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CAP 24 CAP 24 - Part 5 - Secondary Ability Poll 1
- Thread starter Quanyails
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Trace
Competitive
Berserk
Poison Heal
Competitive
Berserk
Poison Heal
Trace
Competitive
Sand Rush
Berserk
Poison Heal
Berserk is a good idea on paper but the synergy with sand is too low. This wouldn't be a specific sand user, neither would Poison Heal.
Competitive
Sand Rush
Berserk
Poison Heal
Berserk is a good idea on paper but the synergy with sand is too low. This wouldn't be a specific sand user, neither would Poison Heal.
Trace
Competitive
Sand Rush
Competitive
Sand Rush
Trace
Berserk
Sand Rush
Poison Heal
Competitive
Berserk
Sand Rush
Poison Heal
Competitive
Trace
Sand Rush
Competitive
Sand Rush
Competitive
Sand Rush
Berserk
Competitive
Poison Heal
Trace
How can this CAP possibly claim to be designed for abusing sandstorm if neither the typing or ability achieve this goal? Sand Rush must be the best choice. Berserk has clear interactions with the sandstorm-activated mechanics of chip damage, and boosted Shore Up to recover the damage needed to activate this ability. Trace is supposed to be good for switching into Heatran: except that Heatran is a problem for sun teams (which would never use this ability over Drought), not sand. It's easily defeated by sand's core members of Tyranitar and Excadrill, and thus they would never need to switch out of it.
Berserk
Competitive
Poison Heal
Trace
How can this CAP possibly claim to be designed for abusing sandstorm if neither the typing or ability achieve this goal? Sand Rush must be the best choice. Berserk has clear interactions with the sandstorm-activated mechanics of chip damage, and boosted Shore Up to recover the damage needed to activate this ability. Trace is supposed to be good for switching into Heatran: except that Heatran is a problem for sun teams (which would never use this ability over Drought), not sand. It's easily defeated by sand's core members of Tyranitar and Excadrill, and thus they would never need to switch out of it.
Sand Rush
Trace
Competitive
Berserk
Poison Heal
There is a very wide gap between the first three and the last two.
Trace
Competitive
Berserk
Poison Heal
There is a very wide gap between the first three and the last two.
Sand Rush
Trace
Sand Rush
Poison Heal
Poison Heal
Sand Rush
Trace
Berserk
Sand Rush
Competitive
Poison Heal
Berserk
Sand Rush
Competitive
Poison Heal
Trace
Competitive
Berserk
Sand Rush
Poison Heal
I much better like Trace and Competitive because it gives you reason to use it outside of Sand, but still heavily encourages it. Poison Heal seems kind of just like a "generically good" ability to me, so I don't like it much at all.
Competitive
Berserk
Sand Rush
Poison Heal
I much better like Trace and Competitive because it gives you reason to use it outside of Sand, but still heavily encourages it. Poison Heal seems kind of just like a "generically good" ability to me, so I don't like it much at all.
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