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CAP Co-Leader
Congratulations to -Voltage- for winning the concept poll with his concept, Offensive Team Support! It is copied here:
CAP27's TL Jho will open the thread with his thoughts. Please make sure to read his initial post, as well as his subsequent posts, carefully and follow it for discussion! Keep posts civil and on topic, or else they will be deleted.
Guidelines:Name: Offensive Team Support (the concept formerly known as "Trickster Cleric")
Description: A Pokemon that is able to fit the role of team support through more offensive and/or utility based means, whether these are through moves, abilities, typings or other factors unique to CAP27.
Justification: This is absolutely an Archetype based concept, if that weren't inherently clear by its name. This more or less comes from the class of a similar name from the fifth edition of dungeons and dragons (not necessarily being a Pokemon that uses Aromatherapy or Heal Bell), and it's meant to fill a role that we haven't explored in CAP since as far back as generation four with Fidgit. Furthermore, of all the offensively-oriented Pokemon that exist in the metagame, very few can also act as support for their team.
Questions to be answered:
- How can a Pokemon that might be more offensively-focused or utility-focused fare as a healer/cleric/support mon in the current metagame?
- What are aspects of specific support Pokemon that make them effective in their roles in the current meta?
- To what extent can CAP27 use the new mechanics of utility based moves be used in a way to benefit players using them?
- Without getting into overly cheesy strategies, how can CAP27 bring about creative ways to assist the rest of the team it finds itself on?
- How does CAP27 bring about situations in which the opponent has to debate whether or not CAP27 will be healing or attacking, and how can they effectively beat that 50/50?
- To what extent does CAP27 have to choose between acting more as a cleric versus acting more as an attacker? Can it do both without sacrificing anything relevant to its viability?
- Are there any forms of playstyle that CAP27 might be able to benefit just by existing?
- How can CAP27's offensive or utility presence open opportunities for healing its allies later in the game (if CAP27 gets healing methods) ?
- To what extent does an offense-oriented support Pokemon need to use healing (via HP recovery or status healing) to support teams it finds itself on?
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CAP27's TL Jho will open the thread with his thoughts. Please make sure to read his initial post, as well as his subsequent posts, carefully and follow it for discussion! Keep posts civil and on topic, or else they will be deleted.