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The spreads are linked below.
G-Luke
92 HP / 63 Atk / 97 Def / 124 SpA / 104 SpD / 96 Spe, 40 BP from Celesteela's Heavy Slam
EpicUmbreon29
98 HP / 60 Atk / 95 Def / 126 SpA / 108 SpD / 87 Spe, 40 BP from Celesteela's Heavy Slam
Dogfish44
60 HP / 53 Atk / 130 Def / 120 SpA / 145 SpD / 92 Spe, 60 BP from Celesteela's Heavy Slam
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CAP 24 so far:
Topic Leader: Drapionswing
Topic Leadership Team:
SHSP: Typing Leader
Drew: Ability Leader
reachzero: Stats Leader
mxmts: Movepool Leader
Concept:
Typing: Grass/Fairy
Abilities: Drought/Trace
This is a ranked vote: order does matter! You can upvote your favorites and downvote your least favorites. You may choose to rank as many or as few options as you like, but we encourage you to rank as many options as possible to ensure your preferences are taken into account.
Bold your votes and nothing else!
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Most Preferred
Second Most Preferred
Third Most Preferred
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CAP uses automated scripts to count votes. For this reason, it is very important for all ballots to be submitted correctly. If you do not compose a legal ballot, your post will be subject to moderation.
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Asking for votes for your submission or for the submissions of others is not allowed. Anyone found to have done so risks punishment at the moderation team's discretion. If you find that someone has broken this rule, please contact the CAP moderation team with your evidence and no one else. Mini-moderation of this rule is also considered a serious offense and can be punished.
IMPORTANT: When voting, use only the name of the author! The possible votes include:
G-Luke
EpicUmbreon29
Dogfish44
This poll will be open for 24 hours.
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The spreads are linked below.
G-Luke
92 HP / 63 Atk / 97 Def / 124 SpA / 104 SpD / 96 Spe, 40 BP from Celesteela's Heavy Slam
EpicUmbreon29
98 HP / 60 Atk / 95 Def / 126 SpA / 108 SpD / 87 Spe, 40 BP from Celesteela's Heavy Slam
Dogfish44
60 HP / 53 Atk / 130 Def / 120 SpA / 145 SpD / 92 Spe, 60 BP from Celesteela's Heavy Slam
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CAP 24 so far:
Topic Leader: Drapionswing
Topic Leadership Team:
SHSP: Typing Leader
Drew: Ability Leader
reachzero: Stats Leader
mxmts: Movepool Leader
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.
Typing: Grass/Fairy
Threatlist said:Pokemon we want to beat:
Sun:
Heatran, Crawdaunt, Latios, Mega Latios, Pajantom, Zygarde,
Sand:
Heatran, Landorus-T, Tapu Bulu, Tomohawk
Pokemon we want to pressure/threaten:
Mega Mawille, Cawmodore, Ash Greninja, Kartana, Marowak-Alola, Celesteela
Pokemon we want to check Cap24:
Fire-Types: Volcarona, Marowak-Alola, Pyroak(Sand), Blacephalon, Victini
Steel Types: Mega Scizor, Excadrill, Magearna(Sand)
Poison Types: Plasmanta, Mollux, Crucibelle, Mega Crucibelle, Toxapex, Mega Venusaur(Sun)
Priority Users: Kitsunoh, Mega Pinsir, Mega Scizor, Syclant, Cawmodore
Other: Mega Alakazam, Hawlucha
Pokemon we want to counter Cap24:
Mega Venusaur(Sand)
Mega Charizard Y
Pyroak(Sun)
Chansey
Abilities: Drought/Trace