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Battlemon FERRAPTOR

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FERRAPTOR, the Cunning Pokémon. Using its tail as a radar antenna, FERRAPTOR can detect its next meal from five miles away. It leads packs of up to a dozen SHRAPTOR, using the light on the end of its tail to communicate. FERRAPTOR can race at ExtremeSpeeds on its swift legs, but only for a short distance. It streaks through the long grass towards its prey, and then uses its razor-sharp claws to tear it to pieces.

Name Origin: FERrous (Iron in Latin)/FERal/FERocious + RAPTOR
Type: Dark/Steel
Height: 7'4"
Weight: 253.4 lbs
Ability: Limber/Moxie (Anticipation)
Evolution: Shraptor ---> Level-up while holding Razor Claw at Night ---> FERRAPTOR
Breeding Groups: Monster/Ground
Moves Learned: Same movepool as SHRAPTOR, with added moves ExtremeSpeed, Lock-On, Dragon Claw, Night Slash, and Giga Impact; a notable additional HM is Rock Climb, and three additional notable TMs are Detect, Leaf Blade, and Signal Beam.

Base Stats:
HP: 80
Attack: 130
Defense: 80
Sp.Atk: 45
Sp.Def: 50
Speed: 140
TOTAL: 525

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For a very important reason, I would like to thank everyone for all their wonderful faves and comments. I may respond to some of your activities, but not all, so try to keep your expectations low.
Special thanks to ~psychonyxdorotheos for the updated dex format!

Clever girl... er, boy... Well, you know what I mean...
Anyways, Weavile-o-Saurus is back, and he's got an awesome :new: look to go with Shraptor's update! I'm really proud of how this lean, mean, killing machine looks now, particularly because his design goes so well with his pre-evolution.
As Shraptor is to Sneasel and Pawniard, so Ferraptor is to their evolutions, Weavile and Bisharp respectively. Like the Sharp Claw Pokémon to, well, the Sharp Claw Pokémon, Shraptor evolves into this bad boy via level-up with a Razor Claw... AT NIGHT. He also keeps the species name of the Cunning Pokémon, as well as a relatively similar color scheme. However, the similarity mostly ends there, for of course, Shraptor and Ferraptor are both predatory deinonychosaurid dinosaurs (specifically Velociraptor and Utahraptor, respectively), and what's more, Ferraptor is almost twice the size of his pre-evo, with a boosted viciousness to match! That's closer to Pawniard and Bisharp, proportions-wise at least. Some differences I made from the original Ferraptor, intended as a contest entry for ~agentbeast, are that the hands are now turned inwards (Shraptor's claws are positioned in the same way) and have two fingers instead of three, the tail is slimmer and more antenna-like, and the head and neck are simplified without the superfluous crest on top. Tl;dr, he now looks less like a slurpa-Shraptor (sort of; the color schemes were almost exactly alike, so the original looked rather like an oversized Shraptor with spare parts XD) and more like a plausible evolution for the Cunning Pokémon.
(By the way, the shiny colorations of both of these fakemon are supposed to be indicative of rusted iron. They ARE still Steel-types, after all.)

The movepool and base stats are also altered a bit to reflect these changes. With Pawniard and Bisharp's introduction, we now have an official Pokemon with the same type combo as Shraptor, so I now have more to work with for the moves learned. As the Movepool says, Ferraptor has a similar move set to his pre-evolution, but with the added attacks of ExtremeSpeed to take advantage of his wicked Speed stat (which I'll get to later), Lock-On so his next move never misses, Dragon Claw because of those killing claws, Night Slash for STAB from its Dark-type, and Giga Impact because he is fully evolved. The additional TMs/HMs are also additions, and Ferraptor can learn the same TMs that its pre-evo can. The Rock Climb is there because actual raptors used their claws as climbing grapples, so I figured Ferraptor would do the same; the TMs are there because of what Ferraptor can do, and should be rather obvious from looking at his Pokedex entry.
Stats-wise, Ferraptor is, like his pre-evo, more geared towards attack than defense. His 80 HP is ten higher than Weavile's 70 and 15 higher than Bisharp's 65; the 130 Attack is 10 higher than Weavile's 120 and 5 more than Bisharp's 125. To balance out, I took 20 away from Bisharp's 100 defense and kept the 45 Special Attack the same, while slicing 35 from Weavile's Special Defense. That leaves the last stat, Speed. I figured that since this beastie is built forward and attacks like a grass-to-surface missile, he should have a high Speed stat, so I added most of the deduction and ended up with a whopping 140, 15 higher than Weavile's 125 and twice as much as Bisharp's 70. The result is a total of 525, 15 higher than Weavile's 510 and 35 higher than Bisharp's 490!
Overall, Ferraptor is one of the deadliest fakemon of either the Dark or Steel type I have whipped up, and I have always been proud of his design. Hopefully, if these two fakemon ever end up becoming official ones somehow, they will definitely give you a better reason to steer clear of the long grass than Weavile or Bisharp can. Don't mess with Ferraptor! :mwahaha:

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Bealmeister's avatar
This I like. This is gotta be one of my favorite dino-like pokemon! I have a proposition for you. I've been creating a fake pokedex comprised of old species, species that i've created and those species created by various DeviantArt accounts. I was curious if you would help out with it. P.S. All credit goes to those accounts too. Other than that, Nice job!