Question

It knows: Hypnosis, Dream Eater, Brick Break, Shadow Ball.

Hypno learnset

Comments

Hypno (M) @ Light Clay
Trait: Insomnia
EVs: 252 HP / 168 Def / 88 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Wish
- Light Screen
- Reflect
- Psychic

Answer 1

Hypno were always complicated for me to judge on. They don't really have any specified Niche. I'm afraid the only Recommendation I can make is to replace Brick Break with a tactical move like Reflect or Safeguard.

If your Hypno has the ability Synchronize, then teach it Safeguard. If the opponent poisons you or burns you, you don't want Synchronize to kick in and throw off your Hypnosis strategy, otherwise you've just lost use of all of your attacks except Shadow Ball.

If it has Forewarn, put Reflect on it for Added Defense. That's pretty Self-Explanatory.

I'm a little rusty on Hypno, so forgive me if this wasn't helpful...

Comments

That's fine. Hypno is a hard Pokemon to judge. Nice idea with Safeguard.

Answer 2

Good night
Item: Wide-lens
Ability: Insomnia
Nature: Timid
EVs: 252 Speed, 100 S.Attack, 158 Hp

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Hypnosis
Dream-eater
Barrier
Nightmare/Focus-blast

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Hypnosis puts the opponent to sleep obviously. Dream-eater is STAB and Healing. Barrier gives him high Defense. Nightmare is for doing more damage in there sleep while Focus-blast is there if you are afraid of Dark/Steel types.

Answer 3

Gen V

Hypno (M) @ Life Orb

Trait: Insomnia

EVs: 64 HP / 72 Atk / 252 SDef / 120 Spd

Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)

• Psycho Cut
• Drain Punch
• Meditate
• Thunder Wave

The more rare physical Hypno. Meditate might not be amazing considering the current state of the metagame, but it gets the job down, especially with help from Life Orb. Speed isn't so much a problem with Thunder Wave. Psycho Cut provides STAB, while Drain Punch provides type coverage, mainly against Steel and Dark. It also heals you, helpful for restoring the health lost from Life Orb. Insomnia stops you from being put to Sleep, which is always annoying. Your EVs provide you with some bulk and a decent enough Attack to use for Meditate to boost. The Speed EVs should allow you to outspeed the foe when you use Thunder Wave, and for some of the slower Pokemon who plague Poison and Steel typing.

Answer 4

Hypno (M) @ Leftovers

Role: Tank

Trait: Insomnia

EVs: 160 HP / 252 Def / 92 SAtk / 4 SDef

Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)

• Signal Beam
• Psyshock
• Hidden Power [Ground]
• Calm Mind

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Straight to the point.

Signal Beam Covers Dark and Other Psychics.

Hp Ground Takes out Fire Rock Eletric Poison and Steel Types, even though Poison is Already covered by Psyshock, there are moments where Poison pokemon like Muk Excel in Defense over Special Defense.

Psyshock For Special Walls, and STAB

Calm Mind - Bulks up His Special Defense higher, and Lets him hit harder.

Comments

I would vote this up if I could. :C

Answer 5

Double/triple battle

Hypno (M) @ Light Clay
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 160 HP / 212 Def / 136 SDef
Sassy Nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Reflect
- Light Screen
- Flatter/Swagger
- Trick Room

Team support. Dual Screens, Trick Room, and Flatter or Swagger for Own Tempo Pokemon and the like.

Comments

Single/Double battles



- Reflect

- Light Screen

- Pyschic

- Trick Room
Hypno (M) @ Light Clay ( sorry trachy )