mystery – a legendary captain who sailed through storms and wars between the metallic walls of his submarine ship, the Nautilus. The contemporaneous pirate had found the abandoned egg on a cold shore, not far from a rocky beach renowned for being the nest of countless Tynamos (Guess what had happened). Anyways, he decided to take it with him, along with his squad of aquatic Pokémon. From the beginning, the Solosis seemed to be weaker than others – a large gash at the surface of its egg had disturbed its growth as an embryo, and left him with a weakened gel coating.
Nevertheless, Nemo was a fearless sailor aboard the Nautilus, just like every other of the Captain’s Pokémon. Since the ship was heavily dependant over electronical circuits, Nemo learned to manipulate weak currents with his psychic powers, transporting them over short distances as though they were copper threads. He managed to master that technique, and became very good at fixing minor circuiting problems.
One day, though, a particularly violent thunderstorm shook the iron ship and completely disrupted its electrical systems – and none of the crew could fix them, all of them being water-types. Nemo, as cold-blooded as ever, crossed the line. He did what he felt right for the crew, and decided to sacrifice himself for the crew. Before the Captain could stop him, he was atop the ship and using his psychic powers to drag the energy to him and into the ship, hopefully restoring the system before it sank into the abyss below. At that moment, a lightning of the most extraordinary kind struck the sea, a thunderbolt seemingly thrown by Zeus himself. Undeniably, Nemo, acting like a living lightning rod, absorbed the formidable burst of energy, and through a clever use of telekinetic gates, brought it to the ship’s electrical systems. The Nautilus was saved, but Nemo nearly passed out under the unbearable power of the lightning. It had left him weakened, burned, sparking – and weirdest of all, his entire body had turned into an electrical yellow.
While nobody knows what exactly had happened during that moment, theories from the Captain include the fact that Nemo still had a great deal of stem cells in his gel, and they acted exactly acted as they should’ve – copying their nearest cellular components, in this case electrified cells. Maybe it comes from the Solosis’ possible Eelektross genes heritage, or even his inner ability to manipulate electricity. This shall forever remain a secret. Nevertheless, that event left him with an altered cellular structure and a now natural affinity with electricity. And when the Captain left Nemo to Lord of the Fireflies, afraid a live at sea was too dangerous for such a young Pokémon, the trainer got to experience the Solosis’ remarkable powers.
Nemo is considered to be part Electric-type, but as he didn’t effectively master the element yet, he doesn’t get STAB from electric-type attacks. He constantly glows in a bright yellow, and opponents tend to adapt to this intense light, and it easily reveals Nemo’s true emplacement. Additionally, his time spent on the Nautilus prevented him from practicing certain attacks due to lack of material. Finally, the gash in his egg left him with a weakened gel coating, and so he suffers from a permanent one-stage reduction in defense. On the other hand, his new nature granted him access to new moves previously unknown to most Solosis, as well as a quite interesting new cellular weapon – electricity-producing cells.
Effects: Nemo is yellow and part electric-type, minus STAB. Since he constantly radiates light, attacks using light to distract the opponent (Flash and Confuse Ray) as well as Double Team will fail. Additionally, he can’t use the moves Rock Tomb, Rock Slide and Rollout. Finally, he has a permanent -1 in defense. On the other hand, he gains access to the moves Charge Beam, Thunderbolt and Spark, and foes using contact moves on Nemo will take 2% electric-type damage as recoil.
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Better? And oooh "Yellow Submarine" played while I was writing this
Also, I guess I didn't answer your question of a few posts ago earlier: no, Keilu can't get the moves at all at this stage.
Sorry, but if you want this, you're going to need to lose sketch.
The attacks lost are very random, and like I said before--it's just not enough of a drawback for the addition of the dark typing. The attacks lost would cover for the rest of the attribute fine, but the type addition, no.I'm not sure how the shadow would be similar to spikes, since it's only a 5% chance of it happening, and it's flinch rather than damage. Er. Clarified the looking-at-him thing though.
[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 (leer, mean look, glare, etc.) 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; meaning no STAB boost. He also loses access to the following attacks: Dynamicpunch, Rest, and Imprison.
Combos don't let you use any more moves per round, so I don't know what you're talking about with the "he is able to do two more attacks in that round instead of only one." Most importantly, though, this needs a larger drawback.
[The Great Kyle] Abra [♂]
[Synchronize]
Signature Attribute: Now You See Me, Now You Don't
The Great Kyle, as he insists on being called, is not originally Blastoise's pokémon. Blastoise's up-and-coming younger brother, Barubu, was his original owner and trainer. Barubu wasn't gonna put up with any of that long-distance evading crap from his abra, nosiree; thus, the training focused on the extension of the abra's natural talent for Teleporting to make up for his kind's lack of physical power. Besides making The Great Kyle more physically active overall, this training forced him to practiced his Teleporting to the point that it's even more of a second nature than it already was. However, TGK has been made to neglect most of his other Psychic powers, so they're not quite as powerful as average.
Effects: Once a round, The Great Kyle can use Teleport in conjunction with another move without the normal restrictions of a combo; namely, this means he is able to do two more attacks in that round instead of only one. However, he is only able to combine Teleport in this way with moves that target an opponent or opponents; he also can't use ones that might require charging such as, say, Solar Beam. Due to the speedy nature of such combos, the only non-damaging moves he can use are the ones classed as Projectile/Status, such as Thunder Wave; moves like Taunt or Attract are simply too time-consuming to be used effectively after a quick Teleport. As a result of this focus on a single mental ability, he enters battle with -1 Special Attack, and when his stats are reset his Special Attack is reset to that level.
Shinrin's attribute is too complicated/trying to do too much. It's also pretty pointless to try losing swagger and screech for the powders, since those would already have been lost on account of being "attacks that can give away his location through noise." There's no indication why those three would be lost anyway.inb4 massive arrival of Sig Attributes
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Shinrin – male
<Overgrow>
Signature Attribute: The Path of the Ninja – First Scroll
Shinrin, Kazan and Kaitei all come from a very old community of Pokémon, a community that is well-known for perpetuating, generations after generations, an antediluvian tradition of some sort. At their young age, each of the village’s children would choose a path, a path that would mold their learning and express their values, and eventually they would adapt all aspects of their life to the path they had chosen – including their battle style.
Shinrin chose the Path of the Ninja. The Ninjas are stealth, agile warriors who value discretion and efficiency, and are well versed in the art of botany. As an apprentice, Shinrin still has much to learn, but he already made the sacrifices necessary to someday become an accomplished Ninja, and learned how to act furtively and with great efficiency, using these tactics to overcome his foes. With much practice, he ended up being able to dodge attacks with greater ease, as well as developing his senses of smell, sight, and hearing - effectively aiding him predict ranged attacks. However, he somewhat lost skills when it comes to close combats, and he has a greater difficulty battling in open areas, when there is nowhere to hide. Finally, his official Ninja status allowed him to have access to the first scroll – and to learn the first Ninja Technique, the Rain of Dust.
Effects: Shinrin is an apprentice Ninja. He his abnormally fast and agile, so simple actions that could take a while for others (such as climbing atop a huge tree, running a long distance, etc) are not counted as an action for Shinrin, and can be combined with other moves for a single action. He values stealth and hates being loud in battles, and loses moves that could reveal his position through noise. Also, he developed an inner capacity at foreseeing long-ranged attacks that targets him, effectively reducing their accuracy to 90% of the original value. However, he has a harder time dealing with close battles, boosting the accuracy of contact attacks to 110% of the original value. He also gains the move Rain of Dust, which is not a Signature Move but rather a random throw of special powders of the Ninja’s confection (remember I said they were good botanists) which is basically either Poison Powder, Sleep Powder, Stun Spore or Smoke Screen; selected at random. Finally, Shinrin won’t use the following moves in battle: Screech, Swagger and Grasswhistle.
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Kazan – male
<Blaze>
Signature Attribute: The Path of the Monk – First Scroll
Shinrin, Kazan and Kaitei all come from a very old community of Pokémon, a community that is well-known for perpetuating, generations after generations, an antediluvian tradition of some sort. At their young age, each of the village’s children would choose a path, a path that would mold their learning and express their values, and eventually they would adapt all aspects of their life to the path they had chosen – including their battle style.
Kazan chose the Path of the Monk. Monks are wise and calm, and are responsible of interacting with the spirits – and fending them off if the need ever arisen. They are the gate between our world and the world of the dead, and learned to cope with their nemesis – the spirits. As a Monk, Kazan has learned a way to defend himself against their curses, and can occasionally defend against them, barricading his mind in a mental barrier. Moreover, as Monks are well trained to face ethereal creatures, they are also trained to better resist the impact of their attacks, and he results they would have on their body – on the other hand, real, physical attacks tend to catch them off guard. However, having learned how painful it is to have their mind intruded, as well as being seduced by dirty tricks, Monks absolutely despise to use them against their foes, and it has become less a philosophy than a rule among them. Finally, his official Monk status gave him access to the first scroll, and indeed to the first Monk technique; the Spiritual Counter Strike, which was used by Monks in ancient time to absorb the special attacks sent to them by their rivals, and retaliate with a powerful blast of sheer energy.
Effects: Kazan is an apprentice Monk. He has developed an inner ability to fend off spiritual curses, making him counter the moves Curse (ghost-typed), Destiny Bond, Grudge, Nightmare and Spite half of the time. Moreover, his ability to deal with elemental energy allows him to negate secondary effects of special attacks half the time (Ex: Thunderbolt will only have a 5% chance of paralyzing, 10% if the user has Serene Grace - If the move’s secondary effect affects the user only, like Charge Beam, it remains unchanged), but physical attacks have their secondary effect activated with a probability multiplied by 1.5 (Ex. Thunder Punch has a 15% chance of paralyzing, 30% if the user has Serene Grace. Again, secondary effects affecting the user only will remain as normal). Finally, Kazan gains access to the move Mirror Coat, but will refuse to use the moves Torment, Attract and Captivate in battle.
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Kaitei – male
<Torrent>
Signature Attribute: The Path of the Samurai – First Scroll
Shinrin, Kazan and Kaitei all come from a very old community of Pokémon, a community that is well-known for perpetuating, generations after generations, an antediluvian tradition of some sort. At their young age, each of the village’s children would choose a path, a path that would mold their learning and express their values, and eventually they would adapt all aspects of their life to the path they had chosen – including their battle style.
Kaitei chose the Path of the Samurai. Samurais are impulsive and brave, and they value power and honor. Through their lives as warriors, they have learned how to discover the foe’s weakest part simply by analysing their movements, and it has become an art to master among them. In addition, Samurai are masters of quick, unexpected and decesive blows. Kaitei was no exception, and with harsh training which often resulted in painfully ragged scalchops, he had become able to see through a foe’s natural defences to seek for critical points – however (why must there always be a however) with all that physical training, his special attacks were often left behind. Also, he can occasionally foresee opportunities of hitting incredibly fast, catching most opponents off-guard. Moreover, Kaitei’s strong sense of honor prevents him from hiding behind dirty tricks like clones and walls of green energy, with the possible exception of a Substitute - because a rash sacrifice is something very cool and everything for Samurais, the fact that the decoy drains life energy out of the user’s body kinda makes up for it. This same sense of honor also forbids any copying of the foe’s own battle style. Unsurprisingly, Kaitei was also taught the first Samurai Technique, Chopping Resistance, which consists in absorbing a blow from an enemy and use the energy contained in it to strike back with an overpowered scalchop lash.
Effects: Kaitei is an Apprentice Samurai. He has specialized in the art of striking fast and precisely, and each time he uses a physical contact attack with priority 0, there is a 20% chance it will have its priority raised by 0,5, essentially making it faster than normal moves but slower than regular priority attacks. Used to infighting, he can easily spot weak parts of the enemy’s defences, raising the critical ratio of all his physical contact attacks by one level. However, his abilities with ranged attacks are somewhat lacking, and they will have their critical hit ratio lowered by one level. Ultimately, he learns the move Counter, but his honor forbids him from using the moves Double Team, Protect and Copycat.
For Kazan's attribute, what does it mean to "counter" curse or the other attacks listed? Needs more drawbacks.
Kaitei's attribute needs more drawbacks.
These are all leaning a little on the line of being too complicated, but Shinrin's is the worst.
This really just makes no sense.
Approved
The move limit condition is a little fiddly; just make it "can use these up to three times," with no possibility that they be replenished. You're also going to need to figure out how to lose more moves, or come up with a larger drawback; thirteen moves is a lot to gain, even if at this stage they're not especially powerful (but I imagine upon evolution you'll be wanting power whip, blizzard, inferno...).Well, she's Normal-type because while she has the power of the sun, she isn't the sun, and is really a wolf/hyena cub with special powers. That's why no fire-type. The reason for no dark-type is that...well, dark has an evil connotation, and Amaterasu is anything but! Plus, she's lost pretty much all the dark-type techniques I can think of except for those that wolves can normally do like biting and snarling. So there's really no reason for her to be Dark-type either.
[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 lord of evil. In the process, 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 had a celestial brush of their own and followed in their ancestors' footsteps, making their own journey 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. However, there are still several brush strokes that she can use:
-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 (Icy Wind)
All of these attacks are initiated by Amaterasu’s Celestial Brush, and are therefore are always counted as special attacks. But there is a limit to these attacks; Amaterasu has a limited amount of ink. She starts any given battle with three ink pots, and every time she uses one of the above attacks, that count decreases by one. When it reaches zero, Amaterasu cannot use any of the attacks; however, this ink regenerates over time, and every two rounds Amaterasu will gain one extra ink pot.
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 (but not actually being the sun or possessing its direct power), 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 gets an extra +1 in Speed, but if the sky is not visible she gets -1 in that stat instead. 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 any of the following attacks a total of three times (cumulative; each one counts for one count and when that reaches 0 Amaterasu cannot use any of the attacks any more) plus one extra time for every two rounds: Sunny Day, Slash, Vine Whip, Water Gun, Egg Bomb, Gust, Ember, Mist, Thundershock and Icy Wind. 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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