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Still need to write the desc but I wanted to submit this just to show that I didn't ... throw in the towel just yet...
EDIT: Done the description, although it's 2am and I haven't slept properly in 2-3 days so I cannot attest to the quality of writing. Also I'm generally not good at writing. Welp.

Contest entry for AdamFegarido 's and Malamarvellous Round 2.
The assignment was to design an Oceanic/Beach variant of EventHorizontal 's Warvern (Line Contest Entry ).

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According to its creator, Warvern usually live alone in craggy mountainious areas, and they are extremely territorial. They routinely fight each other to claim each others terriotories. The scars are made because only warvern's crystals can scratch their skin. The wings are torn from battles.

Key points to note: They are very bulky, their stats indicate a heavy reliance on their physique rather than latent powers, and likely have heavily armoured skin.

They fight well on solid terrain, but the beaches and oceans are usually not (except for rocky shores) and there is no cover from the elements - Warvern can retreat to caves etc. if conditions are unfavourable on the mountains. In order to adapt they needed to increase their flexibility and agility, Warvern with leaner, smaller and lighter bodies can move easier on the shores and reach further into the waters for food.

The crystal armour development was restricted to specific areas of the body, such as the head and claws. Crystal protrusions elsewhere caused unnecessary hindrance with the additional weight. The chest, arms and tail have become bare, the body more streamlined.

The increase in mobility has in turn caused a more acute awareness of their surroundings - the original warvern were highly resistant to damage but the lighter forms do not have that luxury, they have to plan their movements and pathways more thoroughly, and gained a better understanding of movement in 3-d space. This was a necessary step in order to take advantage of their more developed wings. These warvern variants are still highly territorial but will not so easily resort to physical violence to settle disputes. Warning cries, blasts of wind, slashing at the air and other intimidation tactics meant that battle damage was not as prevalent here as it was in the mountains, the wings were allowed to develop properly.

With their wings fully functional and their grasp of movement they can now expand their territorial range, and make more use of the ocean as a food source. The Warvern have even learned to swim by applying a similar flying technique underwater, using their forearms and tail as additional sources of propulsion and steering. With much of their time being airborne or underwater, their hind legs were not seeing as much use (the tail did what they could but better in most cases, apart from traversing on land) and so have had their resources reduced - less muscle mass and bone development. With their ability to move around by flying, the Warvern are not as highly territorial as the original Warvern, though they do occasionally fight from time to time.

Wing-like membranes from the legs connect to the tail, as well as much smaller membranes from the elbows to the abdominal area increase the surface area of Warvern to assist in gliding.

Typical behaviour of the coastal warvern is gliding close to the surface of the ocean, diving, or sunbathing at the coast, wings spread out to catch the suns rays - they internalise the heat energy which they use to aid their flight. While sunbathing Warvern are very docile, even enduring the company of other warvern also looking to catch the sun rays in the morning. Apart from mating and sunbathing, Warvern are solitary pokémon. Note that the front of Warvern is dark coloured and the back is white - like leaves you see in real life, the sun facing side is darker to absorb as much light as possible, the other side is lighter to reflect the light back into the darker side and prevent it passing through.

Inspired by: Marine Iguana, Shearwater family eg Great Shearwater, White tip reef shark, Black Tip reef shark, Goblin Shark (only slightly, for the head shape), War Planes (vaguely)

(My brain's dead trying to type this, I apologise to those that actually read all of that)

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the colouration is inpired by that of the shearwaters and the black tip reef shark, though the white was kept also as a nod to the whitening that marine iguanas get when they get rid off excess salt from their bodies. I also wanted to give it a more traditional wyvern look with two legs and wings so the hindlegs are sort of halfway merging with the tail. Apparently there's a rare variant of wyvern called a sea-wyvern that has a fish tail instead of a barbed one, so that works out.

Probably forgetting more details but I won't bore you with them if I remember ^_^;
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For a quick and easy comparison I've copied the format EventHorizontal used for his Warvern entry (just keep in mind I'm not really a stats/ability guy so treat this as more of a rough idea of what I pictured for this design):

Warvern Coastal Variant
The Rowdy Pokemon
Flying/ Dragon
Big Pecks/ Swift Swim
*Decisive Blitz

Stats
HP 95
Att 100
Def 60
SpA 120
SpD 45
Spe 120
BST 540

Notable Moves
Aerial Ace, Dive, Twister, Air Cutter, Air Slash, Night Slash, Dragon Hammer, Ice Hammer, Hammer Arm, Hurricane, Dragon Tail, Aqua Tail, Iron Tail, Dual Chop, Dragonbreath, Steel Wing, Dragon Dance, Dragon Claw, Brine, Aqua Jet, Sky Attack, Scald, Superpower.

*Decisive Blitz moves used by the user of this ability with 4PP or less remaining will have increased priority (+1)

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Warvern © EventHorizontal (ie not me so this fakemon design is not free to use)
Pokémon © 1995-2017 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK Inc.

Description
Still need to write the desc but I wanted to submit this just to show that I didn't ... throw in the towel just yet...
EDIT: Done the description, although it's 2am and I haven't slept properly in 2-3 days so I cannot attest to the quality of writing. Also I'm generally not good at writing. Welp.

Contest entry for AdamFegarido 's and Malamarvellous Round 2.
The assignment was to design an Oceanic/Beach variant of EventHorizontal 's Warvern (Line Contest Entry ).

______________________________________________________________________

According to its creator, Warvern usually live alone in craggy mountainious areas, and they are extremely territorial. They routinely fight each other to claim each others terriotories. The scars are made because only warvern's crystals can scratch their skin. The wings are torn from battles.

Key points to note: They are very bulky, their stats indicate a heavy reliance on their physique rather than latent powers, and likely have heavily armoured skin.

They fight well on solid terrain, but the beaches and oceans are usually not (except for rocky shores) and there is no cover from the elements - Warvern can retreat to caves etc. if conditions are unfavourable on the mountains. In order to adapt they needed to increase their flexibility and agility, Warvern with leaner, smaller and lighter bodies can move easier on the shores and reach further into the waters for food.

The crystal armour development was restricted to specific areas of the body, such as the head and claws. Crystal protrusions elsewhere caused unnecessary hindrance with the additional weight. The chest, arms and tail have become bare, the body more streamlined.

The increase in mobility has in turn caused a more acute awareness of their surroundings - the original warvern were highly resistant to damage but the lighter forms do not have that luxury, they have to plan their movements and pathways more thoroughly, and gained a better understanding of movement in 3-d space. This was a necessary step in order to take advantage of their more developed wings. These warvern variants are still highly territorial but will not so easily resort to physical violence to settle disputes. Warning cries, blasts of wind, slashing at the air and other intimidation tactics meant that battle damage was not as prevalent here as it was in the mountains, the wings were allowed to develop properly.

With their wings fully functional and their grasp of movement they can now expand their territorial range, and make more use of the ocean as a food source. The Warvern have even learned to swim by applying a similar flying technique underwater, using their forearms and tail as additional sources of propulsion and steering. With much of their time being airborne or underwater, their hind legs were not seeing as much use (the tail did what they could but better in most cases, apart from traversing on land) and so have had their resources reduced - less muscle mass and bone development. With their ability to move around by flying, the Warvern are not as highly territorial as the original Warvern, though they do occasionally fight from time to time.

Wing-like membranes from the legs connect to the tail, as well as much smaller membranes from the elbows to the abdominal area increase the surface area of Warvern to assist in gliding.

Typical behaviour of the coastal warvern is gliding close to the surface of the ocean, diving, or sunbathing at the coast, wings spread out to catch the suns rays - they internalise the heat energy which they use to aid their flight. While sunbathing Warvern are very docile, even enduring the company of other warvern also looking to catch the sun rays in the morning. Apart from mating and sunbathing, Warvern are solitary pokémon. Note that the front of Warvern is dark coloured and the back is white - like leaves you see in real life, the sun facing side is darker to absorb as much light as possible, the other side is lighter to reflect the light back into the darker side and prevent it passing through.

Inspired by: Marine Iguana, Shearwater family eg Great Shearwater, White tip reef shark, Black Tip reef shark, Goblin Shark (only slightly, for the head shape), War Planes (vaguely)

(My brain's dead trying to type this, I apologise to those that actually read all of that)

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the colouration is inpired by that of the shearwaters and the black tip reef shark, though the white was kept also as a nod to the whitening that marine iguanas get when they get rid off excess salt from their bodies. I also wanted to give it a more traditional wyvern look with two legs and wings so the hindlegs are sort of halfway merging with the tail. Apparently there's a rare variant of wyvern called a sea-wyvern that has a fish tail instead of a barbed one, so that works out.

Probably forgetting more details but I won't bore you with them if I remember ^_^;
______________________________________________________________________
For a quick and easy comparison I've copied the format EventHorizontal used for his Warvern entry (just keep in mind I'm not really a stats/ability guy so treat this as more of a rough idea of what I pictured for this design):

Warvern Coastal Variant
The Rowdy Pokemon
Flying/ Dragon
Big Pecks/ Swift Swim
*Decisive Blitz

Stats
HP 95
Att 100
Def 60
SpA 120
SpD 45
Spe 120
BST 540

Notable Moves
Aerial Ace, Dive, Twister, Air Cutter, Air Slash, Night Slash, Dragon Hammer, Ice Hammer, Hammer Arm, Hurricane, Dragon Tail, Aqua Tail, Iron Tail, Dual Chop, Dragonbreath, Steel Wing, Dragon Dance, Dragon Claw, Brine, Aqua Jet, Sky Attack, Scald, Superpower.

*Decisive Blitz moves used by the user of this ability with 4PP or less remaining will have increased priority (+1)

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Warvern © EventHorizontal (ie not me so this fakemon design is not free to use)
Pokémon © 1995-2017 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK Inc.