Psycho Cut or Confusion for Ice Beam Mewtwo?
Title sums it up. According to my understanding, psycho cut charges the charge moves more quickly, so for Ice-type DPS, is psycho cut the ideal fast move on Ice Beam Mewtwo?
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Makes sense. One follow-up question, then: since normal-types are only weak to fighting, but don't resist psychic, would that mean that I want confusion with my focus blast, or would I still want to go with psycho cut to charge up FB faster? According to the flow chart posted above and what you said, confusion would be the way to go, but I just want to make sure in this case.
Psycho Cut wins by a very, very short margin: https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/comprehensive-dps-spreadsheet?pkm=Blissey&type1=normal&fm=Zen+Headbutt&cm=Dazzling+Gleam&qs=mewtwo
It's actually so thin it's not worth considering. At this point, breakpoints will decide which is better. Psycho Cut is also better for dodging. If you don't care about breakpoints or dodging, then you could consider the two moves tie.
BUT : Psycho Cut is better if Focus Blast is weather boosted (quite common). Confusion smoothes DPS, whereas Psycho Cut barely tickles and relies more on the charge move to do actual damage, so C can be better for gyms.
Thanks for the link, that is quite helpful. So you're saying that Confusion with Focus Blast could very well be the better choice because it evens out the DPS? That would make sense, given that Psycho Cut barely does damage on its own. And please excuse my ignorance, but what are breakpoints? I'm pretty new to the game, so I don't know all the terminology yet.
No problem ;) Gamepress did a very detailed guide on breakpoints just before the release of gen 3, which is still relevant and explains everything far better than I could do : https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/guide-breakpoints
In short, a breakpoint is the level at which the fast move of a given pokemon does 1 more point of damage. You generally need several power ups to reach the next one (due to rounding in the damage calculations) and it depends on the fast attack (and other things). It's particularly useful to know them above lvl 30.
