Type: Null is a quadrupedal, chimericPokémon with traits from a variety of creatures. Its head is enclosed in a brown helmet with green markings, designed to suppress its power to stable levels. The helmet is extremely heavy and hinders its agility. The helmet has a large jaw piece that wraps around the front with large, round hinges on the side. Each hinge is covered by a green X-shaped marking. The name of the Pokémon, as it wears the helmet, is called Null meaning nothing.[1] Small gray eyes can be seen from within rectangular black holes on the front, and there are two pointed ears on the top. Around the base is a collar with four protruding vanes that are tipped with a three-way spike. This collar has a thin green line between the vanes, and each vane has a green hexagon near the end. An axe-like blade with a band around the middle extends backward from the top of the helmet. The front tip of the blade has a small, silver spike that hooks downward. A mane of gray fur hangs from below Type: Null's helmet and covers its shoulders and chest. Most of its torso and legs is covered in short black fur. The lower half of each front leg is insectoid and green with spikes along the back, while the rear legs have thick purple scales on the flanks, shins, and on the top of the foot. All four of its feet have three toes, but in the front two toes face forward and one backward. Additionally, the hind paws have a short, gray claw on the back of the ankle. Its fishlike tail consists of two dark blue spines with a light blue fin stretched between them. The top spine has a line of short, gray spikes.
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Type: Null was created by theAether Foundation as part of thebeast killer project. It was designed to be an "Anti-UB Fighting life-form", a weapon created to fight against the Ultra Beasts. Also known as "beast killer", Type: Null was developed with cells taken from all known Pokémontypes. This was done with the intention of giving it the ability toshift between types by holding a correspondingmemory, an ability originally inspired by the myths researched atCanalave Library. This ability led the Aether Foundation to name it "Type: Full". Three known models of Type: Full were created, but all three rejected the RKS System and went berserk.Faba had created limiter helmets for these Pokémon, and after being subdued, the three Type: Full were given the helmets to lessen the effects of the RKS System's rejection and were put into permanent cryogenic stasis. Thus, the beast killer project was deemed a failure, and the creature's name changed to Type: Null. At some point before the events ofGeneration VII,Gladion was able to free one of the Type: Null, which he adopted as his own in the hopes of finding a way to undo the effects of the limiter helmet and allow it to use the RKS System. Gladion would eventually rediscover its Evolution, Type: Full, renaming it asSilvally. When Type: Null evolves into Silvally, it breaks the helmet it wears in the process. Prior to the events ofPokémon Sword and Shield, a new Type: Null is created in theGalar region, apparently byMacro Cosmos by utilizing research notes stolen fromAlola. As seen inPokémon the Series: Sun & Moon andPokémon Adventures, befitting its status as an anti-Ultra Beast Pokémon, Type: Null can sense their appearance and the opening ofUltra Wormholes.
Type: Null'sSpeed stat is the only one of its stats to not be 95. Instead, it is the reverse, at 59.
Upon evolving, its Speed is reversed to match the other stats — this is the only change in its stat distribution.
Type: Null shares several similarities withMewtwo. Both were created by humans using science, were based onMythical Pokémon, were intended to be stronger than other Pokémon, and went berserk, causing a large amount of damage.
Type: Null is the first Legendary Pokémon to be given as agift by an NPC.
Type: Null appears to be based on achimera. Its history and patchwork design may also be a reference toFrankenstein's monster, and its collar may reference the ring encirclingArceus.
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