Celever
no longer hibernating
- Name - Tuned Out and Determined
- Description - This will be a Pokemon who fulfils a single offensive or defensive purpose regardless of the team matchup and any effects in play on the field (e.g weather, trick room, gravity) during the battle.
- Justification- While this concept may seem pretty boring and pointless in the long run, I'm confident that having a Pokemon like this will be healthy for the metagame. While weather isn't as prominent now, and obviously Trick Room and the like are rare as, this concept shines when looking at the "regardless of team matchup". It's too often that a tournament match is blamed on the matchup, or a laddering streak is brought to a halt by an unfortunate counterteam. Having a Pokemon who functions the same way regardless of its opponent seems like an appealing factor. Of course, it will still have to have some versatility to be able to fit on a myriad of different teams, but the type of set CAP21 is using should be apparent on the team preview. Not being perturbed by different weather conditions also means that this Pokemon will be able to fit on many different team archetypes.
- Questions To Be Answered:
- How viable are stage effects like weather, Trick Room, Gravity and the Terrains? Is there a need to try an counter these team archetypes specifically while teambuilding?
- How diverse is the pool of OU threats? Is it even feasible to have a balanced Pokemon capable of not being directly countered by even one of them?
- Should this Pokemon focus on a single offensive purpose, or a single defensive purpose? What about both? What niche is the OU metagame in the direst need of filling?
- Explanation - Well, this is my first concept submission. I apologise if it's awful, but I think this could be a really interesting idea to use because it's not very limiting during the CAP building process and seems relatively balanced, due to being fairly predictable, just from the team preview. It has versatility through other mechanics -- not just its moves or abilities like other Pokemon. Not being negatively affected by weather means that this CAP should realistically be able to function normally on a sun, rain, sand and hail teams, though not necessarily be advantaged by doing so.