Pet Mod - VaporeMons - Archaludon Suspect Test + Randbats Set Submissions Open (2024)

Name: Comet Call
Power: 60
Accuracy: 100
PP: 10
Category:

Type:

Priority: 1
Flags: Mirror, Protect
Effect: Hits 2 turns after being used. This hit activates with +1 priority.
Potential Pokemon With This Move:
Justification: Future Sight is an interesting concept that I thought I’d play with a bit. Delayed priority goes kinda crazy, since it provides a failsafe against sweepers while also doing the same shenanigans as base Future Sight, albeit a bit weaker.

Name: Damage Bank / Savings Bank
Effect: Every time the holder successfully damages another Pokemon with an attack, the bank’s coin counter goes up by one. At 3 coins, the holder’s next attack will have its power doubled (Damage Bank) / the holder restores 33% max HP (Savings Bank), and the coin counter resets to 0.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 100 BP, Pay Day effects.
Justification: Funny idea I had. Damage Bank averages out to about the same damage boost as Life Orb, except you only get a boosted attack one in every three turns. Savings Bank is similar to Shell Bell from last gen, since it’s about double the healing power of Leftovers if you keep attacking, making it good on pivots.

Name: Mithril Armor
Effect: This Pokemon is immune to critical hits and its Defense is boosted 1.2x, but its own attacks will never crit.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 80 BP
Justification: Inteleon counterplay!! Crit immunity on an item makes a lot of sense, but I figured adding some wrinkles to it would make it more interesting (plus crit immunity on its own isn’t worth running an item for).

Name: Battle Spines
Effect: This Pokemon’s attacks do an additional 12.5% of the target’s max HP in damage. This occurs after the move’s normal damage and announces itself a la Rocky Helmet. Multi-hit moves only activate this effect once.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: Weird take on a boosting ability. Makes for some VERY strong wallbreakers.

Name: Gluttony
Effect: This Pokemon restores 1/16 max HP at the end of each turn if it is holding an item. If an active Pokemon loses or consumes its item, this Pokemon recovers 25% of its max HP.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: Original distrib +
Justification: Free lefties is always good. Funny thing to pair with Koff also still technically Berry abil

Name: Brambleghast
Type:

Abilities: Wind Rider / Sand Rush | Infiltrator
New Moves: Ice Spinner, Poltergeist, Nasty Plot, Swords Dance, Weather Ball
Removed Moves: none
Justification: Second slate of giving Grass/Ghost mons Poltergeist lol. Sand is a really weird playstyle right now. Every setter and every viable abuser are weak to Grass and Water, which is just sad, so I figured I’d provide another option. Brambleghast perfectly complements the defensive profiles of the current Sand options, while also offering a powerful offensive tool. Grass/Ghost coverage is not bad at all in OU, only struggling to get past Kingambit, the Dark/Flyings (both of which are offensive), and whatever mons decide to run itemless in order to stop a Brambleghast lol. Ice Spinner provides the coverage to hit both Dark/Flyings as well as Hydreigon, though most teams will probably just run Strength Sap for longevity and disruption. Also gave it Nasty Plot and Weather Ball because plot sets sure would be funny! Should help out an otherwise struggling playstyle quite a lot.

Name: Scovillain
Type:

Abilities: Chlorophyll / Opportunist | Moody
New Moves: Dark Pulse, Dragon Dance, Earthquake, Fire Lash, Flare Blitz, Nasty Plot, Play Rough, Pollen Puff, Power Whip, Psychic Fangs, Scorching Sands, Stun Spore, Taunt
Removed Moves: none
Justification: Speaking of Paldean Grass type weather abusers, here’s Scovillain. Mon got the worst movepool in existence for literally no reason, so I figured I’d patch it up a bit.

Name: Rotom
Type: same as in base
Abilities: Levitate / Prankster | AdaptabilityVolt Absorb | AerilateRefrigerate | Slush RushWell-Baked Body | Solar PowerCloud Nine | BerserkStorm Drain | Misty Surge
New Moves: Calm Mind, Pain Split, Parabolic Charge Hurricane Freeze-Dry Flamethrower Giga Drain Snipe Shot
Removed Moves: none
Justification: Pretty popular buff idea, but I saw potential in a few of these so I figured I’d do the whole set.
This mon likely will never hit OU with that godawful statline, but I saw I think The Damned sub Adaptability, which made a ton of flavor sense and gives Rotom enough of a power boost to maybe see OU usage. In other news, Prankster is funny because flavor but also Prankster Wisp/TWave/Trick are some pretty nice options for the lower tiers. On the moves front, losing Pain Split was a tragedy, and Calm Mind/Parabolic add some new depth to the gameplay of the other forms.
I HATE Gale Wings Rotom-Fan. Relying on Air Slash flinches to break through checks is incredibly stupid and the mon doesn’t even have wings so the flavor is terrible. Instead, I gave it Volt Absorb and Hurricane to have a leg up on Zapdos as a defensive mon in OU, and Aerilate if you want a more reliable STAB for NP sets (mon learns Hyper Voice naturally).
This mon just really needs new STABs, so giving it Refrigerate Hyper Voice and Freeze-Dry is big. However, the real winner here is Slush Rush. Besides the gimmicky Cetitan, Snow doesn’t really have a designated sweeper at the moment, and with NP/Blizzard/Tbolt/FD, Slush Rush sets on this go crazy.

Yeah idk lol this mon is hard to buff. Solar Power could theoretically be cool on Sun cause it breaks through Waters but idk. We’ll see, I guess.
This one is kinda quirky. Cloud Nine gives it a good matchup into Rain, but the real funny set here is Big Root Nasty Plot with Berserk. Giga Drain/Parabolic Charge are very reasonable STAB options when combined with Big Root, and Berserk pairs perfectly with the constant draining. Not sure if this hits OU proper, but it’s at least a really unique option.
As you may have noticed, Misty Terrain is missing a setter this gen. Thankfully, Rotom-Wash is here to save the day. This is a far better option than Revavroom-Ruchbah, and it pairs nicely with Iron Valiant and Iron Treads on Rune Drive teams. Also actually walls Baxcalibur’s STABs now, though Earthquake smokes you.