Question

Wanted to get this one in early. Methinks Hydreigon will be very popular.

Hydreigon learnset

Comments

Likely tier: Overused.

Answer 1

Hydreigon looks frightening. I think it may be OU since it can work as both Special or Physical sweeper (or mixed, courtesy of "Cheer Up").

Here is a good Physical moveset. EVs in Attack (obviously) and Speed. Choice Band would be a good item here for big Attack boost.

• Crunch: STAB and generally good move
• Stone Edge: covers Ice and Bug weaknesses
• Outrage: As many know I love this move. Predictable but a fantastic last resort if your opponent only has 1-2 pokemon left.

Note sure about last slot yet. Earthquake covers a lot. I'll be interested to know how much Acrobat is boosted without items.
Or something like Protect while holding Leftovers.

Comments

i like it but put a flying type move for the last slot to deal with the fighting types

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Mine knows Crunch, Dragon Pulse, Focus blast and Rock Slide, and it works pretty well except Rock slide is only good with Rock Pokemon so I might give it Stone Edge instead.
And I agree, I think Hydreigon will be the Lucario of Black and White.

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No Hydreigon is a special attacking pokemon not a physical pokemon.... sorry

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Mine knows dragon pulse dragon rush hyper voice and focus blast

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@Spark Hydreigon's Attack is 105 which is pretty great, and a Physical moveset is expected less. Still, this shouldn't really be the highest-voted answer...

Answer 2

This guy is pretty nice, even comes with Levitate... which would have been perfect last generation, but now there are a bunch of mold breaker-like abilities. So this is my suggested set, as a mixed sweeper.

Nature:Mild or Rash.

Dragon Pulse/Draco Meteor - Good power, STAB. I prefer Draco Meteor since switching is so common in competitive battling, meaning the stat drops aren't much of an issue.

Flamethrower/Stone Edge - Covers Ice and Bug Weakness. Plus, dragons aren't very cool without fire. Or stone edge if you want a LITTLE bit more power, and more of a physical movepool, but flamethrower's probably the better choice.

Work Up/Hidden Power (Psychic or Flying)/Acrobat - Work Up boosts Both Attack and Special attack one stage. If you lean towards the mixed set, this one is better, otherwise go with Hidden Power. I'm not sure how much stronger Acrobat gets, but if it's anything significant, it could be a good choice to use in conjunction with a pinch berry.

Dark Pulse/Crunch - Crunch is good if you want to be able to deal with physically and specially defensive Pokemon, but Dark Pulse comes off a higher special attack, your choice.

Answer 3

Hydreigon (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Surf
- Flamethrower

Comments

would running timid on this to outrun adamant garchomp be smart? one draco meteor and Garchomp should be gone, as long as it outruns it. i know jolly garchomp outclasses it but...

Answer 4

This guy actually doesn't seem as good as Ononokusu, and will likely be the equal of Dragonite. Not up to par with Salamence or Garchomp, not even Metagross, and of course not Tyranitar.

Ability: Has to be Levitate, which is nice I admit.

EVs: Sp. Attack, Speed, HP. Nature: Modest

Earth Power: Ground has good type coverage. Five types fall to it.

Dragon Pulse: Best Special Dragon move by far.

Dark Pulse: Best Dark special move.

Flamethrower: Deals with both Bug types and Ice types, who this guy is weak to.

Comments

Trachy has a good point. Both Garchomp and Salamence have 130 and 135 attack respectively. Metagross with solid defenses, strong attack, and very widespread moveset. It is kind of a nice change to have a dragon that specializes in special attack, though. His special attack and speed may not be up to par with the other dominant dragons of the third and fourth generation, and the bulk of Tyranitar and Metagross, but his dark and dragon type combo, and his special attack focus can bring some different strategy as a dragon. I wish that you were able to have both earth power and dark pulse, but both are bred moves and are illegal together. If I could choose, I would choose the same moveset as trachy choose.

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You cant have a hydreigon with both earth power and dark pulse so you have to choose one and to reeplace the one you don't want go with charge beam or hyperbeam either to raise your sp.att or go out with a big bang

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I agree with that awnser

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Hydriegon is 1,000,000 times better than dragonite and 100 times better than metagross and garchomp. but almost as good as salamence and i would know from experience.

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That set is going to be possible in B/W2 thanks to move tutors!

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what do you mean dragonite is amazing!!!!

Answer 5

It's got pretty good attack stats, and 92/90/90 Defenses are extremely solid. However, if falls into the balanced pile of dragons. It has less bulk than Dragonite, but more than Flygon. It lacks the raw power of Salamence, but is still stronger than Altaria.

I seriously think this Pokemon is being overhyped. It's better than UU Dragons, and has no definite Niche in OU. I think it's going to be OU, but then dropped to BL, because it can't compete with 'Chomp or Onono.

Anyway, here's a great moveset for Sazando. Since I feel that it should take advantage of the bulk, then I think some kind of crippling screw-up would work well. here's what I'm thinking:

Sazando @ Leftovers
Adamant / Modest (Depends on what you want)
/ 252 ATK or 252 SP.ATK / 248 SPEED / 8 HP /

Thunder Wave (Crippling to help compensate for middling Speed)

Dragon Tail / Dragon Pulse (Used for phazing potential threats. STAB makes it pretty nice too! Use Dragon Pulse for an alternative)

U-Turn (Use this to help Sazando escape! Works with helping to escape Bind, Wrap, Fire Spin, Whirlpool, Clamp, or Shadow Tag)

Dark Pulse / Crunch (Your second STAB. Use for straightforward power)

Comments

Not sure if I agree with both Dragon Tail and U-Turn.

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With all of the new buffs we have in this Gen, you'll see why I included it.

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Yes I can see the use, but I think there could be better options. I myself would replace U-Turn for perhaps Cheer Up on this moveset, having Dark Pulse and Dragon Tail.

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Or arena trap^^(although the only 2 who would use that are diglett and dugtrio)

Answer 6

Hydreigon (M) @ Liechi Berry

Role: Physical Sweeper

Trait: Levitate

EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd

Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)

• Head Smash
• Crunch
• Outrage
• Earthquake

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Crunch and Outrage for STAB.
Earthquake for Coverage.

This guy has 90's in his Defenses, So he probably won't be OHKO'd but taken down to a rather low Amount of HP Kicking in the Liechi Berry's attack boost.

Head Smash for Coverage, and it can help Kick in the Berry if your opponent didn't hit you quite hard enough :]

Answer 7

Well here is the set I use.

Hydregion

Nature: Timid

Evs: 252 S.attack, 252 Speed, 6 hp

Item: life orb/leftovers

Flamethrower(By ice types see ya steel nice knowing grass and bug)

Dragon-Pulse(STAB + weakness coverage)

Dark-Pulse(STAB)

Surf(coverage)

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We all now know he cannot have both E-power and D-pulse

Comments

How about dragon sneeze? Iris's axew's dragon sneeze is awesome (watch it in the pokemon film) XD

Answer 8

I am going to get nailed for this, but it's a new idea. In my opinion, mixed sweepers is usually not good, but I think Hydreigon fits the role perfectly, especially with it's movepool.

Hydreigon @ (No item)/Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 128 Atk / 128 SAtk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Draco Meteor
- Crunch
- Acrobatics/Earthquake
- Work Up

Jolly Nature means it can outrun Adamant Garchomp. You do lose
a bit of special attack, but it's Attack needs to be good enough to do damage. You could run something to take away some defense and increase speed like Hasty or Naive. Your choice. 252 speed is for outrunning Garchomp, and the 128 split is for bringing both it's Attack and Spec. Attack up to par. You would open with a couple of Work Up's(The mixed part of mixed sweeper is defined with this move), then use any moves. Acrobatics takes out Fighting and Bug, and Earthquake takes out Ice and Steel/Rock. Your call. Be sure to not equip an item if you run Acrobatics, as this will half the power. If you run Earthquake, you can equip life orb for some serious sweeping power on the physical side. After you Work Up, your next move is based on the type. Crunch takes out everything but Rock/Steel and Fight. That's where Earthquake/Acrobatics would come in. I would save Draco Meteor for when you really need it. You will get 1-2 good uses out of it. This set should take out pretty much anything. Please tell me what you think!

Comments

Without a Choice Scarf, that thing isn't outrunning Chomp Bud,

9/10 Garchomps in the Metagame Are Scarfed Outragers, who would take this thing down in a second.

In other News, Work Up + Draco Meteor is controdicting yourself ( I can NEVER speel that word -_- )

Also,

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Kirby Dance XD

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A good enough set. J98 brought up the main points here. One minor point left from me. Instead of using no item, you can use a Flying Gem. It will activate before Acrobatics' check for an item, meaning it will not only gain double-damage, but also the Flying Gem boost.

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good job my hydrigon is a mixed sweeper as well

Answer 9

Hydreigon Sweeper

Hydreigon # Leftovers /Expert Belt
Nature: Timid (^Speed -Atk)
Ability: Levitate
~ 252 Sp Atk EVs / 252 Speed EVs / 6 HP EVs

• Dragon Pulse

• Charge Beam

• Flamethrower

• Surf

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So this is a moveset for Hydreigon I find every useful. Dragon Pulse is for the 90 power with STAB, now who wouldn't want this? Charge Beam is there to aid Hydreigon in its sweeps, along with having one of the best elements to have. If you have an opponent that can't do anything to you, and you can't do much to them, use Charge Beam to give yourself initiative for that Pokemon you're facing or anything your opponent brings in! Flamethrower is coverage for Ice types, and just extra coverage in general. Surf is also for extra coverage, completing a set containing each a Fire, Water, and Electric type move for great coverage! Your item choices are Leftovers, if you think Hydreigon is able to last long enough in battles to heal a chunk of HP or Expert Belt to help strengthen super effective moves (with one of each type, there will be a lot of Super effective moves going on)

Answer 10

This is the Hydreigon I used for the PO tournament:

Hydreigon (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Outrage
- Crunch
- Rock Slide
- U-turn

Outrage is for STAB, and with the Band, it's incredible. Steel types don't survive long under this guy's pressure. Crunch is STAB. Rock Slide is for covering Bug and Ice types. U-turn is for switching, like a Banded Scizor using U-turn. That's actually where I got the idea. Some people might not like this because they say that Scarfed Chomp outruns it, but still, this Hydreigon can Sweep.

Answer 11

Hydreigon (M) @ Life Orb

< Hydreigon sez " Hi "

Trait: Levitate
EVs: 196 Atk / 60 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Dark Pulse
- Superpower
- Draco Meteor
- Work Up

A mixed Hydreigon I thought of earlier today making use of the new BW2 move tutor teaching Superpower.

His attacking stats are near equal, with the special attack peeking just a bit over the physical attack. 208 / 50 makes them equal.

Life orb is for boosted power. While something like Lum berry can be nice, he needs the extra attacking strength when he's splitting up his attacking stats.

Max speed so he can actually out speed stuff. Can't exactly scarf something with Work up.

Dark pulse is your STAB that won't screw with your stats. 80 BP is pretty nice with STAB leading to a 120 BP attack. After 1 Work up this thing is at 602 special attack, so a simple STAB move that hits hard enough and doesn't worry with other jazz is nice.

Superpower is physical and coverage. Fighting + Dark covers so much stuff. After using this once you're at +0 attack, so you can technically use it again if you must.

Draco Meteor is your other STAB, only this one drops stats as well. 1 use is likely, although a second use is possible. You're probably going to be switching this thing in and out a lot anyway, so it's not too big of a deal. High BP is super nice.

Work up generally works for stat boosts on both attacking stats.

Now, the biggest thing you should remember when using this set..
STAY AWAY FROM SCIZOR!!!!!! -- Please... you'll get your Hydreigon fainted if you don't.

Scizor counters this set in every way possible, BUT Hydreigon's ability to learn Flamethrower will normally scare Scizor off.

Answer 12

So it's somewhat similar to some of the other sets here but also a tad different. I have been using this Hydreigon set for a while now on all different teams and I have had devastating results.

Hydreigon @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Hasty Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Fire Blast
- U-turn

Draco Meteor is your main STAB and just tears down anything that is not a dedicated special wall or a steel type, and Dark Pulse is your secondary STAB, with a nice flinch chance. Fire Blast is coverage and hits the Steel types that threaten you (cough Scizor cough), and U-turn allows you to escape, revenge kill, and gain momentum for the team.

Comments

Where did you get that awesome picture from?

Answer 13

Ill Give A Nice Special Sweeping Set:

Nature: Modest/Timid
EVs: 252 Speed, 252 SA, 4 HP.

Charge Beam: Raising SA, While Doing Damage. Covers Water/Ice Types.
Dragon Pulse: A Given.
Dark Pulse: Yay!
Earth Power/Flamethrower: Coverage.

Comments

Exactly what mine is, except instead of Dark Pulse i put in Focus Blast, as it gets more super effective hits. Then again, if i say this, taking out dragon pulse (for Focus Blast) and keeping Dark Pulse would be more effective. Sounds stupid taking out one of his main STAB moves, but with that moveset he hits 496 pokes for super effective damage. But i'm going to keep Dragon Pulse coz so many people i battle use dragon types.

Answer 14

Well here is my Hydreigon's set up.

Pokemon: Hydreigon (Lvl. 100)

Item: Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EV's: Sp. Atk(252), Sp.(252) Hp.(4)

Moveset:
Dragon Pulse- Coverage + You get STAB.
Fire Blast/Flamethrower- For the sake of Coverage.
Surf/Whatever you want- Not too many good moves he can learn, but I use him as a surfing tool, and Surf has come in many mighty situations, but it's probably not helpful on Double battles and whatnot since it'll hurt teammates.
Substitute- You're pretty much promised to go first, so using this you can be wary and protect yourself. If they attempt using things such as hypnosis or status ailments, they'll all fail, and you'll slowly begin to regain the life you've lost from 'Leftovers'. Plus you're cautious, and if they miraculously have a move like Dragon Claw or Ice Beam that you didn't see coming from such a pokemon, then you've sacrificed only about 1/4th of your health, and you can switch out for someone else to Resist and or Defeat said Opponent's pokemon.

Answer 15

Hydreigon (M) @ Expert Belt
Timid Nature
EVs 252 Spa 252 Spe 4 HP

~Dragon Pulse
~Hp Dark
~Flamethrower
~Earth Power

Expert Belt bluffs the choice item, I decided since 10bp isnt much, HP Dark and Earthpower is better than Surf / Dark Pulse.

Comments

Might run this.

Answer 16

item: dragon fang

moves:

focus blast---powerful move coverages ice

flamethrower---covers bug weakness

fly/acrobatics (no dragon fang)---covers fighting

dragon pulse/outrage---STAB and covers dragon

Answer 17

Hydreigon

It is the Generation V Pseudo-Legendary, and it does have awesome stats, but not until it evolves. It has Levitate, which avoids the Ground type. Anyway, here is a Sp. Attack moveset that can rule, if it is used the good way.

Dragon Pulse STAB, type coverage Like everyone said
Draco Meteor the POWER very powerful move, one of my personal favourites - every Dragon Type should learn this move
Dark Pulse OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!! strongest Dark-Type Sp. Attack move
Flamethrower type coverage (bug and ice) Dragons have to have this move too, makes them cool.

Comments

What's the point of 2 dragon type moves?????

Answer 18

Name: Trimegon

Hydreigon (M)
Electric Gem or Wide Lens(with Charge Beam)
Charcoal or Lum Berry (with Dark Pulse)

Nature: Timid or Modest
252 SpAtk
252 Spd
4 HP

-Dragon Pulse: STAB
-Flamethrower: Beat those pesky Ice and Bug types
-[Chrage Beam] or {Dark Pulse}: [Type Coverage & 70% of +1 SpAtk]{STAB}
-Thunder Wave: Cripple fast sweepers

Answer 19

I wanna use this set on hydreigon,

Hydreigon@Leftovers
Modest Nature
64 HP/252 SpAttk/192 Speed
~Substitute
~Thunder Wave
~Dragon Pulse
~Fire Blast

The idea behind this is to paralyze faster threats, (i.e=terrakion and latios).
once parayzed, even if they are scarfed, hydreigon will outspeed.
Substitute is to allow him to scout and ease prediction. With a sub up, thunder wave will
be easier to utilize. Dragon Pulse and Fire Blast is only resisted by Heatran. With hydreigon's natural power, modest and max investment, he will be 2HKOing many pokemon

Answer 20

I have a Hydreigon and it is by far one of my favorite pokémon. I am going to transfer a Gyrados onto my White Version and breed it with my current Hydregion to make this skill set.

Nature: Modest/Timid
Item: Shell Bell, Leftovers or an Arceus Plate

•Dragon Pulse: I think being able to hit your opponent every time without worrying about missing is important if you are doing a big contest and Dragon Pulse plays to a type advantage as well as a strong move to get some damage done.
•Dark Pulse: Hydregion has a good Special Attack stat. Dark Pulse is a good idea because it plays like Dragon Pulse but to another type set.
•Flamethrower: Good against Bug/Ice types and like another person said, dragons just uave to breathe fire. Added to the fact that you may burn it, a very good idea all around.
•Protect/Fly (or some other strong Flying-type move(?)):
Protect– If you use a move like Surf, you can use Protect to keep yourself from damage, restore lost heath (Leftovers/Shell Bell), and waste enemy PP (so if they know a bunch of 5 PP hard-hitters, they'll waste some precious PP).
Fly- You can do the same thing but you can also do damage to the other weakness, Fighting.

Comments

I also say maybe Hyper Voice so you could get both if you were in a Double Battle. So it would rotate between Fly/Protect and Hyper Voice.

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Hydregion is also tyed for the 17th (!) best pokémon with a stat-total of 600 along with pokémon like

•Latios and Latias
•Jirachi
•Mew (!)
•Garchomp
•Darkrai
                and
•Shaymin

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It looks alright but protect/fly isnt necessary for such an amazing beast maybe use U-turn to escape battle against fighting

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Good idea.

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jirachi is awesome!!!!