Moveset Ideas Thread

[PokePoindexter]

Come up with ideas for potential Competitive Battling sets here. Here's one of mine:

Polarice:
236 HP/128 Sp. Atk/146 Def (Bold)
Item: Dairy Incense/Leftovers
Ability: Thick Fat
*Ice Beam
*Slack Off/Rest
*Roar/Hail
*Roar/Hail/Surf/Hidden Power [Fire/Psychic]

409 HP, 288 Special Attack, and 282 Defense give Polarice some impressive tank-cannon capabilities.

Ice Beam is the obvious STAB move, and 288 Sp. Atk is just enough to land an easy OHKO on Malistril and Destado, and also OH-2KO’s Wolvine, Tellure, Brontogon (on the off-chance it’s used past the UU tier, and depending on the investment in Special Defense), and, when used in OU, also gets a likely 2KO on both Nimbolt and Khaphix.

Slack Off with the Dairy Incense heals 60% of your health (which can be a vital help in the long run), but the Leftovers can still do nicely too. Rest could be used as well if you really need it, but most Pokemon already have enough trouble taking out Polarice that any hindrance to Polarice’s ability to attack can hurt it.

Roar can blow away anyone Polarice doesn’t like (such as Leoracle, Raiger, Ferrian, Arowana, etc.). Hail also works nicely due to Polarice being one of only three Pokemon capable of doing much in that tier (alongside Frostorm and the occasional Wolfrost).

The fourth move is pretty much other power options to cover Pokemon who don’t take too big a hit from Ice Beam. Surf hits Ninetales, Kunaiga, Kelvoyant, and Coroona (among others) for super-effective hits, making Polarice quite a bear for Fire-types to deal with (Yes, it’s a pun), as well as scaring the wits out of Leoracle. Overall, I’d recommend this over any of the HP’s, simply because it can plaster a Leoracle when given half a chance. No other move does that nearly as effectively.

HP Fire can do some hurt to Ferrian, Scizor, Wolfrost, and OHKO’s Forretress, but there will still be some nice damage done with this turnout to everyone else.

HP Psychic, on the other hand, gets a 4x effective hit on Illumbra, and also hits normal damage on Water-types who wall everything else.

Had Surf not been available, I would’ve mentioned HP Ground here, but the only other thing it gets a super-effective hit on is Arowana, and that can be 2KO’ed easily by Ice Beam, which is more efficient anyway.