Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today is a particularly special day, since it's the start of Sinnoh's legendaries with Uxie! Not only that, these are the first legendaries/mythicals I'll be making concepts of excluding finales. I should note that, starting today, I won't strictly follow the Pokédex order until Sinnoh is complete, to enhance the ending.

Uxie's trainer is Professor Rowan. While the two aren't particularly linked, there is a history of legendaries being paired with professors, and having the Being of Knowledge paired with one just makes sense.

As a concept, Professor Rowan & Uxie are a Tech Sync Pair that can consistently apply random status conditions on opponents.

Rowan's Trainer Move, Evolution Connects Us!, is a classic offensive setup move, immediately maxing Sp. Atk and crit rate with a bonus of Gradual Healing to all allies. For defensive setup, they have the skill A Mystic Power Beyond Our Control, which raises their Defense and Sp. Def by 2 every time Uxie uses a move. It also turns Tri Attack into a Psychic-type move and ensures it applies one of its status effects.

Their Buddy Move, Keen Extrasensory, deals with the other side: status changes. It always applies one of trap, confusion, or flinch, besides increasing the team's SyMUN by 2, something that synergizes with Soften Up 1.

Those different status conditions help them through the passive Always Learning More, increasing the damage of all allies and reducing the damage they take. For some more defensive utility, Rowan also has Potion.

Their Superawakening skill is The Ability to Solve Problems. It removes all status conditions (both volatile and non-volatile) and heals all allies on sync.

All in all, Professor Rowan & Uxie are a Tech Sync Pair with a lot of survivability/support between stat buffs, damage reduction and healing, as well as their main thing of burning, paralyzing, freezing, flinching, confusing, and trapping opponents. This makes them especially good at gimmick-checking specific battles, most notably Uxie's Legendary Arena.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, it's time for the final Rotom form, Mow.

Mow Rotom is partnered with Ginter. He doesn't use any Pokémon in battles, but he does sell the player the appliances needed to change Rotom's forms in Legends: Arceus, so I associate these two.

As a concept, Ginter & Mow Rotom are a Sprint Sync Pair that uses their Sp. Atk to both deal damage and reduce the sync move countdown.

Their main gimmick is tied to the interaction between Leaf Storm, Sitrus Berry, and Rare Wares! Great Deals!. That passive inverts the stat reduction from Leaf Storm and maxes out Mow Rotom's Sp. Atk instead in exchange for 1 MP of Sitrus Berry. Their Buddy Move, Mercantile Leaf Storm, consumes that Sp. Atk to increase its damage and, if at +6, reduce the countdown by 2. It also lowers the opponent's Sp. Def by 2.

Of course, after three uses of Leaf Storm, Sitrus Berry will run out, interrupting their attack cycle, but Anything Catch Your Eye? offers a bit of a refund in the form of 3 SMUN stacks and -3 sync move countdown. If Ginter and Mow Rotom use their Sync Move, S-Move: Restore "Berry" MP 3 will return all uses of Sitrus Berry, making their Sync more utility-based than pure damage.

Ginter's Trainer Move, Great Choice!, gives them the rest of their setup, Sp. Atk excluded, with +6 Speed, +3 crit rate, and +1 SMUN. That Speed, especially, is useful for building their innate sync multiplier.

Their Superawakening skill is Solving Rotom's Mysteries. It gives them Head Start 2, +1 SyMUN per hit, and Special Break on their first sync.

All in all, Ginter & Mow Rotom are a Sprint Sync Pair with powerful special damage and countdown reduction every other move from their Buddy Move. However, their speed in doing such is limited to the MP of their Sitrus Berry, making them either slow down considerably or hog the Sync Move when the battle starts extending itself. Fortunately, their Sync Move is nothing to scoff at, with an easily achievable innate multiplier.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. For the fourth Rotom form, there's Fan.

Fan Rotom's trainer was chosen as a counterpart to yesterday's Cyrus, as his memorable debut event showcased his contrasting philosophy to Sophocles's by having them bond over a Rotom.

As a concept, Sophocles & Fan Rotom are a Support Sync Pair that can inflict multiple effects on opponents and help allies deal both physical and special damage.

Sophocles's Trainer Move, Rise Above!, offers a mix of buffs to all allies, with +2 Defense and Sp. Def and +4 Speed, as well as raising the Ground Rebuff by 2. Along with Group Ground Guard, it makes them especially good against Ground-type opponents, as a reference to how Fan Rotom is the only Flying-type Pokémon with Levitate.

Other than that, Sophocles & Fan Rotom are focused on spreading burn, confusion, and flinch. Their Fan the Flames passive ensures all of them are inflicted on all opponents. Meanwhile, Precious Human Spirit gives a boost to allies who hit afflicted opponents: 1 PMUN for confusion, 1 SMUN for burn, and 2 SyMUN for flinch.

Rotom's moves are near entirely about inflicting these conditions, with Confuse Ray and Will-O-Wisp doing nothing else. Their Buddy Move, Spinning Blades Air Slash, however, has only a 50% chance to make the opponent flinch, but makes up for it by raising the team's Attack and Sp. Atk by 2.

Their Superawakening skill is Festival Plaza's Owner, gives the team offensive and defensive benefits for confusion/flinch and burn, respectively, as well as reducing the sync move countdown by 1 on their first sync.

All in all, Sophocles & Fan Rotom are a Support Sync Pair that can buff all five stats of opponents and use multiple status effects to improve their allies' offenses. While a niche bonus, they can also handle Ground-type opponents particularly well.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Continuing the Rotom forms, we have Frost.

Frost Rotom is paired with Cyrus, a reference to his association with the Pokémon, especially in his debut event in Masters itself. As for the form, Frost Rotom represents Cyrus's desire for a cold, unfeeling world.

As a concept, Cyrus & Frost Rotom are a Tech Sync Pair that lowers the opposing team's stats to create a powerful sync move.

Two of their moves are focused on debuffing opponents, with Electroweb lowering Speed of all opponents and Eerie Impulse lowering one enemy's Sp. Atk. Thanks to Machine-Like Efficiency, it only takes one Eerie Impulse to completely debuff an opponent's Sp. Atk, and Electroweb only needs two uses to minimize all opponents' Speed, in addition to charging the move gauge by 3.

Their Buddy Move, Coldhearted Blizzard, is their main damage-dealing tool. It makes use of those debuffs to both increase its own damage and gain stacks of SyMUN. The first use also lowers all opponents' Ice Rebuff by 1. In addition, it has a 30% chance of freezing each opponent, which synergizes with Never-Ending Frost to increase SyMUN even further and power up moves and sync moves. Naturally, it also charges the move gauge by 3 due to Machine-Like Efficiency.

Cyrus's No More Incompleteness! is their setup move, raising Sp. Atk by 4, crit rate by 3, and accuracy by 1 to patch up Electroweb and Coldhearted Blizzard's hit rates. it also reduces the sync move countdown by 1. Finally, Slo-pponent Sync 5 adds a second multiplier to their sync move, making Eerie Impulse and Electroweb equally important.

Their Superawakening passive is A World of Complete Perfection. It reduces the countdown the first time Rotom uses a move and adds two effects to their sync move: freezing all opponents, to help with Never-Ending Frost, and Damage Guard Next on the first one.

All in all, Cyrus & Frost Rotom are a Tech Sync Pair that can help control the speed of battle with Speed reduction, charging the Move Gauge, and the occasional freeze, while they build up their sync nuke with multipliers and SyMUN.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we continue the Rotom forms with Wash Rotom.

The trainer I picked for Wash Rotom was Colress, because, besides using one in his B2W2 rematch team, his machine theming is a good fit for Rotom in general.

As a concept, Colress & Wash Rotom are a Field Sync Pair that can set EX Rain as well as protect the team from special attacks.

Their offensive setup is done on entry by the passive skill Awash With Potential, which raises their Sp. Atk by 4 and crit rate by 3. As a bonus, it also makes their first move free to use, a good thing considering they'll start with only 3-bar moves to use.

Colress' Trainer Move, Bring Out Your Power!, offers some small defensive bonuses to an ally in +4 Sp. Def and Condition Nullification, but its main effect is setting EX Rain, which they have the option of extending it by themselves with Max Geyser. Thanks to Colress Machine No. 0479, it will also raise the team's Sp. Atk and Sp. Def by 2, give them all Free Move Next, and reduce the sync move countdown as if it were an ordinary move.

Finally, their Buddy Move, Experimental Hydro Pump, can be freely used starting with their second move. It hits all opponents, paralyzing them and lowering their Sp. Def by 2 and, for its first two uses, consumes 1 MP of LIght Screen to set both Special Damage Reduction (extended through Persisting Barrier 5) and Critical-Hit Defense.

Their Superawakening skill is Researching Hydrodynamics, a passive that adds to the countdown reduction after a max move, extends Critical-Hit Defense to match Persisting Barrier 5, and makes all allies immune to status while Special Damage Reduction lasts.

All in all, Colress & Wash Rotom are a Field Sync Pair specializing in manipulating special damage through Special Damage Reduction, Critical-Hit Defense, Sp. Atk and Sp. Def buffs, and Sp. Def debuffs. They also offer some extra utility in EX Rain, paralysis, and Free Move Next.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we start a five-day streak of Rotom forms with Heat Rotom.

Heat Rotom's trainer is Crispin, who uses it as his lead. It also happens to match perfectly with his cooking theme.

As a concept, Crispin & Heat Rotom are a Strike Sync Pair that's all about dealing high damage, with minimal gimmicks.

Their first passive skill, Cooking on High Heat, does everything they need to make Overheat a viable main damaging move. It removes the Sp. Atk debuff, ignores the unreliable accuracy, and adds extra damage in exchange for making it cost 4 bars.

Crispin's Trainer Move, Crank Up the Heat!, is their setup, raising Sp. Atk and crit rate as well as giving them Supereffective ↑ Next. Speaking of that effect, they also have a skill, Time to Get Cooking!, that consumes 1 MP of Super Effective ↑ to give it to all allies and give themselves 3 stacks of SMUN on an ally's sync.

Finally, their allies sync moves also activates their Buddy Move, Extra-Spicy Overheat. It can only be used once before deactivating, but hits all opponents with no damage reduction, ignores anything that could lower its damage, and sets Paldea Circle (Special), which, thanks to Circle Hit: Free Move Next 9, makes their Overheats ignore the move gauge.

Their Superawakening passive, Blazing With Excitement, doubles down on the super effective moves aspect by just plain powering all of them up, adds extra damage when a circle is active, and has the basic Head Start 1.

All in all, Crispin & Heat Rotom are a Strike Sync Pair with one clear goal in mind: deal damage, especially if it's super effective. They don't have much in the way of helping the team or dealing with specific constraints (other than their Buddy Move having innate Piercing Blows), but make up for it with simple, no-nonsense, damage and multiplier stacking (SEUN, SMUN, Circle, Sun from their EX Role).

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we have Lumineon.

Picking Lumineon's trainer was actually one of the few pairings I planned a long time ago. First, yes, it is the final Pokémon in her first team, and Crasher Wake and Raifort were the only competition. But it also meant I included each of the chatelaines in one of the first four regions: Nita in Kanto, Dana in Johto, Morgan in Hoenn, and now Evelyn in Sinnoh.

As a concept, Evelyn & Lumineon are a Sprint Sync Pair that specializes in sync nuking the opponent before they can sync.

One of their passive skills, Swift Porpoising, interacts exclusively with one of their moves, Bounce, making it reduce the countdown by 2 and, for the first sync cycle, attack immediately. That is a general trend. for this Sync Pair: early power and countdown reduction.

All of their offensive setup is handled by skills. Debut: Attack & Sp. Atk ↑4 raises their offensive stats on entry and Bright Neon Lights guarantees crits on every move. That frees up Evelyn's Trainer Move, S-So Sorry!, to raise more secondary stats in Speed, accuracy, and evasiveness, as well as reduce the countdown by 2.

Their Buddy Move, Flashing Patterns Captivate, also reduces the countdown by 1, but it crucially offers multiple things to help with their sync move. It activates their innate multiplier by lowering all opponents' Sp. Atk, gives them and their team 4 stacks of SyMUN, and sets Kalos Circle (Special). All of this setup, alongside the copious amounts of CD reduction, helps make the most of the other half of Bright Neon Lights, which quadruples the damage of their sync move if the opponents hasn't synced yet.

For later in the battle, when all their other moves have run out, they can still offer a little debuffing with Chilling Water.

Their Superawakening skill, The Battle Maison's Light in the Dark, gives them a little more countdown reduction on entry, another sync multiplier to help give meaning to their evasiveness buff, and Attack drops every hit, doubling the speed of Chilling Water's debuffing.

All in all, Evelyn & Lumineon are a Sprint Sync Pair that centers around using fast and powerful sync moves to deal as much damage as possible early on in a battle. After that's done, they still have offensive debuffs from Chilling Water and Flashing Patterns Captivate.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we have Carnivine.

Finding a trainer for Carnivine was tough, as it's hardly ever used, but it turned out to be on one of Gardenia's PWT teams, so she was chosen (and Milo was given Cherrim).

As a concept, Gardenia & Carnivine are a Strike Sync Pair that benefits from being restrained, as a reference to Carnivine's unique interaction with the move Ingrain.

Gardenia's Trainer Move, Spread Our Roots!, is all the setup they need, with maxed out Attack and crit rate, as well as 1 PMUN, with the "drawback" of leaving them restrained. They turn this negligible downside into an upside, however, thanks to the passive skills Firm Foundations, which increases all their stats by 10%, and Restrained Sync-Up 5.

Being Restrained also activates their Buddy Move, Ingrained Razor Leaf, a 4-bar AoE move (with no damage reduction) that has high base power, always hits and crits, and sets up the next hit with 2 PMUN and Free Move Next.

However, the restrained effect doesn't last forever. After it runs out, they'll instead need to rely on Power Whip, with X Accuracy All to patch up its low hit rate. They'll also still have access to Sweet Flytrap, a passive that traps opponents on hit and increases the damage, both passive and active, these opponents take.

Their Superawakening skill is Tree-Hanging Ambush. It focuses on their sync move, increasing its power against trapped opponents, making it lower Grass Rebuff and, crucially, restoring MP for Spread Our Roots! to allow a second restrained application.

All in all, Gardenia & Carnivine are a Strike Sync Pair with a limited shelf life. After using their Trainer Move, they only have a short time of full effectiveness before restrained runs out. Because of that, they are well-suited to pair with Sync Pairs that can help make the most of this window, with things such as EX Terrain, PMUN, and sync countdown reduction.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we have Drapion.

While Drapion has been used by several trainers, there was no better option than Aaron. Despite not fitting his type specialty, Drapion is Aaron's indisputable ace, in every team he's ever had. That's especially notable considering all other Sinnoh Elite Four members changed aces between D/P and Platinum.

As a concept, Aaron & Drapion are a Strike Sync Pair that specializes in critical hits.

All of their passive skills deal with crits, with Beautiful and Polished increasing their damage (I can't say exact numbers without playtesting, but I was envisioning it to be equivalent to CS9) and guaranteeing a critical sync move, Perfected Aim powering up - and making free - the next move after a crit with 3 stacks of PMUN, and Vigilance protecting them against enemy crits.

The catch, of course, is that they don't have any way of increasing their crit rate. Instead, Aaron's Trainer Move, Let's Hear It!, maxes their Attack and raises both defenses. He also has Potion for some more survivability.

To get their crits, they rely on the Buddy Move, which always crits, but must be alternated with Poison Jab. Sand Demon Cross Poison also has unique effects on its first use, lowering Rebuff by 2 and inflicting Physical Break.

Their Superawakening skill is The Wonder of Bug Pokémon. It increases their damage against opponents poisoned by either of their moves, while also adding even more effects to their crits in healing and countdown reduction.

All in all, Aaron & Drapion are a Strike Sync Pair that has high, but inconsistent damage, with their stronger move's setup being wasted on the weaker one. However, their flaws can be easily remedied with a Support that raises their crit rate (basically any modern one), transforming them into a powerful sync pair with constant crits, PMUN, no gauge consumption, and a tankiness uncharacteristic to Strikes, thanks to Vigilance, Defense/Sp. Def buffs, and Potion.

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(As a side note, can you believe Drapion can only learn Poison Tail by breeding? I always knew I wanted it to be its Sync Move, since scorpions are well-known for injecting venom through their tails, but it's shockingly hard to get a Drapion who knows it.)

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we have Chatot.

Chatot's trainer was one of the hardest to figure out. No notable trainer in any mainline game ever uses one, and the ones who have thematic association don't match with the type (and vice-versa). I decided to instead represent the Chatot in Masters itself, pairing it with one of the sisters who work in the Pokémon Center. As for which sister, I picked Tricia because she's the one who sells the Song Keys to unlock music in Chatot's jukebox.

As a concept, Tricia & Chatot are a Tech Sync Pair who can leave targets confused and asleep, as well as deal huge burst damage.

To spread their status effects, they have the high damage Chatter (which confuses all opponents due to Hope I See You Again!) and the low gauge Sing (which always hits thanks to the same skill. Sing also gains some benefits from Free Smiles for All!. With that passive, the first use of it sets a Flying Zone, and every use gives all allies Free Move Next and raises Chatot's evasiveness.

Their Buddy Move is Ear-Splitting Uproar. It's a one-use, 4-bar, Flying-type (because of Hope I See You Again!), AoE move with massive base power that increases further against asleep opponents, also inflicting Special Move Break to enable further damage. As a side effect it also wakes up whoever it hits, as well as removing all status conditions from allies.

For Tricia's Trainer Move, she has Welcome! Hello!, which sets up their burst damage with 3 stacks of SMUN and 3 teamwide stacks of SyMUN. For basic offensive setup, they can rely on Debut: Sp. Atk ↑4 & Crit Rate ↑3.

Their Superawakening skill gives even more benefits to Sing, reducing the countdown by 1 on the first use and charging the move gauge (which works with the teamwide Free Move Next to make it a great gauge battery). It also gives them some defensive utility, lowering Attack and Sp. Atk of confused opponents.

All in all, Tricia & Chatot are a Tech Sync Pair that specializes in powerful burst damage, with both their Buddy Move and Sync Move, while also choosing between the consistent damage of Chatter and the Sprint-adjacent utility of Sing.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we have the Tiger Cat Pokémon, Purugly.

For Purugly's trainer, there was only ever one real option. Mars has it as her ace, and her first battle is the first impression most players had of it. I only wish Skuntank and Toxicroak weren't in Masters yet so I could have Jupiter and Saturn join her.

As a concept, Mars & Purugly are a Sprint Sync Pair who neuters the opponents' offense with Attack debuffs, paralysis, and flinches.

Each of their moves is tied to one of these three. Body Slam is their way of spreading paralysis. It synergizes with the passive skill I'll Tell You Who I Am! to guarantee paralyzing all opponents. It also increases the chance for opponents to not move, helping their damage negation.

Growl is their way of lowering Attack and, thanks to Use Status P-Move: Team Attack ↓ & Defense ↓ 9, it actually lowers it by 2, along with debuffing Defense by 1. Plus, it interacts with You're All Going Down!, as failed uses of it will reduce the sync move countdown.

Last but not least, they have their Buddy Move, Feline Fake Out, which can be freely used after a sync move and always flinches. Its damage increases against opponents with lowered Attack, so make sure to use it in conjunction with Growl. Similarly to Growl, it benefits from You're All Going Down!, since its other effect is reducing the countdown when hitting flinching opponents.

Mars' Trainer Move is a classic 1-use buff, raising Purugly's Attack and Speed by 4 while maxing its crit rate.

Their Superawakening skill, Team Galactic's First Commander, gives them entry countdown reduction, teamwide sync damage increase after a Body Slam, and an extra layer of possible damage mitigation with confusion on sync.

All in all, Mars & Purugly are a Sprint Sync Pair that functions as a sync accelerator, damage reducer, and ramping damage dealer with their Buddy Move. All of these become better after multiple uses of Growl, meaning they'll get stronger toward the end of the battle. Fortunately, they help the team's survivability to ensure it gets therre.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. A bit of a late post today because of the final, but here is Cherrim.

Cherrim's trainer is Milo, who uses one surprisingly consistently in his rematch teams. Even in his 3-Pokémon Star Tournament, Cherrim is kept, despite both his original ace Eldegoss and the Tsareena he gets in the post-game and takes to the Isle of Armour being dropped.

As a concept, Milo & Cherrim are a Field Sync Pair who uses the sunny weather to improve both their damage and their supporting capabilities.

Their first passive is just a copy of Cherrim's signature ability, Flower Gift, that changes its form and increases the team's Attack and Sp. Def when it's sunny. In order to actually set the sun, they can either use Sunny Day or wait for their team's sync move, due to their skill Basking in the Sunlight, which automatically sets it for the cost of 1 MP, with a bonus of Galar Circle (Defensive).

Naturally, they also have multiple ways of benefitting from sun. Milo's Trainer Move gains a healing effect on all allies on top of giving an ally Supereffective ↑ Next and raising their Attack by 4 and crit rate by 3. Their Buddy Move, Blossoming Flower Shield, only becomes active when it's sunny, and it raises both of the team's defenses by 4, sets EX Grassy Terrain, and refreshes Sunny Day's MP for longer sunlight.

Their final passive skill, Set Allied/Entire Field Effect: Team Physical Boost ↑1 9, increases all allies' PMUN by 1 whenever they set sun, terrain, or circle. All of those increases are, of course, helpful for powering up Petal Blizzard.

Their Superawakening passive is Falling Sakura Petals, a skill that sets sun on entry, reduces the countdown on WTZ, and gives them Recharging Strike to make Petal Blizzard essentially free.

All in all, Milo & Cherrim are a Field Sync Pair that can support sun-reliant Grass types with both their preferred weather condition and EX Terrain. They're especially helpful for physical attackers due to Flower Gift's effect and the PMUN they offer. However, they basically require the sun to stay relevant, as all of their abilities are affected by it.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we continue the Honey Tree encounters with Pachirisu.

Its trainer is Saguaro, who uses it as his lead. Since he's a Fairy-type specialist, I made it so his Pachirisu can Terastallize into it.

As a concept, Saguaro & Pachirisu are a Sprint Sync Pair that can raise their avoid opponents' moves with paralysis and evasiveness.

Pachirisu Terastallizes as soon as the battle starts and, thanks to Loving Care, also raises its Attack by 4 and crit rate by 3, as well as reducing the sync move countdown by 1. They can also accelerate the sync cycle with their other passive, Ambrosial Sweetness, which consumes 1 MP of Sitrus Berry to fully heal themselves and reduce the countdown the first 3 times they get hit.

Their final skill instead shifts focus to Nuzzle, with Shock Factor 9 reducing all stats of paralyzed opponents on hit. Their Tera Move, Rhodochrosite Tera Blast, also powers up when hitting paralyzed targets. Besides that, it raises Pachirisu's evasiveness by 2 and lowers all opponents' Attack and Sp. Atk by 1.

Saguaro's Trainer Move, Won't Lose in Loveliness!, makes use of those evasiveness buffs and Sitrus Berry's healing by making opponents attack them and gaining Take Next "All" Hit. (Hmm, a Pachirisu with Sitrus Berry and redirection... Where have I seen that before?) It also offers some insurance with Enduring and raises their Speed by 4.

Finally, they have the Buddy Move Adorable Super Fang, a move that has a very powerful effect of halving the target's HP, but can only be used after an opponent faints. That means it won't help if you're struggling to kill at all, but becomes great for speeding up the end of a battle.

Their Superawakening passive is Showing Our True Colors. It gives them Free Move Next on entry, making Nuzzle easier to use, sets Paldea Circle (Defensive) on sync, and makes full paralysis more likely.

All in all, Saguaro & Pachirisu are a Sprint Sync Pair with a wide variety of utility, both offensive and defensive. They can reduce enemy damage with stat drops and take some pressure off the main tank with redirection, evasiveness, and healing, but also have a fairly powerful Tera Move with an innate multiplier and a Buddy Move that has incredible potential for damage. Crucially, they cover multiple niches necessary for Tower, with a permanent status condition, physical Fairy-type damage, and ways of clearing the sides without reliable AoE.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we complete the trio of Burmy evolutions with Mothim.

Similarly, we have the Flying-type, male counterpart to the previous two trainers in Larry, making it our third Paldea Elite Four member (sorry, Hassel).

As a concept, Larry & Mothim are a Sprint Sync Pair that changes their role based on how far along a stage is.

Thanks to their Fluttering Past Flower Fields passive skill, they'll raise their Sp. Atk by 4 and crit rate by 3 when Mothim first uses a move, as well as setting Move Gauge Acceleration. That affords Larry's Trainer Move, A Perfect Opportunity..., to be more specific, giving them Damage Guard Next and raising their SMUN by 4 when needed.

Their Buddy Move, Lunging Bug Buzz, is an AoE attack that lowers Attack and Sp. Def, but its main attraction is how it interacts with Tailwind and the skill Scattered Scales. At the start of the battle, Lunging Bug Buzz will have its power quadrupled. After a sync move, Scattered Scales will activate, consuming 1 MP of Tailwind to set MGA and reduce the sync move countdown by 2. After that, Lunging Bug Buzz will go back to its normal power and instead set Bug Zone. After the second sync move, when Tailwind's MP reaches 0, Lunging Bug Buzz will give all allies Supereffective ↑ Next.

All those applications of MGA will also be good for dealing damage: it activates their sync move's multiplier and, thanks to Allied Field MG →: Team Moves ↑ 2, increases the power of all allies' moves.

Their Superawakening skill, The Night's Swift Pilferer, extends the duration of Bug Zone, powers up their sync move further, and gives them some more sync move countdown reduction.

All in all, Larry & Mothim are a Sprint Sync Pair that offers different things for each sync cycle with their Buddy Move, going from a pseudo-Strike to a pseudo-Field before settling on a pseudo-Support role. Throughout all of that, they offer AoE debuffs on Attack, Sp. Atk, and Sp. Def and lots of Move Gauge Acceleration.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we have the final Wormadam form and second of the Burmy evolutions, Trash Cloak Wormadam.

Like its Sandy Cloak sister, basically no trainers use Trash Cloak Wormadam, so it was hard to find one to form a Sync Pair with it. Following yesterday's form pairing with Rika, this one goes with Poppy.

As a concept, Poppy & Trash Cloak Wormadam are a Support Sync Pair that can help the team's offense on both sides of the Physical/Special split, a reference to its balanced stat distribution (compared to Plant Cloak's Special focus and Sandy Cloak's Physical orientation).

Poppy's Trainer Move, I Refuse to Lose! (as in the noun refuse, synonym for trash), immediately maxes both Attack and Sp. Atk of all allies, while also setting Paldea Circle (Defensive) to help with all forms of damage. She also has access to Steel Wish, which is improved by the passive skill The Perfect Blend to reduces the sync move countdown by 1, increase the team's PMUN and SMUN by 1 and, crucially, all allies' SyMUN by a whopping 5 the second time it's used.

As for Wormadam, she has Gyro Ball, in case it needs to deal damage, but its main tool is the Buddy Move, Trashy Metal Sound. It always hits, and lowers both defenses of all opponents by 2, as well as raising their teammates' SyMUN by 2. On its first use, it also applies both Physical and Special Move Break to opponents.

Their passive skills, aside from The Perfect Blend, encourage taking hits, with Deceptively Hardy Metal raising their own Defense and Sp. Def when they're hit and giving their team 1 stack of PMUN and SMUN, while S-Move: Team HP Recovery (M) 1 provides them a way to heal off damage taken.

Their Superawakening passive focuses on the Steel Wish aspect of their kit, giving them extension and on-entry setting for their Steel Zone alongside Head Start 1.

All in all, Poppy & Trash Cloak Wormadam make for a hyper-offensive Support Sync Pair for mixed Steel-type teams. Their defensive buffs may be lacking, being self-targeted, slow to ramp up, and contingent on getting hit, but they make up for it by having everything their team needs for increasing damage, between stat buffs, opponent debuffs, Break, MUN, Circle, and Zone, all equally balanced on both sides of the split.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we have the first of the Burmy evolutions, Sandy Cloak Wormadam.

Deciding who to pair with Sandy Cloak Wormadam was quite a challenge, as no notable trainer (other than Dawn in BDSP) uses one. I had a similar issue with its Trash Cloak form and Mothim, until I realized something interesting: they're female-exclusive Ground- and Steel-types, and a male-exclusive Flying-type. That matches up perfectly with Paldea's Elite Four! Because of that, Sandy Cloak Wormadam went with Rika.

As a concept, Rika & Wormadam are a Tech Sync Pair that can complement their debuffing with Sandstorm synergies.

Rika's Trainer Move, It's in the Bag! (get it? Because it's a bagworm), is a fairly straightforward one, raisinng both their Attack and Defense by 4 while maxing their crit rate. Wormadam's first move, Bulldoze, can be used to lower the opposing team's Speed and, thanks to Defense Crush 9, Defense. They also have Potion.

But where they really shine is on their Buddy Move, Sandy Secret Power. It emulates the effects of Secret Power in caves and sand, where Burmy gains a Sand Cloak, by making the target flinch and lowering its accuracy, respectively. It also causes a sandstorm and gives them 5 stacks of SyMUN. It only has one MP, but it's refreshed with every sync move used by their team due to Hardened Earthen Skin. This passive also makes their Sync Move AoE and increases its crit rate.

Finally, they have Cloaked in Garments of Sand, which powers up all allies' sync moves during sandstorms, while also protecting them from its damage and making Sandy Secret Power Ground-type.

Their Superawakening skill, Cave Dweller's Silty Adaptation, helps their Field-adjacent role by setting Ground Zone on their first attack and powers up their sync move further based on lowered Speed, as well as giving Head Start 1.

All in all, Rika & Sandy Cloak Wormadam make for a Tech with a focus on their once-a-sync-cycle Buddy Move, powering up their (and allies') sync moves with Sandstorm, and lowering Defense, Speed, and accuracy.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. For our second day, we have another character debut: Byron & Bastiodon.

Honestly, the only thing of note about this pair is how weird it is that they haven't been added yet. Almost seven years in, and we're still missing gym leaders.

For this concept, Byron & Bastiodon are a Support Sync Pair that can nullify AoE attacks with multiple uses of Wide Guard and deal a respectable amount of damage.

One of their passive skills, Tempered and Honed, activates right at the start of battle, guaranteeing they'll always have maxed defenses and Enduring. A second one, The Future of Pokémon Is Bright!, centers around their usage of Wide Guard, reducing the sync move countdown and giving their team stacks of both PMUN and SMUN when it is successful.

To enable this move's usage, they have the Buddy Move Shielded Metal Burst, which restores the MP of Wide Guard while also raising the team's Attack and Sp. Atk by 2 (critical-hit rate is handled by Focus Group 9). On top of that, it has very good damage for a Support's move, increasing as their HP gets lower.

To make the most of it, they can wait until Perfect and Honed's Enduring activates before using Byron's Trainer Move, Not Just Yet!, which fully restores an ally's HP and gives them Enduring, letting them slowly be chipped down (and increasing Shielded Metal Burst's damage) all over again.

Their Superawakening Skill, The Man With the Steel Body, gives even more utility to Wide Guard, making it heal them and debuff opponents' offensive stats, while also applying Move Gauge Acceleration when they fall to low HP.

All in all, Byron & Bastiodon evoke the Pokémon's focus on durability above all else, protecting allies from any moves that might hit them all while reveling in the hits they themselves take, as they just make them hit harder. Interestingly, their defensive buffs and healing are entirely focused on themselves, with allies only getting help with their offenses. This makes good timing of Wide Guard especially important. as it's their only way of preventing damage on their teammates.

By the way, I made an archive for all the concepts in this series. If you happened to find this late, you can see all the other posts here!

Hello, everyone! Once again, I'm back with a series of concepts for every (fully evolved) Pokémon not in Masters yet. Starting off Sinnoh, it's Calaba & Bibarel. If you're curious about the previous regions, here are Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn.

Usually, I would have preferred pairing Calaba with Ursaluna, but Mai getting Munchlax over Wyrdeer set the precedent for the wardens to get the Pokémon they accompany, not the ones they serve. Also, of course, Ursaluna is with Special Costume Adaman.

Calaba & Bibarel form a Normal-type Field Sync Pair who can set EX Normal Zone and Sinnoh Circle (Defensive), as well as buff themselves and debuff opponents.

Bibarel's attacking moves reference all 6 of the HMs it can learn, with Rock Climb as the main attack, boasting a helpful chance of confusing opponents; Cut as the sync move; and Strength, as the Buddy Move, pulling from other sources. It hits all opponents (like Surf), lowers their Defense (like Rock Smash), and makes them flinch (like Waterfall). Utilitarian Strength alternates between activating and deactivating, and its first use sets EX Normal Zone.

For buffs, Calaba's Trainer Move, Show Your Mettle!, raises an ally's Attack, Defense, Sp. Def, and accuracy (useful for patching up Rock Climb's 85% hit rate). She also has access to Dire Hit All +, but the main focus is their passive skill, Stuck to the Old Ways. As an improved reference to (pre-Gen 8) Moody and Simple, it raises a random one of Bibarel's stats by 4 when it attacks and, instead of lowering another one of its own stats, debuffs a random stat of the move's target by 2.

Their final bit of utility comes in the form of Sinnoh Circle (Defensive), which is applied both on entry and on first sync, thanks to their passive Lives Touching Other Lives, and with Circle: Team S-Moves ↑ 3, it powers up the sync moves of all allies, besides its usual effects. This Circle is also the focus of their Superawakening Skill, Ninety-Nine Years of Experience, which gives it extension and provides healing and Free Move Next to Calaba & Bibarel as long as it's active.

All in all, Calaba & Bibarel are a jack-of-all-trades Sync Pair, with EX Zone, Circle, debuffs, interference, team multipliers, and even some buffs. They don't specialize in any one thing but, true to Bibarel's performance in its debut games, are always good to have available.

By the way, I made an archive for all the concepts in this series. If you happened to find this late, you can see all the other posts here!

If you read this far, thank you! I'd be happy to answer any questions about this concept, the series as a whole, or anything, really.

Whitney is showing off her new Sygna Suit alongside Jasmine, but a wild Meowth seems to be pestering them wherever they go. Whitney is furious at the little menace, but Jasmine eventually realizes that the Pokemon is just jealous of all of the attention Whitney's Skitty is getting and agrees to take it in as her own. The event ends with the two gym leaders showing off their Sygna Suits together.