Bug Ace
Associated Skills: Command or Survival
PASSIVE POKEMON SUPPORT+++
ACTIVE POKEMON SUPPORT++ A battler that primarily uses Pokémon of a certain elemental Type. In a world where most Gyms are based on a particular Type of Pokémon, Type Aces are by far the most common of these specialists. The Type Ace feels a deep bond to a particular Type of Pokémon, and excels on raising them. This tie is so deep that they can with time change the very type of their Pokémon’s Moves, or teach a Pokémon to use a Move in a way they normally wouldn’t be able to. While their weaknesses are more pronounced than those of Stat Aces and Style Experts, their strengths are as well. Type Ace is one of the most popular Classes for its thematic importance to the world of Pokémon. The ability to change the Type of a Move is also highly valuable to someone who wishes to specialize in a rare Type while retaining some versatility on their teams; they can train their off-Type Pokémon to take advantage of their specialty Type. Furthermore, Type Aces learn a variety of techniques to better wield their Type in battle and often more than make up for any inherent weaknesses of their chosen Type. *Type-Linked Skills: Depending on your Chosen Type for Type Ace, your prerequisites for the Class and its Features will change, each Type requiring one of two Type-Linked Skills. Note: You may take Type Ace multiple times. Each time, you must choose a different Type and must specify for which Type you take a Feature. Skill prerequisites for Type Ace always match the Type-Linked Skills for that Type.
BUG ACE FEATURES Insectoid Utility
Prerequisites: Type Ace, Bug as Chosen Type
Static
Effect: Your Pokémon with the following Capabilities have the upgrades below applied to them.
» Threaded: Your Pokémon may use its Threaded attack to perform the Trip, Grapple, Push and Disarm Combat Maneuvers and ignores Weight and Size restrictions when doing so.
» Wallclimber: Immunity to Push and Trip effects.
» Naturewalk: Immunity to Slowed or Stuck in its appropriate Terrains.
» Sky: Your Pokémon has a +1 bonus to its Speed Evasion.
Iterative Evolution
[Orders] [Stratagem]
Prerequisites: Insectoid Utility, Type-Linked Skill at Adept
Bind 2 AP – Standard Action
Trigger: Your Pokémon
Effect: While this Feature is bound, if your Pokémon’s Bug-Type attack would deal Super-Effective Damage, it gains a +2 Bonus to Accuracy Check. If it would deal Neutral Damage, it gains a Bonus to its Damage Roll equal to your Type-Linked Skill Rank. If it would be resisted, it is resisted one step less. This is calculated after applying any other effects that would modify effectiveness before the Accuracy Roll is made, such as the Tinted Lens Ability.
Chitin Shield
Prerequisites: Insectoid Utility, Type Linked Skill at Expert
Daily x3 - Free Action
Trigger: Your Bug-Type Pokémon is hit by a Status-Class Move
Effect: The effect misses, and your Pokemon becomes immune to that Move for the rest of the Scene. Chitin Shield may be triggered once per Scene per Pokemon.
Disruption Order
Prerequisites: Insectoid Utility, Type-Linked Skill at Master
Daily x3 – Free Action
Trigger: Your Pokémon hits with a Bug-Type Move
Effect: Until the end of user’s next turn, all targets hit by the Move are Slowed, suffer a -X to Accuracy Rolls, and are Flinched by Damaging Attacks on 16+.
ACTIVE POKEMON SUPPORT++ A battler that primarily uses Pokémon of a certain elemental Type. In a world where most Gyms are based on a particular Type of Pokémon, Type Aces are by far the most common of these specialists. The Type Ace feels a deep bond to a particular Type of Pokémon, and excels on raising them. This tie is so deep that they can with time change the very type of their Pokémon’s Moves, or teach a Pokémon to use a Move in a way they normally wouldn’t be able to. While their weaknesses are more pronounced than those of Stat Aces and Style Experts, their strengths are as well. Type Ace is one of the most popular Classes for its thematic importance to the world of Pokémon. The ability to change the Type of a Move is also highly valuable to someone who wishes to specialize in a rare Type while retaining some versatility on their teams; they can train their off-Type Pokémon to take advantage of their specialty Type. Furthermore, Type Aces learn a variety of techniques to better wield their Type in battle and often more than make up for any inherent weaknesses of their chosen Type. *Type-Linked Skills: Depending on your Chosen Type for Type Ace, your prerequisites for the Class and its Features will change, each Type requiring one of two Type-Linked Skills. Note: You may take Type Ace multiple times. Each time, you must choose a different Type and must specify for which Type you take a Feature. Skill prerequisites for Type Ace always match the Type-Linked Skills for that Type.
BUG ACE FEATURES Insectoid Utility
Prerequisites: Type Ace, Bug as Chosen Type
Static
Effect: Your Pokémon with the following Capabilities have the upgrades below applied to them.
» Threaded: Your Pokémon may use its Threaded attack to perform the Trip, Grapple, Push and Disarm Combat Maneuvers and ignores Weight and Size restrictions when doing so.
» Wallclimber: Immunity to Push and Trip effects.
» Naturewalk: Immunity to Slowed or Stuck in its appropriate Terrains.
» Sky: Your Pokémon has a +1 bonus to its Speed Evasion.
Iterative Evolution
[Orders] [Stratagem]
Prerequisites: Insectoid Utility, Type-Linked Skill at Adept
Bind 2 AP – Standard Action
Trigger: Your Pokémon
Effect: While this Feature is bound, if your Pokémon’s Bug-Type attack would deal Super-Effective Damage, it gains a +2 Bonus to Accuracy Check. If it would deal Neutral Damage, it gains a Bonus to its Damage Roll equal to your Type-Linked Skill Rank. If it would be resisted, it is resisted one step less. This is calculated after applying any other effects that would modify effectiveness before the Accuracy Roll is made, such as the Tinted Lens Ability.
Chitin Shield
Prerequisites: Insectoid Utility, Type Linked Skill at Expert
Daily x3 - Free Action
Trigger: Your Bug-Type Pokémon is hit by a Status-Class Move
Effect: The effect misses, and your Pokemon becomes immune to that Move for the rest of the Scene. Chitin Shield may be triggered once per Scene per Pokemon.
Disruption Order
Prerequisites: Insectoid Utility, Type-Linked Skill at Master
Daily x3 – Free Action
Trigger: Your Pokémon hits with a Bug-Type Move
Effect: Until the end of user’s next turn, all targets hit by the Move are Slowed, suffer a -X to Accuracy Rolls, and are Flinched by Damaging Attacks on 16+.
Type Ace
[Class] [Branch]
Prerequisites: 2 Different Pokémon of the Chosen Type, Type-Linked Skill* at Novice
Prerequisites: Elemental Connection (of the Chosen Type), 1 Pokémon of the Chosen Type, Type-Linked Skill* at Novice
At-Will – Extended Action
Target: Your Pokémon with at least 2 Tutor Points remaining.
Effect: The target loses 2 Tutor Points and learns the Last Chance or Type Strategist Ability for your Chosen Type. You may target a Pokémon only once with Type Ace.
Note: You can find the Type Strategist Ability and the various Last Chance Abilities in the Indices and Reference chapter, but because they’re mostly unique to Type Ace, you can see what they do here for convenience.
Ability: Type Strategist
Static
Effect: Whenever the user uses a Move of the Type associated with Type Strategist, they gain +5 Damage Reduction for one full round. If they are under 1/3rd of their Maximum Hit Points, they instead gain +10 Damage Reduction.
Ability: Last Chance (Type)
Static
Effect: Last Chance Abilities are always associated with an Elemental Type. The user gains a +5 bonus to Damage Rolls when using attacks of that Type. This bonus increases to +10 when the user is under 1/3rd of their Maximum Hit Points.
Type Refresh
[Branch] [Orders]
Prerequisites: Type Ace
2 AP – Standard Action
Target: Your Pokémon
Effect: The target regains one use of a Scene-Frequency Move of your Chosen Type, and refreshes the Frequency of all EOT-Frequency Moves of your chosen Type. A Target can be affected by Type Refresh only once per Scene.
Move Sync
[Branch]
Prerequisites: 3 Type Ace Features
At-Will – Extended Action
Target: Your Pokémon with at least 1 Tutor Point.
Effect: The target loses 1 Tutor Point. Pick a Move in the target’s Move List. The picked move is now permanently of your Chosen Type, and may have different effects. See the Types Changes section (page 468) for more information and suggestions. A Pokémon may have only one Move-Sync’d Move in their Move List at a time; to Sync a new Move, the old Move must be forgotten.