CAP 3 - Part 7 - Second Flavor Ability Poll 2

[capefeather]

The first poll saw four abilities and the absence of an ability duke it out. Only Poison Touch remains to fight No Tertiary Ability. Who will win?

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My Preferred Entry

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This poll will be open for 24 hours starting from this post.

When voting, use only the ability's name! The possible votes are:

No Tertiary Ability
Poison Touch

Mollux 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 / Illuminate / Poison Touch?

[Jebus McAzn]

No Tertiary Ability

[capefeather]

No Tertiary Ability

[uwnim]

No Tertiary Ability

[Soulous]

No Tertiary Ability

[LouisCyphre]

No Tertiary Ability

[Quanyails]

Poison Touch

[fryfrey]

No Tertiary Ability

[umbriel]

No Tertiary Ability

[Drifblim]

Poison Touch

[Master of the Six Kings]

No Tertiary Ability

No Tertiary Ability

[Stew0The0Jew]

No Tertiary Ability

[Gothic Togekiss]

Poison Touch

[Gerard]

Poison Touch

[Doran Dragon]

No Tertiary Ability

[Gypceros]

Poison Touch

[SunnyE]

Poison Touch

[MCBarrett]

Poison Touch

[Lord Jesseus]

No Tertiary Ability

[The Reptile]

No Tertiary Ability

[trulyElse]

No Tertiary Ability

[paintseagull]

No Tertiary Ability

[Pwnemon]

No tertiary ability

[psykokitty]

No Tertiary Ability