Icy Wind and HP Ice have the same BP but Icy Wind also lowers the taget's speed. Therefore, Icy Wind>HP Ice
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Icy wind doesn't have perfect accuracy and you can give boosts to defiant and contrary pokemon.
Martin
But who in their right mind would switch Bisharp/Serperior in on Tornadus .-.
The speed drop is easily worth a whopping 5% miss rate, because it means that any slower teammates you have can take advantage of the lowered speed when you mis-predict their switch and give something else a drop. It also stops scarf variants of its targets from ruining your day.
The speed drop is easily worth a whopping 5% miss rate, because it means that any slower teammates you have can take advantage of the lowered speed when you mis-predict their switch and give something else a drop. It also stops scarf variants of its targets from ruining your day.
Unless Icy Wind is more viable somehow.