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Legacy m2 or current one power-up?

Time to use the m2 candies for power up, but which candidate:
96iv 15a14d14s ice beam
69iv 5a15d11s shadow ball

Moveset vs iv dilemma for me! Your suggestions?

Asked by chameleongohk6 years 10 months ago
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by hkn 6 years 10 months ago

Since gyms in Hong Kong are competitive, power up the 96% and give it Focus Blast.

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Ouch, just looking at that 69iv one is painful.

Both are worthy of a power up in my opinion. Despite the low attack stat of the Shadow Ball one, it's still going to be a good performer.

I'd probably TM the one with Ice Beam to Psychic though. Though still good, Gen 4 has introduced three new Ice attackers which surpass it significantly.

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Please check the iv from your 69iv mewtwo again, this combination is not possible since the iv floor for pokemon from raids is 10/10/10

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by mwa 6 years 10 months ago

Shadow ball no doubt. There are a lot of psychic type legendaries in gen 4.

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Wait and see what new raid boss we get in 12 hours. If it's Giratina, power up the one with SB. If not, wait and see if you can trade for another and get better IVs.

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The comprehensive DPS/TDO page here shows that Ice Beam has a greater DPS than Shadow Ball against Giratina. Except the stats of the moves suggest otherwise. Any idea why?

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It's showing me PC/SB as the top moveset at 18.83 DPS. C/IB is third at 16.659 DPS. No idea but there have been a lot of bugs with the sheet recently with mons having wrong stats etc.

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I was going to post my results against Giratina but when I refreshed the results SB was ahead again... So, refreshing problem, my bad.

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Do y'all think Mewtwo will keep ice beam, flame thrower, thunder bolt forever? Waiting is another option. However, I'm most interested in ice beam bc Rayquaza will come back at some point and outrage previously was somewhat difficult to battle with 3 trainers. After that maybe change it from ice beam or just flat out save and wait for whatever exclusive move/day Mewtwo gets.

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If it ever again gets a better moveset, it'll likely be during an exclusive raid day.

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Ice beam is not worth it at all, theres better ice types with mamoswine on the way, but nothing will come close to shadow ball

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TM Ice Beam to Focus Blast as a gym sweeper and potential for Dialga raids or to Psychic for Machamp raids.

If that’s your only Mewtwo with Shadow Ball, power that one up. Even at low IVs, Mewtwo still has 300 base attack and will hit hard.

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