Pluffin

#342: Nocteir

Nocteir

Pluffin

#344: Skuffin

Pluffin

343

Height

0.8 m

Weight

12 kg

Lifespan

16 years

Pluffin is an Air and Water-type Creo, the first stage of a seabird line that ends in Galuffra. It is a hatchling that has decided it is a soldier, and nothing will talk it out of the idea.

Pluffin still wears the top half of the egg it came out of, and it treats the shell as both helmet and treasure. It will challenge its own reflection in a rock pool, square up to Creo many times its size, and then guard the cracked shell it sleeps under as though it were plunder.

Biology

Pluffin is 80 centimeters tall and 12 kilograms, most of it a round dark gray body over bright orange feet. The head is capped by a hard white and blue shell fragment that sits low over the eyes and is genuinely fused to the skull rather than balanced on it. It grows outward at the rim as the animal does, so a Pluffin never outgrows its helmet and never loses it.

The shell is dense and disproportionately strong, and Pluffin leads with it. Charging head down is its answer to almost every problem, and its unusually high defense for a hatchling comes almost entirely from being willing to take a hit on the crown of the head rather than dodge it. The wings at this stage are short and stiff and are used for balance and swimming, not flight.

Pluffins nest in colonies on sea cliffs and are noisy, territorial and completely undeterred by size. They feed on small fish taken in shallow dives, and the dive is where the shell first proves useful: it lets a Pluffin enter the water head first at speed without stunning itself. As it matures the shell splits and reshapes into the plume that marks a Skuffin.

Description

Pluffin thinks it's a warrior, but waddles like a hatchling. It picks fights with its reflection and guards its cracked eggshell like buried treasure.

Location

Stats

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Vitality

12

Endurance

12

Attack

17

Special Attack

13

Special Defense

14

Defense

20

Speed

12

Moves

Level moves

Level	Name	Element	Category	Type	Power	Accuracy	Energy
2 2	Peck	Air	PHYSICAL	NORMAL	25	100 %	0
4 4	Rinse	Water	SPECIAL	HEAL	25	100 %	4
6 6	Squirt	Water	SPECIAL	NORMAL	20	100 %	0
8 8	Fortify	Normal	EFFECT	NORMAL	10	100 %	2
12 12	Hydroplane	Water	PHYSICAL	SUPER	80	85 %	4
16 16	Healing Spring	Water	SPECIAL	HEAL	65	100 %	6
20 20	Headbutt	Normal	PHYSICAL	SUPER	65	90 %	4
24 24	Smack	Normal	PHYSICAL	NORMAL	1	100 %	3
28 28	Avalanche	Water	PHYSICAL	ELITE	95	100 %	7
34 34	Hail	Water	SPECIAL	NORMAL	5	100 %	3
40 40	Frost Cannon	Water	PHYSICAL	SUPER	70	85 %	5
46 46	Pummel	Normal	PHYSICAL	SUPER	15	95 %	5
52 52	Tempest	Air	SPECIAL	ELITE	135	65 %	8
58 58	Hydro Cannon	Water	SPECIAL	SUPER	70	90 %	5
64 64	Whirlpool	Water	SPECIAL	NORMAL	28	95 %	1
75 75	Blizzard	Water	SPECIAL	SUPER	60	100 %	4
84 84	Sinister slash	Dark	PHYSICAL	SUPER	55	95 %	4
93 93	Dive	Air	PHYSICAL	NORMAL	50	60 %	2

Item moves

Tome	Name	Element	Category	Type	Power	Accuracy	Energy
Tome of Air	Swoop	Air	PHYSICAL	NORMAL	5	95 %	3
Tome of Earth	Dust tornado	Earth	SPECIAL	NORMAL	30	95 %	2
Tome of Light	Shimmering strike	Light	PHYSICAL	NORMAL	5	100 %	3
Tome of Normality	Melody	Normal	EFFECT	SUPER	10	70 %	5
Tome of the Tsunami	Hurricane	Water	SPECIAL	ELITE	95	95 %	7
Tome of Water	Freeze	Water	EFFECT	NORMAL	10	100 %	2

Traits

Name	Rarity	Unlock
Lure Water	Common	7 7
Force-field	Common	11 11
Sturdy	Common	14 14
Protect	Uncommon	17 17
Blubber	Rare	31 31
Arcane+	Uncommon	42 42
Hone	Uncommon	47 47
Brute++	Super Rare	53 53
Sharp-eyed++	Super Rare	63 63
Life++	Super Rare	72 72