Floatzel @ Choice Band
Ability: Water Veil
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Wave Crash
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Ice Spinner
Floatzel is a strong physical attacker in PU, leveraging powerful Water-type STAB moves, solid coverage, and pivoting to be a flexible wallbreaker. Floatzel greatly appreciates getting Wave Crash in the new generation, replacing its old STAB move and increasing its damage output. Aqua Jet is great for picking off faster threats like Choice Scarf Passimian, Choice Scarf Dodrio, and +2 Vikavolt. Ice Spinner hits Grass-types like Shaymin that would otherwise take multiple Wave Crashes. Floatzel is very good at facilitating VoltTurn cores with Pokemon like Hisuian Electrode, Magneton, and Swanna, getting them in on its switch-ins like Weezing and Houndstone; in return, they can bring Floatzel in on Pokemon like Eelektross and Bronzong. Floatzel lacks any coverage for Water-types like Poliwrath and Lanturn and, despite the Ice-type coverage, also struggles to get past Grass-types like Decidueye and Wo-Chien; therefore, it's recommended to use your own Electric- and Grass-types like Rotom-C and Virizion for the former and Fire- and Flying-types like Typhlosion and Dodrio for the latter.
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