Question

I caught Staryu lv41 when fishing with super rod in canalave, and now it's evolve. mine knows Psychic, Hydro Pump, Thunder, and Blizzard. is it better or I should teach Psychic, Surf, Thunderbolt, and Ice Beam?

Starmie learnset

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5th Gen tier: OU

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Starmie @ Expert Belt
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Rapid Spin
- Thunderbolt
- Boil Over
- Psycho Shock

Answer 1

Gen V

Starmie @ Life Orb

Trait: Natural Cure

EVs: 4 Def / 248 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd

Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)

• Recover
• Scald
• Ice Beam
• Thunderbolt

Standard Starmie. Scald is STAb that can also burn the foe. Ice Beam and Thunderbolt provide type coverage. Recover heals you of course, so you can continue attacking the foe. If you get paralyzed or afflicted with another status condition, switch out and Natural Cure will remove the status. Life Orb gives you more power behind your attacks. Sweeping Evs, with just a tiny bit of added bulk.

Answer 2

How about instead of Thunder Thunderbolt and Blizzard Ice Beam and Hydro Pump Waterfall or Surf.

Comments

DONT GET RID OF HYDRO PUMP

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Surf or waterfall are better besides they have more PP and Accuracy.

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So, thunderbolt, surf, and ice beam will be ok?

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Keep Psychic as well, for STAB.

Answer 3

One of my Favorites. Teach it:

Recover: The original reliable recovery move learned by the original reliable recoverer.

Surf: STAB, good power, high accuracy, HM, type coverage, mainly deals with Fire types who you see a lot of.

Ice Beam: Good power, chance to freeze, high accuracy, used to deal with Grass weakness. Deals with Flying and Dragon types, two of the most commoly used types.

Last move is your choice. Here are some options:

Rapid Spin: I would choose this for competetive play to deal with entry hazards.

Thunderbolt: Good power, high accuracy, chance to paralyze, deals with other Water types and also the common Flying type.

Psychic: Only here for STAB. Horrible type coverage.

Comments

How about gen V new moveset "reflect type"?is it useful in battle too?and is it worth to add this move to Starmie moveset?have a little confuse here because starmie have 5 weakness and if it have "reflect type" in it movesets, it'll help,,,is that right?

Answer 4

One of the few fast water types in the game

Offensive Moveset

• Ability: Natural Cure
• Surf- high power, STAB, Great water move
• Ice Beam- high power, deals with grass weakness, and damages ground, dragon, and flying
• Recover/Reflect Type/- this move is your choice: if u want to heal ur HP recover is great and reflect type is an interesting option because if ur opponent doesn't have a move that beats itself, they are stuck
• Thunderbolt/Psychic- high power either way, one is STAB and one isn't, and deals with other water types and flying types or fighting and poison types

Answer 5

Starmie @ Leftovers

Role: Tank ( First hit recover! )

Trait: Natural Cure

EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SDef

Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)

• Cosmic Power - Bulk up both defenses -
• Confuse Ray - Easier setting up -
• Recover - Heal off damage -
• Surf - STAB -

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Cosmic Power Bulks up both defenses, and using Confuse ray
makes setting that up easier, while Recover allows you to stay alive for a while,
With natural cure you don't have to worry about Toxic poison, and burn
And Surf hits hard for STAB

Answer 6

Starmie @ Life Orb

Trait: Natural Cure

EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd

Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)

• Surf
• Psychic
• Ice Beam
• Thunderbolt

Surf and Psychic makes dual STAB so that's cool.
Ice Beam is for grass type weakness, covers dragon types as well.
Thunderbolt is for other water types, i would have put Shadow Ball here but Starmie can't learn it.

Answer 7

Item: Evolite
Ability: Natural cure
Nature: Bold
EVs: 200 S.Attack, 200 S. Defense, 110 Defense

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Scald
Cosmic-power
Recover
Ice-beam

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Tank of dooooooooooooom. Scald is STAB and Burn. Cosmic-power boosting defenses. Recover is for healing. Ice-beam is coverage.

Answer 8

Double/Triple Battle

Starmie @ Life Orb
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Surf
- Psychic
- Gravity
- Blizzard

Gravity provides great team support as it raises the accuracy of attacks while also getting rid of your foe's immunity to Ground (well, it gets rid of yours as well, but you are prepared and have Protect on your team). Surf hits multiple foes and gets STAB. Psychic is STAB. Blizzard hits multiple foes.

Answer 9

STARMIE, i love the speed on this water type but he's based on Special Attack, heres my moves... and the fact I'm new to these forums I'll let people know I'm an attack only player no stats boosts.

Surf - STAB and great for double battles or triple battles vs fire, ground, and rock
Waterfall - STAB
Psychic - STAB and great against fighting and poison types
Ice Beam - for coverage great against ground and dragon

Comments

Why Waterfall? You already said he is based on Special Attack.