Game crashing. Keep getting NullPointerException: Rendering overlay

[davca55]

Upon forge installation, I am able to launch the vanilla forge install. However, launching the forge installation after adding the pixelmon mod into the .mod folder, results on the instance crashing while the game launches (specifically after the game goes into fullscreen but before main menu loads). If I delete the pixelmod from the .mod folder, I am once again able to launch the forge installation successfully. Looking through this forum, I have tried the following reported debugging steps without success:

1. Restarting the computer

2. deleting the C;\Users\____\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\config\forge-client.toml file

3. Uninstalling and reinstalling

 

Any ideas of what could be the culprit here?

 

here is the log: crashlog

[Paint_Ninja]

MC 1.16.5 is end of life and no longer supported here. However, it looks like an issue with the Pixelmon mod, so you could try asking the authors for help.