Glalie
Face Pokémon
It prevents prey from escaping by instantaneously freezing moisture in the air.
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Strategy Overview
Glalie's toolkit of Spikes, Taunt, and great offensive coverage gives it a niche in PU as an offensive Spiker. Ice Beam and Earthquake make for excellent coverage, hitting everything in the tier at least neutrally except fringe cases like Bronzor and notably forcing out the tier's most popular hazard control options in Natu and Tentacool. Glalie can also add to its utility list by running Taunt, meaning that it can set up its Spikes while blocking foes' hazards and other support moves. Glalie can even use Explosion to make itself an effective suicide lead. Its stats let it down though, as it is still too weak to threaten out most walls like Frillish and too slow to outspeed key Pokemon like Monferno. Glalie is also generally outshined by fellow Spikes users Maractus and Dwebble, which generally have better and broader support options like useful resistances and Stealth Rock, respectively.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc