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Yarnus of Bethany · Sep 19th, 2012, 2:55:52 PM

I would like to defend in more depth my proposal (namely Normal/Ground despite its weakness to fighting. Breloom can be handled by teammates, so that should not be too important. In fact, its weakness to Fighting adds significantly to its risk. The CAP community has shown itself to always tend toward OP rather than too weak. Normal/Ground's weaknesses to the common types of Water, Ice, and Fighting ensure switching in will always be risky and never a sure decision. Its STAB also is risky yet good. Very few pokemon resist both STABs, but both cannot be spammed due to Flying and Ghost types, respectively. The risky defensive typing and Good yet unspammable STAB attacks is fulfilled by hardly any other typing. Bug/Psychic has bad STAB attacks, being walled completely by steel, and Electric/Fire, the other major contender have the same problem with Dragons and only 2 weaknesses with an air balloon.

Sep 19th, 2012, 2:55:52 PM	#82
Yarnus of Bethany Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,820 In the world, but not of the world	I would like to defend in more depth my proposal (namely Normal/Ground despite its weakness to fighting. Breloom can be handled by teammates, so that should not be too important. In fact, its weakness to Fighting adds significantly to its risk. The CAP community has shown itself to always tend toward OP rather than too weak. Normal/Ground's weaknesses to the common types of Water, Ice, and Fighting ensure switching in will always be risky and never a sure decision. Its STAB also is risky yet good. Very few pokemon resist both STABs, but both cannot be spammed due to Flying and Ghost types, respectively. The risky defensive typing and Good yet unspammable STAB attacks is fulfilled by hardly any other typing. Bug/Psychic has bad STAB attacks, being walled completely by steel, and Electric/Fire, the other major contender have the same problem with Dragons and only 2 weaknesses with an air balloon.