#glo-co

Abominaceon, the Market Research Pokemon The project began very simply, relatively speaking. Research the peculiarities of Eevee's evolutionary branches, and use it to genetically engineer the most universally beloved Pokemon possible. At first the goal was crystal clear, dragons are among the most popular Pokemon of all time, and Eevee's genome implied a natural draconic form should exist, but it was struggling to be expressed somehow. It took too long for the board, and they started pushing us elsewhere. If this project was to continue, and I did so want it to continue, we would need to branch out, provide data that this truly was the most lovable creature to ever walk this earth. And so, attached, you can see the hundreds upon hundreds of polls, meetings, and meta-analyses on preferences. It needed bat wings, a kaiju's prescence, but a friendly demeanor. It needed to be made of metal with the soft fluffiness of a Whimsicott, it needed the charm of a Joltik and the edge of an Absol. You would not believe how many kids want a Pokemon with cool shoes. One of these is just the word Pidgeot written thirty times, we never could figure out what to do with that one. We gave it extra arms to hug you with, a bell so it doesn't get lost. It can change to any color you like, breathe underwater, even photosynthesize so you can't forget to feed it. Somehow, we did it. I wish we didn't.

Types: Normal/Dragon Ability: Steelworker Hidden Ability: Polluted Eevee has no Hidden Ability Evolution: Polluted Eevee appears unable to evolve.

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You stare at the bizarre Pokemon, strangely both deeply unsettled and deeply attached to it. It struggles to stand up on its hind legs, planting reinforced legs in rubber shoes onto the glass between you, the look in its eyes begging you to set it free.

You don't get the chance "Hey!" Sounds like someone finally realized you broke in here. "What are you doing in here!" You pull out your Derelich's Pokeball. There's only one way out of this one.

The Glo-Co Security guard sneers as he comes through the door and sees both your Pokeball and the polluted Eevee. He throws out a Pokeball of his own...

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Caliglo, the Warning Pokemon Following the train derailment outside Bascule City, a great deal of hazardous material was left in the area. We have confirmed this is the cause of the recent outbreaks of caustic rain in the area, but this detail is not to be released to the public. The toxic air around the breached and spread materials has made cleanup difficult. One good thing has come of the disaster, however. A population of feral Calicozy had lived in the impact zone, and has adapted to the hostile environment rather than expire. Legal and Marketing are currently trying to figure out ways we can copyright these without raising the ire of the entire region. The Pokemon, currently codenamed "Caliglo" exhibits behavior far different from the other polluted specimens, in particular it is able to breed and evolve without extreme methods. Caliglo appears to be a natural evolution of Caliglo in the face of a new environment, such as the changes in Manakan Sneasel, or the evolution of Eevee around the mythical "Moss Rock." Caliglo are extremely tough, and completely immune to the toxic environment in the crash area. Even in areas of low contamination, the green patches on Caliglo's coat glow, alerting everyone to the nearby danger. This glow intensifies with contamination level, letting them be used as living sensors to help teams get deeper into the area with relative safety. The green color is muted outside the contaminated area, allowing the Pokemon to exist in most public spaces under the guise of being a particularly chubby Calicozy. Because of this, we have been planting Caliglo in important positions to be on the lookout for the contamination.

Types: Poison/Dark Ability: Geiger Counter — As Pokemon take damage from poison, Caliglo increases its most proficient stats in sequence. Toxic poison raises by two stages instead. [Best stat the first tick, second best the second tick, start at the best stat again on the sixth tick] Hidden Ability: Corrosion Evolution: Calicozy evolves into Caliglo when it levels up in an irradiated area. Gender Split: 75% Female, 25% Male Egg Group: Field; Unlike Calicozy, male Caliglo can breed.

No one at Glo-Co is watching on account of the holidays, go, quick, spread the word while we can! I'm going to try to get more documents before they realize what's going on.

Manakan Castform, the Wild Weather Pokemon [According to urban legend,] Castform is an artificial Pokemon created by [a mythical scientist] to finely control the weather. While these Castform do have a higher level of control than their Hoenn cousins, they are also far more erratic and delight on bringing down chaotic weather down all across Manaka.

Types: Flying Signature Ability: Weather Report — This Pokemon's form changes with the weather, and the weather changes with this Pokemon's attacks.

In specific, after a Pokemon with Weather Report attacks with a Water, Fire, Rock, Ice, or Poison move, it sets up the corresponding weather if that wasn't the last weather that Pokemon set by any means. Additionally, * Under Rain and Primordial Seas, Castform becomes its Rainy Form as usual, but under normal Rain, its fire moves are not depowered. * Under Sun and Desolate Lands, Castform becomes its Sunny Form as usual, but under normal Sun, its water moves are not depowered. * Under Hail and Snow, Castform becomes its Snowy Form as usual. * Under Sandstorm, Castform becomes its new Dusty Form. * Under Acid Rain and Fog, Castform becomes its new Smoggy Form, changing itself to the Poison type. In Fog, Castform's accuracy is not dropped and Weather Ball becomes Poison type. * Under Delta Stream, or under Tailwind with no other Weather, Castform's Weather Ball changes into the Flying type and doubles in power (and remains its Tornado form).

Mechanically, I'm back and forth on if the Weather Forms should keep the Flying type. The strongest thing holding me back is I did want to keep the Sunny, Rainy, and Snowy forms the same designs, which is going to cause issues if they have different types. I'm increasingly thinking the play is to redesign those three for dual type forms, but I've hit my deadline for today, so that will need to be a doodle for another day.

Pyreswine, the Wildfire Pokemon Studies into evolving the summer Swinub have been delving into ancestral DNA of the species that roamed the earth when it was much warmer. The natural re-activation of these genes have been clumsy, locking out the Swinub from being able to evolve into either Piloswine or the prehistoric variant we've dubbed Pyreswine. We're not really sure what Pyreswine would have looked like, but we strongly suspect the stable few we have are quite close, given the poor outcomes for the hybrids. A likely difference between the two is the great quantity of gasses produced by the Pyreswine, some of which is burns off to continue the burning of not just the obvious burn of its tusks and eyebrows, but also the subtler fire beneath the Pokemon's coat, which is most obvious in the thinnest area around its nose. Likely this production would not have been necessary in its original form, at least to this degree, as these gases were quite prevalent in the atmosphere at the time. Instead, we believe this is a gene we have dialed up that allowed the Pokemon to be stable in an atmosphere that would normally not support them. Gas capture is very important during study of Pyreswine, as enclosed spaces can quickly become dangerous to researchers from the excess gasses the Pyreswine releases without burning off.

Peacekeeper, the Unshackled Pokemon According to legend, Manakan Azelf was the guardian of Lake Mettle. Glo-Co found this for themselves when a tailing pond breached, and the little fairy tried to hold back the tide. The toxic chemicals and heavy metals were too great a threat for the guardian, and it nearly died in the attempt. The Pokemon became an excellent place to test bioengineering, first replacing the molten gem with a cybernetic eye to make up for the Pokemon's lost eyes. When the gem was discovered to have great restraining power, the two in its tails were also recovered, allowing for the creation of something similar to Sinnoh's Red Chain, which we used to keep Azelf under better control. With this better control over the Pokemon, its tails were completed with explosive armaments. It is unclear why this decision was made, as it has just made containment of codename "Peacekeeper" much more difficult, and they've never been officially used for any purpose, or even tested within the labs after their original addition.

Peacekeeper: Ravaged-form Manakan Azelf. Peacekeeper only exists as a Boss Encounter in the final dungeon. Types: Steel/Fire Ability: High Explosive — Peacekeeper is immune to Ground moves. Its self-destructive moves are more powerful and bypass immunities. Boss Move — Lake's Destruction | If the target's defense stats are higher than their offense stats, their defense stats are lowered by one stage, and vice versa. Then Peacekeeper explodes for a large amount of damage, fainting afterwards.

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The final tube lands with a great rattling noise. The final fairy moves quickly and erratically unlike its brothers, the rattling of the chains draped around it constant. Where the previous two lake guardians still had their tails intact, this one has two chains drifting away from it, one capped with a flamethrower, the other a many-barrelled gun, its spinning adding to the noise. It's green gem lights up as it lays eyes on you, and its two weapons swivel to attention...

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Crashle, the Car Inn Pokemon Impelled evolution for impacted Dwebble has been the easiest and most customizable of the known species so far. The cans that the polluted Dwebble are attracted to can simply be removed and replaced with more and more impressive scrap. The key element to watch for in impacted Dwebble is its coloration: Dwebble which are still the original orange will still seek out rocks, and only use metal out of desperation. As the purple pigments begin to appear and spread across its skin, seeking metal becomes a compulsion, and eventually a need. Once cultivated to this point, the Dwebble simply needs its current shell taken away in the presence of a replacement piece of metal. Preferably, this metal will be larger, forcing the Dwebble to grow stronger to carry it. Eventually, the shell will become too great, and the Dwebble will be forced to evolve in order to carry its new shell. The key to this is slow progression: A Dwebble forced into evolution too soon will end up evolving with too small a shell, and be less impressive than a normal Crustle. Our most successful specimen reached the size of an automobile before finally evolving. While this Pokemon, codenamed "Crashle" is very impressive, I believe we can push this project even further.

Wooldyu, the Woolly Aphid Pokemon Wooldyu once collected in large groups to devour crops like a hungry cloud, but developments in [pest dispersion] have reduced the economic cost of these swarms. Wooldyu were becoming endangered in Manaka, but the population has stabilized after learning to disguise themselves in discarded Ninjask shells.

Type: Bug/Fairy Ability: Sap Sipper Hidden Ability: Disguise Signature Move: Cotton Pile — Fairy | 60 BP | 15 PP | Physical | After using this move, its base power is increased by 10 for the rest of the battle.

Wooldyu are delicate and a rare sight in Manaka, being a rare encounter on only a few forest routes. However, by setting a Ninjask's Shedded Molt on a tree in these areas, a Wooldyu will very quickly crawl into it, allowing you to catch it with its hidden ability.

Cattywampus, the Askew Pokemon Cattywampus are unpredictable to everyone, except sometimes their own trainers. It may begin to hiss and bite at someone it allowed to pet it a moment before. Its hair stands up to mimic the spines of a Sandslash, but remains harmless. On the other hand, its teeth and claws can carve even into stone.

Types: Normal/Dark Abilities: Hustle / Cornered — Having a status condition makes the Pokemon likely to move first. Hidden Ability: Defiant Gender Split: 87.5% Female, 12.5% Male Egg Group: Field; Male Cattywampus cannot breed.

After working out a Calicozy to level 20, it will trade its Thick Fat for the Hustle of Cattywampus. Cattywampus is a physical sweeper, using Hone Claws to overcome the accuracy loss from Hustle, and packing Acrobatics or Play Rough for Fighting types that try to take advantage of the quad weakness. For STAB, Cattywampus can go big with Power Trip, go reliable with Slash and Crunch, go gutsy with Cornered+Flame Orb Facade, or go all in with Double-Edge, Thrash, or a Last Resort set. While not a great support mon, Cattywampus may get some mileage from Taunt or Torment as a counter-support mon, being immune to Pranksters.

Calicozy normally evolves into Cattywampus, but I have heard some people say their Calicozy evolved into Pokemon with green patterning, rather than Cattywampus's brown, black, and orange. After a lot of hunting, I can confirm this isn't just a shiny Cattywampus, but [Content removed due to a copyright complaint from Glo-Co].