STARMIE! The Gen 1 Speedy Special Attacker! Also its a starfish so thats cool I guess. How good was Starmie ually in competitive play for both singles and doubles? Join False Swipe Gaming in this video to find out!\rbr\rbr\rbrDISCLAIMERS ON FORMATS COVERED:\rbrNotice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth. Now Popular does not mean official even though two of the formats I will be covering were official formats being Japan Nintendo Cup and VGC, but it is an indicator of what a good portion of competitive players thought was “optimal” at the time. \rbr\rbrTo the people asking why I dont cover Smogon Singles for Gens 1 and 2: It wouldnt really be a history video if I covered those because online Smogon gen 1 meta to my knowledge wasnt ually played until late 2000s. I wanted to cover tournamentscompetitive battling that was ually played during the early years of Pokemon (late 90s).\rbr\rbrTo the people asking why I cover Smogon at all for singles: To my knowledge, Smogon was the most popular format for Gens 3-5 and held a number of tournaments throughout the years. As for Gen 6, I am not covering Battle Spot Singles because there is more information and explanations about sets being used relative to their own meta on Smogon. In other words, there are few written analyses about Battle Spot Pokemon besides the Top tiers and I would like to avoid theorycrafting because it may have a hint of bias (though I theorycraft if I REALLY couldnt find information on a certain Pokemon). The keyword here is explanations. Though I did find statistics of most Pokemon used and most moves used, there wasnt really any explanations on why. Also the few Pokemon I did find analysis of for Top Tier Battle Spot Singles had very similar move sets to the Smogon OU sets anyway.