Banzu

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Last updated: 20150516

BANZU
	Level	55
	Type	Steel  Weak to Fighting, Ground, and Fire. Resistant to Normal, Flying, Rock, Bug, Steel, Grass, Psychic, Ice, Dragon, and Fairy. Immune to Poison.
	Ability	Engineer
	Pokémon Bonded	13 (List)
	Abilities	Banzu's Enlightened abilities will allow him to reshape metal, initially restricted to only pieces of metal that he can physically lift. When he uses this ability metal reacts to him as if it were clay, allowing him to reshape it with his bare hands (and only his bare hands - he can't use the ability through gloves or tools) as well as give it fine detail by focusing on the desired result and running his fingertips over the area he wants to affect. He's restricted to the material that's in the original piece and can't add more from another source or take any away (although he can and does pull the excess into a barely-connected piece that he can cut off with snips). He normally uses this ability to change the threading on screws, create parts from scrap metal, and other utilitarian, cost-cutting tasks. The time it takes for him to use this ability means that it has no direct combat usage. There will be no visible signs of his Enlightened status at this stage, but he will be immune to metal poisoning. After his first evolution, tiny patches of steel will begin appearing on his body, and while he'll be able to reshape them, they'll grow back if they're removed. At this stage he won't need to be able to lift an object to affect it, being able to alter any metal object he's touching that's smaller than he is. The speed at which he can work will increase as well, some of the fine detail can be applied as he's moulding the basic shape, and he'll be able to add material from another source or pinch off sections to remove them. The ability to add and remove material also allows him to introduce or remove impurities in the object, creating alloys and compounds or purifying the metal. Removing impurities is done by running his fingertips through the metal like it's water, where he'll feel whatever substance he's considering an impurity as a grit that he can lift out. Adding impurities is done by kneeding them in like mixing two colors of clay. He's not restricted to metals when he's manipulating impurities, so he can add carbon to iron and make steel or remove it and make pure iron, but working with nonmetal impurities is more time-consuming since he can't manipulate them with his ability. After his second evolution, the patches of steel on his body will expand and in many cases become useful, such as forming striking surfaces on his knuckles. At this stage he'll be able to affect any metal that he's currently touching, regardless of the size of the object it's part of, with all but the finest details forming as he shapes the metal. If the object he's affecting is one that he can lift, he'll no longer need to physically shape it; the metal will rapidly form itself into whatever object he's focusing on, expelling unwanted sections and impurities and absorbing and distributing desired impurities without him needing to do anything other than keep holding it. All this applies to the steel embedded in his body as well, and at this stage he'll have enough metal on him to use Iron Defense by forming it around himself. By moving metal to his fists or shaping the metal that's already there, he'll be able to use Meteor Mash, Metal Claw, Cut, Slash, and Sharpen. He will also be able to duplicate Iron Head (by forming a helmet around his head), Iron Tail (extruding a long piece of metal), Autotomize (pinching off the metal on his body) and any move that functions similarly to any of the previously mentioned moves, but he's unlikely to do so for a variety of reasons (respectively: he's not going to risk a concussion, he'd need to have a lot of extra metal on hand to make a good tail, the pinched off pieces of metal would get caught in his clothes and slow him down even more, and who needs endless variations on the same moves if the typing doesn't change?). Finally, he'll be able to use this ability to heal, alter, or harm the metal parts of Pokémon, but to say that this would be an unpleasant experience for the Pokémon involved would be an incredible understatement; the pain alone would be extreme, since this is equivalent to unanaethesized surgury, but there would also be the Pokémon's sensation of it being wrong for their bodies to experience this, like a human having their bones turn to liquid and moving around on their own. He's unlikely to make many friends by affecting anything living with his abilities.
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