Actually, the only person without U-Turn was X-Act. So WTF@Darkie. oO
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CAP 4 CAP 4 - Part 12 (Complete Movepool Poll)
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Stop right there. This is Revenankh all over again, where everyone was whining that it would shit on Dusknoir. You people wanted a Poison/Ground instead of a Poison/Electric or Dragon. You all voted for this. So when someone comes on and says that this is going to shit all over the Nidos, I really don't want to hear it. This isn't meant to be a personal attack btw Dixie.
No offence taken, but whilst Revenankh does shit all over Dusknoir, at least Dusknoir can differentiate itself with Will-o-Wisp and its typing.
What we are doing is taking Nidoqueen's only saving attributes: its typing, SR and Toxic Spikes ability and giving it too a pokemon with better stats defensively and a recovery move which is defeating the purpose of CAP when it makes a pokemon 100% overshadowed by it.
Let me put it this way, why would you use Nidoqueen over DDL?
I agree with this. DDL already has tons of possible support moves, it doesn't need to take a complete shit on Nidoqueen.
You wouldn't, especially since nidoqueen is UU which means that it's barely used in OU as is.
I don't like looking at community created tiers as justification for making one pokemon completely outclass another.
Poison Point
Fire Blast
Flamethrower
Ice Beam
Blizzard
Thunderbolt
Thunder
Crunch
Charm
Rest/Talk to absorb status.
Shadow Ball
Rivalry
Defense Curl
Dragon Pulse
Icy Wind (Which works because it's slower)
Surf
While it may have little use for some of these moves, they're there nonetheless.
With Rivalry, and it's always female.
Thats what I tried to do when I created movepool, to keep with Nidoqueen some things this doesn't have.
For instance, Nidoqueen is great at sending back unStabbed Earthquakes. The set I set in ADV UU was Earthquake/Counter/Ice Beam/Roar. It worked quite well in that environment, and it might work better now that unStabbed Ice Punches are everywhere.
I appreciate all the hard work that the submitters put into the movepools. I think we have a very nice slate to choose from here.
I read all the movepool explanations (very well-done by all the submitters) and then went back through all the movepools about three times, just scanning moves and comparing them. In the end, I preferred movepools without any pre-evolution stipulations and not too many attacking options in the level-up list.
I voted for X-Act, Tennisace, Hyra, and Deck Knight. All of those would work well. Actually, almost all the movepools would be acceptable to me. There were only one or two that I didn't like at all.
If I had to choose a favorite, I think I'd go with Hyra's set. It was the only movepool that really caught my attention on the first pass. The others required a little study for me to appreciate their construction. Since many people evaluate our pokemon for the first time by looking at the movepool in the Shoddy team builder -- I want a movepool that has nice "curb appeal". Hyra's fits the bill for me.
I read all the movepool explanations (very well-done by all the submitters) and then went back through all the movepools about three times, just scanning moves and comparing them. In the end, I preferred movepools without any pre-evolution stipulations and not too many attacking options in the level-up list.
I voted for X-Act, Tennisace, Hyra, and Deck Knight. All of those would work well. Actually, almost all the movepools would be acceptable to me. There were only one or two that I didn't like at all.
If I had to choose a favorite, I think I'd go with Hyra's set. It was the only movepool that really caught my attention on the first pass. The others required a little study for me to appreciate their construction. Since many people evaluate our pokemon for the first time by looking at the movepool in the Shoddy team builder -- I want a movepool that has nice "curb appeal". Hyra's fits the bill for me.
Probably cause I voted for his spread too, in addition to mine and DDRMaster...
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