[Kay Faraday] Sneasel (F)
Ability: Inner Focus
Signature Move: Great Truth Burglar
Like all Dark-type Pokemon, Kay has access to the move Thief and is able to steal things from opponents. However, at the same time she has a strong sense of justice and righteousness, and refuses to steal for material gain. Instead, she prefers to avoid material objects and steal things she thinks will enable her to defeat criminals, or in the context of a battle, her opponents. As such the targets of her five-finger discounts will be less corporeal things, such as information or other things that give them an edge in battle that aren’t physically held. Her ninja-like stealth and precision mean her foes will be completely unaware that they have been targeted until it’s too late.
Type: Dark / Stat: Physical / Base Damage: 5% / Target: Single / Energy: varies
Effects: Kay cloaks her body in dark energy, rendering herself undetectable, and sneaks around behind her target as quick as a flash. She then rifles roughly through the target with her claws, using her dark powers to strip them of all their stat increases and apply them to herself. These values are added to her current increases or decreases and totally removed from the target, rather than copying the target’s and replacing the user’s like Psych Up would, and negative status changes are not stolen. Stolen stat increases will only increase Kay's up to the +6 limit, i.e. if Kay has +4 Attack and +3 Defense, and steals +3 Attack ans +5 Defense, she will end up with +6 Attack and +6 Defense. (The target's attack and Defense will still be reset to 0, however.) She will also steal information about the target’s weak points, raising her critical hit ratio by one level. The entire process happens too quickly for the target to notice anything, so Great Truth Burglar can never miss or be avoided as long as the target is within reach. Kay is loath to use Great Truth Burglar more than once on the same target, lest she accidentally be spotted and have her pride in her stealth humiliated, and her moral compass forbids her from using the move Thief, meaning this sig move effectively removes Thief from her movepool.
This attack costs 5% base energy, plus an additional 1% for every stat level stolen above +4. For instance it will cost 5% energy to steal +0, +1, +2, +3 or +4 Attack, but 6% to steal +5 and 7% to steal +6. This stacks if multiple stats above 4 are stolen (so to steal +6 in Attack, Defense, Speed, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Accuracy would cost 17% energy).
Usage Gap: once per battle.
Reposted with Blazhy's suggestion.
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