Partner Pokémon

This update was a long time coming. From the very first release of this datapack, there's been one major issue that stuck out more than all the others: the fact that Partner Pokémon could not use their species' exclusive Z-Moves. Well, what once was a nightmare can finally be laid to rest, because... Partner Pokémon can finally use their species' exclusive Z-Moves!

• Added Mimikyu, Rockruff, and Lycanroc. Now you can use their Z-Moves too along with all the others.
• Partner Mew now has a new signature move called Multi-Role Blast.
  • Multi-Role Blast: A 100 base power, 100% accuracy, Special Psychic-type move that has no secondary effects whatsoever if the move is not used by any variants of Partner Mew. However, if the move is used by any variant of Partner Mew, the move can hit Dark-types, ignores the target's evasion boosts, has a heightened chance for a critical hit, and has varying effects depending on the variant of Partner Mew.
  • If used by the standard variant, the move always scores a critical hit and raises the user's critical hit rate by one stage (only once per switch-in since it's Focus Energy's effect)
  • If used by the Bulky variant, the user recovers HP equal to half of the damage dealt.
  • If used by the Melee variant, the user's Attack is raised by one stage. Additionally, damage is calculated using Mew's Attack stat.
  • If used by the Resilient variant, the user's Defense is raised by one stage. Additionally, damage is calculated using Mew's Defense stat.
  • If used by the Ranged variant, the user's Sp. Atk is raised by one stage.
  • If used by the Resistant variant, the user's Sp. Def is raised by one stage. Additionally, damage is calculated using Mew's Sp. Def stat.
  • If used by the Speedy variant, the user's Defense is raised by one stage. Additionally, damage is calculated using Mew's Speed stat.
  • If used by the Special variant, one of the user's stats (chosen randomly) gets boosted by one stage. Additionally, the user's critical hit rate is boosted by one stage (again, only once per switch-in since it's Focus Energy's effect) and they regain HP equal to half of the damage dealt (essentially this effect combines all of the previous effects into one, since the Special variant is all of the other variants combined into one).

Changes: Most of these exclusive Z-Moves aren't like the ones you're familiar with.

• All of the exclusive Z-Moves, except for Guardian of Alola and Extreme Evoboost, now have additional effects, including the ones that did not have any previously. The ones that already had additional effects did keep them and were buffed regardless. Partner Pokémon using these Z-Moves additionally have a heightened chance for a critical hit, and ignore the target's type immunity and Ability to guarantee that their one-use-per-battle move can be used without a chance to fail.
  • Sinister Arrow Raid now traps the target on the field, just like Spirit Shackle. It also has a heightened chance to land a critical hit. If Partner Decidueye uses this move, the move will always be a critical hit.
  • Malicious Moonsault now ignores the target's defensive stat boosts, just like Darkest Lariat. It also raises the user's critical hit rate. If Partner Incineroar uses it, the critical hit rate is boosted even more.
  • Oceanic Operetta now cures the user of their non-volatile status conditions. If Partner Primarina uses it, their Trainer's entire party has their non-volatile status conditions cured.
  • Let's Snuggle Forever now reduces the target's stats by 2 stages, and the stats that get lowered change depending on which form Mimikyu is in. In Disguised form, the target's Defense, Sp. Def, and Speed are lowered, but in Busted form, the target's Attack, Sp. Atk, and Speed are lowered.
  • Pulverizing Pancake now breaks Reflect, Light Screen, and Aurora Veil. Splintered Stormshards also now breaks through the screens.
  • Soul-Stealing 7-Star Strike now steals the target's stat boosts.
  • Clangorous Soulblaze now ignores the target's stat changes.
  • Searing Sunraze Smash and Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom now raise the user's stats by 1 stage while lowering the target's stats by 1 stage. If Partner Solgaleo, Partner Lunala, or Partner Necrozma (while fused, obviously) use these moves, the stat changes are doubled.
    • Searing Sunraze Smash raises the user's Attack and Defense while lowering the target's Defense and Sp. Atk.
    • Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom raises the user's Sp. Atk and Sp. Def while lowering the target's Sp. Def and Attack.
  • Light That Burns The Sky now raises the user's offensive stats by one stage and the user's defensive stats by two stages. Due to Partner Fused Necrozma being unable to Ultra Burst, the regular variant of Ultra Necrozma has the same effects as the Partner variant. Once this issue is resolved, the move will be fixed.
  • Stoked Sparksurfer now summons Electric Terrain in addition to paralyzing the target. Currently, due to an unknown bug, the Partner aspect has no effect on Alolan Raichu, so until the bug is fixed, regular Alolan Raichu has the extra effects that the Partner aspect would have given the Z-Move.
  • In addition to ignoring type immunities and Abilities, Catastropika now ignores redirection, flinches and paralyzes the target.
  • In addition to ignoring type immunities and Abilities, 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt now ignores redirection.
  • If Partner Mew is using Genesis Supernova, the move has varying effects depends on which variant of Partner Mew is using the move.
    • The standard variant always scores a critical hit.
    • The stat-specific variants (except for the Bulky variant) uses that stat to calculate damage, then boosts it by two stages.
    • The Special variant has all of the effects combined (except the stat boosts are one stage boosts instead of two). Pretty much just Radical Red Genesis Supernova combined with the official Genesis Supernova.

Other changes:

• Meltan's evolution method has been changed to match Mega Showdown's evolution method for Meltan.
• Fixed the stats of non-Partner Alolan Raichu (don't know how I possibly missed it since it's been released...).
• Changed the form names for Partner Mew's variants to shorten them. Also makes it much easier to understand and allows them to use Genesis Supernova.
  • Also changed the form names for Cap Pikachu's Partner variants to make it easier for them to be capable of using 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt.
• Due to all the new stuff this update has, from this point onward, Mega Showdown is now a required download.

Shoutout to the members of the Mega Showdown Discord for helping me finally get this update out!

• Added the Pokémon capable of Gigantamaxing, as well as their respective evolutionary lines.
  • This also includes later generation evolutions, like Archaludon, Dipplin, and Hydrapple.
• Partner Pokémon that were already available in this datapack can now Gigantamax if their Gigantamax forms weren't already available (such as Melmetal).

• Added available Partner forms for Fossil Pokémon and the lines of Baby Pokémon.
  • Changed the Partner form stats for any Fossil Pokémon (keyword: Aerodactyl) and any Baby Pokémon that already had Partner variants to have similar changes to all the newly introduced ones.
• Changed additional evolution methods for Partner Pokémon that evolve via trade while holding an item (Scyther, Kantonian Slowpoke, and Onix). They now evolve at the same level as they had been set to, except now they need to hold the item rather than having said item be used on them.
• All Partner Pokémon that evolve with high friendship now evolve by standard level-up instead.

• Changed the aspects of all Mega-capable Pokémon to be "mega_evolution" instead of simply "mega" (or in the case of Charizard and Mewtwo, mega-x and mega-y) due to Mega Showdown's 9.3.8 update in order for Mega Partners to work properly again.

• Added all of the Pokémon with regional forms! This also includes their evolutions if they have one.
• Additionally added the lines of the Pokémon introduced in Pokémon Legends Arceus.
• Some of the evolutionary methods of these Pokémon were altered to make getting their evolved forms easier if they are Partner Pokémon.

• Ability errors in Partner Pokémon have been fully corrected, so now every Partner Pokémon has the correct Abilities. This excludes purposely changed Abilities.
• Changed the Partner Mudkip line's Hidden Ability from Damp to the much more useful Sand Force, allowing the line to be very effective in sandstorm teams in addition to already being amazing rain sweepers.
• Added the Tinkatink line! Replacing Pickpocket, now you can cause havoc with the Partner line's new Hidden Ability: Huge Power! (Tinkaton gets Guts instead because it's funny)
• Every Partner Pokémon available so far, including the newly introduced ones, have received behavioral updates. They now have their behaviors from the mods they originate from, but those who haven't yet received original behaviors received some changes to declutter them.
• Some Legendary and Mythical Pokémon have gotten additional requirements to get their Partner flag.

• Added Partner variants for the Ultra Beasts and Paradox Pokémon.
  • Their new stats still follow their numerical themes.
    • Partner Ultra Beasts still only have prime number stats.
      • Naganadel's base Speed stat still follows its theme of being a prime power.
    • Ancient Paradox Pokémon still only have odd-numbered base stats.
    • Future Paradox Pokémon still only have even numbered base stats.
  • Ridable Ultra Beasts and Paradox Pokémon can also now be ridden as their Partner variants.
• Finally fixed the moveset errors for the Partner variants with regional forms. Now they no longer learn moves they shouldn't have, and same with their regional variants, now following their actual movesets.
  • Alolan Decidueye no longer learns Triple Arrows, Hisuian Decidueye's signature move.
    • Hisuian Decidueye also no longer learns Spirit Shackle, Alolan Decidueye's signature move.
  • Johtonian Typhlosion no longer learns Infernal Parade, Hisuian Typhlosion's signature move.
  • Unovan Samurott no longer learns Ceaseless Edge, Hisuian Samurott's signature move.
  • Kantonian Slowbro no longer learns Side Shell Arm, Galarian Slowbro's signature move.
  • Johtonian Slowking no longer learns Eerie Spell, Galarian Slowking's signature move.
  • Kantonian Raichu no longer learns Psychic, which Alolan Raichu can learn.
• Pikachu now learns Volt Tackle after gaining the Partner aspect.

• Added Partner variants for every Legendary Pokémon.
  • Just like Partner Magikarp and Partner Abra, Partner Cosmog and Partner Cosmoem also now learn attacking moves so that they can actually do something in battle.
• Mega-capable Partner Pokémon now have the "Dynamax Blocked" flag to prevent them from being capable of Dynamaxing (even though it isn't in the game yet) so that you don't end up getting into a situation where you have a Dynamaxed Mega Partner Pokémon.
  • This also applies to Pokémon that have Mega-like transformations (excluding Battle Bond) so they also can't use Dynamax when they use said transformations.
• Partner Mew now has a slightly increased walking speed than it did before.

Side note: If you're using a mod that allows you to ride your Pokémon, like CobblemonRider, you may have noticed that you can't ride Partner Pokémon, meanwhile you could with the non-Partner variants. Don't worry, I've taken that into account, so I've added in an separate download with an edited config that also supplies the Partner variants, allowing you to ride the Partner variants of your Pokémon!

But still, I would highly suggest you still support the original mod instead of this datapack. I only added Partner variants to it, and made that available for everyone to use in conjunction with this datapack.

• To insert this, you need to do the same thing you did to install this datapack into your world, except you can just insert the config into your world's folder. Don't put the config file in the datapack folder, otherwise it won't work!

• Added Partner variants for all Mythical Pokémon. Type: Null and Silvally also come included.
  • Yes, this means Phione can now be slightly more useful!
• Meltan now has an evolution method.
  • This evolution method also applies for Partner Meltan as well.

• Added Pokédex entries for all the new available Partner Pokémon. Mew and Diancie also get Partner Pokédex entries as well.
  • With the exception of Mew, all Partner Pokémon with more than two available forms only get one (technically two) Dex Entries regardless of form.
• Removed the ash_cap aspect now that I know how aspects that aren't true or false work.
• Partner Pikachu and Partner Eevee now learn their exclusive Move Tutor moves by level-up.
  • This decision was solely made because I felt it necessary to include them.

• Changed how the "specialty" aspect works.
  • Partner Mew now has access to six additional "variants" of itself, which is just Partner Mew but with modified stats. You can switch between these variants by giving Mew one of the Power Items, then "evolving" it, just like you would with any other Pokémon to give it the Partner aspect (unlike all other Pokémon that require items to evolve, this will NOT consume the item).
    • You also don't need to revert Mew back to its regular Partner variant every time, you can just change its stats again on the fly by simply repeating the process with a different Power Item.
    • As compensation for this, Partner Mew's regular base stats are now 115 across most of the board, with HP instead being base 125.
    • You can revert Partner Mew back to its original Partner variant by using an Echo Shard on it.
      • This was done semi-randomly for three reasons. The first reason being that you wouldn't really want to put Mew back into its regular Partner variant, so using a finite resource seems like a good idea, the second reason being that since Echo Shards are really rare (only found in ancient cities), this wouldn't be a fair investment, therefore leading one to not use it to revert Mew back to its technically weakest Partner variant, and the third reason being that, again, you can just change its stats by giving it a different Power Item and evolving it, so why waste an Echo Shard when there's a better, less expensive, and much less limited way to change its stats?
    • If you are going to alter Partner Mew's stats, you have to recall it first. The game crashes if you have it go through the evolution animation. No, this is not a joke.

• With the exceptions of Partner Pikachu and Partner Eevee, Partner Pokémon are now capable of evolving.

  • Partner Pikachu can now gain the ash_cap aspect by using the Ash Cap on it.

• Fixed incorrect coding with some Partner Pokémon (the Jangmo-o line, Slowpoke, etc).

• Added Battle Bond Greninja. Ash-Greninja has its own stats despite being unobtainable.

• Added alternative evolution methods to certain Pokémon.

  • In addition to their usual evolutionary method of being traded while holding a Metal Coat, Partner Onix and Partner Scyther can now evolve into Steelix and Scizor respectively by either using a Link Cable on it while holding a Metal Coat, or by using a Metal Coat on it while it's at least level 35.

  • In addition to their usual evolutionary method of needing to be traded (or by using a Link Cable), both Partner Haunter and Partner Kadabra can now evolve into Gengar and Alakazam at level 40, skipping the trade altogether.

  • In addition to its usual evolutionary method of being traded while holding a King's Rock, Kantonian Slowpoke can now evolve into Johtonian Slowking by either using a Link Cable on it while it's holding a King's Rock, or by using a King's Rock on it while it's at least level 37.

• First partner Pokémon with the Partner aspect now learn Frenzy Plant, Blast Burn, and Hydro Cannon (depending on their primary type, of course) when they either gain the Partner aspect or evolve into their final stages if their pre-evolutions already have the Partner aspect.

• Added the pre-evolutions of all the currently available Partner Pokémon. However, be warned, just like the Partner Pikachu and the Partner Eevee from the Let's Go games, they're currently incapable of evolving if they have the Partner aspect.
  • This will be fixed in the next update so they will be capable of evolving, though don't expect Pikachu and Eevee to be changed.
  • Both Partner Magikarp and Partner Abra also learn moves relatively quickly and gain access to additional moves so they can actually do something.
• Partner Glaceon's secondary Ability has been changed from Slush Rush to Competitive.
• Partner Mew's base Special Attack has been increased from 125 to 150, and its Attack has been decreased from 105 to 80.
  • Currently planning on giving Partner Mew more aspects that allows you to change its stats at any time to fit whatever role you want it to. Once this happens, the change will be reverted.
• Added Partner variants of Ditto, the Nincada line, and any split evolutions of currently available Partner Pokémon.
  • Those being Kleavor (Scyther's alternate evolution), Froslass (Female Snorunt's alternate evolution), and Slowking (Slowpoke's alternate evolution; Galarian form is included).
  • Partner Froslass now has Infiltrator as a secondary standard Ability.
• Fixed the flight speed of all available Partner Pokémon (including the newly added ones) so that they don't all fly at the exact same speed.
• Equippable Partner Pokémon now give potion effects.

• Added the ash_cap aspect for Pikachu to make a Partner Pikachu feel more like Ash's Pikachu from the anime. Meant for Pikachu in a cap only.

• Added the remaining Mega-capable Pokémon.

Nothing's been changed just yet!