Why do people complain about Floatzel's defenses?

I know they’re bad, but Sharpedo’s are even worse, and Sharpedo’s HP is worse too.

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And here’s a comparison between Floatzel and Sharpedo, just for good measure.

See, it’s all about contrast. For example, if most Pokemon had 5 defense, then Floatzel’s miserable 50 would be really high. But, most competitive sweepers (what Floaztel is) have around 70-90 defenses, making Floatzel’s absolutely terrible. Not only that, but Floatzel is much better at carrying the role of a mixed/special/physical sweeper, and his moves as a tank are quite limited, even if he had decent defenses. Also, you can’t compare Sharpedo to Floaztel, because people complain about Sharpedo’s defenses even more than Floatzel’s, and Sharpedo has a great ability in Speed Boost, allowing it to outspeed almost everything and making his god awful defenses negligible. Anyways, 85 HP is only mediocre, and 50/55 defenses are abslutely HORRID. Tank Floatzel can literally get OHKOd or maybe even 2HKOd by anything and everything ever. There’s no reason why you should use Floatzel as a tank instead of using Toxapex, Jellicent, any other bulky water type, really. HAPPINY has better defenses than Floatzel (except in Defense but that’s still pretty sad).

Points:- Shallow Movepool- Weak defenses in comparison to anything else (ex. Toxapex, Jellicent, even Greninja)- Much better as sweeper, and even gets outclassed in that by others. (Ex. Greninja, Sharpedo, Mega Blastiose)

Conclusion - Floatzel’s base defenses are absolutely awful and you should never use him as a tank except for casual battles.