Without further ado (and a long work day) here is the next CAP PotW:
snake_rattler

Week 10: snake_rattler
Username: snake_rattler
Tell us a little bit about yourself, outside of Pokemon Showdown:
I'm a rising senior studying civil engineering, deciding between more structural stuff or roadway stuff. I live in southern US. At my university, I have a hand in so planning/running so many events, sometimes I don't know why I do it to myself lol. It's fun though.
Where’d you get your username from?
When I was 9, I had to make a minecraft username. "snake rattler" popped into my head. Why? Couldn't tell you, I've tried to remember for years. Anyway that's where the underscore comes from. Been considering just making it "snake" - thoughts on that?
Favourite CAP:
Despite losing Heal Block and Ghostium Z privileges, Pajantom is still favorite CAP. We did the Ghost/Dragon holding baby thing well before Dragapult.
Favourite Heat Set you've used in CAP?
Shiftry @ Life Orb
Ability: Chlorophyll
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
IVs: 29 HP
- Growth
- Solar Blade
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch
Before Tomohawk took off again in early gen 8, I used Shiftry on sun teams, which blew past specially defensive walls (i.e. Mollux, remember that?) for Kommo-O and Venusaur to sweep. It was also a ghost resist, which was still necessary before Spectrier. Super fun, but probably unusable at this point.
Underrated mons in the current CAP meta?
I'm glad that Tapu Fini is starting to get more attention because I think it's pretty good. And as much pain Arghonaut brought to me in Gen 7, it's good to see it's getting more attention also in this gen.
How'd you got started in CAP/What drew you in?
I stumbled on it on forums and then just read through the archive. Then I started chatting in the PS! room. Shoutouts to
cbrevan and
sparktrain for welcoming me in so kindly. Just don't go into the archive finding awful posts from me, of course.
What’s your favourite playstyle to use in CAP and why?
You know it's Trick Room. jk Trick Room bad in Gen 8. I know Future Sight bulky offense is easy to use, but it's felt very natural to pilot for me ever since it first dropped last summer. If my recent battles are any indication, though, I'm a bit rusty.
Favourite CAP concept that wasn't chosen?
Voltage's Limit Break concept was really neat. I hope that returns in future concept submissions
Voltage.
Thoughts on the current CAP metagame?
Specially defensive clefable is really annoying me right now, but I like how we have some good wallbreakers like Urshifu and Jumbao which, for the most part, seem balanced.
What are your favorite memories from older team tours? What about more recent ones?
One of my favorite team tours ever was leading Pernicious Pajantoms with
SHSP and scheming awful sets. Getting to know
Voltage,
2spoopy4u, and
Wulfanator72 on the Galactic Astros is also very up there for team tour experiences. Looking forward to CAPPL this year :)
How has being staff in the PS room differed from being forum staff?
The PS room has more levels of authority, so talking about promotions / demotions are more commonplace. On the other hand, forums have more rules to enforce, particularly CAP specific ones. They're both two different experiences but both are really neat.
What was the secret sauce that made the Roaks DOMINATE last PL???
Idk if this was really a secret, but it was stresh.
What is a pet peeve you have in the CAP Meta or PS room?
For the metagame, aside from Clefable, I really don't like what Cawmodore does to teambuilding, even if it's not explicitly broken.
For the PS Room, it doesn't bother me when users come into the room and don't know that CAP isn't a place to share fakemons. What does bother me is that for some very persistent users, 3 roomfaqs and 70 lines of supplemental explanation isn't enough for them to realize that CAP isn't a place to share fakemons. Maybe those moments just stick out in my mind, but I feel like it's happened a good amount of times over the years.
Despite those, though, there's a reason why I've stuck around for so long, y'all are awesome people
Share a particular team you are proud of?
Here's my RMT for
Super Camerupt. Not sure if it would still work in the current metagame, but it was a nice break from Mega Mawile Trick Room teams.
Can you give some advice for new CAPers starting off in the metagame?
Experimenting with the CAPs and trying to make them work is very fun, but try sticking with standard teams for a bit. Once you learn the metagame, it becomes much easier to experiment with CAPs because you can more easily find any exploits that an underused CAP might find.