6. Ice Beam
Nominated by: SilentWanderer
Introduced: Gen I
Pokemon I associate this move with: Lapras
The other half of the fabled BoltBeam combo, but also an in-general good move on its own. Ice-type has always been one of my favorite Pokemon types, and so obviously a move most (if not all) of them can learn is going to be high up. Another reason for this is because of the Freeze status effect, which I've always loved. Mind you, no one liked it when on the receiving end in first gen, but I also don't like how 90% of the time it seems to melt the same turn I've frozen them in the more recent games (I know those aren't the official odds, but that's what it seems like whenever I freeze someone). Freezing the opponent might as well have been an OHKO move back in the day, because CPU's rarely ever carried Ice Heal, and there was no other way to unfreeze a Pokemon, so in competitive it meant said Pokemon was done for. Anyway, love the status (In general), love the move, love Ice-types.
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