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Long time lurker here. I just thought I would post my idea. Sorry if I ramble I tend to do that.
Name - "Truly Anti-rain"
Description - A pokemon that counters rain teams in some way while being nonviable on a rain team.
Justification -
Positive Effect: This pokemon should be able to break...
I think we should be leaning Somewhat Defensive as it needs to take hits when switching in. We should really be relying on SE hits to take out foes. If we make the offensive stats to high people will just stick a LO or Choice item on it and try to sweep.
For clarification I think that Hariyama...
I got on after thinking about the secondary typing to vote Bug and to explain my reasoning only to find Yllnath saying everything I wanted to say. (Ironically after checking LFG for and update.)
Exactly. Focusing to much on one way of countering limits it's other options. The CAP is a supposed versatile and customizable. So while a defensive variant should be possible so should a fast attacker of some type which can't happen if it has huge defensive capabilities.
@ Dominion
I don't think that steel will limit our thinking to defense oriented pokemon. If anything it should allow us more freedom since having many resistances to common types lets us ease up more on the defensive side of things since it can rely on those instead of bulk. I also think that...
@Midou
Hmm, you're right I did get ahead myself. Guess I should of checked my post as well as I did the forum rules. I stand behind Steel though. The resists it adds form a "safety net" of sorts that should allow it to come in on many types with relative impunity and gives us some interesting...
Hi guys this will be my first post here so bare with me. I made sure to read the CAP introductions. I'd also like to say I've been following since Colosoil was being developed but waited till a new CAP to post so as to better familiarize myself with the proceedings.
For a good defensive typing...