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  1. @Champion Charmander Hi just started your game! But if you still want suggestions for moves, I have a suggestion for my beloved ice type! Name: Snow Squall Type: Ice Category: Special Makes no contact. Power: 60 Acc.: 100 PP: 30 (Max 48) Potential Text 1: The user summons strong freezing gusts of wind and ice at its opponents allowing for the user to hide within the flurry. The damage is boosted to 90 under the hail weather condition. Potential Text 2: The user summons strong freezing gusts of wind and ice at its opponents, disorienting them, and obscuring their vision. The damage is boosted to 90 under the hail weather condition. Side effect: Raises user and allies' evasion by 1 stage. OR similarly decreases accuracy for all opponents by 1 stage. Effected by the abilities: Cloud Nine, Keen Eye, Compound Eyes, Shield Dust, Unaware Reasoning: I think it fits thematically with the theme of ice being the fragile, technical, and beautiful type. The faults of the ice typing are due to its low defenses and lack of resistances. The typing itself is also known for its reliance on snow-like weather conditions moves such as hail, blizzard, and aurora veil. So to combine these aspects, Snow Squall allows for the ice type to cover up its defenses through the catch all- and hated mechanic of RNG while not making ice types bulky (which defeats its theme unless you're talking about the walking glacier of a pokemon Avalugg). Its low normal base damage is to negate the versatility of it as several of the main ice type opponents resist it, and 60 BP even with a high SPA is more akin to chip damage to them. Though its ability to be boosted during hail lends itself to a more strategic, competitive aspect by giving access to a higher damage output under a generally rare condition (unless you use alolan ninetails or other snow warning mons). I can see this being a core move of alolan Ninetails as she is the epitome of the fighting style of ice type- fragile and technical. Having access to Snowsquall, combined with its HA of Snow Warning, and access to other support moves such as Aurora Veil and coverage options in Moon Blast (fighting, and other Ice Types) and Freeze Dry (abundant water types) is pretty great. Its fast speed also helps it by allowing the user to not get hit or take negligible damage and set up. Though it still faces tough match ups with fire types (having easy access to sunny day, drought, and type advantage), steel types (being extremely resistant to all of its STAB moves, type advantage, and general ease in dispelling Aurora Veil through brick break and defog in skarmory, and lastly water types (type resistant, easy access to drizzle, and needing either moon blast or freeze dry to cover up type effectiveness).
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