Question

Mine has the ability Swarm. It knows:

Flash: To lower accuracy. This little guy is fragile.

Bug Bite: STAB, eats foes held berry, decent power, high accuracy.

Thunderpunch: Decent power, high accuracy, chance to paralyze, used to deal with Flying types.

Brick Break: Decent power, high accuracy, breaks through Light Screen and Reflect, used to deal with Rock types.

Volbeat learnset

Comments

Volbeat (M) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Mischievous Heart
EVs: 248 HP / 244 Def / 16 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Baton Pass
- Tail Glow
- Substitute
- Thunder Wave

Answer 1

Add in Zen Headbutt, its strong accurate and good flinching chance

Comments

Instead of what? I was thinking that too.

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Flash not reliable enpugh only lowering acc 1 stage, replace it for zen headbutt.

Answer 2

Gen V

Volbeat (M) @ Focus Sash

Trait: Prankster

EVs: 252 HP / 4 SDef / 252 Spd

Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)

• Baton Pass
• Tail Glow
• Substitute
• Thunder Wave

Answer 3

How about U turn?

Comments

Low special attack, weak bug buzz.

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Just saw that.

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Not Bug Buzz (Volbeat has higher Attack stat.) I don't really like U-Turn that much (what if you want Volbeat to stay in.)

Answer 4

Volbeat @ Iron Ball

Trait: Prankster

EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD

Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)

• Trick
• Tail Glow
• Baton Pass
• Encore/Substitute

Prankster bypasses the speed drop made by Iron Ball, so Trick can be used first to give the opponent it.
Tail Glow boosts SpA, only to be Baton Passed by Baton Pass though.
Encore may give Volbeat a free setup of some sort, but Substitute can be Baton Passed as well and if it manages to set it up safely.

Answer 5

I agree, get rid of flash, on the other hand I agree with DarkTyphlosion, teach him you turn.

Answer 6

Volbeat @ Leftovers / Light clay
Nature - Impish - EVS: 252 HP - 252 Defense - 4 Special defense
Ability - Prankster

Thunder Wave
U-Turn
Light Screen
TailWind

Thunder Wave puts some status onto your opponent, which will annoy them and be super useful. U-Turn let's you run away and give the role to another pokemon after you've done your job. Like using Tailwind to support other team mates with higher speed, or using Light screen to give defensive boosts to other team members.