Castform
Normal (Fire, Water, Ice)
1 male/1 female
Living cloud things, highly reactive to weather conditions.
Description
Castform's default state is a small white-grey puff that can easily hide in a hat and weighs about as much as Styrofoam. It quite honestly resembles a small cloud, only at ground level. The eyes are set in a 'mask' composed of whiter clouds. With sufficiently strong sunlight, it transforms into the Sunny form, a fire type form with a grey cloud body and a large orange corona with bulbs resembling a sun-in-glory. With rain it becomes Rainy form and has a head resembling a large water drop. With hail and snow it becomes Snowy form. This one has a ball in its core surrounded by a translucent body with curls of fluff below the head, an icicle shaped protrusion below, and a twisting, spiral of cloud-stuff above.
Forecasting the weather using its pre-emptive transformations in response to natural weather is practiced in some areas.
Battle Characteristics
Castform has a consistent moderate in every stat. it learns an even mix of Fire, Water, and Ice moves, along with the adaptable Weather Ball. Two sets of three moves, equal in power, appear and fill in that trio of offensive types, but the weaker set are weaker, and the stronger set are not highly accurate. It naturally learns Rain Dance, Sunny Day, and Hail. It is better to rely on TMs to give more versatile, reliable, and potent moves.
Legends/Folklore
Castform is a spliced organism. Using Cryogonal as a base, an organism that is over ninety percent water was made. Then elements from Rotom were incorporated to make something capable of adapting to changes between solid-liquid-gas and thriving.
One uneducated village tried to use Castform to keep bad weather away. Their crops were ravaged with drought, floods, and hail storms until the settlement was destroyed.
Few wild Castform stick with one weather pattern. They enjoy the diverse weather available.
In the wild, Castform is known to transform hours ahead of time. This can be used as an accurate barometer of the day's forecast. Sudden, move induced transformations can throw predictions off for hours.
Places where great weather conflicts raged attract them. Chaotic weather boundaries also draw their attention.
Life Cycle/Evolution Conditions
Castform lives are marked in a slow, gradual growth as they mature. Average lifespans reach thirty years.
Diet
Castform subsist on atmospheric conditions. They draw energy from the sun, rain, hail, and wind.
Breeding
Fairy and Amorphous Groups. Eggs are scattered into the cloud layer, in unknown numbers. The young are sold for 20,000P. Trained forecasters cost substantially more.
Wild Behavior/Threat Level
They mostly keep to themselves and are ignored in the wild.
Bonding and Care
They are simple-minded and mostly spend their time exploring the weather.
Human/Pokémon Relations
Castform are not the brightest and tend not to have much in the way of opinions about humans.
With Family
They do not understand the concept of family units.
Team Compatibility
They can meld into a variety of weather based team strategies.
Warning
Beware of unpredictable weather.
Summary
Weather cause and effect rolled into one.