CAP 20 CAP 20 - Part 10 - Complete Movepool Submissions

[Zepkhan]

Final Submission

Level-up Moves (19 total with one repeated)

Start- Iron Defense (Memory)
Start- Attack Order (Memory)
Start- Tackle
Start- Howl
Lv 5- Water Gun
Lv 11- Metal Claw
Lv 16- Gust
Lv 21- Water Pulse
Lv 26- Mist
Lv 26- Iron Defense
Lv 31- Bite
Lv 36- Steel Wing
Lv 41- Brine
Lv 41- Slack Off
Lv 46- Dragon Breath
Lv 51- Hydro Pump
Lv 56- Dragon Dance
Lv 61- Iron Head
Lv 66- Flash Cannon

TMs/ HMs (48 total with two repeated)

TM04- Calm Mind
TM06- Toxic
TM09- Venoshock
TM10 - Hidden Power
TM12 - Taunt
TM13 - Ice Beam
TM15 - Hyper Beam
TM17 - Protect
TM18 - Rain Dance
TM21 - Frustration
TM27 - Return
TM37 - Sandstorm
TM39 - Rock Tomb
TM40 - Aerial Ace
TM41 - Torment
TM44 - Rest
TM45 - Attract
TM48 - Round
TM49 - Echoed Voice
TM51 - Steel Wing
TM55 - Scald
TM56 - Fling
TM59 - Incinerate
TM63 - Embargo
TM65 - Shadow Claw
TM67 - Retaliate
TM68 - Giga Impact
TM70 - Flash
TM78 - Bulldoze
TM79 - Frost Breath
TM80 - Rock Slide
TM83 - Infestation
TM87 - Swagger
TM88 - Sleep Talk
TM90 - Substitute
TM91 - Flash Cannon
TM93 - Wild Charge
TM94 - Secret Power
TM95 - Snarl
TM97 - Dark Pulse
TM100 - Confide
HM03 - Surf
HM04 - Strength
HM05 - Waterfall
HM06 - Rock Smash
HM07 - Dive

Egg Moves (5 total, no repeats, Water 1 / Water 3)

1= Water 1, 3 = Water 3, C = Chainbred
Drill Peck (Empoleon (1))
Haze (Greninja (1), Surskit line (1), Wooper line (1), Squirtle line (1C), Poliwag line (1C), Tentacool (3, Helix-bred), Omanyte line (1&3 C)
Hex (Tentacool line (3))
Icicle Crash (Cloyster (3))
Refresh (Corsola (1&3), Poliwag line (1C), Squirtle line (1C))

Tutor Moves (6 total, no repeats)

Block
Bounce
Dragon Pulse
Ice Punch
Iron Tail
Uproar

Total Moves (75 total)

Aerial Ace
Attack Order
Attract
Bite
Block
Bounce
Brine
Bulldoze
Calm Mind
Confide
Dark Pulse
Dive
Dragon Breath
Dragon Dance
Dragon Pulse
Drill Peck
Echoed Voice
Embargo
Flash
Flash Cannon
Fling
Frost Breath
Frustration
Giga Impact
Gust
Haze
Hex
Hidden Power
Howl
Hydro Pump
Hyper Beam
Ice Beam
Ice Punch
Icicle Crash
Incinerate
Infestation
Iron Defense
Iron Head
Iron Tail
Mist
Poison Jab
Protect
Rain Dance
Refresh
Rest
Retaliate
Return
Rock Slide
Rock Smash
Rock Tomb
Round
Sandstorm
Scald
Secret Power
Shadow Claw
Slack Off
Sleep Talk
Snarl
Steel Wing
Strength
Substitute
Surf
Swagger
Tackle
Taunt
Thief
Torment
Toxic
Uproar
Venoshock
Water Gun
Water Pulse
Waterfall
Wild Charge

Restricted Moves (34 total)

Attack Order
Bounce
Calm Mind
Dark Pulse
Dragon Dance
Dragon Pulse
Drill Peck
Flash Cannon
Frost Breath
Frustration
Hidden Power
Hydro Pump
Ice Beam
Ice Punch
Icicle Crash
Iron Defense
Iron Head
Iron Tail
Poison Jab
Protect
Rain Dance
Refresh
Rest
Return
Rock Slide
Scald
Shadow Claw
Slack Off
Sleep Talk
Substitute
Surf
Taunt
Toxic
Waterfall
Wild Charge

Added Rain Dance, Poison Jab, Attack Order and Mist
Replaced Leer with Howl and Payback with Dark Pulse
Removed Hail, Safeguard and Double Team

Flavour Moves

Sound-Based moves (Echoed Voice, Round, Snarl, Howl, Uproar) representing the battle cry of the crew.

Poison moves (Poison Jab, Toxic, Venoshock): Vikings were crafty and there is evidence that they used poisoned weapons.

Item-Based moves (Fling, Thief, Embargo, Incinerate): More for the raid/pilage motif.

Various Crew-Based moves
Hex: A wizard did it
Flash: The light to guide the voyage
Retaliate: CHARRRGE!!
Attack Order: See Retaliate
Metal Claw/Shadow Claw: Blades of Fury

Design-Based moves:
Oars: (Gust, Steel Wing, Bounce) Bounce: "It FLIES?!" "If you know how"
Dragon moves fit the Draconic theme
Haze/Mist to suit the seafog motif.

 

[mcFlareon]

Final Submission

Key =
* = repeated
Bold = required

Total Moves = 75

Level Up moves Total=23

Start- Wide Guard
Start- Heal Order
Start- Defend Order
Start- Icicle Crash
1- Tackle
1- Leer
1- Water Gun
4- Mist
8- Wing Attack
11- Scary Face
15- Headbutt
18- Water Pulse*
22- Take Down
25- Steel Wing*
29- Dragon Breath
32- Brine
36- Skull Bash
39- Dragon Dance
43- Iron Head*
48- Double-Edge
55- Flash Cannon*
60- Hydro Pump
64- Head Smash

TM/HM moves Total=36-2 repeats=34

TMs
04- Calm Mind
06- Toxic
10- Hidden power
12- Taunt
13- Ice Beam
14- Blizzard
15- Hyper Beam
17- Protect
18- Rain Dance
21- Frustration
23- Smack Down
27- Return
32- Double Team
39- Rock Tomb
42- Facade
44- Rest
45- Attract
46- Thief
48- Round
51- Steel Wing*
55- Scald
56- Fling
60- Quash
66- Payback
68- Giga Impact
87- Swagger
88- Sleep Talk
90- Substitute
91- Flash Cannon*
93- Wild Charge
94- Secret Power
100- Confide

HMs
03- Surf
04- Strength
05- Waterfall
06- Rock Smash

Egg Moves: (Water 1/Dragon) Total=5

Drill Peck (Empoleon)
Icicle Spear (Corsola)
Refresh (Corsola)
Avalanche (Lapras)
Rock Blast (Corsola)

Tutor moves Total=15-2 repeats=13

Water Pulse*
Signal Beam
Ice Punch
Uproar
Hyper Voice
Iron Tail
Iron Head*
Zen Headbutt
Aqua Tail
Dragon Pulse
Outrage
Block
Iron Defense
Tailwind
Icy Wind

Explanation

Since Naviathan's stats are more physically inclined, most of his level-up moves consist of attacks that involve tackling with either his head (Iron Head/Skull Bash/Headbutt/Head Smash), his feather oars as 'wings' (Wing Attack/Steel Wing) or recoil-related moves (Take Down/Double-Edge). Although Wild Charge isn't in this level-up movepool, the amount of recoil moves helps back up how it can learn the peculiar Wild Charge attack. Dragon Breath/Scary Face/Leer are there to emphasise the Dragon head part of the design which intimidates enemies and adds a reason for how it can learn draconic moves. It isn't until much later that it learns beam moves like Hydro Pump or Flash Cannon as artillery attacks. The Water Gun/Water Pulse/Brine/Hydro Pump progression for its Water STABs show how it learns to create stronger water 'beam' attacks- I chose not to include Aqua Tail as I think all attacks should be front-focused like a ship.

Any outlier moves are found in the heart scale section, such as the defensive-orientated moves like Wide Guard or the informed ability of being able to break through ice with Icicle Crash.

I chose Heal Order/Defend Order as even though it's very bug-related move at the moment, I can see Naviathan as a pokemon associated with leadership, navy and transport- it commands any creature who it allows to ride it to help heal/defend it as a sort of symbiosis relationship (possible 'rider' pokemon could be things like Barbaracle/Cloyster/Wingulls). However, I deliberately chose not to use Attack Order as Naviathan takes the role of a leader-type or captain of the crew and will do the attacking himself while the crew can focus on defense/healing. (But seriously, Barbaracles riding Naviathans is probably as close to Vikings on a boat as you can get in the pokemon world and hey- barnacles do cling on ships!)

For egg moves, it learns Rock Blast/Icicle Spear to emphasise the artillery idea- it can break Substitutes but is usually outclassed by other moves but at least it creates another dimension of attacking in terms of the naval battle. Smack Down/Rock Tomb/Rock Slide as TM moves also follow this idea as either Naviathan or his passengers can throw rocks to shoot airborne targets- knocking/flinching/slowing them down as supporting strategies. Fling follows the same idea. Stone Edge isn't included because the idea is more about alternate tactics- plus Stone Edge seems to be more rocks coming from the ground which isn't optimal in naval battles.

It also learns moves like Quash to support allies in multi-battles as it's big enough to stop them- which also leads to how it can learn Block as a tutor move.

Finally for the other Tutor moves, Zen Headbutt provides an alternate coverage and reinforces the dragonhead-focused movepool. Tailwind and Icy Wind offers a more supporting role. Hyper Voice as a sound ranged move and Uproar because wars are noisy battles that will keep you up. Signal Beam/Dragon Pulse rounds out the other beam artillery moves.

I decided to exclude Thunderpunch as Naviathan is still a very marine pokemon and Wild Charge is the only plausible electric move I think it can use because of the whole 'charging at you with recoil' theme. As I already established, the themes are more head-based/whole body tackles/artillery as I don't think its fangs or claws (they're more liked webbed feet to me) are prominent enough for the movepool but it can still punch ice. The tail-based moves are passable as it can steer around but it isn't as ideal as head-on moves because it's back may leave openings to both it and its passengers.

Hope I did this right since I only had a limited time to work with right now.

 

[Empress]

OK guys, here is the preliminary slate:

Dogfish44
Deck Knight
Korski
NumberCruncher
Elite Lord Sigma
cbrevan + HeaLnDeaL
capefeather
Exclaimer
mcflareon

I didn't include MQJinx's, QueenOfLuvdiscs's, and Zepkhan's submissions because they came with little to no justification.
I didn't include hollywood's submission because it made zero sense flavor-wise.

nyttyn will have the final say on this slate.

 

[nyttyn]

I more or less agree with this slate, it's all flavor at this point anyway and nobody put in anything offensive or egregious.

As we approach the home stretch, I realize I haven't posted any electronic yet. Let's fix that, shall we? As for which movepool will win...well, that's really the mystery in your CAP, ain't it?