CAP 16 CAP 5 - Part 10 - Movepool Poll 1

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When voting, use only the submitter's name! The list of possible votes includes, in alphabetical order:
CiteAndPrune
Deck Knight
erisia
ganj4lF
Korski
Nyktos
nyttyn
srk1214
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CAP 5 so far:



Base Speed said:
Name: Type Equalizer

Description: A pokemon whose presence in the metagame increases the usage of one or more underused types and simultaneously decreases the usage of one or more overused types.

Justification: Take a look at the OU usage statistics for January and you'll see that 9 out of the top 10 pokemon have either steel, water, dragon or fighting as one of their types, and extending it to the top 20 shows 16/20 with those types. We should also be asking ourselves why these trends exist so strongly and what can be done about them. In creating this CAP, we'd have to discuss in depth many different aspects of what makes a type and opinions can ultimately being tested in the playtest.

Questions To Be Answered:

  • Is a types usefulness relative to the metagame or is it intrinsic? (Ie. Can any type be the "best" type given the right circumstances or do type match-ups, available STAB moves etc mean some types will always be better than others?)
  • What exploitable weaknesses do "good" types in OU have? Are their currently pokemon that can exploit them and if so, how do they function differently to CAP5?
  • How (if at all) will the targeted types adapt to the situation created? Will people choose different movesets, abilities, etc or will they just use them more/less? How is this linked to the way CAP5 functions strategically?
  • What effects will the changes on certain types' presence have on the metagame?
  • Which members of the targeted types will benefit and suffer from this most and why?
  • By creating CAP5, have we learnt any new ways to counter good types or use bad types?
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Typing: Grass / Dark
Threats: Link
Primary Ability: Harvest
Secondary Ability: Infiltrator
Stats: 115 HP / 100 Atk / 60 Def / 40 SpA / 130 SpD / 55 Spe
 
Bughouse

Bughouse

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srk1214
erisia
Korski
nyttyn
Deck Knight
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Nyktos
CiteAndPrune
ganj4lF
 
ginganinja

ginganinja

It's all coming back to me now
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CiteAndPrune
ganj4lF
Deck Knight
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Nyktos
Korski
srk1214
nyttyn
erisia

fuk Spikes
 
Base Speed

Base Speed

What a load of BS!
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Nyktos
Deck Knight
nyttyn
srk1214
CiteAndPrune
Korski
erisia
ganj4lF

Great work guys, would be happy with any of these.
 
ganj4lF

ganj4lF

Nobody is safe from the power of science!
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CiteAndPrune
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Korski
erisia
nyttyn


Glad to see my suggestion got slated, after all. Good luck to everyone, although I largely disagree with almost every submission except a few.
 
Scorpio

Scorpio

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Deck Knight
CiteAndPrune
Nyktos

This was actually a really tough decisionfor me. I had some moves in mind that I wanted included, and some I wanted excluded. In the end I chose these four since I couldn't narrow down to a top three.
 
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