Pet Mod GlaceMons - Playtesting; OU is done! | Please read Post #486!

[koista12]

Moves:
Raging Fury/Mind Crush/Execute
Tsunami
Twister / Flame Burst
Beak Blast / Railgun
Mental Gymnastics
Spark Step

Items:
Auspicious Armor | Malicious Armor
Special Tera Orb
Black Belt
Palette Cleanser
Snowball (PQRDG)
Mammoth Cloak

Abilities:
RKS System (Resub)
Anticipation
Run It Back
Flashy Entrance
Foreboding Haze
Early Advantage

Adjustments:
Ampharos (Ampharos Mega)
Tapu Bulu
Arcanine | Arcanine-Hisui (resub)
Guzzlord
Enamorus
Genesect (and forms)

 

[Fragmented]

Moves
Twister/Flame Burst, Jaw Lock, Tsunami, Tripwire

Items
Never-Melt Ice, Scouting Visor

Abilities
Hospitality (SV), Battle Armor | Shell Armor, Anticipation, Solar Power, Gorilla Tactics

Adjustments
Tapu Bulu, Rotom, Enamorus, Sceptile, Mantine, Volcanion

 

[solrock the great]

Moves	Items	Abilities	Adjustments
Pass the Plate	Micle Berry (SV)	Solar Power	Mega Gyarados (SV)
Circle Throw | Dragon Tail	Nightmare Feather (SV)	Neuroforce	Slither Wing
Psywave	Supreme Fishing Tackle Box	Flashy Entrance	Mantine
Tsunami	Mewnium Z	Foreboding Haze	Genesect
Beak Blast | Railgun	Palette Cleanser	Rinse and Repeat	Enamorus
Mental Gymnastics		Honey Gather	Glaceon

btw if micle berry wins change it so it cant make OHKO moves work, idt itll matter cause those are banned, but just sayin it rn cause i saw another item that looked like it that included that. (shouldnt matter cause OHKO is banned, but getting a free kill with an item is cringe)

[edit: fixed some spelling mistakes]

 

[Rasdanation]

Moves
Raging Fury / Mind Crush / Execute
Twister / Flame Burst
Psyshield Bash
Exhaust / Cold Fumes
Overvolt Rail (SV)
Spark Step

Items
Auspicious Armor / Malicious Armor
Palette Cleanser
Mammoth Cloak

Abilities
Anticipation
Overgrow / Blaze / Torrent / Swarm
Run It Back
Honey Gather
Snow Cloak / Sand Veil (SV)
Foreboding Haze

Adjustments
Mabosstiff
Iron Jugulis
Escavalier (SV)
Genesect (and forms)
Walking Wake
Necrozma

 

[PQRDG]

Moves
Autotomize
Tsunami
Beak Blast / Railgun
Mental Gymnastics [sv]
Spectral Thief [sv]
Spark Step

Abilities
Solar Power
Neuroforce
Run It Back
Honey Gather [sv]
Gorilla Tactics [sv]
Foreboding Haze

Items
Mystery Mirror
Supreme Fishing Tackle Box
Training Wheels
Mammoth Cloak [sv]
Owl Feather [sv]
Mewnium Z

Adjustments
Sceptile(-Mega)
Mabosstiff
Mr. Rime
Dusknoir family [sv]
Necrozma
Enamorus

 

[gamer but swag]

Moves: Payback, Twister/Flameburst, Payday, Salt Cure, Mental Gymnastics, Spectral Thief
Items: Training wheels, Palette Cleanser
Abilities: Skeptic (SV), Honey Gather, Hospitality
Adjustments: Sceptile, Mudsdale, Mantine, Skarmory (SV), Cofagrigus(SV), Dusknoir

 

[seth]

Moves: Payback, Twister/Flameburst, Payday, Salt Cure, Mental Gymnastics, Spectral Thief
Items: Training wheels, Palette Cleanser
Abilities: Skeptic, Honey Gather, Hospitality
Adjustments: Sceptile, Mudsdale, Mantine, Skarmory, Cofagrigus, Dusknoir

 

[HydreigonTheChild]

Moves: Dire Claw, Multi Attack, Twister / Flame burst, Spectral Thief

Items: Special tera orb (SV), Indecisive Orb, Mammoth Cloak, Mewnium Z, Palette Cleanser

Abilities: Rks System, Battle Armor | Shell Armor, Foreboding Haze

Adjustments: Amph-Mega (SV), Camerupt-Mega, Victini (Fire/Fairy), Genesect, Garchomp, Tapu Bulu (SV)

 

[Adriyun]

Moves: Payback, Twister/Flameburst, Payday, Salt Cure, Mental Gymnastics, Spectral Thief
Items: Training wheels, Palette Cleanser
Abilities: Rks System, Solar Power, Hospitality
Adjustments: Sceptile(SV), Mudsdale, Tapu Bulu, Skarmory, Cofagrigus, Goodra

 

[hidin]

Moves: Circle Throw / Dragon Tail, Multi-Attack, Twister / Flame Burst, Beak Blast / Railgun, Tripwire, Poison Fang
Items: Mewnium Z, Indecisive Orb, Auspicious Armor / Malicious Armor, Training Wheels
Abilities: Anticipation, RKS System, Overgrow / Blaze / Torrent / Swarm, Gorilla Tactics, Hospitality, Early Advantage
Adjustments: Tapu Bulu, Skarmory, Mantine (SV), Necrozma (SV), Enamorus, Cofagrigus

 

[sealoo]

Moves: Payback, Twister/Flameburst, Payday, Salt Cure, Mental Gymnastics, Spectral Thief
Items: Training wheels, Palette Cleanser
Abilities: Skeptic, Honey Gather, Hospitality
Adjustments: Sceptile, Mudsdale, Mantine, Skarmory, Cofagrigus, Dusknoir

 

[TheShowdownHoedown]

Moves: Overvolt, Multi Attack,
Items:
Abilities: rks system, battle armor/shell armor
Adjustments: Victini (PQRDG), Mantine, Volcanion, Skarmory, Dusknoir, Glaceon

 

[Gekokeso]

We have now finished counting votes, you can see them below. TheShowdownHoedown's vote was late, but given that it didn't prevent another submission to not make it in and the post was still being written we will let it slide only this once.

Voting Tally

Here are the winners!:

WINNERS

Moves

Name: Twister / Flame Burst
Power: 40 BP
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 30 [Max 48]
Category:

Type:

/

Effect: N/A
Priority: +1
Flags: N/A
Potential Pokémon With This Move: Same as In Standard + prolly | Same as In Standard + some more
Justification: Special priority is a very powerful tool, and I want to ensure that how we distributebit is done carefully. That being said, priority is exceptionally great for these typjngs and depending on who gets it, can be seen as an excellent form of speed control versus many intimidating targets. Nasty Plot Hydreigon might go stupid if you go this route as well.

Name: Overvolt Rail
Power: 75
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 10 [16 Max]
Category:

Type:

Effect: 33% Recoil, +1 Priority
Priority: 0
Flags (ex: Contact, Sound): Protect, Mirror, Metronome, Bullet
Potential Pokémon With This Move: ( if its not too busted on them) (Being able to learn Zap Cannon should be a prereq for mons who might get this)
Justification: Recoil Priority is fun. Also we actually got special priority! Also Skewda solution!!! real talk even if skewda gets nerfed this is still huge on being like the only viable special priority outside of Raging Bolt's signature move

Name: Mental Gymnastics
Power: 80
Accuracy: 100
PP: 10 (16)
Category: Special
Type: Psychic
Effect: Uses user's Special Defense stat instead of Special Attack when calculating damage.
Potential Pokémon With This Move: and any other Psychic/Psychic-adjacent Pokemon that like being bulky.
Justification: Special Body Press, should be interesting.

Name: Beak Blast / Railgun
Power: 100
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 15
Category: Physical
Type:

/

Effect: The user charges up at the beginning of the turn and executes this move at -3 priority. All who make contact with the user during the charging phase are burned / paralysed.
Priority: -3
Flags: Protect, Mirror, Metronome.
Potential Pokémon With This Move: Old Distribution + , , , , , ,, , , / , , , , , , , , , ,
Justification: There's a lot of contact moves flying around, and i really liked last slate's Beak Blast Skarmory, so here's it that move + a clone that works for paralysis.

Abilities

Name: Honey Gather
Effect: If this Pokemon is not holding an item, 50% chance at the end of the turn to get a Honey. 100% chance in Misty Terrain.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: Bees and Bears ( etc.), maybe other bugs or Pokemon that would go to the sweet-smelling trees in DPP ( )
Justification: Told you I would do it. Now that Honey is a useful item let's make Honey Gather a useful ability. Synergy with Misty Terrain (like Harvest with Sun) should be nice as well.

Name: Run It Back
Effect: On switch-in, encore the opponents for one turn.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: , , , , , , , , , ,
Justification: Very disruptive ability that can provide switch-ins or make revenge killing quite effective.

Name: Solar Power
Effect: Current effect + moves always behave as if sun is active (Growth always boosts by +2, Solar Beam/Blade always charge instantly, Weather Ball is always Fire type, Synthesis/Morning Sun/Moonlight always heal 75%)
Permanent (Yes or No): [Permanent abilities are abilities that can't be suppressed, Skill Swapped, or copied]
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): [Specify whether or not the ability is ignored by Mold Breaker]
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: Current distribution +

Justification: This ability is kinda ass, so let's give it an effect outside of sunlight. Heliolisk in particular would appreciate an instant Solar Beam and always Fire-type Weather Ball)

Name: Battle Armor | Shell Armor
Effect: Current effect + Damage taken from attacks is reduced by 20%
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): Yes
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: Current distribution
Justification: Needs an effect beyond preventing crits. So it now acts as a lesser combination of Fur Coat and Ice Scales.

Name: Anticipation
Effect: As long as its on the field, this Pokemon is alerted if any opposing Pokemon has an attack that is super effective on this Pokemon, or an OHKO move. If triggered, raises its highest defensive stat by 1 stage.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
No new additions so far, but probably should.

With this change, Anticipation finally has some viable usage. Changing the parameters of the trigger vastly improve the move, as now it goes from finding niche lures that may not even exist to always being active. Realistically a Toxicroak would not swap into a Psychic type, but a Psychic type would definitely come in on it. Raising its highest defensive stat is just icing on the cake. As is now the ability is on par with Ferrothorn's Iron Barbs and is still probably Toxicroak's worst ability, but with some other distribution this ability could easily go hard.

Name: RKS System (Resub)
Effect:
If this Pokemon is a Silvally, its type changes to match its held Memory or Z-Crystal. If this pokemon is holding a Memory or Z-Crystal, it receives a new ability. If this pokemon is not holding either of these items, it will retain RKS System.

New Abilities

Normal: Tough Claws
Grass: Overgrow
Fire: Blaze
Water: Torrent
Electric: Download
Ice: Snow Warning
Fighting: Scrappy
Poison: Regenerator
Ground: Rocky Payload
Flying: Air Lock
Psychic: Magic Bounce
Bug: Tinted Lens
Rock: Solid Rock
Ghost: Intimidate
Dragon: Marvel Scale
Dark: Moxie
Steel: Iron Fist
Fairy: Pastel Veil

Name: Hospitality
Effect: User and switch-in restore 1/16 Max HP at end of each turn.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: It's better Water Veil on a niche mon. Pretty useful for Bulky teams that spam boots.

Items

Name: Training Wheels
Effect: If the holder's species can evolve, increase its speed by x1.5
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 40bp.
Justification: Eviolith is a very common sub in mods like this, however I thought that the possibility of speed boost to be the offensive counterpart of eviolite would be a significantly more useful equivalent, especially with how many pokémon lose speed as they evolve. Significant amount of applications are possible, but some notorious ones are of extremely fast rocks leads like Cutiefly, fast offensive pivots like Primeape and Raboot, or possible lategame cleaners like Haunter or Duraludon. Credit to Gamer for the name change.


Name: Palette Cleanser
Effect: If the user has a stat dropped or raised, remove all stat changes for itself.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 10bp, removes stat changes.
Justification: White Herb effect that can be used multiple times at the expense of the ability to setup, good for spamming Dracos, Superpowers or V-creates.

Name: Mewnium Z
Effect: Mew only: All of the holder's attacks deal 1.3x damage in Psychic Terrain. If held by a Mew with Expanding Force, it can use Genesis Supernova.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): No
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: N/A
Justification: Minor buff to Mew's offensive prowess, Genesis Supernova is a super neat move as it remains the only offensive move that can set a terrain, but Mew's middling stats and better defensive options make it an extremely rare site. Having the move being based on Expanding Force and giving Mew a free Life Orb boost in Psychic Terrain gives it a much greater incentive to use Mewnium Z sets, since either you get a 469 BP nuke if Psychic Terrain is already active, or a way to self activate Psychic Terrain so you can start nuking things afterwards. Can also use this on physical sets if you're running PsySpam since it's still a free LO boost.

Name: Special Tera Orb
Effect: If this Pokemon is a Terapagos, it transforms into its Stellar Form and be Stellar type on entry.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): No
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): No
Fling Power & Effect: 10
Justification: This pokemon has been shit in vaporemons.. may as well give it smth to work with. While the pokemon stats are huge, without an item this sounds like it can work, especially since it cannot hold boots to trigger tera shell.

Adjustments

Name: Enamorus
Type:

Abilities: Trace / Contrary (Incarnate), Multiscale (Therian)
New Moves: Nasty Plot, Acrobatics, Knock Off, Sludge Wave, Defog, Sky Attack, Stored Power, Morning Sun
Removed Moves: N/A
Justification: Up there with Tapu Fini, Enamorus is another mon that I, being more familiar with Regional Dex OU, am shocked is bad here. With a couple simple and effective movepool buffs, mostly giving it tools that the other genies have, Enamorus can see use as a much more threatening setup sweeper than it was before. Enamorus-Therian also exists, Multiscale + Morning Sun + its decent bulk make it very sturdy Calm Minder or wall, though it suffers a bit from 4MSS.

Name: Genesect (and forms)
Type:

(all)
Abilities: Neuroforce (Base), Intimidate (Burn), Refrigerate (Chill), Storm Drain (Douse), Transistor (Shock)
New Moves: First Impression, Pounce
Removed Moves: Shift Gear, Hone Claws, Rock Polish, Self-Destruct, Explosion
Justification: Unbans Genesect as a fun and versatile revenge killer and breaker, boasting stupidly wide coverage and Neuroforce to snipe checks, plus the option of 4 other strong abilities if you opt for a Drive form, especially on Chill and Shock. However, not having Download or any good way to boost its offensive stats (if you want to use Charge Beam, then be my guest) keep Genesect very much in check. I kinda envision Genesect as a bit like Darkrai in Regional Dex OU, as a mon that just runs Expert Belt or Specs and goes stupid, but instead of being super fast and having no defensive utility, Genesect is a lot sturdier and can easily run physical sets with stuff like Fimp, Blaze Kick, and ESpeed.

Name: Necrozma
Type:

Abilities: Prism Armor / Download
New Moves: Draco Meteor, Dragon Claw, Psychic Noise, Teleport, Scale Shot
Removed Moves:
Justification: A mini Necrozma-Ultra may be a little over-tuned but this can possibly be alright. It has a great defensive typing with Prism Armor to back it up while not being too offensively potent with special sets likely being the usual on it. Swords Dance + Scale Shot is usable as well, but likely won't put up as much results as sets like Calm Mind or some defensive sets would.

Abilities: Keen eye, Sturdy, Iron Barbs
New Moves: Beak Blast
Justification: Visibly spiky mon + made of metal. Beak Blast makes thematic sense bc it's a bird and will be an interesting option to make skarm a bit more threatening

/
Name: Sceptile
Type: Grass / Dragon
Abilities: Overgrow / Velocity // (Mega Launcher)
New Moves: Glare, U-Turn, Recover, Aura Sphere
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Safe to say.. msceptile isn’t the most viable or useable mon in higher tiers. Mega Launcher allows it to use dpulse as actually strong stab. It also fits thematically as mega sceptile literally launches its fricking tail in the oras trailer. This would allow mega sceptile a better use ability now with stronger stab and coverage. Terrain pulse is one of these funny possible coverage ideas. Glare/u turn/recover are more thematic buffs that help it be more diverse and utility based.

With that, discussion phase can begin as council discusses the distribution of the winning moves and abilities. You can talk about the metagame impacts you think all the winners will have, give distribution suggestions (though remember that this isn't a distribution phase like the Sylve and JolteMons of old), and prepare submissions for the upcoming Slate 3. Expect it sometime Sunday Night in GMT -5!

 

[HydreigonTheChild]

Turtle squad incomming

Nvm app turtle squad is in need of a job cuz its utter dog shit

 

[Lysion]

My first thoughts on all the winners:

Moves

Look Zard-Y got a prio lol. I think both Flame Burst and Twister are gonna be interesting depending on the distribution, but I can already see the likes of Zard-Y, Camerupt-Mega or Blacephalon liking Flame Burst, and I guess Altaria-Mega, Latios-Mega, Latias-Mega and... oh shit Raging Bolt has a new Dragon prio.
Damn another special prio, y'all are lacking or what. Honestly interesting as well, but it truly depends on distrib. Also I don't think Zapdos would be broken with this one? Let's give it to Regieleki for shit and giggles
Def gonna be interesting on Amnesia sweepers I guess? Could be interesting as well
I like Beak Blast a lot, and seeing it more widespread is gonna be interesting I think.

Abilities

Eeveemods don't have a Honey Gather buff challenge. Not a huge fan of this one, I think it's gonna be whatever.
Can be pretty disruptive, I don't know how effective it will be in practice but I feel we're gonna have to be careful with the distribution, it's literally free momentum if well used. An interesting one.
I'm not a huge fan of this one I'll be honest, it's kinda whatever to me.
Maybe the ability isn't gonna be as niche as before, I hope so.
I don't know how good it's gonna be in practice but I feel it could MAYBE turn some OHKOs into... 2HKOs? I dunno.
I am the one who came up with the idea for new abilities for Silvally originally, and let me tell you that I was just coping because of Slate 1 lmao. Some forms like Poison are gonna be interesting, I hope maybe at least one form is gonna be hitting OU, maybe?
Lefties as an ability I guess.

Items
Scyther and Primeape are making it to RU with this one. Joke apart, it's gonna be an item mostly seen in lower tiers I think, for some abusers such as Primeape, Scyther, Electabuzz, I think.
Niche but useful item, gotta be useful in some situations.
Finally, maybe Mew will use its sig Z move.
The elephant, or rather the turtle in the room. Depending on how it will work in the end, I think it's gonna be either broken or trash. I was originally up for a veto, but we decided to allow it in the end. Let's see how it turns out, but I think it's gonna be problematic in the end (and I hope I'll be proven wrong).

Adjustments
Adjustments are my favorite section, and we start with Enamorus, who's gonna be very interesting. I'm a fan of Trace as an ability and I feel Enamorus could use it pretty well (also no more Cute Charm RNG lol), I can see a Nasty Plot set or maybe coping with an itemless Contrary set for Acrobatics? Therian is maybe the best of the 2, with Multiscale and a nice defensive typing, it can easily setup with CM, gonna be a really good one.
I also like this one, even tho I think the main form is gonna be base form just for an item, Burn, Chill and Shock are very interesting and are gonna be nice options.
Ultra-Necrozma but tiny lol. I think it's an interesting addition to the tier
Hope it will bring my boi back, kinda like Skarmory ngl, and it has now even more of an edge over Corviknight and Celesteela (who both remain very strong competition).
I like this one, it's gonna be interesting to see how it fares after these buffs.

Overall I like this slate more than Slate 1, a lot of interesting winners and I really want to see how the metagame develops.

 

[G-Luke]

Review Time.

Moves
Twister / Flame Burst - These ultimately depend on what gets the move, Mid Ground speed Fire and Dragon types like Heatran, Volcanion and Camerupt-Mega versus the likes of Hydreigon, Archaludon and the new Necrozma. Alot of others threats like the move but may have trouble slotting them over coverage options.

Overvolt Rail - Interesting option for priority. Unlike the above move, Rail is strong enough to be ran over coverage or even be main STAB, in addition to Electrics having less intense requirements for coverage. Depending on what gets this it could go from good to broken, so I'd be careful.

Mental Gymnastics - This feels a bit overrated to me. Fighting is a superior offensive typing, and ID is much more common place outside just Steels. I can see this being a Psychic exclusive move, and a move that not much of them will run at that.

Beak Blast / Railgun - Beak Blast is very cool, I am not convinced Railgun is particularly good. This is another buff that ai think will be determined by who gets what, I am sure it will be an interesting addition.

Abilities

Honey Gather - Outside of Knock Off absorption, which isn't lacking in NatDex, the pinch berries strictly outclass Honey. I am unsure if Honey Gather does anything to remedy that.

Run it Back - Sounds very annoying in general, I dislike it, but the options presented don't seem pretty good. Unsure of how well this will perform, one of the let's see in practice ass mf.

Solar Power - After finding out Fire moves are not affected by Solar Power, the ability has fallen off immensely in its competitive usefulness to me. I think people are going to have to find an actually good Grass type, because every Grass that is suggested to have the ability currently resides in NU or lower. Hopefully an actually good Pokemon gets this ability.

Battle Armor / Shell Armor - Objectively better than in standard, the only relevant user atm is Mega Slowbro iirc. The potential does exist though so I hope the right users get it.

Anticipation - My ability, hopefully this gets the usage it deserves. Bulky Psychic types seem like the most flavourful receivers of this ability, and depending on the mon this may be a very good defensive ability.

RKS System - The Z-Move buff was pretty much a waste of time, but the ability buffs may put like 2 Silvallies out of D-Rank, which is always good to know. Base Silvally is genuinely useful, Tough Claws with Choice Band makes it a menace, and Boomburst is always useful. Yeah that's it the rest of the Silvallies suck and are outclassed. You can stop wasting our time now.

Hospitality - I really like this ability, and depending on who it is granted to we can have a big bolstering on how good our defensive mons are in the tier (rejoice Stall and Balance). Mega Audino is gonna love this for sure, don't give this to the Chsnsey line.

Items

Training Wheels - Sorry but I do not see the vision on this. NFEs generally suck, and I don't think a free speed boost negates that for 99% of mons. There are 2 or so mons I think can get a niche out of this - Duradulon and Bisharp, and these are mons that were designed as and been used as final stage mons in relatively modern gens. Bisharp tool kit is useful, and that tool kit on a mon almost as fast as Dragapult is very good. Duradulon isn't as good but the free speed boost may make it decent or C rank pick.

Palette Cleanser - another interesting item, I can see certain Pokémon (Great Tusk) be willing to utilize it, but I think unless a few users get some more specialized users it may not be as pervasive as one would like. It doesn't compete with Clear Amulet either since most users of that item are set up users lol. 55

Mewnium Z - Mew will not use this. Seriously though

Special Tera Orb - We still are not sure how this can be implemented, but depending on how it is interpreted this may be a broken user or a mid mon. I think a lot of intricacies are at play here though, so I would like to see how it works in a fleshed out metagame.

Adjustments

Enamorus - Base might be good it might not, Trace is very useful but that may not be enough to carry it to being a significant threat as of right now. Therian on the other hand, may be a major threat thanks to Multiscale and access to somewhat reliable recovery. Fighting and Dark type threats hate this girl since it can consistently bully the hell outta them, again thanks to the boon that Multiscale gives it.

Genesect - This has the potential to be really really good. Base Genesect is a cool ass Scarf pivot or offensive pivot thanks to Neuroforce and it's insane coverage. Shock is a disgustingly powerful wallbreaker thanks to Transistor making Techno Blast very powerful, with having access to coverage to hit every resist comfortably. Honestly no good set up options is the only thing that stops it from being broken. Chill's niche falls on the utility of having STAB First Impression + -ate Extreme Speed as option to grant it a wide variety of options to revenge kill various targets. Douse seems to exist solely to lure Heatran and Waterpon since Heatran can beat almost every other set comfortably, and you hard wall almost all of Waterpon's common moves. Burn got the really short end of the stick which sucks because I think what it does have is pretty interesting, but it gains the least from holding a Drive (Intimidate isn't as potent, Burn doesn't give you access to unseen coverage). Keep an eye on these guys.

Necrozma - Not gonna hold you, I voted for this thinking Download was removed, and I wouldn't have casted my vote if I knew it kept it. But here we are. Necrozma is stupid good with Download, the mixed Scarf set being especially nasty since it can alternate between a physical and a special scarfer. Even outside of that Specs sounds absolutely mental to find a consistent switch into, I find it difficult to not think later down the line this may be a problem to face in the future. Maybe no bother with Twister here!

Skarmory- This in my opinion is jice but not rise in the ranks nice. Skarm is better at making physical attackers live in hell. Skarm does that regardless, so it's no big deal to me.

Sceptile-Mega - First Mega buff win! Mega Sceptile getting MLauncher + U-turn helps it out immensely as an offensive Pokémon, allowing it to pivot around many key threats and maintain their relevance. Pulse hits with respectful damage now, and U-turn or Glare smacks the Fairies and Steels tyat can comfortably take on it's dual STAB as well.

Controversy seems to bevthe nane of the game for Glacemons. I am tepidly interesting in seeing how this slate shakes out.

 

[Adriyun]

hey guys oh wow move and ability distributions... oh wowie

Moves

Twister
Existing users +


Flame Burst
Existing Users +


Beak Blast
Existing Users +


Railgun



Mental Gymnastics



Overvolt Rail

Abilities

Hospitality
Existing Users + (Replaces Healer), (Replaces Friend Guard / Healer), (Replaces Gluttony), :Alcremie; (Replaces Sweet Veil), (Replaces Healer)

Solar Power
Existing Users + , , (Replaces Leaf Guard), (Replaces Leaf Guard), (Replaces Poison Point), , (Replaces Moody), (Replaces Leaf Guard)Hi this is Geko, I gave Adriyun the post., , , , , (Replaces Magma Armor)

Honey Gather
Existing Users + (Replaces Swarm), , , , (all), , (Replaces Unnerve), (Replaces Unnerve), (Replaces Pickup)

Run It Back
, (Replaces Telepathy), (Replaces Suction Cups), (Replaces Cursed Body), (Replaces Telepathy), (Replaces Hydration), (Replaces Forewarn), (Replaces Leaf Guard), (Replaces Poison Touch), (Replaces Sturdy), (Replaces Chlorophyll)

Battle Armor
Existing Users.

Shell Armor
Existing Users + (Replaces Lightning-Rod)

Anticipation
Existing Users + , (Replaces Pressure), , (Replaces Telepathy), (Replaces Own Tempo), (Replaces Overcoat),

With that, we are opening submissions for Slate 3!

Slate 3 ​

Important notice before submissions begin: Resubs of concepts from slate 2 are allowed for this slate, but slate 1 are not allowed. If it doesn't get in this slate, you are not allowed to submit it again next slate (for convinience sake, label your subs as RESUB if that is the case).

We are also decreasing the maximum amount of elements possible to be added on the slate to 3 per category. This is done to try and reduce the vote splitting that leads to very few moves and adjustments getting in every slate.

Submissions end on Friday 8pm Gmt-5, vetoes will happen a day before.

 

[Adriyun]

And for the record. I wrote the top half gekko wrote the bottom. since we both suck. yeah.

 

[Orangesodapop]

moves

Name: Night Slash / Psycho Cut
Power: 70
Accuracy: 100
PP: 15/24
Category: Physical
Type: Dark | Psychic
Effect: Deals an additional 1/8th of the opponents health on a successful hit. High critical hit ratio
Priority: 0
Flags: contact | can target any in triple battle
Potential Pokémon With This Move: same distrib, might need to remove from some mons
Justification: A real and reliable dark / psychic stab, specifically a dark stab that has an actual use case over knock.

Name: Needle Storm
Power: 15
Accuracy: 100
PP: 20/32
Category: Physical
Type: Poison
Effect: Hits 2-5 times. 10% chance to poison the opponent each hit
140 BP Z Move
Priority: +1
Flags: Bullet-Like
Potential Pokémon With This Move: Poison and Bug types. Some dark types, ie :excavalier:
Justification: A nice poison priority move that has relatively strong traits due to poison being ass as a type

items

Name: Copperium Z
Effect: If the holder is a copperajah, this Pokemon is unneffected by hazards and can use Supreme Steel Surge.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): N
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): N
Fling Power & Effect: N/A
Justification: Copperajah bufd

z move effect

Name: Supreme Steel Surge
Power: 200
Accuracy: —
PP: 1
Category: Physical
Type: Steel
Effect: Sets G-Max Steelsurge on the opponents side
Priority: 0
Flags (ex: Contact, Sound): N/A

abilities

Name: Fierce Entry
Effect: Preforms a 25 bp revelation dance off its highest attacking stat on entry.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: other mons with first impression/fake out
Justification: A cool semi pursuit style ability that can pick off very weakened mons if you switch out before your opponent (via outspeeding/hard doubling

adjustments

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Name: Shaymin-Land | Shaymin-Sky
Type: Grass/Ground | Grass/Flying
Abilities: Natural Cure / Serene Grace | Natural Cure / No Guard
New Moves: Earthquake, Stealth Rock, Smack Down, Stone Edge, Power Gem, Parting Shot, Meteor Beam, Hurricane
Removed Moves:
Justification: Shaymin land has been ass since its debut so I am giving it the ability to serve as a really potent breaker with Seed Flare and Earth Power, being able to break through unaware Pokemon even. Suffers vs the steel birds however, of which there are many. Can run smack down as a niche option to beat them but as said is niche. While land serves as a breaker, Shaymin Sky serves as a mighty cleaner that has to leverage the same coverage of grass / ground / flying / rock. It is weak to rocks and notably isn’t that durable. Overall, they add very nice tools to the meta that don’t really exist as of now

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Name: The birds
Type: Unchanged
Abilities:
Pressure / Snow Cloak / Magic Guard
Competitive / Gale Wings
Pressure / Static / Lightning Rod
Defiant / Intimidate
Pressure / Flame Body / Mold Breaker
Berserk / Natural Cure
New Moves: Roost, Defog (Galarian Birds)
Removed Moves:
Justification: the birds have been on a bit of a downfall as legendaries, especially with the loss of tera in Moltres galar’s case. These new ability options should give them the little push to become more useful

 

[TDLoriat]

Creatively bankrupt right now, expect more agonizing additions at some point

Moves

Name: Air Cutter
BP: 20
Accuracy: 100
PP: 5
Priority: 0
Category:

Type:

Flags: Boosted by Sheer Force, Slicing
Potential Distribution: Current
Effect: Free user from whirlpool/fire spin/magma storm/clamp/thunder cage/wrap/sand tomb/infestation/bind/Leech Seed. Sends all field conditions from the user's side to the targets' side. Increased chance to critical hit (one stage).
Justification: More interesting hazard control option
Intent on edge cases I did not clarify:


Name: Stored Power / Power Trip
Power: 20
Accuracy: 100
PP: 10
Category:

/

Typing:

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Priority: +1
Effect: Gains 20 base power for every stat change an opponent has (including evasion/accuracy) (formula is bp= 20+x*20, where x equals number of stat changes). Ignores all positive or negative stat changes of the target.
Justification: A new method of hurting Hyper offense—twice. Requires the low base power to not become a tool for offense itself.

Abilities

Name: Rock head
Effect: This Pokemon does not take recoil damage besides Struggle/Life Orb damage. This Pokemon's attacks with recoil or crash damage have 1.2x power; not Struggle.
Permanent: Yes
Affected by Mold Breaker: No
Affected by Neutralizing Gas: Yes
Potential Distribution: Any pokemon with Rock head, Any pokemon with Reckless, ,
Justification: 2 unfortunately underwhelming abilities merged into one with a light touchup.


Name: Liquid Voice
Effect: This Pokemon's sound-based moves become Water type. Boosts the power of user's sound-based moves by 1/3rd.
Permanent: No
Affected by Mold Breaker: No
Affected by Neutralizing Gas: Yes
Potential Distribution: Current, ,
Justification: This ability is so bad the only time it ever gets used is to make psychic noise harder to be immune to. The percentage may need to be tweaked, but this will hopefully bring Primarina up from NDRU.

Adjustments

Name: Scream Tail
Type:

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Abilities: Protosynthesis / Pixilate
New Moves: Moonblast, Double Slap, Round, Magical Leaf, Defense Curl, Copycat, Last Resort, Charm, Present, Swift, Sweet Kiss
Removed Moves: Stored Power
Justification: A proven set (and some flavor) that isn’t actually broken. There are enough viable special walls that can handle an offensive Mon with only 1 attacking move
Veto Response: Killed stored power, still don't agree with the veto.


Name: Luvdisc
Type:

Abilities: Swift Swim / Water Bubble / Hydration
New Moves: None
Removed Moves: None
Justification: This might not even be enough to break Luvdisc into UU.

 

[Bobsican]

Name: Water Absorb / Volt Absorb / Earth Eater
Effect: User is immune to Water / Electric / Ground moves, heals 25% if it'd take one, heals 1/8 of max HP per turn while in rain / Electric Terrain / sandstorm, can't be burned / paralyzed / take sandstorm damage
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): Yes
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Same as before plus:
Water Absorb: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Volt Absorb: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Earth Eater: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Justification: Funny immunity abilities that support a wide variety of lesser viable Pokemon, while also easing a bit support in certain weathers/terrain.

Name: Mystery Mirror [Re Sub]
Effect: All abilities of the user's species are active at once, but user's positive Atk/SpA stat changes have no effect. Self announces on switch-in (think Air Balloon).
Exceptions (these abilities can't be active by this item): Arena Trap, Moody, Power Construct, Shadow Tag
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): No
Fling Power & Effect: 60 BP, no additional effect
Justification: Removes opportunity cost for species like , , , , , and by granting them the Pokebilities rule, but in exchange also prevents them from doing setup outside demon sets or Stored Power stuff, relegating this as a situational item pick that also encourages creativity.

Name: Booster Energy
Effect: Activates certain abilities on switch-in, then is consumed. Will trigger without consumption if the user enters while Sunny Day or Electric Terrain is active
Activable abilities: Anticipation, As One, Berserk, Chilling Neigh, Cotton Down, Earth Eater, Emergency Exit, Electromorphosis, Flash Fire, Grim Neigh, Lightning Rod, Lingering Aroma, Motor Drive, Mummy, Power Construct, Protosynthesis, Quark Drive, Sap Sipper, Seed Sower, Shed Skin, Shields Down, Stamina, Steadfast, Storm Drain, Rattled, Regenerator, Toxic Debris, Unburden, Wandering Spirit, Water Absorb, Water Compaction, Well-Baked Body, Wimp Out, Wind Rider, Wind Power, Volt Absorb, Zen Mode, Zero to Hero
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes, unless it's held by a Paradox Pokemon
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 60 BP, no additional effect
Justification: Supports the variety of options Electric Terrain and Sun teams have by granting them a variety of abusers such as , , , , , and . Hyper offense non-field teams can also find use of the item as they don't need the longevity to use it multiple times.

Name: Hold Hands
Power: ---
Accuracy: ---
PP: 5
Category: Status
Type: Normal
Effect: Charges turn 1, next turn boosts all of the user's stats (but accuracy or evasion) by 1
Priority: 0
Flags: Same as before
Potential Pokémon With This Move: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Justification: Omniboost move that can either be used immediately without consuming a Z-Crystal (by using Power Herb), or used with one to emulate a 2-turn Extreme Evoboost.


Name: Garganacl
Type: Ground
Abilities: Purifying Salt / Hospitality (Solid Rock)
New Moves: Shore Up
Justification: With Teras gone this deserves being buffed to still find use.

 

[G-Luke]

Moves

Name: Flex Off
Power: -
Accuracy: -
PP: 15 [Max 24]
Category:

Type:

Effect: The Pokémon with the highest Attack stat on the field gets a +2 stat boost to their Attack and Defense. Stat boosts, items and abilities are not taken into account, fails if move was previously used in the same turn.
Priority: 0
Flags: Dance
Z-Move Effect: Restores the user's negative stat stages to 0, then uses Flex Off
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: Battle of the Fittest. Only way to stop the set up? Out flex them. (Do NOT use move against a Kyurem-Black!).
Flex Off gives Fighting types (and few key other users) a unique way of set up that if it goes unperturbed can be a major boon to the users. It comes with the catch that if your attack can be matched and superceded in the moment, you have just given your opp an attack and defense move that may have won them the game.

Name: Gravel Grater
Power: 30 BP
Accuracy: 90%
PP: 15 [Max 24]
Category:

Type:

Effect: Hits twice. Lowers defense by one stage for each hit.
Priority: 0
Flags: Contact
Potential Pokémon With This Move: ( )
Justification: People really wanted Tear Apart from CCAPM 2021 to work. It was tried in JolteMons. Failed. Turns out the move was pretty weak, and Dark types simply had better things to do (like spamming Knock Off). So I decided to tackle this in a new way. Change the type to a more offensively geared typing that doesn't have too much serious competition (its this Rock Blast or Stone Edge) and made it 10 BP stronger so the move could be even somewhat threatening on it's own. Now, Gravel Grater can be an interesting new tool for bulky Rock types to utilize and break down common switchins.

Name: Self-Repair
Power: -
Accuracy: -
PP: 15 [Max 24]
Category:

Type:

Effect: Heals user by 33% of it's max HP. Afterwards, when a status move is used successfully, heals 25% of it's max HP then the effect ends. This effect resets prior to Self-Repair's use.
Priority: 0
Flags: Dance
Z-Move Effect: Boosts Defense by +1.
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: credit to Clas for the baseline idea.
What is a EeveeMod without tinkering with Steels getting a funny roundabout way of getting reliable recovery? And tinkering is right, because that is the primary flavour that this was based on, making the primary targets of this move Pokémon with robot and inventory style inspiration. This move is definitely only for Pokémon without access to reliable recovery, and should be utilized by them alone (do not give this to Steels with reliable recovery!). Hopefully this will promote more Steels to be useful for the overall growth of the metagame.

Adjustments

Name: Tirtouga and Carracosta
Type:

Abilities: Shell Armor / Filter | HA: Sturdy
New Moves: Bullet Punch, Recover, Rapid Spin, Flash Cannon, Heavy Slam, Steel Roller, Steel Beam, Flip Turn, Metal Burst
Justification: Carracosta is a bulky bastard with its choice of Shell Armor or Filter, an excellent typing in Water/Steel and Recover finalizing the deal, letting Carracosta be a capable wall that can go toe to toe against many capable threats.
I included Tirtouga because that makes sense and that will let you ZU #freaks have something to daddle with.


Name: Wo-Chien
Type:

Abilities: Tablets of Ruin
New Moves: Spirit Shackle, Shadow Ball, Poltergeist, Toxic, Destiny Bond, Curse, Night Shade, Heal Block, Psyshock
Removed Moves: Leaf Storm, Bullet Seed, Magical Leaf, Energy Ball, Mega Drain, Ingrain, Power Whip, Solar Blade, Grassy Terrain
Justification: Dark/Grass will never be good, and Wo Chien just lost access to Tera, bless his heart. So I decided to grant it a typing that is rather unique in the meta, which instantly allows it to blanket a large majority of threats in the tier. Spirit Shackle allows it to perform the role as a trapper, even after she faced competition from various other targets in the tier.


Name: Steelix (-Mega)
Type:

Abilities: Sturdy / Route Closed | HA: Sheer Force (Mega Ability: Rough Skin)
New Moves: Shore Up, Glare, Spikes, U-turn, Anchor Shot
Justification: Steelix-Mega has the bulk to be a major defensive pivot for teams that need it, with the ability to punish switching, while even it's much weaker base form can utilize the rather annoying ability in Route Closed. MegaLix can heal off any damage done and can pivot, rack up Spikes or even spread Glare to paralyze threats if necessary. Splashable Steels are needed now more than ever so this would be a very unique role at that.

 

[HydreigonTheChild]

Name: Meteor Mash / Ancient Power / Charge Beam / Ominous Wind / Silver Wind
Power: 100
Accuracy: 90
PP: 10
Category: Physical / Physical / Special / Physical / Special
Type: Steel / Rock / Electric / Psychic / Bug
Effect: Has a 20% chance to raise the user's Attack / Attack / Sp. Atk / Sp. Atk / Sp. Atk by 1 stage.
Priority: 0
Flags (ex: Contact, Sound): Contact (Meteor Mash)
Potential Pokémon With This Move: Meteor Mash ( ) Ancient Power (I like what it has right now + ) Charge Beam ( ) Ominous Wind (The distrib is fine but maybe more ghosts) Silver Wind (never hurts to give it to non volcarona pokemon +)
Justification: These moves have either 1. been nerfed for some bad reason, are bad, or are on bad pokemon. The goal of this is to make them way more viable on a limited pool of pokemon

Name: Land's Wrath
Power: 60
Accuracy: 100
PP: 10
Category: Physical
Type: Ground
Effect: Reforms the ground and causes stealth rocks, terrain, leech seed to be destroyed.
Priority: 0
Flags (ex: Contact, Sound):
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: This gives land's wrath an actual purpose and gives a lot of counterplay for smth that can remove stealth rock like flying types, spikes, earth eater, air balloon, levitate pokemon. This gives this move an actual use by also destroying electric terrain that tapu koko likes to pair up with other quark drive users

Name: Mind Shattering Impact / Infernal Parade / Venoshock
Power: 75
Accuracy: 100
PP: 10
Category: Physical / Special / Special
Type: Psychic / Ghost / Poison
Effect: 20% Chance to paralyze / burn / poison. Does double damage to statused opponents
Priority: 0
Flags (ex: Contact, Sound):
Potential Pokémon With This Move: ( ) ( ) (prob the same stuff)
Justification: This gives a big buff to physical psychics who can use this to have a much better phys stab then zen headbutt 90% of the time. This also allows venoshock to see more use on poison types as a potential option instead as it now covers all statused pokemon instead of just ones who are poisoned. The buff to physical psychics I chose because often times they drop their psychic stab like victini, iron boulder, hoopa unbound, iron leaves, etc

Name: Utility Umbrella
Effect: The user takes 3/4 damage and ignores secondary effects while in weather or terrain
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 10
Justification: This keeps the original effect of the umbrella (taking less damage from rain and sun moves that were boosted in it) while also being much more useful across many matches. Utility Umbrella will allow pokemon like ferrothorn, tang, slowbro to function as better walls on weather teams

Name: Iron Will
Effect: All attacks against the user that are not super effective increases the defense stat corresponding to the attack they were hit by (Hit by phys. atk then it raises phys. def while being hit by a sp. atk raises sp. def)
Permanent (Yes or No): Yes
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): Yes
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: This causes pokemon to take weak attacks a lot better and to use it to turn it into an advantage for themselves, pokemon will benefit from such an ability as it causes the opponent to be more careful about mindlessly tossing out attacks like a rapid spin, u-turn, or a weak move

Name: Sun Visor / Sand Veil / Snow Cloak / Rain Dish
Effect: On switching in, if the user is hit by a not super effective move, then that move does 1/2 damage, if in their respective weather (sun, sand, snow/hail, rain) then that move does 0% of its original damage.
Permanent (Yes or No): Yes
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: , , , (if possible) ,
Justification: This allows pokemon to take advantage of their bulk much easier and to come in on not very effective attacks better, while the pokemon does take 0% it can still be punished by secondary effects like scald, rapid spin can remove hazards, u-turn can still pivot the opponent out, draco will still lower the opponents sp. atk by 2, etc etc.


Name: Slowbro-Galar (Slowbro-galar Mega)
Type: Psychic / Poison (Water / Psychic)
Abilities: Quick Draw / Anticipation / Regenerator (Regenerator)
New Moves: Teleport, Flip Turn, Psychic Noise, Bulk Up, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Work Up
Removed Moves:
Justification: This allows 1. slowbro-m to be way more usable to thanks to having regen as an ability and gives viabilty to slowbro-galar as it can now use teleport, use anticipation -> mega, and use BU 2. this allows slowbro-m to wokr as having regen it cna pivot in and out without being inferior to both slowbro base and slowbro-g


Name: Tauros-Paldea-Combat/Blaze/Aqua
Type: Fighting / Fairy, Fighting / Fire, Fighting / Water
Abilities: Intimidate / Cud Chew / Pixilate, Flame Body, Water Absorb
New Moves: Return, Rapid Spin, Morning Sun, U-Turn, Flare Blitz, Will-O-Wisp, Liquidation, Play Rough, Moonblast, Spirit Break, Salve Strike, Aqua Jet, Parting Shot, Taunt, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Hydro Pump, Refresh, Slack Off
Removed Moves:
Justification: Tauros-Paldea should be a lot more viable now, with recovery, good abilities, and a unique typing for the tier this gives it quite a thing in the tier, by giving it universal moves it allows it to feel more like stabmons ogerpon where this mon can be a great phys def pivot, a great off attacker thanks to having access to u-turn, coverage, and abilities.

 

[gamer but swag]

Abilities

Name: Comatose
Effect: User is immune to status and is treated as though they are asleep. They also cannot be infatuated or taunted. Immune to intimidate.
Potential Users: Current + (over oblivious) (over immunity) (over weak armor) (over telepathy) and another mons where it may be fitting
Justification: Really cool Ability locked to one mon. I think it has potential to be interesting on some other bad pokemon and see if potentially they can get some use out of it. Keep it thematic though!

Adjustments

Abilities: Mummy/Good as Gold
New Moves: Strength Sap
Justification: Strength Sap is the ghost recovery move, and he is made of gold. Mon is not great, so we should give it some good thematic tools.

Abilities: Wind Rider, Infiltrator, Wonder Guard
Removed Moves: Strength Sap
Justification: This mon is terrible. It's weak, it's frail, and it's laden with weaknesses. I decided it would be a decent wonder guard candidate as it completely lacks setup. I'm thinking perhaps this change could make it viable.

 

[PQRDG]

Moves

Name: Spectral Thief (resub)
Power: 60
Accuracy: 100
PP: 10 (16)
Category: Physical
Type: Ghost
Effect: If this move is successful, steal one stage of stat changes (either positive or negative) of each stat from the target after dealing damage.
Flags: Remove "bypasses substitute"
Potential Pokémon With This Move: Maybe add to a couple ghost types like or
Justification: Resub. Nerfed to 60 BP (still 90 for Technician Marshadow) and a more reasonable version of the stat stealing effect.

Name: Chilling Melody
Power: 75
Accuracy: 100
PP: 15 (24)
Category: Special
Type: Ice
Effect: 20% chance to make the target flinch. Hits foe(s).
Flags: Sound (bypasses Substitute)
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: Let's make an Ice-type sound move. Good coverage for Punk Rock Toxtricity, or just a useful movepool addition for certain Special-attacking Ice-types who need to bypass substitutes.

Items

Name: Shed Shell
Effect: Current effect + If the holder of this item is targeted by Pursuit as they switch out, the move fails and this item is consumed.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Justification: With no Arena Trap or Shadow Tag, Shed Shell is a very niche item. Pursuit being a big tool that prevents Psychic- or Ghost-type Pokemon from moving on and off the field safely, this gives you a single-use escape to get out of that, while still having the benefit of getting out of trapping moves.

Name: Speeding Ticket
Effect: If this Pokemon is targeted by a priority move, the move fails and the attacker is forced to switch out. Single-use.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Justification: Do you hate priority spam but don't want to use Psychic Terrain? Well here is an option that allows you to stop that priority in its tracks and throw off your opponent's momentum.

Abilities

Name: Aftermath
Effect: When this Pokemon faints, all active Pokemon lose 25% of their max HP. Pokemon do not take this damage if they are immune to indirect damage (like with Magic Guard), unaffected by bomb-type moves (like with Bulletproof) or are unaffected by explosion-type moves (like with Damp).
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: Any Pokemon iconic for Self Destruct/Explosion.
Justification: Two for one. Buffing Aftermath to be upon fainting instead of needing to faint from Contact, making it that sacrificial moves or indirect damage could also trigger this ability. In exchange, slightly buffing Bulletproof to also be included in the list of abilities unaffected by this damage.

Name: Liquid Voice
Effect: This Pokemon's Normal-type moves become Water-type. Sound moves, and moves changed to Water-type from this ability, have 1.2x power.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: Buff to Primarina's signature ability, letting her keep her strong damage output while still having Sound move coverage.

Adjustments

Name: Mamoswine
Type: Ground/Ice
Abilities: Oblivious / Thick Fat / Route Closed
New Moves: Mountain Gale, Pebble Storm, Slack Off
Justification: Mamoswine is an excellent Pokemon with a unique typing, but it has gotten no love in the past two slates. While my Mammoth Cloak failed last slate, this new change gives Mamoswine a better Ice-type STAB, interesting coverage in Pebble Storm, access to recovery, and a useful defensive ability.


Name: Crobat
Type: Poison/Flying
Abilities: Intimidate / Sticky Hold / Velocity
New Moves: Glare, Knock Off, Poison Jab, Sludge Wave, Swords Dance
Justification: Crobat is a Pokemon with a unique typing and an excellent Speed stat. So let's put it to good use. Sticky Hold lets it keep Boots if it needs to, Intimidate is always useful, and Velocity lets it use its great Speed in the place of its lesser attacking stats.


Name: Drampa
Type: Normal/Dragon
Abilities: Berserk / Fluffy / Cloud Nine
New Moves: Boomburst, Slack Off
Justification: Let's make Drampa finally useful? Bulk, longevity, and a much better Normal STAB.