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Zophan Moves

In case anyone was curious, I'm going to leave a note here on how I went about creating the descriptions for the Zophan Moves.

Many moves in the series have certain key phrases used for different effects. I spent a long while looking through Ultra Sun/Moon's move descriptions to try and emulate these as if they were official moves in these games:

  • Zophan Shield
    • "Creates a shield using a small amount of HP." - Taken from the first portion of Substitute. Both use a small bit of HP to create a decoy.
    • "In addition to protecting the user from attacks, this move also lowers the target's Sp. Atk stat." - Taken from part of Spiky Shield, and from the second half of certain Status moves. Both shields have the same power of activating an effect while blocking an opposing attack. Status moves that lower Special Attack use this "lower the target's" phrase at the end of it.
  • Zophan Pulse
    • "The user fires off a potentially devastating beam." - Taken from the original source. I used "fires off" to sound more move-like, instead of just "attacks opponent."
    • "This also damages the user quite a lot." - Taken from part of Double-Edge. Recoil moves will always have a "This also damages the user" in them, and "quite a lot" is taken from moves with 1/3rd recoil damage.
    • "The target faints instantly if the effect activates." - Taken from part of OHKO moves such as Fissure and Guillotine. I added the "if the effect activates" because this move is unusual in that it has more than one aspect to it.
  • Zophan Beam
    • "A life-risking attack." - Taken both from the original source and from Double-Edge. I used "attack" because this move is a Beam and not a tackle.
    • "The target faints instantly if this attack hits." - Uses the OHKO move descriptor with no edits.
    • "This also damages the user terribly." - Taken from part of Wild Charge since it was the only move to have a 1/2 recoil damage, which this move uses. Not counting Light of Ruin because that move technically goes unused.
  • Dark Portal
    • "A portal to the Dark World is opened, guaranteeing escape." - Taken from the original source, but the "guaranteeing escape" actually comes from items that are used to run from wild battles, suck as Poké Doll.
    • "The move fails if the user doesn't have enough HP." - This is the only one I can't seem to remember where I took it from specifically. "If [blank] then the move fails" is a descriptor for certain moves, so I rearranged that to work here.