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This is going to be one tough poll ...
Who said anything about a Defensive CAP9? The point is Sp.Atk could easily be sacrificed for some extra bulk needed to switch in more often and stop secondary users. I'm pretty sure that was the idea behind making it Somewhat Offensive and not a pure Offensive glass cannon or something of the like.
We need to remember this thing has only 4 moveslots. Pursuit, EQ, and a special attack would leave us with only one slot for stopping the secondary. Drop Pursuit or EQ and we leave gaping holes in our coverage.
There are other ways to force those walls to switch out (minor poll jump here, but an obvious one would be Roar). Right now we need to play to our strengths, and by sacrificing Sp.Atk we can come in more and better threaten secondary users besides of physical walls.
The way I see it, there are going to be viable options for forcing a switch (which is what we're looking for; if CAP9 is offensive, most secondary users will switch and not take our hard hits) out of secondary users whether we're on the offensive or defensive side. Obviously, an...