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Slowbro - the best prestiger in meta game

With WaterGun or Confusion, Psychic or Ice Beam, he can counter any common defenders: Snorlaxes, Dragonites, Rhydons in my town, he is even equal Vaporeons and may only be weak to Exeggutorsy, which I rarely see in gyms as of their low CP.
What do you think? What's the situation in your own town?

Asked by Sparker8 years 4 months ago
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He CAN be a generalist prestiger, BUT in almost every situation there's a better choice.
For prestiging, it's not about using generalist prestiger; quite the contrary, it's about using specialist prestiger:

Water Gun + Hydro Pump/Aqua Tail for fire types and Rhydon;
Bug Bite + X-Scissor Parasect for Exeggutor;
Frost Breath + Blizzard Dewgong/Cloyster for Dragonite;
Vine Whip + Solar Beam Tangela/Ivysaur/Venusaur for Vaporeon;
Jolteon/Raichu/Electribuzz for Gyarados;
...

Each would prestige more efficiently than Slowbro.

You would only want a generalist prestiger against Snorlax. But again, the best prestiger against Snorlax, is Wigglytuff with Pound + Hyper Beam.

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You are pretty spot on. I think the prestiging part of the game hasn't been covered much on sites like this. And I think it's one of the most important part of gyming.

I would add Pinsir with FC/XS to your list against exeggutor. Wigglytuff is also a fill in prestiger if you can't find the counter for prestiging, or as a finisher of a defender and starter against the next defender if it's a different type - I call these crossers (I use small dragonites for this purpose as well for the smooth transistion from one battle to the next).

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In most cases, vaporeon is better.

Who atk Dragonite with Slowbro!?!? Cloyster, Dewgong or Lapras are much better (no comparison lol)

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I like Slowbro quite a bit. I find him undervalued in the game, especially since the nerf. But for prestiging, he is adequate at best because he doesn't have obvious matchups and his water charge move is weak on offense (Water Pulse). I use my Water Gun / Psychic Slowbros only if I have a need for a certain CP level mon and I have no other desirable options.

His best charge move is Psychic because it has STAB and is generally good against everybody but not fantastic against anybody. I find myself using Vaporeon if I need a water prestiger.

Who do you like matching Slowbro against?

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I have over 390 max potions.
So i mainly use wigglytuff as common prestiger.

Max potion just feels better for pokemons that have high healt, but dont get me wrong, i dont use chansey for prestige hahahaha, way too low attack stat.

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An entire team of Wigglytuff's could be effective as a generalist prestiging team couldn't it? They hold their CP better than pretty much any other mon in game and due to the fact that they use the highest CP attacker to determine prestige gains having only Wigglytuff's would make for very high gains per kill. Also, their typing leaves them vulnerable only to poison/steel neither of which are common right now.

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