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I have a thing to ask about pic related. Smogon among others recommends 252 Atk / 252 Spe EV spread for this guy but I've never understood why. Even with Jolly nature, 80 base Speed isn't going to outspeed any relevant offensive Pokemon, so I was thinking of a more defensive build. Yeah, I know
>Defensive
>Ice-type
But still, I don't see any reason in running max Speed since it won't probably help anyway. After all, Mamoswine will be spamming Ice Shard for most of the time so the Speed hardly matters. Since Mamo has above average HP already, I was thinking of 252 Atk / 128 Def / 128 SpD, Adamant nature @ Choice Band. Shit or not? What are the benefits of max Speed?
