Ice Beam Slowbro?

I had a similar post a couple of weeks ago. I have a 100 IV Slowbro with Confusion/Ice beam and wondered if it was worth maxing it out. Most said yes. Even someone from gamepress answered saying that it's a recommended moveset for gym defense due to its most common attackers - Dragonite and Exeggutor. Both being weak to ice.

Both C-IB and C-P are top tier movesets for defense, and as the other commenter said: the most common attackers into Slowbro actually take more damage from Ice Beam (Dragonite / Exeggutor), so it's preferable in the most common matchups.

I've got a 96% Confusion / Psychic, and a couple 89% Confusion / Ice Beam and they both perform very well.

Definitely worth the dust.

Yes, he's definitely worth it if you don't mind the low-ish CP he'll reach. He's an amazing defender, with either of those movesetes.

I'd wait for a psychic one, but may depend on your meta. Over here exegg is very rare and most people will attack him with a jolteon. At least that's what I do, and IB would make the job even easier.

I'm actually slightly disappointed by slowbros performance. I fought against my maxxed C/P for the 1st time yesterday, took a lower CP jolteon and crushed him way more easily than I expected. I won with more than 50% hp left. C/P hits hard but is slow and easy to dodge. And even if you fail to dodge or get some server lag, psychic can't surprise-OS you like some other moves.

If you can't wait the arrival of SlowKing.. then power it up!

Slowbro can be alright as a defender, depending on your gym situation. He won't really last long if your local gyms keep changing and won't function as a deterrent against attackers in the same way that Snorlaxes will... but if you can insert him into a decent mid-high level gym with a sensible roster he can play a part in defending it for a bit.

In terms of powering up, what level is he currently at, and what level do you intend to power him up to? And, for the same stardust what are your other available options?

I made the mistake of attacking a Slowbro with C/IB with my Dragonite and quickly swapped attackers - he hit's the right attackers pretty hard.

Obviously lowish CP is an issue, but he's a good defender. If you've got spare candy/dust then I'd go for it.

I have one floating around 2000 cp that is tougher to beat than it should be. That being said, I actually didn't invest any stardust into it, I was lucky enough to find a level 30 poke with decent IVs in the wild, and evolved it.

In general, psyhic is better than ice beam in almost every way, with 2 exceptions. It is slightly better against dragonite, and it's primary use is exegutor repellent.

Remember that exxe's have a resistance to psychic, as well as water. So if an attacking egg monster has a grass secondary move, then it's lights out for slowbro.

But with ice beam, eggsy no longer has resistance, and now has a weakness.

So now "defensivly" psychic is doing around 11.4 dps, and ice beam is around 14.5.

Its small, but it does help.

Power up a Slowbro really worth it? i know his stats and water/psychic type turn him a great defender in maths, but he can only sit at the botton of any gym cuz of his very low CP and get kicked fast.

ive a pair of poliwraths and a slowbro powered up and every so often i find gyms i can stick them in where they wont be at the bottom. Theyre tough little bastards and worth the power up. Far better defenders than gyardos or rhydon.