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Petal Blizzard vs Solar Beam

If petal blizzard has a shorter cooldown, higher dps and same energy usage compared with solar beam, why does game press not consider it the superior of the two?

Asked by Eruvadhron7 years 11 months ago

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Try them out and you will know why. PB has a higher dps because it has a shorter duration, but SoB does more raw damage and it isn't even close.

So in protracted fights (eg blissey) it might be more advantageous, but otherwise it's solar beam all the way?

It's only better for dodging, so if you were using a glass cannon pb might be better, but something like Venusaur is bulky enough you should be able to take the hit.

SB is far superior in real battles it's not even close

Solarbeam will do more damage, but since PetalBlizzard is faster, you can keep atacking with your quick attack earlier, so the DPS of your attack cycle will be higher, on long battle i think it's better but on short ones you usually finish the enemy on the first SB.

SoB does 70 damage more, the cycle dps will never be close.

It still works out to Solar Beam being better. The spreadsheet data puts Petal Blizzard at only 90% the overall damage of Solar Beam.
http://www.pogomoves.com/check.php?lang=en&pkmn=Venusaur&basic=Vine+Whip&charge=Petal+Blizzard

Petal Blizzard used to be a lot better alternative pre-Gen2 when it only cost 50 energy. That is one of the moves I hope gets rebalanced back to its previous energy cost.

Yeah, I'm hoping this one and Psychic gets moved "BACK" to 2 bars...no idea who the idiot was that made this change for no good reason...

There's no reason to use these two now since the move is not as great as Future Sight or Solar Beam.

Pb doing more DPS in Gen 1 and i love it - 2 charge but in gen 2 only 1 charge . so solarbeam is the right choice base on gen 2 meta

PB used to be really underrated and strong, but now it's just like nothing important. You can't use it for prestige really, because your grass mons rely on 2 bar charge moves or SB and PB isn't it and frankly attacking a tanky Vape with a low damage, long duration, one bar charge move is just not that great.