CAP 3 - Part 8 - Art Poll 2

[Birkal*]

Hello and welcome to Art Poll 2! Artistic design has always been one of the defining aspects of CAP since its creation. Despite the competitive purposes of CAP, we also pride ourselves in making aesthetically pleasing and believable Pokemon. If you're reading this right now and don't normally participate in CAP, now is a great time to join up and vote! We'd love to have you vote and join in the fun.

Recall that this poll is a bold vote poll, the details of which are outlined here. A typical vote might look like the following:

My Preferred Entry

If the voter wishes, he may post comments on his vote below the actual vote. As with IRV, only the vote itself should be bold and none of the supplementary text should be bold.

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This poll will be open for 24 hours. Hop to it!


Contestants

CyzirVisheen
DougJustDoug
Mos-Quitoxe
tea_and_blues

Originally Posted by Fat CyzirVisheen

Originally Posted by Fat DougJustDoug

Supporting Art

Originally Posted by Fat Mos-Quitoxe

Supporting Art

Originally Posted by Fat tea_and_blues

Supporting Art

CAP 3 so far:

Concept: Extreme Makeover: Typing Edition

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Originally Posted by Fat Theorymon

Name: Extreme Makeover: Typing Edition

General Description: The idea here is to create a Pokemon who's typing, while normally considered poor defensively and/or offensively, becomes a strong selling point of the Pokemon itself via help from an ability, stats, and/or movepool.

Justification: There are a lot of typings we scoff at on a daily basis because of their serious flaws, often forgetting about their strong points. For example, Poison is a really terrible offensive typing, but a decent defensive typing, while the Ice typing is good offensively, but awful defensively. Instead of just accepting that some typings will just ruin a Pokemon, this CAP concept aims to take that "terrible typing", and find ways to fix it (usually via ability, movepool, or stats) to the point where the formerly terrible typing becomes the CAP's strong point! The reason this CAP could benefit OU is because a Pokemon who makes a "bad typing" into a great one could find many unique offensive and/or defensive niches that aren't currently found!

Questions To Be Answered

-What does it take for a Pokemon to overcome its "bad typing" so much that its typing becomes good? Are the stats the biggest contributer, is the ability the thing that saves it, does movepool make it a force, or is it a combination of the above?

-How does the typing makeover effect the Pokemon's playstyle? Does the Pokemon become a unique wall that uses its makeover to overcome its typing's normally fatal flaws, does the make over make a terrible offensive typing into a fearsome sweeper, does the makeover make it into a formidible combination of deffense and offense to a typing that brings it neither, or does the makeover bring forth something none of us see coming from the typing?

-Which resistances and immunities are the most relevant to the metagame? Sure, this concept is aiming to have a "bad typing" become good, but part of that will require the bad typing to have some key resistances and/or immunties to certain typings to defend against or set up on, while still having a very unorthodox competitive typing. This works the other way around too, what are the typings most relevant to hit super effectively or at least neutral?

-How will the rest of the OU metagame react to this extreme type makeover? Will Pokemon start carrying moves they normally wouldn't carry to break through a new defensive threat, will some Pokemon take on new defensive roles due to resisting the unorthodox STABs CAP 3 may carry? Or will This Pokemon, despite being a very real threat, not have many "custom made sets" to beat it, being more of a Pokemon that is a reaction to the metagame than causing a metagame reaction?

-Finally, how will this effect the teams CAP3 is on? Will this be the kind of Pokemon who needs a lot of support to become a threat, will this Pokemon be more of key team member to execute another strategy, or will this be the kind of Pokemon that's part of the glue that holds the team together?

Typing: Fire / Poison
Base stats: 95 HP / 45 Atk / 83 Def / 131 SpA / 105 SpD / 76 Spe
Abilities: Dry Skin / ??? / (???)

[ikasu]

Mos-Quitoxe

[paintseagull]

Mos-Quitoxe

' '==3

[jas61292]

Mos-Quitoxe

[AJC]

Mos-Quitoxe

[bugmaniacbob]

CyzirVisheen

Though I think we all know who's going to win...

[Blackhawk11]

CyzirVisheen

[Steamroll]

Mos-Quitoxe

[SunnyE]

Mos-Quitoxe

[Birkal*]

tea_and_blues

Coralmon is hot.

[Tomahawk9]

CyzirVisheen

[Gypceros]

Mos-Quitoxe

[CTI]

Mos-Quitoxe

[Mos-Quitoxe]

Mos-Quitoxe

' '==3

[Dogfish44]

Mos-Quitoxe

[capefeather]

DougJustDoug

These designs are all so good imo that I had to vote based on stat/movepool implications. It would be really, really weird if Mos's or tea_and_blues's designs didn't have Surf on them (which may be highly likely), and Cyzir's is great in general but seems too physically powerful.

[Wobbanaut]

DougJustDoug

[EspyOwner]

Mos-Quitoxe

!

[King Serperior]

Originally Posted by Fat Birkal

Coralmon is hot.

Agreed!!

tea_and_blues

[nihilist]

CyzirVisheen

[Cptn Scienceman]

DougJustDoug

[Todd]

tea_and_blues

[Topofira]

Mos-Quitoxe

[Classical]

Mos-Quitoxe

[LouisCyphre]

Mos-Quitoxe