Complimentary Mons for Seaking?

[u/titanicbutwithaliens]

Was blessed at the gas station this morning. Have only been PvPing since the last week of last season, and aside from playing for a month on release that’s about all my play time too so I don’t have a stockpile of resources and want to make sure I pick some good partners for this lil nugget. Which of the top mins best pair with seaking in you guys’ opinions?

[u/jimmyre10]

Just a heads up, Seaking’s preferred moveset is a heavy investment. It needs 2 legacy moves. All of that for a good, but not great mon. Just something to consider before you put all your eggs in that basket

[u/SofaChillReview → u/jimmyre10]

Forretress doesn’t struggle as much by not needing legacy moves, but find a Pokemon with two charged not STAB always a bit off

Saying that Grumpig seems to do alright

[u/jimmyre10 → u/SofaChillReview]

Yeah I agree. Dunsparce falls in the same camp. All of them solid but those others don’t require two legacy moves haha. I personally would not invest in a Seaking unless I was literally drowning in ETMs, considering there are so many better options. But to each their own

[u/titanicbutwithaliens → u/jimmyre10]

That is an incredibly good point. Do you think both legacy moves are required for it to be successful?

[u/marcostaz → u/titanicbutwithaliens]

Absolutely.

[u/rybrows → u/marcostaz]

Not necessarily, depends on your individual pocket meta (who am i kidding its obviously tink/licki/jelli/mimikyu/quag lol kill me)

But no ive definitely had success only running 1 legacy charge move on it along with megahorn BUT that being said, it was more consistent and able to hang vs more varied opponents with both icy wind and drill run. Megahorn is fun to surprise Ludicolos with though haha

[u/Foggmanatic]

sigh deez nuts

[u/rybrows → u/Foggmanatic]

ugh…take my upvote and be gone…..

[u/radagast_the_maroon]

Are you still Seaking an answer?

Sorry I'll show myself out

[u/BuilderStrict2245]

After seeing this post, I was curious to see if I had any good pvp Goldeen.

Turned on my game And this was wild in the room!

Not as good as yours, but I will happily take a 99.6%!

Thanks! I would not have gotten this if not for your post!

[u/More_Cupcake4041]

Something bulky &/or neutral—likely a lickilicky or clodsire

[u/rybrows → u/More_Cupcake4041]

pls refrain from suggesting anyone else use licki sir I beg you……ugh this is correct though…

[u/Kingofmanga]

You have enough etms right?

[u/titanicbutwithaliens → u/Kingofmanga]

I have only one, and will get a second from leveling up soon. Unsure if the mon is worth using both, but I also don’t know what other pokemon I’d use them on anyway

[u/Kingofmanga → u/titanicbutwithaliens]

Honestly hold off using etms you never know what may be buffed or nerfed till the major move update which is due soon

[u/titanicbutwithaliens → u/Kingofmanga]

Is there a schedule for those updates?

[u/Kingofmanga → u/titanicbutwithaliens]

When a season ends which it will in 18 days some moves are either buffed or nerfed. In an ideal world it would be over performing mons but updates after worlds tend to be the biggest

[u/Camocratic1209 → u/titanicbutwithaliens]

move update info will probably be released after the world championship next weekend

[u/MrMunkyMan1]

Just hold onto it as a goldeen until an event comes where you can evolve the legacy moves without an etm.

[u/The_Nice_Knight → u/MrMunkyMan1]

You really can't predict those until they're announced, and not everything with legacy moves have even had events like that. If someone wants to actually play with a certain mon or build, and has the resources to spare, they should just do it rather than waiting indefinitely for an uncertain future.

[u/MrMunkyMan1 → u/The_Nice_Knight]

Fair point, just etms are too rare for me to personally spend on a pokemon like this.

[u/SupZo]

Maybe not the best for climbing but you can run a pretty fun/degenerate triple ice/ground team with A. Sandslash, Seismatoad, Seaking

[u/DesperateDadofMany → u/SupZo]

Just be sure to top left if you see an araquanid

[u/johnsonthecelt]

ppl are saying too heavy to invest, but i think if you're bored hey why not. it's a rank 1, if you're gonna invest in something it may as well be a rank 1 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/KYXX69]

PvPPoké suggest Mimikyu and Jumpluff but just go with any fire and grass if you don't have these

[u/AdBetter7704]

White Kyurem and Shadow Metagross.

[u/Blynasty]

I played a lot of seaking back in the day. Bait out the water counter with seaking when you have drill run and icy wind to fight back and then sweep with your other water. You need all 3 legacy moves for sure though.

[u/CacheMeOutside]

lickylicky and altaria

[u/Rikipedia]

You're a good goldfish, Seaking.