Pokemon Gold: Starmie or Cloyster?

I’m split between cloysyer and starmie. I’ve had a history with cloyster and he’s been good in the past while starmie has zap cannon and other electric move capabilities and I don’t have an electric type Pokemon. I know that starmie has really good speed but cloyster has an extremely high defense. Someone please help.

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I would personally recommend you using Starmie for the same reason that you are choosing between the 2 in the first place:

Starmie Advantages

Cloyster advantages

It has great defensive stats

It has ok offensive possiblities

However you must take notice that Cloyster isn’t a fantastic Pokemon as the sole reason that it become useful was because of the generation V move, Sshell Smash which it lacks in all other generations. Although it has great defenses, this is easily broken in-game as powerful attacks will tend to break through his defenses and render him useless. Also if you were to bring a cloyster and a Starmie in a fight, Starmie would win because of it’s great utility. However you tend to like your Cloyster very much huh?For this reason I would say choose the one you like best, but if you would want great utility, coverage, power and speed, I would say go for Starmie :)