Pet Mod Paleomons - Slate 8 Submissions

[Beaf Cultist]

Alright, it's time to announce our winners!

Beebos wins with Yizolt and Dracomizer!

Yizolt

(Yi, chinese for wing / Yi qi, famous species of avian dinosaur + -zolt suffix from Dracozolt/Arctozolt)
Fossil: Fossilized Bird
Type:

Abilities: Volt Absorb, Gluttony, First Flight
*First Flight is taken from Archeops-Ancient, but just a reminder for everyone: User is considered airborne until hit by an attack; reset upon switching out.Stats: 75 | 95 | 60 | 95 | 97 | 113 [BST= 535]
Notable Moves:

Bolt Beak*, Nuzzle, Play Rough, Sucker Punch, U-turn

Flamethrower, Grass Knot, Moonblast, Thunderbolt, Volt Switch

Heal Bell, Substitute
*Bolt Beak's boost when moving first is nerfed to 1.5x

Full Moveset

Ancient Power, Baby-Doll Eyes, Body Slam, Bolt Beak, Charge, Charm, Dazzling Gleam, Disarming Voice, Discharge, Double Kick, Drill Peck, Electro Ball, Endure, Facade, Flamethrower, Giga Impact, Grass Knot, Heal Bell, Hyper Beam, Iron Tail, Low Kick, Mega Kick, Moonblast, Nuzzle, Play Nice, Play Rough, Pluck, Protect, Rest, Rising Voltage, Round, Slam, Sleep Talk, Snore, Sucker Punch, Substitute, Taunt, Thunderbolt, Thunder Shock, Thunder Wave, Tickle, U-turn, Volt Switch, Wild Charge

Competitive Role: Leverages the Ground immunity granted by First Flight to be an effective fast pivot and unqiue Electric in the tier. Its natural high speed lets it always get the boost on Bolt Beak for consistent high damage; due to this and SD, Yizolt is most likely to go physical, but keep in mind its base SpA is the same as its Attack, has better special coverage and Moonblast, and STAB Volt Switch. Also has Nuzzle and Heal Bell for support options.
Flavor: Basically just a full body version of Dracozolt/Arctozolt's upper body. Takes more inspiration from Oviraptor than Velociraptor and related dinosaurs. Fairy typing derived mainly from Dracozolt being a silly little cheerful guy.
"Yizolt used its playful demeanor and unassuming appearance to gain the favor of larger predators, before eventually running off with their eggs. In a pinch, it could use glands on its arm feathers and beak to fire static electricity. An incomplete fossil of its head and upper body were used in unethical trials of the fossil restoration technique.

Dracomizer

(Draco- prefix from Dracozolt/Dracovish + thagomizer, term for the spikes on the tail of stegosaurids)
Fossil: Fossilized Drake
Type:

Abilities: Sand Rush, Rough Skin, Solar Power
Stats: 100 | 101 | 112 | 90 | 80 | 52 [BST= 535]
Notable Moves:

Earthquake, Flare Blitz, Outrage, Scale Shot, Stone Edge, Tail Sear*

Draco Meteor, Earth Power, Fire Blast, Flamethrower

Dragon Dance, Slack Off, Spikes, Will-o-wisp
*Tail Sear

85 BP, 10/16 PP, 100 Acc | Power is boosted by 1.5x if the user goes last.

Full Moveset

Body Slam, Breaking Swipe, Brutal Swing, Bulldoze, Draco Meteor, Dragon Claw, Dragon Dance, Dragon Pulse, Dragon Rage, Dragon Rush, Dragon Tail, Earth Power, Earthquake, Endure, Ember, Facade, Fire Blast, Flame Charge, Flamethrower, Flare Blitz, Giga Impact, High Horsepower, Hyper Beam, Incinerate, Iron Tail, Mega Kick, Meteor Beam, Outrage, Protect, Rest, Roar, Rock Tomb, Rock Slide, Round, Sand Attack, Sandstorm, Scale Shot, Slack Off, Slam, Sleep Talk, Snore, Spikes, Stomping Tantrum, Stone Edge, Sunny Day, Tail Sear, Will-O-Wisp

Competitive Role: Tbh this was the one I had the least ideas what to do with. PDef tank, can WoW and/or set Spikes, sig move gives it a consistently powerful STAB option. Dracomizer can alternatively run a DDance set, though its sweeping potential is limited by Flare Blitz and Outrage being risky STABs. Could also mixup with a special set on potential sun teams thanks to Solar Power.
Flavor: Stegosaurus-looking mon; sounds pretty generic but we really don't have a mon like that yet, closest being Bastiodon. Fire typing is based on the plates on the Stegosaurus' back possibly being used for thermoregulation - here however, it lets it shoot fire >:)
"Using the spikes on its body, Dracomizer could harness thermal energy from the sun to release fire from its mouth or tail spikes, either to defend against predators or fell trees for food. An incomplete fossil of its back feet and tail was used in unethical trials of the fossil restoration technique."

chemicalmines wins with Swishivish!

Name: Swishivish (swish, as in swishing water or moving quickly while airborne + vish)
Fossil: Fossilized Fish
Typing:

Abilities: Water Absorb | Water Veil | Aerilate
Stats: 90 / 90 / 100 / 55 / 65 / 100
Weight: 155 kg

New Moves: Acrobatics, Aerial Ace, Air Slash, Defog, Hurricane, Flip Turn, Double-Edge
Removed Moves: :\
(added to -vish movepool)

And DenebStargazer takes a very convincing win with Arctobyss!

Name: Arctobyss
Typing:

Abilities: Cursed Body / Slush Rush | Permafrost

Permafrost

Water-type moves targeting this Pokemon become Ice-type. Being hit with an Ice-type move raises this Pokemon's Special Defense by 1 stage.

Stats: 125/65/85/100/90/75 (540)
Movepool: Ancient Power, Avalanche, Bite, Bitter Malice, Blizzard, Body Slam, Calm Mind, Crunch, Chilling Water, Defog, Endure, Facade, Flip Turn, Freeze-Dry, Giga Impact, Haze, Hydro Pump, Hyper Beam, Ice Beam, Ice Fang, Ice Spinner, Icicle Crash, Icicle Spear, Icy Wind, Meteor Beam, Powder Snow, Protect, Psychic, Psyshock, Rain Dance, Recover, Rest, Rock Blast, Rock Slide, Rock Tomb, Round, Shadow Ball, Sleep Talk, Snowscape, Snore, Stone Edge, Substitute, Surf, Weather Ball
Role: Specially tanky Ice attacker. Can run some kind of Calm Mind set.
Flavor: Ice plesiosaur. No relation to Lapras, I swear.

Feel free to discuss our winners! I'm sorry it's taken so long to conclude this slate, but all of council has been busy for quite a while. For this reason, I would also like to open up council applications! If you are interested in helping to keep slates running smoothly and on time, please reach out to me here or on Discord - your help would be greatly appreciated!

The next slate will open in the near future.

 

[Beaf Cultist]

SLATE 8 - Signs of Humanity (Sigilyph, Tauros, Conkeldurr)
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Once again, we present you with an Ancient Form slate! The goal for this slate will be to create ancient versions of the mons listed above, which will follow the same rules as regional variants. The rules for submission are as follows:

• You can sub 1 to 3 of the Pokémon chosen in this slate (reworks on existing Pre-Evolutions can also be made if you want)
• Make sure your sub would be balanced in the current meta. Now that the meta is large enough, please be sure to justify your mon's competitive role in the sub.
• Custom Elements are allowed, as long as they are different from already existing abilities/moves and are relatively simple to code (no custom field effects - we're learning from last gen lol. Also, if you think it's codable but our coder disagrees, then you'd better be prepared to code it yourself if it wins.)
• Since this is an Ancient Form slate, make sure your submissions have the same BST as the original Pokémon.
• To clarify, any Pokémon not currently in Generation 9 will instead use its Generation 8 movepool minus dexited moves (aka moves that are unusable in SV).

Ancient Form Template

Name:
Original Pokémon:
Typing:
Abilities:
Stats:

New Moves:
Removed Moves:

Role:
Flavor:

Oh also, we're happy to welcome Ayecrusher King to the council! We're excited to be working together with them going forward!

Submissions will be open for about a week. If you have any questions, feel free to message me or ask in the mod's Discord. Happy subbing!

 

[Ayecrusher King]

Happy to be part of this, anyways:

Tauros-Ancient

Typing: Normal/Steel
Abilities: Intimidate / Good As Gold | Sap Sipper
Stats: 95 / 105 / 75 / 30 / 75 / 110 [490]
New Moves: Raging Bull*(In this form, it becomes a Steel-Type move), Flash Cannon, Steel Beam, Psycho Cut, Psyshield Bash, Blaze Kick, Aqua Tail, Horn Leech,
Removed Moves:
Role: Status Absorber, because taking away the Fighting, Ground and Fire weakness it does have a lot of resistances.
Flavor: Based on the Golden Calf of blasphemy

Sigilyph-Ancient

Typing: Psychic/Rock
Abilities: Simple / Magic Guard | Wandering Spirit
Stats: 70 / 60 / 80 / 105 / 80 / 95 [490]
New Moves: Psychic Noise, Accelerock, Power Gem, Meteor Beam, Sandstorm, Stealth Rock, Foul Play, Body Press, Rapid Spin, Pain Split
Removed Moves: Dual Wingbeat, Pluck, Aerial Ace, Fly, Sky Attack, Gust, Air Cutter, Air Slash, Defog, Roost, Tailwind, Toxic, Thunder Wave
Role: Set-up sweeper, hazard remover
Flavor: That which holds the image of an Sigilyph becomes akin to an Sigilyph. Based on cave paintings in the style of Weeping Angels.

Conkeldurr-Ancient

Typing: Fighting/Rock
Abilities: Guts / Scrappy | Rocky Payload
Stats: 105 / 130 / 100 / 50 / 80 / 40 [505]
New Moves: Mighty Cleave, Stealth Rock, Sucker Punch, Lash Out, Gunk Shot, Belly Drum
Removed Moves: Curse, Hard Press
Role: Set-up Trick Room sweeper
Flavor: Unga bunga caveman.

 

[Voden]

hiiii long time no see, I'm kind of rusty so any criticism is welcome, I just saw the slate and got excited


Name: Concheldurr (conch + elder) or Conkeldurr-Conch if not allowed
Original Pokémon: Conkeldurr
Typing:

Abilities: Pure Power / Punk Rock | Shell Armor [HA]
Stats: 100 / 55 / 55 / 105 / 115 / 75 [500 BST]

New Moves: Razor Shell, Boomburst, Hyper Voice, Sparkling Aria, Wave Crash, Aqua Jet, Surf, Scorching Sands, Bubble.
Removed Moves: Close Combat, Mach Punch, Drain Punch, Power-Up Punch, Coaching.

Role: middling speed high power special or physical attacker, forced to go scarf bc not fast enough for LO or other Choice item, and not slow enough for TR, debating if giving this CM would be too much on account of there already being a Punk Rock/Soundproof mon on here, along w several ghost types.
Flavor: the first person to ever carve out a long eucledian conch, cut its tip, and find out it made a sound, now as an elder, having mastered a rudimentary version of music!<3 wields two giant conchs, one is a horn and the other is a primitive flute. (if this wins ill do prevos)


Name: Sigilomem (sigil + omen + totem) or Sigilyph-Totem if not allowed
Original Pokémon: Sigilyph
Typing:

Abilities: Trace / Lightning Rod | Protector* [HA]
Protector*: This Pokemon's Psychic type moves ignore the Dark type immunity and do 1.25x more damage to Dark and Ghost types.
Stats: 82 / 78 / 100 / 103 / 100 / 27 [490 BST]

New Moves: Worry Seed, Morning Sun, Giga Drain, Horn Leech, Leech Seed, Wood Hammer, Absorb, Ingrain, Psychic Noise, Earthquake, Earth Power, Drill Run, Explosion, Haze, Thunder, Thunderbolt, Volt Switch, Will-O-Wisp.
Removed Moves: Dual Wingbeat, Steel Wing, Aerial Ace, Roost, Ice Beam.

Role: bulky grass type does bulky grass type things, not really much to explain, trace bc regen and stamina and fur coat and thick fat and magic guard and intim and etc
Flavor: Totem-like figure depicting several Pokemon, carved by the first humans, said to guard the town they were "born" in. Catastrophe is said to unleash over anything that perturbs the villages under its protection.

 

[chemicalmines]

Name: Conkeldurr-Ancient
Original Pokémon: Conkeldurr
Typing:

Abilities: Inner Focus / Sheer Force / Solid Rock
Stats: 105 / 55 / 90 / 140 / 70 / 45

New Moves: Guiding Force*, Zen Headbutt, Psychic, Psyshock, Future Sight, Calm Mind, Stealth Rock, Shadow Ball
Removed Moves: Drain Punch, Mach Punch, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch

Guiding Force:

90 BP / 100 Acc / 16 PP / 10% chance to confuse.

Role: rocks setter, hazard control, sheer force breaker
Flavor: "It is thought that Conkeldurr taught humans how to make concrete more than 2,000 years ago." with this info, id assume conk would be pretty smart, hence the psychic typing. the shift from physical to special represents conk leaning on brains over brawn.


Name: Sigilyph-Ancient
Original Pokémon: Sigilyph
Typing:

Abilities: Levitate / Magic Guard / Dazzling
Stats: 72 / 58 / 70 / 103 / 70 / 117

New Moves: Psychic Noise, Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse, Dragon Tail, Outrage
Removed Moves: Toxic, Trick Room, Trick, Magic Coat, Hidden Power, Signal Beam, Ice Beam, Air Slash, Defog

Role: cm sweeper/wall breaker, specs wall breaker, scarf rkiller
Flavor: "The guardians of an ancient city, they use their psychic power to attack enemies that invade their territory." dragon is usually portrayed as an "ancient guardian" type or at the very least as a type that strikes fear into opponents.

 

[Orangesodapop]

Name: Sigilyph-Ancient
Original Pokémon: sigilyph
Typing: Psychic/Electric
Abilities: Magic Guard, Electric Surge, Tinted Lens (HA)
Stats: 82/48/100/103/60/97 (490)


New Moves: Thunderclap, Psychic Noise, Psystrike, Teleport, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Volt Switch (Flavor Moves Wip)
Removed Moves: ice beam

Role: pivot, special wallbreaker/cleaner
Generally decent vs everything, but frail on the special side
Flavor: I know it’s not that old but the Native American myth of the thunderbird


Name: Conkeldurr-Ancient
Original Pokémon: Conkeldurr
Typing: Normal
Abilities: Primitive / Guts / Sheer Force (HA)

Primitive

This Pokémon’s moves are calculated off of its physical stat

Stats: 95/120/115/35/45/85 (505)


New Moves: Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Hyper Voice, Psychic, Hurricane, Double Edge, Quick Attack, Stealth Rock, Slack Off
Removed Moves:

Role: physical wallbreaker/physical wall
Flavor: caveman (special attacks are throwing rocks)

 

[memebitatxt.]

Tauros-Brazen
Stats: 80/105/95/35/65/110 (490 BST)
Weight: 151 kg
Typing:

Abilities: Intimidate/Reckless/Anger Point

Added Moves: Blaze Kick, Burn Up, Burning Jealousy, Ember, Fire Spin, Flame Burst, Flame Wheel, Flamethrower, Flare Blitz, Head Smash, Heat Crash, Heat Wave, Incinerate, Mystical Fire, Overheat, Supercell Slam, Will-O-Wisp

Description: Average big hitter. Normal type gives it a nice immunity from all the Ghost types roaming around, while it's Fire stabs allow it to get mons like Pesbasil, Meganium, Goldoco, and the Gourgs (while also negating the existence of Arctobyss and deleting Shivertherium) and resist the Fairy, Grass, Steel, Fire and Ice mons from the meta. Reckless is the main attractive because big damage goes brrrr. Flare Blitz and Head Smash are as spammable as they can be, but will make your HP drop in a blink of an eye, so it's always to keep these at the point of your pen. It also has a nice coverage on Eq and Supercell Slam (also getting boosted by Reckless) for other nuisances.

Flavor: This Tauros is known for being incredibly more violent than its modern counterparts. This pokemon can heat its horns to over 300 °C, turning its adversaries into ashes.
It's believed that the Blaze Breeds of Paldean Tauros were made to resemble their ancient relatives. Based on Aurochs and the Brazen Bull.