I'm always annoyed by the way that there aren't any cool non-legendary cat Pokemon that are really useable in competitive play. Persian is mediocre, Delcatty is terrible, Bunyatto is pretty bad as well. The only useable one I can think of is Espeon.

So I got bored and designed my own fan Pokemon complete with evolution: Miaffray and Mialee.

The names come from the words Affray (like a brawl) and Melee (big hectic battle), and Mia being the noise a cat makes. The inspiration for these Pokemon comes from watching the way real cats fight...and how they stand on their hind legs and engage in supersonic fist fights like little boxers. If you ever see a cat fight like this, you'll know just how cool it looks.

Anyway, here are their stats:

Miaffray-standoff Pokemon

Type: Normal/Fighting

Ability: intimidate/serene grace

Gender: 70% male 30% female (difficult to breed)

Pokedex: Miffaray deals with potential threats by taking a fighting stance and waiting for the opponent to do the same. Even if the opponent begins attacking, Miffaray will refuse to fight back unless the opponent shapes up in the appropriate manner. For this reason, it often chooses to run from confrontation.

Moves: fury swipes, tail whip, counter, quick attack, mach punch, (filler for DP move), encore, double attack, (DP fighting move), Slash, dizzy punch, focus energy, agility, focus punch, hypnosis, metal claw, quad laser*

Egg moves: substitute, dark claw, fire punch, ice punch, thunderpunch, (pysical psychic attack from DP) swords dance, knock off, reflect, light screen, pay day, baton pass, (filler for DP move), (Filler for DP move), Headbutt, curse, shadow punch

*quad laser is a normal type physical attack. It has a base power of 20 and an accuracy of 100. It has 15PP.

Effect: attacks up to 4 times, each time with a higher chance of confusion.

So basically, quad laser gains +10% chance to confuse for each hit (it starts with 10). After 4 hits, it has a base power of 80 (120 with STAB) and a 50% chance of confusion. (However, on a Miaffray or Mialee with serene grace, this amounts to 100% confusion.) This attack usually only hits 3 times, but 40% of the time it hits 4 times.

evolves into Mialee when max happiness is reached while holding the Black Belt item.

Mialee-boxing cat Pokemon

Type: Normal/Fighting

Ability: intimidate/serene grace

Base stats: HP-100 Attack-95 Defense-68 Speed-125 Sp. attack-58 Sp. Defense-87

Moves: Morning sun, bulk up, endure, reversal,

Pokedex: Mialee's paws can move so fast that it's impossible to see them without a special camera. This Pokemon is keen to start fights, but will often bring them to a sudden end by walking away mid battle without any warning. This questionable behaviour makes it a favourite target for Pokemon researchers.

Pokemon is (C) Gamefreak, Nintendo.

THIS CHARACTER (who may end up NOT being a Pokemon) is (C) Ryanide. Do not distribute or steal.

Notes: I realise this thing could be a liiiiiitle bit unfair, which would make me a raving hypocrite. But still, look at that crappy defense and just-OK attack stat! Ignore the fact that it learns encore AND counter, because it'll die before it gets to use that strategy, unless it used reflect, in which case it has 3 slots taken up with those moves...slots that could have been taken up by better attacks.

I like Mialee's design, so I may use him as a character in one of my series.