Sorry about the long wait. The last couple of weeks were... weird... and I spent a while trying to think of what to say for this Final Product thread thing. It's been a bit over four months since the TL nomination thread for this project was posted, and while the actual passing of the four-month mark is my fault for being so slow with this, it does speak to how long this one took compared to other projects. There are many factors that contributed to this, but the aspects that are relevant to competitive battling are finally finished.
Pokemon X and Y are almost a month old now (over a month if you count the leaks that happened), so I'm not sure how much interest there will be in the playtest. I've sensed a lessening interest in CAP 6 in general, compared to past projects. To tell you the truth, I was also losing enthusiasm for CAP a while into CAP 6, so ironically, I found myself less engaged as TL than I ever was. I kind of suspect that this was partly due to the concept itself, though. In a way, every stage brought up pretty much the same discussions, because the goal was so specific.
I'm sure that there were more things I could have done to help move the discussion along, but overall, I think the TLT did a really good job. Regardless of my motivation and priorities with respect to CAP, things would have been really difficult without them. So, kudos to the TLT members for this round: reachzero, Pwnemon, DetroitLolcat and DarkSlay. This concept threw us a very interesting and difficult dilemma that stretched the reliability of our usual heuristics on viability and threat level, and I'm sure that the playtest will answer a lot of interesting questions.
There were a few things about this project that surprised me. I never thought I'd have much fun thinking about a late-game sweeper, mostly because I dislike late-game sweepers, yet there I was at the end of two Concept Assessment threads, making the executive decision to pursue the most extreme form of late-game sweeping. Both the typing discussion and the primary ability discussion started off with clear favourites in the beginning, which lost favour to small suggestions by the respective discussion leader. So while my explicit participation in CAP 6 was on-and-off, it was pretty cool to witness turn-arounds like these.
Anyway, let's get down to the height and weight. I noticed that a lot of movepool submissions, including the winning submission, included the move Block to reference the large wingspans of frigatebirds. The only other fully-evolved Flying-types that have Block are Mandibuzz and Landorus. Hence, I decided to use Mandibuzz as a base. According to Wikipedia, the turkey vulture "has a wingspan of 160–183 cm (63–72 in), a length of 62–81 cm (24–32 in), and weight of 0.8 to 2.3 kg (1.8 to 5.1 lb)." In comparison, Mandibuzz has a height of 1.2 m and 39.5 kg. Moreover, according to this link (figures I'd make this really long explanation and then find a link that makes everything easier):
Length: 35–44.9 in, 89–114 cm
Wingspan: 85.4–88.2 in, 217–224 cm
Weight: 35.3–67 oz, 1000–1900 g
With the goal of keeping the ratios between average weight/height of the Pokemon and the real life analogue the same between Mandibuzz and Cawmodore, I obtained 1.7 m (5' 07") and 37.0 kg (81.6 lbs).
So that's about it, I guess. I'm not really sure as to when I'll be available for the inaugural, though Wednesday evening (EST) might be a good bet.
Over the summer, the original "Falcon Punch" video I linked to in Concept Assessment 1 was deleted. I thought that that was such a shame, so I went and found another version. I feel that it's an appropriate way to end this Final Product post before showing Cawmodore in its full glory.
And now I present to you, the Create-a-Pokemon Project's (crack-free) farewell gift to Pokemon Black and White!
Name: Cawmodore
Abilities: Intimidate / Volt Absorb / Big Pecks
Stats: 50 HP / 92 Atk / 130 Def / 65 SpA / 75 SpD / 118 Spe
Movepool:
Pokemon X and Y are almost a month old now (over a month if you count the leaks that happened), so I'm not sure how much interest there will be in the playtest. I've sensed a lessening interest in CAP 6 in general, compared to past projects. To tell you the truth, I was also losing enthusiasm for CAP a while into CAP 6, so ironically, I found myself less engaged as TL than I ever was. I kind of suspect that this was partly due to the concept itself, though. In a way, every stage brought up pretty much the same discussions, because the goal was so specific.
I'm sure that there were more things I could have done to help move the discussion along, but overall, I think the TLT did a really good job. Regardless of my motivation and priorities with respect to CAP, things would have been really difficult without them. So, kudos to the TLT members for this round: reachzero, Pwnemon, DetroitLolcat and DarkSlay. This concept threw us a very interesting and difficult dilemma that stretched the reliability of our usual heuristics on viability and threat level, and I'm sure that the playtest will answer a lot of interesting questions.
There were a few things about this project that surprised me. I never thought I'd have much fun thinking about a late-game sweeper, mostly because I dislike late-game sweepers, yet there I was at the end of two Concept Assessment threads, making the executive decision to pursue the most extreme form of late-game sweeping. Both the typing discussion and the primary ability discussion started off with clear favourites in the beginning, which lost favour to small suggestions by the respective discussion leader. So while my explicit participation in CAP 6 was on-and-off, it was pretty cool to witness turn-arounds like these.
Anyway, let's get down to the height and weight. I noticed that a lot of movepool submissions, including the winning submission, included the move Block to reference the large wingspans of frigatebirds. The only other fully-evolved Flying-types that have Block are Mandibuzz and Landorus. Hence, I decided to use Mandibuzz as a base. According to Wikipedia, the turkey vulture "has a wingspan of 160–183 cm (63–72 in), a length of 62–81 cm (24–32 in), and weight of 0.8 to 2.3 kg (1.8 to 5.1 lb)." In comparison, Mandibuzz has a height of 1.2 m and 39.5 kg. Moreover, according to this link (figures I'd make this really long explanation and then find a link that makes everything easier):
Length: 35–44.9 in, 89–114 cm
Wingspan: 85.4–88.2 in, 217–224 cm
Weight: 35.3–67 oz, 1000–1900 g
With the goal of keeping the ratios between average weight/height of the Pokemon and the real life analogue the same between Mandibuzz and Cawmodore, I obtained 1.7 m (5' 07") and 37.0 kg (81.6 lbs).
So that's about it, I guess. I'm not really sure as to when I'll be available for the inaugural, though Wednesday evening (EST) might be a good bet.
Over the summer, the original "Falcon Punch" video I linked to in Concept Assessment 1 was deleted. I thought that that was such a shame, so I went and found another version. I feel that it's an appropriate way to end this Final Product post before showing Cawmodore in its full glory.
And now I present to you, the Create-a-Pokemon Project's (crack-free) farewell gift to Pokemon Black and White!
Name: Cawmodore
Typing: Steel / Flying
Abilities: Intimidate / Volt Absorb / Big Pecks
Stats: 50 HP / 92 Atk / 130 Def / 65 SpA / 75 SpD / 118 Spe
Movepool:
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