[Silvershadow234]

I've been using Cryogonal quite a bit lately-and I have to say I am impressed! Thanks to Recover, it has much more longevity over Blastoise, and it's special bulk allows it to beat Roserade one on one-so basically the premier spiker. Hilarious's set is really good actually-since it beats all the spikers one-on-one. This is the set that I am using. It's on a pretty offensive team, and I just wanted to try out Cryogonal since Blastoise is crappy and I love using Suicune.


Cryogonal @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 200 Spd / 56 SAtk / 252 HP
Modest Nature
- Ice Beam
- Recover
- Rapid Spin
- Hidden Power [Ground]

This set has just enough speed to outspeed Timid Nidoking, and 1HKO with Ice Beam after SR. He also 2HKO's Roserade and Qwilfish with HP Ground, as well as 1HKO's Zappy after rocks-although he can't switch in since Heat Wave is an easy 2HKO. I gave the rest of the ev's to HP to maximise his bulk. On a more defensive team, I think Cryogonal's defensive set fits in really well. He easily counters Nidoking-which can be a major pain for stall to deal with if Snorlax goes down to a Focus Blast. And of course, Haze is excellent for blocking BP teams. Recover is a great reliable recovery move-and his weaknesses are quite easily covered-for example, Slowbro covers Fire-and fighting, while also taking on weak rock type moves, like Rhyperior's Rock Blast(not that weak, but still-Slowbro can tank it like a boss). He is ruined somewhat by Toxic, but a stall team should have a cleric like Roserade. Like Blastoise, he can beat all the spinblockers apart from Spiritomb(who runs Spiritomb anyway?) but he also beats the common spikers with ease-which Blastoise most certainly can't. Seriously, try him out-he's really good.

If you're looking for counters to Cryogonal though, then none can beat Bronzong. Bronzong resists both HP Ground and Ice Beam, and can set-up SR on him with impunity. Gyro Ball obviously 1HKO's Cryo too. Hariyama, however rare, is also a solid counter thanks to it's ability and its bulk.

@Pokemazter-I don't really think that a Specs set is all that viable-but if it is, definitely go Timid. Then you outspeed Shaymin and Zapdos, who otherwise decimate you. Cryogonal really suffers from 2MSS-in that it doesn't need anything apart from HP Ground and Ice Beam(perfect coverage on everything but Bronzong). I suppose you could run Signal Beam, but Flash Cannon is a bit pointless. Rapid Spin would be the best option in the last spot I think.