Schroentgen, the Unknown Scar of Ulmich
More Ulmich lore! This mon's actually a concept I've had for an ungodly amount of time, but I thought it'd be a pretty appropriate inclusion to Ulmich considering its themes.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Species Name: Schroentgen
"The Atomic Age Pokemon"
Type: Poison/Steel
Gender: Genderless
Ability:
Mutually Assured Destruction - Upon entering a battle, the user poisons all opponents, including itself.
Base Stats:
HP - 100
Atk - 90
Def - 90
Sp. Atk - 160
Sp. Def - 90
Speed - 150
TOTAL: 680
Its signature move is "Criticality," a Poison-type special attack with a base damage of 120 and a PP of 5.
Dex Entry: Schroentgen was the result of a nuclear experiment during the middle of the 20th century. After several scientists fell deeply ill from acute radiation sickness, it was decommissioned and buried deep underground.
Schroentgen's name is derived from Erwin Schrodinger, the Austrian scientist behind the Schrodinger's Cat experiment, and Roentgen, a unit measuring ionizing radiation named after Wilhelm Rontgen, a German physicist.
Schroentgen was built in an Ulmichan lab in the early 50s, a shining example of Ulmichan ingenuity during the early Atomic Age. It's a self-contained nuclear power plant, able to give out massive amounts of energy in such a short amount of time. Its legs are cooling towers, with valves under its feet that allow it to intake water necessary for cooling itself, preventing overheating that could cause a meltdown. For the time, it was a massive achievement.
However, due to the limited knowledge of how nuclear power works at the time, much of the plutonium, uranium, and radium compounds inside Schroentgen were improperly stored, leading to leakage.
As a result, many people fell ill after exposure to Schroentgen within a relative radius of three miles, all of which suffered from various forms of radiation sickness. The closer one was to the Pokemon, the more severe their symptoms were. Many scientists involved in the Schroentgen experiment fell into critical condition due to ARS (Acute Radiation Sickness) after constant exposure to the nuclear feline.
In a government cover-up situation, the Ulmichan federal authorities quietly made the decree to decommission and bury Schroentgen deep under the Earth, under massive amounts of lead, in order to prevent further sickness and loss of life. To this day, most Ulmichans are unaware of the Schroentgen's existence, or what it was that caused so many people to become so sick and covered in exposure burns during the 50s.
After many decades underground, Schroentgen fell into disrepair. Where its compounds were once improperly stored, it now actively expelled incredibly dangerous radiation, with lava-hot fuel dripping from its pipes. If ever it were to unearth itself, Schroentgen would pose much more of an active threat to Ulmich than it did in the 1950s. Without proper cooling, it could explode at any given moment, creating a massive exclusion zone. Do NOT touch the cat's burial site, no matter your reason - it's blocked off by the government for a very good reason.
Lastly, unlike Bundesaetos, its stats are incredibly unbalanced, and that is due to the nature of radiation itself - gamma rays are incredibly dangerous AND incredibly fast, able to phase through almost anything with a density lower than lead. I don't believe Schroentgen would be a box legendary for the Ulmich Region, but it would be similar to Eternatus. Just more of an active threat. Keep it away from Ground types or it might just render half of Ulmich uninhabitable - not all 4x weaknesses are created equal.
