Ironbound

I say good morning, and see you in a few hours. Micky?

I'm not nice enough to refrain from some ironic amusement. Funnily enough, my accounts course starts today and the second year of my college starts in five days.

Hello and welcome to Reborn, Kveykva. I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay here.

Why, thanks! And yes, Hallellioweenie, thing is supposed to look more smugly self-satisfied than Serperior. Please, Meteor Mash it to the face, I can't stand that "Oh dear me, what has the Purugly dragged in today?" expression. And don't blame me for what the deviants think of goodra. It's slime, yes, the tentacles do retract and protract, yes, and they do glisten because they're slimy, yes. It's a friggin pile of goo, whatd'you expect? And oh yes, dimensions for Mega Togekiss; it's about 5'11" (a foot taller than its base form) and it more than doubles in weight, hitting 88 kg, from its previous 38. (Coincidentally, that height and weight is the same as mine!) And thanks, Caz. And yea, I figured that there are so many Megas with boring old Magic Bounce, but not a single one with Magic Guard. What better to have it that a guardian angel? Only, I went overboard and made it an angel of death...

Uuugh. Why did I do this. What possible reason could I have had. It's not even a question. Mega Togekiss... Si vis pacem...para mortem. All right, it's an angel. I was sick of its official design as an egg-plane, so this one is more avian and...well, at least it has a more defined shape, than that oblong thing with swirly wings that called itself a Pokemon. So, I drew some inspiration from seraphim and things like that, with a lot of wings and no legs. Well, this thing has a large pair of angelic-shaped wings with a second pair adjacent to its tail, and two small hands/feet/what-have-you at its breast. I kept the red and blue specks an it's body, but once again they're more definite now. It still keeps the flattish face, but its weird pointy things are more definite ears/horns/etc now, and it still has the trademark red and blue alteration. Getting down to competitive, I tell you, if you thought Clefable (which has no base stat that exceeds 100) was ugly, then this thing is satanic. Because yep, it has Magic Guard. Magic Guard! Immunity to status and weather! Immunity to Stealth Rock! And God, it's fat. Togekiss itself is a well rounded Fairy type with a meaty special attack, above average defenses and decent speed. So Mega Togekiss just improves in degree not in kind: Base form stats: 85/50/95/120/115/80 (ugh) Mega stats: 85/65/115/140/140/100 (...help me.) The stat boosts are individually modest and spread across every stat (save HP, of course), but when combined make it a worse demon than fat Mega Latias, with a much better typing and coverage that Latias would kill for. Because, courtesy it's prior existence as a Normal type, it has fantastic elemental coverage: Fire Blast, Aura Sphere (Steel types perish), Air Slash, Ancient Power, Grass Knot, Dazzling Gleam, Tri Attack, Psyshock (bye-bye Poisons), oh, the list goes on! And it has excellent moves like Nasty Plot (oh God why, this thing is EVIL!), Roost (which negates its Rock, Electric and Ice weaknesses), Defog, Baton Pass (EVIL, I tell you!), Encore, Thunder Wave, Tailwind, Toxic, Wish! And because I'm feeling particularly evil today, I'm doing it a service and granting it Moonblast, because why the hell not. Its base form can abuse the SpAtk Drops from Serene Grace too. The stat increases are nightmarish. 85/115/140 bulk is monstrous, especiallywith an excellent typing that resist Pursuit, made worse by a large base 140 SpAtk (and that's not even accounting for Nasty Plot!) and base 100 Speed, which is great for a fat Pokemon. Why, this thing puts even Mega Gardevoir to shame! Fear it, for it is indeed the worst nightmare. Not to say it can't be stopped, though. It can't boost its speed in any reliable way (but Tailwind, ugh...), and it is checked or revenged by certain Pokémon depending on its spread. Offensive spreads are stoppable or revengeable by things like Gengar, Mega Metagross, offensive Mega Scizor, and also by things that can take a non-boosted hit and strike back very hard, like Dragalge or Mega Goodra (hi.) Defensive spreads that do not carry Flamethrower or Aura Sphere are again stopped by Fat Mega Scizor, Ferrothorn, Jirachi (another evil thing) and many steel types, as well as Poison types like Mega Goodra (hi) for example, as also other fat fairies, SpDef Heatran and Talonflame, and so on. Depending on its moves, it will always have trouble with some mons. But I'll eat my audit reports if this thing is allowed in OU for any length of time. Set up is too easy, spreading status is too easy, its coverage is too wide, and it is simply too fat. Ubers, better prepare yourself.

Welcome to Reborn, I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay! Be sure to peep into the Creative Works subforum if you are interested in Art!

Analytic. It's me, it's what I do as an accountant and an econometrist, and above all, it's Magnezone.

Googly eyes are not a necessary indicator of vision. Look at parasect. Spine?

6.66/10 best one I've seen yet. The drool is mildly off-putting.

Well, what'dyou know, so it does! Amazing!

Only unbound has a tail. Not regular Hoopa.

I have only one q. If you wanted the PBJ Mega, why isn't it there in the poll? Great job, btw. I might not be able to play Desolation until idk November, but it doesn't stop me appreciating it.

You're all hilarious. BMIC?

:] But yes, Torterra all the way. Better stats, better typing, better power, better movepool, better utility, better everything.

Happy birthday, Bazaro! Wishing you a great year ahead!

Eh. Coming back to the topic, Gen6 showed me that Bisharp's arm-blades are retractable. That makes a lot more sense, actually, but BW always showed Bisharp's blades fully protracted and ready to slash.

GODDAMIT HOW MANY PEOPLE HERE DON'T REALISE THAT MAGNEZONE HAS THREE EYES!? IT'S NOT A NOSE! It even swivels around and glows like an eyeball! Has no one looks properly at Magnezone's sprites in BW or in the Anime or when Magnezone uses an attack its eyes all rove? Dammit! This is outrageous! I shall have to have a second Magnezone celebration day to educate the lot of you on its physiology!

"The Sun has entire planets in his care, who depend on him and follow him, and yet he knows how to ripen a bunch of grapes as if he had nothing else to do in the universe." - Galileo Galilei By definition, a God is omnipotent and omnipresent, whatever be the concept that we mortals can hope to conceive of it. By definition, a God does things beyond mortal comprehension or capacity. God is here and everywhere, in the past and the future, and permeates everything, be it ever so trivial as an individual ant's needs. My conception of God as divine Shakti, that is, Energy, substantiates this. The same energy which drives a nebula also fuels a microbe as it slimes its way across a petri dish. And it can do both things simultaneously, just as it does everywhere and everywhen. Now would also be a good time to draw the distinction between religion and spirituality: between dogma and philosophy, between Heaven and Earth. And, Halloween, if I could say how old my soul was in that context, I should already be enlightened! And I am a far cry from that, when even the Buddha had to be born in and die as several bodhisattvas before being Buddha.

Ha, a unique pleasure, as always, 'weenie'. If you prefer, I can always start calling you Ellie or Halloween or ThatGuy#243 or what have you; just say so. And yes, you're right in that the thing needs a little more specular, like the slime on his 'ear' (it's actually an antenna/tentacle) but there's only so much you can do after the whole thing is done, you know? I would definitely do it were it digital art where you can edit the stroke that has fallen forth, but alas this is not so. And as for the 'spears' on his back, I did mention that they're tentacles as well, and are retractable like real sea slug extensions and anemone tentacles, which I already stated they're based off. So while I agree that having a rigid thing sticking out of a pile of goo would look nice, that's not biologically accurate, unfortunately. Considering that these tentacles are what afflict the poison, it makes all the more sense that they should be drippy too. Thanks for the high praise, by the way. It really does mean much to me. And I agree, Goodra should've been Poison or at least Water type to begin with. And you can, of course, always interpret the slime in his belly to have hardened into a stiff, crusty dried-candlewax-ish form, to substantiate their lack of specular. That'd do well to explain its increased defense. You can explain away the specular on its head-antennae and back-tentackes by stating that they've been freshly protracted from its inner body, and are so still glistening with slime that has yet to harden after substantial contact with dry air. And yes, its tail is bloody massive; it stores all its venom and fat reserves in there to help tide it through the dry season! An explanation for everything! (Apology for the stupid cutesy side face, I had to do that to satisfy a certain vested interest , you know I dislike doing such things anyhow.) And yes, I should include sizes in the Mega descriptions. My bad. Mega Yanmega is huuuge, about 1.7 times its base form's length and nearly twice the wingspan, but it is actually lighter than base form Yanmega, owing to its greater structural aerodynamism and weight reduction for greater flight. Mega PBJ is twice as tall as regular Goodra and three times heavier at the very least. And yeah, henceforth I'll add the base statistics as well, or give an indication, for those who haven't memorized the Smogon charts.

That's adorable. Weenie? I'm still waiting for your thoughts on the peanut butter and jelly dragon.

My respects. Honouring a hero in memory is to ensure they never die.

Ooh. Pretty. Now show me Flash Cannon! Seriously, though, great work. Moonblast looks detailed and yet simple in a good way. Ice Beam looks like mini Sableye gems fired à la Bullet Seed, but it's still...-cool-

Meganium is not so much a Grass mon as an ASS mon. I'm inclined to think kindlier of toitles since he swept a mono dragon team with RP and EQ.