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What is a good moveset for Arbok?

1 vote

Mine knows Gunk Shot, Giga Drain, Crunch, Earthquake.

Arbok Learnset

asked 1 year ago
by trachy (46,976)
edited 4 months ago by Pokemaster
Arbok (M) @ Black Sludge
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 152 Atk / 104 Def / 252 SDef
Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Gunk Shot
- Snake Coil
- Sucker Punch
- Earthquake

10 Answers

4 votes

Arbok (M) @ Black Sludge

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Role: Tank

Trait: Shed Skin

EVs: 64 HP / 128 Atk / 64 Def / 252 SDef

Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)

  • Rest
  • Coil
  • Gunk Shot
  • Crunch

With Ev's in Special Defense Plus Coil Boosts to his Regular Defense, He makes a great tank.

Rest is there because with Shed Skin, it becomes mega Beastly.

Gunk Shot for STAB and Crunch For Coverage.

answered 10 months ago
by 195cbdcf73100169 (15,180)
1 vote

I would recommend replacing Giga Drain with Ice Fang(to take advantage of Arbok's higher Atk than Sp. Atk)and still cover the ground weakness and it does more base damage(Giga Drain-60...Ice Fang-65)

answered 1 year ago
by nasakuho (244)
1 vote

Gen V

Arbok(M) @ Black Sludge

Ability:Intimidate

EVs:252 Attack / 128 Defense/ SDef 128

Adamant Nature(+Attack, -SAttack)

  • Gunk Shot
  • Crunch
  • Ice Fang
  • Coil
answered 11 months ago
by Tonito (740)
1 vote

Gen V

Arbok (M) @ Black Sludge

Trait: Shed Skin

EVs: 160 HP / 176 Atk / 136 Def / 36 SDef

Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)

  • Coil
  • Earthquake
  • Gunk Shot
  • Rest

Coil raises Attack, Defense, and Accuracy by one stage each. This makes it into a nice little tank, especially with the EVs given. Earthquake provides type coverage. Gunk Shot is high powered STAb, which gets an accuracy boost from Coil. Rest works to keep Arbok tanking away, as Shed Skin helps wake it up. Black Sludge also provides Arbok with healing.

answered 10 months ago
by trachy (46,976)
edited 10 months ago by trachy
1 vote

Basic, generic Sweeper

Poison Jab/Gunk Shot-STAB. Poison stab isn't the most frequently used, so GS might have some use.

sucker punch/Pursuit/crunch-Give priority and protection against psychic types.

Earthquake/Seed bomb/ aqua tail/fire fang/ice fang/dragon tail-Type coverage as you see fit.

Haze/Switcheroo/glare-Haze resets stat abuse, and switcheroo can be used to give your opponent a bad item. Glare slows the opponent down.

answered 10 months ago
by DarkTyphlosion (59,104)
0 votes

Gunk shot-Good Power

Crunch or TM Dark Pulse-Both cover for Psychic weakness

Ice fang-Covers for Ground weakness

Not sure.You can choose.Edit:Maybe Toxic?

May I suggest getting some PP ups for Gunk Shot,since it only has 5PP?

answered 1 year ago
by PokeGirl (1,974)
edited 1 year ago by PokeGirl
0 votes

Arbok @black sludge
Ablity Intimidate
EVs:252 def 252 sp def 4 sp.atk
Bold nature (+def -atk)

  • stockpile (get that defense up)
  • Giga drain (the foe finally gets past stockpile boosts then get it all back with this move)
  • Toxic (STALL)
  • venoshock (DIE)

    A baisic stockpile wall/annoyer

answered 8 months ago
by Tysonyoshi (568)
Arbok has a much higher attack than sp attack.
this set is mainly dedicated to stockpile walling giga drain being used as when hes about to die to last a little longer really stalling is the main concern in this set
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Gen III

Arbok (M) @ Leftovers

Ability: Shed Skin

EVs: 252 Atk / 128 Def / 128 SDef

Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)

  • Rest
  • Sludge Bomb - Physical
  • Earthquake - Physical
  • Stockpile

Shed Skin + Rest makes for great tanking, and Stock Pile increases your Defenses.
Now you have a STAB Sludge Bomb, and Earthquake coverage.

answered 8 months ago
by 195cbdcf73100169 (15,180)
0 votes

description
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Shed-skin/Intimidate
Nature: Jolly
EVs: 200 Attack, 252 Speed, 58 S.Defense


Coil
Sucker-punch
Earthquake
Poison-jab


This is a bulky-sweeper set, Coil is for boosting Defense and Attack (Acc. is boosted to but that does not help much on this set). Sucker-punch is priority and coverage. Earthquake is coverage. Poison-jab is STAB.

answered 4 months ago
by Speed freak (35,968)
0 votes

Double/Triple Battle

Arbok (M) @ Black Sludge
description
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 152 HP / 252 Atk / 104 Def
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
- Coil/Protect
- Gunk Shot

Intimidate hits all the foes, so that gives Arbok some bulk. This can allow you to set up Coil, although that is still risky. So Protect can be used instead of Coil, to protect you from your team's attacks such as Earthquake or your foe's attacks such as Earthquake. Rock Slide and Earthquake are both great moves in multi-battle, and give great coverage. Gunk Shot is STAB, and if you use Coil will be made more accurate.

answered 4 months ago
by trachy (46,976)
edited 4 months ago by Mew

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