Warlord-Samurott V2 (Truth and Ideals)

Edit: Adjusted BST to correctly match the details regarding Warlord Formes.

"Now the real battle begins."

Name: Samurott (Warlord Forme/"Synchronized Evolution")
Category: Indomitable
Type: Water/Ground
Ability: Aerial Assault (Any contact based move this Pokemon uses will bypass any normal immunity to Ground Type moves, and have the added effect of knocking the target to the ground for 2 turns after a contact based move hits the target. If said contact based move is also Ground Type, the attack deals 1.1x as much damage and the target stays grounded until switched out or KO'd.)
Base Stats:
-HP: 95
-Attack: 150 (+50)
-Defense: 85
-Special Attack: 145 (+37)
-Special Defense: 60 (-10)
-Speed: 113 (+43)
BST: 648 (+120)
New Level-Up Moves:
-Icicle Crash
-Earthquake
-Drill Run
-Close Combat
-Sacred Sword
Event Moves:
-Aura Sphere
Signature Move:
-Mysterious Samurai (60 BP. Water Type. Physical. 85% Accuracy. 5 PP. Hits multiple times and ignores all type match-ups and move negating abilities when calculating damage. Decreases the user's Speed by 1 stage per successful use. In addition, if the target has any sort of immunity to Ground, said immunity becomes nullified for this attack as this attack instead deals Ground Type damage, knocking the target down to the ground for a guaranteed crit on the first hit, before hitting a maximum of 3 times and leaving them grounded until they switch. In the case of the second effect activating, Attack and Speed are lowered by 2 stages for the user of this move. This move will outright fail is the user is not a Oshawott, Dewott, Samurott, or Warlord-Samurott. In addition, the Ground Type based effect only works as such if the user is specifically Warlord-Samurott.)
-Synchro Pulse (120 BP. Normal Type. Physical/Special. -% Accuracy. 5 PP. Effect varies depending on the species using the move.* Move will fail if the user is a Pokemon that is not fully evolved.)
Transforms By: "When both the trainer and the Pokemon feel a fierce determination to overcome all odds against them"
Pokedex: Samurott have traditionally been the partners of ancient warriors for their sheer determination on the battlefield. It seals within itself a secret power that only so few can possibly awaken.

* = Samurott's effect is dealing 1.5x more damage if one of Samurott's two types of weak to the target's own type, ignoring the type combo factor, and all of the opponent's moves in this face are considered Physical Move for Samurott. If used against Pokemon that have an immunity to Ground Types, the attack deals neutral damage with 1.75x the original BP of the attack instead of normal STAB.

Design Notes:
-By technical definition, the name would actually be "Ash-Samurott" due to how the evolution from Samurott works and how the in-universe mechanics are supposed to work as well. However, because I highly still suspect Ash-Greninja's name is still not the actual name, I will be calling Warlord-Samurott as it is right now until Ash-Greninja appears in the core series and is given its actual name, or if turns out that Ash-Greninja is the actual name after all. TOO BAD WE WON'T FIND OUT UNTIL SUN AND MOON I'M AFRAID.

-Warlord-Samurott will appear in the last of the three chapters scheduled for before or on May 9th of this year, specifically debuting in the May 9th Chapter.

-Re-adjusted Base Stat boosts to make it so Special Attack gets a higher buff, Defense gets no buff, and Special Defense getting nerfed instead. Speed, meanwhile, gets some of the buffs not given to Attack or Special Attack as to tie with Serperior for Base Speed.

-Fun fact, the only parts of the design I really changed is the fact Warlord-Samurott is by default a Biped, and also changed the shape of the Seamitars (the term for those being "Seamitanas" considering their basis being dual wielded Katanas). In terms of what was different from the prior pic, in the original pic, I had actually forgotten to give W-Samurott left arm shell armor, which every other limb still had intact. Although I did end up changing the marking on both the eyes, chest, and tail into the symbol that Ash's OS hat design uses instead. Primarily because the S used in the original one didn't make much sense when compared to Ash, or heck even Sirius since some of Sirius' outfits incorporate the same symbol (so long as Sirius is actually wearing a hat, that is...).

-Making Samurott into a Ground type is actually pointless in the context of his debut despite what one would think otherwise; it's only beneficial in the long term instead, but does provide an obvious advantage in his debut regardless due to obvious reasons.

-On a character note, much like my Nuzlocke Water Starter Protagonists, Samurott will inevitably learn Hydro Cannon. Unlike those Water Starters, however, Hydro Cannon is actually one of the first moves used by the final form Samurott in his debut instead of one of his last moves used in the story. In fact Hydro Cannon actually surpasses Mysterious Samurai in terms of sheer overkill when it comes to being used as Samurott/Warlord-Samurott's finisher move.

-Fun fact about this pic; this started off as a traditional sketch due to my issues with trying to draw with MS Paint as I usually do, then I traced the outlines on Gimp after scanning the initial sketch, put a white background to the outlines after finishing them, taking it back to MS Paint to color the pic and shade it, add my sig, and then go back to Gimp to add transparency as per usual.