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What is a good moveset for Toxicroak?

2 votes

Mine knows:
Rock Climb,
Strength,
Rock Smash,
Poison Jab.

toxicroak learnset

asked 1 year ago
by pullerrush (1,730)
edited 10 months ago by DarkTyphlosion
Hi pullerrush, I changed this to "Toxicroak" since that is the final evolution, and the one that everyone would be using...
5th Gen tier: OU
Actually, UU.
For smogon, it's OU
Those tiers change from usage though, and will fluctuate for some time now. It's best to just wait until they publish them on their site.

15 Answers

7 votes

I would go with something like this:
- Sucker Punch or X-Scissor (a must since he is 4x weak to Psychic)
- Brick Break
- Earthquake
- Swords Dance or Rain Dance

Rain Dance is great on a Toxicroak with 'Dry Skin' ability because it will recover HP each turn. Equip Leftovers as well for lots of HP-recovering!

answered 1 year ago
by Pokemaster (39,636)
6 votes

This is my favorite but you need Platinum:
1. Ice Punch gets rid of Flying and Ground guys.
2. Gunk Shot is powerful+STAB and can poison.
3. Sucker Punch for Psychic guys and it lets you move first.
4. Earthquake for power plus takes out Fire, Electric, Poison, Rock, and Steel.

answered 1 year ago
by veneon (1,106)
Not so fond of the other moves, but I like Ice Punch.
3 votes

I would choose this moveset:

Brick Break: Breaks through Light Screen and Reflect, decent power, high accuracy, makes use of Toxicroak's attack stat, STAB.

X-Scissor: Takes down Psychic types which do x4 damage, goodpower, high accuracy, makes use of Toxicroak's attack,

Stone Edge: High power, good chance for critical-hit, used to defeat Flying types.

Poison Jab: Good damage, high accuracy, STAB, good chance of poisoning the foe.

answered 1 year ago
by trachy (46,986)
3 votes

Rain dance if it has dry skin or swords dance,
poison jab
brick break
x-scissor

since it doesn't havethe best stats give it leftovers!!

answered 1 year ago
by J DOG DE LEGEND (1,026)
2 votes

Gen V

Toxicroak (M) @ Expert Belt

Trait: Dry Skin

EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd

Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)

  • Sucker Punch
  • Drain Punch
  • Stone Edge
  • Poison Jab
answered 11 months ago
by trachy (46,986)
What does Gender have to do with it?
Is that the Toxicroak that gave me such a hard time earlier? ( Still pissing in your lemonade btw )

And I don't see the word gengar in there..
Nope, this one has Poison Jab instead of Swords Dance. And Gender just comes with the PO copy paste, since all my movesets are from my Pokemon Online Pokemon team sets.
1 vote

This guy is very interesting. He is a great teammate on a rain team due to dry skin and a great switch-in to water types. You can go 2 ways with this guy, physical or special.

Physical Toxicroak
Ability: Dry Skin
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA) or Jolly (+Spe, -SpA)
EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Item: Black Sludge or Life Orb
- Poison Jab- STAB plus great chance to poison
- Drain Punch- add more healing
- Swords Dance- raises your attack to insane levels
- Stone Edge/X-Scissor/Ice Punch- get rid of your weaknesses

Special Toxicroak
Ability: Dry Skin
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk) or Timid (+Spe, -Atk)
EVs: 252 SpA, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Item: Black Sludge or Life Orb
- Sludge Wave/Sludge Bomb- STAB with a little more power or STAB with a better chance to poison
- Vaccum Wave- priority STAB and works great with Nasty Plot
- Nasty Plot- raise your Special Attack
- Shadow Ball/Dark Pulse- get rid of psychics

answered 7 months ago
by mblinginballer (102)
edited 6 months ago by mblinginballer
1 vote

description

Toxicroak (M) @ Black Sludge
Trait: Poison Touch/Dry Skin
EVs: 4 HP, 252 Atk, 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)

  • Substitute
  • Bulk Up
  • Drain Punch
  • Ice Punch/Sucker Punch

Here is what I would use. Substitute is there for obvious reasons, and blocks Status which cripples it a lot. Bulk Up boosts Attack and Defense which makes it harder to take down while under the Substitute. Drain Punch is chosen STAB, which heals Toxicroak from all the damage caused by Substitute. Ice Punch covers its Flying and more importantly, Ground Type weakness. Sucker Punch can be used to cover Psychic Type threats like Alakazam and Espeon, but Ice Punch is more preferred. Black Sludge is chosen over Leftovers because being a Poison Type, it gets Double the Leftovers recovery with it. EVs give it max Attack for maximum power and Speed to Outspeed threats that can revenge kill it in OU.Dry Skin can be used to abuse it with Rain, getting even more recovery, but it doesn't really mean much of you aren't using it on a Rain Team. Poison Touch gives a nice 20% Chance of Poison upon using a contact move, which is very nice.


-Mike Y(^_^)Y

answered 2 months ago
by PokemonBlack10 (25,136)
edited 2 months ago by PokemonBlack10
A solid set, got dat big upvote.
1 vote

Awesome With a Rain Team ;)
Im so Dry! (Toxicroak) (M) @ Black Sludge
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Trait: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 128 SDef / 128 Def
Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Drain Punch-(Stab)
- Bulk Up-(Boost)
- Stone Edge-(Coverage)
- X-Scissor-(Coverage)

Drain Punch Is a STAB . Stone Edge covers Flying weakness, X-Scissor covers Physic weakness,Bulk up is a BOOST!

answered 1 month ago
by (Abnormal1!) (2,940)
edited 4 weeks ago by (Abnormal1!)
I see but I like this set more than why you can see it on most of my teams,I see the EVs are the same so I can change mine.
I like Stone Edge even though its Risky,It covers Flying Weakness ;)
1 vote

Toxicroak (M) @ Black Sludge
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Trait: Dry Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 188 SDef / 64 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Cross Chop-(Stab)
- Ice Punch-(Coverage)
- X-Scissor(Coverage)
- Bulk Up-(Boost)

Cross Chop is a Lovely STAB.X-Scissor Covers his Deadly 4x weakness to Physic,Ice Punch covers his Flying/Ground weakness.Bulk Up is a Nice BOOST!

answered 4 weeks ago
by (Abnormal1!) (2,940)
edited 4 weeks ago by (Abnormal1!)
Hardy Nature?
Oh Thanks Mew ;)
0 votes

ice punch-powerful, deals with flying and ground types
shadow ball/sucker punch-deal with psychic types
poison jab-powerful good change to poison the target
brick brake-powerful

answered 3 months ago
by Marios Loggos (20)
0 votes

Toxicroak (M) @ Black Sludge
Trait: Dry Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 188 SDef / 64 Spd
Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Sucker Punch
- Drain Punch
- Bulk Up
- Poison Jab

answered 3 months ago
by Mew (15,496)
0 votes

This is a little different and works best with a pokemon before it that used Substitute and Baton Pass. It can work alone, though.

Toxicroak (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Dry Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Focus Punch
- Sucker Punch
- Poison Jab
- Substitute

Ok, so I didn't put E.V.s into Sp.Def. because Toxicroak isn't going to stand up to a Psychic type that has Calm Mind, even with the Sp.Def. boosting.

If you haven't been baton passed a substitute, set one up. That is what sets up Focus Punch. Sucker Punch and Poison Jab seem pretty obvious, Sucker Punch for the Psychics and Poison Jab for the STAB.

I know some of you want to run Drain Punch over Focus Punch, but with Substitute, Focus Punch works (and Substitute provides Leftovers healing/Dry Skin healing).

Pretty deadly if used well, if you have any suggestions, please tell me.

answered 3 months ago
by NuffSaid (240)
0 votes

Toxicroak (M) @ Black Sludge
Trait: Dry Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Sucker Punch
- Ice Punch
- Toxic
- ThunderPunch

For use of Rain.

answered 2 months ago
by Ninja (4,808)
0 votes

Croagunk (M) @ Eviolite
Trait: Poison Touch
EVs: 188 Atk / 188 SAtk / 116 Spd
Hasty Nature (+Spd, -Def)
- Drain Punch
- Poison Jab
- Venoshock
- Shadow Ball / Rock Slide / Bullet Punch / HP [Ice]


Okay, this set might look strange, but this is how it works:
Hit the opponent with Poison Jab first, hoping for a 60% chance of poison, then follow up with Venoshock, which now has a amazing 195 BP. Drain Punch for Healing and STAB, while the last options are coverage.

answered 1 month ago
by Pwnyta (2,026)
0 votes

Omg I love toxicroak, I made a deadly one.
Ability= Poison touch
Nature=Hasty
Sucker Punch= Poisoned... good against psychics too
Venoshock=Stab, Extra power from poison
Ice Punch= Flying,Ground coverage
Fake out= Free damage, Poisoned.

answered 2 weeks ago
by Cash (20)

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