Gaiien Region: Steam-Powered Pokémon: Gekoal, Geysard, and Tiamat

Gekoal → (lv. 24) Geysard → (Water Stone) Tiamat

#059 - Gekoal (gecko + coal)
Sunbather Pokémon
Fire-type
They can be found on the interior walls of volcanoes, using their sticky feet to climb down to lap at the magma’s surface.
Learnset: Scratch, Leer, Ember, Sticky Tongue

#060 - Geysard (geyser + lizard)
Hot Spring Pokémon
Fire/Water-type
A lazy pokémon that spends most of the day in the sun or soaking in hot springs, it can withstand even superheated steam without being burned.
Learnset: Water Gun, Water Pulse, Scald, Incinerate, Slash, Steam Jet, Poison Fang

#061 - Tiamat (Babylonian deity of chaos and salt water)
Primordial Pokémon
Fire/Water-type
They create a cloud of steam to hide themselves, burn enemies, and even fly. In mythology, they only aid the pure of heart.
Base Stats: (80/80/80/100/90/90) 530
Ability: Water Absorb / [Rolling Fog] (Activates water-type environmental effect on switch-in that suppresses light-type moves rather than fire-type, and decreases visibility)
Learnset: Flamethrower, Hydro Pump, Firefield, Sea Smoke, Haze, Mist, Overheat, Steam Eruption, Water Hammer, Combustion, Superheat, Fire Spin, Dragonbreath, Flying Nimbus, Wish, Teatime, Autoclave

Notes: Rounding out the trio of opposing-types pokemon, we’ve got the Gekoal line with Fire/Water. These three lines each have three stages with the same BST, a theme based around a gaseous colloid (steam, smoke, mist) and a middle form that the artist ended up preferring to the final one. lol

I went back and forth on the design for Tiamat for some time– originally it was going to be a solid dragons-and-bongs fantasy store western dragon, but the idea never quite gelled. Another candidate was a wide and flat turtle-dragon spewing steam and evoking a teapot, but I might save that one for later. I went with the eastern dragon (DRA-GUN, I don’t do that tongue thang) and I’m still not 100%, but I haven’t had a strong feeling in the other direction either. I like it but I’m not 100% if it belongs in this line.