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Is Ice Shard Blizzard Lapras' best defensive moveset?
I ran some simulations on Pokebattler.com and Lapras with Ice Shard Blizzard performed better than a Lapras with Ice Shard Ice Beam against Machamp, Jolteon and Flareon (Lapras's strongest counters).
What do you think? What's the best moveset and how much are these two movesets difference in performance when it comes to defence?
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Dragon Pulse would actually do far less damage than Ice moves ... Dragonite double weak to Ice plus STAB, whereas only single weak to Dragon plus no STAB.
DP compared well with Ice Beam pre-update, as both attacks had the same damage multiplier against the most common Lapras counter (Arcanine). STAB + NVE = no STAB + neutral damage.