CAP 14 CAP 3 - Part 9 - Name Poll 1

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Hiya! Welcome to Name Poll 1. Throughout the process of this stage, we'll be deciding the official name of CAP 3. We've got a lot of solid, creative entries this time, so make sure you consider all of them when voting! Congrats to all that have been slated by our Topic Leader, Deck Knight.

Recall that this poll operates on IRV, the details of which are outlined here. This means that you can up-vote your favorite typing and downvote your least favorite. Be aware that order does matter in your votes! The first line is your favorite, the last line is your least favorite. Make sure you vote properly. Make sure that you bold your votes and nothing else! A typical vote might look like the following:
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Any comments that the voter has would go below the votes in non-bold text. Bold text is used to determine what the user's votes are, so none of the supplementary text should be in bold.
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Please post only your votes in this thread. Do not respond to other posts, or your posts will be moderated and you warned. If you feel compelled to say something in your own vote, you may still do so, but don't try to start a discussion. Keep discussion to #cap.

This poll will be open for 24 hours starting from the first reply (8:08:51 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, i.e. 12:08:51 a.m. UTC, i.e. 1:08:51 a.m. UTC Daylight).

When voting, use only the below listed name! The list of possible votes, in the order in which they were submitted, is:

Escarglow
Mollux
Bomshelk
Toxicone
Brimscone
Beacone
Burnoulli

SubwayJ][B]Final Submission:[/B] [B]Escarglow[/B] Escargot+Glow (Snail) (Lava Lamp)[/Quote] [Quote=DougJustDoug][B]Final Submission[/B] [SIZE=3][B]Mollux[/B][/SIZE] "Mollusk" + "Lux" (Latin for "light")[/Quote] [Quote=Deck Knight][B]Final Submission:[/B] [B]Bomshelk[/B] "Bomb" + "Shell" + "Bombshell" + "Shelk" Shelk is a kind of cone snail said:
Final Submission

Burnoulli

Burn + Bernoulli[/B]

Props to Pwnemon for collaborating on this name!

For non physics geeks, Daniel Bernoulli was a famous scientist who worked in fluid dynamics. He is most known for Bernoulli's principle.
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Have at it, you crazy kids~

CAP 3 thus far:

Theorymon said:
Name: Extreme Makeover: Typing Edition

General Description: The idea here is to create a Pokemon who's typing, while normally considered poor defensively and/or offensively, becomes a strong selling point of the Pokemon itself via help from an ability, stats, and/or movepool.

Justification: There are a lot of typings we scoff at on a daily basis because of their serious flaws, often forgetting about their strong points. For example, Poison is a really terrible offensive typing, but a decent defensive typing, while the Ice typing is good offensively, but awful defensively. Instead of just accepting that some typings will just ruin a Pokemon, this CAP concept aims to take that "terrible typing", and find ways to fix it (usually via ability, movepool, or stats) to the point where the formerly terrible typing becomes the CAP's strong point! The reason this CAP could benefit OU is because a Pokemon who makes a "bad typing" into a great one could find many unique offensive and/or defensive niches that aren't currently found!

Questions To Be Answered

-What does it take for a Pokemon to overcome its "bad typing" so much that its typing becomes good? Are the stats the biggest contributer, is the ability the thing that saves it, does movepool make it a force, or is it a combination of the above?

-How does the typing makeover effect the Pokemon's playstyle? Does the Pokemon become a unique wall that uses its makeover to overcome its typing's normally fatal flaws, does the make over make a terrible offensive typing into a fearsome sweeper, does the makeover make it into a formidible combination of deffense and offense to a typing that brings it neither, or does the makeover bring forth something none of us see coming from the typing?

-Which resistances and immunities are the most relevant to the metagame? Sure, this concept is aiming to have a "bad typing" become good, but part of that will require the bad typing to have some key resistances and/or immunties to certain typings to defend against or set up on, while still having a very unorthodox competitive typing. This works the other way around too, what are the typings most relevant to hit super effectively or at least neutral?

-How will the rest of the OU metagame react to this extreme type makeover? Will Pokemon start carrying moves they normally wouldn't carry to break through a new defensive threat, will some Pokemon take on new defensive roles due to resisting the unorthodox STABs CAP 3 may carry? Or will This Pokemon, despite being a very real threat, not have many "custom made sets" to beat it, being more of a Pokemon that is a reaction to the metagame than causing a metagame reaction?

-Finally, how will this effect the teams CAP3 is on? Will this be the kind of Pokemon who needs a lot of support to become a threat, will this Pokemon be more of key team member to execute another strategy, or will this be the kind of Pokemon that's part of the glue that holds the team together?
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Typing: Fire / Poison
Base stats: 95 HP / 45 Atk / 83 Def / 131 SpA / 105 SpD / 76 Spe
Abilities: Dry Skin / ??? (No Competitive Ability) / (???)
 
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