I do think the process with Mollux opened some questions about flavour versus competitive considerations, but then I suspect I'm alone in feeling that way. I did notice one or two members (who I won't name) stating outright that it was "idiotic" (or something to that effect) to give flavour any consideration at all during the competitive discussions and polls. I think at the very least we need to establish that such an attitude is ludicrous and cannot take root here. There is room for a great deal of deviation from real world logic when we assign traits to a Pokemon, but there's also still a loose threshold that the official Pokemon canon sets us. Flavour needs to be a consideration at every step, informing but never suffocating our CAP's competitive aspects. We're aiming for synergy between the flavourful and competitive aspects of our design, not merely a highly competitive Pokemon with flavour tacked on tenuously around its edges. Thankfully Mollux avoided that fate, but such a fate was repeatedly slated for the thing.
Another question is how we deal with interpreting attack/ability flavours when they are ambiguous, like Dry Skin allegedly was. I suspect it comes down to treating it how we treated it - democratically - or at least I feel that should be the solution. But then I also feel a very large number of participants were busy trying to make Dry Skin about literally dry skin, an endeavor I thought fairly intellectually dishonest. That whole thing made me uncomfortable. I felt like we might as well argue Truant should give Pokemon an extra attacking turn, instead of one fewer, because you *could* interpret it that way based on its name alone. Hyperbole, yes, but hopefully the gist is there. We could radically reverse the meaning of an ability as it appears in the Pokemon games for a CAP, but I think that leaves us with a flimsier product and a flimsier process - unless someone makes a really compelling argument in favour of the deviation from canon. Drought, of course, brought a whole other wagon to the camp.
Anyway, I'm flogging a dead horse. Sorry. I just feel there are some lingering tensions between flavour and competitive aspects of the CAP process, and it might pay to set some clearer ground rules. I certainly don't want to go into the next CAP with some members believing, as they stated during discussions, that flavour has no role at all when making decisions about competitive aspects.