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Pokémon Registration Office

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Pokémon that evolve by trading with a held item, meeting some condition while holding a held item, or by evolution stone of any sort, need only participate in one battle while holding the appropriate stone or item in order to complete their evolution.
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They don't have to make a KO; the battle just has to end.

why am I here I have a portfolio to cobble together
 
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...What. So I could've gotten my Starmie ages ago? Raaaage.

Alright then, in the interest of Starmie spammage in the tournament should I get in:

Staryu @Water Stone
Staryu [Garnet] (N/A)
Ability: Illuminate

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Starmie
Starmie [Garnet] (N/A)
Ability: Illuminate

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Edit: Oh, and my Snorunt too.

Snorunt @Dawn Stone
Snorunt [Yukianesa] (F)
Ability: Inner Focus

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Froslass
Froslass [Yukianesa] (F)
Ability: Snow Cloak

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Now that Yukianesa's gone and evolved, I'd like to modify her signature move.

[Froslass] Yukianesa (F)
Ability: Snow Cloak

Signature Move: Pebble Jet

It's a well-known fact that Snorunt are shy, reclusive creatures, retreating deep into chilly caves to live among the ice and stalagmites come spring. There, they dine on snow, never taking so much as a peek outside until winter arrives once more. After all, why would they? The warmth makes them uncomfortable, there are scary predators outside, and who needs to budge an inch when you've got piles of food in front of your nose?

There are rare occasions when a Snorunt's food supply runs out, but that's not much of a problem, either; all they have to do is scurry out of their cave and find another one. Hoenn has an abundance of caves, after all. In other words, spring and summer are more or less the easiest season's for a Snorunt. Nothing to do but eat, sleep, and eat some more.

Two or so years ago, the summer was incredibly hot and humid, the temperatures reaching above thirty degrees Celsius on almost a daily basis. While it was a horrid time for most living creatures, it was understandably more so for the poor Snorunt. Not only did they feel uncomfortably warm, their precious snow began to melt! While most of the cone-shaped Pokemon hurried to the Shoal Cave, where in the deepest chambers it was cold all year, a few simply could not.

Yukianesa was one of the few.

You see, Yukianesa was born and raised in the Island Cave. Like most of her species, she was timid and easy to scare - so timid, in fact, that she didn't even think of leaving her home until it was too late. Along came spring, thawing the ice that provided her only bridge to the rest of Hoenn. For a while she thought she was safe, since there was always at least some ice in the far corners of the small cavern (that was due to Regice's influence, though she didn't know that), but summer mercilessly melted what little frozen liquid there was left in a matter of days. There was no way for Yukianesa to scamper to other caves - Snorunt, with their stubby arms and legs, simply aren't made to swim - and there were still many, many weeks 'til fall would arrive. So she did the only thing she could do. Yukianesa ate rocks.

Her teeth, already hardened from months of eating solid ice, actually didn't fare too bad against granite. After several bites, she noted with surprise that rocks actually... weren't that bad. Calcium, sodium, and other delectable minerals all compressed into a small, hard package - mmm! Up until this day, Yukianesa has been eating rocks along with her usualy snow-and-ice Snorunt diet.

As such, she always has rocks in her stomach, usually ground into smaller bits by her teeth, though you might find some larger chunks. During battle, she can bring up rock bits, as well as acids, from her stomach to spit at her opponent in a stream of pebbles and chartreuse, burning liquid.

After evolution, Yukianesa's newfound Ghost typing meant that she no longer needed to eat. In addition, nearly all her normal body functions stopped since she no longer required them to stay alive, and what functions didn't stop slowed down drastically. She still enjoys eating rocks; however, since there is less debris and acid to bring up, the attack now does slightly less damage.

Due to the fact that Yukianesa's body is now only semi-corporal, she no longer burns her throat when she brings up the acids. And finally, with her new familiarity with the Ice element, she can augment her Ice-typed attacks to irritate the burned patch even after some time after it had been created, effectively extending the 2% damage boost to Ice-type attacks by one round.

Type: Rock / Damage: 5% / Target: Single / Accuracy: 95% / Energy: 6%
Effects: Yukianesa brings up half-dissolved pebbles from her stomach along with acids and spits it in a high-pressure jet at her opponent. The sheer friction of the rough particles, as well as the corrosive nature of the liquid, actually burns through any fur, scales, or skin the opponent has to expose a spot of tender, hot flesh. This flesh is very sensitive to cold, so any ice-typed attacks aimed there will deal 2% more damage, after all calculations. This damage bonus lowers to 1% after five rounds. Also, since this attack involves emptying her stomach, she'll feel understandably hungry for the rest of the battle, causing her to be more hesitant to move a great deal. Basically, this translates into a 1% damage deduction for all physical attacks she uses from there-on. Finally, she can only use this attack once per battle, since she only has one stomach to empty.
Usage Gap: Once per battle
 
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Larry feels more experienced!

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[Larry]Chimchar[M]​
 
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Kam said:
Going to try and get a sig attribute for my Misdreavus.

misdreavus
Envy
Female
Levitate

Sig Attribute: Heartless

Envy's had some bad experiences in her past. She used to be naive and carefree. Later on in life, though, most of the people she knew were captured by a horde of trainers that came to the woods that she lived, including her love interest. At this point, she realized that love was just going to hold her back... so why not be a cynic?

Envy is notorious for being cruel and sadistic. She's not into this thing you call "love". Thus, she's a very cynical person, and despite her lack of emotion, she is amazing at scheming.

Effects: Envy cannot be attracted (although she can still feign her emotions and use Attract and Captivate). She has gained the ability to scheme, but has lost the ability to love. Thus, she has gained access to Nasty Plot and lost access to Return.
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Still doesn't explain what scheming has to do with emotion, but whatever. Approved.

Kusarigamaitachi said:
Occasionally I would do my best to deprive my opponent of the choice.


[Pride] Sableye (M) Keen Eye
Links: Obtained
Signature Attribute: Casting Shadows

Before he was captured by the ASB League, Pride was a lonely cave-dweller who did little else but search for food and occasionally attack rocks when bored. However, he had vague memories of friends - perhaps he'd had a family, or perhaps he had once been trained - and he, unlike most wild sableye, needed a companion to avoid possible despair. There was no one around and he wouldn't search for someone for foolish reasons like friendship, or otherwise depending on anyone else, because he was better than that. Instead, he began to interact with his only constant companion - the darkness.

When he was finally brought out of the darkness, he found the light uncomfortable and unfamiliar. But he realised that he always carried a little bit of darkness with him, which others called his shadow. When he was informed of the names of the some of the attacks he knew (shadowballshadowclawshadowsneak), he realised his shadow had power, and when he looked at the shape of the darkness, his shape, he decided it must be its own creature. Because it was his shadow, according to everyone, it must have been a creature that obeyed him, much like Pride obeyed his trainer.

It took time to coax the shadow to revealing its true self, by moving as Pride wanted it to without only obeying the light. The shadow always came from him, but it could stretch across the ground and up the walls. However, his control was crude, and the shape of any part of the shadow he dragged from the main mass was always triangular. He was not satisfied and tried to create hands, in the image of his own, which was easier when he thought of the fingers as more triangles and the arms as a thin, stretched-out triangle that ended in hands.

But Pride knew that it must have eyes and a mouth, because all creatures did (or else they were just weird, and not worth considering), and he insisted that the shadow open its eyes or accept the food he shared with it. It took a long time, and generous offering of his dark and ghost energy, but one day a part of the shadow split, revealing an eye. As Pride stared into the eye, he found that he could see himself staring at him, somehow, and knew it must be the shadow. But creatures had more than one eye, or at least Pride did, so he ordered it to open its other eye. But the shadow did more: one eye after another opened in the shadow, some small while others were larger than Pride himself, until he demanded that it stop, because it was awesome but just weird. Creatures also had mouths, with teeth, but the shadow had already revealed that it had many more eyes than most. Pride knew that it must have multiple mouths it could open, and ordered it to do so. Like the eye, an area of no shadow opened up, but the hole had jagged edges he knew must be teeth.

Still it was not enough. In his cave, the darkness had always been almost tangible, and all of the other pokémon he met were three-dimensional and had mass. He would not admit that he was lonely and wanted friends, even to himself, so he instead decided his shadow must rise above the ground and truly exist. This took the longest of all, and he hurled shadow balls at the shadow when it wouldn't obey, to both prove that it should be possible and to vent his frustration. Then, a lump of shadow was thrown back at him, and he knew it meant the shadow must have fully materialised for at least a moment. He practised, first creating more lumps of shadow and then stretching them. The solidified shadow looked much like the shadow had on the ground, with the triangles becoming blades and the long, thin arms becoming tendrils. The most satisfying moment was when he could stand alongside a complete creature, with its own mouths and arms and eyes and spikes, and for the first time he truly indulged in the sin after which he was named.

Effects: Pride can use his shadow to perform physical contact moves without actually physically making contact. This means he can attack through paralysis, without triggering an ability involving contact, and against pokémon he cannot physically reach. Although the shadow causes physical damage (except in the case of shadow ball), and will affect the target's defence stat, Pride controls the shadow with his mind and thus his special attack stat is used instead of attack. A 2% energy cost is added to every attack performed by using the shadow.

Pride cannot move while moving his shadow, meaning that any particular use of the shadow would take a full action, just as it would if Pride himself was performing the action. The shadow also can only travel at about the same speed as Pride. If, without any changes to his speed or physical impairments, Pride could travel the distance and perform attack in one action, from the part of the shadow closest to the target, the opponent is considered within range. Only the distance truly matters, and the same distance applies to all directions from Pride. The shadow uses 2% energy for every pure-travel action.

The shadow can only perform physical attacks that use teeth, blades, hands, claws, or tendrils, as well as moves with "shadow" in their name. These moves must be available to Pride, although he can use the body parts to cause damage without using a specified move, such as by biting the opponent or attempting to hold the opponent in place. However, the moves can only be charged with dark- or ghost-type energy, or they may completely lack elemental energy and thus be normal-type. Secondary effects granted by the element will not occur; this means that a dark-type poison jab will not poison the opponent, but a dark shadow claw will still have a high critical hit ratio. Shadow ball is always ghost-type.

Multiple moves can be used during the same action with the shadow. This can mean several different moves at once or the same moves, and from multiple directions or against multiple targets. Like a combo, using two simultaneous attacks would use up two actions of the command string.


Since the shadow is an extension of Pride's will, it is possible to inflict damage to him by harming the shadow (treated as special damage, so it is affected by special defence). However, shadows are not easily damaged, seeing as they are areas of darkness - or in Pride's case, a mass of dark and ghost energy. Instead, the shadow can be directly damaged by the very thing that gives it power: light.

Attacks that use pure energy generate a significant amount of light. Stronger attacks are generally brighter. Normal and electric moves generate the most light, followed by the brightness of flames and pure grass-type energy. The strengths of moves, therefore, are categorised into the following:

Damage x0.75

  • Pure energy normal-type moves
  • Special electric moves
  • Attacks whose power is derived entirely from the light they cast
Damage x0.5

  • Special attacks that generate open flames, particularly fire and dragon moves
  • Special grass-type moves that cast light
  • Special steel-type attacks using pure steel energy
  • Damaging special moves described as exceptionally bright
Other special moves that generate light will inflict 25% of their usual damage. Flash is a special case, causing 8% typeless damage even though it usually causes none. Any move that falls into multiple categories above defaults to the category that grants it the most damage.

Dark, ghost, psychic, and physical moves, and moves that cast no light, will not damage Pride through the shadow, but physical moves can be used to deflect the shadow or prevent it from achieving a certain goal. Physical moves that cast light are an exception, capable of inflicting a whopping 1% set damage against Pride if they strike the shadow.

Resistances and immunities have no effect. The damage percentage is calculated after all other factors are taken into account. It is impossible to score a critical hit on the shadow, and no secondary effects will occur. To cause damage, moves must directly strike a part of the shadow, whether on the ground or fully materialised.

Any part of the shadow the attack directly touches (including flash, whose light generally touches everywhere not blocked by an object) will be destroyed, and any part of the shadow completely severed from the main mass vanishes. Pride can re-grow the shadow as usual after the attack, without any abnormal delay.

Pokémon with the Illuminate ability, under the effects of tail glow, with open flames, or otherwise constantly generating light that can be somewhat blinding to look into are capable of physically striking the shadow with the glowing part for 1% set damage. Although this is not overwhelmingly much, the shadow shies away from source even as the light gives it power. Glowing body parts and areas of the body particularly close to it cannot be targeted; if the shadow tries to strike them, the move will fail and Pride will take 1% damage. If anywhere but the shadow cast by the pok émon's body blocking the light source is targeted, the shadow's attack power will be decreased one level for that strike. The referee can determine the chance that the shadow will strike each area specified above, based on the pokémon's body shape, location and size of the light source, and Pride's time and ability to carefully target any particular area of the body.

Moves that strike Pride will have their normal effects.


Pride can see from the shadow's eyes, which can help him target opponents, so all moves using the shadow have 100% accuracy. However, this also means the eyes can be targeted if a move requires him to see it, such as confuse ray. The shadow's eyes cannot see anyone hiding in the shade so long as the target is completely covered, but Pride himself can see as well as any sableye.

In addition, the shadow cannot exist in total darkness. If for some reason Pride does not cast a shadow, his signature attribute is totally neutralised so that neither benefits nor detriments come into play.
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Approved.

Blastoise said:
(Coronada) Misdreavus (F)
Levitate

For me Trapinch.
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blazheirio889 said:
Trapinch [Sceratio] (M)
Ability: Arena Trap

For me Misdreavus.

Derp derp I'll think of another nickname later
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And approved.

Think that's everything for the past two pages, then.
 
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