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This article gives you ideas of how to use Jellicent in battle in the Pokémon Black, Pokémon White and Pokemon B2W2 Games. It lists popular movesets used by competitive battlers, as well as a description on how to use each set to help you understand why the moves were chosen. These popular sets are usually the best to use in battle and so reading this guide will help you in your team building.

Jellicent brings some unique options to the table. In addition to being the only Water and Ghost typed Pokemon (besides its preevolution Frillish), Jellicent has a total of eight resistances and immunities, including resistances to Normal, Fire, Fighting, Water, Ice, Poison, Bug, and Steel typed moves. Jellicent is weak to four types, including Electric, Grass, Ghost, and Dark moves; however it can take some hits, even some super-effective hits, because of its good defensive stats. Jellicent also gets moves like Recover, Toxic, Will–O–Wisp, Scald, and Pain Split to help its walling capabilities. Jellicent also gets the great ability Water Absorb, which helps when combating Water-typed Pokemon. Also, Jellicent, Ferrothorn, and Zapdos form a trio that resists all 17 move types, which is impressive. Having a switch in to almost every attack is very helpful, and can decide if you win or lose.

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Scald / Surf Toxic / Will-O-Wisp Recover Shadow Ball / Ice Beam / Hidden Power Electric

Ability	Nature	Item		HP	Atk.	Def.	SpAtk.	SpDef.	Speed
Water Absorb	Bold / Calm	leftovers		252	0	156	0	0	100
There are no current set statistics analysed

Well, as what was mentioned before, Jellicent can perform well as a defensive Pokemon. It sports resistances to many common special attacks, like Surf, Flamethrower, and Ice Beam, as well as some common physical moves, like Close Combat and Bullet Punch. Scald is preferred for the first slot mainly because of its 30% burn chance, and with Toxic, those two moves can form a good, double status combination. However, if more power is desired for the Stab move, then Surf can be used along with Will-O Wisp to have a more powerful stab move as well as a more reliable burn inducer move. Recover is necessary for the third slot, allowing Jellicent to preform its walling duties well. For the last slot, Shadow Ball is the preferred move here because of it being Jellicent´s second strongest stab move. However, Ice Beam can be used instead to hit Pokemon like Garchomp, Gliscor, and Dragonite hard, while Hidden Power Electric can be used mainly to hit Gyarados.

Additional Comments

The listed EV spread, along with a Bold nature, is the recommended EV spread to have. It allows Jellicent to have decent bulk while having the ability to outspeed most defensive Pokemon, most notably 16 Spe Skarmory. However, there are additional EV spreads that can be used. You could opt for a spread of 252 HP, 252 Def, 4 Spe with a Bold nature to have great physical bulk, while you could also have a spread of 252 HP, 252 SpD, 4 Spe with a Calm natureto have good special bulk. You could also mix and match the natures and EVs for the bulkier spreads; for example, you could use a Bold nature with max specially defensive EVs. As for the other things, Leftovers should always be the held item, while Water Absorb should always be the ability.

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Surf / Shadow Ball Taunt Will-o-Wisp Recover

Ability	Nature	Item		HP	Atk.	Def.	SpAtk.	SpDef.	Speed
Water Absorb	Bold / Calm	leftovers		252	0	156	0	0	100
There are no current set statistics analysed

With this particular set, Jellicent aims to shut down many popular walls and many slow Pokemon, like Blissey, Skarmory, Forretress, and even most other Jellicents. However, this sets main purpose is to shut down Ferrothorn, one of Jellicent´s top counters, by taunting Ferrothorn and burning Ferrothorn. Once taunted, most of these walls will be in a bad position and be forced to switch out, allowing Jellicent to inflict status on the Pokemon switching in. Jellicent can take most attacks from walls and shut them down, and also be a good defensive Pokemon anyway. Surf should be the main attacking choice, as it is Jellicent´s most reliable move that hits for the most damage. Shadow Ball could also be used here, particularly to hit other water-typed Pokemon and other Jellicent for decent damage. Taunt is used in the second slot to shut down many walls. Will–O–Wisp is recommended for slot three to allow Jellicent to cripple many physical attackers, like Tyranitar and Machamp, as well as crippling some defensive Pokemon like Ferrothorn and Skarmory. Recover is absolutely necessary for the last slot, as it is Jellicent´s best method of healing.

Additional Comments

For this set, Jellicent needs the speed EVs to effectively Taunt the slower walls, like Blissey and Skarmory. An alternate EV spread is 252 HP, 172 Def, 84 Spe, which allows Jellicent to outspeed almost all of the Pokemon that the other spread outspeeds, besides Skarmory with 16 speed EVs. Again, Leftovers should be used as the item and Water Absorb should be used as the ability.

Defensively, Ferrothorn and Zapdos make great teammates, as the trio of Ferrothorn, Zapdos, and Jellicent resist all 17 move types. Ferrothorn in particular makes a good teammate to Jellicent, since Ferrothorn resists all of Jellicent´s weaknesses while Jellicent resists all of Ferrothorn´s weaknesses. However, many of Jellicent´s counters are Pokemon that can also do well against Ferrothorn. Offensively, Swords Dance Scizor makes a good partner to Jellicent. Scizor can fare well against most of Jellicent´s counters, and they actually work together defensively as well, since each Pokemon resists nearly all of the other´s weaknesses. Infernape can also work well with Jellicent. Infernape does well against Ferrothorn, Tyranitar, and Breloom, and can deliver a solid hit against Conkeldurr. Starmie also works well with Jellicent, as Starmie can check many of Jellicent´s checks and counters. However, be wary of the fact that Starmie and Jellicent share a lot of weaknesses with each other.

Trick Room - definitely could be a support option for Jellicent, since Jellicent is slow and decently bulky.

Choice Specs - could be used on Jellicent because of Jellicent´s decent special attack and defenses, as well as its good coverage moves. Other Pokemon utilize the Choice Specs better than Jellicent though.

Pain Split - Could be used as an alternate form of recovering lost HP, however Recover is better in most cases.

Hydro Pump - Could be used for a stronger water attack. However, Surf or Scald are preferred in most cases for their reliability.

Energy Ball - Could be used to hit some specific targets, like Vaporeon, Swampert, and Gastrodon.

Psychic - Could be used, mainly to hit fighting Pokemon like Conkeldurr and Machamp hard.

Ferrothorn can effectively counter the main Jellicent sets, as it resists Jellicent´s Stab moves, and it can use Leech Seed and Power Whip, both of which do well against Jellicent. However, Ferrothorn will have a harder time with the Taunt + Will–O–Wisp set. Tyranitar, provided that it avoids a burn, can deal severe damage to Jellicent with Crunch. Tyranitar can also switch in on Jellicent´s attacking moves; even Surf doesn´t do much damage to Tyranitar. Conkeldurr makes a decent counter as well, especially since Conkeldurr doesn´t mind being burned due to its Guts ability. Toxic Orb Breloom is a good counter, and can actually set up on Jellicent, since Jellicent can´t cripple Breloom with its main status moves. Jellicent is a good defensive Pokemon, but repeated hits will bring it down. Some good checks to Jellicent are Gengar, Hydreigon, Latios, and Thundurus.

Jellicent is a very good defensive Pokemon. With access to moves like Recover and Will–O–Wisp, Jellicent will continue to be a good choice for most defensive-oriented teams. Its offensive stats may be lacking, but Jellicent gets some good coverage moves, like Scald, Shadow Ball, and Ice Beam, that make up for this shortcoming.

Credits

I give credit to Serebii for the move, stat, and other information concerning Jellicent. I also give credit to the page on Smogon concerning Jellicent also. I give credit to shaym.in.com for the images. I give credit to all of the helpful people on TU who helped me with this analysis.

If any of you have any thoughts, suggestions, or comments, please SPEAK UP! I appreciate all, thought out, suggestions, and I will add your set to this page if I think that it is good enough.

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