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Overview
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- A powerful base 130 Special Attack stat makes its attacks deliver a cold blow. This devastating power is the main thing that distinguishes from the rest of its Ice-type brethren
- With a great offensive typing in Ice, Glaceon can outright cripple many of the Grass and Flying-types that roam the tier
- Decent bulk to abuse, with 65/110/95 defenses granting it the ability to stomach some neutral hits. It’ll need this due to its slow speed
- Pretty shallow movepool gives it very limited options to deal with Pokemon that resist its Ice STAB and make it struggle
- A weakness to Stealth Rock, susceptibility to all entry hazards, and slowness all contribute to wearing Glaceon down quickly
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name: Choice Specs
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: Hidden Power Ground
move 3: Shadow Ball
move 4: Baton Pass
ability: Ice Body
item: Choice Specs
evs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
nature: Modest
Moves
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- Ice Beam is the main move of the set, with high base power, perfect accuracy, and great typing contributing to its spammability. Pokemon such as Hippopotas, Tangela, and Torterra are KOed before they even move.
- Hidden Power Ground hits the Steel and Fire-types that resist the STAB move, such as Bastiodon and Heatmor. It also hits the Water / Rock Pokemon in the tier such as Carracosta and Barbaracle.
- Shadow Ball mostly provides neutral coverage, and has the benefit of hitting Ghost-types such as Misdreavus hard
- Baton Pass on this set works as a pseudo U-turn that allows Glaceon to pivot into an appropriate teammate should a check / counter present itself
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- Glaceon has two useless abilities, and Ice Body is the better of the two (even though it will never see use).
- Choice Specs is the item of choice, allowing Glaceon to wallbreak very effectively with simple sheer power; however, it limits Glaceon to one move at a time.
- The EVs are fairly straightforward as they maximize Glaceon’s power while also giving it the ability to outrun many slow walls.
- A Modest nature carries powerful strength behind it, being able to 2HKO Lickilicky after Stealth Rock damage. However, a Timid nature may be used in order to outspeed targets that fall in a threshold between Adamant Barbaracle, Adamant Mightyena, and Torterra.
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- Switch in the Eeveelution by pivoting to it with double switches and slow U-turns or Volt Switches. Grass-type Pokemon such as Tangela, Gourgeist-XL, and Torterra are Pokemon Glaceon immediately threatens and as such can take advantage of their presence in order to attack.
- Basically spam Ice Beam to blast through the opposition, utilizing Hidden Power Ground to bait the Water / Rocks, Steel and Fire-type switch ins or a dry Baton Pass to switch out safely to a counter
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- Hazard removal is a must for the slow Glaceon in order to be able to come continuously to spam Ice STAB move. Wartortle and Vibrava offer good type synergy with it and may remove hazards with Rapid Spin and Defog, respectively
- Fighting-types are quite helpful as they have great type synergy with the Eeveelution and can beat many relevant Stealth Rockers. In particular, Poliwrath is a great partner for Glaceon as it can take on all 3 of the types (Ice, Fire, Steel) that resist Glaceon’s main STAB and can punish them with its STABs, set up SubPunch, or phase with Circle Throw
- A sweeper that takes advantage of the holes Glaceon breaks can serve as a good teammate. For example, Carracosta and Barbaracle can take advantage of Glaceon’s ability to blast through the Grass-types of the tier and either set up much more safely or pummel through the weakened remains.
- Partners that are able to deal with the Water-types that resist its STAB are appreciated. Tangela and Gourgeist-XL can be used as effective partners that are able to take hits from Poliwrath, Carracosta, and Barbaracle with ease due to their great physical bulk; the former is even aided by its ability, Regenerator.
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- Has a pretty terrible offensive moveset overall, and should only consider some other options if the team really requires it:
- Frost Breath is another STAB attack that may be used to bypass Calm Mind spammers, such as Clefairy. However, this is situational at most and the lack of perfect accuracy is a hindrance.
- A Choice Scarf set may seem viable, but is promptly outclassed by Rotom-F due to higher speed, a secondary STAB in Electric, and access to Trick to disrupt bulky walls
- A Defensive Set with access to moves such as Wish, Heal Bell, and Roar may seem appealing at first, but suffers from a low HP stat and a poor defensive typing that leaves only one resistance to be had
- Hyper Voice has neutral coverage and hits everything but Steels and Frillish
- Signal Beam offers coverage against Dark and Psychic types but is otherwise bad
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- **Water-types:** In general, all of these wall Glaceon. Poliwrath resists its main STAB and can proceed to set up a Substitute in its face, or simply strike with a Fighting-type STAB move. The Shell Smashers may also use Glaceon to set up and either KO it with a Rock-type STAB attack (in the cases of Carracosta or Barbaracle) or pass the boosts (in the case of Huntail)
- **Fire-types:** These Pokemon, such as Ninetales and Rapidash, can outright use their STAB moves to defeat it. Ninetales in particular has Nasty Plot and may use Glaceon as set up fodder. However, they must be wary of Hidden Power Ground
- **Ice-types:** Lapras and Regice shrug off Ice Beam and may set up or use alternative coverage moves to shut down Glaceon. Rotom-F can also wall it as it suffers almost no repercussions from its coverage moves and and can Volt Switch to preserve momentum
- **Hazards:** These severely hamper Glaceon's performance, as every single one is detrimental to its performance by compromising its bulk and its already slow speed. With Glaceon being pressured to even switch in, it might not get a chance to move.
- **Revenge Killers:** Glaceon has very mediocre speed and thus is prone to be revenge killed by Pokemon such as Sneasel, Ninetales, Simipour, and Aurorus.
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