Starmie

Starmie is an excellent offensive Pokemon thanks to its great coverage options and useful ability Analytic, and it is also the fastest Rapid Spin user in the tier. In addition to having great offensive capabilities, it also has adequate tools such as Natural Cure, Recover, and Reflect Type that let it viably run a bulkier set geared more towards support. Starmie's Speed tier is fantastic, letting it outspeed many offensive threats like Latias, Terrakion, and Infernape. However, Starmie's raw power without boosts is lacking due to its middling base 100 Special Attack, which can cause it some trouble in breaking past bulkier Pokemon such as Sylveon and Snorlax. This is much more apparent when using bulky variants of Starmie with no Special Attack investment, making these variants unfortunately rather passive versus targets that do not care about burns. While its Water / Psychic typing gives it some useful resistances that allow it to act as a soft check to Pokemon such as Infernape and Cobalion, Starmie is moderately frail, which means that without investment it will not be able to switch in on even many resisted hits. Its typing also gives it a very serious weakness to Electric-, Bug-, Dark-, Ghost-, and Grass-type attacks, which leaves it extremely vulnerable to strategies such as Pursuit trapping and VoltTurn.