CAP 24 CAP 24 - Part 2 - Typing Poll

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Now that we have had our discussion, it is time to select which type we want our Pokemon to be. Please familiarize yourself with the reasoning for the choice of our slate of typing in the Typing Discussion thread.

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Dragon/Fairy
Rock/Flying
Grass/Fairy
Electric/Flying
Rock/Dragon
Fire/Grass
Fairy/Flying

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CAP 24 So far:

Concept:
Drew said:
  • Name - Snow or Shine (or Sand)
  • Description - A Pokemon that abuses 2 weather conditions for different effects
  • Justification - Currently in CAP, there is only one form of weather that is really worth using: rain, and only one really type of weather abuser: offensive sweeper. This concept means to address both of these issues by creating a new niche for two weather conditions. This concept would fill the archetype of a weather abuser, but I feel it also fits into the Actualization category as it would also aim to create a new role for a weather abuser for 1 or more different weather conditions.
  • Questions To Be Answered
    • Why are hail, sun, and sand underrepresented in the current metagame?
    • What makes rain the best weather condition currently?
    • How can this CAP encourage the use of other weather conditions? What do hail, sun, and/or sand need? Sweepers? Setters? Walls?
    • What weather effects are underutilized? How can we successfully use these effects?
    • How can one Pokemon utilize different weather conditions for different effects and sets?
    • Should this Pokemon be able to function outside of weather-based teams? If so, what niche would it need to fulfill? If it sets it's own weather, is it enough to abuse the weather condition on its own?
  • Explanation - For those who don't fully see how a not-sweeper weather abuser could work, take Lileep in LC for example. Lileep, mainly back in BW and XY as sand is quite uncommon in SM, is on most sand teams, as it can abuse its Rock-typing to boost Special Defense, the passive damage from sand, and its access to Recover and Toxic to become a weather abusing wall. Another possible interaction would be running Ferrothorn on rain teams to semi-nullify its Fire weakness. Not only typings are underexplored though! There are many moves, items, and of course abilities that can be used to abuse different weather conditions in a way that no Pokemon really does currently.
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Grass/Fairy
Fairy/Flying
Electric/Flying
Dragon/Fairy

Rock/Flying
Fire/Grass
Rock/Dragon


Also not a fan of Rock / Dragon type because it's weak to Ground, which is important for Sand-based teams.

I'm not a fan of Fire / Grass. As a defensive measure to Ash-Greninja and Landorus-T, it's not check them like Pyroak does with it's absolutely titanic bulk. The Fire-typing stacking with other Fire-types on Sun and it's relative lack of utility on Sand-based teams, especially compared to the other typings on the slate, makes me think it won't be as useful as one might think.
 
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S. Court

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Dragon/Fairy
Electric/Flying
Fairy/Flying
Grass/Fairy

Rock/Flying
Rock/Dragon
Fire/Grass


Even when I like Grass/Fairy, being weak to Flying type -and by extension, Tomohawk- could be a trouble, to difference to Dragon/Fairy taking damage from Ground-type attacks which can be fixed in the process.
 
Rock/Dragon
Electric/Flying
Fairy/Flying
Rock/Flying
Dragon/Fairy
Fire/Grass
Grass/Fairy
 
Rock/Dragon
Fire/Grass
Grass/Fairy
Dragon/Fairy
Fairy/Flying
Electric/Flying
Rock/Flying
 
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Electric / Flying
Rock / Flying
Rock / Dragon
Dragon / Fairy
Fairy / Flying
Grass / Fairy
Fire / Grass
 

Magic Mayhem Maiden

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Electric/Flying
Rock/Dragon
Fire/Grass
Grass/Fairy
Rock/Flying
Fairy/Flying


I get the award for most posts deleted, by 3 (2 on the Concept Submissions for being useless, 1 on Typing Submissions for being posted after decisions)
I hate fairy dragon so much it's not even on my list
Also copy pasted bold that looks even more bold looks so ugly in my eyes
 
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Grass/Fairy
Electric/Flying
Dragon/Fairy
Fairy/Flying
Rock/Flying
Fire/Grass
Rock/Dragon


Nice to be back after missing the past few CAPs, even if it's just ghosting like I used to.
 
Grass/Fairy
Fairy/Flying
Fire/Grass
Rock/Flying
Electric/Flying
Rock/Dragon
Dragon/Fairy


I'm not a fan of Dragon for this CAP; I feel like it'd be bad for the process if we say "welp, let's go for a type with a bunch of blanket resistances" rather than doing something a little more creative to push back against specific threats.
 
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