[Theorymon]

Alright because of Yilx's post, I made the OP a bit less restrictive... however, I still want you guys to try and hone in on what step of the CAP you feel harmed the CAP the most. Its fine to mention that yes, this CAP had a ton of issues, but I think friendly debate here on what the biggest misstep was could help us learn more. I want to focus on stuff like "I think abilities was the biggest misstep because after Weak Armor, we gave Aurumoth totally safe abilities that overshadowed Weak Armor" or "We gave Aurumoth too much bulk", not "Well if we remove Quiver Dance, No Guard, Illusion, Dragon Dance, and a bunch of coverage moves, this CAP would have been perfect". If we do that, we might as well change this thread's name to "how would you change Aurumoth" instead of "Where did we screw up the most on".

As for my opinion at the moment... I'm not actually 100% sure on how I feel yet, since there are PLENTY of angles we can go with this. I think movepool might have been a pretty serious issue though. One of the Pokemon that was brought up in the concept was Hydreigon. If you look at that Pokemon, you notice that while it has a great offensive movepool, it's middling speed and lack of good set up moves is a pretty serious problem (well besides the whole competing against Latios deal). I wonder if just removing Quiver Dance and Dragon Dance would have made Aurumoth much more risky to use. Without its amazing set up moves, Aurumoth would have to rely much more on luring threats in with Illusion than sweeping. I'm not 100% sure if that'd be the riskiest tactic out there, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that once Aurumoth is revealed, it wouldn't have been that hard to revenge kill. So you would be forced into playing cleverly with illusion or weak armor, or try to hit switch ins as hard as possible with No Guard before they revenge you... which could be tough because of Aurumoth's not so great defensive typing!