CAP 38 So Far
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After a great discussion led by our Ability Leader, Guingil , we will be deciding on CAP 38's ability through two series of polls. If you haven't taken the chance to read through the thread, please refer to the Ability Discussion thread here to make an informed decision when submitting your ballot! Lastly, here are the descriptions for each ability slated, pulled from Guingil's final post here.
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Flower Veil
A comfy ability that gives us immunity to status and stat drops, so long as we do not exit out of our Grass typing with Terastallization. Eternatus has a niche in absorbing the deadly Toxic and Toxic Spikes in Ubers, so this ability helps expand this to CAP, where burn and paralysis are the more common statuses. Solidifying a few matchups, preventing Parting Shot and Intimidate, and possibly enabling physical bias are other benefits. The ability itself is pretty defining, but translating Eternatus' functioning is where it finds its justification on the slate.
Corrosion
By upgrading Toxic (or regular poison) to be closer in strength to how it functions in Ubers, with Ubers' lack of relevant absorbers, this ability crucially helps 2A + utility sets get to a much higher value floor in CAP. On 3A sets, this helps the Poison STAB move of choice inflict the condition through attacks as well on Poison-type Pokemon such as Galarian Slowking. While the balancing of 3A and 2A sets will require some effort, I believe this ability uniquely translates a core aspect of Eternatus' strength.
Tinted Lens
"What if it was Dragon instead?" is hilarious in how well it works. Replicating the power of neutral coverage that Eternatus has helps 2A + utility and 3A sets function much better. There is some contention that this diminishes the value of coverage, but super effective hits are still desirable, especially with the offensive profile of Grass and Poison that still thuds into some Pokemon in the meta even with the ability. It is not low-impact, but it is always active and a baked-in part of the kit that makes us feel more Eternatus-like by raising our value floor.
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This is a ranked pairs poll. The order of your preferences DOES matter. You may rank as many or as few options as you like, but we encourage you to rank as many options as possible. A typical ballot might look like the following:
All ballots will be revealed at the end of the poll and votes will be counted via automated scripts. If you do not compose a legal ballot, your post will be subject to moderation.
The voting options are:
Flower Veil
Corrosion
Tinted Lens
This poll will be open for 24 hours.
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After a great discussion led by our Ability Leader, Guingil , we will be deciding on CAP 38's ability through two series of polls. If you haven't taken the chance to read through the thread, please refer to the Ability Discussion thread here to make an informed decision when submitting your ballot! Lastly, here are the descriptions for each ability slated, pulled from Guingil's final post here.
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Flower Veil
A comfy ability that gives us immunity to status and stat drops, so long as we do not exit out of our Grass typing with Terastallization. Eternatus has a niche in absorbing the deadly Toxic and Toxic Spikes in Ubers, so this ability helps expand this to CAP, where burn and paralysis are the more common statuses. Solidifying a few matchups, preventing Parting Shot and Intimidate, and possibly enabling physical bias are other benefits. The ability itself is pretty defining, but translating Eternatus' functioning is where it finds its justification on the slate.
Corrosion
By upgrading Toxic (or regular poison) to be closer in strength to how it functions in Ubers, with Ubers' lack of relevant absorbers, this ability crucially helps 2A + utility sets get to a much higher value floor in CAP. On 3A sets, this helps the Poison STAB move of choice inflict the condition through attacks as well on Poison-type Pokemon such as Galarian Slowking. While the balancing of 3A and 2A sets will require some effort, I believe this ability uniquely translates a core aspect of Eternatus' strength.
Tinted Lens
"What if it was Dragon instead?" is hilarious in how well it works. Replicating the power of neutral coverage that Eternatus has helps 2A + utility and 3A sets function much better. There is some contention that this diminishes the value of coverage, but super effective hits are still desirable, especially with the offensive profile of Grass and Poison that still thuds into some Pokemon in the meta even with the ability. It is not low-impact, but it is always active and a baked-in part of the kit that makes us feel more Eternatus-like by raising our value floor.
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This is a ranked pairs poll. The order of your preferences DOES matter. You may rank as many or as few options as you like, but we encourage you to rank as many options as possible. A typical ballot might look like the following:
All ballots will be revealed at the end of the poll and votes will be counted via automated scripts. If you do not compose a legal ballot, your post will be subject to moderation.
- Do NOT bold anything other than the options you are voting for.
- Do NOT put any formatting other than bold in your post.
- Only one option per line.
- Spellings must match EXACTLY the options listed below.
- Capitalization and spaces are ignored by the counting scripts, but you probably should not depend on it.
The voting options are:
Flower Veil
Corrosion
Tinted Lens
This poll will be open for 24 hours.
