Somewhat Defensive for me. We have enough Bulky attackers in CAP, so I'd like this one to be more towards defense. And also, I just love Giratina for its absurd defences and status support, so I'd like another Dragon like it.
I agree that most teams pack ice moves to take advantage of dragons that are 4x weak to ice. Our 2x weak CAP 8 dragon won't have nearly as much to fear from all the Ice Punches, Ice Shards, and HP-Ice moves out there. So perhaps the ice weakness is not as bad as I made it sound. I also agree that EQ can be managed around, and every team has plenty of switchins against ground moves.Fidget has a somewhat defensive build and is weak to both EQ and Ice. I wouldn't worry about dragon because I'd assume a dragon type wouldn't want to switch into a dragon type. Exactly what ice moves are popular anyway, is it HP Ice or Ice Punch? I'd only worry about it getting ruined by ice if it was getting hit by Ice Beam because of how weak the former moves are. Also, as far as carrying ice to handle dragons it's all to hit for dual weakness, not a regular one. The only weakness I can see here that could be seriously bothersome is EQ, but I know it's not impossible to get over.
I do like your reasoning on this Deck Knight. Especially since you mentioned a concern for Magic Guard on this Electric/Dragon (I share this concern as well). And now that you mention it... a defensive Dragon WOULD be a nice change of pace (not to insult Dragonite, but Elec/Dragon is better typing defensively). I too, support a Somewhat Defensive spread.The comprehensive case for Defensive/Somewhat Defensive:
We have a chance to give our CAP some truly amazing abilities that have seen little use. I ask you, of what use is immunity to various additional effects if you are still 2HKO'd by any attack?
And what of power concerns. Some have bemoaned that Electric/Dragon is too mighty an offensive combo. Trending defensive allows us to curb super offensive spreads without sacrificing movepool options.
My fellow citizens of CAP, our calling is clear. Electric has proven its resists supremely useful through Rotom-A already, Magnezone also completely walls the vast majority of attacks that cannot strike it for SE damage. We should plumb the depths of what a Defensive Dragon can bring rather than bringing on yet another fast, powerful Dragon sweeper. We already have Salamence, Flygon, and Latias, let us explore the other side of Dragons.
No offense, but why is your reasoning based on assumptions more than anything else? It seems to me that you haven't been playing too many battles on the CAP server recently, if you did, you would know that the metagame there is far different from what you describe.Voted for Defensive because
A) OU doesn't need another pokemon that abuses the brokenness of the Dragon attacking type, further exagerrating the trend of 4/6 team slots being Dragon or Steel, and
B) CAP has 3 offensive pokes, 2 Defensive pokes, and 2 balanced pokes, so Defensive would even things out nicely.