Fresh Takes: On Holiday Break

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Submissions Slate 6: Badmons Rise Up! 11/27 - 12/5
You don't need me to tell you that these Pokemon aren't relevant in competitive play, unless you mistook Phione for Manaphy on the right there. While there are plenty of interesting tricks and benefits among them, other members of their typing and niches are clearly better choices for a team. As the Christmas season draws near, let's change that up with a bit of Fresh Takes magic, shall we? This means no standard "finally give it Tail Glow" transformations from bad to good here; let's see you all rack your brains a bit!
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Take 1: Flawless...NOT!
Stats: Three stats must be below 75. Speed capped at 110.
Type Restriction: The Pokemon must have a 4x weakness (and the ability can't reduce or nullify it).
Ability Ceiling: 4.5 Has a rating of 4.5 or lower in my ability ranking on the first page.

New Moves: One damaging move, within reason, of a type the Pokemon already learns a damaging move of.

Takes 2: Straight to the Punch!
Stats: Attack at least 95. Speed capped at 120, Special Attack capped at 85.
Type Restriction: Must keep its primary (or only) type.
Ability Ceiling: 3.5
New Moves: Two physical moves.

Takes 3: Inheritor!
Stats: The order of stats from highest to lowest must persist. If there is a tie, either can be higher. For Phione, all stats must be within 20 of each other.
Type Restriction: See the "New Moves" section.
Ability Ceiling: 4
New Moves:
Mothim: Any two moves Volcarona learns. It can not be Fire-type but has no other type restriction.
Swalot: Any two moves Alolan Muk learns. It can not be Dark-type but has no other type restriction.
Phione: Any two moves Tapu Fini learns. It can not by Fairy-type but has no other type restriction.
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Some repeated advice, some of which is in the introductory post:
  • Follow your take's guidelines, but remember; they're purposefully broad to give your creativity room. Go enjoy it! Just do a double-check after you're done to ensure you follow the four restrictions and everything is ship-shape.
  • You can make one submission for each Pokemon. Voting is on Pokemon, not takes. You are making Pokemon via takes, not takes via Pokemon.
  • You don't need to reserve one take for every Pokemon. Anything from one take for each to all three Pokemon using one take is A-OK.
Feel free to ask any questions you need, and enjoy giving out some holiday gifts a most interesting sort!
 
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Pokemon: Mothim
Take: 2
Type: Bug/Fire
Ability: Swarm / Tinted Lens
Stats: 80/110/70/80/70/120 (530 BST)
New Moves: Fire Lash, Zing Zap
Competitive Niche: Mothim is a powerful wallbreaker that abuses Tinted Lens and STABs that have no resistances. It is very fast and can therefore act as a good revenge killer as well. It suffers from a severe lack of movepool and moves with high BP, though.
Sample Sets:
Mothim (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Tinted Lens
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Fire Lash
- Lunge / U-Turn
- Zing Zap
- U-turn / Defog


Pokemon: Swalot
Take: 1
Type: Poison/Electric
Ability: Liquid Ooze / Sticky Hold / Fur Coat
Stats: 110/70/60/110/90/70 (510 BST)
New Moves: Rapid Spin, Discharge
Competitive Niche: Swalot is a fat mixed tank that can take repeated hits thanks to Fur Coat. It can control hazards and spread status, but lacks reliable recovery and is 4x weak to the common Earthquake.
Sample Sets:
Swalot @ Black Sludge
Ability: Fur Coat
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Discharge
- Rapid Spin / Ice Beam
- Pain Split / Rest / Ice Beam


Pokemon: Phione
Take: 3
Type: Water/Ghost
Ability: Hydration / Poison Heal
Stats: 80/90/100/90/100/90 (550 BST)
New Moves: Calm Mind, Shadow Ball
Competitive Niche: Phione is a powerful stallbreaker that absorbs status and is immune to Seismic Toss, making Chansey useless against it. It is weak while unboosted, though, so powerful physical moves can break through it.
Sample Sets:
Stallbreaker (Phione) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Shadow Ball
- Calm Mind
- Protect

Defensive (Phione) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Scald
- Knock Off / Shadow Ball
- Toxic
- U-turn
 
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Pokemon: Mothim
Take: 1
Type:

Ability: Tinted Lens / Sheer Force (HA)
Stats: 70 / 115 / 70 / 115 / 70 / 105 | BST: 545 (+21 Atk, +20 Def, +21 SpA, +20 SpD, +39 Spe)
New Moves: Earth Power (already learns Mud Slap)
Competitive Niche: Quiver Dance plus great neutral coverage in Sheer Force-boosted STABs Air Slash and Earth Power make Mothim a kind of budget Landorus-Incarnate.
Mothim @ Life Orb
Ability: Sheer Force
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Quiver Dance
- Air Slash
- Earth Power
- Defog / U-turn / Roost



Pokemon: Swalot
Take: 3
Type:

Ability: Liquid Ooze / Unaware (HA)
Stats: 120 / 73 / 103 / 110 / 103 / 55 | BST: 564 (+20 HP, +20 Def, +37 SpA, +20 SpD)
New Moves: Flamethrower, Haze
Competitive Niche: Bulky attacker with STABs Sludge Bomb and Flamethrower, its high bulk and Unaware allow it to switch into set up attackers and Haze their boosts away.
Swalot @ Black Sludge
Ability: Unaware
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Flamethrower
- Haze
- Pain Split



Pokemon: Phione
Take: 2
Type:

Ability: Sap Sipper / Swift Swim (HA)
Stats: 80 / 125 / 90 / 80 / 90 / 100 | BST: 565 (+45 Atk, +10 Def, +10 SpD, +20 Spe)
New Moves: Brave Bird, Zing Zap
Competitive Niche: Physical rain sweeper with Swift Swim, or it can also help rain teams with Sap Sipper allowing it to switch into Grass attacks aimed at teammates like Mega Swampert.
Phione @ Choice Band
Ability: Sap Sipper / Swift Swim
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant / Jolly Nature
- Liquidation
- Brave Bird
- Zing Zap
- U-turn
 

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Pokemon: Mothim
Take: 2
Type: Bug/Fire
Ability: Swarm / Tinted Lens
Stats: 80/110/70/80/70/120 (530 BST)
New Moves: Fire Lash, Zing Zap
Competitive Niche: Mothim is a powerful wallbreaker that abuses Tinted Lens and STABs that have no resistances. It is very fast and can therefore act as a good revenge killer as well. It suffers from a severe lack of movepool and moves with high BP, though.
Sample Sets:
Mothim (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Tinted Lens
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Fire Lash
- Lunge / U-Turn
- Zing Zap
- U-turn / Defog


Pokemon: Swalot
Take: 1
Type: Poison/Electric
Ability: Liquid Ooze / Sticky Hold / Fur Coat
Stats: 110/70/60/110/90/70 (510 BST)
New Moves: Spikes, Discharge
Competitive Niche: Swalot is a fat mixed tank that can take repeated hits thanks to Fur Coat. It can stack spikes and spread status, but lacks reliable recovery and is 4x weak to the common Earthquake.
Sample Sets:
Swalot @ Black Sludge
Ability: Fur Coat
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Discharge
- Spikes / Ice Beam
- Pain Split / Rest / Ice Beam


Pokemon: Phione
Take: 3
Type: Water/Ghost
Ability: Hydration / Poison Heal
Stats: 80/90/100/90/100/90 (550 BST)
New Moves: Calm Mind, Shadow Ball
Competitive Niche: Phione is a powerful stallbreaker that absorbs status and is immune to Seismic Toss, making Chansey useless against it. It is weak while unboosted, though, so powerful physical moves can break through it.
Sample Sets:
Stallbreaker (Phione) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Shadow Ball
- Calm Mind
- Protect

Defensive (Phione) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Scald
- Knock Off / Shadow Ball
- Toxic
- U-turn
Take 1 only allows the one damaging move, so no Spikes for Swalot unfort.
 
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Pokemon: Mothim
Take: 1
Type: Bug / Flying
Ability: Simple
Stats: 75/40/75/110/120/110 (510 BST)
New Moves: Volt Switch
Competitive Niche: Hands down the best Quiver Dancer in the tier. It’s frail physically, but it’s Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed are all boosted to fantastic levels after a single boost.

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Pokemon: Phione
Take: 2
Type: Water / Poison
Ability: Corrosion, Levitate, Moist
Moist: Fluffy Clone. makes the user weak to Rock instead of weak to Fire
Stats: 85/130/85/85/85/85 (555 BST)
New Moves: Liquidation, Poison Jab
Competitive Niche: Phione is now a strong wallbreaker with a good defensive typing. With Moist it becomes passably bulky, while Corrosion lets Phione function as an important part of Stall (Salazzle manages, and look at how frail she is)

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Pokemon: Swalot
Take: 3
Type: Poison / Ground
Ability: Multiscale, Merciless, Intimidate
Stats: 140/85/105/85/105/40
New Moves: Taunt, Disable
Competitive Niche: Swalot is incredibly fat, and lacks any x4 weaknesses to exploit. Poison is a good defensive typing, and with access to both Multiscale and Intimidate, Swalot is nearly impossible to break in a reasonable amount of time.
 
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Pokemon: Mothim
Take: 1
Type: Bug / Flying
Ability: Exoskeleton (Disguise Clone)
Stats: 70/40/65/100/100/110 (485 BST)
New Moves: Volt Switch
Competitive Niche: Hands down the best Quiver Dancer in the tier. It’s frail physically, but it’s Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed are all boosted to fantastic levels after a single boost.

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Pokemon: Phione
Take: 2
Type: Water / Poison
Ability: Corrosion, Levitate, Moist
Moist: Fluffy Clone. makes the user weak to Rock instead of weak to Fire
Stats: 85/130/85/85/85/85 (555 BST)
New Moves: Liquidation, Poison Jab
Competitive Niche: Phione is now a strong wallbreaker with a good defensive typing. With Moist it becomes passably bulky, while Corrosion lets Phione function as an important part of Stall (Salazzle manages, and look at how frail she is)

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Pokemon: Swalot
Take: 3
Type: Poison / Ground
Ability: Multiscale, Merciless, Intimidate
Stats: 140/85/105/85/105/40
New Moves: Taunt, Disable
Competitive Niche: Swalot is incredibly fat, and lacks any x4 weaknesses to exploit. Poison is a good defensive typing, and with access to both Multiscale and Intimidate, Swalot is nearly impossible to break in a reasonable amount of time.
Disguise is too highly rated (and also generally banned), sorry.
 

Pokemon: Mothim
Take: 1
Type:

Ability: Fluffy
Stats: 70 / 70 / 115 / 125 / 115 / 70 | BST: 565
New Moves: Thunderbolt
Competitive Niche: A Quiver Dance user that has very solid bulk after one boost, as well as a great STAB combo that frees it up to run Roost or a certain Hidden Power. Fluffy allows it to take bupkis from many physical attacks ( and makes it 4x weak to Fire Tiksi plz ), so it can find plenty of setup opportunities. It will need teams to be somewhat weakened before it can sweep, though, since it will either need more than one boost or a lot of chip damage to clean everything. Pokemon with Fire moves, Stone Edge, Toxic, or Z-moves will do a good job checking it.


Pokemon: Swalot
Take: 3
Type:

Ability: Cursed Body / Sticky Hold | Cheek Pouch (HA)
Stats: 110 / 102 / 107 / 102 / 107 / 27 | BST: 555
New Moves: Flamethrower, Recycle
Competitive Niche: A mixed wall with very nice coverage options in Earthquake, Ice Beam, and Flamethrower. It has great bulk to use with an essentially loaned recovery in Sitrus Berry + Cheek Pouch. This in combination with its coverage means it can check and counter specific threats for your team depending on what moves it runs.


Pokemon: Phione
Take: 1
Type:

Ability: Dry Skin / Hydration | Regenerator (HA)
Stats: 70 / 65 / 55 / 135 / 130 / 115 | BST: 570
New Moves: Moonblast
Competitive Niche: Ice / Fairy is a mixed bag of a type, but on a fast pokemon, Ice STAB can actually be a great asset. Regenerator allows it to come in repeatedly even if Stealth Rock is up, mitigating one of the issues with its fellow fast Ice type, Weavile. It would most likely be seen with an Assault Vest or a Choice item, running its STABs alongside Surf, HP Fire, or U-turn.
 
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Pokemon: Mothim
Take: 1
Type:

Ability: Fluffy
Stats: 70 / 70 / 115 / 125 / 115 / 70 | BST: 565
New Moves: Thunderbolt
Competitive Niche: A Quiver Dance user that has very solid bulk after one boost, as well as a great STAB combo that frees it up to run Roost or a certain Hidden Power. Fluffy allows it to take bupkis from many physical attacks ( and makes it 4x weak to Fire Tiksi plz ), so it can find plenty of setup opportunities. It will need teams to be somewhat weakened before it can sweep, though, since it will either need more than one boost or a lot of chip damage to clean everything. Pokemon with Fire moves, Stone Edge, Toxic, or Z-moves will do a good job checking it.
Take 1 requires it to have a 4x weakness.
 

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Because Fluffy minus the Fire weakness is Fur Coat, and Fur Coat is allowed for that take anyway, you aren't getting a unfair advantage (technically "oh ghost has advantages steel doesn't", but not too big a deal). I'll allow it.
 

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Pokemon: Mothim
Take: 3
Type:

Ability: Galvanize / Tinted Lens
Stats: 90 (+20) / 134 (+40) / 60 (+10) / 104 (+10) / 60 (+10) / 111 (+45) (BST: 559)
New Moves: Wild Charge, Flare Blitz (inherited)
Competitive Niche: Mothim is an Electric-type attacker with many gifts most Electric-types would only dream of. While other Electrics like Tapu Koko only use U-Turn so that Ground-types don't stop the pivot, Mothim's STAB U-Turn strikes fear into Grass-types like Tangrowth off of its primary 134 Attack. For the Grass-types unbothered by Electric or Mothim's Bug-STAB, our little light-bug's Flare Blitz shreds resistance like Ferrothorn. Galvanize gives drawback-free physical Electric might (a rarity) with Return, or Facade or Secret Power if you're feeling spicy. If that doesn't strike your fancy, though, you can still use Wild Charge and take Tinted Lens to pummel even predicted switches. While 90 HP is decent, 60/60 bulk is immensely frail, but Mothim's typing does thankfully handle priority like Bullet Punch and Mach Punch well. It doesn't handle Stealth Rock as well, though...
Sample Sets:
Mothim @ Choice Band / Zap Plate / Life Orb / etc.?
Ability: Galvanize
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly / Adamant Nature
- Return
- Flare Blitz
- Facade / Lunge / Secret Power / etc.?
- U-Turn

Facade lets you take advantage of burn (or poison etc., you're immune to paralysis though!), Lunge annoys physical switch-ins and is the best way to beat Tapu Bulu, and Secret Power has a 30% chance to paralyze switch-ins that aren't Ground or Electric type.

Mothim @ Choice Band
Ability: Tinted Lens
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wild Charge
- Flare Blitz
- Lunge
- U-Turn



Pokemon: Swalot
Take: 2
Type:

Ability: Levitate
Stats: 115 (+15) / 108 (+35) / 93 (+10) / 73 (+0) / 88 (+5) / 90 (+35) (BST: 567)
New Moves: Poison Fang, U-Turn
Deserved Explanation: It's faster and can float because it is partially made from buoyant and drag-less ectoplasm!
Competitive Niche: Swalot has a pretty broad set of boons. Poison and Ghost typing make it immune to Toxic as well as Fighting and Normal moves, and Levitate leaves it immune to hazards besides Stealth Rock (which it is not weak to). Levitate also makes it immune to Ground, leaving only three mostly relatively uncommon weaknesses (Dark, Ghost, and Psychic). Its finally decent Speed tier lets it reasonably use moves like Encore and Destiny Bond, and a strangely broad attack movepool opens up its item choices and whether it focuses on offense, defense, breaking stall, etc. It can be a bit helpless against many Steels and hates Toxic, though, even if EQ helps some against the former. Not having reliable recovery usually means it wants to make a quick impact against offense, which it has the tools to do...
Sample Sets:
Utility
Swalot @ Black Sludge
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Toxic / Poison Fang
- Substitute / Destiny Bond
- Encore
- Yawn / Bulldoze

Destiny Bond and Bulldoze go together. You are immune to Toxic so Substitute isn't Life or Death, but it helps vs Leech Seed and things like Soak Pyukumuku.

The Slow Death
Swalot @ Black Sludge
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Toxic / Poison Gas / Poison Fang
- Defense Curl
- Block
- Rest

Helpless against Steel-types? HA! This set lures and destroys many common Steel-types like magic and even sets you up for a possible sweep. Defense Curl's gargantuan 64 PP lets you outstall Steel-types like Celesteela, Ferrothorn, and more as well as other stallers like Toxapex and Chansey. Block prevents them from switching once they are your foe, ensuring their demise. Rest recovers chip, annoying paralysis, and HP lost from moves like Leech Seed. Poison Gas over Toxic gives you another 64 PP, letting you stall multiple foes to their doom or even allow a physically defensive set with Amnesia over Defense Curl while keeping hilarious PP levels. Poison Fang says screw you to Taunt. Spamming Defense Curl (or Amnesia) on Blocked helpless Pokemon lets you keep the shenanigans alive against powerful foes like Tyranitar (or Mega Alakazam), assuming you don't get critted at a bad time!

Assault Vest
Swalot @ Assault Vest
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Poison Fang
- Earthquake
- Ice Beam / Shadow Ball
- U-Turn

How do you like these apples, Heatran? Also... has all the Toxic (or half of it, anyway), none of the Taunt vulnerability!
 
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Voting Slate is now up! Voting ends on Friday the 14th.

Mothim: (FirstPlaceUsername, SecondPlaceUsername, ThirdPlaceUsername)
Swalot:
Phione:


You can vote for your own submission, just not as first place.
 

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Mothim: Anaconja, Origin0, Tiksi
Swalot: Origin0, Tiksi, Scoopapa
Phione: Anaconja, Scoopapa, Author_Pendragon
 
Mothim: Anaconja, Tiksi, Origin0
Swalot: Author_Pendragon, Origin0, Anaconja
Phione: Scoopapa, Anaconja, Author_Pendragon
 

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Congrats to Anaconja’s Mothim, Author_Pendragon’s Swalot, and Scoopapa’s Phione as the winners of Slate 6!

Fresh Takes will be on holiday break for the next slot as I am, which means I may not be able to reliably start/end slates and such. Expect us to come back sometime bewteen Christmas and a bit after the New Year; if you don’t want to miss anything, watch the thread and you’ll be notified of any new posts! Until then, it’s been swell!

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