Hello again everyone! We just concluded our second community survey, garnering 35 total responses, and 21 qualified responses. These numbers are a bit smaller than our previous survey, but perhaps our very first community survey drawing a larger crowd is to be expected. I really encourage everyone to vote in the future since the sample size here is so small. Your vote matters! All in all, I'm decently satisfied with the turnout here, so thank you to everyone who took the time to submit a response.
Because the qualified votes make up almost two thirds of the overall votes, the qualified and overall scores are going to be quite close in general. I will make visual charts of the responses later, but for now I just wanted to get this data up so that everyone could see it. Alright then, let's get into the data:
Enjoyment
- Overall: 6.8 / 10
- Qualified: 6.4 / 10
While we'd ideally like for these numbers to be 7+, 6.8 and 6.4 aren't necessarily bad either. Notably, these are somewhat down from our enjoyment scores of 7.3 last year. It seems like people are definitely enjoying the metagame (qualified players slightly less so), but there's always room for improvement!
Competitiveness
- Overall: 6.9 / 10
- Qualified: 6.8 / 10
These competitiveness scores are also decent results. In fact, they're fairly close to the competitiveness scores of last year, which were 6.8 overall and 7.1 qualified. Interestingly enough, people seem to think the metagame is more competitive than it is enjoyable.
Arghonaut
- Overall: 1.9 / 5
- Qualified: 1.9 / 5
Great scores here for our friendly neighborhood bulky water Arghonaut. The pirate doesn't seem to be too overbearing right now.
Cresceidon
- Overall: 3 / 5
- Qualified: 3 / 5
Unfortunately, the same can't be said about CAP's other prominent bulky water, Cresceidon. A score of 3 is indicative that Cresceidon is potentially nerf-worthy. It is also in line with other CAPs that ended up being nerfed after receiving similar scores on last year's survey. Whether Cresceidon receives a nerf or not, it will be something the metagame council keeps a close eye on going forward.
Equilibra
- Overall: 1.8 / 5
- Qualified: 1.7 / 5
Despite Equilibra's number-one place atop the usage stats during CAPPL, it seems to be among the least of people's concerns in this metagame. We may finally buck the trend of having to nerf this mon every generation, which is great news.
Hemogoblin
- Overall: 2.6 / 5
- Qualified: 2.7 / 5
Responses about Hemogoblin were quite high in general. While not as high as other Pokemon such as Cresceidon, scores of 2.6 and 2.7 are definitely enough to put this CAP on the metagame council's radar. We'll be watching carefully to see where Hemogoblin moves in the future.
Kitsunoh
- Overall: 1.9 / 5
- Qualified: 1.9 / 5
Identical scores to Arghonaut here (after rounding). It seems as though Kitsunoh's nerf a while back did the trick. It is an incredibly strong CAP, but the general sentiment is that it's not
too strong at all.
Gliscor
- Overall: 3.3 / 5
- Qualified: 3.5 / 5
Alright, now this is interesting. These are the highest scores by far across the survey. In fact, these scores are even higher than Chuggalong's scores last year before it was nerfed. The list of times that CAP has taken action on OU Pokemon is very short; typically, there is a very high bar for OU Pokemon to meet in order to be suspected in CAP. The metagame council will soon be discussing whether or not Gliscor meets this bar, and what action, if any, to take in the future.
Ramnarok-Dormant
- Overall: 2.7 / 5
- Qualified: 2.7 / 5
Ramnarok-Radiant
- Overall: 2.7 / 5
- Qualified: 2.5 / 5
It seems as though CAP's newest creation is faring well! With a score of 3 representing "just right", it looks like both Ramnarok formes are close to hitting the mark, just slightly on the weaker side. The metagame council won't be doing anything with this information, but it may be good to know for the upcoming Post-Play Lookback.
Write-ins
An exhaustive list of write-ins:
- Kitsunoh + Garg balances feel too strong
- Buff Cyclohm
- Ban Tera, unban Annihilape, give back Explosion to Astrolotl
- Chuggalong is slightly annoying
- Kyurem
- Kyurem x2
- Ban Tera x2
- Chugg again
- Nothing really stands out as broken but Chugg is kinda annoying, and Cresc prob needs a small nerf
- SV in general sucks, Cresc and Kit are the major problems, also remove Thunder from Ramnarok
- Kyurem, Woger, Garg, free Rage Ape free Palafin
- Unnerf Kit
- Buff Voodoom
- Buff Jumbao
- Please give Smokomodo V-Create
- I wanna see spoo kiss me
Certainly some interesting responses here! Kyurem and Chuggalong got a few mentions each — the meta council discussed them briefly before this survey, but I will bring them up again to further gauge thoughts.
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Lastly, I'd like to thank everyone who responded one more time, your voices really do impact the direction we take this tier in. As always, please DM me if you have any questions or issues with how this survey was conducted. I hope we can continue working together to create a better metagame :)
Necturna