Battling with the cuties: Horsea

I love Pokémon. I love anything Kawaii. So I decided that every Monday I would do a little battle strategy with a cute Pokémon each week. So today's episode as mentioned in the title is Horsea. In case you don't play Pokémon, this is what Horsea looks like:

Source:  http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/015/1/5/horsea_by_blackvictini-d4mfium.png



The great thing about Horsea is not only is it absolutely adorable but it can also be a really good rain sweeper in the Little Cup. EV wise: You want 200 in Special Attack, 196 in speed and 112 in special Defence. Nature wise you want a Modest one.



Moves:

• Surf: It has base 90 power, 100% accuracy and will be Horsea's main move of choice. It is very capable of knocking people such as Abra and thus eliminating some of the biggest threats.
• Signal Beam: There are 2 types of Pokémon that Horsea does not like. Grass types and Electric types. Signal Beam enables Horsea to gain some coverage over grass types.
• Hidden Power Ground: This move is to establish coverage against the electric types can give Horsea some trouble.
• Dragon Pulse: This is another high hitter move. Also if you want to evolve your Horsea into a Kingdra then you'll have a stab move ready.

Items:

There are several options here. Personally I would either go choice specs or Life orb.

• Choice Specs: This provides an 50% increase to all of Horsea's (as well as any Special Sweepers) moves. However you are locked into one move until you either switch or faint.
• Life Orb: This provides an 30% increase to all attacking moves however your Pokémon will lose 10% of HP each time it attacks.  

Pokémon that work well with Horsea

• Chinchou: This pokemon has Volt Absorb which heals Chinchou and gives Horsea some momentum.
• Onix: It has really good physical bulk and its ground typing means that if you predict an electric type move then you can switch because Ground Types are immune to electric type attacks.
• Goomy: Goomy has 2 really good abilities that could work on a rain team with Horsea. Sap Sipper allows Goomy to raise its attack and make Goomy immune to grass types move (one of Horsea's weakness). Another ability that would work is Hydration which removes statuses on Goomy at the end of each turn for as long as it is raining.

Some Pokémon Terms that I mentioned that some people may not understand:

• Sweeper: Any Pokémon with high Attack or Special Attack stats with either good bulk (HP, Defence, Special Defence) or a High Speed stat. In competitive play, their purpose is to faint all the pokemon on the opposite team.
• Rain Sweeper: Any Sweeper that can take advantage of the weather type known as rain in Pokémon. They do this via taking advantages of some of the bonuses that occur in the rain only such as a 50% increase in Water type moves, doubling of speed to any Pokémon with the ability Swift Swim and Healing Pokémon with the ability Rain Dish.
• Little Cup: One of the 7 tiers established by Smogon. In order to qualify, the Pokémon is it's basic form and must be able to evolve. All Pokémon in this tier are level 5 to promote fairness.
• Special Sweeper: Any sweeper that uses special moves and takes advantages of a Pokémon's high Special Attack stat.
• Nature: A pokemon's personality. Certain natures increase and decrease certain stats.
• EVs: Hidden points that occur whenever a Pokémon battles. Competitive trainers know how to manipulate this stat.

I hope you have learnt a lot today. If anybody wants me to do a battle strategy for their cutest Pokémon then comment.  Also what else do you guys want me to write about on this blog? Comment with suggestions.