Typing: Water/Electricreachzero said:Name: Utility Counter
General Description: This Pokemon is capable of being customized to counter virtually any specific Pokemon, but is incapable of countering a large number of Pokemon at the same time.
Justification: It is not unusual for people to say that "versatility is broken" from an offensive standpoint; less attention is given to versatile defensive Pokemon such as Zapdos or Hariyama. This Pokemon would allow us to study the impact of having a Pokemon that is capable of dealing with such varied threats as Salamence, Lucario, and Gengar....but not all at once.
Questions To Be Answered:
--How useful is defensive versatility in a metagame with so many different threats to account for?
--Given the existence of a Pokemon that can hard counter only specific major threats, which threats will be prepared for the most?
--How would team building change if certain difficult-to-prepare-for threats became easier to prepare for?
--Which is more useful, a Pokemon that can somewhat handle a wide range of threats, or a Pokemon that can handle a few threats extremely well?
Stat Spread: 151/84/73/83/74/105
Primary Ability: Trace
Rules:
- No poll jumping. I for one am very glad that we're going to have to stop repeating this soon. At this point it's simply no discussion of movepools. This is important; movepool discussion was a recurring problem in the previous couple of threads.
- No threadhogging. This is an open discussion and should not devolve into a back-and-forth between two people.
- Don't get hung up on the same points. The discussion should remain fresh throughout the course of this thread, and you really shouldn't be posting the same arguments over and over.
- Don't suggest a custom ability without sufficiently backing it up in your post. Frankly, if a custom ability wasn't accepted into the primary ability poll, then we just don't see it as being a really interesting option for this CAP. It is extremely unlikely that we're going to accept it now.
The secondary ability poll will be a little less restrictive than the primary ability poll, so you can all expect maybe a few more options on the slate. What this means is that discussion of slightly more controversial abilities is now highly encouraged. What this doesn't mean is that we're going to accept anything you dream up. Don't suggest Shadow Tag (for example).
Try to enjoy yourselves.