Overview

Platimous is a powerful special attacker with an interesting set of conditions. It lacks turn 1 pressure, has lopsided defensive stats, and its Toxic coverage is underwhelming. Toxin Shower does give it an interesting way to leverage its speed as survivability, and Aquatic Whirwind and Sharp Rain let is cycle through powerful Water techniques. Its traits and gear choices are flexible, and on the right team it can pull its weight.

Platimous boasts an excellent kit all around, with access to both typings on 0 hold, high-powered damage at 3 priority, and evasion to cover its only real major weakness, terrible physical defense.

With a high speed and special attack combined with the incredible Water-Toxic dual-typing, Platimous presents a threat and demands to be dealt with quickly, before it spends half of its time hiding behind evasion unable to be hit.

Platimous can work on almost any offensive team all the way from slow bulky teams to hyper aggressive ones, generally providing consistent value regardless.