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(Trainer Stats)

Discipline	Stat Pts	MOD
STR	12	+1
DEX	10	+0
CON	6	-2
INT	12	+1
WIS	14	+2
CHA	6	-2

Michael
Orre Region/Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness

Alignment: Neutral Good

Motto:

Allies/Friends: Jovi, Pokémon Lab HQ Staff, Chobin, Duking, (More to be listed)

Enemies/Rivals: Cipher

Backstory: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Michael



Appearance:

History On Li: Michael literally just woke up at the Lightwheather Hospital. This is how it went:

"Ungh..." Michael let out a groan as he stired. His eyes flickered open. He sat up as he looked around. "How did I get here?" he wondered aloud.

"Oh! You're awake!"

Michael's attention was brought to the door that had just been opened. In the doorway stood Nurse Joy. "What exactly happened to you? You were a little banged up when you were found just outside Life Sphere," she told him. "Life Sphere? The last thing I remember was riding off on my hover scooter when the Shadow Pokemon Factory blew up," he responded.

I must've been caught by the explosion anyway, he thought. "Shadow Pokemon Factory?" Joy gasped. "It's a long story..." Michael trailed off as he felt for Eevee's Pokeball. "Oh, your Sylveon is right here!" she told him as she pulled a Pokeball from her uniform. "She was dragging you when you were found," she explained. "I don't know what that is, but I only have an Eevee these days," Michael told her.

"She must've evoved while you were out cold. Sylveon is the Fairy-Type Evolution of Eevee that was discovered not too long ago," Joy explained. "Well in that case, here's what happened..." Michael then began explaining everything he knew about Shadow Pokemon and what the Shadow Pokemon Factory was.

Other Info: Michael has a Snag Machine that he can use to snag Shadow Pokemon with. He also has an Aura Reader attached to his Headband that alerts him to a Shadow Pokemon's presence. Also, Lycanroc and Shadow Charmeleon are locked as he has not caught them yet.

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Sylveon
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sylveon_(Pokémon)

(Pkmn 1 Stats) Discipline Stat Pts MOD STR 6 -2 DEX 6 -2 CON 10 +0 INT 4 -3 WIS 14 +2 CHA 16 +3

Primary Attacks (3)
Swift: Sylveon launches combo-able stars that follow their target. Modifier for Attack Rolls is increased by 1 for this attack [5 %]

Retaliate: Sylveon Launches a wave of magical energy with her feelers. This deals double damage after an ally has been defeated via taking too much damage. Does not stack. Buff wears off if the ally in question is somehow revived or uses a Dedede Broach. [10 %]

Moonblast: The image of the moon appears behind Sylveon as she fires an orb of pink energy 30% chance to lower damage dealt by target by 3%. Duration is based on dice roll like status conditions. [12 %]



Special Attacks (3)
Wish: Sylveon launches a star into the air, which flies into her target, whether it's herself, another of Michael's Pokemon, or Someone else entirely. Restores 1d15+CHA, 3 turn cooldown. Cooldown is extended by 3 turns if used before Reflect's Cooldown has ended.

Heal Bell: A light blue bell appears before Sylveon, which she smacks her target with, reducing the duration of all of the target's bad statuses by 2 turns. 1 turn cooldown. [1 %]

Reflect: Sylveon creates a yellow barrier around herself that cuts damage taken in half for 3 posts. 5 turn cooldown, damage rounds up.



Final Smash (1)
Twinkle Tackle: Sylveon flies with wings of the light, circling the target and creating a very charming space around it, and then she rams the target. 60%

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Lycanroc
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Lycanroc_(Pokémon)

(Pkmn 2 Stats) Discipline Stat Pts MOD STR 14 +2 DEX 16 +3 CON 4 -3 INT 4 -3 WIS 14 +2 CHA 4 -3

Primary Attacks (3)
Accelerock: Lycanroc slams into the target at high speed. Rolls Dex. [18 %]

Stone Edge: Lycanroc launches a sharp stones from his mane. Critical hits happen at natural rolls of 18 and higher. [15 %]

Thunder Fang: Lycanroc bites a target with electrified fangs. 30% chance of inflicting Paralysis. [12 %]



Special Attacks (3)
Sand Attack: Lycanroc kicks sand into the target's eyes. Inflicts Blind. [5%]

Howl: Lycanroc lets out a howl that increases his damage output by 3% for 3 turns. 3 turn cooldown.

Rock Polish: Lycanroc polishes his stones, boosting Dex by 2 for 3 turns. 3 turn cooldown.



Final Smash (1)
Continental Crush: Lycanroc lets out a howl as many stones from all over the battlefield are drawn into the air over the target area, forming a large mass of rock that comes crashing down. 40%

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Shadow Charmeleon
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Charmeleon_(Pokémon)

(Pkmn 3 Stats) Discipline Stat Pts MOD STR 6 -2 DEX 18 +4 CON 6 -2 INT 4 -3 WIS 18 +4 CHA 4 -3

Primary Attacks (3)
Flamethrower: Charmeleon breathes a stream of flames. 30% Burn chance. [12 %]

Shadow Rush: Charmeleon’s black aura becomes visible as it rams the target. Charmeleon takes one third of the damage dealt. [21 %]

Flame Burst: Charmeleon launches an exploding fireball from her mouth. On contact, it explodes, damaging the surroundings. [12 %] [7% Splash Damage]



Special Attacks (3)
Blaze: While Charmeleon has less than one third of her health, the damage of her fire attacks increase by 3%.

Shadow Spear: Visible tendrils shoot out of Charmeleon’s aura and pierces the target’s shields. [15 %]

Will-O-Wisp: Charmeleon shots a bluish white fireball from her mouth that inflicts burn. [5 %]



Final Smash (1)
Hyper Mode: Charmeleon’s black aura flares as it becomes visible, boosting the damage of her “Shadow” attacks by 9% for 3 turns before she calms down.

[Coolshaymin]

For Sylveon, Reflect is super powerful. It cuts damage in half for the whole party and lasts five turns and while having a five turn cooldown, that is still a MASSIVE defense boost. Usually buffs that cut damage in half are single target and last for 3 hits, giving them a Light Attack Weakness and making them not as OP as they may be otherwise. I am aware Reflect is a Party thing in the games, but may be best to ignore that since partywide cutting of damage may be difficult to balance.

As for Lycanroc, Steadfast I see being a bit of a problem. It makes all Statuses beneficial and sometimes overiding the consequences, and it basically nullifies Paralysis and nothing says it does not stack. Even then, it can last a while and I kind of feels it is better off different.

Quick Guard is completely unacceptable. Moves that nullify an attack are no longer allowed. Again, feels like it needs replaced. On the bright side, Rock Polish is fine.

On the dark side... Where to begin with Shadow Charmeleon... Well, first off Will-O-Wisp is way too strong for guarenteed status like I am assuming. 5%. Blaze I also feel has the potential to be too crazy. Finally, Flame Burst as an AoE, I feel should be a bit weaker in single target damage... 12% perhaps.

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i made Reflect the same as Cosplay's Light Screen since it had the same idea behind it. Replaced Steadfast and Quick Guard with Howl and Sand Attack, and changed the boost Blaze gives to a flat 3%. Fixed everything else.

[PolarStarQuote]

[PolarStarQuote]

This app has been Un-approved., Due to Reflect not meeting the balancing standard for Arena matches. It cant last 5 turns, since, thats the entirety of a Arena Match.

When you have fixed it, i or Cool will re-approve it. If cool has anymore issues, he will let you know.

@nova@nova

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Jun 14, 2017 21:15:56 GMT -8 PolarStarQuote said:

This app has been Un-approved., Due to Reflect not meeting the balancing standard for Arena matches. It cant last 5 turns, since, thats the entirety of a Arena Match.

When you have fixed it, i or Cool will re-approve it. If cool has anymore issues, he will let you know.

@nova@nova

Would've been nice to know before I posted in Cool's mission. ...Even though Reflect wasn't used. Lowered the number of turns to 3.

[Coolshaymin]

I would prefer that Reflect protected against 3 attacks since that is still pretty good and also is usually the one with a 3 turn cooldown. 3 turns is substantially stronger so 3 turn cooldown I don't feel is long enough. I already addressed some of that with the initial evaluation. The pros here is 3 turns allow you to take more halved hits for not much consequence or weakness and it can easily cut off 30 damage in one turn. Not even counting in stronger attacks. It's inherently more powerful than a -5% buff, which is already pretty big, and it gets better starting at 11 which is already pretty low. So it requires a bit more balancing.

[Deleted]

Re-extended the cooldown to 5, and added consequences for using Misty Terrain (which already halved damage from Dragon-Type Moves in the source material which Sylveon was immune to there) and Heal Bell before its Cool Down ended to add bit more vulnerability. If it is prefered, I can add something similar to them too in order to close up the loophole of using one or the other before Reflect like I did for good measure with Cosplay's moveset where she couldn't defense spam via costume change and take practically no damage. Example: She could not use Substitute or Protect while Light Screen's CD was in effect and vice versa.

[Coolshaymin]

Okay, closing up that loophole sounds good. Do that and I will approve it.

[Deleted]

There. Now 2 turns of cd is added if reflect is used before the CD of Heal Bell and/or Misty Terrain is up.

[Coolshaymin]

[Mari]

Yo!

Wish and Healing Bell look good.

Swift is too powerful. A +1 to its accuracy modifier is decidedly very noticeably stronger than the 10% effect chance light comboable moves are allowed to get away with. I would however let you get away with a 10% chance of causing the next attack to gain a +2 to its modifier, as a suggestion.

Reflect is also too powerful. You didn't listen to Cool when she suggested changes and the big problem is that unlike every other defensive move on the site (that isn't a final smash or related to one) it's impossible to attempt to play around reflect. With say Dragonite's barrier, it reduces the damage of the next 3 attacks by half. Light comboable attacks counter it pretty hard. With say, Raffina's defendre it decreases damage for 3 turns, but only by a flat 5%--so low damage attacks suffer a lot more than high damage attacks. Dealing 25% instead of 30% isn't nearly as big of a deal as having your 24% light combo attack reduced to 9% total.

If you want to have all the strengths and none of the weaknesses you need a risk involved to justify it. Not a cooldown, but an actual risk of things going wrong. Arle has a mechanic like this where she risks taking a ton of extra damage if she gets unlucky or absorbs too much damage, if you'd like to see an example.