moveset

[starocean55]

what is a good moveset for lanturn

[SuperSimon]

tbolt
icebeam
surf
t-wave

[dre]

No laughing, I actually like: Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Amnesia, Thunder Wave. I don't know whether I'm just a fan of Amnesia lately or what, but being able to Amnesia with that huge HP stat Lanturn gets is kinda nice. Especially on someone who learns BoltBeam. ThunderWave is good, as always.

SuperSimon's set is definitely the standard, though.

[Chris!]

I like Discharge / Ice Beam / Surf / Filler (like Amnesia, or especially Confuse Ray). That way, you can paralyze with your Electric move 30% of the time plus possibly pull off some parafusion or rocket up your SDef.

[starocean55]

whats blotbeam

[Cytosine]

BoltBeam is the combination of Ice Beam or Thunderbolt (normally, but it works with any Ice/Electric moves) that hits a huge amount of pokemon for super effective damage. The only things that resist it are Magnezone and Volt Absorb Lanturn.

[Chris!]

That's basically why anyone uses Lanturn: He can counter a large amount of Special Attackers with high HP, decent Special Defense, and a resistance to Boltbeam.

I like the Parafusion set that I mentioned earlier because Lanturn doesn't really need the power of Thunderbolt over the utility of Discharge, which is much more useful thanks to a great paralysis rate. Of course, Lanturn is born to Thunder Dance, so you can do that too.

[starocean55]

so blotbeam is an actual move?

[Chris!]

No, it's shorthand for the combination of Thunderbolt and Ice Beam.

[starocean55]

oh i feel dumb

[Bulbasaurus Rex]

I like Thunder Dancing with Lanturn with Thunder, Rain Dance, Surf, and Ice Beam.

[dre]

Thunder Dancing is cool. I just wish that Lanturn got Tail Glow or something else to raise his Special Attack. That would be awesome, but he's definitely useable either way.

[starocean55]

whats another good move set for Articuno and Zapdos

for Zapdos i have Thunderbolt,drill peck,shock wave, and u turn

[Da Champion]

Charge beam is alwayz good

[dre]

Charge Beam? You don't really have a need for all that .. you can just use TBolt, since Zapdos has a wicked high SATK stat already. He can use Thunderbolt, HP ICE, Drill Peck, and Roost/Thunder Wave. I like Thunder Wave out of the two but if your party is already high on Status moves, Zapdos does have the defenses to be able to live through a hit or two so Roost isn't a bad idea on him.

Articuno is a defensive pokemon, meaning he doesn't serve the same role that Zapdos would. On him, however, I like: Ice Beam, Reflect (he's got a wicked high Special Defense already, so this would help his regular defense .. too bad he's 4x weak to Rock AND weak to both Fire and Electric), Roost, and Roar. After someone else sets up Spikes or Stealth Rock, this set can live through pretty much anything, so long as you don't get Taunted by Weavile or completely owned by something with Flare Blitz attached.

[Chris!]

If you get a Zapdos from XD, Charge Beam makes some sense since you can Baton Pass the little boosts to other stuff, but it's not reliable.