LucarioOfLegends
Master Procraster
Consider this your 24 hour warning before the slate. But real quick, I have some things to say.
All Electric Immune abilities presented seem like a completely useless and unnecessary ability choice because it does not solve the problems that we may face against our Target and Dismantle list, and solves a problem that didn't need solving in the first place. We already resist Volt Switch, and most Pokemon use U-turn due to its larger availability anyways. Even Tapu Koko, who is famed for strong Electric type attacks, can easily just U-turn out in every situation that requests it. The only Pokemon on our Target and Dismantle List that could possibly be stopped by it is Zapdos. And we still are status weak or possibly too weak to actually break through the Target and Dismantle List. I understand that there are a few Pokemon on the Target and Pressure list that would be stopped by Volt Absorb and friends, but our Target and Dismantle group takes priority. I need a very solid reason besides removing Volt Switch Pokemon to stand a chance at getting slated at all.
There seems to be some serious controversy with one ability, so I'm ending it now. Stakeout is an incredibly unbalanced choice for an ability when paired with Spirit Shackle, as SS can easily force switch due to its sheer presence and Stakeout gives us the possibility to deal unholy amounts of damage on said switch. Double damage on switch is unnaturally good in the scenario where CAP23 will likely have a high Attack stat, as even the powerful Volkraken gets only a 1.3 boost against a switched in mon. The only way to be able to actually balance it so it doesn't automatically destroy everything in one hit is to lower the attack in the stats stage, but we may not even be able to break through our Target and Dismantle Pokemon anymore. Generally it just creates an unfair lose/lose situation where it punishes you for doing the best possible move to avoid bad situations, and would be insanely hard to balance correctly. As such, after talking with snake_rattler about the issue, we will be Blacklisting Stakeout. Analytic could be a much easier ability to balance and may compliment Spirit Shackle's trapping ability in a much more reasonable way. Analytic is safe for now.
All Electric Immune abilities presented seem like a completely useless and unnecessary ability choice because it does not solve the problems that we may face against our Target and Dismantle list, and solves a problem that didn't need solving in the first place. We already resist Volt Switch, and most Pokemon use U-turn due to its larger availability anyways. Even Tapu Koko, who is famed for strong Electric type attacks, can easily just U-turn out in every situation that requests it. The only Pokemon on our Target and Dismantle List that could possibly be stopped by it is Zapdos. And we still are status weak or possibly too weak to actually break through the Target and Dismantle List. I understand that there are a few Pokemon on the Target and Pressure list that would be stopped by Volt Absorb and friends, but our Target and Dismantle group takes priority. I need a very solid reason besides removing Volt Switch Pokemon to stand a chance at getting slated at all.
There seems to be some serious controversy with one ability, so I'm ending it now. Stakeout is an incredibly unbalanced choice for an ability when paired with Spirit Shackle, as SS can easily force switch due to its sheer presence and Stakeout gives us the possibility to deal unholy amounts of damage on said switch. Double damage on switch is unnaturally good in the scenario where CAP23 will likely have a high Attack stat, as even the powerful Volkraken gets only a 1.3 boost against a switched in mon. The only way to be able to actually balance it so it doesn't automatically destroy everything in one hit is to lower the attack in the stats stage, but we may not even be able to break through our Target and Dismantle Pokemon anymore. Generally it just creates an unfair lose/lose situation where it punishes you for doing the best possible move to avoid bad situations, and would be insanely hard to balance correctly. As such, after talking with snake_rattler about the issue, we will be Blacklisting Stakeout. Analytic could be a much easier ability to balance and may compliment Spirit Shackle's trapping ability in a much more reasonable way. Analytic is safe for now.