The year is 2001, you have been playing Pokémon Crystal, have beaten Red, and completed the Pokédex. Around Christmas time, your grandmother brings you something released exclusively in Japan, and she got it for you! It’s Pokemon Crystal: The Sevii Islands.
The goal of this Pet Mod is to diversify the GSC OU meta and create additions as if generations after generation 2 never existed. The additions will be made as if Pokémon Crystal: The Sevii Islands is a sequel to the original Pokémon Crystal. Flavor wise, this would mean Fakemon should be based as if they exist in the Sevii Islands. Imagine it as if Game Freak asked you to be a part of the creation of the Pokémon Crystal sequel.
Description
Add brand new Pokémon (Fakemon), moves, and items to the GSC OU Metagame. (GSC OU Based Format.)
Slates
First and foremost, if you are submitting for the first time, don't be overly worried about making mistakes! The council will always make sure to give feedback to submissions that need refining for the GSC OU meta.
Please refer to GSC Mechanical Differences listed above if you are unfamiliar with the differences between new generations and GSC OU.
Other Resources
Here are some other resources you can check out to become involved:
Council Team
JosJetAlbatrossPaulluxxRezzoLord Zorz
The goal of this Pet Mod is to diversify the GSC OU meta and create additions as if generations after generation 2 never existed. The additions will be made as if Pokémon Crystal: The Sevii Islands is a sequel to the original Pokémon Crystal. Flavor wise, this would mean Fakemon should be based as if they exist in the Sevii Islands. Imagine it as if Game Freak asked you to be a part of the creation of the Pokémon Crystal sequel.
Description
Add brand new Pokémon (Fakemon), moves, and items to the GSC OU Metagame. (GSC OU Based Format.)
Physical Moves: Normal, Poison, Ground, Fighting, Bug, Flying, Rock, Ghost.
Special Moves: Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Psychic, Dark, Dragon.
Hidden Power can be physical depending on its respective type.
Special Moves: Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Psychic, Dark, Dragon.
Hidden Power can be physical depending on its respective type.
- Types: Fairy-type does not exist, Steel resists Ghost and Dark-type damage.
- Abilities: Abilities do not exist in generation 2.
- Team Preview: Team preview does not exist in generation 2, the first Pokémon in your team will always be sent out first.
- Spikes: Spikes only have one layer, the residual damage will always be 1/8 of the Pokémon's maximum HP.
- Toxic: Starts out by badly poisoning the target (1/16 HP initial damage, then adds 1/16 each turn) like the later gens, but it becomes normal poison (1/8 every turn) if the user switches out.
- 999 Stat Limit: The maximum number that a stat can have is 999. If a Pokémon reaches 999 before the +6 stage boost, it'll be unable to boost further. For example, a Snorlax has 999 Attack at +5, so it will unable to hit +6 with Curse (Defense will still boost to +6, if lower).
- Sleep Talk: Sleep Talk can pick Rest. The Pokémon will regain its HP, and the sleep count will reset to the regular two turns of Rest. (It can save you from the sleep count of Sleep Powder/Hypnosis).
- Roar/Whirlwind: Phazing in GSC needs to go last to work. Furthermore, Roar/Whirlwind priority is set to -1, so if a Machamp uses Vital Throw against a Skarmory trying to Whirlwind him for instance, both moves happen to have -1 priority but Machamp is slower, resulting in Whirlwind failing.
- Belly Drum: Normally, Belly Drum cuts half of the user's HP and maximizes its Attack; however, if the Pokémon has less than 50% of its HP, it will show a "But it failed!" message. Regardless of the failed message, your Attack will rise to +2 in GSC.
- Critical Hits: Considering stat stages range from -6 to +6, if the stat stage for the Attack/Special Attack is equal to or lower than the foe's Defense/Special Defense stage, any stat boosts/drops will be ignored on a critical hit (this includes Reflect/Light Screen and burn status Attack drops). If they are higher, nothing will be ignored. A simple example: Machamp landing a critical hit at +0 Attack against a Starmie behind Reflect will deal MORE damage than if he was at +1 Attack.
- Mean Look: Substitute does not block Mean Look in GSC (This applies to Spider Web as well).
Slates
- Slates will consist of Fakemon slates, new move slates, and new item slates.
- Slate Timeline: 6 days for submissions, 1 day for vetos and submission edits, 3 days for voting. (If there are no vetos, we will go directly into voting.)
- For most Fakemon slates, they will be broken into two parts. First, submitters will come up with concepts for Fakemon and vote for the best ones, and second, submitters will create and submit Fakemon based on the winning concepts.
- For these types of slates, there will be 3 days for concept submissions.
- There will also be flavor slates where a certain flavor inspired concept will be given as the prompt for Fakemon submissions. (This is done to diversify the flow of slates.)
- Slates will mostly follow a pattern similar to this: Fakemon - Move - Item.
First and foremost, if you are submitting for the first time, don't be overly worried about making mistakes! The council will always make sure to give feedback to submissions that need refining for the GSC OU meta.
Feel free to copy these templates! (When you preview your post, the formatting will be normal.)
Code:
[B]Concept[/B]:
[B]Description[/B]:
[B]Justification[/B]:
Code:
[B]Concept[/B]:
[B]Pokémon Name[/B]:
[B]Typing[/B]:
[B]Base Stats[/B]:
[B]Height[/B]:
[B]Weight[/B]:
[B]Notable Moves[/B]:
[IMG]https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/categories/Physical.png[/IMG]…
[IMG]https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/categories/Special.png[/IMG]…
[IMG]https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/categories/Status.png[/IMG]…
[SPOILER="Flavor Moves"]
[Here you should include any moves that you give to your submission that aren't intended for competitive use. (Ex. You might give a Normal-type Fakemon Tackle since it's a basic move most Normal-type Pokémon have.)] If you would like to skip this step, you can just write average [insert type here] learnset. The flavor learnset will be adapted from the learnsets by type resource in the original post.
[/SPOILER]
[SPOILER="Description"]
[Here you should talk about your Fakemon's competitive use/any flavor related to it.]
[/SPOILER]
Code:
[B]Move Name[/B]:
[B]Typing[/B]:
[B]BP[/B]:
[B]PP[/B]:
[B]Accuracy[/B]:
[B]Secondary Effects[/B]:
[B]Suggested Distribution[/B]:
[SPOILER="Description"]
[Here you should talk about your new move's competitive use/any flavor related to it.]
[/SPOILER]
Code:
[B]Item Name[/B]:
[B]Effect[/B]:
[SPOILER="Description"]
[Here you should talk about your new item's competitive use/any flavor related to it.]
[/SPOILER]
Learnsets By Type by Ema Skye
GSC Custom Items Guide by Lord Zorz
GSC Custom Items Guide by Lord Zorz
(By Rezzo)
Aeroblast (25% crit chance) (handle with care) (signature)
Beat Up
Bonemerang (signature)
Clamp (signature)
Conversion (signature)
Crabhammer (25% crit chance) (signature)
Dream Eater
Encore (handle with care)
Endure
Flail
Focus Energy
Future Sight
Glare
Growth
Haze (seen on Vaporeon only really)
Heal Bell (EXTREMELY strong, handle with care please)
Hydro Pump (complicated to explain, but the tl;dr is that water nukes aren't amazing)
Icy Wind
Leech Seed
Light Screen
Mach Punch
Meditate
Megahorn (signature)
Mimic
Mirror Coat
Mist
Moonlight
Morning Sun
Nightmare
Octazooka
Pain Split
Present (this move is bugged and calculates damage based on factors unrelated to base stats, https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Present_(move)#Gold_and_Silver )
Psych Up
Psywave
Pursuit
Razor Leaf
Reflect
Reversal
Screech
Selfdestruct (Snorlax and Mewtwo are the main ones limited to this over Explosion)
Shadow Ball
Sharpen
Spite
Substitute
Super Fang
Sweet Scent
Swords Dance
Synthesis
Transform
Tri Attack
Vital Throw (this move can deny Roar + Whirlwind if it moves last)
Zap Cannon (handle with care)
Aeroblast (25% crit chance) (handle with care) (signature)
Beat Up
Bonemerang (signature)
Clamp (signature)
Conversion (signature)
Crabhammer (25% crit chance) (signature)
Dream Eater
Encore (handle with care)
Endure
Flail
Focus Energy
Future Sight
Glare
Growth
Haze (seen on Vaporeon only really)
Heal Bell (EXTREMELY strong, handle with care please)
Hydro Pump (complicated to explain, but the tl;dr is that water nukes aren't amazing)
Icy Wind
Leech Seed
Light Screen
Mach Punch
Meditate
Megahorn (signature)
Mimic
Mirror Coat
Mist
Moonlight
Morning Sun
Nightmare
Octazooka
Pain Split
Present (this move is bugged and calculates damage based on factors unrelated to base stats, https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Present_(move)#Gold_and_Silver )
Psych Up
Psywave
Pursuit
Razor Leaf
Reflect
Reversal
Screech
Selfdestruct (Snorlax and Mewtwo are the main ones limited to this over Explosion)
Shadow Ball
Sharpen
Spite
Substitute
Super Fang
Sweet Scent
Swords Dance
Synthesis
Transform
Tri Attack
Vital Throw (this move can deny Roar + Whirlwind if it moves last)
Zap Cannon (handle with care)
- All Pokémon, moves, items, abilities, and mechanics introduced after GSC do not exist in this meta, so that will be very important to remember when making submissions.
- There are no BST limits, but remember that in GSC all stats can have up to 252 EVs in every stat simultaneously, this means that every stat matters when creating a Fakemon.
- You can edit your submission at any time before submissions close.
Please note that this is a lot of information, and you are definitely not required/expected to know everything about GSC before making a submission!
Voting opens after submissions are closed. Please wait for some kind of "Voting is open" message before casting votes. Voting templates may vary by slate and will be posted with vote opening messages.
- You can vote by creating a list of your top choice submissions from most liked to least liked. First place vote gives a submission 3 points, second place vote gives a submission 2 points, and third place vote gives a submission 1 point.
- You can vote for as little or as many submissions you want to in each category (this differs if your vote in a category contains a self vote). All points will be weighed on a 3 point scale. This means that after your third place vote, points will count as 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc. Votes after third place are still very important because someone can still win even if they have a 1/8 point lead.
- You cannot vote for yourself as first in more than one category.
- If there is only one category in a given slate, or you only have one submission, you can only vote for yourself in second place or lower.
- If one of your votes is for yourself, you must vote for at least two other people in that category.
Here are some other resources you can check out to become involved:
Council Team
JosJetAlbatrossPaulluxxRezzoLord Zorz
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