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CAP 37 - Part 3 - Typing Poll 1

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CAP 37 So Far

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Here is a fairy 's rationale for the slate! (It is a doozy but I highly advised reading  why they chose what options they did for the slate!)
Thoughts on what I did include:
I am not going to spend a ton of time talking about Dark, Dark / Flying, Water / Flying. The thread and livechats are littered with conversations discussing in depth the benefits of these types, and while not every single person has been sold on these types, few folks are adamantly against any of them.
Now, Flying has received relatively little conversation since my previous post, but the more I think on this type, the more fond I grow of it. Tornadus is certainly a hard act to match up to, but I really do not think that the pure Flying type is much of that reason. While frankly this typing does the least to advance a role, a lack of strongly pre-defined role is itself a position that one can fill in the metagame as we head into Ability, as the typings around it on the slate attest to the range that "must use Beak Blast" can provide.
The supposed cousins Dragon / Flying and Grass / Flying are interesting. I am quite curious about these types, as the two camps (for and against) seem to be really strongly dug in. However, something that I find myself disagreeing with on a larger scale is the similarity of these types. I simply do not think these types are similar, and I think that the arguments against especially the latter lead me to this conclusion. We have yet to have a type on this slate that leans towards the "yeah you can hit me and it'll sting but at what cost" compared to a more defensive typing that is the former. Perhaps this is a strange angle to be taking, but I certainly have been known to think outside of the box, and I quite want a more unorthodox option that leans that direction that isn't the fan favorites from the first trio listed in explanations. The latter is also the only type that I've raised from "a lot to be slated", in part because I do believe there is a unique avenue to be explored here that isn't really done anywhere else.
Now, two types that I really do think are closely related and only one could reasonably be slated here, and I've chosen Steel / Flying over its cousin I'll talk about later. I have given much consideration to what the format looks like, and what this slate looks like, and I have found arguments against this typing lacking. Now, mind you, the original suggestion for this typing was also pretty weak, but there has been a lot of conversation on this type and as to why it's legitimate. Even some of the anti posts go on about how it's boring or too good, things that I do not think should impact presence on a slate. The only argument I have found particularly meaningful (such that this typing was nearly not on the slate) has been its overlap in the metagame, which I will discuss later.
And so we reach Rock / Flying, the final member of the slate to be discussed in this post. Much that I've said regarding this type prior remains true, and this is the one on the "likely" list that has seen the most advocacy that wasn't one of the golden children mentioned in the first paragraph. This is far and away the most offensive typing on the slate, and given the level of support it has seen (I'm struggling to find any post that actively pushes against it) it seems like a no-brainer to include.
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The voting options are:

Dark
Dark / Flying
Dragon / Flying
Grass / Flying
Flying
Rock / Flying
Steel / Flying
Water / Flying

Those voting options without formatting:

Dark
Dark / Flying
Dragon / Flying
Grass / Flying
Flying
Rock / Flying
Steel / Flying
Water / Flying

This poll will be open for 24 hours.
 
Water / Flying
Dark / Flying
Dragon / Flying
Rock / Flying
Steel / Flying
 Flying
Grass / Flying
 Dark
 
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Steel / Flying
Water / Flying
Dark / Flying
Grass / Flying
Dragon / Flying
Dark
Flying
Rock / Flying
Mod Edit: Fixed Formatting
 
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