Are we allowed to buff Hail?Okay voting's closed!
Congratulations to:
The Reptile's Rock/Normal Lycanroc
Tiksi's Rock/Fire Emboar
Also for Rock there is a tie between Solarblade's Bastiodon and Yoshiblaze's Regirock- so we will have a 24 hour tiebreaker. Vote for which of the two you prefer.
Feel free to discuss the impact of these two retyped Pokemon in the metagame.
In the meantime, submissions for the next slate are now open:
.:Slate 2:.
Ice, Ice/Rock, Ice/Poison
Submission Ends: 23rd of May
Stallbreaker (Cryogonal) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Taunt
- Nasty Plot
- Ice Beam
- Recover
Offensive Spinner (Cryogonal) @ Life Orb
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Rapid Spin
- Ice Beam
- Focus Blast
- Freeze-Dry
Nasty Plot Sweeper (Cryogonal) @ Life Orb
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Ice Beam
- Focus Blast
- Freeze-Dry
Special Attacker (Vanilluxe) @ Life Orb / Choice Specs / Choice Scarf
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Blizzard
- Power Gem
- Freeze-Dry
- Hidden Power [Ground] / Taunt
Physical Attacker (Vanilluxe) @ Life Orb / Choice Band / Choice Scarf
Ability: Refrigerate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly / Adamant Nature
- Return
- Stone Edge
- Ice Shard / Taunt
- Explosion / Taunt
Slush Rush Sweeper (Sandslash-Alola) @ Life Orb / Choice Band
Ability: Slush Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash
- Earthquake
- Ice Shard / Gunk Shot / Rapid Spin
- Swords Dance / Gunk Shot / Rapid Spin
For the Z-Hail set, you should probably list Icium Z as Hail is an Ice move.Starting with Ice/Poison, it's a pretty interesting typing. Poison is an overall decent typing, while Ice is a great offensive typing but terrible defensive typing. When you combine the two, you get a meh defensive typing (5 weaknesses and 4 resistances) and a pretty good offensive typing, having great neutral coverage and almost all of the things that resist it are weak to Ground or Dark/Ghost.
YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE TOXIC
Pokemon: Jynx
Type: Ice/Poison
BST: 85 (+20) / 50 / 95 (+60) / 135 (+20) / 95 / 110 (+15) (570 BST)
Abilities: Forewarn / Compound Eyes / Competitive (HA)
New Moves: Earth Power, Sludge Bomb, Sludge Wave
Removed Moves: Miracle Eye, Magic Room, Reflect, Psywave, Zen Headbutt
Justification/Niche: Jynx here, with 135 SpAtk, 110 Speed, Lovely Kiss to put the opponent to sleep and give you time to setup with Nasty Plot, is one threatening sweeper, as 135 SpAtk at +2 with great Ice + Poison coverage is crazy. Or, since this Jynx has decent 85/95/95 bulk, a Nasty Plot + 3 attacks with even better Ice/Poison/Ground (or Ghost or Psychic) coverage, can be very effective. Or, heck, get perfect neutral coverage with a Choice Scarf or Specs set with ALL THE COVERAGE. 2 good abilities in Compound Eyes, boosting the accuracy of Blizzard and Lovely Kiss, and Competitive, making Jynx a Defogger's (or Landorus') worst nightmare, let's Jynx do it's job even better.
Nasty Plot:
Jynx (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Compound Eyes
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Blizzard
- Sludge Wave / Earth Power
- Lovely Kiss / Earth Power / Shadow Ball
- Nasty Plot
Choiced Defog Deter-er:
Jynx (F) @ Choice Specs / Choice Scarf
Ability: Competitive
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam
- Sludge Wave
- Earth Power
- Shadow Ball / Psyshock
Z-Lovely Kiss / Z-Hail:
Jynx (F) @ Normalium Z
Ability: Compound Eyes / Competitive
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Blizzard
- Sludge Wave / Earth Power
- Lovely Kiss / Hail
- Nasty Plot / Earth Power
Z-Lovely Kiss and Z-Hail raise Speed by 1
It's fine. As you said, there's not many Ice types anyway, plus as long as you're not identically copying another person's post it should be fine.Edit: Ah someone made Cloyster already, it didn't appear when I was writing the comment. Is there a problem with keeping both up or should I change mine?