A sleepy little bug!!
I actually only opened the forums yesterday by chance since I started playing a bit of ACNL again, but this event looks pretty fun, so I quickly made something that is more of a concept than a finalized fakemon... also taken from an old idea. (also got kind of shaky hands right now..)
Pok?mon Name: Loapy from "
loaren" meaning sleep and "
Le
pidoptera" meaning moth... also, its loafing around.
No names for the evolutions as of now.
Types: Bug/Ghost (Perhaps also Psychic or Fairy as a second type, depending on balance)
Ability: 1st evo.: Hitting it has a small chance to make you fall asleep.
2nd evo: After 4 turns, you will gain the "yawn" effect.
3rd evo: After 4 turns, you will fall asleep. (Maybe OP: In addition to the 5-turn sleep, a one-time speed decrease, like Intimidate, with a text like "The sleeping powder starts taking effect..")
Region: It's similar to Munna, and design-wise, it reminds me of some Gen5s so perhaps Unova. Maybe also Sun/Moon with being a kind of exotic ("poisonous") bug and the Night/Day theme..? I haven't played S/M so I can't really say...
Based on: a moth.. in a blanket.
Description: In the first evolution, it can crawl, in the second one, it completely wraps itself up in the blanket (cocoon!) and can walk slowly, and in the third one, the blanket becomes its wings, but it can still walk. The "blanket" is a part of its body, it cannot be taken off!!
From the second evolution onward, it emits sleeping powder passively. The powder glows so that you might be attracted to it. This is how ...Loapy...? makes its prey/hunters fall asleep! It can't "turn" the powder off, which is a little difficult for trainers, but if you spend enough time with it, you will get used to the effect.
(Actually, is there anything in pok?mon lore about whether sleeping powder affects humans in the first place? oh man, I don't know..)
About its
stats and moveset, I would like it to be viable. It has a strong ability - the amount of turns should still be tweaked - that will prevent its opponent from staying too long and stacking up. It can get
mean look through breeding. The stats, overall, will be pretty average, and rather
evenly spread out. Speed very low in the first 2 evs. It should be good enough to function as kind of a sweeper in story play, but its strong points are the moveset and ability. Of course, listing everything would be a bit too much detail.
Also, the first ev. should probably be kind of a worm, with no limbs. But I also kind of like it that it looks more or less the same throughout its evolutions, its often kind of disappointing if the first evolution looks really nice but you can only have it for the first ~10 levels. Also, since it's one of these 3-step bug pokemon, it evolves through levels and at a very short distance (a levelup every ~10 levels).
There's already enough text, so that's it!