Lapras or starmie need to know!

they both have theire good parts and bad parts

mine both have the same movesetphychicice beamthunderboltsurf

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Starmie’s stats:

HP: 60ATK: 75DEF: 85Special ATK: 100Special DEF: 85Speed: 110

Starmie’s role: Special Sweeper.

Lapras’s stats:

HP: 130ATK: 85DEF: 80Special ATK: 85Special DEF: 95Speed: 60

Lapras’s role: Special Staller

Starmieis a special sweeper, this is known. It serves multiple roles, as being the special sweeper, Rapid Spinner and so on. It has decent defensive, but a bad HP stat, and enough attack to do some baby damage with Rapid Spin, which has the ability to clean the field. It has a very good speed with a nice special attack, making it able to use a specs set. Starmie has a great potential overall, and I used to love it, but not much today.

Laprasis certainly not the best Pokemon to run your imposed set, I could see it using a ResTalk set. It can annoy with Toxic and heal with Hydration, in a rain team, by using Rest. This makes it dangerous. When you see a Lapras, you are scared that this one has a different set than what you expect. This implies that Lapras can pull a use, on its own, to help your team with a supporter role.

A competitive use of one of both is hard to choose, I would even get both if possible. If not, then I would analyse the team, and see some points: Have it got a SR weakness, it is stopped by Ferrothorn, do it lacks a Specially Defensive Pokemon ?

Starmiecan fill many roles, and from them, Rapid Spin.Laprashas a lesser extent of use but can still spam Ice Shard on Dragons.

I would see sets:

@ Focus Sash:Trait: Natural CureEV: 252 Speed / 252 Special Attack / 4 HPMild Nature

Rapid Spin will clean up your team from Leech Seed, Stealth Rock, Spikes and Toxic Spikes, so even if it deals baby damage, it’s essential to Starmie, except if your team is super anti-SR.The Water move could be Scald, for dealing burn, Surf, for decent power, or Hydro Pump for extra power and lesser extent (Accuracy / PP). The Ice move is coverage, but 90 % of the time, it will be the former, I named Ice Beam. Finally, Psychic gets STAB, while Thunderbolt provides 2 things:

Lapras, while not common competitively, can pull off his status and become a wall in any rain team with its hidden ability, I name Hydration. I could really see it pulling off this set:

@ Leftovers:Trait: HydrationEV: 252 HP / 200 DEF / 60 Sp.DefCareful nature

This set is very rare, but I see in it a lot of potential, the first being to annoy any opponent. Rest is a proof ; whenever your HP goes down, have Drizzletoad in your team, just Rest and Hydration will wake you up, ending up in massive efforts from your opponent to OHKO, but failure, and then frustration. Ice Shard is kinda a priority with STAB, so I believe it may stop or try to stop Scarfchomp to harness your team’s potential. Confuse ray can be very annoying, especially against a setup Pokemon, like Scrafty, who sets up both Bulk Up and Dragon Dance. Finally, my strange last choice, Bulldoze can be an exceptional coverage providing Lapras to outspeed some Pokemon, thus having time to Rest or to confuse them.

It completely depends on your team. Comment this answer by posting your members, then I may edit this answer to answer this criteria.

Hope I helped !

Starmie generally outclasses Lapras - especially as a water-type special attacker. Not only does it have a really impressive movepool consisting of gems like Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Psyshock & Hydro Pump, but it also can effectively use other support moves like Rapid Spin.

Starmie- Works Well as a spinner w/high speed, you generally just need to slap a Life Orb on. Although if you just want to full on attack, there’s that option too.

With this set, the idea is to rip through your opponent as quickly as possible.

Timid @ Life OrbAnalytic

For Lapras- Generally slow but bulkier.

For this set, the idea is make Lapras as bulky as possible with curse (SpD already has 252 EVs figured in) so she can take more hits, and take care of those pesky Dragons with priority Ice Shard. Rest heals of damage and because of Hydration, will wake up right afterwards.

Sassy @ LeftoversHydration

-Curse-Ice Shard- Waterfall-Rest

All in all, it depends on what exactly it is the rest of your team does; the two of them both have their own pros and cons. :B