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If you have a good competitive moveset for Haxorus, post an answer below and upvote the best ones. Movesets for any of its pre-evolutions can also be shared on this thread.

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This is a high single target physical attacker I use in doubles. It takes advantage of the high single target damage to the more common males.

Haxorus (M) @ Razor Claw
Ability: Rivalry
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly / Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Poison Jab
- Brick Break

Dragon Dance - To power up Dragon Claw and Coverage attacks.
Dragon Claw - STAB with good accuracy, base power, and 160 Power on a crit using Razor Claw.
Poison Jab - Coverage against Grass and Fairy (Mostly Fairy) and had chance to poison which is always useful.
Brick Break - Reliable Coverage against Ice and many other types which can pack a powerful punch with a base power of 75 if powered up by Dragon Claw once or twice.

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Gimli (Haxorus) @ Focus Sash / Life Orb
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly / Adamant Nature
- Dragon Claw
- Dragon Dance
- Earthquake
- Brick Break / Rock Slide / Poison Jab

  • Dragon Claw (STAB)
  • Dragon Dance (THE POWER AND AGILITY)
  • Earthquake (Mold Breaker makes this OP)
  • Brick Break / Rock Slide / Poison Jab (these are coverage moves)

Pick which you want :3
This thing is op
It can rekt things :3
This Pokemon's role is suppose to clean up the Scraps

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Haxorus is a very good Dragon Type to use in UU, and sometimes in OU. First, Haxorus has OUTSTANDING attack, so it should definitely be used as an advantage. My thoughts pretain to a Gen.6 moveset, where Haxorus is at his best. In Gen.7, Haxorus is countered by too many other Pokemon. Thus, I am giving a Gen.6 moveset.

Haxorus @ Life Orb
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Brick Break

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Haxorus @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance / Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Iron Tail / Brick Break
- Dragon Claw

  • Earthquake (takes advantage of ability)
  • Iron Tail / Brick Break (Covers Ice and Fairy types)
  • Dragon Claw (Outrage isn't a good idea as you'll take a lot of confusion damage, especially if Haxorus's Atk is boosted)

Hopefully some of you find this set useful.

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Fine, except for Iron Tail. Terribly inaccurate and poison jab is superior.
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Okay so here’s the move set I got, and it came in handy amazingly.

Haxorus @ Life Orb
Ability: Rivalry
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Claw
- Dragon Dance
- Poison Jab
- Brick Break

Dragon Claw: decently strong STAB move (no flaws here)
Dragon Dance: if this Haxorus can live, it can become a deadly sweeper
Poison Jab: amazing coverage against Fairy types
Brick Break: great coverage against Ice types, boosts offense against Steel types and removes screens

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You could use Close Combat instead of Brick Break. RIvalry is inconsistent. Also, Dual Chop or Outrage instead of Dragon Claw, because of Outrage's power and Dual Chop's ability to beat Substitute Dragapult and Pokemon with a Focus Sash, even with its slightly lowered accuracy
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Haxorus

Haxorus @ Razor Claw
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Slash
- Psycho Cut
- Scale Shot
- Shadow Claw / Focus Energy

Yay, crits. Slash, Psycho Cut, and Shadow Claw have a high crit chance. Shadow Claw can be swapped with Focus Energy for gauranteed crits. Scale Shot is STAB and raises Speed for sweeping.

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What about dual chop since it hits twice
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National Dex Monotype Choice Band (Dragon)


Haxorus @ Choice Band
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- First Impression
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Poison Jab

Haxorus has some use in NatDex Monotype as a Choice Band user for Dragon Teams. The main reason is Banded First Impression. First Impression allows Haxorus to revenge kill opposing Pokemon who are fast, which will hit hard due to Choice Band and Haxorus' base 147 Attack. Outrage is an incredibly strong STAB move that also hits hard as long as a Pokemon doesn't resist it. Earthquake provides coverage against Steel-types such as Excadrill, Heatran, Klefki, and Aegislash. Because of Mold Breaker, Earthquake can hit Rotom-Wash and Rotom-Heat super effectively. Poison Jab allows Haxorus to deal super effective damage to Fairy-types such as Tapu Bulu, Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, and Azumarill.

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Haxorus for previous generations were it had access to the move Dual chop (Generations 8 and before)

Haxorus @ Focus Sash
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 HP or 4 Def
Adamant / Jolly Nature
- Dual Chop
- Close Combat / Superpower
- Earthquake
- Dragon Dance

Description: The focus sash is used for situations were your opponent managed to buff his stats, and reach a point were it can beat anything with one hit, so Haxorus will endure the hit and will be able to attack and in many situations beat his opponent in one hit or at least weaken him enought for your next pokémon if it has a priority move, also focus sash on this situation can give Haxorus an opening to use dragon dance in situations were his opponent will not have the speed needed to attack him on the next turn and doesn't have a priority move.

Dual chop is used in this setup instead of outrage, dragon claw and so on for one specific reason, it is meant to deal with opponent that uses focus sash, so he can defeat anything without much resistance. Like situations were you used dragon dance, can beat anything that will come next, but your opponent endured the hit with focus sash, you will have this move to deal with this situations. On generations were it has acces to scale shot, this move is still preferable because the odds of it causing more damage than the odds scale shot causing more damage is higher, and in pokémon games we don't have control over everything, so we need to manage the odds. Also, the odds of causing more damage is important here because this move is a multifunctional move, is not only meant to deal with focus sash users, but also to cause high damage using a dragon type move against other dragon types.

Close combat should be used on games were it has acces to it, however if it doesn't have acces to it, super power will work well too, the point is having a move of a different type to have good matchups to enemies of different types, using the appropriated move to cause the higher amount of damage possible. Same goes for earthquake. For super power, is better used on situations were the trade off of his downsides are worty.

Dragon dance should be used when you have an oppening to increase Haxorus speed and damage, facilitating his job. (If used on the right situation Haxorus can probably became unstopable)

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