Articuno   

RSE & LGFR RBY

ARTICUNO Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Slot 4 BlizzardIce Beam Mimic Agility Rest Move Effect Type Pwr Acc Blizzard Has a ~10% chance to freeze the target. Ice 120 90% Ice Beam Has a ~10% chance to freeze the target. Ice 95 100% Mimic This move is temporarily replaced by one of the target's moves; after one PP is subtracted to use this move, the replacement move will retain Mimic's remaining PP. The user can select any of the target's moves to copy until the end of the battle or until the user switches out. There are no move restrictions on Mimic other than itself and Struggle. However, in a link battle, Mimic will copy one of the target's attacks randomly. Normal N/A 100% Agility Raises the user's Speed by 2 stages. Psychic N/A N/A Rest The user is cured of status effects (and confusion), and recovers full HP, but falls asleep for 2 turns (and then uses a third turn to wake up). However, this move fails if the user's current HP is 511 or 255 HP below its value at full health. Psychic N/A N/A           Other Options: Reflect, Bubblebeam. Verdict: For a Legendary Pokemon, Articuno has a pretty shallow movepool. The Ice moves are Articuno's only overly useful attacks, but Rest/Reflect can help it stay in the fight and Agility will let it hit first and boost its CH rate. Mimic is preferred because it's potentially more versatile, but Bubblebeam is alright against the rare Fire or another Ice. Really, the only reason to use either is so that Articuno can conserve the PP of his Ice move. (Even Ice Beam hits Rock/Ground Pokemon for more damage than Bubblebeam.) Heck, you might even want to use Blizzard and Ice Beam. Articuno's movepool is seriously that bad.