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Contest Flamethrower VS Thunderbolt VS Ice Beam

Ice beam! It might not be the most effective but I love freezing an opponent more than burn or paralysis.
 
All three are among my favourite moves, but I'll go with Thunderbolt. The name's cool, it's strong against the most common types, Water and Flying, and it always looks and sounds powerful, which makes it all the more satisfying to use.
 
The potential freeze on ice beam is beautiful and it generally has much more effective type coverage than the other two.
 
thunder bolt cause just imagining your adversary getting paralyzed physically and the mental agony of not know if they can move the next turn. The unknown is alot more productive to fear then anything else.
 
I hate ice beam killing mah dragons while flame thrower does have stiff competition from fire blast. T-bolt's animations have been superb so I chose it. Although, tbh, If given the choice, I would take all three, since all the moves are useful.
 
All three are great moves, but I'll go with Thunderbolt, as it has better animation than Flamethrower, and has more PP than Ice Beam.
 
This thread just reminded me that I don't use Thunderbolt all that often, it's mainly Flamethrower and Ice Beam for my go to between the three. So between the two I do use more, then I'm going with Ice Beam mainly cause I favor the Freeze status effect.
 
Competitively speaking, Ice Beam was and maybe yet is the most useful. But aren't these moves the same?
 
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