Philosophically, I'm more or less in agreement with Doug here. CAP is all about designing Pokemon with competitive goals first and foremost, not flavor or fanboy reasons, no matter how cool they are. To justify making an EVO instead of a CAP, it should show very clear, unambiguous relations with the original Pokemon, to the point that making a new one would be redundant. This doesn't mean it has to keep the exact same stat ratios, but it should be clearly recognizable as "based on Pokemon X that it evolves from".
Roselia->Roserade would be my idea model for an NU->OU revamp. The stat boosts are huge but very recognisably based on Roselia's. The relevant competitive movepool expansions basically boil down to Toxic Spikes, a bunch of new grass attacks, and special Sludge Bomb. It's again clearly based on Roselia's movepool, with Spikes foreshadowing the gen 4 introduction of Toxic Spikes. It even manages to keep its original typing and yet distinguish itself from all the other Grass/Poisons in existance.
The Houndoom supporters have consistently proposed a recognisable upgrade over the current model to achieve OU viability. The Farfetch'd supporters have, by and large, proposed a Fighting/Flying type (which Farfetch'd does not resemble flavorwise in the least btw, unless you can't distinguish between a swordfighter and a martial artist or boxer) with 2 120 power STAB moves that have nearly perfect coverage between them. This looks absolutely NOTHING like the Farfetch'd we have, not even remotely. What it looks like is two unrelated fanboy wet dreams awkwardly stitched together to meet CAP entry criteria, and that is most unappealing to the part of me who cares about CAP's identity.
If people were voting for Farfetch'd based on Deck Knight's Baton Pass-centric ideas, I'd be much less worried about fanboys running the asylum - for one thing, it's based on moves the duck actually gets now, not ones it might get. But the un-Farfetch'd like monstrosity that's getting bandwagoned now by poll jumpers is something that I'm fundamentally opposed to, which is why I voted Houndoom.
EDIT: btw, Farfetch'd gets Baton Pass from XD already.
Roselia->Roserade would be my idea model for an NU->OU revamp. The stat boosts are huge but very recognisably based on Roselia's. The relevant competitive movepool expansions basically boil down to Toxic Spikes, a bunch of new grass attacks, and special Sludge Bomb. It's again clearly based on Roselia's movepool, with Spikes foreshadowing the gen 4 introduction of Toxic Spikes. It even manages to keep its original typing and yet distinguish itself from all the other Grass/Poisons in existance.
The Houndoom supporters have consistently proposed a recognisable upgrade over the current model to achieve OU viability. The Farfetch'd supporters have, by and large, proposed a Fighting/Flying type (which Farfetch'd does not resemble flavorwise in the least btw, unless you can't distinguish between a swordfighter and a martial artist or boxer) with 2 120 power STAB moves that have nearly perfect coverage between them. This looks absolutely NOTHING like the Farfetch'd we have, not even remotely. What it looks like is two unrelated fanboy wet dreams awkwardly stitched together to meet CAP entry criteria, and that is most unappealing to the part of me who cares about CAP's identity.
If people were voting for Farfetch'd based on Deck Knight's Baton Pass-centric ideas, I'd be much less worried about fanboys running the asylum - for one thing, it's based on moves the duck actually gets now, not ones it might get. But the un-Farfetch'd like monstrosity that's getting bandwagoned now by poll jumpers is something that I'm fundamentally opposed to, which is why I voted Houndoom.
EDIT: btw, Farfetch'd gets Baton Pass from XD already.