Jan 11, 2017, 09:42 AM
(This post was last modified: Jan 11, 2017, 12:07 PM by Rockycombo.)
Whoops, you're right, totally missed that Thick Club. Fixed.
No need to be sorry, I definitely appreciate the points. I honestly picked a lower tier Pokemon as my first build to get a feel for the process and what not, I'm not actually running one on my own team, nor do I think it has a place on every team by any means.
However, there are some niche roles it can fill (I can see I may have romanticized the intro somewhat). I don't think there are any other water types in the tier that learn Thunder Wave except for Gyarados, who has a much harder time with electric attacks in general (not that Starmie is a particular gem in that area either, but it can take ones from non Specs Tapu Lele, Porygon, etc.) and rock type attacks, though that Intimidate is definitely nice. Thunder Wave may not be as useful as it used to be, but I'd consider it decent speed control without Trick Room.
Spotlight is, as I think support Starmie is overall, pretty niche. But niche doesn't mean useless. Looking at it now after your post, this set would probably actually work better in the Smogon meta with Rapid Spin over Spotlight. My other set idea for VGC was a Life Orb set with three attacks and Spotlight, though I'm hesistant to say anything about that set's viability without running some calcs.
No need to be sorry, I definitely appreciate the points. I honestly picked a lower tier Pokemon as my first build to get a feel for the process and what not, I'm not actually running one on my own team, nor do I think it has a place on every team by any means.
However, there are some niche roles it can fill (I can see I may have romanticized the intro somewhat). I don't think there are any other water types in the tier that learn Thunder Wave except for Gyarados, who has a much harder time with electric attacks in general (not that Starmie is a particular gem in that area either, but it can take ones from non Specs Tapu Lele, Porygon, etc.) and rock type attacks, though that Intimidate is definitely nice. Thunder Wave may not be as useful as it used to be, but I'd consider it decent speed control without Trick Room.
Spotlight is, as I think support Starmie is overall, pretty niche. But niche doesn't mean useless. Looking at it now after your post, this set would probably actually work better in the Smogon meta with Rapid Spin over Spotlight. My other set idea for VGC was a Life Orb set with three attacks and Spotlight, though I'm hesistant to say anything about that set's viability without running some calcs.
