<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=137448.msg6174928#msg6174928">Quote from: SargentToughie on 22-04-2012, 22:23:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Funny enough, the Ice Cream cone pokemon that everybody hates from Gen 5 is actually one of the most powerful straight Ice types ever made.<br/><br/>Just saying.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Let's be honest here: a cute ice cream cone doesn't really look all that threatening. Maybe if Vanilluxe was a Stay-Puft marshmallow, people would be more afraid of it in battle, but unfortunately, it's stuck melting in the sun. Joking aside, Vanilluxe does have a few things going for it. Its base 110 Special Attack ranks among the top fifteen of NU, and it has passable bulk to boot. However, that's about where the list of Vanilluxe's perks ends. It has an extremely shallow movepool, and its Speed stat falls just short of base 80, the gold standard for NU. Finally, the cherry on top is the fact that Ice is unequivocally the worst defensive typing, so realistically, Vanilluxe has a hard time actually taking advantage of its bulk."<br/><br/>-<em>Smogon University</em><br/><br/>And for those of you who don't know, NU is the lowest tier in competitive play, so pretty much anywhere else it can be countered pretty easily.<br/><br/>Just saying... Or quoting...