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HP: 60 | ATK: 40 | DEF: 70 | SP.ATK: 80 | SP.DEF: 140 | SPD: 70 | TOTAL: 465
The grand kite of the seas is a very obvious special tank and, indeed, a counterpart to Skarmory. Where Skarmory works but Mantine does not is how it's 4x weak to the special type Electric, as well as normally effected by Grass. And its Flying type allows for a Rock weakness on its weaker Defense, something that Skarmory avoids, as well as resisting a fair few physical attacks with its Steel typing. But it wouldn't be fair to constantly compare it to Skarmory, so let's move on. You have usable Special Attack and start off with Bubblebeam, so good start. It does also get Flying STAB with Wing Attack, but it has terrible Attack, so don't. Yeah, Bubblebeam is the only good attack you really get. Then there's the standard Water/Ice/Normal moves, so go nuts there. But yeah, you only have Water and Ice moves to work with and then hope to survive all these special moves and then be surprised when you actually don't. It's unfortunate, but that's how it goes.