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View submission: Moltres experience from New Zealand
Lapras takes super effective from ancient power, neutral from fire, and neutral from flying. So ideally you will want a water type that can at least resist the fire moves. If you can reroll the moves infinitely, crazily enough *Excadrill* can do wonders here as a tank, if you manage to get Sky Attack and Ancient Power as he single-resists flying and double-resists rock moves. As a bonus, you can have rock slide as a charged move and actually deal decent damage (+energy) with a charged move! Downside is of course that he will not be able to deal any decent damage with his actual max moves, but then you'd use G-Kingler/D-Inteleon/G-Toxtricity/etc. in the max phase and just use Excadrill for soaking/guarding/healing.
I'm not sure though, maybe Lapras' insane HP makes up for the typing being bad.
Comment by JMooj at 03/02/2025 at 10:17 UTC
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That's why I'm wondering if anyone had the experience of tanking with Lapras. That HP is nothing to sneeze at, but the lack of resistances has me worried.
I'm not really sure I can count on the large group I'm with to be willing to reset until we get optimal moves, so my current group looks to be Blastoise, Intelleon, and Lapras... I can certainly swap Excadrill in, but it seems like a bad idea.
Comment by Dains84 at 03/02/2025 at 16:19 UTC*
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It is worth mentioning that excadril only functions as a tank if the bird has exactly those two moves. It's weak to fire, so it completely relies on resetting the lobby until you get them.
My money is on Blastoise being the best all-around tank due to being resistant against fire and having good tank stats. I'm planning on going Blastoise/ Inteleon / Toxtricity and letting Guard with Dodge carry me to victory like it has with the previous two birds.