Lanturn
Light Pokémon
Lanturn’s light can shine up from great depths. It is nicknamed “The Deep-Sea Star.”
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Strategy Overview
Lanturn boasts a fantastic typing and an amazing ability in Volt Absorb, which grant it a huge variety of resistances, namely to Fire, Water, Ice, Flying, and Steel, plus an immunity to Electric. Moreover, it has excellent utility moves in Scald, Volt Switch, and Heal Bell, making it one of the best supportive pivots in the tier. It even has a workable offensive movepool coupled with decent neutral coverage, which grants it a mild offensive niche. However, while Lanturn's HP stat is huge, its remaining stats are pretty unimpressive. It doesn't have reliable recovery either, and its large HP stat works against it when it comes to healing via Wish, so it can be awkward to help keep it going. While Lanturn has only a few weaknesses in Grass and Ground, they happen to be quite common coverage moves on various Pokemon in NU, particularly Earthquake from the likes of Magmortar, Electivire, and Archeops, which will do a number on Lanturn.
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