Pet Mod SylveMons (Discussion Phase)

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SylveMons

Welcome to SylveMons! This pet mod is about adding to Pokemon with things that are crucial to the OU metagame- abilities, moves and items. This pet mod also allows for older items, abilities and moves to be changed in order to fit in OU.

The Council:
Yoshiblaze
AquaticPanic
Reviloja753
Ludicrousity

Rules:
SylveMons revolves on a four-phase system. The Submission phase allows you to submit additions to the OU metagame. There are are three categories: Abilities, Moves and Items. The templates will be below. You may submit up to 2 additions per category. Please also put all of your submissions into one post. The Voting phase lets people vote on which additions should be added to the metagame! You may vote for 6 additions per category. There will be at least two winners in each category. The Distribution Discussion is for discussing what should get access to the winning moves and abilities. When this phase ends, the council will determine what should get access to the winning abilities and moves. After that, the Set Discussion is about posting sets of the Pokemon who benefit from that round's winners.

We will generally try to keep the length of each phase to the following guideline (subject to change):

Submissions: 4-7 days
Voting: 2-3 Days
Distribution Discussion: 2-4 days
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Existing Ability?: Y/N
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Niche: Aaaaaaaaaaaab.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: A, B, C, D...

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Existing Move?: Y/N
Category: Physical/Special/Status
Type: A
PP: B
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Priority: Aaaaaab.
Misc.: Aaaaab.
Z-Move: Aaaaaaaaab.
Fling Info: Aaaaaab.
Niche: Aaaab.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: C, D, E, F...

Name: Aaaaaab.
Existing Item?: Y/N
Effect: Aaaaaab.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y/N
Ignored by Klutz?: Y/N
Niche: Aaaab.

Sylvemons Resources
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Enjoy enhancing the OU metagame!
 
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Name: Airborne Strike
Existing Move?: No
Category: Physical
Type: Flying
PP: 24 Max
Effect: 90 BP, 10% Chance to lower the opponent's Defense by 1.
Misc.: Contact
Z-Move: Supersonic Skystrike - 160 BP
Niche: A strong, recoil-less, physical Flying-type move that give Pokemon unable to learn Brave Bird a good STAB option, and even as coverage, Flying is a pretty decent offensive typing, hitting Pokemon like Tangrowth and Mega Medicham.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Unfezant, Fearow, Staraptor, Talonflame, Gyarados, Thundurus(-T), Tornadus(-T), Skarmory, Dragonite, Salamence, Gliscor, Hawlucha, Aerodactyl, Crobat, Toucannon, Arcehops, Jumpluff, etc. (Flying-types, especially those with limbs, in general)

Name: Magic Room
Existing Move?: Yes
Category: Status
Type: Psychic
PP: 16 Max
Effect: For 5 turns, the opponent's held items have no effect unless it is a Mega Stone or Z-Crystal. Under Magic Room, Judgement's type is always Normal.
Misc.: N/A
Z-Move: Raises the user's Special Attack by 2 stages
Niche: Removing the ability to use items can be huge in the right situations, like shutting down Choice Scarf users, eliminating Focus Sashes, and preventing the use of helpful berries. Also, the Z-Move is a Nasty Plot on top of this and can work well in combination with negating Sashes if hazards aren't up.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Everything that learned it before + Musharna, Girafarig, Victini, Porygon-Z, Starmie, Sylveon
Name: Relic Charm
Existing Item?: No
Effect: If Meloetta holds this item, it will enter the battle in it's Pirouette form and boosts the power of Fighting-type moves by 1.2x. If anything else holds this item, no effect
Removable via Knock Off?: No (Meloetta), Yes (Anything else)
Ignored by Klutz?: Yes
Fling BP: 40, confuses the opponent
Niche: Allows Meloette-Pirouette to actually be used by itself, and with an amazing Speed Tier, unresisted combination of it's STABs + Knock Off, pivoting ability in U-Turn, priority in Quick Attack, and an overall good movepool, Meloetta-Pirouette can be a great Pokemon in OU.

Name: Blue Herb
Existing Item?: No
Effect: When held, if this Pokemon has it's stats lowered, all of it's stat changes will immediately be inverted.
Removable via Knock Off?: Yes
Ignored by Klutz?: Yes
Fling BP: 10
Niche: A one time Contrary that can benefit Pokemon that like to use moves like Leaf Storm or Draco Meteor or help to counter Sticky Web or Defog. Unburden users, particularly Hawlucha (with Superpower) and regular Sceptile (with Leaf Storm) greatly boost in viability thanks to being able to boost their power and speed at the same time. However, keep in mind that ALL stat changes are inverted as if Topsy-Turvy was used, so don't try setting up with something like Dragon Dance before use.


Name: Adrenaline Orb
Existing Item?: Yes
Effect: Raises the Pokemon's higher stat of Attack or Special Attack upon switch-in. Single use.
Removable via Knock Off?: Yes
Ignored by Klutz?: Yes
Fling BP: 30
Niche: Basically a one time Download that allows Pokemon with Unburden to immediately become fast AND strong and can allow certain Pokemon do sweep late game if they're never forced to switch, like Beast Boost Pokemon.
Name: Flower Veil
Existing Ability?: Yes
Effect: This Pokemon cannot have their stats lowered or be inflicted with a status by the opposing Pokemon.
Niche: A slight change that allows Flower Veil to actually be useful, preventing being worn down by Toxic or crippled by burns and prevent Intimidate or random stat drops like Moonblast from messing up your day.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Flabebe line and Comfey + Chikorita line, Sunkern line, Budew line, Cherrim line, Leafeon, Petill line, Fomantis line

Name: Magic Healing
Existing Ability?: No
Effect: This Pokemon heals 6% of their HP every turn.
Niche: Gives Pokemon, especially those without reliable recovery, an omnipresent way of recovering HP, which greatly benefits a certain Pokemon with this ability to go from worthless to usable. You'll know the one.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: MEGA AUDINO, Misdreavus line, Fennekin line, Hoopa (both forms), Baltoy line
 
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Name: Airborne Strike
Existing Move?: No
Category: Physical
Type: Flying
PP: 24 Max
Effect: 90 BP, 10% Chance to lower the opponent's Defense by 1.
Misc.: Contact
Z-Move: Supersonic Skystrike - 160 BP
Niche: A strong, recoil-less, physical Flying-type move that give Pokemon unable to learn Brave Bird a good STAB option, and even as coverage, Flying is a pretty decent offensive typing, hitting Pokemon like Tangrowth and Mega Medicham.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Unfezant, Fearow, Staraptor, Talonflame, Gyarados, Thundurus(-T), Tornadus(-T), Skarmory, Dragonite, Salamence, Gliscor, Hawlucha, Aerodactyl, Crobat, Toucannon, Arcehops, etc. (Flying-types, especially those with limbs, in general)
jumpluff maybe? seems like something it could do.
 
Name: Surpresser Belt
Existing Item?: N
Effect: Supresses the holder's ability.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: N
Niche: This gives Pokemon with abilities that aren't preferred that can hinder them (Golisopod, Archeops, Regigigas, Slaking, etc.) a chance to shine in the metagame. It also can be a nice item to troll the opponents with when using Trick or Switcheroo on things like Latios. I don't think it would be broken on things like Regigigas as they would still like power-boosting moves and still doesn't have the most amazing stats.

Name: Housekeeping
Existing Ability?: N
Effect: Removes hazards upon switch-in.
Niche: Hazard control is a major issue in OU with very few reliable removers of them. This ability finally provides an answer for them.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Cinccino, Jirachi, Chansey, Clefable...
 
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Name: Reckless Tackle
Existing Move?: No
Category: Physical
Type: Fighting
PP: 24 max
Effect: 120 BP, User takes one-third of damage dealt as recoil
Misc.: Contact
Z-Move: All-Out Pummeling - 190 BP
Niche: Gives some mons valuable Fighting-type coverage/STAB that doesn't lower stats such as Tapu Bulu.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Tapu Bulu, Tauros, Bouffalant, Bewear, Aggron, anything with Reckless
 
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Name: Starting Blow
Existing move?: No
Category: Physical
Type: Normal
PP: 16 Max
Effect: 110 Bp, only works first turn out (ala fake out).
Misc: Contact
Z-Move: 160 bp
Niche: Gives some mons a nice turn one nuke. normal is a pretty meh typing offensively and being able to fire off a guaranteed strong attack turn one can't be all bad.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: normal types and fast physical attackers should be considered such as gumshoos and primeape, (something like glalie or pinsir for refrigerate- aerilate fun could also be cool).

Name: Mind Trick
Existing Ability?: No
Effect: Stat changes are received by the opposing pokemon and vice versa
Niche: An interesting ability that can give more incentive to switching/ making moves that drops your own stats less terrible.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Pokemon associated with hypnotic powers are a good place to start. Malamar, Chandelure, and Hypno are all interesting candidates.

Name: Wind Rider
Existing Ability?: No
Effect: Flying type immunity
Niche: Gives better switch ins to often times difficult to counter flying type moves.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Pokemon that control or ride the wind. Mantine, Jumpluff, Rotom Fan, Whimsicott, and Tornadus.

Name: Wilting Wish
Existing Move?: No
Category: Special
Type: Grass
PP: 8 Max
Effect: 250 bp, the user faints upon using
Priority: 0
Misc.: Non-contact
Z-Move: 200
Niche: Gives flower pokemon something to play around with
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Basically any pokemon that has a flower (or is a flower) is a candidate. Sunflora, Roserade, Lilligant, Cherrim, etc.
 
Hoo boy, I've had a lot of ideas from a fangame I'm making. Here's a few of them:

Items:

Name: Plate Armor
Existing Item?: N
Effect: Doubles the holder's physical Defense, but prevents it from using Status Moves.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: N
Niche: Basically a physical version of the Assault Vest, this should help bulky offensive Pokemon become even bulkier (ex. Alolan Muk) or help Pokemon with decent Special bulk but abysmal Physical bulk a lot more bulky (ex. Nihilego, Goodra).

Moves:

Name: Hidden Force
Existing Move?: N
Category: Physical
Type: Normal
PP: 15
Effect: No effect.
Misc.: Type changes based on the user's IVs.
Z-Move: Breakneck Blitz - 120 BP
Niche: By giving physical attackers their own version of Hidden Power, they finally get a much needed boost to their coverage. This lets physical attackers with narrow movepools such as Kartana a little more wiggle room for checking threats,
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Every Pokemon that can learn TMs.

Might do more later, it's a little late where I am.
 
Name: Thunderclap
Existing Move?: N
Category: Physical
Type: Electric
PP: 16 (base is 10)
Effect: 100 BP. Hits entire field.
Priority: 0
Misc.: Does not make contact, sound-based.
Z-Move: Gigavolt Havoc, 180 BP
Niche: A powerful and reliable physical Electric move - effectively an Electric counterpart to Earthquake.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Pretty much any Electric type that wants Physical moves (Luxray, Pikachu, Electivire, Eelektross, and Zebstrika among maybe others), as well as any sound move specialists (and by that I mean Exploud, Noivern, Wigglytuff, and Chatot lol)

Name: Room Extender
Existing Item?: N
Effect: Extends Trick Room, Magic Room and Wonder Room from 5 to 8 turns
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Fling Power: 60
Niche: Gives Trick Room its own extender item. (no one cares about the other rooms)

Name: Stimulus Replicator
Existing Item?: N
Effect: Activates the holder's ability if it's conditional - Lightning Rod and Water Compaction will boost stats on switch-in, Gale Wings works at any level of HP, Minior starts off in Meteor form, Sand Rush works regardless of weather, etc. Forecast does not work, due to... reasons.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Fling Power: 90
Niche: Gives 'mons normally dependent on weather abilities the ability (heh) to actually kinda function outside of it, if at the cost of the weather's other benefits and any other item. Oh, yeah, also Terrakion can boost its Attack to Banded levels for no cost other than an item slot, so that's cool-ish.

Name: Flame Bullet
Existing Move?: N
Category: Special
Type: Fire
PP: 48 (base is 30)
Effect: 40 BP
Priority: +1
Misc.: noncontact
Z-Move: 100 BP
Niche: A special priority move. It's also Fire-typed.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Any fire type, especially Magmortar
 
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Don't we need to put Fling BP for items too?

Name: Spore Bomb
Existing Item?: N
Effect: Upon fainting, put all adjacent Pokemon to sleep for 1 turn, unless they are immune to powder effects. When used with Fling, it is a 40-BP move that puts the victim to sleep for 1-3 turns.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Niche: This is a good item for suicide leads which don't necessarily need a focus sash, allowing them to cripple an extra pokemon once their job is done. It also has huge merit with Fling, becoming a 100% accurate one-time use sleeping move that even deals chip damage. This can be used by many Pokemon: Greninja can use it to cripple a check and set up spikes or just go to town with its attacks, Alakazam can combine it with Recycle for a 2-move Spore, and things like Azelf or Dragonite can use it to set up more safely.

Name: Balloon Inflation Device
Existing Item?: N
Effect: If the holder is a Normal/Fairy type with less than 271 BST, triple its Defense and Special Defense. This inflation device is covered in sticky industrial glue as it was made shoddily, so it sticks to its user and can't be knocked
Removable via Knock Off?: N
Ignored by Klutz?: N
Niche: technically since this doesn't specify a pokemon and affects both igglybuff and jigglypuff, this isn't a signature item. mwuhahahhahahahahhahahhahaaaaaaa


Name: Pixie Punch
Existing Move?: N
Category: Physical
Type: Fairy
PP: 24
Effect: 75 BP, 100 Accuracy, 10% Chance to remove all status from user. Makes contact, is a punching move, targets any adjacent Pokemon.
Priority: 0
Misc.: See Effect.
Z-Move: 140 BP Twinkle Tackle.
Niche: A good, reliable physical Fairy move. What else can I say?
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Azumarill, Granbull, Mawile, Margaret Thatcher
 
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This looks cool! These are my first ideas, all of which I think would add well to the OU metagame.
Name: Neutralise
Existing Ability?: N
Effect: All moves used by or targeted at this Pokémon ignore type effectiveness. (Always hit for neutral damage)
Niche: Very similar in a way to Tinted Lens, but doesn't allow for you to deal super-effective damage. It does, however, ignore immunities and give your Pokémon no weaknesses outside of Mold Breaker Pokémon. It also means that Pokémon with this ability don't need to run coverage, making mono-attacking sets viable.
Potential Pokémon with this ability: Delcatty

Name: Ethereal Fist
Existing Ability?: N
Effect: Punch Moves become Special and gain 1.2x damage.
Niche: Gives Pokémon with this ability a much wider movepool.
Potential Pokémon with this ability: Gengar evo line, Reuniclus evo line

Name: Spark
Existing Move?: Y
Category: Physical
Type: Electric
Base Power (You forgot this in the template btw :]): 80
Accuracy (This too, unless both are Misc): 100%
PP: 24
Effect: 10% chance to paralyze the target.
Priority: 0
Misc: Contact
Z-Move: 140 BP
Niche: Gives Physical Electric attackers a better, No-Recoil option than Wild Charge. Speaking of Wild Charge...
Pokémon to give this move: Electivire, Silvally

Name: Wild Charge
Existing Move?: Y
Category: Physical
Type: Electric
Base Power: 110
Accuracy: 90%
PP: 16
Effect: 10% chance to paralyze the target.
Priority: 0
Misc: Contact, 1/3 recoil
Z-Move: 185 BP
Niche: Physical Electric attackers finally have an actual means of dealing damage! This will make things like Physical Koko and Zebstrika much better than they are currently, and maybe even give Guts Luxray some use on Webs in OU.
Pokémon to give this move: None

Name: Assault Shield
Existing Item?: N
Effect: Holder's Defense is 1.5x, but it can only select damaging moves.
Fling Base Power: 80
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Niche: Something that I found amongst all the fake leaks for Sun & Moon, and wondered "why isn't this real?". It gives classic Bulky Offense an amazing buff while also not severely unbalancing the meta.

Name: Choice Lens
Existing Item?: N
Effect:Holder's moves have 1.5x Accuracy, but it can only select the first move it executes.
Fling Base Power: 10
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Niche: Won't be a common pick, but it guarantees anything with > 66% accuracy will always hit. Could be funny to see Inferno and Zap Cannon getting usage.
 
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Samtendo09

Ability: Light Power
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Name: Audacious
Existing Ability?: N
Effect: Upon switch in, if facing a Pokémon that had Super Effective Moves or had the Ability Huge Power, Pure Power, Adaptability, Speed Boost, Beast Boost, Shadow Tag, Water Bubble, Parental Bond, Multiscale, Weather or Terrain summoning Ability such as Drizzle, or similar custom abilities, this Pokémon will suppress the opponent's Ability and boost all of the user's non-HP stats by one stage.
Niche: While the Ability itself sound obscene on paper, this is reserved for the weaker Pokémon, and that weak potential Pokémon would not have any stats higher than 100, with few exceptions. This way, it allows pathetic Pokémon with decent Attack or Special Attack to stand up against stronger threats such as Mega Charizard X and Y, Huge Power Azumarill, Scolipede, Crawdaunt, Pelipper, and the four Tapus.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Preferably Pokémon lines with the fully evolved Pokémon's BST being lower than 500. Wigglytuff, Vespiquen, Kanto Marowak, Sunflora, Mothim, Liepard, Arbok and Audino are examples.

Name: Damp
Existing Ability?: Y
Effect: Prevent Explosion and Self-Destruct to be used; the user takes half damage from Fure and Fairy moves.
Niche: Gives Pokémon with Damp a chance to pivot into Fire-type and Fairy-type moves without too much danger.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Any Pokémon that had Damp already.

Name: Aqua Tail.
Existing Move?: Y
Category: Physical
Type: Water
PP: 10 (Max. 16)
Effect: 120BP, 85% Accuracy.
Priority: 0
Misc.: Contact
Z-Move: 190 BP.
Niche: Allows a strong physical Water-type STAB for Physical sweepers. Bibarel, Swampert, Feraligatr, Gyrarados, Carracosta, Floatzel, Azumarill and (in Uber) Primal Kyogre would be benefited by this.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Any Pokémon that already learned Aqua Tail, in addition of Raichu, Luxray, and Aerodactyl.

Name: Iceberg Crush
Existing Move?: N
Category: Physical
Type: Ice
PP: 5 (Max. 8)
Effect: 120BP, 90% Accuracy. Hurts the user if it hit the target.
Priority: 0
Misc.: 33% Recoil
Z-Move: 190 BP.
Niche: Ice-type had no strong and reliable Physical moves, so here's that. While the recoil is costly for some Ice-type, others would benefit it and even a few Water-type (and Wigglytuff) had access to this.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Weavile, Crabominable, Avalugg, Kyurem-Black (quickban warning?), Abomasnow, Glalie, Sandslash-Alola, Mamoswine, Cloyster, Beartic, Blastoise, Kingler, Gyarados, Feraligatr, Azumarill, Swampert, Wigglytuff, Crawdaunt, Relicanth, Bibarel, Wishiwashi, Silvally, Walrein, Huntail, heavy Pokémon that are not Water-type or Ice-type (Snorlax, Hariyama, Bewear, etc.)

Name: Mercy Shield
Existing Item?: N
Effect: If the Pokémon's BST is lower than 500 and had Base Defense or Special Defense is 65 or lower, the current Defense or Special Defense is boosted by 66%, respectively. If both are lower, both are equally boosted.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Fling Effect: 90 BP
Niche: Although counterable by Knock Off like Eviolite, and a more focused Physical Defense orientation for Chansey, it makes Pokémon with wimpy defense into very bulky threats. Hariyama, Wigglytuff, Drifblim and Wailord would stand out does to their high HP. Just remember that it is a held item that can be knocked off, means that the holder cannot use Leftover or Life Orb.

Name: Spelon Berry
Existing Item?: Y
Effect: If the holder had its stat decreased by the foe(s), the user's highest stat will be increased by 3 stages. Cannot activate if the user's highest stat is already increased, and Defiant, Competitive and other variants take priority. One-use.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Fling Effect: 10 BP
Niche: You can exploit this against Landorus-T and other Intimidate users, as well as Defoggers and Sticky Webbers. You can use it on a Pokémon that cannot have its stat by itself, or to punish the above users.

Edit note 1: Added Fling effect by the host's update post told us to.
 
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Name: Audacious
Existing Ability?: N
Effect: Upon switch in, if facing a Pokémon that had Super Effective Moves or had the Ability Huge Power, Pure Power, Adaptability, Speed Boost, Beast Boost, Shadow Tag, Water Bubble, Parental Bond, Multiscale, Weather or Terrain summoning Ability such as Drizzle, or similar custom abilities, this Pokémon will suppress the opponent's Ability and boost all of the user's non-HP stats by one stage.
Niche: While the Ability itself sound obscene on paper, this is reserved for the weaker Pokémon, and that weak potential Pokémon would not have any stats higher than 100, with few exceptions. This way, it allows pathetic Pokémon with decent Attack or Special Attack to stand up against stronger threats such as Mega Charizard X and Y, Huge Power Azumarill, Scolipede, Crawdaunt, Pelipper, and the four Tapus.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Preferably Pokémon lines with the fully evolved Pokémon's BST being lower than 500. Wigglytuff, Vespiquen, Kanto Marowak, Sunflora, Mothim, Liepard, Arbok and Audino are examples.

Name: Damp
Existing Ability?: Y
Effect: Prevent Explosion and Self-Destruct to be used; the user also deactivate the current weather.
Niche: An effective way to shut down Pokémon that exploits their summoning Ability, as well allowing Water-type Pokémon to defiantly taking on weather abusers. Swampert should not be put on a Rain team with this Ability if it wanted to Mega Evolve, but will shine does to being able to take on Mega Charizard Y without worrying about Solar Beam, for instance.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Any Pokémon that had Damp already.

Name: Aqua Tail.
Existing Move?: Y
Category: Physical
Type: Water
PP: 10 (Max. 16)
Effect: 120BP, 90% Accuracy. Had a 20% chance to lower the target's Speed by 1 stage.
Priority: 0
Misc.: Contact
Z-Move: 190 BP.
Niche: Allows a strong physical Water-type STAB for Physical sweepers. Bibarel, Swampert, Feraligatr, Gyrarados, Carracosta, Floatzel, Azumarill and (in Uber) Primal Kyogre would be benefited by this.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Any Pokémon that already learned Aqua Tail, in addition of Raichu, Luxray, and Aerodactyl.

Name: Iceberg Crush
Existing Move?: N
Category: Physical
Type: Ice
PP: 5 (Max. 8)
Effect: 150BP, 90% Accuracy. Hurts the user if it hit the target.
Priority: 0
Misc.: 33% Recoil
Z-Move: 200 BP.
Niche: Ice-type had no strong and reliable Physical moves, so here's that. While the recoil is costly for some Ice-type, the recoil is still less severe than Head Smash and even a few Water-type (and Wigglytuff) had access to this.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Weavile, Crabominable, Avalugg, Kyurem-Black (quickban warning?), Abomasnow, Glalie, Sandslash-Alola, Mamoswine, Cloyster, Beartic, Blastoise, Kingler, Gyarados, Feraligatr, Azumarill, Swampert, Wigglytuff, Crawdaunt, Relicanth, Bibarel, Wishiwashi, Silvally, Walrein, Huntail, heavy Pokémon that are not Water-type or Ice-type (Snorlax, Hariyama, Bewear, etc.)

Name: Mercy Shield
Existing Item?: N
Effect: If the Pokémon's BST is lower than 500 and had Base Defense or Special Defense is 65 or lower, the current Defense or Special Defense is boosted by 66%, respectively. If both are lower, both are equally boosted.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Niche: Although counterable by Knock Off like Eviolite, and a more focused Physical Defense orientation for Chansey, it makes Pokémon with wimpy defense into very bulky threats. Hariyama, Wigglytuff, Drifblim and Wailord would stand out does to their high HP. Just remember that it is a held item that can be knocked off, means that the holder cannot use Leftover or Life Orb.

Name: Spelon Berry
Existing Item?: Y
Effect: If the holder had its stat decreased by the foe(s), the user's highest stat will be increased by 3 stages. One-use.
Removable via Knock Off?: Y
Ignored by Klutz?: Y
Niche: You can exploit this against Landorus-T and other Intimidate users, as well as Defoggers and Sticky Webbers. You can use it on a Pokémon that cannot have its stat by itself, or to punish the above users.
why would being damp make it stop raining?
why does Iceberg Crash have such high BP for its recoil level?
why is aqua tail just straight up overpowered?
cool ideas but iffy balancing
 

Samtendo09

Ability: Light Power
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why would being damp make it stop raining?
why does Iceberg Crash have such high BP for its recoil level?
why is aqua tail just straight up overpowered?
cool ideas but iffy balancing
Okay, fine. I would make Damp to make the user just a Thick Fat variant; reduce Fire-type and Fairy-type damage. I will remove the Speed reducing effect of Aqua Tail and make Iceberg Crash's BP reduced to make it as powerful as Double-Edge. Would it do it?
 
Okay, fine. I would make Damp to make the user just a Thick Fat variant; reduce Fire-type and Fairy-type damage. I will remove the Speed reducing effect of Aqua Tail and make Iceberg Crash's BP reduced to make it as powerful as Double-Edge. Would it do it?
i mean aqua tail's accuracy should be 80 to put it in line with things like Gunk Shot but yeah that's good ty
 
Cool Pet Mod! I just don't really get why it is called SylveMons...
Strong Hoofs
Existing ability?
- N
Effect - user is immune to entry hazards
Niche - very useful for hazards weak Pokémon as they are a major part of competitive play.
Pokémon that may get it - Any horse / deer Pokémon

Flare Boost
Existing ability?
- T
Effect - Doubles user's SpA when burned insted of multiplying by 1.5x
Niche - Drifblim becomes a lot tougher to switch into now and may see some use in competitive play.
Pokémon that may get it - Drifblim

Meteor Shower
Existing move?
- N
Category - Special
Type - Rock
Base Power - 130
Accuracy - 100
PP - 5 / 8
Effect - Reduces user's SpA by two stages. Does not make contact.
Priority - 0
Z-Move - 195 BP Continental Crush
Niche - A much better option for Special Rock-types such as Mega Diancie.
Pokémon that may get it - Every single fully evolved Rock-type and only Rock-types

High Horsepower
Existing move?
- Y
Category - Physical
Type - Ground
Base Power - 120
Accuracy - 90
PP - 10 / 16
Effect - Makes contact
Priority - 0
Z-Move - 190 BP Continental Crush
Niche - While Golurk and Mudsdale will not see usage in OU with this buff, they would still perform slightly better in lower tiers.
Pokémon that may get it - Snorlax, Golurk, Mudbray, Mudsdale

Agony Boots
Existing item?
- N
Effect - User's Speed is 4/3x, but it cannot use the same move twice in a row
Knockoffable? - Y
Klutzable? - Y
Niche - Choice Scarf but different, it allows decently fast Pokémon to gain the coveted speed boost, but not have to lock itself into a move. Can be an interesting option for Tapu Koko, Greninja, etc...

Adrenaline Orb
Existing item?
- Y
Effect - If the user has any of its stats lowered, its highest stat gets raised by one stage (à la Beast Boost). Item does not get consumed.
Knockoffable? - Y
Klutzable? - Y
Niche - Less restricted then the original one, that was only used as a meme Kartana set... Opens up possibilities for Pokémon like Zygarde that get Intimidated very frequently...
 
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Meteor Shower
Existing move?
- N
Category - Special
Type - Rock
Base Power - 130
Accuracy - 100
PP - 5 / 8
Effect - Reduces user's SpA by two stages. Does not make contact.
Priority - 0
Z-Move - 195 BP Continental Crush
Niche - Drifblim becomes a lot tougher to switch into now and may see some use in competitive play.
Pokémon that may get it - Every single fully evolved Rock-type and only Rock-types
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Name - Shock Slam
Existing Move? - Nay
Damage - 90
Category -

Type -

PP - 20 (32 max)
Special Effects - Has a 30% chance to paralyze the opponent
Z-Move - Gigavolt Havoc (160 BP)
Niche - While not the strongest of moves, Shock Slam allows for some nice physical sets on electric types that need a better move than Wild Charge or Spark Thunder Punch. Maybe slightly OTT on Koko, but at least it doesn't get a good physical fairy STAB.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Raichu, Gololan Golem, Electivire, Luxray, Zebstrika, Elektross, Zekrom, Togedemaru, Tapu Koko

Name - Energy Rush
Existing Move? - Nay
Damage - ---
Category -

Type -

PP - 20 (32 max)
Special Effects - Increases Spa and Spe by 1 stage.
Z-Move - Z-Energy Energy (Restores negative stat stages to 0)
Niche - This is a special form of Dragon Dance for the many mons that could do with it. It is a toned down Quiver Dance, in a sense.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Primape, Mewtwo, Blaziken, Lucario, Kommo-o, Porygon-Z, Reuniclus, Azelf, Raikou. (very widely spread)
I feel as though shock slam entirely removes any point in using Wild Charge, which isn't ideal.
 
Name: Terrain Soul
Existing Ability?: nah
Effect: Different effects for each terrain.
Electric - Doubles Speed
Grassy - Doubles Attack
Misty - Doubles Special Defense
Psychic - Doubles Special Attack
Niche: We need the terrain support, guys. Only Grass Pelt and Surge Surfer work with terrain. This is a pseudo huge power for a stat.
Potential Pokemon With This Ability: Magearna? The tapus, maybe. Gardevoir line excluding Gallade (But their abilities shouldn't be replaced). Basically like anything that can talk by telepathy.
that is overpowered as heck
psychic and grassy's effects just make the affected mons too powerful. they'd annihilate stall, and chances are they'd wreck all the other teams too. the buffs from this are too powerful.
 
Name: Sap Wire
Existing Move?: N
Category: Special
Damage: 70
Accuracy: 100
Type: Grass
Effect: Super Effective vs. Electric, 10% chance to seed target.
Type: Grass
Niche: With some damn powerful electric types running amok, this move almost seems like its greatest niche (quading RotomW) may be a generation too late. Still, on the right mon, it can put lots of pressure on a certain electric Tapu, especially if they can't learn ground moves. Seeding effect is nice for added value.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Mostly grass types, though a few electrics can benefit, such as Mareep, Voltorb and Jolteon as it'll help them get around their grounded foes.

Name: Acid Melt
Existing Move?: N
Category: Special
Damage: 70
Accuracy: 100
Type: Poison
Effect: Super Effective vs. Steel, 10% chance to burn target.
Niche: Steel types are a menace! Fairy/Steel types are hell on earth! Acid Melt solves both problems to a degree. I coulda gone full on Acid Rain weather from a certain other meta (or added Water SE as well), but that's a bit extreme.
Potential Pokemon With This Move: Mostly poison types, even though a good number of them are Phys Attackers and aren't very acidic. Some dragons could spit acid I guess, especially Goodra could use a niche. It could find a nice home on the Nidos for sure as well as acid based mons like Victrebel, Swalot, and the like. Dragalge with this move has irresistible STAB coverage, so 'coverage' becomes a lot freer to choose.
 

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Name - Shock Slam
Existing Move? - Nah
Damage - 90
Accuracy - 100%
Category -

Type -

PP - 20 (32 max)
Special Effects - Has a 10% chance to paralyze the opponent
Z-Move - Gigavolt Havoc (160 BP)
Niche - While not the strongest of moves, Shock Slam allows for some nice physical sets on electric types that need a better move than Wild Charge or Spark Thunder Punch. Maybe slightly OTT on Koko, but at least it doesn't get a good physical fairy STAB.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Raichu, Gololan Golem, Electivire, Luxray, Zebstrika, Elektross, Zekrom, Togedemaru, Tapu Koko

Name - Wild Charge
Existing Move? - Yah
Damage - 150
Accuracy - 80%
Category -

Type -

PP - 20 (32 max)
Special Effects - 50% recoil
Z-Move - Gigavolt Havoc (200 BP)
Niche - Wild Charge is intended to be a strong move with recoil. 95BP wasn't enough, at all. So I made Wild Charge into an Electric Type Head Smash
Potential Pokemon With This Move - anything with Wild Charge. that's all

Name - Energy Rush
Existing Move? - Nah
Damage - ---
Category -

Type -

PP - 20 (32 max)
Special Effects - Increases Spa and Spe by 1 stage.
Z-Move - Z-Energy Energy (Restores negative stat stages to 0)
Niche - This is a special form of Dragon Dance for the many mons that could do with it. It is a toned down Quiver Dance, in a sense.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Primape, Mewtwo, Blaziken, Lucario, Kommo-o, Porygon-Z, Reuniclus, Azelf, Raikou. (very widely spread)


Most HMs are absolute piss in competitive (other than Surf and Waterfall) So I'm deciding to buff them to give them a bit more use

Name - Cut
Existing Move? - Yah
Damage - 80
Accuracy - 100%
Category -

Type -

PP - 25 (40 max)
Special Effects - Deals super effective damage to Grass Types
Z-Move - Corkscrew Crash (160 BP)
Niche - A nice steel type move that has been given to a lot of pokemon in the past. This move gives them reliable Steel type coverage, and a way to hit grass types super effectively too.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Same as usual

Name - Fly
Existing Move? - Yah
Damage - 90
Accuracy - 100%
Category -

Type -

PP - 15 (24 max)
Special Effects - Gives this pokemon an immunity to ground until it switches out.
Z-Move - Supersonic Skystrike (175 BP)
Niche - Fly has almost always been a useless move due to it having to charge for a turn, and having a shit BP for it's effect. I decided to edit that, so that it acts as if the pokemon is flying, giving it an immunity to Ground. This doesn't affect many mons that learn the move, however, it no longer has to charge a turn, meaning it is now a reliable Flying type move.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Same as usual

Name - Strength
Existing Move? - Yah
Damage - 80
Accuracy - 100%
Category -

Type -

PP - 15 (24 max)
Special Effects - Breaks Protection.
Z-Move - All Out Pummelling (160 BP)
Niche - Strength is a very outclassed move, because it is basically an Extreme Speed with no priority. In Sylvemons, this is not the case. Giving many pokemon an 80 BP Fighting type move as coverage, and a way for many mons to break through Protect. This will give a much needed nerf to Kings Shield, Baneful Bunker, Spiky Shield and Protect.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Same as usual

Name - Rock Smash
Existing Move? - Yah
Damage - 60 BP
Accuracy - 100%
Category -

Type -

PP - 15 (24 max)
Special Effects - Lowers foes defence by 1 stage.
Z-Move - All Out Pummelling (120 BP)
Niche - There is no point in using rock smash in competitive. Power Up Punch always beats it, and it has the same BP. Any other fighting move also beats it. I decided to give it 60 BP instead of 40 so that it would deal more damage than PuP. Lowering opponents defence is worse than raising your attack, so that's another reason for the higher BP.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Same as usual

Name - Rock Climb
Existing Move? - Yah
Damage - 100
Accuracy - 100%
Category -

Type -

PP - 15 (24 max)
Special Effects - Bypasses the resist from Rock types (Makes it neutral against rock)
Z-Move - Breakneck Blitz (180 BP)
Niche - Rock Climb is bad. full stop. With this version, it get's a decently large buff. It now isn't resisted by rock, which consists of over half of the mons that resisted normal.
Potential Pokemon With This Move - Same as usual
 
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