Mantine moveset and ev spread?

[cocomunga]

My team needs a special wall. I don't want blissey.

Current team is

Infernape
swampert
garchomp
celebi
forretress

Should I put any special defense ev's at all? It's already high as hell.

Mantine@leftovers Bold/calm 92 hp 252 special attack 166 def/spec d
Water absorb
hydro pump
mirror coat
ice beam
signal beam

I would like a better mioveset. This one doesn't look that great to me.

 

[Turismo2029]

I would go with something like this:

Mantine (?) @ Leftovers
Trait: Water Absorb
EVs: 196 HP / 184 SAtk / 128 SDef
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Confuse Ray
- Mud Sport/Psybeam/Signal Beam

Reason being, 266sp.atk is needed for a OHKO on Garchomp, right? From Ice Beam?
Surf for STAB, Confuse Ray since it's annoying, and Mud Sport raises his electric resistance, if you predict well and pull it off then you can get rid of his 4x weakness, Signal Beam and Psybeam don't look like they'll be helping him cover much anyway.

Oh, 184 EV's with Modest, 31 IV = 266 special attack, incase I didn't make that clear. >_>;

 

[TheMantyke]

Aqua ring has served my mantine well, consider that on a defencive set.

 

[Sir Spanky]

Mantine can't do a lot with subpar attack stat, so I like random Toxic when I use it. Resttalk can work ok as well.

 

[Surgo]

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