Question

This one knows.

aerial ace

agility

roost

giga impact

Swellow learnset

Comments

Swellow (M) @ Flame Orb
Trait: Guts
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Facade
- U-turn
- Pluck
- Steel Wing

Answer 1

Sorry Dark, this is one time you are wrong. Air Slash is not that good because Swellow has higher Attack. Here is my recommended moveset:

Brave Bird: High power, high accuracy, STAB, Roost heals Swellow. Make sure to also hold a Shell Bell for quick healing right away.

Roost: Used to heal Swellow, especially from Brave Bird recoil.

Steel Wing: Decent power, decent accuracy, chance to raise defense, used to deal with Rock and Ice types.

Facade: If you do ever get a status condition, this combined with Guts will become incredibly powerful. If you get poisoned or burned, the Shell Bell will heal you also. If you don't have a status condition then this move still has decent power, high accuracy, and STAB.

Comments

Crap, I thought it was physical.-How could I have missed that!?

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The word Slash in there throw you off? Same here.

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Is the guts ability Swellow better than the Dream World scrappy ability Swellow?

Answer 2

Maybe this:

Steel wing, decent power, physical move, deal with 2 weaknesses

roost-recover damages

Aerial ace-good power, good accuracy, STAB

endeavor-Good when his health is low and roost won't help.

Comments

He has low special attack, so air slash is worthless

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I wrote that 18 seconds too late

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Yeah, already answered this correctly.

Answer 3

Nature Jolly, Evs 4hp, 252attack, 252 speed

Item: Flame orb

Aerial ace/Brave bird(I reccomend Aerial ace becuase you are already taking enough damage from the flame orb)

Facade(Works great with flame orb)

Steel wing(Your only defense against rock and Ice)

U-Turn(Incase you have to switch out you might as well do damage and you will hit first 90% of time becuase it is so fast)

Flame orb will activate guts to make your attack acceptiable and no the burning doesn't cancel out the guts boost this has been confirmed

Comments

With guts burning wont reduce the attack and also wont do damage as far as I know

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It does do damage.

Answer 4

Gen V

Swellow (M) @ Flame Orb
Trait: Guts
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Facade
- Roost
- Quick Attack
- Pluck

Comments

This moveset is terrible! With such a speed (max 383 on lv 100) you dont need no quick attack. Also, what happened to you? Two normal-type attacks? WIth that nature and EVs noone will outspeed you! Also, pluck is a weak move, rather use brave bird to later heal it with roost. Daaamn

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Reasoning here:

I'd rather not have Brave Bird, since I'd rather not OHKO myself, with recoil and Flame Orb. So Pluck is the next best. Swellow isn't the type of Pokemon who can OHKO the foe, and as such I'd rather not really damage with Brave Bird but have Swellow KOd. And just because it has high speed doesn't mean it can't be outsped. Priority, higher base speed, Baton Passing speed boosts,speed boosts in general, Choice Scarf, all these things make it so that Swellow can be outsped a fair amount actually. So that is where priority comes in. And its not like it has other moves. Steel Wing is possible, but I'd rather not have Steel type coverage, seeing as Rock types usually have high defense and can take multiple Steel Wings and Ice types have poor defense and should be taken down by Facade.

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With Guts you wont get damaged from burn and poison as far as I know.

*moves away from the mic to find out that pluck has the same base power as areal ace

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Guts still makes you get damaged by Burn and poison. The only thing it blocks about status effects is burns attack drop.

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This is not regarding swellow, but would a guts ability conkeldurr technically be better than a sheer force one? It could hold a flame orb and have facade.

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@trachy: Oh I didnt know
@AleX: Yes. Even though a sheer force one could hold a life orb and then it wont get damage from it as far as I know

Answer 5

Swellow (F) @ Flame Orb/Toxic Orb

Trait: Guts

EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Jolly Nature (+Spe, -SpA)

• Brave Bird
• Facade
• U-turn
• Protect/Roost

Brave Bird is very good STAB.
Facade is boosted by Guts and STAB.
U-turn is for scouting and sending in another teammate.
Protect is used to get the Boost from the respective orbs, safely.
Toxic Orb will do less damage the first three turns but after that Flame Orb will do less.
Roost heals Swellow and punishes Pokemon who try to stall it out with its orb. Obviously when using Roost Flame Orb is the better choice.

Answer 6

Swellow @ Flame Orb

Trait: Guts

EV's: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd

Jolly Nature: (+Spd -SAtk)

-Facade
-Brave Bird
-U-Turn/Roost/Protect
-U-Turn/Roost/Protect

The first two moves are obvious. Facade is stupidly powerful with Guts + STAB + Flame Orb. It reaches 236 Base Power. Brave Bird is basically it's only option to a STAB Flying move over base 60. So it's nice. The last two moves are based on what you want. U-Turn is awesome because it allows you to scout and get away from Steel and Rock type Pokemon which run amuck in the metagame.
Roost let's you heal off brave bird damage and flame orb damage. Protect is also a very nice option as it allows you to scout what your opponent is going to do, and allow you to get the instant flame orb boost.

These EV's and Nature give it 383 speed, which is just unbelievable.

Flame Orb powers up Guts and Facade.

Hope you guys like this moveset!

Answer 7

Swellow @ Flame Orb
Ability: Guts
Moveset:
- Facade (STAB, good with flame orb/guts)
- Arial Ace (STAB, infinite Acc)
- Steel Wing (Coverage)
- Roost (Heals you from the damage you have taken)

Answer 8

Havn't used a Swellow in a while. Here's what I would consider:

Adamant Nature
Ev trained in Attack and Speed
Guts Ability
Flame/Toxic Orb Held Item

Facade:Stab, good accuracy and double powered once your orb kicks in.
U-Turn/Roost: Switch or heal when your health is low.
Ariel Ace/Brave Bird: Stab and never misses/Stab, awesome power but the downside is the recoil damage.
Protect/Steel Wing: Use this first to get your orb to activate/Deals with those troublesome Rock types.

New here but I know what I'm doing.

Answer 9

Epic bird:

Adamant: Like to trash about----<Ev`s> Attack 255, 255 speed
Item: Flame orb ---Ability: Guts

Protect/sustitute---> One turn for the flame orb make effect
Facade---> Burn, ability activated, attack, lets pick up the foe 100 miles away..
Work up/Sky attack: you want more attack ?/ cover by sustitute.
Roost: heal all the damage from sustitute and the flame orb

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