Upgrade Articuno

2. Ice Beam has 28% more DPE. Keep it.

I wouldn't touch the charge move - I think ice beam is extremely good. I don't think there's a ton of use for articuno ATM but he's cool to have maxed and I might do it eventually - can't complain w the great IV too!

Maybe bring him to lvl 30. Not sure what your rare candy situation is but plan ahead for the legendaries you wanna max - can't max them all unless you raid like crazy.

Ice Beam is almost as good as Blizzard. You should not risk it.

A lot of this community, myself included, prefer Ice Beam to blizzard. Better dodging, less energy waste, and raid bosses charge multi bar moves for you fast.

I still missing this f*king cool bird. I'll cry ='(.

I prefer Ice Beam.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but by simple math;
2 Ice beams deals 180 dmg and takes 6.6 sec
1 blizzard deals 130 dmg + 40 (4 frost breath) = 170 dmg in 6.7 sec.

You did 10 more dmg with IB but you built a little more energy with B and 4 FB combinaison.

I would take IB over Bliz any day.

1. A cloyster would take 15.7 seconds to defeat a dragonite.
2. Articuno would take 14.8 with Blizzard and 17.7 with Ice beam.
3. An Articuno with Icy wind would take 18.3 seconds, that's your worst case scenario.

This is talking about 15 attack IV attackers and 100% IV dragonite, all of them at level 30.

Now the question is do you see so many dragonites in gyms that you'd use a TM + 75k stardust + 66 candies just to save 0.9 seconds? With the risk of actually downgrading your articuno by 2.6 seconds. I'd say NO, keep your cloyster.

1. As I think Articuno is cool and will be useful in Dragonite raids, I'm going to answer YES.
2. Only when/if you have a whole bunch of extra charge TM's that you don't know what to do with.