Moxie
Unaware
Mirror Armor
Defiant
Water Absorb
Flash Fire
Poison Heal
Speed Boost
Unaware
Mirror Armor
Defiant
Water Absorb
Flash Fire
Poison Heal
Speed Boost
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CAP 31 - Part 4 - Ability Poll 1
- Thread starter quziel
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Water Absorb
Defiant
Flash Fire
Moxie
Speed Boost
Unaware
Mirror Armor
Poison Heal
Defiant
Flash Fire
Moxie
Speed Boost
Unaware
Mirror Armor
Poison Heal
Mirror Armor
Unaware
Flash Fire
Moxie
Defiant
Water Absorb
Speed Boost
Poison Heal
Favourites
1. Mirror Armor
2. Unaware
3. Flash Fire
I like mirror armor due to power budgeting over defiant and having more interesting potential use cases, I like unaware for the reasons mentioned as well as breaking past defence boosting sweepers without needing a crit, and flash fire for having better power budgeting over water absorb (as it doesn’t heal and cover a weakness) as well as having a more interesting dynamic with team building - putting on a mon to bait fire moves to boost cap31’s own prowess.
Indifferent
4. Moxie
5. Defiant
6. Water Absorb
Moxie is cool on paper, but seems annoying to fight - honestly still fine as an ability. Defiant is just a version of mirror armor I like the idea of using on cap31 less (primarily for power budgeting reasons), and water absorb is just kinda boring in comparison to other abilities here - but eliminating a weakness means that something else would need to be sacrificed when deciding stats or movepool.
Dislike
7. Speed Boost
8. Poison Heal
Speed boost’s synergy with dstorm is much more strenuous than most other abilities here, and it also creates power budgeting issues that could lead cap31 pigeonholed into the same set - like blaziken was when it got the ability. Poison heal removes a form of counterplay to dstorm’s boosting, but the counterplay ignored is much more common - leaving less room when power budgeting - as well as pretty much forcing cap 31 to use toxic orb, along with the synergy with dstorm being much less defined than other abilities such as defiant.
Modedit: Fixing ballot formatting.
Unaware
Flash Fire
Moxie
Defiant
Water Absorb
Speed Boost
Poison Heal
Favourites
1. Mirror Armor
2. Unaware
3. Flash Fire
I like mirror armor due to power budgeting over defiant and having more interesting potential use cases, I like unaware for the reasons mentioned as well as breaking past defence boosting sweepers without needing a crit, and flash fire for having better power budgeting over water absorb (as it doesn’t heal and cover a weakness) as well as having a more interesting dynamic with team building - putting on a mon to bait fire moves to boost cap31’s own prowess.
Indifferent
4. Moxie
5. Defiant
6. Water Absorb
Moxie is cool on paper, but seems annoying to fight - honestly still fine as an ability. Defiant is just a version of mirror armor I like the idea of using on cap31 less (primarily for power budgeting reasons), and water absorb is just kinda boring in comparison to other abilities here - but eliminating a weakness means that something else would need to be sacrificed when deciding stats or movepool.
Dislike
7. Speed Boost
8. Poison Heal
Speed boost’s synergy with dstorm is much more strenuous than most other abilities here, and it also creates power budgeting issues that could lead cap31 pigeonholed into the same set - like blaziken was when it got the ability. Poison heal removes a form of counterplay to dstorm’s boosting, but the counterplay ignored is much more common - leaving less room when power budgeting - as well as pretty much forcing cap 31 to use toxic orb, along with the synergy with dstorm being much less defined than other abilities such as defiant.
Modedit: Fixing ballot formatting.
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Mirror Armor
Water Absorb
Poison Heal
Speed Boost
Flash Fire
Unaware
Water Absorb
Poison Heal
Speed Boost
Flash Fire
Unaware
Poison Heal
Water Absorb
Flash Fire
Defiant
Moxie
Speed Boost
Unaware
Mirror Armor
Water Absorb
Flash Fire
Defiant
Moxie
Speed Boost
Unaware
Mirror Armor
Defiant
Mirror Armor
Water Absorb
Speed Boost
Moxie
Flash Fire
Unaware
Poison Heal
Mirror Armor
Water Absorb
Speed Boost
Moxie
Flash Fire
Unaware
Poison Heal
Water Absorb
Unaware
Defiant
Poison Heal
Moxie
Speed Boost
Unaware
Defiant
Poison Heal
Moxie
Speed Boost
Moxie
Defiant
Poison Heal
Unaware
Mirror Armor
Speed Boost
Flash Fire
Water Absorb
Defiant
Poison Heal
Unaware
Mirror Armor
Speed Boost
Flash Fire
Water Absorb
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CAP 31 - Part 4 - Ability Poll 1
# RANKED PAIRS #
Ballots: 90
Preferences: 634
Defeat by: Winning votes
[Pair#01] Water Absorb (68—16) Flash Fire
[Pair#02] Water Absorb (59—26) Mirror Armor
[Pair#03] Moxie (56—29) Speed Boost
[Pair#04] Water Absorb (55—30) Poison Heal
[Pair#05] Water Absorb (55—33) Speed Boost
[Pair#06] Moxie (54—31) Flash Fire
[Pair#07] Moxie (53—31) Mirror Armor
[Pair#08] Poison Heal (52—34) Flash Fire
[Pair#09] Water Absorb (52—34) Defiant
[Pair#10] Defiant (51—33) Flash Fire
[Pair#11] Unaware (51—33) Mirror Armor
[Pair#12] Unaware (51—35) Flash Fire
[Pair#13] Speed Boost (51—36) Flash Fire
[Pair#14] Water Absorb (51—36) Unaware
[Pair#15] Water Absorb (51—37) Moxie
[Pair#16] Defiant (49—34) Mirror Armor
[Pair#17] Defiant (48—38) Speed Boost
[Pair#18] Moxie (48—41) Poison Heal
[Pair#19] Poison Heal (47—40) Mirror Armor
[Pair#20] Poison Heal (47—42) Defiant
[Pair#21] Poison Heal (47—43) Speed Boost
[Pair#22] Speed Boost (46—39) Mirror Armor
[Pair#23] Unaware (46—43) Poison Heal
[Pair#24] Moxie (44—40) Defiant
[Pair#25] Defiant (43—42) Unaware ——> CANCELLED (cycle)
[Pair#26] Moxie (43—42) Unaware
[Pair#27] Unaware (43—42) Speed Boost
[Pair#28] Mirror Armor (41—37) Flash Fire
The top voting cycle is Water Absorb.
Water Absorb > [Moxie][Unaware][Defiant][SpeedBoost][PoisonHeal][MirrorArmor][FlashFire]
Moxie > [Unaware][Defiant][PoisonHeal][MirrorArmor][FlashFire][SpeedBoost]
Unaware > [SpeedBoost][PoisonHeal][FlashFire][MirrorArmor]
Poison Heal > [SpeedBoost][Defiant][MirrorArmor][FlashFire]
Defiant > [SpeedBoost][MirrorArmor][FlashFire]
Speed Boost > [MirrorArmor][FlashFire]
Mirror Armor > [FlashFire]
Flash Fire > []Water Absorb
Moxie
Unaware
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