baTTervvitchcraft diary 01:
happy belated birthday to me. I imagined a Swalot cookie jar a while back and my best friend made it out of clay. It took 3 tries to come out properly, apparently its ghost (failed attempt) haunts the studio that killed it. How Romantic.
Swalot was one of my favorite pokemon playing gen 3 growing up and seeing it come back in scarlet and violet meant i got to play with it again!! I am in love with its disruption and utility that it provides in the game. It has access to Yawn and Clear Smog which are really strong counter sweep measures, its a mono poison type which is so cute, and its stat pool is more hp oriented yet base stat total is lower than whats considered metagame. We love discovering sleeper picks. when i used it for my Reg B team i didnt know a lot about metakitbuilding so i felt that i didnt know what I needed to pressure with a pokemon that wasn't oriented around dealing damage. (What are other ludic priorities in a game of pokemon that a pokemon can command agency over?) If i had to build it as a team staple it would look like:
Swalot Psn [Dark]
252Def/80HP/80Atk/80SpD/12Spe*
Ability: Sticky Hold @ Black Sludge
-Knock Off (anti item)
-Iron Defense (Defense++ (damage mitigation)->Helping Hand (ally dmg +50% this turn)
-Body Press (Defense = Damage attack) -> Pain Split (average HP
-Thunder Wave/Yawn/Toxic**
*investing in speed vs hp would be a transludic approach because if swalot can outspeed the pokemon that do supereffective damage to it, it can command agency via its disruptive utility (status move, item removal) and contributed to the game state.
**the status utility is relative to the teams needs. Twave for the most general form of control (speed), Yawn for the fastest form of control by means of egress/ingress 50/50; 1 turn of assured inaction (sleep ludic condition), or Toxic as the slowest form of control (time on field aka HP creep aka DoT)
THE RECIPE
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies [Transexual] [Gothic] [Divine]
1 C. Flour
1/3 C. dairy free chocolate chips
1/3 C. walnuts
1/4 C. sugar
1/4 C. brown sugar
3 T. milk sub (oat milk)
2 T. vegetable oil*
2 T. melted butter*
1/2 tsp baking powder**
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
a good cry into the batter***
*u can use 4 T of either, i adjusted bc my dough was really dry when i was mixing it
**the recipe said baking soda, i used baking powder because i was grieving when i made these cookies
***by will of my Lich or the universe, rabbits by nursejoy came on while i was baking this so i had an emotional breakdown. Technically this adds a bit more salt and moisture to the dough so its like an organic enhancer.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease baking sheet(s)
Combine the drys (flour, sugars, baking soda/powder, salt, chocolate chips, walnuts)
Add the wets (nondairy milk, oil, melted butter, vanilla extract
Mix until dough forms and then scoop out onto greased baking sheet
Bake at 325 for 11 mins.
Spellcasting underneath the cut!! (edit: the cookies did come out a bit salty)
