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CAP 2 Smogon "Create a Pokemon" Part Deux: Poll 7a
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What is Dusknoir's territory anyway? I mean do any of us know what's Dusknoir's main purpose on a team?
Also decided on Insomnia as my vote.
Tough time here... but, I'd have to vote for Insomnia While Dry Skin seems like it'd be very fitting for a mummy, as this is going to be more mummy than Dusclops, the mechanics of it don't fit a true mummy. They aren't hurt by the blazing sun, they're supposed to thrive in it, and rain + mummy = wtf?
So yeah. Insomnia. And freaking hell, I wish I would've checked in earlier, when the art was going up. About 6 months ago I ended up doodling a fighting/ghost fencer myself XD even though looking at the secondary polls it wouldn't fit very well if made for stats... (Its head looks like a bowling pin XD)
So yeah. Insomnia. And freaking hell, I wish I would've checked in earlier, when the art was going up. About 6 months ago I ended up doodling a fighting/ghost fencer myself XD even though looking at the secondary polls it wouldn't fit very well if made for stats... (Its head looks like a bowling pin XD)
Voting Air Lock since it makes sense theme-wise, as it does for him to be inmune to Sandstorm (Why would he, of all Pokemon, not be inmune to it?).
Anyways, some say it does not make sense for him to negate weather, but hey, Golduck does it too, and he's just unaware of it. Weather's still going on despite his ability. One might think of it as simply an area under which the weather effect is nulled. The aura idea makes more sense in this context if you guys are thinking of renaming the ability, though there are already two different abilities with the same effect.
Anyways, some say it does not make sense for him to negate weather, but hey, Golduck does it too, and he's just unaware of it. Weather's still going on despite his ability. One might think of it as simply an area under which the weather effect is nulled. The aura idea makes more sense in this context if you guys are thinking of renaming the ability, though there are already two different abilities with the same effect.
I had another idea: a custom ability like Dry Skin, but instead it has an advantage in sandstorm and a disadvantage in rain.
That doesn't make sense. It would have to be -sandstorm, + hail. And this doesn't go with the mummy.
Why -sand +hail?
The reverse makes much more sense to me.
The reverse makes much more sense to me.
sandtorm
hail
rain
sunny
-sunny + rain is already created. (Dry Skin)
-SS/+Hail or -Hail/+SS are the only other viable options.
Why not +Sunny -Rain? It'd kind of fit the theme. =P Tis a burning hot wasteland in the day.
Are any of these proposed abilities going to give it an immunity to Rock/Ice? Or is that where they'll differ from Dry Skin?
The +Hail thing is already kind of there in Ice Body if it's not going to give Ice absorbtion, so there really wouldn't be too much need for that. Besides, this Pokemon has almost nil chance of using a +Hail ability. Just wanted to point that out.
Are any of these proposed abilities going to give it an immunity to Rock/Ice? Or is that where they'll differ from Dry Skin?
The +Hail thing is already kind of there in Ice Body if it's not going to give Ice absorbtion, so there really wouldn't be too much need for that. Besides, this Pokemon has almost nil chance of using a +Hail ability. Just wanted to point that out.
O RLY?
Chlorophyll: +Sun
Leaf Guard: +Sun
Solar Power: +Sun and -Sun (more SA, takes % damage)
Swift Swim: + Rain
Rain Dish: +Rain
Hydration: +Rain
Dry Skin: +Rain, - Sun
Sand Veil +SS
Snow Cloak +Hail
Ice Body +Hail
There's no requirement for an ability to be either or. There are plenty of abilities completely nuetral to all other weathers. Dry Skin is actually the exception to the rule.
+speed sand
-def/spdef in rain
or something like that.
There are probably better ways to do it.
-def/spdef in rain
or something like that.
There are probably better ways to do it.
From what you guys are talking about, Sand Veil seems the answer to the debate of some sandstorm boosting ability. I mean, ghosts are supposed to be pretty intangible anyways, aren't they? So I'd imagine a ghost mummy to be even more hard to hit in a sandstorm. But, it seems Sand Veil wasn't very popular (why not...?), so that's moot there...
However, some kind of variation on dry skin where hp is restored in the sand is the closest to a mummy, and would make more sense than hp restored in the sun... (then again, dunno if that would give sandstream the advantage, as other weathers have more abilities pertaining to them but only half the number of instant-weatherers... *shrug*)
However, some kind of variation on dry skin where hp is restored in the sand is the closest to a mummy, and would make more sense than hp restored in the sun... (then again, dunno if that would give sandstream the advantage, as other weathers have more abilities pertaining to them but only half the number of instant-weatherers... *shrug*)
I was referring to recover in one weather and suffer in one weather. So the bolded don't apply.
Thats what + one weather - the other
Not just +, and solar power doesn't count since recoil and power is one thing not two.
One is not a trend.
Sand Veil was axed because no one likes DT.
recover 6.25% hp in sandstorm
lose 6.25% hp in rain
I'm going to call this ability Sand Lord, and I humbly request that we add it to the poll.
Sand Veil was axed because no one likes DT.
recover 6.25% hp in sandstorm
lose 6.25% hp in rain
I'm going to call this ability Sand Lord, and I humbly request that we add it to the poll.
You could just make it immunity to Sandstorm and 6.25% healing when it's active. Ice Body is pretty much the same, except it doesn't grant an immunity since it only appears on Ice types anyways.
If you had come up with this a week ago, sure. But its too late now. This poll is just running off the runner ups of the last poll, so I can't really add any new abilities now.
No Ability. Dry skin is more fitting for a amphibian and/or fungus Pokemon that prefers moist environments, not a mummy that, assuringly, prefers arid environments. Air Lock is a powerful choice that would be great to see in competitive play, but I don't conceptualize this guy as controlling weather in that way. Insomnia makes a lot of sense but has too much overlap with Shed Skin. Also, in some lore, mummy's do "rest." I think Entomb (I like that name better than Snare Trap) would be better as a custom move rather than an ability.
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