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Description
"This variety of TOUCANNON has developed a super-hard beak for digging tunnels into cliff faces to serve as its nest. If too many drill into a cliff at once, it may eventually collapse."
"By digging up and digesting gemstones, it grows reflective crystals on its body. Its beak now has a launcher that can shoot these gems much faster than Alolan TOUCANNON."

Type: Rock/Flying
Height: 3'05"
Weight: 55 lbs
Ability: Dazzling/Skill Link (Sheer Force)
Evolution: PIPIPEK --> Level 14 --> TRUMBEAK --> Level 28 with a Shiny Stone in Sundo --> SUNDONESE TOUCANNON
Egg Groups: Flying

Basis: A visual pun on emerald toucanets (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) with traits of barbets (which are closely related to toucans) and the helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil).

Moves Learned: Almost the same as regular Toucannon: Supersonic, Pluck, Roost, Fury Attack, Screech, Drill Peck, Bullet Seed, Feather Dance, Hyper Voice, and starting/relearnable moves Drill Run (replacing Beak Blast), Rock Blast, Peck, Growl, Echoed Voice, and Rock Smash.
Notable Other Moves: Notable new TMs are Acrobatics, Stone Edge, and Rock Polish. Beak Blast is now an egg move from Alolan Toucannon.

Base Stats:
HP: 60
Attack: 120
Defense: 65
Sp.Atk: 65
Sp.Def: 65
Speed: 110
TOTAL: 485

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6/7/21 UPDATE: Updated design!

In the midst of my other projects, I've been making progress with revisions for older designs for the Sundo region, so here's one I've been meaning to do for a while for more cohesion! I've learned more about the unspoken design rules for regional variants since I last drew Sundonese Toucannon, and there were a bunch of aspects of his old design that I eventually disliked anyway despite the overall look being still quite solid. So I redrew the artwork with a new cleaned-up look and a similar pose to normal Toucannon, while also moving the gemstones on his stomach a bit further up to replace the triangle markings that were there originally to make the design simpler, though I did add some gray markings around them and on the wingtips for visual interest (the gems on his shoulders were also removed, as they weren't necessary). More importantly, though, no drill! A drill doesn't make as sense for a bird's beak as it does for a horn like Rhydon has for example, and anyway I had the neat idea to give this variant a hornbill casque that doubles as a grenade launcher (which was admittedly inspired by this fakemon design here: www.deviantart.com/kronnick/ar… ). It even doubles as a mining helmet, and with the beak now being like a pickaxe, it not only looks less over-designed but matches the theme and also continues from the rest of the Pipipek line better (granted, toucan beaks are not as specialized for chipping into wood as their woodpecker cousins, but eh, it's Pokémon lol). Anyway, hope you enjoy this new look for him, and I'll try to get new artworks done for the other regional variants with older artwork whenever I can!

Old version: sta.sh/0uhaka775pd

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Well, it only took you long enough to get official dex info, Sundo Toucannon! To paraphrase a certain memetic anime, JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK HE IS?!

The rundown of this variant's design was already described before , so I won't repeat myself and will simply point you to the pic where it's explained if you wanna check it out. There wasn't much done to the design except adding shading, and also changing the number of color segments on the beak to match the Alolan Toucannon. I actually prefer this look to what we got in canon, but oh well, such is life. XD

So I guess that leaves me to talk about gameplay stats and such, huh? Now, the BST of canon Toucannon is geared towards a slow but immensely strong blaster capable of dealing a lot of damage but not being fast enough to act as a sweeper. Instead I decided to change things up and make him quick enough for the job, by sacrificing all stats aside from physical attack to buff his speed. Ten points each were taken from both defenses and special attack, which were previously 75, while another 20 were taken from the 80 HP, thus adding a total of 50 points to the 60 Speed of Alolan Toucannon, resulting in a whopping 110 Speed! In the meantime I had to sacrifice Beak Blast, which is an amazing flavor move but requires you to wait until the end of the turn it's used into hurt things, plus its contact burn effect doesn't work against most of the threats to him like Ice, Electric, and non-contact Rock attacks. So Drill Run took its place, in keeping with the Sundo variant's flavor being that his beak is used as a drill; he still shoots rocks from his beak like the normal Toucannon, though, with the heat dispersal function like in a real toucan's bill being used to power the system for firing the ammo rather than directly hurting his opponent.

So Sundonese Toucannon is even frailer than the Alolan variety, despite the added gemstone plating, but also much faster to make use of his best attacks. He can't really care less about type weaknesses because he'd probably get maimed by even neutral damage anyway, but a Stone Edge at that speed and power would be no laughing matter. I also substituted his comparatively useless Keen Eye ability for Dazzling (shiny gems!) so priority attacks don't mess with him, though again, it doesn't matter too much because he crumbles like talc powder to even regular enemy attacks anyhow. Still, I suppose an Assault Vest set would be nice for him when combined with Skill Link, with STAB Stone Edge or Rock Blast, STAB Drill Peck (though maybe not Brave Bird due to recoil), Bullet Seed, and Drill Run taking care of every type that threatens him with the exception of Ice, and hitting a ton of other types at least neutrally besides. So while normal Toucannon would probably be better suited as a blasty tank, this one is an all-out attacker and proud of it! Insert something something DRILL THAT PIERCES THE HEAVENS joke here, if you will.

This is the last variant I have on my backlog, but I may have at least one more plus a couple of megas to post. Then after that we'll be at the endgame for the Sundo Region, and after that it'll be on to newer and potentially even greater things. Stay tuned!

Pokémon, Toucannon © Nintendo
SUNDONESE TOUCANNON is mine!

Description
"This variety of TOUCANNON has developed a super-hard beak for digging tunnels into cliff faces to serve as its nest. If too many drill into a cliff at once, it may eventually collapse."
"By digging up and digesting gemstones, it grows reflective crystals on its body. Its beak now has a launcher that can shoot these gems much faster than Alolan TOUCANNON."

Type: Rock/Flying
Height: 3'05"
Weight: 55 lbs
Ability: Dazzling/Skill Link (Sheer Force)
Evolution: PIPIPEK --> Level 14 --> TRUMBEAK --> Level 28 with a Shiny Stone in Sundo --> SUNDONESE TOUCANNON
Egg Groups: Flying

Basis: A visual pun on emerald toucanets (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) with traits of barbets (which are closely related to toucans) and the helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil).

Moves Learned: Almost the same as regular Toucannon: Supersonic, Pluck, Roost, Fury Attack, Screech, Drill Peck, Bullet Seed, Feather Dance, Hyper Voice, and starting/relearnable moves Drill Run (replacing Beak Blast), Rock Blast, Peck, Growl, Echoed Voice, and Rock Smash.
Notable Other Moves: Notable new TMs are Acrobatics, Stone Edge, and Rock Polish. Beak Blast is now an egg move from Alolan Toucannon.

Base Stats:
HP: 60
Attack: 120
Defense: 65
Sp.Atk: 65
Sp.Def: 65
Speed: 110
TOTAL: 485

**********

6/7/21 UPDATE: Updated design!

In the midst of my other projects, I've been making progress with revisions for older designs for the Sundo region, so here's one I've been meaning to do for a while for more cohesion! I've learned more about the unspoken design rules for regional variants since I last drew Sundonese Toucannon, and there were a bunch of aspects of his old design that I eventually disliked anyway despite the overall look being still quite solid. So I redrew the artwork with a new cleaned-up look and a similar pose to normal Toucannon, while also moving the gemstones on his stomach a bit further up to replace the triangle markings that were there originally to make the design simpler, though I did add some gray markings around them and on the wingtips for visual interest (the gems on his shoulders were also removed, as they weren't necessary). More importantly, though, no drill! A drill doesn't make as sense for a bird's beak as it does for a horn like Rhydon has for example, and anyway I had the neat idea to give this variant a hornbill casque that doubles as a grenade launcher (which was admittedly inspired by this fakemon design here: www.deviantart.com/kronnick/ar… ). It even doubles as a mining helmet, and with the beak now being like a pickaxe, it not only looks less over-designed but matches the theme and also continues from the rest of the Pipipek line better (granted, toucan beaks are not as specialized for chipping into wood as their woodpecker cousins, but eh, it's Pokémon lol). Anyway, hope you enjoy this new look for him, and I'll try to get new artworks done for the other regional variants with older artwork whenever I can!

Old version: sta.sh/0uhaka775pd

**********

Well, it only took you long enough to get official dex info, Sundo Toucannon! To paraphrase a certain memetic anime, JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK HE IS?!

The rundown of this variant's design was already described before , so I won't repeat myself and will simply point you to the pic where it's explained if you wanna check it out. There wasn't much done to the design except adding shading, and also changing the number of color segments on the beak to match the Alolan Toucannon. I actually prefer this look to what we got in canon, but oh well, such is life. XD

So I guess that leaves me to talk about gameplay stats and such, huh? Now, the BST of canon Toucannon is geared towards a slow but immensely strong blaster capable of dealing a lot of damage but not being fast enough to act as a sweeper. Instead I decided to change things up and make him quick enough for the job, by sacrificing all stats aside from physical attack to buff his speed. Ten points each were taken from both defenses and special attack, which were previously 75, while another 20 were taken from the 80 HP, thus adding a total of 50 points to the 60 Speed of Alolan Toucannon, resulting in a whopping 110 Speed! In the meantime I had to sacrifice Beak Blast, which is an amazing flavor move but requires you to wait until the end of the turn it's used into hurt things, plus its contact burn effect doesn't work against most of the threats to him like Ice, Electric, and non-contact Rock attacks. So Drill Run took its place, in keeping with the Sundo variant's flavor being that his beak is used as a drill; he still shoots rocks from his beak like the normal Toucannon, though, with the heat dispersal function like in a real toucan's bill being used to power the system for firing the ammo rather than directly hurting his opponent.

So Sundonese Toucannon is even frailer than the Alolan variety, despite the added gemstone plating, but also much faster to make use of his best attacks. He can't really care less about type weaknesses because he'd probably get maimed by even neutral damage anyway, but a Stone Edge at that speed and power would be no laughing matter. I also substituted his comparatively useless Keen Eye ability for Dazzling (shiny gems!) so priority attacks don't mess with him, though again, it doesn't matter too much because he crumbles like talc powder to even regular enemy attacks anyhow. Still, I suppose an Assault Vest set would be nice for him when combined with Skill Link, with STAB Stone Edge or Rock Blast, STAB Drill Peck (though maybe not Brave Bird due to recoil), Bullet Seed, and Drill Run taking care of every type that threatens him with the exception of Ice, and hitting a ton of other types at least neutrally besides. So while normal Toucannon would probably be better suited as a blasty tank, this one is an all-out attacker and proud of it! Insert something something DRILL THAT PIERCES THE HEAVENS joke here, if you will.

This is the last variant I have on my backlog, but I may have at least one more plus a couple of megas to post. Then after that we'll be at the endgame for the Sundo Region, and after that it'll be on to newer and potentially even greater things. Stay tuned!

Pokémon, Toucannon © Nintendo
SUNDONESE TOUCANNON is mine!