Moveset Submission



Name: Jacked Up Doom Desire

Move 1: Work Up / Metal Sound

Move 2: Doom Desire

Move 3: Earth Power

Move 4: Toxic / Protect / Defog

Ability: Levitate

Item: Leftovers

EVs: 248 HP / 64 Def / 40 SpA / 88 SpD / 68 Spe

Nature: Modest

Work Up boosts CAP26's stats rather slowly, while Metal Sound debuffs the opponent's Special Defense. Either way, it forces the opponent to question whether CAP26 will want to stay in and make Doom Desire hurt or CAP26 will switch out to a wallbreaking teammate
Earth Power complements Doom Desire well, hitting a lot of switch-ins that resist Steel-type damage.
Toxic allows CAP26 to punish Arghonaut and Rotom-W, its two hardest counters.
Protect stalls out for Leftovers recovery and can help Doom Desire connect with a Work Up boost.
Defog can be used for the role compression and has been supported throughout this thread as a good utility option for CAP26.
EV Spread and Nature are the sample spread that Jordy attached to his stat spread!
Remember G-Luke's 3rd question? This is one set that spawns from it. It still has great advantages as a pivot, but it trades some of that ability for a little more offense. This is just a formal entry to solidify its presence in the thread.



Now, for my anti-pivoting argument:



Name: Uh oh what happened to Doom Desire Mk. 1

Move 1: U-turn / Volt Switch

Move 2: Earth Power

Move 3: Toxic

Move 4: Defog / Protect

Ability: Levitate

Item: Leftovers

EVs: 248 HP / 64 Def / 40 SpA / 88 SpD / 68 Spe

Nature: Modest

As we can see, U-turn / Volt Switch has supplanted Doom Desire, as Doom Desire's ability to force the opponent to make awkward switches is simply done more simply using U-turn and Volt Switch.
Earth Power + Toxic more than makes up for any damage output that CAP26 would lose from eschewing Doom Desire due to its survivability (remember that it cannot be chipped down easily - only taking 3% damage from Stealth Rock, burn damage, and Leech Seed damage as its ONLY sources of residual damage)
One could argue that removing Defog would solve the problem of the pivoting move taking away a moveslot for Doom Desire, but Protect could easily take Defog's place to stall for Leftovers recovery (which is important with 50% moves banned)
This set is why I don't like U-turn / Volt Switch. CAP26 does lose out on a lot of offensive presence, but its defensive advantages with Levitate + its typing + its bulk allow for a set like this to be possible. If CAP26 can use U-turn / Volt Switch to gain momentum effortlessly, rather than use Doom Desire to do so, why would it choose to run Doom Desire the majority of the time? Let's remember that we're building around Doom Desire here.