The Best Competitive Ice-Type Pokémon In Diamond & Pearl

Trainers looking to build an offensively competitive team should turn toward the best Ice-type Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl. Ice-type Pokémon have access to some of the most dominant moves in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, like Ice Beam and Ice Shard. Ice-type moves can also deal 2x damage against Grass-, Ground-, Flying-, and Dragon-type Pokémon, which make up a lot of the competitive typings on various teams. Though their Defense stats aren’t typically high, they’re a threat to common competitive Pokémon like Garchomp and Togekiss.

Ice-type Pokémon have always had the strongest offensive capabilities in competitive battles, but their numerous type weaknesses make them easy to counter. Ice-type Pokémon receive 2x damage from Fire-, Fighting-, Rock-, and Steel-type Pokémon, and Ice-type moves can only deal 1/2 damage to Fire-, Water-, Ice-, and Steel-types. For this reason, trainers typically opt for a different Pokémon type with fewer weaknesses in BDSP that knows an Ice-type move rather than an Ice-type Pokémon itself.

The best competitive Ice-type Pokémon in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are Mamoswine, Froslass, Weavile, and Rotom-Frost. To get Mamoswine, players can travel to the Grand Underground and catch a Swinub. Once it evolves into Piloswine, trainers can use a Heart Scale at the Pastoria City Move Tutor to teach it Ancient Power and level it up once to evolve Piloswine into Mamoswine. Players can catch a female Snorunt in the Grand Underground as well and use a Dawn Stone to evolve it into Froslass. To get Weavile, players will need to obtain a Razor Claw, give it to Sneasel to hold, and level Sneasel up at night. Players can find and catch Rotom in Pokémon BDSP‘s Old Chateau, but only after unlocking the National Dex.

Pokémon BDSP: Best Ice-Type Pokémon Moves, Items, & Stats

Ice-type Pokémon like Mamoswine, Froslass, Weavile, and Rotom-Frost in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are all heavily offensive Pokémon that make excellent leads or counters to an opponent’s offensive lineup. Froslass doubles as a Ghost-type Pokémon, giving it access to moves like Trick, Will-O-Wisp, and Hex to shut down physically offensive opponents. While it no longer is weak against Fighting-types, Froslass trades this immunity for a weakness to both Dark-type and other Ghost-type Pokémon.

Mamoswine can set up a Stealth Rock early, and its Ice Shard gives it a priority move that can shut down other Ground- and Flying-type leads. Additionally, Mamoswine is one of the best competitive Pokémon on BDSP teams because its Ground-typing allows it to counter many of its Ice-type weaknesses.

Weavile’s Dark- and Ice-type combination puts it in a good position to counter many powerful Pokémon like Salamence and Latias, but it’ll ultimately lose against a Fighting-type like Lucario. Rotom-Frost plays similarly to Rotom’s base form with moves like Trick and Volt Switch, with the added benefit of becoming an Electric- and Ice-type. This gives it access to Blizzard, and its Hidden Power Fire allows it to check offensive threats like Scizor.

Mamoswine

The best Mamoswine stats, moves, and items in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl include:

• Ability: Thick Fat
• Nature: Jolly
• Moves: Ice Shard, Earthquake, Stealth Rock, Icicle Crash
• Held Item: Life Orb, available for purchase in the Pokémon BDSP Battle Park
• EV Stat Spread: 252 Attack; 4 Special Defense; 252 Speed

Froslass

The best Froslass stats, moves, and items in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl include:

• Ability: Snow Cloak
• Nature: Jolly
• Moves: Trick, Will-O-Wisp, Hex, Ice Beam
• Held Item: Choice Scarf, available for purchase in the Pokémon BDSP Battle Park
• EV Stat Spread: 4 Defense; 252 Special Attack; 252 Speed

Weavile

The best Weavile stats, moves, and items in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl include:

• Ability: Pressure
• Nature: Jolly
• Moves: Swords Dance, Poison Jab, Icicle Crash, Night Slash
• Held Item: Life Orb
• EV Stat Spread: 252 Attack; 4 Special Defense; 252 Speed

Rotom-Frost

The best Rotom-Frost stats, moves, and items in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl include:

• Ability: Levitate
• Nature: Modest
• Moves: Blizzard, Volt Switch, Trick, Hidden Power Fire
• Held Item: Choice Scarf
• EV Stat Spread: 4 HP; 252 Special Attack; 252 Speed

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl are available for Nintendo Switch.

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