[ti]Approved[/ti]Soul Snatch

[TheBlueFiretruck]

Soul Snatch

Type: Ghost
Category: Physical
Description: Recovers 75% of damage dealt
BP: 50
Acc: 100%
PP: 10 (max 16)
Priority: 0
Target: Adjacent Pokémon
Contact: Yes
Affected by Protect: Yes
Affected by Magic Coat: No
Affected by Snatch: No
Affected by King's Rock: Yes
Affected by BrightPowder: Yes
Signature Move: No
Pokémon: Greaper line, Banette line, Weavile line, Gourgeist line, Gengar line, Dusknoir line, Sableye.

[Deleted]

It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure about the recovery part of it. It would be alright to have a couple more Volt-Turn options but the healing might be OP.

[viperfang4]

Ok, i am a ghost user and I like this move. I can see it on dusknoir, golurk, or the scariest, more aegislash mind games (yaaaaay)

[TheBlueFiretruck]

Well the main reason I made this move was to be for my fakemon, but I guess he won't be getting this. Do you think I should tone down the recovery to 25%, so it's not OP but also isn't just a Ghost type U-turn? It would create a small niche for certain Ghost types and it kinda make sense with the name.

[jaywad]

May 8, 2015 18:51:05 GMT 1 TheBlueFiretruck said:

Well the main reason I made this move was to be for my fakemon, but I guess he won't be getting this. Do you think I should tone down the recovery to 25%, so it's not OP but also isn't just a Ghost type U-turn? It would create a small niche for certain Ghost types and it kinda make sense with the name.

Actually it'd be better if you keep just one idea: Either make it a ghost-type giga drain for walls like cofagrigus, spiritomb, and dusknoir. Or you can make it a Ghost-type u-turn and make it useful to more vulnerable ghosts like Golurk and Sableye. Whichever you choose, it'll end up being a great ability, and the name would match for both of these effects so don't worry about that.

[Ace]

May 8, 2015 18:51:05 GMT 1 TheBlueFiretruck said:

Well the main reason I made this move was to be for my fakemon, but I guess he won't be getting this. Do you think I should tone down the recovery to 25%, so it's not OP but also isn't just a Ghost type U-turn? It would create a small niche for certain Ghost types and it kinda make sense with the name.

I'd make the recovery 40%, damage is only 50BP so it's not overpowered by any means. It's essentially a Ghost Type Giga Drain merged with U-turn, seems decent to me. 

[Snaquaza]

I think we don't need more switching moves to be honest.

[TheBlueFiretruck]

Snaquaza is this any better? It's basically a physical Draining Kiss clone and no longer a signature move.

[Snaquaza]

Accepted 1/2

[TheBlueFiretruck]

Alright I'm still trying to figure out which mons should get this. Any ideas Galom Ace?

[Psych]

I'd say your general ghost types (Dusknoir line, Gengar line, Mismagius line, Banette line, Sableye line) should all learn this move.

EDIT: So should quite a few Dark types imo (Absol, Spiritomb, Darkrai, Zoroark) all make sense to me.

[Galom]

Rename it Soul Trap and make it require held item Soul Gem

TES nerding aside, I like this move. Approved 2/2.

[Ruby]

"soulsnatch": {
num: -204,
accuracy: 100,
basePower: 50,
category: "Special",
desc: "User recovers 75% of the damage dealt.",
shortDesc: "User recovers 75% of the damage dealt.",
id: "soulsnatch",
name: "Soul Snatch",
pp: 10,
priority: 0,
flags: {protect: 1, mirror: 1, contact: 1, heal: 1},
drain: [3, 4],
secondary: false,
target: "any",
type: "Ghost"
},


[TheBlueFiretruck]

Thanks guys! Also, I added Sableye to the list of mons who get this because it functions very similarly to Klefki, who gets and abuses Draining Kiss.

[Rhythms]

Jun 21, 2015 20:43:08 GMT 1 Ruby said:

"soulsnatch": {
num: -204,
accuracy: 100,
basePower: 50,
category: "Special",
desc: "User recovers 75% of the damage dealt.",
shortDesc: "User recovers 75% of the damage dealt.",
id: "soulsnatch",
name: "Soul Snatch",
pp: 16,
priority: 0,
flags: {protect: 1, mirror: 1, contact: 1, heal: 1},
drain: [3, 4],
secondary: false,
target: "any",
type: "Ghost"
},


this should have 15 pp, not 16. and there should be a tab text to "soulsnatch": {

EDIT: I didn't see the weird PP number, but that's not how PP works. The original number needs to be divisible by 5.

The formula for PP is current PP * 8 / 5, so, if the regular PP is 16, then the maxed out PP would be 25.6
Hmm. that doesn't really work, does it?

[blackburn009]

All current base PPs are divisible by 5 because PP up gives (base PP)/5 extra PP and can be used 3 times, just keep 15 and 24 max pp imo

[TheBlueFiretruck]

Yeah I just screwed up the PP a little bit, thanks for noticing that! I'll edit it now.

EDIT: Actually I had the PP wrong entirely. This is suppose to be a Physical, Ghost-type Draining Kiss, so it should have 10 PP with a max of 16.

[Rhythms]

In that case, I'll just re-code it

"soulsnatch": {
num: -204,
accuracy: 100,
basePower: 50,
category: "Physical",
desc: "The user recovers 3/4 the HP lost by the target, rounded half up. If Big Root is held by the user, the HP recovered is 1.3x normal, rounded half down.",
shortDesc: "User recovers 75% of the damage dealt.",
id: "soulsnatch",
name: "Soul Snatch",
pp: 10,
priority: 0,
flags: {protect: 1, mirror: 1, contact: 1, heal: 1},
drain: [3, 4],
secondary: false,
target: "normal",
type: "Ghost"
},Ruby, the target for this should have been "normal," but that was all that was wrong

TheBlueFiretruck i updated it

[Ruby]

And since this required a minor edit, you could've informed me, please do not take over my placeholds

[Rhythms]

Jun 23, 2015 5:27:54 GMT 1 Ruby said:

And since this required a minor edit, you could've informed me, please do not take over my placeholds

Please don't treat me like you're my superior by acting like you're better than me; I won't listen.