Starmie · Base Set (BS) #64

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   feyblade

   (12 years ago)

   Star freeze is an offensively bad attack for a stage 1 final evolution. I felt the urge to look for cards that might produce a similar , but stronger effect. Seviper (Platinum) is much better than this, and is arguably stronger ,even with power creep taken into consideration..
   but you don’t have to look far for a basic that rivals this. All the way back in southern Islands, Lapras has the same 20 damage paralysis attack ,along with a recovery move (with some added utility, to boot)
   In base set, where most of the pokemon couldn’t even do over 50 damage, this might have been a decent wall (might) for rain dance decks, but they could have at least made star freeze a 30 damage attack, maybe 30, coin flip = +10 and paralysis

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   Brian Duddy

   (9 years ago)

   Any time you get an evolution at Common, it’s probably going to suck…

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   Blob Takeshi

   (6 years ago)

   Weird, because Starmie in the games even in Gen 1 was amazing.

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     Dr. λ the Creator of Variables, Binder of Variables, Applicator of Terms, Checker of Types, and β-Reducer of β-RedexesBlob Takeshi

     (6 years ago)

     In fact, Starmie is OU in every gen but gen 7. I think that Starmie and Gengar (non-mega) may be tied for being OU in the most gens.

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       Blob TakeshiDr. λ the Creator of Variables, Binder of Variables, Applicator of Terms, Checker of Types, and β-Reducer of β-Redexes

       (3 years ago)

       It’s NU in Gen 8 too. How the mighty have fallen.

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   Ambassador

   (2 years ago)

   Star Freeze was a move in early versions of Pocket Monsters Red and Green. Unfortunately, it got deleted from the list of moves at some point.. https://helixchamber.com/2020/04/01/rg-proto-move-analysis-part-1-mirror-move/

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