[ti]Approved[/ti]Virturing

[Level 51]

Virturing: the Learning Pokémon
Typing: Electric / Psychic
70 HP | 60 Atk | 75 Def | 85 SpA | 60 SpD | 65 Spe (415 BST)
Ability: Analytic

Design: Virturing appears as a mass of circuitry and wiring, with a single monitor sitting on top. This monitor displays two eyes, staring into space to absorb new information.

Physical Details:
Height: 3'07" / 1.1 m
Weight: 89.7 lbs. / 40.7 kg
Egg Group(s): Mineral
Gender Ratio: Genderless
Pokedex Color: Gray
Body Type:

Technical details:
Catch Rate: 45 (Pokéball at full health: 5.9%)
Hatch Time: 20 cycles (5355 - 5609 steps)
Experience Yield: 145
Leveling Rate: Fast
Base Friendship: 70
EV Yield: 2 SAtk

Pokédex Entries:
{1}: Virturing learns four times as fast as a human being. It is often promoted as the teaching aid of the future.
{2}: Despite learning faster than a human being, Virturing often has trouble storing even simple geographical knowledge.

Level-up moves:
00 Zap Cannon
00 Magnetic Flux
00 Thunder Shock
00 Confusion
00 Headbutt
00 Overwrite
04 Charge
07 Eerie Impulse
11 Thunder Wave
14 Spark
18 Miracle Eye
21 Metal Sound
25 Zen Headbutt
28 Electric Terrain
32 Autotomize
35 Discharge
39 Mirror Coat
44 Psychic
48 Reflect Type
53 Ally Switch
57 Hypnosis
62 Zap Cannon

TM/HM moves:
TM03 Psyshock
TM04 Calm Mind
TM06 Toxic
TM10 Hidden Power
TM12 Taunt
TM15 Hyper Beam
TM16 Light Screen
TM17 Protect
TM20 Safeguard
TM21 Frustration
TM24 Thunderbolt
TM25 Thunder
TM27 Return
TM29 Psychic
TM32 Double Team
TM33 Reflect
TM41 Torment
TM42 Facade
TM44 Rest
TM48 Round
TM50 Overheat
TM57 Charge Beam
TM63 Embargo
TM64 Explosion
TM68 Giga Impact
TM70 Flash
TM72 Volt Switch
TM73 Thunder Wave
TM77 Psych Up
TM87 Swagger
TM88 Sleep Talk
TM90 Substitute
TM91 Flash Cannon
TM92 Trick Room
TM93 Wild Charge
TM94 Secret Power
TM99 Dazzling Gleam
TM100 Confide

Tutor moves:
Block
Electroweb
Gravity
Iron Defense
Iron Head
Magic Coat
Magic Room
Magnet Rise
Pain Split
Recycle
Role Play
Shock Wave
Signal Beam
Skill Swap
Snatch
Snore
Trick
Wonder Room
Zen Headbutt

Total unique moves: 75

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Notes:
Concept: Smeargle, but for Abilities instead of Moves.
Virturing = Virtual + Turing.
89.7 lbs is a previously-unused weight and is just heavier than Excadrill. I was about to make this thing Beldum-weight when I realised that computers aren't actually that heavy.
Height is modeled after Tangela. I figured they would look pretty alike, except Virturing has wires instead of vines.
Body type is literally "Head with a base" which I figured described this thing perfectly.
21 unique level-up moves may seem like a lot, but there's more precursor than you might think: Magnezone gets 21, Porygon-Z gets 19 and Bronzong gets 18. Plus I need this Pokemon to be fairly flexible to make use of its multiple abilities.
Had a bit of fun with some flavor options for this Pokemon, including stuff like Miracle Eye and Overheat. I'm sure you understand why. On the other hand, some of the options seem a bit off but can be explained fairly readily by comparing this moveset against those of similar Pokemon (the Porygon line gets Pain Split, for example). Other moves could be explained by the move descriptions, I guess (e.g. Dazzling Gleam: "The user damages opposing Pokémon by emitting a powerful flash.").
Here are some of the more 'overpowered' Abilities you could use with this thing's movepool, and how I tried to get around them during design:

• No Guard Zap Cannon + Hypnosis may sound pretty OP, but you need to choose between one of the two status conditions to inflict. Plus Virturing isn't quite so scary with that awkward Speed stat of 65 and its decent-at-best defenses.
• Contrary Overheat!! With Base 85 Special Attack and no STAB? Good luck.
• Serene Grace Discharge + Iron Head could prove to be scary against everything not Ground- or Electric-type.
• Simple Calm Mind / Autotomize / Iron Defense is super scary. If anyone lets you set up, that is >_>
• Pure / Huge Power Zen Headbutt / Wild Charge! Okay, I guess. Base 65 Speed + Base 60 Attack is a bit of a letdown on this front though. I get that Medicham also has Base 60 Attack, but it at least has a usable speed. And even then it's not quite OU yet, Singles or Doubles.
• Protean is horrible on this thing, don't bother.
• Drizzle + Thunder is pretty lame.
• Parental Bond isn't super great even on a Special set, a Pure / Huge Power set probably hits for more.
• Tinted Lens is probably even worse, since Electric / Psychic doesn't hit that much for NVE damage anyway.
• Speed Boost makes this thing not so bad I guess, but it doesn't have Baton Pass to make use of that. I mean you could try damaging things but still...
• Shadow Tag could be cool with Trick + Choice item + Calm Mind. Then again, I'm fairly sure Gothitelle does this better, unless you want to use Autotomize as well. In which case you're stuck with one (1) attacking move, good luck.
• Skill Swap + Slow Start / Defeatist would be pretty funny, though not exactly effective.
• Perhaps this thing's most annoying set might be a Prankster set; it does get Thunder Wave, and options like Recycle / Skill Swap / Trick / Swagger / Taunt / Torment / Reflect Type / Pain Split / Flash could be hilarious in-game.

Overall a pretty weak Pokemon, and you're probably doing something wrong if you're trying to use it offensively. It has enough attacking moves to make it an okay choice in-game if you can get it to Overwrite into Pure / Huge Power or Adaptability or Parental Bond I guess, but other than that it's not amazing.
Major props if you got the reference in Pokedex entry {2}.

[Snaquaza]

This looks pretty good, can't find any obvious flaws.

Accepted 1/3.

[The Run]

Quite detailed, have nothing else to say lol

[msgardevoir]

I love it!!!

[ladyleumas]

Seems pretty good to me the only thing I could see in terms of improvement would be adding the ability trace as an additional ability.

[Ace]

Yeah, this is looking solid to me. 2/3 approved. Remember that the move needs to me approved before 3/3~

[Level 51]

Updates: fixed the movepool to make it more compact (as well as follow a level-gap pattern like most Pokemon). Overwrite has been approved, over to you Galom~

[Galom]

Heh, AAA meets official Pokemon. I see this as being the "Smeargle" of our region; I'm glad that it has a low BST to prevent insanely powerful abilities from breaking it. As the others have said, you've done well here; I like that it's unique.

Approved 3/3, congratulations.

[Psych]

Reserving this for code, will try and have this done by the weekend of 7/4/2015.