Regice (GP 2/2)

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[Overview]

<p>From its base stats alone, Regice looks like a monster of a Pokemon. Boasting incredible defenses, along with reasonable Special Attack, and even a decent supporting movepool, it seems like the ideal choice for a number of roles. However, Regice's base stats are rather deceptive; due to Regice's weakness to a variety of common types such as Fire-, Fighting-, Steel, and Rock-, along with a crippling Stealth Rock weakness and lack of reliable recovery, it lacks the ability to effectively wall significant portions of the metagame without large amounts of team support. Despite these flaws, with the correct support, Regice can be a real monster.</p>

[SET]
name: Support
move 1: Thunder Wave / Toxic
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Rest / Seismic Toss
item: Leftovers
nature: Calm
evs: 252 HP / 192 Def / 64 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Regice has the ability to sponge special attacks from nearly any attacker in RU, a feat which hardly any other Pokemon can boast. In addition to simply sponging attacks, Regice can put both its solid supporting moves and average Special Attack stat to good use. Thunder Wave and Toxic are ideal choices for Regice, allowing it to cripple a huge number of common threats. Ice Beam is Regice's best STAB option, and coming off Regice's base 100 Special Attack stat, it has the potential to KO a number of Pokemon in the tier. Thunderbolt pairs extremely well with Ice Beam coverage wise, forming the famous BoltBeam combination, which is only resisted by Lanturn, Rotom-F, Magneton, and the rare Thick Fat Piloswine and Shedinja. Finally, Rest or Seismic Toss can be used in the last moveslot. Rest gives Regice a way to restore its health, as well as the ability to cure status, but Seismic Toss can be used to hit Pokemon who take little damage from Ice Beam and Thunderbolt.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>Using a Calm nature with 64 Special Defense EVs allow Regice to avoid 2HKOs from many prominent Pokemon in RU, including Life Orb Lilligant and Modest Choice Specs Porygon-Z, some of the strongest special attackers in the tier. However, using max Defense with a Bold nature is also an option, as it gives Regice a bit more physical bulk, but it loses the ability to switch into a few Pokemon. Regice can also use an EV spread with more Special Defense investment, but it's not really necessary as Regice is hard enough to break through already.</p>

<p>Depending on what it uses in its last moveslot, Regice will need either Heal Bell or Wish support. Heal Bell cures Regice of the self-induced sleep from Rest, whereas Wish can let Regice continually switch in throughout the match despite lacking a reliable recovery move. Excellent choices for Heal Bell support include Clefable, Misdreavus, and Uxie, while solid options for Wish support are Clefable, Flareon, and Alomomola.</p>

<p>In general, Regice has trouble handling strong physical attackers, especially Fire-, Rock-, Steel-, and Fighting-types, all of which are plentiful in RU. Good options for handling those Pokemon are physically bulky Psychic-, Ghost-, and Water- types, such as Musharna, Dusknoir, and Alomomola. Pokemon that can set up on choice-locked Fighting- and Fire-type attacks directed at Regice make excellent partners, so Pokemon such as Gallade and Qwilfish both pair nicely with Regice. Finally, Regice appreciates Rapid Spin support since it is weak to Stealth Rock and hit by all entry hazards. Excellent choices for this are Claydol, who also offers some useful resistances, and Sandslash.</p>

[SET]
name: Rock Polish
move 1: Rock Polish
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Hidden Power Ground / Focus Blast
item: Life Orb
nature: Modest
evs: 12 HP / 252 SpA / 244 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Thanks to its decent Special Attack and fairly good offensive movepool, along with Regice's ability to outspeed most unboosted Pokemon in the tier when it's at +2, Regice can pull off a Rock Polish set pretty well. Rock Polish lets it outspeed everything up to max Speed Jolly Swellow, while Ice Beam and Thunderbolt provide extremely good type coverage between them. Either Focus Blast or Hidden Power Ground can be used in Regice's fourth moveslot, with each having its own advantages. Hidden Power Ground hits Lanturn and Magneton, both of which resist the Boltbeam combination, whereas Focus Blast hits opposing Ice-types harder than any other move Regice can use, and is the best neutral coverage option.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>Regice should use an EV spread of max Special Attack, with 244 Speed EVs to outrun everything up to Jolly Swellow after a boost. The remaining EVs should be placed into HP, allowing Regice to switch in four times with Stealth Rock up. Charge Beam can be used over Thunderbolt, which lets Regice boost its Special Attack and sweep more easily, but leaves it powerless against Pokemon such as defensive Moltres and Articuno, who aren't hit hard enough by an unboosted Charge Beam. Regice can also use of Superpower in its last moveslot, though an EV spread with a bit more Attack is then recommended. This gives Regice a more reliable, though significantly less powerful, option over Focus Blast.</p>

<p>Regice partners well with Pokemon that can eliminate fast scarfers and special walls. For example, Pokemon such as Wynaut, Dugtrio, and most Pursuit users can eliminate Cryogonal, Lanturn, and even opposing Regice, all of whom can prevent Regice from sweeping. Wynaut has the added benefit of being able to trap and remove most Scarfed Pokemon. Finally, in order to sweep cleanly, Regice needs most Pokemon with a base Speed of over 125 removed, but many of those Pokemon are relatively frail, such as Accelgor, and are easily dispatched with a well placed Pursuit from Krookodile or Scolipede. Finally, Regice can form nice cores with other strong special attackers, such as Porygon-Z and Lilligant, in order to break through special walls and allow one of them to sweep.</p>

<p>In order to be used to its greatest effectiveness, Rock Polish Regice needs both entry hazard and Rapid Spin support. As Regice is playing an offensive role, entry hazard setters who can easily gain momentum or pose an offensive threat, such as Mesprit, Glalie, and Scolipede, all can support Regice fairly well. Stealth Rock alone manages to get Regice some important KOs, such as a 2HKO against Lanturn with Hidden Power Ground, along with an assured OHKO against defensive Moltres by using Thunderbolt. Additional layers of entry hazards will allow Regice to easily sweep through large portions of the metagame. Rapid Spin support is equally important since Regice is hit by all of the entry hazards and is weak to Stealth Rock, which is quite crippling. Claydol, Hitmonchan, and Sandslash are all solid Rapid Spinners.</p>

[SET]
name: All Out Attacker
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: Thunderbolt
move 3: Focus Blast
move 4: Hidden Power Ground / Hidden Power Grass
item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
nature: Modest
evs: 168 HP / 252 SpA / 84 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Thanks to Regice's decent offensive movepool and solid Special Attack, it can use a Life Orb or Choice Specs set remarkably well. It plays differently from the Rock Polish set, attempting to punch holes in the opponent's team rather than outright sweep. Ice Beam is Regice's best STAB option, and with Thunderbolt, forms the BoltBeam combination, resisted only by a handful of Pokemon in RU. Focus Blast hits opposing Ice-types, as well as Magneton, and Hidden Power Ground or Hidden Power Grass rounds off Regice's type coverage, giving it a way of hitting Lanturn hard.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>This Regice's EVs allow it to outspeed minimum Speed base 60s, most notably Clefable. However, Regice could use a bit more Speed, or go for a positive Speed nature, in order to outrun most Aggron. However, the loss in bulk and power is significant, so doing so is not recommended. Regice can also use a mixed EV spread with 32 HP / 136 Atk / 252 SpA / 84 Spe and use either Superpower or Explosion in the final slot. Both moves are capable of netting OHKOs on Pokemon that trouble purely special attacking Regice, such as Cryogonal, but other than that, it hits pathetically weak and aren't recommended.</p>

<p>This Regice really needs Rapid Spin support in order to play properly. With Life Orb, Regice will be getting worn down relatively quickly, and the added damage from entry hazards is extremely annoying. Choice Specs Regice will be switching fairly often, and needs Stealth Rock removed in order to be effective. Similarly, since Regice causes a fair amount of switches, it really appreciates entry hazard support. Pokemon such as Uxie, Qwilfish, and Omastar all make excellent options for this.</p>

<p>Finally, this Regice makes an excellent partner for Pokemon that appreciate special walls being removed since it lures in nearly all of the special walls in RU and nets easy KOs on them. Pokemon such as specially defensive Cryogonal and Clefable are handily 2HKOed by Choice Specs Focus Blast, opening up holes in the opponent's team that can be exploited by Lilligant, Porygon-Z, Haunter, and other strong special attackers.</p>

[Other Options]

<p>Regice has quite a wide offensive movepool with moves such as Flash Cannon, AncientPower and Zap Cannon. However, none of these moves are particularly useful, as they don't offer any additional type coverage beyond what BoltBeam gives Regice. Regice also has a solid physical attacking movepool with Focus Punch, Superpower, Avalanche, and so on, but it lacks the stats to really abuse those options well. It also has some other STAB options in Icy Wind, Frost Breath, and Blizzard, but Ice Beam is more consistently useful than any of them are.</p>



<p>Regice also has a few other gimmicky options available, such as the combination of Rain Dance and Thunder, along with Curse, Counter, Psych Up, and RestTalk. Rain Dance and Thunder can be used to support rain teams, although Regice doesn't particularly help them in any way and needs team support, which most rain teams don't offer. Curse can be useful, thanks to Regice's amazing Special Defense and decent Defense, but Regice doesn't have the Attack to abuse it well enough. Counter is an interesting option that can let Regice net an easy KO on many of its counters, but it's too gimmicky to be effective. Psych Up can copy stat boosts from opposing Pokemon, but doesn't have much merit besides letting Regice beat Calm Mind users and Baton Pass teams. RestTalk seems useful for letting Regice recover without having to spend turns as a sitting duck, but it isn't all that reliable and takes up a moveslot better devoted to something else, usually.</p>

[Checks and Counters]

<p>Most bulky Fighting-, Fire-, and Steel-types are all capable of countering Regice relatively easily. Gallade and Hariyama both make excellent choices as counters since they can easily set up on or outright KO Regice while it doesn't pose much of a threat to them in return. Entei and Magmortar are in pretty much the same boat since both of them can easily power past Regice while it can't touch them. Klinklang and Aggron are also good options for countering Regice, although they must be careful not to switch in on a Focus Blast or a Hidden Power Ground. Finally, most Rock-types, such as Rhydon and Golem, that can hit Regice for super effective damage are good checks, but are incapable of switching in on anything but Thunderbolt.</p>

<p>Walling Regice is remarkably difficult, thanks to its near perfect type coverage with BoltBeam and Focus Blast. However, most bulkier special walls, such as Cryogonal and Munchlax, as well as opposing Regice, are capable of taking most of the attacks Regice can dish out. Lanturn, Shedinja, and Magneton all resist, or in Shedinja's case, is immune to, BoltBeam, and can handle most defensive variants of Regice pretty well, while many bulkier Ice-types are capable of dealing with any Regice lacking Focus Blast.</p>

[Dream World]

<p>Regice receives Ice Body via the Dream World, which is superior to Clear Body in every way. It lets Regice function as a pseudo Walrein, but with more special bulk, and makes the Life Orb recoil on offensive Regice sets much less damaging. In general, once it's released, Ice Body should always be used over Clear Body.</p>
 

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I think a RestTalk set is viable. Regice is hazard weak, and the recovery would really help it. It can't afford to switch around and sponge hits like most walls, and without RestTalk, I reckon it'd get worn down too easily.

Also, is 252 HP / 252 Def the best spread? I just did the calc, and a Timid Charizard holding Leftovers attacking a max HP, max Special Defense Regice with Fire Blast in sun does up to 73%

It's a somewhat extreme example, but with the current spread, Regice is only slightly bulkier than Cryogonal. Without Levitate or Recover, Regice needs the extra bulk to both keep ahead, and prevent itself from being outclassed.

I don't have much esperience with it, but it seems to me that, with the current spread, Regice will struggle to wall special attackers efficiently. It has no resistances either. It needs all the bulk it can get.
 
I'd say Hp Ground is a tad better than Focus Miss imo, hitting both Lanturn and Magneton (RU's most noteworthy BoltBeam resisters) a tad harder without the shoddy accuracy (and pp, I guess). I guess Cryo 'n stuff, but I'd say it should get a mention. I'm somewhat tempted to look into Superpower on the Mix set in case you don't wanna die trying to beat Munch/Cryogonal, but I'll have to test to see if it's actually worth it.
 

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Made some changes on the EV spread and stuff.

I'm against adding a RestTalk set - I tried it out a bit, and it really sucked. The turns spent resting just meant that you couldn't wall stuff and it was kind of a sitting duck. It's honestly more efficient just to pair the set with something with Wish. I'll probably AC mention Rest in the Tank set, though.
 

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[Overview]

<p>From its base stats alone, Regice initially looks like a monster of a Pokemon. Boasting incredible defenses, along with reasonable Special Attack, and even a decent support movepool, make it seems like the ideal choice for a number of roles. However, Regice's base stats are rather deceptive; thanks due to Regice's weakness to a variety of common types such as Fire-, Fighting-, Steel, and Rock-, along with a crippling Stealth Rock weakness and lack of reliable recovery, it lacks the ability to effectively wall significant portions of the metagame without large amounts of team support. Despite this, with the correct support, Regice can be a real monster.</p>

[SET]
name: Support
move 1: Thunder Wave / Toxic
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Rest / Seismic Toss
item: Leftovers
nature: Calm
evs: 252 HP / 192 Def / 64 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Regice has the unique ability to sponge special attacks from nearly any attacker in RU, a feat which hardly any other Pokemon can boast. In addition to simply sponging attacks, with this set Regice can put both its solid supporting moves and average Special Attack stat to good use. Thunder Wave or and Toxic is an are ideal choices for Regice, allowing it to cripple a huge number of common threats. Ice Beam is Regice's best STAB option, and is capable of hurting things quite a bit, coming off of Regice's base 100 Special Attack, it has the potential to KO a number of Pokemon in the tier. Thunderbolt pairs extremely well with Ice Beam coverage wise, forming the famous BoltBeam combination, and it's only resisted only by Lanturn, Rotom-F, Magneton, and the rare Piloswine and Shedinja. Finally, either Rest or Seismic Toss can be used in Regice's the last moveslot. Rest gives Regice a way to restore its health some recovery, as well as the ability to cure status, while Seismic Toss allows Regice is used to hit a few of the Pokemon who take little damage from it doesn't hit between Ice Beam and Thunderbolt.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>Using a Calm nature with 64 Special Defense EVs allow Regice to avoid 2HKOs from many prominent Pokemon in RU, including even Life Orb Lilligant and Modest Choice Specs Porygon-Z, some of the strongest special attackers in the tier. However, using max Defense with a Bold nature is also an option, which gives Regice a bit more physical bulk, at the cost of losing but it loses the ability to switch into a few Pokemon. Regice can also use an EV spread with more Special Defense, but it's not really necessary as Regice is hard enough to, since hardly anything without super effective attacks can break through already Regice on the special side anyhow.</p>

<p>Depending on what it uses in its last moveslot, Regice will need either Heal Bell or Wish support. Heal Bell cures Regice of the self induced sleep from Rest, while Wish can let Regice continually switch in throughout the match despite lacking recovery. Excellent choices for Heal Bell support include Clefable, Misdreavus, and Uxie, while solid options for Wish support are Clefable, Flareon, and Alomomola.</p>

<p>In general, Regice has trouble handling strong physical attackers, especially Fire-, Rock-, Steel-, and Fighting-types, all of which are plentiful in RU. Good options for handling those Pokemon are physically bulky Psychic-, Ghost-, and Water- types, like such as Musharna, Dusknoir, and Alomomola. Continuing, Pokemon that can set up on choice-locked Fighting- and Fire-type attacks directed at Regice make excellent partners, so Pokemon like such as Gallade and Qwilfish both pair nicely with Regice. Finally, Regice also really appreciates Rapid Spin support, since it is weak to Stealth Rock and hit by all the entry hazards. Excellent choices for this are Claydol, who also offers some useful resistances, and Sandslash.</p>

[SET]
name: Rock Polish
move 1: Rock Polish
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Hidden Power Ground / Focus Blast
item: Life Orb
nature: Modest
evs: 12 HP / 252 SpA / 244 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

[Other Options]


<p>Thanks to its decent Special Attack and fairly good offensive movepool, along with Regice's ability to outspeed most unboosted Pokemon in the tier when it's at +2, Regice can pull off a Rock Polish set pretty well. Rock Polish lets it outspeed everything up to max Speed Jolly Swellow, while Ice Beam and Thunderbolt have extremely good type coverage between them. Either Focus Blast or Hidden Power Ground can be used in Regice's fourth moveslot, with each having its own advantages. Hidden Power Ground hits Lanturn and Magneton, both of which resist Boltbeam, while Focus Blast hits opposing Ice-types harder than any other move Regice can use, and is overall the best neutral coverage option.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>When using this set, Regice should use an EV spread of max Special Attack, with 244 Speed to outrun everything up to Jolly Swellow after a boost. The remaining EVs should be placed into HP, allowing Regice to switch in four times with Stealth Rock up. Charge Beam can be used over Thunderbolt, which lets Regice boost its Special Attack and sweep more easily, but leaves it open against Pokemon such as defensive Moltres and Articuno, who aren't hit hard enough with an unboosted Charge Beam. Regice can also make decent use of Superpower in its last moveslot, while using though an EV spread with a bit more Attack is recommended. This which gives Regice a slightly more reliable,(comma) though significantly less powerful option over Focus Blast.</p>

<p>Regice partners well with Pokemon that can eliminate fast scarfers and special walls. For example, Pokemon like such as Wynaut, Dugtrio, and most Pursuit users can eliminate Cryogonal, Lanturn, and even opposing Regice, all of whom can prevent Regice from sweeping. Wynaut has the added benefit of being able to trap and remove most scarfed Pokemon. Finally, in order to sweep cleanly, Regice needs most Pokemon with a base Speed of over 125 removed, but many of those Pokemon are relatively frail, such as Accelgor, and are easily dispatched with a well placed Pursuit from Krookodile or Scolipede. Finally, Regice can form nice cores with other strong special attackers, such as Porygon-Z and Lilligant, in order to break through special walls and allow one of them to sweep.</p>

<p>In order to be used to its greatest effectiveness, Rock Polish Regice needs both entry hazard and Rapid Spin support. Since it is As Regice is playing an offensive role, entry hazard setters who can easily gain momentum or pose an offensive threat, such as Mesprit, Glalie, and Scolipede all can support Regice fairly well. Stealth Rock alone manages to get Regice some important KOs, such as a 2HKO against Lanturn with Hidden Power Ground, along with an assured OHKO against defensive Moltres with Thunderbolt. Additional layers of entry hazards will allow Regice to easily sweep through large portions of the metagame. Rapid Spin support is equally important, since Regice is hit by all of the entry hazards and it's weak to Stealth Rock, which is quite crippling. Solid choices for Rapid Spin users include Claydol, Hitmonchan, and Sandslash are all solid Rapid Spinners.</p>

</p>

[SET]
name: All Out Attacker
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: Thunderbolt
move 3: Focus Blast
move 4: Hidden Power Ground / Hidden Power Grass
item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
nature: Modest
evs: 168 HP / 252 SpA / 84 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Thanks to Regice's decent offensive movepool and solid Special Attack, it can use a Life Orb or Choice Specs set remarkably well efficiently. It plays differently from the Rock Polish set, attempting to punch holes in the opponent's team rather than outright sweep. Ice Beam is Regice's best STAB option, and with Thunderbolt it forms the BoltBeam combination, resisted only by a handful of Pokemon in RU. Focus Blast hits opposing Ice-types, as well as Magneton, and Hidden Power Ground or Hidden Power Grass rounds off Regice's type coverage, giving it a way of hitting Lanturn hard.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>Regice's EVs allow it to outspeed minimum Speed base 60s, most notably Clefable. However, Regice can use a bit more Speed, or go for a positive Speed nature in order to always outrun most Aggron. However, the loss in bulk and power is significant, so doing so is not recommended. Regice can also use a mixed EV spread with 32 HP / 136 Atk / 252 SpA / 84 Spe and use either Superpower or Explosion.(full stop) Both moves of which are capable of netting OHKOs on Pokemon that trouble pure special attacker Regice, like such as Cryogonal, but other than that hit pathetically weak and aren't recommended.</p>

<p>This Regice really needs Rapid Spin support in order to play properly. With Life Orb, Regice is getting worn down relatively quickly, and the added damage from entry hazards is extremely annoying.(full stop) while with Choice Specs,(remove) Regice will be switching fairly often, and needs Stealth Rock removed in order to be effective. Similarly, since Regice causes a fair amount of switches, it really appreciates entry hazard support. Pokemon such as Uxie, Qwilfish, and Omastar all make excellent options for this.</p>

<p>Finally, this Regice makes an excellent partner for Pokemon that appreciate most special walls removed, since it lures in nearly all of them and nets easy KOs. Pokemon such as specially defensive Cryogonal and Clefable are handily 2HKOed by Choice Specs Focus Blast, opening up holes in the opponent's team that can be exploited by Lilligant, Porygon-Z, Haunter, and other strong special attackers.</p>

[Other Options]

<p>Regice has quite a wide offensive movepool, with moves such as Flash Cannon, AncientPower and Zap Cannon. However, none of these moves are particularly useful, as they don't offer any additional type coverage beyond what BoltBeam gives Regice. Regice also has a solid physical attacking movepool, with Focus Punch, Superpower, Avalanche, and so on, but it lacks the stats to really abuse those options well. It also has some other STAB options in Icy Wind, Frost Breath, and Blizzard, but Ice Beam is more consistently useful than any of them are.</p>



<p>Regice also has a few other gimmicky options available, such as Rain Dance and Thunder, Curse, Counter, Psych Up, and RestTalk. Rain Dance and Thunder can be used to support rain teams, although Regice doesn't particularly help them in any way and needs team support that most rain teams don't offer. Curse can be useful, thanks to Regice's amazing Special Defense and decent Defense, but Regice doesn't have the Attack to abuse it well enough. Counter is an interesting option that can let Regice net an easy KO on many of its counters, but it's too gimmicky to be effective. Psych Up can copy boosts from opposing Pokemon, but doesn't have much merit besides letting Regice beat Calm Mind users and Baton Pass teams. RestTalk seems useful for letting Regice recover without having to spend turns as a sitting duck, but it isn't all that reliable and takes up a moveslot better devoted to something else, usually.</p>

[Checks and Counters]

<p>Most bulky Fighting-, Fire-, and Steel-types are all capable of countering Regice relatively easily. Gallade and Hariyama both make excellent choices as counters, since they can easily set up on or outright KO Regice, while it doesn't pose much of a threat to them. Entei and Magmortar are in pretty much the same boat, since both of them can easily power past Regice while it can't touch them. Klinklang and Aggron are also good options for countering Regice, although they must be careful not to switch in on a Focus Blast or Hidden Power Ground. Finally, most Rock-types such as Rhydon and Golem that can hit Regice for super effective damage are good checks, but are incapable of switching in on anything but Thunderbolt.</p>

<p>Walling Regice is remarkably difficult, thanks to its near perfect type coverage with BoltBeam and Focus Blast. However, most bulkier special walls, such as Cryogonal and Munchlax, as well as opposing Regice are capable of taking most of the attacks Regice can dish out. Lanturn, Shedinja, and Magneton all resist BoltBeam, and can handle most defensive Regice pretty well, while many bulkier Ice-types are capable of dealing with pretty much any Regice lacking Focus Blast.</p>

[Dream World]

<p>Regice receives Ice Body via the Dream World, which is pretty much superior to Clear Body in every way to Clear Body. It lets Regice function as a pseudo Walrein, but with more special bulk, and makes the Life Orb recoil on offensive Regice sets much less damaging. In general, once it's released, Ice Body should always be used over Clear Body.</p>


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[Overview]

<p>From its base stats alone, Regice looks like a monster of a Pokemon. Boasting incredible defenses, along with reasonable Special Attack, and even a decent supporting movepool, it seems like the ideal choice for a number of roles. However, Regice's base stats are rather deceptive; due to Regice's weakness to a variety of common types such as Fire-, Fighting-, Steel, and Rock-, along with a crippling Stealth Rock weakness and lack of reliable recovery, it lacks the ability to effectively wall significant portions of the metagame without large amounts of team support. Despite these flaws this, with the correct support, Regice can be a real monster.</p>

[SET]
name: Support
move 1: Thunder Wave / Toxic
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Rest / Seismic Toss
item: Leftovers
nature: Calm
evs: 252 HP / 192 Def / 64 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Regice has the ability to sponge special attacks from nearly any attacker in RU, a feat which hardly any other Pokemon can boast. In addition to simply sponging attacks, Regice can put both its solid supporting moves and average Special Attack stat to good use. Thunder Wave and Toxic are ideal choices for Regice, allowing it to cripple a huge number of common threats. Ice Beam is Regice's best STAB option, and coming off Regice's base 100 Special Attack stat, it has the potential to KO a number of Pokemon in the tier. Thunderbolt pairs extremely well with Ice Beam coverage wise, forming the famous BoltBeam combination, and it's which is only resisted by Lanturn, Rotom-F, Magneton, and the rare Thick Fat Piloswine and Shedinja. Finally, Rest or Seismic Toss can be used in the(space)last moveslot. Rest gives Regice a way to restore its health, as well as the ability to cure status, while but Seismic Toss is can be used to hit Pokemon who take little damage from Ice Beam and Thunderbolt.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>Using a Calm nature with 64 Special Defense EVs allows Regice to avoid 2HKOs from many prominent Pokemon in RU, including Life Orb Lilligant and Modest Choice Specs Porygon-Z, some of the strongest special attackers in the tier. However, using max Defense with a Bold nature is also an option, which as it gives Regice a bit more physical bulk, but it loses the ability to switch into a few Pokemon. Regice can also use an EV spread with more Special Defense investment, but it's not really necessary as Regice is hard enough to break through already.</p>

<p>Depending on what it uses in its last moveslot, Regice will need either Heal Bell or Wish support. Heal Bell cures Regice of the self-(hyphen)induced sleep from Rest, while whereas Wish can let Regice continually switch in throughout the match despite lacking a reliable recovery move. Excellent choices for Heal Bell support include Clefable, Misdreavus, and Uxie, while solid options for Wish support are Clefable, Flareon, and Alomomola.</p>

<p>In general, Regice has trouble handling strong physical attackers, especially Fire-, Rock-, Steel-, and Fighting-types, all of which are plentiful in RU. Good options for handling those Pokemon are physically bulky Psychic-, Ghost-, and Water- types, such as Musharna, Dusknoir, and Alomomola. Pokemon that can set up on choice-locked Fighting- and Fire-type attacks directed at Regice make excellent partners, so Pokemon such as Gallade and Qwilfish both pair nicely with Regice. Finally, Regice appreciates Rapid Spin support, (comma) since it is weak to Stealth Rock and hit by all entry hazards. Excellent choices for this are Claydol, who also offers some useful resistances, and Sandslash.</p>

[SET]
name: Rock Polish
move 1: Rock Polish
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Hidden Power Ground / Focus Blast
item: Life Orb
nature: Modest
evs: 12 HP / 252 SpA / 244 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Thanks to its decent Special Attack and fairly good offensive movepool, along with Regice's ability to outspeed most unboosted Pokemon in the tier when it's at +2, Regice can pull off a Rock Polish set pretty well. Rock Polish lets it outspeed everything up to max Speed Jolly Swellow, while Ice Beam and Thunderbolt provide have extremely good type coverage between them. Either Focus Blast or Hidden Power Ground can be used in Regice's fourth moveslot, with each having its own advantages. Hidden Power Ground hits Lanturn and Magneton, both of which resist the Boltbeam combination, while whereas Focus Blast hits opposing Ice-types harder than any other move Regice can use, and is overall the best neutral coverage option.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>Regice should use an EV spread of max Special Attack, with 244 Speed EVs to outrun everything up to Jolly Swellow after a boost. The remaining EVs should be placed into HP, allowing Regice to switch in four times with Stealth Rock up. Charge Beam can be used over Thunderbolt, which lets Regice boost its Special Attack and sweep more easily, but leaves it open powerless against Pokemon such as defensive Moltres and Articuno, who aren't hit hard enough with by an unboosted Charge Beam. Regice can also use of Superpower in its last moveslot, though an EV spread with a bit more Attack is then recommended. This gives Regice a more reliable, though significantly less powerful, (comma) option over Focus Blast.</p>

<p>Regice partners well with Pokemon that can eliminate fast scarfers and special walls. For example, Pokemon such as Wynaut, Dugtrio, and most Pursuit users can eliminate Cryogonal, Lanturn, and even opposing Regice, all of whom can prevent Regice from sweeping. Wynaut has the added benefit of being able to trap and remove most sScarfed Pokemon. Finally, in order to sweep cleanly, Regice needs most Pokemon with a base Speed of over 125 removed, but many of those Pokemon are relatively frail, such as Accelgor, and are easily dispatched with a well placed Pursuit from Krookodile or Scolipede. Finally, Regice can form nice cores with other strong special attackers, such as Porygon-Z and Lilligant, in order to break through special walls and allow one of them to sweep.</p>

<p>In order to be used to its greatest effectiveness, Rock Polish Regice needs both entry hazard and Rapid Spin support. As Regice is playing an offensive role, entry hazard setters who can easily gain momentum or pose an offensive threat, such as Mesprit, Glalie, and Scolipede, (comma) all can support Regice fairly well. Stealth Rock alone manages to get Regice some important KOs, such as a 2HKO against Lanturn with Hidden Power Ground, along with an assured OHKO against defensive Moltres by using with More clarity Thunderbolt. Additional layers of entry hazards will allow Regice to easily sweep through large portions of the metagame. Rapid Spin support is equally important, (comma) since Regice is hit by all of the entry hazards and is it's weak to Stealth Rock, which is quite crippling. Claydol, Hitmonchan, and Sandslash are all solid Rapid Spinners.</p>

[SET]
name: All Out Attacker
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: Thunderbolt
move 3: Focus Blast
move 4: Hidden Power Ground / Hidden Power Grass
item: Life Orb / Choice Specs
nature: Modest
evs: 168 HP / 252 SpA / 84 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Thanks to Regice's decent offensive movepool and solid Special Attack, it can use a Life Orb or Choice Specs set remarkably well. It plays differently from the Rock Polish set, attempting to punch holes in the opponent's team rather than outright sweep. Ice Beam is Regice's best STAB option, and with Thunderbolt, (comma) it forms the BoltBeam combination, resisted only by a handful of Pokemon in RU. Focus Blast hits opposing Ice-types, as well as Magneton, and Hidden Power Ground or Hidden Power Grass rounds off Regice's type coverage, giving it a way of hitting Lanturn hard.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>This Regice's EVs allow it to outspeed minimum Speed base 60s, most notably Clefable. However, Regice could can use a bit more Speed, or go for a positive Speed nature, (comma) in order to outrun most Aggron. However, the loss in bulk and power is significant, so doing so is not recommended. Regice can also use a mixed EV spread with 32 HP / 136 Atk / 252 SpA / 84 Spe and use either Superpower or Explosion in the final slot. Both moves are capable of netting OHKOs on Pokemon that trouble purely special attackinger Regice, such as Cryogonal, but other than that, (comma) it hits pathetically weak and aren't recommended.</p>

<p>This Regice really needs Rapid Spin support in order to play properly. With Life Orb, Regice is will be getting worn down relatively quickly, and the added damage from entry hazards is extremely annoying. Choice Specs Regice will be switching fairly often, and needs Stealth Rock removed in order to be effective. Similarly, since Regice causes a fair amount of switches, it really appreciates entry hazard support. Pokemon such as Uxie, Qwilfish, and Omastar all make excellent options for this.</p>

<p>Finally, this Regice makes an excellent partner for Pokemon that appreciate most special walls being removed, (comma) since it lures in nearly all of the special walls in RU them and nets easy KOs on them. Pokemon such as specially defensive Cryogonal and Clefable are handily 2HKOed by Choice Specs Focus Blast, opening up holes in the opponent's team that can be exploited by Lilligant, Porygon-Z, Haunter, and other strong special attackers.</p>

[Other Options]

<p>Regice has quite a wide offensive movepool, (comma) with moves such as Flash Cannon, AncientPower and Zap Cannon. However, none of these moves are particularly useful, as they don't offer any additional type coverage beyond what BoltBeam gives Regice. Regice also has a solid physical attacking movepool, (comma) with Focus Punch, Superpower, Avalanche, and so on, but it lacks the stats to really abuse those options well. It also has some other STAB options in Icy Wind, Frost Breath, and Blizzard, but Ice Beam is more consistently useful than any of them are.</p>



<p>Regice also has a few other gimmicky options available, such as the combination of Rain Dance and Thunder, along with Curse, Counter, Psych Up, and RestTalk. Rain Dance and Thunder can be used to support rain teams, although Regice doesn't particularly help them in any way and needs team support, (comma) that which most rain teams don't offer. Curse can be useful, thanks to Regice's amazing Special Defense and decent Defense, but Regice doesn't have the Attack to abuse it well enough. Counter is an interesting option that can let Regice net an easy KO on many of its counters, but it's too gimmicky to be effective. Psych Up can copy stat boosts from opposing Pokemon, but doesn't have much merit besides letting Regice beat Calm Mind users and Baton Pass teams. RestTalk seems useful for letting Regice recover without having to spend turns as a sitting duck, but it isn't all that reliable and takes up a moveslot better devoted to something else, usually.</p>

[Checks and Counters]

<p>Most bulky Fighting-, Fire-, and Steel-types are all capable of countering Regice relatively easily. Gallade and Hariyama both make excellent choices as counters, (comma) since they can easily set up on or outright KO Regice, (comma) while it doesn't pose much of a threat to them in return. Entei and Magmortar are in pretty much the same boat, (comma) since both of them can easily power past Regice while it can't touch them. Klinklang and Aggron are also good options for countering Regice, although they must be careful not to switch in on a Focus Blast or a Hidden Power Ground. Finally, most Rock-types, (comma) such as Rhydon and Golem, (comma) that can hit Regice for super effective damage are good checks, but are incapable of switching in on anything but Thunderbolt.</p>

<p>Walling Regice is remarkably difficult, thanks to its near perfect type coverage with BoltBeam and Focus Blast. However, most bulkier special walls, such as Cryogonal and Munchlax, as well as opposing Regice, (comma) are capable of taking most of the attacks Regice can dish out. Lanturn, Shedinja, and Magneton all resist, (comma) or in Shedinja's case, (comma) is immune to, (comma) BoltBeam, and can handle most defensive variants of Regice pretty well, while many bulkier Ice-types are capable of dealing with any Regice lacking Focus Blast.</p>

[Dream World]

<p>Regice receives Ice Body via the Dream World, which is superior to Clear Body in every way. It lets Regice function as a pseudo Walrein, but with more special bulk, and makes the Life Orb recoil on offensive Regice sets much less damaging. In general, once it's released, Ice Body should always be used over Clear Body.</p>



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