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    I need some advice on a few movesets for the legendary birds i got from a friend -
    Moltres -toxic, fly, fire spin, fire blast@ leftovers
    Trap using fire spin and then toxic.Fly for STAB and to stall.Fire Blast should be obvious ^_^.

    Articuno -substitute, reflect, ice beam, HP psychic@ quick claw/leftovers
    Reflect and then sub.Ice beam or Hp psychic is its offensive moves ^_^.It has good enough SpDef to with stand a fire move and reflect helps fend off physical attacks.

    Zapdos -thunderbolt, thunder wave, rest, double team@ mint berry
    I know most people would disagree with this but i am posting what i got.

    Lugia - recover, curse, earthquake, aeroblast@ miracleberry
    Curse up so that u cannot be touched due to his massive SpDef and newly found high Def. Recover to gain lost hp and attack away

    I know most of u'll will hate the Zapdos or probably all but i would really like ur inputs on these movesets ^_^.
     
    Moltres@Shell Bell/Leftovers
    Fire Spin
    Toxic
    Fly
    Heat Wave

    Articuno@Leftovers
    Reflect
    Substitute
    Ice Beam
    Aerial Ace

    Zapdos@Shell Bell
    Thunderbolt
    Drill Peck
    Thunder Wave
    Detect/Roar

    Lugia@Leftovers/?
    Hydro Pump
    Psychic
    Thunder
    Rain Dance
     
    if there is miracleberry, then i'll say this is GSC only?

    Once again... it's impossible to give you one moveset that's good for all situation. We'll need to see the entire team including those legendaries within the team. No moveset works for all situation... or at least i'm not good enough to make a moveset like that yet.
     
    Zapdos's best set for all of my teams always end up being the sleep talker of thunderbolt and drill peck.

    Moltres is REALLY good with Sunny day and Flamethrower/Fireblast (Charcoal or leftovers attached), and the last 2 moves can be varied with Wing attack, Doubel-edge, Reflect, HP Grass, etc.
     
    no point to think about what can they do until you thought of a way to use them then...

    In GSC, Moltres has the absolute highest power of a sp.att you can ever get, with fire blast and sunny day (not true anymore in Advance of course...). And really Moltres has no great stats but sp.att anyway... (for a legendary, that is)

    Articuno ^-^ Best of all Pokemon!!! Awesome stats in everything, plus the beauty factor already makes Articuno worth using. Sheer Cold/Mind Reader makes it highly offensive. Ice Beam is always helpful. It can also learn reflect/sub as 2 great defensive moves. Certainly there's nothing bad about it at all! Wha.. what's rock slide? Never heard of it.
    (the above statement is completely biased for obvious reasons)

    Zapdos having both drill peck and thunderbolt is definitely annoying. Even in Advance where there's EV, Zapdos can still use drill peck pretty well... ability to use thunderwave with such great speed is a good thing to hear. HP Grass should be used for lanturn. However there are so many more moves Zapdos can learn too... Perhaps (sadly) most common of all legendary birds.
     
    not in GSC, Articuno has about the value of a shuckle... good for UU, MAYBe.
     
    Mana Lugia said:
    not in GSC, Articuno has about the value of a shuckle... good for UU, MAYBe.
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    I know... Articuno is the least usable out of all legendaries (tied with Entei) in GSC... That's why I said how my statement about Articuno is highly biased, because it's just my personal favorite Pokemon ^_^;;

    As for Lugia... well I hated to use Pokemon that can learn pretty much anything, and will use anything well if you jam anything on it... Pokemon like Ho-oh, Mew, and etc... I can't use them o.o;
     
    i agree with u frostweaver articuno does have the best well rounded stats out of all the legendary birds but sadly he is the least usable out of all of them.

    I find that moltres is the worst i mean if u want a good fire/flying then just use Ho-oh - his stats are 10 times better than moltres except for his SpAtt but that doesn't matter because it is not like Ho-oh SpAtt is horrible at 318 ^_^.And don't even tell me about being cheap since u are most likely going to have Sunny Day + Fire Blast on Moltres.

    As for Zapdos his type combination is just totally unfair - it totally removes his weakness to ground.

    Lugia has to be one of the most cheap things i ever saw but i still love him ^_^.

    I conclusion articuno is the best legendary that ever was or ever will be........
     
    ... "just use ho-oh"

    Why do you think Moltres is used in the first place?
     
    Moltres and Houou, to begin with, are completely differently stat oriented. The main reason that Moltres is used is for its Sday+fire blast ability with a 348 special attack. Houou has 318, not bad, but not that powerful. Also, Houou cannot be used to begin with because it's an uber, and normal players and tournaments ban ubers from being used to begin with, so either you're going with a bellyzard or a moltres if you want a pokemon of that type (which you probably won't).

    Zapdos being powerful cannot negatively affect its coolness. If that was the case, Caterpie would be so much cooler than articuno, which is almost worthless in RBYGSC because of its limited movepool and bad distribution of stats.
     
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