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What If? - Alternate Timelines (AT #10w: Snaelstrom - Defining Moves Discussion)

Water/Ice is an incredibly potent combination, especially paired with Freeze-Dry.

However in the interest of variety, some other types that could compliment Water offensively are...

Poison: While there are better STAB options on the special side of Poison, both are usable. Namely, this allows AT Snaelstrom to threaten Cresceidon and Ogerpon-Wellspring, two big potential checks. The common chance for Poison status also play into our seeming hit-and-run play style. There's also the very Download-friendly Shell Side-Arm

Psychic: Like Poison, there's a slight bias to the special side, but both are usable. To goal here is instead to target two other potential checks in Arghonaut and Mollux. There's also the very niche application of Download for Future Sight.
 
I kinda forgot about this and my week irl got away from me anyways but here we are with a slate!

Water/Ice
Water/Poison
Water/Psychic

Small slate so gonna give this 24 hours before we move onto defining moves!
 
Water/Psychic

I’ll put a little reasoning down… boosted psychic moves put pressure on a lot of defensive centerpieces, and in combination with flip turn for things like Ting-Lu and Libra in addition to moves like Psychic Noise, you put a ton of pressure on fat in particular. I really feel like this typing excels as a mixed attacking pivot, while something like water/ice might choose to just be a strong special attacker since everything kinda just dies.
 
Another very close vote has come to an end with the winner being...

Water/Poison

Now that we have our ability and typing, let's move onto defining moves!

There are some super obvious choices for this AT, but I do wanna acknowledge the caveat of it can't "have it all" either so...

What, if any, moves are we willing to penalize should one want to submit a stat spread?

I think there is definitely some interesting discussion to go into this particular AT's defining moves stage so I want to make sure and give us at least until the weekend to figure out what moves are defining enough to be considered for potential penalties (or bonuses) as well as being required when stats submissions open up! Have fun :D
 
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