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Tanking Time

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wakaluka

Guest
Just curious, has anyone ever used Starmie as a tank, because most people I've encountered have used it as a sweeper and I'm probably the first in my class to use it as a tank.
 
Eszett

Eszett

one love
I don't use it. Period. XD

I vastly prefer the Water/Psychic that your avatar touts as opposed to that glitz-garnering Starmie; I feel he is much more solid contender than his reedier, swifter counterpart. Plus he *woahmg* actually gets Calm Mind.

But enough about my favorite Water type. I would definitely use Starmie as a sweeper if I ever wanted to touch the thing; its role in that regard simply overshadows its use as a tank, especially since its defences and HP can't must to the levels needed to take repeated beatings.
 
TRJessie579

TRJessie579

Obsessive Beader/Mod
Moving to RMT where you'll probably get more detailed discussion on the topic. :)
 
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HaLuZiNaTHoR

Guest
Starmie isn´t a tank, as it doesn´t have decent def, sp.def or HP. Good tanks are Umbreon, Slowbro/Slowking.
 
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pyrofrost

Guest
starmie can obviously be used as a tank...evs train speed so that ull get the first hit...and on the first hit,use cosmic power. do it a few times and start sweeping em. it cud be used in various ways .i hav a friend who did this,he sweeped out his first 5 pokemon like this. any way his opponent won, his mewtwo came out and started using calm minds and shreded my frend into pieces
 
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Rudoku

Your mom
pyrofrost said:
starmie can obviously be used as a tank...evs train speed so that ull get the first hit...and on the first hit,use cosmic power. do it a few times and start sweeping em. it cud be used in various ways .i hav a friend who did this,he sweeped out his first 5 pokemon like this. any way his opponent won, his mewtwo came out and started using calm minds and shreded my frend into pieces
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Pokemon used Thunderbolt. No more "tank". Cosmic Power isn't good enough to make a fragile pokemon a tank. It'll still lose to something with Seismic Toss, hello Blissey, which your friend's opponent wasn't smart enough to have. Besides, if anything you'd EV train it in Defenses so it wouldn't die to a fast attack, which is retarded to do to a Starmie in the first place.
 
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Tazzler

Well-Known Member
Recover.

Deathstar is as close as it gets. However, 85 in both defenses isn't that bad.
 
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