Unofficial "Choose Your Abilities" Thread

[Xander Xavier Luther]

I remember this was done lasy tear, so let's start up a new one. What are the abilities you want for your CAWS? Here's the list again:

1) Dirty Pin (Feet are now on the top rope)
2) Evasive Dodge
3) Lock Pick
4) Ref Sheild
5) Move Theft
6) Taunt Theft
7) Hammer Throw
8) Object Specialist
9) Resiliency (Applies now for submissions as well)
10) Durability
11) Hardcore Ressurection
12) Kip-Up
13) Fan Favorite
14) Outside Dives
15) Springboard Dives
16) Possum Pin
New Abilities
17) Fired Up (3 Finishers in a row)
18) Ring Escape (Able to leave the ring while knocked down)
19) Exploder TB Attack (Able to jump on opponent whose on the TB and do a grapple move)
20) Pull Back Attacks (Use irish whip to pull your opponent into a strike or grapple)
21) Strong Strike (A powerful strike)

Just pick which ones you think are going to give you the edge. Here's mine:

XXL
Hammer Throw
Lock Pick
Strong Strike
Kip Up
Pull Back Attacks
Toss Up between Durability and Fan Favorite if it's useful this year

Marisol
Springboard
Outside Dives
Kip Up
Strong Strike
Lock Pick
Pull Back Attacks

[*A.Cee 5 Star*]

A.Cee Infamous
Springboard
Durability
Kip-Up
Pull Back Attacks
Exploder TB Attack
Move Theft or Strong Strike

[Jeremy Pendelton III]

I suppose since this is a 3X made CAW he's already got it planned out, but I assume JPIII's abilities will be the same as they are now or similar. If it were me though:

Hammer Throw
Lock Pick
Kip Up
Ring Escape (would be a nice little heel tactic)
Pull Back Attacks
Dirty Pin OR Ref Shield OR Strong Strike

[hel]

I'm in the same boat. Mat is responsible for making the Helena caw, so these would be the abilities I'd request for her:

Object Specialist (Here's hoping we get more Diamonds willing to trade chair shots)
Lock Pick
Hammer Throw
Ring Escape
Pull Back Attack
Ref Shield

[punch]

!!!JONNY PUNCH!!!
Object Specialist (Duh)
Hardcore Resurrection (Double duh)
Kip-Up
Pull Back Attacks
Strong Strike (FALCOON PAAAAAAAAAAWNCH!!!!!!!!)
Ring Escape

Dan Ripley
Springboard
Lock Pick
Hammer Throw
Pull Back Attack
Move Theft
Kip Up

Ina Morifuji
Springboard
Outside Dives (Here's hoping the AI actually uses it this year)
Lock Pick
Ref Shield
Move Theft
Kip Up

Bull Nagano
Hammer Throw
Strong Strike
Lock Pick
Pull Back Attacks
Kip Up
I doubt she'll need 5 abilities, but if were going to choose a 5th, it'd be Durability, and that's dependent on how much the AI actually uses it.

[hc]

Me personally, aside from the few caws I make for other people like Helena, I'm going with uniform abilities for most of my guys. I don't see a point playing through whatever mode would be needed to attain abilities (If they're not initially selectable) for multiple caws, when most of mines generally use the same abilities anyway. So I'll just build one caw with the abilities that fit the style I like my caws to have, and just copy him to make the others. Those abilities are Lock Pick, Object Specialist, Hammer Throw, Pull Back Attacks, Kip Up and Durability. I might mix it up for my non-XWA creations, but as far as XWA goes, that set up offers the most versatility across a number of match types.

[Chris Dynamite]

Well Im still learning when it comes to moveset creation (!) but from the looks of it,

Exploder TB Attack,
Springboard,
Lock Pick,
Kip Up,
Bloodshed,
RIng Escape or Ref Shield or Move Theft (depending on what's most useful)

[gallas]

That's actually the same approach I plan on taking, just in a bit more detail. I plan on creating templates. They go as followed:

High Flyer type
Springboard
Outside Dives
Kip up
Move Theft
Expolder TB Attack
Lock Pick

Power Type
Hammer Throw
Lock Pick
Pull Back Attack
Strong Strike
Kip Up
Durability
(Basically the same set up as Bull, because it's the perfect ability set up for Super heavyweights/Amazons)

Athlete/Showman Type
Hammer Throw
Lock Pick
Pull Back Attack
Springboard
Kip Up
Move Theft

Hardcore Type
Object Specialist
Hardcore Resurrection
Springboard
Kip Up
Durability
? ? ?

Generally, there's 8 caws I'll work on, 4 males, 4 females. Once they have the abilities and stats to about 75 in all categories, I'll copy them and then make the rest of my roster. So all caws I'm converting from PS2 to PS3 will have one of the 4 templates above depending on their character type. Should only take me a month of hardcore game time to build 8 caws to the required levels.

[punch]

Dude...





THAT'S FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!

Any chance you might be nice and upload these templates for us PS3 users to get our hands on and create our rosters from? If so, I might just work on Ina and Punch only since they have specialized ability needs, and make everyone else using your templates.

[gallas]

Of course I'd upload them. I personally agree with Mat that uniform abilities make for more balance and less unpredictability. Some people prefer not knowing what their caws are going to do. I ain't one of them. But the templates would be uploaded upon completion for those PS3 users who'd like to streamline their caw creation. But if you want specialized ability sets, you're better off making your own caw and not using the templates.

[punch]

*Bows to the sheer awesomeness of Kaoz666*

[hc]

I think I might just grab me those templates as well. That's an ingenious idea, Oz.

[gallas]

You know me, the king of forward thinking and all. We did the same thing for 2009, just not with abilities, just stats. Season 4 starts in March, so from October 20 that's about 6 months for people to work on their caws. Plenty of time, but anything we can do to help speed the process up, we'll do willingly.

[the1]

Since I plan on bringing back Jared and Kevin fully in the 10 season, here is what I have planned.

Jared Saint
1. Strong Strike (Spinning Roundhouse kick ftw.)
2. Springboard Dives
3. Lock Pick
4. Object Specialist
5. Kip-Up
6. Exploder TB Attack

Kevin Kain
1. Object Specialist
2. Hammer Throw
3. Hardcore Ressurection
4. Pull Back Attacks
5. Kip-Up
6. Pulled between Lock Pick and Ref Shield

[Sushi-X]

Sushi-X

• Kip-Up
  
• Springboard
  
• Outside Dives
  
• Object Specialist
  
• Hardcore Resurrection
  
• Ring Escape
  

And I wonder if the templates will be available for 360.