Arkhelien

Looking at your posts here I don't even understand if you're for or against this suggestion. Anyway, Spikes are indeed a way to get past Sturdy but, unlike Stealth Rock, they have a poor distribution and against a Leftover user you have to get up at least two layers of Spikes in order to unable it to get back to Sturdy in two turns of Leftovers recovery. Right now the only spikers we have are Skarmory, Cloyster, Forretress, Qwilfish, Cacturne, Omanyte, Delibird, Roselia and Glalie. With Roselia and Delibird being way too frail to fully abuse the move, you're left with 7 possible users of the move, which is nowhere near the astounding distribution of the previously mentioned rocks. And then you have that annoying metal bird that doesn't even care about Spikes breaking its Sturdy. I really don't think our mechanics and moves are the place for Gen V Sturdy to kick in.

Well, by the time Focus Sash and the new Sturdy mechanics were implemented the game was already different from what we have now. One signifiant move that helped against those which we don't have is Stealth Rock, as it keeps breaking sashes and sturdies of most Pokémons without giving them the chance to get to full HP by the time you threaten them out. Apart from that, if I am not mistaken, Sturdy mechanics were changed in gen 5, when VoltTurn became a thing and the faster pace it implied balanced out the Sturdy ability by as well breaking it on expected switches and wearing the users down to a point where they had a hard time getting back to full health to abuse Sturdy. Right now Gen V Sturdy would be a bit too much, in my opinion.

So pick a team and then ban the best counters to your strategy. Sounds good. Oh wait, it doesn't.

It is possible, but unfortunately I do not work on signatures or edits of that sort. Sorry! Of course you can have it.

I think there might have been a misunderstanding. Yes, I make animated GIFs, yet not the usual signatures but rather things like this: I hope this clears things up.

Welcome! \o/ Long story short, I got carried away with studying and some other stuff while I had the last shop open, therefore I ended up being swamped by the requests. Don't ask me why I deleted all my stuff from if you had the links for them, I do that oftenly. And no, I do not have the files anymore either. But worry not, I am back! \o/ This time with some rules. Basically I will only be doing animations, I will try to stay away from the large canvases like banners or wallpapers. I will be doing vector animations, working in Flash CS5. All will be done frame-by-frame so the process will be quality over quantity. Now what's with the rules? Where here's the trick: the common animation is done at 24 frames per second which obviously means 24 different images for each second of stuff going on, which also means a lot of work. Requesting will be open at any time, but I only promise to have 3 animations done by the end of each week. If time allows, I may do more, but do not expect that very often. You want to request, right? Of course you want. Well, I hate request forms. Anything goes when you request, just try to add as much detail as you can. It does not have to be related to Pokemon, but if it is not, please provide at least an image of the character/object you want animated. Examples: [spoiler][/spoiler]

Oh, so you like this suggestion now.

I say we give 4 extra moveslots to each Pokémon.

No, just a Marill.

Hertz unrelated

Way to blow my cover, you two. T_T Truth is most of the requests are done, just that of Ziggs and Lillyfly needing some finishing touches; though I've been fighting the need to study for Med School and my pseudo-addiction to PokeMMO so I didn't get around to finish those or posting the others. They all will be posted by next weekend, adding Bigbreeze's request to the queue. I will then decide if I can take more requests. Sorry for the, what, 2 month wait? >_>

IGN: Arkhelien After reading them a couple of times, Senile's entry was the one that attracted me the most; so here goes. [spoiler][/spoiler] http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Elibel-421899998 I guess it's OK to give some explanations. While a dragonfly, Elibel is a Fire/Electric Pokémon so I imagined it as a dragonfly that gave up on the ability to become airborne. The huge front claws grow through evolutionary states and are one of the tools Elibel uses to create friction for the static electricity it needs whenattacking. The flaming tail is a notice of its fire typing, as well as a mean of using Tail Glow; along with the limbs that grew wider than those of other dragonflies and have a hollow interior, which allows the Pokémon to walk through hot enviroments without making too much contact with the ground. The Yanma-like wings are remnants of its larvar evolutions where they were used to impersonate Yanmas, and are now unable to take the heavy insect up in the skies.

You're on! XD

Of course. :) Glad you like it! :D That was a hard decision. Oh, and it's been a while since I worked on small canvases so umm, here goes http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Amulet-Coin-406308662

http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Nodak-and-a-bug-404875802? I only realised you wanted an actual drawing when I was done with it, sorry. ;o; May get back to it at a later time, I like Heracross. http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Shiny-Meowth-404876037 I think it's bald, not shiny.

Well that's where I worked as an animator. I don't really like drawing chibi stuff so you can hate me http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Candy-Madness-402742024 A non-chibi request now? ;o;

Well, that was uncalled for. That's my personal deviantArt account, I do not think I should make a new one, with a new name, for every game contest I enter on under a gaming nickname.

Shameless bump hoping for some requests. Oh and thank you, feels great to hear something nice about the stuff I make and don't like. XD

Hey everyone! For the last few years I've been doing mostly animations and even got a job in that field, only to later realise I learnt more and more animating techniques whilst my drawing/painting skills made no progress, or even worse, they got worse. Now with the Mega Evolution contest I hated myself after trying my hand for the first time at drawing a Pokémon. Meh. Here, have a sample of my works. [spoiler] http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Portrait-399228263 http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/The-Twins-of-Thought-381064622 AND NOW THE HORRIBLE STUFF http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Mega-Breloom-401494709 http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Mega-Sableye-402065727 [/spoiler] So back to shopping, thought this is a good way to improve my Pokémon and overall drawing technique. I'll do anything from Pokémon style, game sprites, non-Pokémon stuff; basically everything as long as it is within forum rules and as long as it's not some sarcastical-wannabe joke. Don't shout at me when I take too much to finish them. TL;DR version: Request, don't be an ass, wait, celebrate.

Well decided to change mine, so here's my actual entry post. IGN: Arkhelien Pokémon: Mega Sableye [spoiler] [/spoiler] http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Mega-Sableye-402065727

Oh, sorry, thought it's 20, not 22nd. XD Well that just gives me time to maybe change my entry. :D

http://raulciobanu.deviantart.com/art/Mega-Breloom-401494709 I give you Mega Breloom! :D

Hi everyone! Just found out about PokeMMO and here I joined. :D So just call me Arkh or something like that and know that I'm a Croagunk/Toxicroak fanboy. :D