Completed Event Create-a-Pokémon Form

[Panda280]

Mine
Name: Mega Swalot
Name: Poison Bag Pokemon
Typing: Poison

Evolution Family: Swalot

Spoiler:

Pokedex Entry: The mega energy further strengthens its digestive acid, but also increases its hunger. It constantly tries to swallow everything with its wide open mouth.

Its acid can even melt metal. The diamond shape of its body solidified to stop the acid from getting out. The feather on its head and its 2 whiskers act as sensors.

New Base Stat Total:
HP 100
A 73
D 128 [+45]
SA 93 [+20]
SD 103 [+20]
S 70 [+15]
Total: 567 [+100]

+Def/+SpDef = Diamond, +Spa = Stronger Acid, +Sp = Whisker and Feather sensors make mega swalot more dodgy (More like increased evasion)

The stats make the pokemon somewhat viable. I would use other mega pokemon over this. However, the ability is cool.

*was going to make it rock type,but swalot has no rock move. Also, it adds more weakness.

New Ability: Strong Acid - Poison type hit steel pokemon

I really like VisionofMilotic - Mega Pyroar and Strix - Mega Druddigon. Btw, are Pyroar wings on fire?

 

[Lavender]

I submitted my paradox pokemon and i'm Insanely proud of how it turned out!

 

[5qwerty]

this contest is rigged

you'll all be hearing from me and my iron dankulis soon

 

[VisionofMilotic]

This was the text of the entry I wrote.

Spoiler:

Name: Mega Pyroar

Species name: Royal Pokemon

Typing: Fire/flying

Evolution Family: Litleo

Pokemon Infinity X entry: Flying pyroar were first sighted 10,000 years ago, after the ultimate weapon detonated. Legends say it grew otherworldly wings to envelop it's pride, and shield them from the debris.

Pokemon Ultimate Y entry: The Imperious Pyroar may block routes near it's territory from travelers, unless they prove themselves worthy by answering it's riddles.

New Base Stat Total: 607

Hp: 86
Attack: 110
Defense: 72
Special Attack: 140
Special Defense: 80
Speed: 119

Ability: Riddler- A pokemon with this ability triggers confusion status in opposing pokemon when it enters the field.

Btw, are Pyroar wings on fire?

And YES, mega Pyroar's wings sure are on fire!

I also want to say Congratulations to Team Gears for their 1st 2nd place scores. It was really exciting to finally see all the different Mega evolution concepts from everyone. It was fun hearing about new abilities like strong acid. If I had to pick one on my team then I think I might choose Mega Druddigon, tough call though!

 

[Eleanor]

Well, here's the rest of my submission!

Spoiler:

Mega Parasect

Species Name: Mushroom Pokémon
Typing: Grass

Pokedex Entry:
- Only the mushroom is receptive to the power of Mega Evolution. Having outgrown the bug host, it now needs to learn how to fight on its own.

- What used to be synapses between the mushroom and the bug are now exposed mycelium filaments. Mega Parasect still attempts to execute Bug-type attacks with them, but will often fail.

New Base Stat Total:
HP 60 → 60
Atk 95 → 95 (+0)
Def 80 → 105 (+25)
Sp. Atk 60 → 95 (+35)
Sp. Def 80 → 140 (+60)
Spd 30 → 10 (-20)
TOTAL: 405 → 505

New Ability: Water Bubble

Thoughts?
Well, this year I'm including something. Parasect felt like a very obvious target for a Mega Evolution and it was very easy to think of a concept; this is meant to be the very last stage in the life cycle of the parasitic fungi (Cordiceps sinensis) that Parasect is based on, when the bug host is officially killed and the mushroom starts growing upwards in order to spread its spores as much as possible. This idea works even better as a Mega Evolution when you remember what (allegedly) happens to Glalie, whose jaw apparently gets dislocated because of all the excess energy. Why not make it even more extreme with Parasect's mushroom then?

Thing is, I realized very soon into this creative process that... Parasect absolutely sucks across the board. Stats, abilities and typing are all bad, but even moves are absolutely terrible, and that's something that Mega Evolution really can't fix. Even with what I've tried to do here, the resulting Mega Parasect probably wouldn't fare much different than many other base form Grass-types like Amoonguss, Breloom, or Tangrowth. But I did try to play into the one small niche Parasect seemed to have, which is to support its team under rain or under Trick Room with Spore and an immunity to Water-type moves (thanks to Dry Skin).

Truth be told, I took that away from it by changing its Mega ability, but with Water Bubble and the loss of the Bug-type, I made Parasect take just 1x damage from Fire-types, a slightly different niche that none of its competitors really have. This should help it at least a bit when paired with an increase in its defensive stats, especially on the Special side. The loss in Speed was necessary to make these buffs happen, but it results in an even bigger advantage under Trick Room.

A very fast Spore under Trick Room would still be very powerful, which is why I did not boost Parasect's attacking stats that much. I want it to stay mostly a supportive Pokémon or, at the very least, an attacker that needs some set-up. I think this should make things more fair and differentiate it from Breloom a bit more. The Special Attack boost, at least with the current moveset, is absolutely mandatory so that Parasect can make some decent use of its Grass-type moves.

All of these changes were thought out as just ways to improve its viability, but they tie into its concept too. Water Bubble as an ability not only reflects Parasect's love for damp, humid places, but also the very important role of mycelium within Fungi as nutrient and water transporter. It also would make sense to have what were previously inner organs of the Pokémon be surrounded by water when suddenly exposed, and I'm mostly talking about the nervous system terminations that connected the fungus to the bug.

The typing is meant to alleviate Parasect's problem with 4x weaknesses but also works if we consider that Parasect has now outgrown the bug and can't really fight the way it used to do. It may try to use Bug-type attacks, obviously - it's the mushroom that controlled the bug to begin with - but it only makes sense it would lose STAB on them, as it is no longer using the bug's body to execute those attacks. I was on the edge about adding more types like Ghost or Water, but I decided not to in the end. Parasect has no moves of these types, other Pokémon already have this typing, and even in terms of lore, there doesn't seem to be enough reason to add these types in. I really wish Parasect would get more moves to go with a potential Mega Evolution like this one though, right now it feels like it has too little of anything to be useful in any particular niche.

Well, Parasect... I tried :')

 

[Eleanor]

Double post but I've sent in my paradox Pokémon :catlove:

 

[VisionofMilotic]

I just sent mine. I am happy with this Pokémon's dex entry/lore and design, but had trouble devising competitively viable stats for it, while still trying to distinguish it from the roles other Paradox pokemon play. I wonder if I should have arranged the stats differently.

But at least this little guy makes me happy and triggers me to laugh, it's so off the wall.

 

[SteCisGreendog]

Also sent mine in hours ago. Art's a little rusty but here's hoping the ideas are conveyed nicely.

 

[Lavender]

When will the results be released?

 

[gimmepie]

When will the results be released?

As soon as possible! All three of us have a lot of other GT and offline stuff going on, but we're doing our best.

 

[gimmepie]

Create-a-Pokémon Contest​

Round 2 - Results

The last set of judging is done and the Paradox Pokemon did not disappoint. Everyone did amazing work. As before, we've got everyone separated out with our individual scores and critiques and then further below the final tally.

Lavender - Iron Spider

Spoiler:

Kitty - 40 | 25 | 20
You definitely should be proud of your attempt!! Paradox Pokemon do have the feel of being extremely similar to their normal counterparts but techy (in terms of the future side), so I get the vibes you were going for this. If you're looking to do a small change to your design, however, I'd say do a version that's just gray with red eyes for it to really give the surveillance vibe from the text!

gimmepie - 40 | 28 | 28
I think this was a really good concept. I love that you simultaneously alluded to the sneaky side of spiders as well as their tendency to just hang around watching you. You arguably could have been more creative with the type combination, but I actually think sticking with Bug and adding Steel is fitting for the combination you went with. I also like that you kept the standard Paradox ability honestly. It makes it feel more legitimate. Stat-wise, this guy would be getting banned straight to Ubers on Showdown, but it would hardly be the first Paradox to do that.

Arcaneum - 35 | 20 | 25
Like most of these entries, I really love the choice of Pokémon here firstly. Taking the aspects of a spider surveilling everything and turning that into a machine which does it was really clever!

I think the design could have perhaps had some more features of the security/surveillance that it does, as opposed to Ariados if bit by a Terminator.

VERY scary in terms of stats etc. but after all that's what Ariados deserves <3.

Fun concept overall!

Panda280 - Iron Drone

Spoiler:

Kitty - 40 | 20 | 20
Skiploom deserved the love ur right; The concept of it camouflaging works well enough but the cannon isn't giving the fairy type vibes from the lore you mentioned (though I believe you tried to put influences from USUM here? At least it gives some Cosmog-evo hints to me). It's a neat concept to work with though, giving a normally adorable Pokemon a dark turn!

gimmepie - 40 | 20 | 24
A rather sinister turn in the evolution of Skiploom. I think you have a good concept for a Paradox Pokemon here, and using Skiploom to execute it was honestly an excellent decision. The mechanical choices you made reflect its concept fairly well and are powerful without being too broken or anything either. That being said, I feel like the visual design doesn't necessarily communicate the concept as well as it could and I'm not really sure how accumulated Fairy energy would produce this.

Arcaneum - 40 | 22.5 | 20
Another surveillance Pokémon... interesting...

I firstly really enjoy taking something as cute and lovable as Skiploom and almost turning it into this evil assassin. Kinda feels a little like it's in a post-apocalyptic future and has evolved to adapt to that. The camouflage etc. aspect of it is really cool too... my only concern is the other part of the lore and whatnot. Nothing really in the design or text shows enough for me to see why this is in here.

Design as a whole though is really nice.

Eleanor - Iron Nucleus

Spoiler:

Kitty - 40 | 30 | 30
I love this actually jdfsk considering that you didn't know much on the Paradox Pokemon this is a super solid-- and good attempt! The design ties into the text concept well with energy transmission, the lore you put in and just the Paradox feeling overall!

gimmepie - 40 | 30 | 27
Klinklang turning into a Dyson sphere is a very fun concept. Your design felt like a natural progression for the Klink family and I like the colour scheme you went with - a red dwarf at the centre was a nice touch and I assume the screen bit would make for a method of expression and communication. That said, your lore does feel like it's lacking a consitent through-line and I'm not sure your statistical choices fit the concept. While I appreciate the attention to mechanics, I think you were a little too focused on gameplay over the concept itself.

Arcaneum - 40 | 30 | 27.5
KLINKLANG TURNED BIBLICAL ANGEL BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. This design is FANTASTIC. It almost feels like Klingklang got physically turned inside out and turned into this, like physically paradoxed into Iron Nucleus. Like this whole sci-fi space engine idea is great.

I also appreciate the effort, again, that you have put into its competitive viability. This time around however I think you've nailed it, as it ties in with the lore you've created and the design you've put together. Good work!

Apro - Fanged Beak

Spoiler:

Kitty - 40 | 20 | 15
It's an interesting design! However there isn't a lot we can take from the lore itself other than how it uses the beak-- the dark typing is new to me, but I would assume it's due to its predatory actions. I think adding a bit more to context would do wonders for it.

gimmepie - 35 | 23 | 15
Always nice to see some Fearow love, and I do like that it references the actual evolution of avians from therapod dinosaurs over time to tie it into the pre-historic aspect of Paradox Pokemon. That said, it feels a little too similar to the Archen line in a lot of ways. The Dark type also felt like an odd choice here, but I admittedly can't put my finger on why. I think you did do a good job of making your stats fit our concept though. Overall cool and, honestly, something I'd probably use. But it could have used a little more to diversify it from other similar Pokemon.

Arcaneum - 40 | 20 | 23
Our only non-Future Paradox entry!

I like that it feels like a very realistic predecessor of the Fearow we know and how you've handled that in its description. Especially as Fearow is known to have not changed too much from its forms in the past, so I feel this has really honed in on that aspect.

The addition of the Dark Type is an interesting one - I can see why it would have it based on what you told us, I think I am trying to bridge together why Fanged Beak is part Dark Type and what caused Fearow to lose it.

The design itself is nice, very typical prehistoric dinosaur/avian concept whilst still sticking close to the Fearow we know today.

Really smart choice and concept overall, I guess even though sticking close to Fearow it would've been nice to see perhaps something a little more 'out there'.

VisionofMilotic - Iron Voyager

Spoiler:

Kitty - 35 | 25 | 25
It gives me more Spaceboy vibes that it should it's adorable ahh- I also love the relation to the Pokedex entries to it with the moon and the space voyager feeling. I do feel like this could do with a bit more push towards the imaginary to give it that future mysterious Paradox Pokemon vibe (as Space Voyager)-- maybe it has discovered something that we don't know of-- maybe something not moonstones?, but it's a solid attempt!

gimmepie - 40 | 28 | 21
This might be the cutest Paradox mon. You definitely get points for originality too. This was a great way to make use of the Spoink line. I like that you made a point of trying to keep things balanced too. That being said, there does feel like there is little correlation between the concept and the stats and I would have liked a little more of that. More on your thought process for the concept in general, honestly. It's too fun not to hear more about it.

Arcaneum - 40 | 27.5 | 25
Boba Fett turned Paradox Pokémon? This is so cool!!!! I realy like that instead of choosing Grumpig, you have specifically chosen Spoink to fit in with your lore/concept more.

The design is super adorable and I simply have to see what adventures this space explorer piggy goes on. I really like that it's almost canonicised as this urban myth, a legendary space explorer.

Stat spread is very interesting, the competitive elements are there but it's not the standard Attack + Speed combo.

5qwerty - Iron Corps

Spoiler:

Kitty - 40 | 30 | 30
Wow this is... actually good I love your nods to the existing Paradox designs with the red things and the lore you put in that completely changes the Falinx from funny little creatures to this. Very good attention to detail too with their formations and strategic decision attriibution to AI having something to potentially do with it.

gimmepie - 40 | 30 | 30
After the Shrek meme last week I thought I was prepared for anything. Yet, I was still surprised. I think this is a fantastic reimagining of Falinks. You clearly paid a lot of attention to the typical visual designs of the Paradox mon, but also created really in-depth lore for Iron Corps that relates back to the evolution of warfare in real life. The little nod to the somewhat notorious Pokemon AI was amusing as well. Your stats feel well-balanced while still being relevant to the lore and cocnept you created and I would definitely use this if I could.

Arcaneum - 40 | 25 | 28
Now this is a really, really well made entry. I am glad that Shrek has not arrived once more.

It sticks to the military/squadron theming of Phalinks, whlist clearly having the futuristic element to it. REALLY enjoy the detail in the lore that specifies exactly how it works as a tactical unit.

I also enjoy the complete shift in Types used. Again it somewhat reflects the lore - it's changed from a CQC focused phalanx to more long-range warfare, which for me Electric and Psychic as Types really match that.

Stat spread is also nice, it's something different and shows off the well-rounded nature of the unit as well.

SteCisGreendog - Iron Chill

Spoiler:

Kitty - 35 | 25 | 30
Interesting idea you have tacking a current problem with a future solution! This is definitely a creative idea-- a glorified air conditioner with some good lore to it too. The only thing that does not work with me however is the design and the lore not completely tying up. I get the connections to Glalie in there, but Rotom is not that obvious for me? Future Paradox Pokemon already have "futuristic/techy" in mind so it's possible I'm just confusing the Rotom parts with general "future Paradox Pokemon" parts. Perhaps some vents from the Pokemon itself to show where the cold would be coming from would also be a shout.

gimmepie - 40 | 30 | 27
I think this is a great concept for a future Paradox mon - especially an Ice type like Iron Chill. While this isn't the first time a Pokemon has been based around real environmental issues, I still think this was still a really creative and well-thought out idea with some good lore to it. On top of that, your stats also reflect that lore even if the "low" total of 530 is a deviation from the standard stat spreads of the Paradox Pokemon. Speaking of deviations, I'm not really sure how I feel about your custom ability since it simultaneously does fit the general functionality of the Paradox abilities while also feeling like it was speciifcally designed to be a counter to them. I think I lean on the side of liking it. The additional effect of the ability seems like a lot at first, but is ultimately not actually that much. Ten percent is not a high amount and if hail/snow is a big part of your strategy you're better off going with a more reliable means of setting it up. Something that does irk me about your Pokemon is that the design and the lore feel a bit inconsistent with each other. It looks amazing, but for something that is meant to be a fusion of Glalie and Rotom, I really don't see that much Rotom in the design.

Arcaneum - 40 | 30 | 27.5
"Wow, I love that this is an entry focused on an actual real issue of the future and therefore it's a Pokémon that has been produced to tackle it. Really smartly written lore; I also appreciate that it's created as a fusion of Glalie and Rotom-Frost!

The typing is interesting, mostly because I would've envisioned this more as a Steel/Ice Pokémon, I think I can see the logic of a machine being Electric though.

Stats and Ability are nice. I appreciate you making this into a tank to help with the lore side of things, as this is built almost exclusively for utility, not battling. The Ability is an interesting one, I feel this could be quite strong, but again I like the really strong connections with its lore/entries."

Score Tally

Lavender - 87%
Panda280 - 82%
Eleanor - 98%
Apro - 78%
VisionofMilotic - 89%
5qwerty - 98%
SteCisGreendog - 95%

That leaves us with VisionofMilotic in 3rd for Apricorns, SteCisGreendog in 2nd for Apricorns and 5qwerty and Eleanor tied for 1st for Apricorns and Gears respectively. That makes 200 points for Apricorns and 110 for Gears. As with before, we encourage you to share any further information about your designs here that you'd like so everyone else can get the same picture we did.

 

[5qwerty]

Yo I didn't save what I sent so can the judges help send them back to me (for both entries) so I can share them here? The judges can post as well if needed.

 

[Kitty]

Yo I didn't save what I sent so can the judges help send them back to me (for both entries) so I can share them here? The judges can post as well if needed.

Spoiler:

(please ignore the streaks on his clothes, those were from an earlier version that I couldn't undo because Paint doesn't have that deep of a log)

Name: Mega Sceptile X
Species Name: Forest Pokémon
Typing: Grass/Dark

Evolution Family: Sceptile with a Sceptilite X can Mega Evolve into Mega Sceptile X in battle.

Pokedex Entry: (Since Megas don't have separate entries, I'll use this portion to describe the lore)
In order to maintain peace in the village forest, certain Sceptile sometimes have to play a double agent role. Sceptile have to defeat other Pokémon who may be putting on facades of tranquility while hiding their true intentions of malice and destruction. Having defeated these Pokémon, Sceptile are then usually exiled from their forest due to their "heinous crimes". Once optimistic and gregarious members of the forest ecosystem, Sceptile who leave are said to grow cynical. Free to roam the world, Sceptile travel to many different areas and biomes. However, research shows a phenomenon that says no matter what, each Sceptile that leaves the forest this way will end up dwelling in a swamp as a lone wolf for an non-trivial amount of time. No one knows why, and even the Sceptile that find Trainers later are not able to describe the motives behind this decision. Despite once being nearly full of cynicism, the solitude of the journey helped Sceptile conquer the darkness instead of being conquered by it. Instead of letting their past experiences define them, they decided to use those experiences to shape the future. Instead of corrupting their heart, it helped hone their instincts... And their blades. Though they carry deep scars, have withered body parts (bulbs and tail), and were forced to go down a path that most may deem undesirable, these Sceptile have conquered it all found new purpose in life. It is these Sceptile that are capable of Mega Evolving into Mega Sceptile X.
New Base Stat Total: BST: 630 - 70 HP/155 ATK/80 DEF/ 80 SPATK/90 SPDEF/155 SPEED
New Ability: Sharpness - because the darkness had shaped their blades to even sharper status than before. Having not been in the forest for a while, their tail had initially withered, but now has been sharpened as well. In game this helps because Sceptile's Leaf Blade (signature move!) gets boosted by Sharpness, and it also gets access to Night Slash (STAB), Aerial Ace, X-Scissor, and Slash.

(I didn't have time to add it in, but pretend the troops have different red patterns on their "helmets", one with one line horizontal, one with two lines horizontal, one with one line vertical, one with two lines vertical, and one with an X, all spanning the entire helmet for each of them. It's the same texture as the red stuff, which is what seems to be present in all future Paradox Pokémon)

Name: Iron Corps
Species Name: Paradox Pokémon
Typing: Electric/Psychic

Evolution Family: None

Pokedex Entry/Description:
(These two bullets are meant to mirror the journal entries that appear in the magazines in the games)
- This group of seemingly individual units is rumoured to be a highly-sophisticated automata from the far future. It has been named Iron Corps in accordance with a similar formation of robots seen in the Violet Book.
- Resembling a general and their infantry, they work together as one entity and will devastate entire cities at will with their long-range weapons. The source of its maliciousness is unknown at this point, but it can be assumed to be innate to their programming.

(Now this is more lore kinda stuff)
It is said that Iron Corps were created by a scientist in the far future who wanted to create a perfectly cohesive fighting unit. He chose to base his works on Falinks, a Pokémon that exists in the current era, and ended up creating something far more sinister. Iron Corps is made up of six "individual" units, though the six work together and are connected via a hivemind. The artificial intelligence that operates this squadron has evolved to the highest level and achieved sentience, and is able to emit and receive psychic frequencies.

There are five "troops" who stay on the ground while the "general", seemingly the most important unit, stays airborne in order to best scout and decide on the next commands. While the general can rotate at high speeds in order to glean the most useful information about the surroundings, the troops are usually standing back-to-back in a pentagonal formation, causing them to tread along the ground rather slowly.

All of the six units have been equipped with high-energy "spin blasters", which are able to fire off long-range bolts of energy. Their special weapons are able to produce many elemental energy signals, which allows them to fire off a variety of attacks. Their formation is hard to penetrate physically and it's difficult for opposing ranged threats to get an opening because of the scanning range of the general. The robots are built to withstand heavy physical and special attacks, so it is not easy to wear down this squadron. However, having no melee-range weapons, they are susceptible to close-quarters combat, especially if the general is within reach.

The goal of Iron Corps is unclear. However, it is known to have destructive tendencies, though this is somewhat hampered by the strategic cunning of the artificial intelligence. Whether this was intentional on the part of the creator is unknown.

New Base Stat Total: 570 BST
95 HP
70 ATK
110 DEF
110 SPATK
130 SPDEF
55 SPD

there u go fren

 

[apro]

Heres the text part again:

Pokémon name: (past) Fearow

Species name: Fanged Beak

Typing: Dark/Flying

Description: Fanged Beak can glide but cannot fly yet. It catches its prey by outrinning it using its powerful hind legs, then mercilessly tears it apart with its beak and claws.

New Base Stat Total:
HP:90
Attack:135
Defense:85
Sp. Atk:55
Sp. Def:80
Speed:125
Total:570

New Ability: Protosynthesis

 

[Eleanor]

And here's my Pokémon's info :catheart:

Spoiler:

Iron Nucleus

Species Name: Paradox Pokémon
Typing: Electric / Steel

A Future version of Klinklang somehow

Pokedex Entry/Description: I tried to do one that's similar as the Paradox Pokémon's entries in the games and one that's more of a typical entry :)

- It is shaped like a miraculous power generator described in an old novel. Its core is said to hold enough energy to power an entire city.
- When the rings are properly aligned around the red core, this creature's Electric attacks become so powerful they can be seen from space.

New Base Stat Total:
HP: 56
Atk: 90
Def: 124
Sp. Atk: 104
Sp. Def: 74
Spd: 122
BST: 570

I went into this trying to fit as many quirks of the existing Paradox Pokémon as possible, which means I tried to create a stat distribution that worked well with Quark Drive and that made Iron Nucleus similar enough to Klinklang. The 50 additional points and the Electric-type I added allowed me to be more versatile, however. I boosted Speed and Defense to similar values so that a player could choose which stat would get boosted by Quark Drive with the right EV / IV management - thus giving this Pokémon two different styles of play, either a more physically defensive one that could take at least one hit, set up and proceed to deal good damage with its attacks, or a speedier one that could, for example, provide the team with some fast support moves, quick revenge kills or just Volt Switch. This, in my mind, should make Iron Nucleus quite different from Magnezone too, as that is typically used as a Steel-type trapper and slow Volt Switch user.
Taking points away from HP and putting them into defensive stats and speed felt fitting with the lore, but also because those stats can indeed be boosted by Quark Drive.

Optional New Ability: Quark Drive

I packed way too much stuff into this Pokémon. I have been using Klinklang recently in some fangames and it turns out it became the unofficial mascot of my GT team (you know, Gears, Klinks, whatever) so I HAD to try this one out!

It was a bit strange to pull off a Paradox Pokémon going only by what I could find on Bulbapedia and Youtube (I never played the games myself and don't know a lot of the lore behind them), especially because, well… they don't seem so cleverly designed! There's some references here and there but they're a bit too subtle and cryptic. So I tried to change that just a little…

This is the future where Klinklang discovers electromagnetic fields and turns from a bunch of gears into some kind of... spire mess? But I went a bit further and added in a lot more concepts from both astrophysics and sci-fi literature (some other Paradox Pokémon seem to borrow concepts from those fields too). You have, most importantly, things like the Dyson Sphere, Ringworld (the novel from Larry Niven), quasars, neutron stars, the structure of atoms according to Rutherford's experiment… I guess the shape also reminds me of an astrolabium, which is a tool that we no longer use and produce, so it's more of a past reference… oh well.

I am still very bad at drawing, I'm not entirely sure on the design, I probably could've kept the weird face, but I was way too late with the submission deadline so here we go. Just... hm. Imagine the rings constantly moving around the center like Klinklang's gears typically do, with the internal side (the one towards the core) glowing and basically absorbing energy. It would be pretty much the same neon energy thingy that all other future Paradox Pokémon have. From what I know all futuristic Pokémon also have their shiny form metallic grey, so - assuming Iron Nucleus's shiny would also look like that - I made the regular form of a different color. When thinking of the color I had nothing specific in mind but it does remind me of high resistance Manganese Steel that's used for railways and such, so it should work :D
The one gear that used to have the face still on it became some sort of electromagnetic field meter that just travels and snaps around the rings, checking if the energy is evenly distributed or ready for an attack... that's one of the ideas of all time.

 

[Panda280]

I like everybody pokemon. I can't pick which one I like the most. At first, I thought Iron nucleas was based on Dhelmise.

Will join this contest again next year!

On another note, I've just played cereza and the lost demon. Everyone should give it a try. It's a bit expensive, but i enjoy my time with it. Thanks!

My texts

Spoiler:

Name: Iron Drone
Species Name: Paradox Pokemon
Typing: Flying/ Fairy
Evolution Family: Skiploom
Pokedex Entry/Description:

Iron Drone: Surveillance from the future?
A strange object resembling Skiploom has been spotted in Paldea. It can change the color of its body to fit the surrounding environment. After avoiding detection, it charges its cannon and blasts onto unsuspecting victims.

Some said it is a machine created for assassination and information gathering from the future. Others said that Iron drone is created naturally when the flower gathers fairy energy in a certain forest over long periods of time. It was nicknamed according to the object described in the violet book.

New Base Stat Total:
Hp: 105
Atk: 45
Def: 70
Spa: 125
Spdef: 95
Sp: 130
Total: 570

Optional New Ability: Quark Drive/ Mega Cannon

 

[Arcaneum]

Thank you all for participating, overall these were some amazing and solid entries all around! Hope you enjoyed this event as much as I enjoyed hosting it, ty GP and Chura for carrying for me <3