Deoxys/Merufimu's version

''This Deoxys utilizes its Attack Forme in combat, so while the character is capable of dishing out significant amounts of punishment, it can't take too much of a beating as a result of its low Life and Defence stats. As with Merufimu's other characters, Deoxys has palette modes that plunge the character into cheap territory.''

Gameplay


Deoxys is a six-button character that follows no particular style, in terms of how it plays. It uses Merufimu's Scizor character as a base, as evident in the readme. This means that Deoxys uses similar (albeit stronger) specials and basic actions of said character. In comparison to many characters, Deoxys is extremely frail, having a life stat of 760, and a defence stat of 80. To make up for this, Deoxys' attacks are furiously fast and powerful, along with its high-damaging hypers. For its basic actions, Deoxys uses for a light attack,  for a medium attack,  for a throw,  for using a few specials,  to teleport around and  to use its hypers. Deoxys is an extremely fast character, even more so than any of Merufimu's other creations. It can dash through other characters with ease, making Deoxys a good character for evading oncoming attacks, especially with, as it grants the character with brief invincibility.

Deoxys has a large number of specials at its disposal, making it have huge potential for heavy combos. Out of all of these specials, however, rests an easily exploitable infinite with the use of and, hardly giving any A.I. controlled opponent a chance to fight back. Thankfully, its A.I. does not abuse said tactic. With its potential for offense, Deoxys also proves a useful character for sneaking behind an opponent with, or simply dashing through the opponent, something its A.I. utilizes and uses for its advantage.

Deoxys has a somewhat brutal A.I.. It will attempt to combo its opponent, usually starting with its, and ending with a special. However, note that Deoxys has a habit of breaking this behavior, as it will occasionally try to use its specials, both of which are quite difficult to block in time, due to their speed. Deoxys will also teleport around the match a lot, usually appearing behind its opponent for an easy attack. This character will use its hypers whenever it can.

This character comes with three special palette modes, granting additional Cheapness to the character, each of them cheaper than the last.

Grey Deoxys


Activated as palette 10 (using +  when selecting the character). This palette is almost greyscale, albeit with a few purple details. When this mode is activated, Deoxys becomes quite dangerous and cheap, as its usual weakness of having low defence and life stats is mitigated. It gains life and power regeneration in this mode, meaning it must be hit with considerably powerful attacks to be efficiently KO'd. While it retains the same speed and core gameplay, Grey Deoxys is considerably more powerful than the normal palettes, as its basic attacks and specials are much more powerful, some even instantly landing an instant KO on a character. In this mode, all of Deoxys' hypers KO a standard character in one use. That, combined with the palette mode's ability to regenerate power at a fast rate, makes Grey Deoxys practically unbeatable with normal characters.

Shiny Deoxys


Activated as palette 11 (using +  when selecting the character). This palette uses the same colours as Deoxys' Shiny Palette in the main Pokemon games, giving it a 'gold' sort of look. Shiny Deoxys is extremely cheap, having its power bar almost always full due to its fast regeneration, having invincibility to almost any normal attack, and hypers that are guaranteed OHKOs. Even if Shiny Deoxys were to (somehow) get damaged, it has extremely fast life regeneration to patch up any damage dealt that fails to KO it. Its hypers now utilize OTHK. Note that Shiny Deoxys will sometimes cause M.U.G.E.N to crash if it uses its hypers against opponents with Super Armour.

Dark Deoxys


Activated on the widely used palette 12 (using +  when selecting the character). This palette is almost entirely black, with a few red features. The cheapest out of all of the character's palette modes, Dark Deoxys is not a force to be taken lightly, becoming a literal Cheapie. When put up against any normal character, Dark Deoxys will instantly defeat said character immediately, due to its excessive cheap methods. For this reason, Dark Deoxys was only included to fight other Cheapies such as itself, or Merufimu's other characters in their 12th palette. It is always surrounded by a purple aura, identical to that of Merufimu's Scizor character. This mode abuses null. Unbelievably, this monstrosity is vulnerable to F1. Unlike Scizor in its 12th palette, who has a custom defeat sequence, Dark Deoxys will be KO'd like any other character.

Trivia

 * In its 12th Palette, Deoxys shares the same colours as the one for Merufimu's Absol character.
 * Unlike Merufimu's Scizor, Deoxys does not sport a new idle stance for its 12th Palette Mode, despite Scizor being the base.
 * Selecting palettes 8 or 9 gives Deoxys a different voice.
 * Deoxys is the only creation of Merufimu who does not have different animations for its hypers while it is in its 11th or 12th Palette.
 * Deoxys and G-Dialga are the only creations by Merufimu that have palettes from Pokemon games used for Palette Modes.