Talk:Iron Man vs. Deoxys/@comment-27583694-20160127180913

Interesting concepts, with them being able to change forms and such. Now, here's my assessment...

Deoxys' movepool is actually rather well-built for handling Iron Man. Deoxys has one of the widest natural movepools in Pokemon, which includes Defensive moves in Iron Defense, Amnesia, Cosmic Power, Counter, Mirror Coat, Recover, and Teleport.

Offensively, Deoxys has Psychic, Zap Cannon, Hyper Beam, Psycho Boost, and ExtremeSpeed.

And, to top that off, it can use Double Team and Agility to boost speed and Evasiveness further.

The only hinderance in all of that is the fact that Superpower and Psycho Boost drop its attacking stats, which it has no natural way of recovering.

Iron Man is a lot more naturally defensive than it, however. With all kinds of different armors and abilities, it's rather ineveitable that Deoxys will eventually run out of power from it's hard-hitting offenses, and have to rely on his defenses to win, which outside of Defense-Form, are pretty sub-par.

That being said... My vote goes to a SLIGHT edge to Deoxys, whom can potentially max out defenses, and potentially get a double-powered shot from Mirror Coat or Counter.