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CAP 14 CAP 3 - Part 2 - Typing Poll 2
- Thread starter capefeather
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Ice/Rock
Ice/Rock.
Interviewer: "So... let me get this straight. For this CAP topic, you wanted to pick a competitively non-viable type, and see what you could do to make it viable in OU level play, right?"
Responder: 'Yep, and with that reasoning, we chose a part-steel typing.'
Interviewer: "...k."
Interviewer: "So... let me get this straight. For this CAP topic, you wanted to pick a competitively non-viable type, and see what you could do to make it viable in OU level play, right?"
Responder: 'Yep, and with that reasoning, we chose a part-steel typing.'
Interviewer: "...k."
Ice/Rock
Fire/Poison
Fire/Poison
Ice/Rock
Fire/Poison
Rock/Ice is actually pretty well suited to the concept, the only problem is that it really limits our direction if we actually want to create an OU-viable mon - its weaknesses to so many extremely common types combined with its fantastic offensive STABs means that it is eminently well suited for a hit-and-run attacker role, and little else. It just seems very generic and doesn't exploit the potential of this concept at all.
Fire/Poison, on the other hand, can be a typing that lends itself to being a solid tank, offensive sweeper, defensive pivot, or even a supporter. We are not constrained by it, because while it's bad, it's not so defensively or offensively shitty that we are shoehorned into a playstyle. That is why it's my choice.
Rock/Ice is actually pretty well suited to the concept, the only problem is that it really limits our direction if we actually want to create an OU-viable mon - its weaknesses to so many extremely common types combined with its fantastic offensive STABs means that it is eminently well suited for a hit-and-run attacker role, and little else. It just seems very generic and doesn't exploit the potential of this concept at all.
Fire/Poison, on the other hand, can be a typing that lends itself to being a solid tank, offensive sweeper, defensive pivot, or even a supporter. We are not constrained by it, because while it's bad, it's not so defensively or offensively shitty that we are shoehorned into a playstyle. That is why it's my choice.
thornchild
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Ice/Rock
Ice/Steel
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