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Slowbro or Slowking?

So with the Psychic Event thing going on/ending soon, I have several Slowbro and Slowking as well as a bunch of Slowpoke candies. (I also have enough King's Rocks for evolution purposes.) I'm wondering which is better/more useful to evolve into from Slowpoke so that I know what to use the candies on. I'm mostly thinking in terms of gym defense, but I wouldn't be opposed to using them for some offensive purposes as well. So, is Slowbro or Slowking better?

Asked by GigaBowserX6 years 8 months ago
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The difference between slowbro and slowking in the main series is just swapping defense and special defense. It's unlikely they will have different stats after any rebalance. Also their typing is exactly the same

So you only care about their moves. For gym defense, Slowbro is better right now because of Ice beam. For offence they are identical (as a Psy atacker). But they are a bad choice for offence anyway.

You could wait a couple of weeks and see what happens after the rebalance, there might be something changing in defender mechanics. Movesets could change as well

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Ice beam Slowbro is an ok defender but for attacking purposes there are much better options. Ultimately both are Dex fillers & will see little use as you level up.

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Got it, thanks guys! I'll go ahead and use ice beam Slowbro sparingly for defense and use other, better things for offense.

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