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A couple threads back I asked for ideas on making Unown more useful. Doesn't have to be super powerful or breaking, just... not a complete waste of space. I took a few of the ideas (Mostly expanding its movepool and giving it Schooling), and have since built up on it with another variation. I cant decide between them, so I'm thinking of having the Schooling variant be the normal unown, and a modified version of Schooling as a regional variant.
>Unified: While at high HP, this pokemon loses its types and boosts the power of its moves. When its HP gets low, all moves change to a single type.
Basically, while the regular unown form schools of letters, the regional variant form schools of types, with each form being based on the symbols for each type, and always matching their hidden power type. When you first send them out (or encounter them in the wild), they all look the same, and have no type, which means no weakness, no resistance, and no STAB. They have a small boost to the power of their moves, but it will probably be pretty negligible. I'm thinking +10 or so.
Once they get knocked down to half HP (intentionally earlier than Schooling), they get knocked into their solo form where you can actually see what type of Unown you are fighting. It then gains the same typing as its Hidden Power, and all of its moves become the same type as well, similar to Normalize and the like, but without the boost to power.
This variant would have higher base stats than regular unown, but have lower stats in its schooling form. It would be listed as normal type in the pokedex/status screen, though technically in play it would never have the normal type. Though, since its a fan game and not a romhack, it does give me the freedom to just make a normal type Hidden Power if I wanted. Not sure on that front yet.
