CAP 13 CAP 2 - Part 14 - Pokedex Entry Poll 4

[Rising_Dusk]

This poll is a result of a slight grammar adjustment possibility to the Pokedex entries that have been voted into reality for CAP 2. The grammar adjustment is to correct the strange use of passive voice in the original black entry and make it slightly less confusing and/or bothersome; essentially this is a prose change only and has no functional impact on the entry. The edit is ever-so-slight in order to maintain the spirit of the original entry, and has been approved by Temperantia himself for adjustment. My adjustment is a bit different from his original suggestion, but I think this makes the subject/verb agreement more obvious with the exact same sentence length. Despite that approval, this is not a change I will make without community consent, and thus now we will poll it.

I know this poll seems really silly, but this stems from the fact that I, as the TL, am uncomfortable forcefully changing any single part of a polled winner's entry in my CAP. I want this decision, if it is pushed through, to be made by you all, the community, and not me. At the worst, this is an obvious change that takes us a day to make. What is a day, really, in the grand scheme of a CAP's development? I'd argue not much at all. Hopefully you all who think this change is obvious understand my reasons for not being able to mandate it.

I have listed the two options for this poll below.

Edited
Unedited
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This poll is a bold vote poll, the details of which are outlined here. A typical vote might look like the following:

My Preferred Entry

If the voter wishes, he may post comments on his vote below the actual vote. As with IRV, only the vote itself should be bold and none of the supplementary text should be bold.

Please post only your votes in this thread. Do not respond to other posts, or your posts will be moderated and you warned. If you feel compelled to say something in your own vote, you may still do so, but don't try to incite a discussion. Keep discussion to #cap.

This poll will be open for 24 hours.

Below is a detailed showing of the winner's submission as it was originally, and as it would be after this fix. I have noted which entry a vote of "Yes" corresponds to, and which entry a vote of "No" corresponds to. Note the italicized section of the edited entry, which denotes where the change occurs.

Edited

Necturna, the Essence Pokemon

Black: It's said that this Pokemon is able to communicate with spirits. When in the location of a past tragedy, it weeps.
White: This Pokemon has the ability to speak to spirits. Necturna are said to have a harder time trusting the living than the dead.
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Unedited

Necturna, the Essence Pokemon

Black: A Pokemon said to be able to communicate with spirits. When in the location of a past tragedy, it weeps.
White: This Pokemon has the ability to speak to spirits. Necturna are said to have a harder time trusting the living than the dead.
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CAP 2 thus far:

Name: Necturna

Concept: Sketch Artist

Description: A Pokemon that learns Sketch, once, and everything that goes along with that.

Justification:

In terms of uniqueness, I think that few existing Pokemon can match DPP Smeargle, an otherwise laughably worthless Pokemon trolling OU with access to every trick in the book (or at least 4 of them) but also affecting the metagame greatly by becoming a top threat in the lead metagame. This Pokemon will borrow some of that uniqueness by learning the move Sketch and thus having access to ONE surprise/strategic/gutshot bonus move to supplement its pre-existing movepool. Being otherwise competently built (read: usable stats), this Poke could be a top threat or specialist for reasons we can't even predict yet.

Questions To Be Answered:

• How will a Poke that has access to any one move out of all the moves in the game affect common battling tactics, namely prediction, scouting, and switching?
• Which Sketch moves will become most common on this Poke's best sets? Does Sketchmon's success rely on hiding that secret Sketch move until just the right moment or can it succeed with predictably powerful moves like Spore, Spikes, Hurricane, Shell Smash, etc.?
• Does this unique and powerful access to moves need to be counterbalanced elsewhere in the Pokemon's design? If so, then to what degree?
• What kind of impact can Sketchmon have on teambuilding in terms of being able to patch holes with common utility moves like Rapid Spin or Toxic Spikes?

Explanation: The key here is that we have a lot of freedom to construct a unique Pokemon while staying within the confines of the concept. Typing, stats, abilities, and even most of the movepool are completely fair game so long as the Poke learns Sketch only once along the way and that we keep that in mind during previous steps. Now, this doesn't mean the CAP process will be directionless; Rising Dusk is pretty well organized and good at keeping discussions focused, and the concept itself has firm grounding in Smeargle's precedent. What's really being studied with this concept is movepool diversity and effectiveness, so it should have the most effect on the movepool process, where movepool creators will have to carefully balance their Sketchmon's actual movepool with the possibility of adding any one other move to the list. In terms of the metagame, there is no doubt in my mind that throwing a wildcard like this into the mix will strongly affect the metagame.

Focus: Bulky Offense
Typing: Grass / Ghost
Stats: 64 HP / 120 Atk / 100 Def / 85 SpA / 120 SpD / 81 Spe
Abilities: Forewarn / Telepathy (DW)
Movepool:
Primary Checks: Heatran, Jirachi, Skarmory, Hydreigon
Gender: Female

tl;dr: Quack! (Uuuurrrrgggghhhh... Aaaaaaaggghhh!)

 

[Rising_Dusk]

Edited

Let's face the facts, I am the once-leader of the C&C GP team. This sort of prose fix is exactly what we need to make the entry ideal. I can't really say much more.

 

[LouisCyphre]

Edited

You could've just mandated this, you know. Everyone loves man dates.

 

[Style_Dota]

Edited

That grammar error was why I didn't want this one. The edit makes it better.

 

[Layell]

Edited

I'm a big fan of democracy but I can't see some big uproar over clarification and simplification of wording.

 

[Elevator Music]

Edited

You're silly for not mandating this

 

[Ullar]

Edited

Get on with it brah

 

[Metal Bagon]

Edited

pc++

 

[Birkal]

Edited

Let's get serious. The real purpose of this poll is to give Dusk another venue to share his rubber ducks.

;)

 

[Xiom]

Edited

 

[tennisace]

I'm going to step in and mandate this. Lets get this moving people!

 

[Deck Knight]

I oppose all mandates.

Except this one.

Motion seconded.

 

[Rising_Dusk]

Well, that's a shame. I won't have the free time to do anything tomorrow until around the time this would have ended anyway. Thus, I guess I must make you all wait with baited breath.