Pixel Slam Jam PIXEL SLAM JAM Season 2 Trial II: Battle Specialists

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Pixel Slam Jam Season 2 Trial II: Battle Specialists

Event dates: June 1st - June 10th



Welcome to the newest Pixel Slam Jam! This time we've got our first theme around trainer battle sprites! Show us your design for an all new trainer class that specializes not in a certain type of pokemon, but in a certain type of battle mode!
If you came to the Slam Jam looking for your fakemon fix, you might check out this thread; Relic Staff aren't involved but it is also starting today!
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Example sprite:
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In the main series games, Double Battlers are often made up of two trainers by combining or altering existing trainer classes.
Here, neither trainer is identical to the Lass sprite, but they do share the outfit; the one on the left even has the hair color.​

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Circus Pokémon Trainer
Rotation Battle Specialist
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Inspiration: It was mostly out of nowhere honestly, I was in class and suddenly "Wouldnt a circus beast tamer be perfect type for a rotation battle specialist?", who knows where that came from, my only experience with circus beast tamer is Regina Berry from the Ace Attorney games, and this trainer doesnt look like her at all. For some reason in my mind, the beast tamer would perfectly switch pokemons in order to screw you, like it would foreseen if you would switch your pokemon due to its perfomance experience, and then it would just change it to the most advantageous match up...for her I mean, you are going to lose lol.

Her clothes dont look all that beast tamer looking, somehow I just wanted to go for a more clowny look, hence the assimetry in all her clothes. And welp, I went almost full ribbon in this, I dont think her dress its physically possible without some ribbon stitching. The purple stuff in her face its my try on doing a star shaped make up, I wanted to do it on her cheek instead of her eyes.

And welp, trainer splicing is hard, Im sure I effed up with the legs, the left twintail, choosing the clown arm which its probably too big, and the fact that she isnt looking at you (she is probably shy! or its just checking the balance in the pokeball!), but I think the overall result is decent.

But if you like her that much, you are free to take her and put her ins your fan game or do some edits, as long as you credit me.

Critique: No, thank you.

Roulette Queen
Specialization:Rotation Battle
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Ispiration: I want cassinos back in pokémon, roulettes roll, rotation battles also roll... and that's it.
Originaly they would be roullete ladies but i added a crown because they reminded me of the Queen of Hearts.
I made two variation just like the swimmers in S/M, the only difference is the colors and changed the cassino tokens to coins.

I would like to recive a critique.

Spoiler: Unnecessary Lore

They are the masters of the cassino, it is not wise to challenge them.
Their teams are very based on luck, they do not play to lose.
If you defeat one of them you will be rewarded a generous amount of game coins.

This is the first time I do this (nervous)...​

Inverse Battler​

Inspiration: Because the only inverse battler that we've seen in the games so far has been a psychic, and inverse battling seems to fit psychics well, I wanted to give this trainer that kind of vibe, while also not making them too similar to psychics. I mainly just looked took bits and pieces from other trainer sprites (mainly psychics and ace trainers, because they fit the theme I wanted) and messed around with them until it looked good.
This is my first time trying to make a trainer sprite, so I definitely would like critique!​

Inverse Maiden
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Inspiration: Honestly, I didn't have a basic design or inspiration in mind. Figured I would make an Inverse battler, given how it's outright terrible how the already underutilized battle mode was unceremoniously removed in Sun and Moon.
But yeah, my main thing design-wise was that I wanted the colors to be inverses of one another. Black and White is the easiest color pairing for that, but I wanted something different for the hair. Out of all of the inverse color pairings, pink and green sounded the most interesting, so I incorperated them into the hair colors.

Critique: Nah.​

Hi everyone, another Pixel Slam Jam has come to a close!
There was an unusually high number of winners this round due the the small number of entries all being so high quality, so below you'll find not only critiques but a note about each sprite. Thank you all for submitting and congratulations to the winners!

For anyone else who wants to send congratulations, or just comment on a certain sprite or the competition itself, please check out the discussion thread!​