[overview]
**Draft Order**: Round 7 onwards
**Price Range**: 4-5 points
**Overview**: Froslass is a diverse utility Pokemon that has a similarly diverse offensive profile and a great Speed tier for the role it fits. However, its weak offensive stats and frailty relegate it to its role as a sacrificial lead, which opponents can easily take advantage of. It still does this role extremely well, as being a spinblocking Spikes lead with Taunt and Destiny Bond means it will be very easy to keep Spikes up while it stays on the field.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
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**Sacrificial Lead**: With a vast number of disruptive options such as Taunt and Thunder Wave available to stop opponents from preventing Spikes, Froslass serves as a very good sacrificial lead.
**Offensive Wallbreaker**: Your opponent may be expecting a Spikes lead, but Froslass has a fantastic offensive typing with a plethora of moves to take advantage of it, catching them off guard with items such as Choice Band.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Ice Beam, Ice Shard, Ice Spinner, Icicle Crash, Icicle Spear, Triple Axel, Hex, Shadow Ball, Poltergeist
**Setup Moves**: Trailblaze
**Utility Moves**: Reflect, Light Screen, Disable, Destiny Bond, Haze, Icy Wind, Pain Split, Spikes, Switcheroo, Trick, Taunt, Thunder Wave, Will-O-Wisp
**Coverage**: Draining Kiss, Psychic, Thunderbolt
Niche Moves
========
**Avalanche**: It may seem counterproductive to have a Pokemon whose selling point is its Speed stat carry a move with negative priority, but Avalanche + Destiny Bond ensures that a foe cannot avoid attacking with Destiny Bond active, taking it down with Froslass.
**Curse**: Although slightly less useful than Destiny Bond, Curse is an option to self-KO Froslass while putting its foe on a timer, as opposed to Destiny Bond, which would also give opponents momentum when both Pokemon faint.
Common Items
========
**Focus Sash**: Focus Sash is the best item to slap on sacrificial lead Froslass to always freely get a move off.
**Heavy-Duty Boots**: If Froslass is not the dedicated lead, Heavy-Duty Boots can be held to prevent entry hazard damage, which Froslass is particularly weak to.
Niche Items
========
**Mental Herb**: Against faster Taunt users, Mental Herb can be used to prevent lead Froslass from being Taunted, which would render it useless.
**Light Clay**: Having access to dual screens with its Speed, Froslass can use Light Clay to extend their duration, being a useful tool in offensively oriented drafts, which it typically wants to be on.
**Choice Band**: Although Froslass is not particularly strong, Poltergeist and Triple Axel are strong enough moves to make up for it; it also has Ice Shard to revenge kill foes.
Tera
========
Froslass should plainly not be a Tera Captain. Its most useful trait is being a lead that can also spinblock, and Terastallizing into anything but a Ghost-type would ruin that.
Draft Strategy
========
Froslass demands to be on an offensive draft that can either take advantage the of chip damage from Spikes or force your opponent to stick to using Heavy-Duty Boots to prevent the Spikes chip damage, deterring their Pokemon from having another held item.
**Setup Sweepers**: Setup sweepers such as Iron Valiant, Sneasler, and Kingambit that need chip damage on the opposing team to properly sweep can make use of Froslass.
**Wallbreakers**: With Pokemon like Chi-Yu, the Urshifu formes, and Palafin that can smash through the opposing team when hazards are up, preventing foes from removing Froslass's Spikes is important.
Checks and Counters
========
**Faster Taunt Users**: Pokemon such as Darkrai, Greninja, and Cinderace can outspeed and Taunt lead Froslass can shut it down.
**Faster Offensive Pokemon**: Although Froslass can use Thunder Wave or Will-O-Wisp on offensive threats like Meowscarada, Iron Bundle, and Iron Boulder, they can still prevent Froslass from using more than one move by KOing it faster than it can move, greatly reducing its efficacy.
**Multi-strike Moves**: Moves that can KO Froslass past its Focus Sash such as Tachyon Cutter and Rock Blast make it much harder for it to its job.
**Priority**: Pokemon with priority moves such as Scizor, Palafin, and Metagross can take advantage of Froslass's frailty while ensuring it is not able to get a last move off.
**Lum Berry / Mental Herb**: Since Froslass looks to disrupts its foes with varied status moves, having to worry about both Lum Berry and Mental Herb nullifying one of its turns is a real concern.
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**Draft Order**: Round 7 onwards
**Price Range**: 4-5 points
**Overview**: Froslass is a diverse utility Pokemon that has a similarly diverse offensive profile and a great Speed tier for the role it fits. However, its weak offensive stats and frailty relegate it to its role as a sacrificial lead, which opponents can easily take advantage of. It still does this role extremely well, as being a spinblocking Spikes lead with Taunt and Destiny Bond means it will be very easy to keep Spikes up while it stays on the field.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Sacrificial Lead**: With a vast number of disruptive options such as Taunt and Thunder Wave available to stop opponents from preventing Spikes, Froslass serves as a very good sacrificial lead.
**Offensive Wallbreaker**: Your opponent may be expecting a Spikes lead, but Froslass has a fantastic offensive typing with a plethora of moves to take advantage of it, catching them off guard with items such as Choice Band.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Ice Beam, Ice Shard, Ice Spinner, Icicle Crash, Icicle Spear, Triple Axel, Hex, Shadow Ball, Poltergeist
**Setup Moves**: Trailblaze
**Utility Moves**: Reflect, Light Screen, Disable, Destiny Bond, Haze, Icy Wind, Pain Split, Spikes, Switcheroo, Trick, Taunt, Thunder Wave, Will-O-Wisp
**Coverage**: Draining Kiss, Psychic, Thunderbolt
Niche Moves
========
**Avalanche**: It may seem counterproductive to have a Pokemon whose selling point is its Speed stat carry a move with negative priority, but Avalanche + Destiny Bond ensures that a foe cannot avoid attacking with Destiny Bond active, taking it down with Froslass.
**Curse**: Although slightly less useful than Destiny Bond, Curse is an option to self-KO Froslass while putting its foe on a timer, as opposed to Destiny Bond, which would also give opponents momentum when both Pokemon faint.
Common Items
========
**Focus Sash**: Focus Sash is the best item to slap on sacrificial lead Froslass to always freely get a move off.
**Heavy-Duty Boots**: If Froslass is not the dedicated lead, Heavy-Duty Boots can be held to prevent entry hazard damage, which Froslass is particularly weak to.
Niche Items
========
**Mental Herb**: Against faster Taunt users, Mental Herb can be used to prevent lead Froslass from being Taunted, which would render it useless.
**Light Clay**: Having access to dual screens with its Speed, Froslass can use Light Clay to extend their duration, being a useful tool in offensively oriented drafts, which it typically wants to be on.
**Choice Band**: Although Froslass is not particularly strong, Poltergeist and Triple Axel are strong enough moves to make up for it; it also has Ice Shard to revenge kill foes.
Tera
========
Froslass should plainly not be a Tera Captain. Its most useful trait is being a lead that can also spinblock, and Terastallizing into anything but a Ghost-type would ruin that.
Draft Strategy
========
Froslass demands to be on an offensive draft that can either take advantage the of chip damage from Spikes or force your opponent to stick to using Heavy-Duty Boots to prevent the Spikes chip damage, deterring their Pokemon from having another held item.
**Setup Sweepers**: Setup sweepers such as Iron Valiant, Sneasler, and Kingambit that need chip damage on the opposing team to properly sweep can make use of Froslass.
**Wallbreakers**: With Pokemon like Chi-Yu, the Urshifu formes, and Palafin that can smash through the opposing team when hazards are up, preventing foes from removing Froslass's Spikes is important.
Checks and Counters
========
**Faster Taunt Users**: Pokemon such as Darkrai, Greninja, and Cinderace can outspeed and Taunt lead Froslass can shut it down.
**Faster Offensive Pokemon**: Although Froslass can use Thunder Wave or Will-O-Wisp on offensive threats like Meowscarada, Iron Bundle, and Iron Boulder, they can still prevent Froslass from using more than one move by KOing it faster than it can move, greatly reducing its efficacy.
**Multi-strike Moves**: Moves that can KO Froslass past its Focus Sash such as Tachyon Cutter and Rock Blast make it much harder for it to its job.
**Priority**: Pokemon with priority moves such as Scizor, Palafin, and Metagross can take advantage of Froslass's frailty while ensuring it is not able to get a last move off.
**Lum Berry / Mental Herb**: Since Froslass looks to disrupts its foes with varied status moves, having to worry about both Lum Berry and Mental Herb nullifying one of its turns is a real concern.
[credits]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/drizzle.313217/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/big-pharma.657717/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/theuncultured.629845/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/techno.527276/
Grammar checked by:
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